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Well, one place you can't buy anything is ferrit.co.nz
Hands up all those who couldn't see it coming?
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one place you can't buy anything
Shades of that earlier flying pig incarnation. Best not name the next marketplace after an animal..
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organic gluten-free carrot cake
Heh. Not likely. Eve's Pantry is quite old-fashioned cakery and no doubt pitching for the leafier parts of the surrounding burbs.
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Eve's Pantry is very much an old-school cale wholesale/retail operation as Sacha says. not sure how long it's been there, but i delivered Central Leader (local community paper) along that part of Manukau Rd in the late-70s and it was definitely there then and was already quite big. very occasionally used to score a free cupcake. i still rate their long cream doughnuts up there with the best...
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cake.
or ケーキ if you prefer.
definitely not cale. that would be john. who is cool.
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..or kale, which you can often buy alongside organic carrot-cake..
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-but which *never* should be offered with it-
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In Singapore a bog standard bottle of NZ vino costs NZD40-50 and that classic NZ bubbles, Lindauer Brut, will set you back NZD45 a pop. (How I recall NZD10.95 on special at Pak N Save for that one!!) A standard 300ml of beer will set you back NZD15 and a jug will often cost more than NZD40-50 depending on when you buy it (happy hour prices you might pick one up for NZD25).
You can buy alcohol (incl spirits) in the supermarkets but the cost of it is prohibitive (doesn't seem to stop us tho') so you don't tend to see too many drunk teenagers/20 somethings.
That said I am not sure price control is the answer.
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one place you can't buy anything is ferrit.co.nz
Snuffed out by Vicks vaporub, perhaps?
However, Vicks manufacturer Procter & Gamble has slammed the study, saying it contradicts other studies and is based on limited data from tests on ferrets...
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Eve's Pantry is a franchised bakery, with tentacles that now spread far beyond the borders of Epsom. They're pretty popular as a catering outfit for corporate morning teas, it seems.
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Eve's Pantry is a franchised bakery, with tentacles that now spread far beyond the borders of Epsom.
There is an Eve's Pantry on the distinctly déclassé Lincoln Road, right next to a Burger King and a Hell Pizza. And within cooee of The Country's Biggest Pak 'n' Save!
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test, because I seem to have broken the other thread
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Whew, not system wide then
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Déclassé sure seems like a fancy word for them parts..
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I've been reading this thread over days ( a little at a time ) and its far better with all its links and opinions than a boring one sided newspaper ...................... stuff the dom I say .
Booze .............. I'm largely with ben and most of the flavors associated with drinking are there to hide the manky chemical taste/sensation of the alcohol.
Beer is tolerable until you start on the strong ones like elephant beer and then it tastes like crap ( alcohol )
But I do find it ironic that people should be talking about mature adult attitudes to drinking when even some posters here have a childish approach general issue of drugs .................... and lets face it alcohol is a strong drug.
I dont think its been said in this thread yet but there is a sizeable minority of people who should NEVER touch that particular drug.
Wine and all other forms of booze should have a prominent label stating that it contains XX mls of the drug ethanol.
People should accept the fact ( without any shame ) that they are drug taking when they are drinking.
................... even if they only have one pint/ glass / nip they are getting an effect.
The natianals have stated that they are going to crack down on cannabis ........................ again.
So dont worry about the booze to much because there will be a side show/ distraction to take our minds of it all ................. the 'bad" druggies will be copping it so the good wine drinking folk dont have to worry.
Israel : Its a bloody disgrace even if no one is blameless.
I would like to see an artist start a 'work in progress'.
This work would be a large swastika but it would be drawn/composed or made up of lots of little black stars of david ...................... one for each of the woman and children they have killed.
It is the road they are going down .
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above I left out a " to the "
this line should read
some posters here have a childish approach TO THE
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Déclassé sure seems like a fancy word for them parts.
Sorry, I must have been channelling Gore Vidal or something. I'm westside: get me a beer and some tater tots!
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My brain must still be on holiday because I missed this:
The handsome and steady-eyed Patrick McGoohan, who has died aged 80, was the star, co-writer and sometimes director of one of British television's most original and challenging series of the 1960s, The Prisoner. In it, he played Number Six, a mysterious, resigned former secret agent who is always trying to escape from the Village, an apparently congenial community which is in fact a virtual prison for people who know too much. They are allowed to be comfortable there only if they conform completely and do not try to escape.
McGoohan was at the time, 1967, the highest earning British TV star, paid £2,000 a week through appearing in a highly successful secret agent series called Danger Man, in which he was John Drake, a European security man who – on McGoohan's own insistence – never carried a gun or seduced a woman. But he was becoming disenchanted with the series, whose American purchasers from Lew Grade's British television company ITC were pressing for more stock banalities such as car chases, shoot-outs and sex scenes.
He was invited to lunch with one American executive, who explained that they wanted pictures of him on the screen with glamorous girls - or, as McGoohan himself put it, "the corny showbusiness formula, the publicity machine grinding away". He declined, and the lunch lasted only six minutes.
McGoohan, who had his own production company, Everyman Films, suggested to Grade a different, seven-part series for which he and others had prepared scripts, called The Prisoner. Grade cheerfully admitted that he had not understood a word of what McGoohan proposed, but had so much confidence in him that he agreed to fund it immediately.Bugger. In a way, however good The Prisoner was (exceptional, as far as I'm concerned), it's sad that McGoohan's other work fades into the background. Yes, he has the usual amount of unspeakable crap on his resume. But you've got to have some real talent not to get buried when sharing a bill with both Wendy Hiller and John Gielgud -- as he did playing G.B. Shaw in 1991's The Best of Friends.
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Ricardo Montalban, too. From hell's heart, I stab at thee.
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But I do find it ironic that people should be talking about mature adult attitudes to drinking when even some posters here have a childish approach general issue of drugs .................... and lets face it alcohol is a strong drug.
That's why I take it :) No need to piss around with other things that can give you a high. Like exercise.
I think we can be a bit anal about the whole drug thing. Its not entirely natural to throw yourself off a bridge with some rubber tied around your legs or out of a plane with some material rolled up into a bundle strapped to your back or smash the hell out of somebody because they are holding a synthetic ball made in India etc etc.
The mature attitude to drinking could loosely be classified as one where you know how much you can drink without indulging in anti-social behaviour hurting yourself and/or others. And obviously that varies from one person to the next.
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At least we know you can't get the beer from Pak'n'Save..
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Bugger, that was for Danielle. Need more caffeine..
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At least we know you can't get the beer from Pak'n'Save..
I now and then get mildly jealous when I'm in other parts and I can pick up a dozen beer for sod all in a pac n'save but then I get a free first aid kit, smoke alarm and see the print out in the local rag of where all that trust money is going and forgive (the stinking bastards!).
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Ricardo Montalban, too. From hell's heart, I stab at thee.
Him too? Have to give Montalban credit for resisting pressure to 'Anglicise' his name -- like Martin Sheen -- back in the day, and avoiding stereotypically 'Hispanic' roles as far as was humanly possible.
But I've got to admit, my inner bitch can't watch The Wrath of Kahn without muttering "don't tell me those man-tits are real..." :)
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Search ratings soaring with that one, I'm sure.. :)
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