Piggy piggy PIG!

[venta]

Well, I just went to Woodley to buy some batteries. I failed - they proved too obscure for the likes of Robert Dyas and the Post Office - but found a Farmers' Market.

So I now have real apple juice - I like to think of it as blood wrenched from living apples. And some apple and ginger juice. And some intriguing-looking cider. And some handmade cheese with tomato and paprika in it.

And there was a pig roast going on. So I got a bun full of pig and apple sauce and crackling.

Farmers' Markets are a good thing.

(And I have batteries, too, but had to hitch a lift to the rather more prosaic Maplins with Sysadmin #1 to acquire them.)

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[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Well to some extent it's just an outright lie since I believe Harrods has a number of 'hosted' sub-stores, one of which is a pizzeria and they sell coke...

The same's possibly true of other 'slots' in the Food Hall too. After all, you can even get Krispy Kreme donuts there.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I know, I'm very excited about the potential of eating KK doughnuts next time I'm in the vicinity :)

According to my list of Interesting Facts About String, Harrods doesn't sell string, either.

[(Anonymous)]

In some Harrods original marketing they were famed for being able to sell *anything*. Coke and string included presumably. String *can* be purchased from the material department.
They had a line about if you couldn't buy it at Harrods then it can't be bought. Prehaps the Ebay bucket of water for £120 has outdone them though..

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hullo, Mystery Guest :)

According to my list of Facts About String (careful, or I'll post the other 19), you can't buy it in Harrods. Mind you, my Facts were published in (probably) the early 90s, so may be outdated. Or just wrong.

How do you know string can be purchased from the materials department ?

[(Anonymous)]

Reveal a source of information such as that?! Never!
What more does the world of string have to offer in its tangled depths?
;)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, Fact About String #8 is "Rope is made by twisting bits of string together: 1000ft of string makes about 720ft of rope." Presumably depending on the thickness. Best combined with Fact About String #1: "When is string rope ? When it's one inch or more in circumference".

Then there's Fact About String #11: "The flax industry in St Helena collapsed in 1966, when the British Post Office discovered rubber bands. Previously string produced for this country made up nearly 100% of the island's exports".

[(Anonymous)]

Wow! What more can string offer?!
Isn't there a logical thinking puzzle about unravelling string?

[(Anonymous)]

I was in Harrods yesterday, and I consumed Pepsi. In a stairwell.

Mind you, I had brought it in with me.

However, I'd be very surprised if you couldn't get Coke there. I haven't checked there in a very long time, but it used to be that the main food "hall" with all its exotic and/or expensive stuff actually extended over several halls on the ground floor [note: now more restauranty than I remember it being 10-15 years ago], but there was a smaller section in the basement below which was almost supermarket like (with supermarket checkouts, 'n'all).

That supermarket was great, because it catered partly to the American consumer by selling imported American product. Now, everyone knows that Kellogs Sultana Bran is a most fine breakfast cereal, but in Harrods you could get the superior Kellogs Raisin Bran, for it was that which was sold there.

Note: Raisin Bran != Bran Flakes + raisins. Tried that.

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Richard