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    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeFeb 3rd 2008
     

    Does it rile anyone else when someone makes you a drink and they fail to put in enough ice because they think it'll water down the drink, when really the converse is true because it just melts in the too warm drink?

    It makes me want to scream.

    • CommentAuthordominic
    • CommentTimeFeb 3rd 2008
     
    What a peculiar thing to say.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeFeb 3rd 2008 edited
     

    I can't help but feel there's a hidden agenda behind this comment, but I don't know what it is.

    On a related note, I bought a pint of orange juice in the Old Dairy and watched with horror as the pint glass got filled with ice, the ice-filled glass was filled with less than half a carton of Sunpride Orange Juice from Concentrate ( 12 cartons for 12 quid ) and with a smile I was asked for £2.60.

    • CommentAuthorSimonB
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2008
     
    Ask for less ice? :P
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2008
     

    Outrageously proactive suggestion, Simon.

    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2008
     

    A litre is 2.11 pints. So a full pint would be less than half a litre. Or 47p. So £2.60 is a markup of 553%

    Even without the ice, that's a pretty lucrative markup.

    So I EVEN IF I was incredibly proactive, it wouldn't change the fact that I'm being ripped off.

    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2008
     

    Order tap water next time.

    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2008
     

    Thanks for the helpful comments, D.

    Maybe you could write a new, regular feature that mixes lifestyle advice and money-saving tips in light, yet direct style?

    You could call it WHY DON"T YOU SHUT UP AND DRINK TAP WATER.

    I'm sure the Camden New Journal would pick it up.

    • CommentAuthorSimonB
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2008 edited
     
    OR ... go and buy a carton of OJ ... go into the Dairy and ask for a glass with some ice in it ... go outside and look in the window while you pour yourself a nice drink ... talk to some smokers...
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2008
     

    Or go and drink in the White Lion. It's very reasonably priced in there. Accept what you pay for Andy, its not just the orange. Those lampshades aren't some benevolent act of the landlord.

    • CommentAuthorkatiejane
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2008
     
    I think tosscat has some personal ice issues...

    Andy - if you go for a drink in the White Lion, don't forget to step outside and have a brawl.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2008
     

    David - you wouldn't say that if you were paying £8 for a pint.

    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2008
     

    You clearly prefer establishments with a bit of gentrification about them - Diary, Noble, Front Room Cafe, it's futile moaning about the well-known mark-ups that go with these places.

    At £8 a pint, I'd be drinking in the White Lion and that would be that.

    • CommentAuthorjandb
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2008
     
    Is my (admittedly poor) memory playing tricks, or was the White Lion quite upmarket once ... a kind of late 1980's version of the Dairy?
    • CommentAuthorAli
    • CommentTimeFeb 7th 2008
     
    Your right Full of Guardian readers at the time !
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeFeb 7th 2008
     

    I bet they overcharged for orange juice back then too.

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