Sacrilege!

Quoted from Poojah

One of my old clients was LG, based over in Weybridge right next to the Mercedes test track. That’s about half an hour away from New Malden I’d have thought - big old set up and I’d guess at least 50% of employees were Korean.

The canteen was fúcking amazing.

That’s a very accurate assessment.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

It’s the most random thing isn’t it? An ordinary semi-detached suburb, which just happens to have the biggest Korean ex-pat population outside California. Read somewhere it’s as many as 10,000 people out of a population of 40,000 in the KT3 postcode area. Though it doesn’t seem as much as 25% when you’re out and about.

There is a massive Chinese population in Harrow.

Apparently it’s something to do with the language barrier.

When they jump in the Taxi at Heathrow they always say.

‘Harrow Taxi dliver.




I’ll get my coat 😞

Quoted from promotion plaice

Smoked fish is nice  

Ever tried smoked eel? Wowsers. That can be really good.

Only problem these days is that the missus doesn't like fish and can't even bear the smell of smoked fish! Ridiculous.

I went to Hanbury's for pre match fish and chips in 2014 and must say they were bloody marvellous.

Great game too, which we won 2-3.

Another away trip with a chippy of note is Cheltenham.  Simpson's - a 10 minute walk to the ground.

Best anecdote I heard about a Grimsby area chippy is when former Grimsby rector Michael Hunter took Irish flutist James Galway for a slap up jumbo haddock and chips at Steele's, following a recital at Grimsby Minster.

Galway enjoyed his fish supper so much that he beckoned a waitress over and said "Same again please!"

He polished the second serving off with no bother.

Quoted from Withnail

I went to Hanbury's for pre match fish and chips in 2014 and must say they were bloody marvellous.

Great game too, which we won 2-3.

Another away trip with a chippy of note is Cheltenham.  Simpson's - a 10 minute walk to the ground.

Best anecdote I heard about a Grimsby area chippy is when former Grimsby rector Michael Hunter took Irish flutist James Galway for a slap up jumbo haddock and chips at Steele's, following a recital at Grimsby Minster.

Galway enjoyed his fish supper so much that he beckoned a waitress over and said "Same again please!"

He polished the second serving off with no bother.

There's the DEYA taproom at Cheltenham too 10mins taxi ride from the stadium. Highly recommend that place for anyone into more crafty sort of beers.

Quoted from Withnail

I went to Hanbury's for pre match fish and chips in 2014 and must say they were bloody marvellous.

Great game too, which we won 2-3.

Another away trip with a chippy of note is Cheltenham.  Simpson's - a 10 minute walk to the ground.

Best anecdote I heard about a Grimsby area chippy is when former Grimsby rector Michael Hunter took Irish flutist James Galway for a slap up jumbo haddock and chips at Steele's, following a recital at Grimsby Minster.

Galway enjoyed his fish supper so much that he beckoned a waitress over and said "Same again please!"

He polished the second serving off with no bother.

You fill up my stomach
like a double fish supper
That I had with the rector
Down in old Cleethorpes town

Quoted from Son of Cod

There's the DEYA taproom at Cheltenham too 10mins taxi ride from the stadium. Highly recommend that place for anyone into more crafty sort of beers.

I'd never heard of DEYA until last week. A wine and craft beer shop where I live (half an hr from Cheltenham) sell them at £8.40 a pop (pint sized can) and I was amazed to hear they can't stock enough of them due to the demand.

No way I'm paying that for a can of beer when you can get a decent bottle of wine for the same price.

Will definitely try the tap room though!

Quoted from Withnail

I'd never heard of DEYA until last week. A wine and craft beer shop where I live (half an hr from Cheltenham) sell them at £8.40 a pop (pint sized can) and I was amazed to hear they can't stock enough of them due to the demand.

No way I'm paying that for a can of beer when you can get a decent bottle of wine for the same price.

Will definitely try the tap room though!

£8.40 is insane! It must be some sort of 11% TIPA or something? Those kind of beers are a bit much for me, I have one and I need to smash half a pack of Rennies immediately after. Their normal (as in not double or triple) IPAs usually around the 5-6% mark are about a fiver a can which is still extortionate but you sometimes pay that for a flat pint of lager in a pub...these are the kind of things I say to myself to justify this frivolous kind of spending at least. But their standard IPAs have been superb all summer. I was drinking a lot of Pressure Drop last year, but DEYA have overtaken them as my faves. I'd definitely recommend you visiting the taproom if it's close to you though, it's just on an industrial park as a lot of brewery taprooms are so it's not a particularly nice setting but the beer is lovely. Or if you just see it on a tap out and about round your neck of the woods. I'd imagine you get a bit more of them in the pubs round there. Their flagship drink is probably an IPA called Steady Rolling Man, if you see that - treat yourself to one I say!

Do they measure the length of your hipster beard and check your tattoos before allowing admittance? The pricing of some of these craft beers rather extracts the urine at times.

Quoted from Maringer

Do they measure the length of your hipster beard and check your tattoos before allowing admittance? The pricing of some of these craft beers rather extracts the urine at times.

The prices of draught craft beer in a pub down here in London is basically the same as a Peroni or something in a normal pub. The only way you'll drink beer cheaper in a pub is if you go to places like Spoons really. The cans, as mentioned above, are very expensive in comparison to cans of lager but if given the choice of a nice overpriced can of IPA in a park or at home or the same price for a flat lager in a dead pub that thinks it's a bistro because it serves sweet potatoes in a tin flower pot and a burger on a chopping board then I'll go for the one I prefer drinking all day. Personal choice and all that though, my friend.