Poncey deli has opened nearby and it's selling live lobster

[MaryMotherOfCheeses]

FGS. It's a lovely shopping street and there are some really nice shops along there. Some are getting a bit bunting cupcake though and this deli is particularly so.

I rather think there's no need for it. The live lobster. The staff in silly poncey uniforms. The "trying to hard to be twee" decor and all that Farrow & Ball green paint. You know the shade.

Grumble, grumble...

Yes, I know that Farrow and Ball freen paint...my kitchen is that clolour...and I would love a poncy deli. [green]

I miss Woolies.

It is back on line though, dontcha know!?

here

urgh our woolies is going to be a QD and we already have one in the town

Oh, I forgot...YABU

Lobster was definitely for sale. Had its claws tied up and was on the ice along with the other fish. I know it was alive because ti was wiggling.

I miss woolies too. What I like about this particular shoping street is that just around the corner there's another shopping street which has all the more downmarket stuff, so it's pretty much got everything covered. Sadly two Tescos within five minutes of each other, so I suppose I should be glad so many of the local shops have managed to stay open.

i miss woolies terribly but i will NOT have a word said against iceland.

aitch, I might love Iceland more if I had bloody freezer!

ooooooh I love poncey deli's. I spend ages mooching around them getting hungrier and hungrier...

If you don't like it, don't go there. Leave that up to those of us that love and appreciate them and their great food.

I love phrases like "If you don't like it don't go there" like I'd force myself in through the door and hate every minute because I hadn't twigged it wasn't compulsory

oh no i don't buy anything much out of the freezer section, you know, peas and sweetcorn and that's it. it's a great shop for basic groceries (pasta, rice, cheapo olive oil, washing powder, dishwasher, polish etc). and their own brand cakes are no hydro fat, they're quite good like that. although i don't buy them much either. their fruit and veg is okay as well, not great, but comparable to yer normal supermarket.

Florence, i also love and appreciate good food. I do not eat straw in baskets, Farrow and Ball green (that green), twee decor or straw hats. I think they are unnecessary in the creation of a good deli.

aitch, I will shed my prejudices then and have a good old rootle...

(though I do remember when, I a) had a freezer and b) they did organic frozen veg...tragically stopped it as I think they were too early to the market with it. or it just didn't appeal to their customer base...

our woolies is a Richley Stewarts, it is totally crap. No, i'd never heard of them either.

oh, and re the OP, I can take the farrow and ball colours, and the straw baskets for cheese...I think boaters are a step too far, however...(memories of evil catholic primary school resurface...)

oh yes, that was great, all own brand veg organic for no extra cost. customers couldnae handle it and plumped for the more expensive birds eye instead. lol.

six undyed free range eggs for a quid as well. that's 49p cheaper than marks, which is my other local shop. waitrose opening soon, we're so cosmopolitan...

farrow and ball - so last millenium. any decent artisan cheese/lobster selling ponce is using kevin mcloud @ fired earth these days.

i am spared such horrors as we source our lobster from a darling little man in padstow and pop over to france for real cheese.

xx

at Eleanora

Kevin Mcloud at Fired Earth sounds a tad, well, commercial though? Don't you have someone in mid Wales create your own paint for you using traditional materials and techniques?

On the topic of lobsters, I used to work in a reception where customers could leave their shopping in the cloakroom. Frit the life out of me when a customers carrier bag started moving accross the carpet!
It contained a live Losbter,apparently she wanted it to be fresh when she cooked it.

yeah, after you she had caught it making for the lift....

they sell live lobsters in the chinese supermarket, which isn't in the least bit of poncey.

I bought a goldfish there once, and carried it around Brent Cross all day. Then we kept in the bath, before eating it the next day.

I guess I just love twee...

I don't go into Iceland. People think this is because I am a snob but really it is because I have no control.

The food there (from their ads) looks like the sort of food I was served at parties and stuff when I was a kid.

I reckon if I go in there, I will leave with bags and bags of frozen spring rolls, volavonts, mini pies and sausage rolls, chips etc. YUM YUM YUM.

So it is just best that I stay away.

Am a sucker for anything nestled in straw though and for some reason love something coming in a shiny black box. Have been marketed to so completely that I see shiny black box and immediately think quality.

anything in a b oater is wanky

I think live is the safest way to sell lobster.

I agree. Lobster is a bit pricey in this country, but there is nothing worse than people selling dead crabs for instance. Especially not boiled ones. (Dressed is ok).

They lose all their flavour.

It's no different from live mussels (vital) or oysters.