Comments on: resistant to change

By: nardac

nardac — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:42:31 +0000

silly. I live in paris, in the 20th arrondissement and one of my best friends is on Simon Bolivar, right next to the that stupid restaurant.

By: jim

jim — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:02:51 +0000

“The only constant is change” it’s just so darn agrivating it has to happen in our lifetime!

By: witho

witho — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:13:43 +0000

It’s funny, but we’re almost going the other way now in the UK, with smaller shops and farmers markets becoming more and more popular. However, it’s hard to “go back” from the convenience of the supermarket…

By: petite anglaise

petite anglaise — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:39:24 +0000

nardac – you know where I live? Are you my first stalker?

Actually the little 7bis over on the right probably gives that away…

By: nardac

nardac — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 04:03:11 +0000

hey…you’re not talking about that crap place near the Buttes Chaumont, are you? That’s a scary notion that might work in NY or Toronto, but nowhere else, jewish sushi, or japanese bagels, take your pick.

anyways, I go to the Belleville market, when I can…on the other side of Menilmontant, nearer to pere lachaise, is a fabulous little boucherie stand, run by an old coule. They’ll sell you a yellow farmer’s chicken for 7Eu.

and you can’t get 1kg of girolles for 3eu at the supermarket.

By: PPQ

PPQ — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:23:42 +0000

It’s so sad when this happens isn’t it? In my uni days my mates and I used to hang out at this old pub which had a real working men’s social club feel to it. The place had fake wood panelled walls, darts, pool, fruit machines and table football. The pints were brilliant. We loved it in there.The landlord loved our little motley crew and always offered to feed us roast potatoes on sundays too.

I was gutted when I went back a few years ago only to find that it had been sold and turned into one of those ‘sports bars’ with big screen tellys and resident rugger buggers. I couldn’t even bring myself to go in.

So sad.:cry:

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:56:50 +0000

Some things just can’t be replaced. :wink:

By: Rachie

Rachie — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:03:52 +0000

I do know what you mean. I shop at Tesco mostly, because it’s easy, but I love my local Turkish shop, because you can buy fabulous vegetables with creatively spelt labels, one of a million different types of olives out of buckets from the olive counter, and any kind of offal, including lungs (I don’t, but it’s nice to know you can), accompanied by Turkish pop music. Funnily enough though, Tesco is loads more expensive.

By: céline

céline — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:29:59 +0000

I do. I don’t mind paying more because: 1) I see it as a way of defending a certain way of life, the one you describe so well, so it’s a good investment 2) The products are normally far superior and 3) My mum is an épicière and would kill me if I only shopped in supermarkets.