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Sainsbury's is coming to Stroud Green Road - Woody's is going!

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  • AliAli
    edited 9:17AM
    What not making mint juleps ?
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  • ArkadyArkady
    edited 9:17AM
    Thanks for the advice tosscat, I'm not sure I've ever come across any so labelled. A
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  • miss anniemiss annie
    edited 9:17AM
    Mint = Mojitos
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  • ArkadyArkady
    edited 9:17AM
    That's what I was thinking.
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  • tosscattosscat
    edited 9:17AM
    Where do you live misscara? I used to half inch mint from outside the Triangle, but they thinned it out rather and now it's crap.
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  • poxypoxy
    edited 9:17AM
    There are two scrawny bay trees outside Nandos. Just saying.
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  • miss anniemiss annie
    edited 9:17AM
    Perhaps I might make a nicely illustrated map of Stroud Green showing all scrumping opportunities - grapes, herbs, blackberries etc.
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  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif
    edited 9:17AM
    @miss annie - what a good idea - Food for Free: the SG chapter.
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  • ArkadyArkady
    edited 9:17AM
    It could go in the proposed SG wiki...
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  • miss anniemiss annie
    edited 9:17AM
    I think I am going to set myself a little project to actually do this foraging map, just for my own amusement. Although if I'm happy with it I'll endeavour to work out how to post it here. Any other local scrumping tips? For mapmaking purposes it would be great to have reasonably precise locations.
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  • ArkadyArkady
    edited 9:17AM
    Ace idea. Sadly I can’t contribute – I’m a sort of anti-Ray Mears when it comes to plant recognition. I once horrified my house mate by failing to distinguish between a leak and a spring onion in Woodies. The humiliation of this is one of the reasons I was glad to see Woodies go. I can give you one tip though – someone’s left a banana on top of a garden wall on the corner of Mount View and Granville.
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  • miss anniemiss annie
    edited 9:17AM
    That's a rather temporary scrumping opportunity. I cannot believe that such a sophisticated man about town as yourself would fail to recognise a leek! Had you been on the ale?
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  • ArkadyArkady
    edited 9:17AM
    No. I was raised on ready meals and Birdseye potato waffles. Everything I know about cooking has been acquired since going to university, and as you can imagine the early years of that involved little haute cuisine.
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  • AliAli
    edited 9:17AM
    Not having seen the term scrumping before I googled it. It seems to be about stealling apples but it does have an alternative urban meaning so are you sure about this map ?
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  • sincerssincers
    edited 9:17AM
    Yeah, but its noble stealing.
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  • miss anniemiss annie
    edited 9:17AM
    @Ali Being a lady, I rarely consult the urban dictionary and prefer to stick to the traditional meaning of scrumping. However for those interested in alternative meanings I believe that specialist websites are available online for further guidance.
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  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif
    edited October 2010
    I believe scrumping may be a West Country term. At the age of 11 I was once caught scrumping after dark in an orchard on the outskirts of Bristol. Had I been guilty of the more modern version of scrumping, whatever that may be, I suppose I would still be seeing the inside of a maximum security offenders' institution. (Reaches for online dictionary).
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  • ArkadyArkady
    edited 9:17AM
    It derives from 'scrump' a lost West Country dialectual term for small or shrivelled apples. See also 'scrumpy'.
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  • tosscattosscat
    edited October 2010
    The alternative meaning appears to stem from east cost US so I think we'll be safe with a map. Arkady, I once went to a vegan b&b in Cornwall and they served a Birds Eye potato waffle with breakfast - it seemed rather incongruous with the surroundings.
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  • ArkadyArkady
    edited 9:17AM
    I regularly have waffles with my fry-up, especially if I run out of hash browns. Waffly versatile indeed.
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  • tosscattosscat
    edited 9:17AM
    Never Tater Tots?
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  • ActionVerbActionVerb
    edited 9:17AM
    Stack up in the following order for the breakfast sandwich of days gone by: Potato waffle, chicken burger, processed cheese slice, potato waffle, chicken burger, ketchup, processed cheese slice, potato waffle.
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  • miss anniemiss annie
    edited 9:17AM
    I'm very partial to a potato waffle - lovely with beans. I'm fussy about the layout of my fry up plate and I like the waffle to be inbetween the beans and the (soft scrambled) eggs. Do they still use the 'waffly versatile' jingle? I can remember all the words to that.
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  • ArkadyArkady
    edited 9:17AM
    I was always appalled that they rhymed 'eggs on' with 'gammon'. ActionVerb, that sounds like a heart attack right there.
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  • miss anniemiss annie
    edited 9:17AM
    What was that one about "Will it be chips or jacket spuds,Will it be salad or frozen peas"? I'm sure that was a Bird's Eye number too.
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  • sincerssincers
    edited 9:17AM
    "...will it be mushrooms, fried onion rings, you'll have to wait and see. We hope its chips, its chips.... it was those re-formed steaks in a box. mmm
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  • Four EyesFour Eyes
    edited 9:17AM
    Was that advert with the men in the van not for McCain chips? 'Will it be chips or jacket spuds, will it be salad or frozen peas...will it be mushrooms, fried onion rings, we'll have to wait and see...hope it chips, it chips...blah blah
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