In the Neighbourhood

Hmmm. So what does it say about our little part of the world that it can't even sustain a MacDonald's?

Comments

[ditdotdat]

Gentrification?

[Julie]

I was trying to think of it as a positive thing but I'm not sure. Apparently Nandos are going to open further up, past Budgens (although I don't know when) and that has to be a good thing surely? Ok, ok so it's a chain but I think you do need a couple of chains in any area - not bookshops though obviously!

[lo-fi]

Not the party zone!

[paul morley]

That's the most appealing McDonalds has ever looked. Nor could Palace sustain The Puzzle pub. I'm lost now whenever I fancy a game of giant Jenga or Connect 4.

[justine]

At least with MacSlacks gone, the traffic will be able to move forward without having to weave around double-parked drongos running in for their triple bypass burgers. Worse, they'd then sit in their cars and eat the blasted things. A big fan, me...

[JonathanM]

Ditdotdat - I worry that it's simply up for sale and as Paul says,so is the pub two doors further down.

Julie - welcome. It would be a good thing and we're getting a proper bakery I hear...

Paul - is that with your giant hands then?

J, dear, personally I think those Renault Drongos' are quite smart.

I'm just thinking, has anybody mentioned it to Conran.

[dovegreyreader]

It says the same as this part of the world because Tavistock's MaccyD's closed at Christmas.Clearly, like us, you are a discerning population who know all about cholesterol and which bits of the cow you are actually eating in a Big Whopper.

[dovegreyreader]

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[JonathanM]

err, not sure about that last one dovegrey, but watching ER at the moment. Thinking of you...

[Steerforth]

I don't know your neck of the woods, but I presume that gentrification isn't the answer?

[JonathanM]

Steerforth - sadly not yet awhile. Down the road a couple of miles away in east Dulwich, where they have never had the yellow arches, they now have a Gourmet Burger Kitchen and a White Stuff arriving sometime soon. Even 10 years ago that would have been unthinkable, but the city money is moving ever southward and gradually some of it is bound to limp up the hill. Good thing, bad thing? Don't know except that it must be better than a couple of shopping streets full of empty shops.

Dovegrey-Upper Norwood *twinned with Tavistock* It could work.

(I got it eventually.)

[paul morley]

Jon, I favour the Connect 4 over the Jenga, and to play that I stand at the very tip of an acrobatic troupe that have organised themselves into a pyramid, and then they pass up the giant discs and I drop the buggers in, kerching. Jon, do you think the demise of McDonalds has any connotations for your neighbour, Pizza Hut? And has McDonalds made available its reasons for forsaking us? Maybe they have bought The Puzzle Pub and plan to open a McDonalds megastore, and they'll keep the giant Jenga and Connect 4, but the Jenga blocks will be frozen bricks of Filet-O-Fish, and the Connect 4 discs petrified quarter pounder patties, and then using the same technique as before I'll drop the burgers in, kerching! (See what I did there?) The McDonalds official website claims that it will be "re-imaging" over 200 McDonalds' stores this year, so maybe that's a roundabout way of saying closing down.

[dovegreyreader]

Yes a twinning would be excellent and more useful than the current backwoods of France thing we have going on.Why match you with an identical version of your own town in another country? Paris or New York would have been much more useful.
When the golden arches did finally arrive a few years ago amind huge protest, they had to have special rural brown golden arches made because we wouldn't allow anything neon, consequently you'd pass it by (out of town opposite the cemetery)and never know it was there.
I'm glad you eventually realised that your spam robot MADE me type that to leave my comment.

[Steven Hunt]

As the McDonalds website suggests - we're assuming the branch has closed - the boarded up shop front could be re-imaging. See what people want nowadays is a bit of architectural hostility when they're ingesting recipes for coronary heart disease.
Re-imaging = no entrance... If you want a door you should clear off to Wimpy.
Derek, 23, from Basildon says "to tell you the truth I like a challenge getting into a place."
The message to the under 10s is if you want a happy meal, come and get it. If you're hard enough.

Geoffrey, 97 from Weybridge says: "It's a damned disgrace. They can't expect to get the customers. It's all down to women who wear trousers you know. Soon everything will be computers."

[JonathanM]

Steven - Welcome. I just read your comment out loud to Mark Steel. You made a professional laugh.

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[JonathanM]

dg- oh no. I have a spam robot that talks dirty. Should feel right at home then.