Monday, June 20, 2005

Le pain dans la heiney (or a rough translation thereof)

This morning I took my visiting Canadian friend Ashley to my favourite little cramped cafe that makes amazing cheap chocolate croissants and cheap half-assed coffee on my way to work. The only thing is that since I last passed it (last week, I think) it has changed ownership and transformed itself into a "pattiserie". Now it's all fancy and thinks it can charge £1.20 for the formerly 70p croissants and hmmm...I don't remember how much the coffee was before, but it was £1.45 this morning. They don't even have chocolate croissants anymore. Now they're going the "le pain chocolate" route. Yeah, I'll give them a "pain" alright. Right in their heiney. I remember years ago my brother going on about how Second Cup had taken over the little coffee establishment at the university where he worked, and not quite getting it (how could anybody possibly say anything negative about Second Cup?). Now I get it. And I don't like it. Down with progress!

2 comments:

  1. I took a picture of it a while ago which I sent to you tonight. I like the van.

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  2. I'm sure you will find, with the passage of the years, that absolutely everything I have EVER said was 100% per cent absolutely correct. Even that bit about the dinosaurs and Elvis.

    Yours,

    Loving Brother

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