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The old Continental Cafe now has a huge red, white and blue sign with several mega-watts of back-lighting advertising its new incarnation as a purveyor of dirty chicken.
I was hoping for something - anything - else.
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I can see it from my window, and it ain't a pretty sight!
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What's the address pls? Mags do you not like chicken?! Chang
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So so so so so disappointing.
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should have been a greggs!
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I died a little inside when I saw that sign.
Given all the competitors further down the road, maybe it'll be replaced soon enough? * polite cough * -
Where is this? Not sure where Continental Cafe was? Is it next to Christopher Charles?
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Next to the-business-formerly-known-as-Soba. So we'll have chicken & pizza, fish & chips and Tex-Mex food all in a row.
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ah....it'll be interesting to see how long it lasts then....that stretch seems jinxed...lost count of the number of restaurants that have opened and shut since we moved here.
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Ah, that's a shame. I saw people working inside the other day and thought excellent, new restaurant or cafe.
Nope, chicken shop. I don't wish its owners ill, but we definitely did not need another chicken shop.
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Without wishing to sound like a stuck record; Neighbourhood Plans allow for high street usage limitations.
Islington are about to ban any new fast food outlets ner primary schools.
There may be something that we can do about this, long-term. -
That's interesting, wasn't aware of the ban. Any idea when it's coming into force?
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Mm, I would have preferred Greggs too.
I think you need to get quite a head of steam going for politicians/planners to consider changing planning on fast food outlets in an area though.
Has anyone tried writing to members recently on the Haringey side? I just get, 'yeah but officers won't let me' refrain.
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What about the ppl who might get jobs with Dixie ? Don't they count? If chicken sells (look at Nandos packed out) at least it provides employment. Don't gang up on cos it's not posh enough for you guys. Chang (just off to Nandos..)
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Except that jobs will be provided no matter how 'posh' the shop is, to use your words Chang. Not that I have a problem with Dixie as such....
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I'd like a Greggs too but if we have to have a chicken shack I'd prefer KFC. I love KFC.
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Greggs have the reputation of being decent employers too.
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I've heard that too. The staff always look miserable though.
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* dies a little further inside
Me too. And it's impossible to ignore walking down SGR. Awful. *Sigh.
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I had a Saturday job in Greggs when I was at school. They were slave driving bastards.
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Yes but u enjoyed all those free donuts and sausage rolls i bet!! Could be wurse. Don't complain. Try working in a SG nail bar like my gf, long hours and quite toxic fumes, but no cakes. Chang
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No we didn't get free stuff, we had to pay like everybody else. The job was ok, but the bosses were bastards and I only got £1.35 an hour. Even in 1994 this was mean. I also had to walk 6 miles there and back on a Sunday as there were no buses to/from our village into town on Sundays. I'd have given my eye teeth to have worked in a nail bar.
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I got £2.26 an hour in 1995 at Waitrose and i thought that was shit. Plus they made you wear this vile brown polyester overcoat. Happiest working days of my life though...says a lot.
@Misscara you have easily won the worst paid school job award. It would have been a better deal to have been paid in pies.
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I got paid 7s and 6p for tattie howking when I was 9. Had to spend all the money buying a pen for school because they couldn't afford to buy them. That was in 1965
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Great. things have gone downhill when people are begging for a bloody Greggs. Who said aspiration was dead?
Dixie Chicken is shit. The food is shit. The jobs are shit.
Greggs is shit too.
Chang, your morally relative "my jobs worse than your job" is a bit sad and just leads to a race to the bottom. There are people working as de- facto slaves for Foxconn, does that mean you and your girlfriend and evryone in western europe should shut up?
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In the modern world I believe that Greggs should be an essential pre-requisite for city status.
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Andy's condemnation of moral relativism made me feel all warm inside.
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There's a Greggs in Brussels. Because, clearly, Brussels lacks good cake.
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I want a Greggs because I've all but given up on a proper bakery arriving - that may make my aspirations a race to the bottom.
I worked for £2.11 an hour for a five-hour Sunday shift in Dillons the newsagents, in about 1995. Supplemented my wages with packs of cigarettes though.
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Wasnt dixie spelt dixy? Or am.i remembering it wrong?
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Actually im sure the original.company is dixy. This look like a copy to me. They are trying to use dixys image i reckon.
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it would be a criminal offense but would it be morally wrong to throw a brick through the window of dixie chicken?
it is the sort of question that the great philosophers like Rodney Descartes,Norman Kant or Derek Hume might ask?
if you are sick of the corporate riff raff element like the chavved up pikey old fast food chains mucking up your area perhaps you could drive down from muswell hill;park outside dixie chicken in your 4 by 4 jeep and accidently slam it into reverse and mistakenly ram raid dixie chickens shop window...thus delaying their opening ...and their wretched bad taste soul destroying flouresant overly bright neon shop sign chavving up pikey style our once peacefull stroud green rd...
metaphorically speaking of course..not literally encouraging criminal damage of course...although,you know...
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"once peacefull stroud green rd" !
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'Grand opening' last night. Special offer all chicken half price. £1.49 snack box can be yours for 75p.
The place was jammed with hoodie teenage scum.
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long queues of scruffy youths in dixie chicken almost spilling out of shop into street tonight...they can't get enough of it....
is it essential for dixie chicken customers to have hoods up over puffa jackets,trainers and a baseball cap?
"did u spill my nuggets on the floor?"
"no iz u dissing my family?"
punch punch punch
local snt must be delighted...
no doubt william hill will be putting odds on when the first fight breaks out in dixie chicken over fried chicken,beans and corn on the cob...5/3 odds on a punch up within next 24 yours
nandos have a neon sign ,but its not a common tacky and tastless sign like dixie chicken
the fish and chip shop that used to be called soba next to dixie has unimaginatively called itself "CHIPPY"
central government really does need to do something to ban "neon light" shop signs that chav up sg rd
how many dog walkers will have to take chicken bones out of their dogs mouths when dogs munch on dixie chicken bones dumped on the pavement...this is a health threat to dogs...
i really do resent sg being turned into a pikey chavved up neon light flashing chicken munching chav zone...awfull...
call me a snob if you like but the yobbo element really have gone too far this time...quite like kfc occasionally though so bit hypocritical...just not in our backyard ...nimby..
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The southern slavery connotations of the name seem a bit unappetising to me, but if people want to queue up for that greasy factory farmed crap good luck to them. It's looking pretty popular with the half price food right now. If fried chicken fans think it's tasty then maybe that blighted spot will have found its level. SGR isn't exactly turning chicken shack all along the road, it's still a big old mixture with loves and hates for everyone.
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These chicken places always do ok. People seem to flock to them. I quite like chang's idea of someone driving their 4x4 into it. Selfish I am.
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The chippy looks quite good actually, and more British than Dixie. It may give Tollingtons a run for it's money. The lady there is lovely and has a nice daughter, but half the menu on the wall is never available. But the cod, when just cooked, is great and lots of us in Lorne Rd go on Tuesday's . Cant see Joyce rushing out to Dixies even at those low prices. Chang
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I love the fish and chips in Tollington's, but it's bloody expensive. Hopefully this new gaff will bring the prices down. Wasn't there one due to open on Wells Terrrace?
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Tollington Fish & Chips are great, we don't need another one. The fact that we now have Mexicali, Dixie and a Chippy, bookended by a bookies and a Wetherspoons is not good news for the area. It looks terrible.
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Is Chapter 1 is goin to be a pound shop? I hope not. A Chinese takeaway would be great. Chang
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I was thinking earlier a Gourmet Burger Kitchen would be nice, no need to schlep up to Crouch End for theirs. Or even a Tortilla - in true Stroud Green spirit, of course we must have at least two of every type of business. Mmm.
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Carluccios? Dunns? Monkey nuts? Marsala Zone? Crush? Lush? Wake up folks - this is SG . Dixey is what it's all about. Chang
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Dixie firmly belongs in Lower SGR. As for Upper SGR.... the sky's the limit! ;)
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Yes of course Lower SGR is the rough end of things. It has Petek, Cats, Dotori, and of course Season. I think that we can reasonably claim Vagabonds and BBM too. Upper SGR has, ummm... Triangle and Sunshine Cafe?
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Gourmet Burger Kitchen in CE has been gone for months. It later became a Banger Bros. (sausages?) and even that has since gone bust.
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Oops. I was just telling a friend yesterday that I haven't been back to Crouch End for nearly a year....
@miss annie And of course don't forget all those hair product shops, and that wonderful cheque cashing shop - we wouldn't want Lower SGR to go underappreciated! ;) -
Don't like fried chicken, don't like Greggs, was hoping for a shoe shop. Gutted. Would seem my begging letters to Terry DeHavilland are going astray. Incidentally my first job was as a street cleaner at £1.66 per hour in 1987. When I got promoted to cleaning the public toilets in 1988 it rose to £1.72. It was great. We were called The Wombles and the truck that dropped everyone off to work in the morning (the Womble lorry) also picked us up from clubs on a Friday night and dropped us home. Best job - in terms of fun - I ever had. I thought I was loaded.
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Oh, Terry never answers his letters - try Manolo.
In my first job I earned £8.80 per day as a Saturday girl at BHS.
@harpistic, I'll see the cheque cashing place and Paks and I'll raise your kebab house and Nicholas Nickleby.
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@miss annie You can have the Mexican place. PLEASE take it away.
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I haven't been in yet, is it really bad? Now, here's a quandry. Crouch Hill starts at Fiveways yes? So really Lower SGR would be up to Tollington Park and Upper SGR is from there to Fiveways, anything above that is Crouch Hill. So you can keep the Mexican place if you like.
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