Street Food

[DulwichFox]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> what has this got to do with street food foxie?

It was being sold on the street ... but was for Dogs...

Of course... Threads here NEVER deviate from the subject.. Do they ? :)

Even slightly..

Foxy

[*Bob*]

Has anyone been to one of those temporary dining setups that are often used by aspiring restauranteurs as a way of trying stuff out without the full and ongoing commitment of opening-up a proper restaurant?

[edcam]

I think the popcorn is for humans (unless ED dogs are now falling for the street food fad too, whcih is quite possible.)

[Jeremy]

Yes Bob, I believe I have.

[*Bob*]

I have too, Jeremy.

I believe I settled the bill using a thin piece of plastic which grants the holder a means of instantly acquiring goods or services with resulting charges instead being applied to a rolling account that either be settled at the end of each month or partly paid with the remaining balance subject to interest charges.

[numbers]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Has anyone been to one of those temporary dining

> setups that are often used by aspiring

> restauranteurs as a way of trying stuff out

> without the full and ongoing commitment of

> opening-up a proper restaurant?

what's that you say there *Bob*? a temporary dining set-up? frequently used by aspiring restauranteurs, as a means of trying stuff out without the full commitment of a proper restaurant and the costs that entails?

Why...yes, I think I possibly have.

It certainly makes a pleasant change from the monotony of 'kitchen food, lovingly bought & prepared by myself at home' every night of the week.

[????]

I've had a brilliant idea. A van with coloured sides with ice cream painted on them and one side cut out from which you can dispense cheap ice cream and branded lollies (or maybe heroin if you are in Glasgow), you could call Mr Whippy or something similar and maybe have a gimmick like loud nerve jangling music to let people know you were outside their house just after the kids had gone to sleep. A sort of Ice Cream van thing. Not sure where the operators would have a sh1t though....maybe it's not a goer after all........

[KidKruger]

Jeremy - I worked for a while near Whitecross St, loved the choice of stalls, esp. the Carribean. (Are you at Regents House ?).

SJ - I'm right on Ludgate Circus. Haven't been to Leather Lane, will check it out - having said that I just looked-up where Leather lane is and realised that I worked at Waterhouse Sq (the old Pru gothic-style building) and never even knew it was there (must have been busy then as I never took lunch once).

[El Pibe]

I always thought the music signified that they'd run out of their product.

I sense I was sold a pup all these years.

[????]

.,,naaaah, your folks just keeping you off the skag EP

[Siduhe]

The washing hands at NCR was answered on the other thread, last time susiq (and others) asked. See below from MissDumpling:

See http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,1038746,1075594#msg-1075594

MissDumpling Wrote:

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Stallholders have to have handwashing facilities on site. We earned 5 points at Mother's Dumplings - and we use a hand basin, hot water in flasks, cold water for mixing, anti-bacterial soap and a hand towel. As well as disposable food gloves. If in doubt, ask the stallholder in question...

susiq Wrote:

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> where do the people in north cross road, who sell

> food wash their hands etc., befor the Palmerston

> opens its doors?

and

MissDumpling Wrote:

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> Sorry to disappoint Razors and DulwichFox, but as

> one of said food traders, I cam assure you that we

> are all inspected regularly by Southwark Food

> Team. In our case, we are also inspected by Tower

> Hamlets, Westminster, Camden and Lambeth, as we

> trade elsewhere in the capital. We are also

> inspected at home by Southwark. And by law, we

> have to keep HACCP records which relate to

> storage, preparation, cooking, re-heating and

> holding temperatures. In some respects then, we

> are more closely monitored than cafes and

> restaurants.

>

> It really isn't in any of our interests to sell

> food that could make our customers ill. Not good

> for business.

>

> Of course you don't have to eat any of our food if

> you don't want to. But please check with the

> traders in question before making unfounded

> allegations. This is how we make a living, so we

> take it extremely seriously.

[maxxi]

Can't hack those new indoor restorant thingies, if you want restoring nothing restores more than a starling on a stick.

[numbers]

"sausages-inna-bun, rats-onna-stick, meat pies & mustard"

... for some reason this thread is reminding me of good ol' CMOT dibbler.

*cut-me-own-throat if you're not a pratchett fan.

[Jeremy]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> Jeremy - I worked for a while near Whitecross St,

> loved the choice of stalls, esp. the Carribean.

> (Are you at Regents House ?).

Nope, I'm on Ropemaker Street. 5 min walk or so to Whitecross St market.

The Carribbean one (if it's the same one I'm thinking of... jerk chicken, etc) is pretty good. I like the Indian wrap place too. I sometimes get them put do me a "special" with a chopped up onion bhaji inside the wrap.

[MissDumpling]

There's a food marker at One New Change tomorrow lunchtime to mark St George's Day. Mother's Dumplings will be there selling free-range sausage and mash with onion gravy/beans, and there will also be great fish and chips, pies, oysters plus more English fare...

El Pibe wrote:

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> anything near st paul's? The choice around here is

> truly awful.

[El Pibe]

ooh, oysters!!

I might skip on the sausage and mash, after today's burrito it might be frowned upon at the office if I manage two afternoons in a row barely able to keep my eyes open ;-)

[MrBen]

Wait. We haven't had the cost argument raised yet? Street food is a rip off isn't it? Why does my organically reared burger with home made fresh ingredients and a hand made bun cost more than the mechanically recovered slime dog in processed Aldi roll that I get for ?3 from the van at a Millwall game?

I JUST DONT GET IT.

[Louisa]

Street food was a south London tradition long before these trendy ironic types arrived charging the earth for the same product. This is what makes me irate about the 'middle classes' - they colonise a working class neighbourhood and then remove its cultural traditions and replace them with similar ones and talk as though they are some sort of revelation. Yawn.

Louisa.

[DovertheRoad]

I'm with you. Why has nobody brought back jellied eels for example?

[Voyageur]

Bloody hell, what a load of sniping bores! :(

Great idea for a thread - haven't heard at Ropewalk Market before and will head there at the weekend :)

Very good street food at Tachbrook St market of you work near Pimlico - good range of cuisines and the falafel wraps are to die for.

http://www.westminster.gov.uk/workspace/uploads/images/Tachbrook-1287414573.JPG

[MrBen]

Because people are unlikely to traipse across London to pay ?6 for something that tastes like fishy KY jelly.

[StraferJack]

And if you did decide to sell eels you'd find it hard to deal with ever scarcer eel population

Louisa... Before the current street fodo thing (last few years)how far back do we have to go to find it commonplace in south london? Because I remember sweet fa in the last 30 odd years

And why do your working class brethren on this very thread appear to be so down on the very concept of eating from a van (wont someone think of the hygiene issues!!!). If it was so commonplace and all..

[*Bob*]

Getting a big reading on the tediousclassrelatedbollocksometer.

It's off the scale - stand back - she's gonna blow!

[Louisa]

MrBen Wrote:

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> Because people are unlikely to traipse across

> London to pay ?6 for something that tastes like

> fishy KY jelly.

But they'll pay nearly a tenner for a burger? Just because it has something like "organic" or "wild boar" written next to it. It's pathetic.

And StraferJack - working class London culture has had street food as part of its tradition since the Middle Ages! Pies, roasted chestnuts, jellied eels, hog roasts.. I could go on. But because they were part of the cockney or working-class tradition they were frowned upon and snubbed by the trendies as being inferior. Now all of a sudden, because these posh types suddenly find it fashionable to pay the best part of a tenner for a hot dog, something you could get from any burger van - it's a revelation. People on this very forum still revel in the fact that gentrification was the saviour of East Dulwich, and talk of it being a barren desolate place before the middle class invasion. It's this constant put down of anything and everything which isn't about them which annoys me.

Louisa.

[StraferJack]

All of a sudden eh? Really.. what year did you find yourself unable to partake of these foodstuffs?

Long before this area was gentrified (in part ) there was precious little of it

So go on then. What year.