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  1. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Crikey, just read the CC objection (and the other docs there). Nasty, evil, money-grabbing Elephant Juice trying to steal trade from that bastion of all that is good and sweethearted and non-competitive, Starbucks....

    How bizarre. I hadn't actually realised that the area to the side there is designated as trading zone. Presumably the CC didn't object to Sainsbury's being there either because supermarkets produce no litter throwing members of the public; or because it's nice and handy to be able to pop in for things you need.

    I'm not sure I've seen as blatant a case of NIMBYism in a while (and I live near Portobello which has an action group against pretty much anything!).

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. cb
    Member

    Union of Genius are now doing breakfast I believe. As well as porridge there is some kind of breakfast soup, involving cooked breakfast ingredients.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. SRD
    Moderator

    Anth - yup, the southside CC really comes across as rabid eh? Much as I agree with them that it is not a good idea to start letting motorized vehicles trade on the footpaths, they seem to have totally over-reacted.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. kaputnik
    Moderator

    I saw the Elephantjuice van on Saturday. We thought it was a very fetching vintage Citroen and a great idea Although I remarked that it looked more like it should be serving crepes than soup. Onion soup or consommé perhaps?

    It also has the nice name of "DUMBO 1."

    I assume the area has trading zone status to cover the coffee bar in the police box further along, the juice bar in police box at top of road, the portable pizza parlour in the mobile police box and all the transient catering places during festivus.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Re Southside CC, was that not the CC that self-imploded in an orgy of mutual nostril thumbing and "ner, ner, nee-ner-ner"?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. SRD
    Moderator

    ha! You're right (as usual).

    "Website now closed Southside Community Council has now been disbanded.....Following the resignation of all office-bearers and most members in the autumn on 2011, and the failure to attract enough new members to keep the community council going, the City of Edinburgh Council has now disbanded the Southside Community Council. This website now no longer gives access to Southside Community Council information, and will close in due course."

    Posted 12 years ago #

  7. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Karma.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  8. Min
    Member

    "Anth - yup, the southside CC really comes across as rabid eh? Much as I agree with them that it is not a good idea to start letting motorized vehicles trade on the footpaths, they seem to have totally over-reacted."

    It wasn't even them that objected to that (which is quite right too), that was the Roads Department!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  9. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    No, if they'd objected to the driving of something on the cyclepath/pavement that would have had some credibility. Objecting on the basis of the harm to Starbucks is odd (although I guess the reasoning is that they don't want empty shopfronts - but a mobile soup kitchen that doesn't sell poor coffee isn't going to take much trade away from a poor coffee purveyor that doesn't sell soup (mobile or otherwise).

    Posted 12 years ago #

  10. chdot
    Admin

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    The local version below has warmed my stomach, and my heart, on many a wet walk or chilly cycle ride, often bolstered by a scone or a buttered bannock – soup is still taken seriously in Scotland, where you rarely find a cafe that doesn’t offer at least one example. The lentil variety is an old favourite that, you complicate “at your peril”, as Tom Morton explains in Shetland: Cooking on the Edge of the World (the book he wrote with his son James. as well as the island where I enjoyed an excellent bowl last autumn).. “Keep it simple.” But what’s the best way to do so?

    “

    https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/feb/08/how-to-make-the-perfect-lentil-soup-recipe-felicity-cloake

    Posted 1 year ago #

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