Comments on: Breakfast bang-bang: cereal/bagel https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2015/03/breakfast-bang-bang-cerealbagel Lollards in the high church of low culture Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:14:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: weej https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2015/03/breakfast-bang-bang-cerealbagel/comment-page-1#comment-1579316 Thu, 26 Mar 2015 16:23:20 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=28810#comment-1579316 I’m reading Anna Minton’s terrific “Ground Control” now and it really brings home what profound, worrying shifts (in ownership and control) are taking place in British cities now. Blaming hipsters for gentrification is ludicrously petty in comparison, but easy targets are easy targets, and the more time people argue about hipster cafes the less time they have to notice their neighbourhood is being turned into a locked-down shopping centre with private flats, and local and multi culture equally unwelcome.

I’m not a huge fan of cereal myself, but it’s a fun enough idea, and efforts would much better be directed against the Cafe Rouges of this world.

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By: Tommy Mack https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2015/03/breakfast-bang-bang-cerealbagel/comment-page-1#comment-1578608 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:42:25 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=28810#comment-1578608 Thing that turns me off it is that I only ever eat cereal because a) I’m not very hungry or b) I haven’t time to prepare and eat anything more substantial. I can’t imagine ever visiting a cafe under either of those circumstances.

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By: StringBeanJohn82 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2015/03/breakfast-bang-bang-cerealbagel/comment-page-1#comment-1578601 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:14:52 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=28810#comment-1578601 I just paid £3.25 for some soup in Pret, so I don’t see that this poor value compared to that (or indeed 4 quid for a pint of crap beer down my local). The way I see it, it’s a coffee shop with a neat gimmick. If this wasn’t in East London and the owners didn’t look like the very embodiment of the vilified hipster I can’t see why people would be annoyed (unless you live there, I suppose). By the way I’m not a hipster myself – I’m clean shaven, I wear boot cut jeans sometimes and I don’t know anything about the latest soundz

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