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Fanks Mark.

Ok so what we have here is two packets of dates.

Package the first:
Typical of the type found in greengrocers all over the country.
Tunisian, dry, not very sweet, huge pip, the nasty papery bit on the end
still there and covered in added glucose. These are typical of the
things that simply shouldn't be on the shelves. Although they are
significantly better than Eatme Dates bought form Tescos, whatever their
price it is too much.



The others:
Iranian in a square box that delightfully lists the contents as
weighing in at 800g, give or take 50g and proudly boasts it's lack of
anything other than Date.

The dates themselves are really rather nice, small pip, twice the size
of the others they are slightly softer than I am used to, lovely
textured flesh, sort of like jelly. Tasting more strongly of "date"
than any I have had before they leave a sweetness in your mouth that is
frankly persistent and of course the killer is; they are morish. These
I like.

 

I had an Iranian date once.

Nearly perfect apart from a terrible temper and a near lethal left hook.

 

I had the former last week, not at all nice. Where did you get the
good'uns then

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache belched forth and ejected the
following:

They were the Soltana ones?

They looked distinctly average to me but I promised to send some from
that shop.

I won't buy any more

Goody, goody.

Glad you like them.

 

'Hog wrote

In the mail. WC very kindly sent me a couple of the type typical of the
sorts sold by the ethnic places he delivers.

Apparently he did ask where they came from and was given the reply of
"The Warehouse." Which rather strikes me as the kind of thing you would
expect to hear from a flatlander rather than a raghead but I suppose it
serves to demonstrate just how alike differing peoples can be underneath
it all.

According to the box they come from this area:
http://www.farsinet.com/bam/

 

Whinging Courier wrote

Good decision.

I do indeed. Now I start tracking the source. Any chance you can find
out the number of the warehouse, they must deliver/collect to/from
somewhere near me?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache belched forth and ejected the
following:

I'll see what I can do.

I won't be back at work 'till next week and I don't know exactly when
I'll be in that shop again but first chance I get I'll ask.

If you're really interested, they came from here:

http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/directory/1158/21891.php

 

Whinging Courier wrote

A deli. I hadn't thought of that as a retail outlet, I was assuming
grocers and greengrocers.

Hmmm. We have delis around here, there is a big Jewish community in
Westcliff. Do Jews eat dates in the quantities the other ayrabs do, or
do they reject them on the grounds of being a touch too Islamic?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache belched forth and ejected the
following:

Well, I asked Jeeves "Do Jews eat dates" and I've been offered a
completely free trial with email and profile and another one says I get
a photo gallery, too. There was also another link entitled "Did Hoah eat
pork?" which made me laugh but I've found no reference to the
Islamisism.

Hang on, I'll phone a friend...

Damn, they're not in.

There's loads of Jews round Golders Green and Finchley and I'm sure I've
seen them there.

 

I'm coming through London in a couple of weeks. I'll bring you some,
like I promised before. My Christmas trip got cancelled because I was
busy.

What kind do you want? How many?

 

Ben Blaney wrote

A small selection? I am open to a surprise package. In *any* event
they are likely to be far superior to anything bought here so I don't
suppose for a moment I would be disappointed. I suspect there are as
many varieties of date as there are apples and each with its own set of
attracts and I have only eaten half a dozen at most.

How cheeky can Hog and I get?

 

There is an excellent Kurdish supermercat in Neasden wot sells superb dates.
(And bread, fruit and many other things.) All the check out gurls are Poles.

Ali

 

Point of order, m'lud. If they is Iranian, they ain't Ayrabs.

Ali

 

Ali Hopkins said...

All girls in Neasden are Polish

 

Ali Hopkins wrote

Fucking Persians then.

Happy now?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Ali Hopkins belched forth and ejected the
following:

Is that the one in Neasden Parade?

I deliver to the bakery a few shops down.

 

My cousin has some dates (non glucose) in stock.
Shop's called 'Pick Your Own', he's in Rayleigh.
Turn right at the Carpenters arms roundabout.
Past Swallow's, Past Traffic lights
Turn right and he's in that parade of shops.
HTH

 

Linger wrote

Swallows?

I don't know Rayleigh that well, despite going to school there.

 

Mmmm, cakes. My mother used to make date sponge when I was a kid and
I've not had it for years (1). I'll have to get on the phone to her
once the xmas cake's finished.

(1) I know it's the feedline from heaven but you can all **** off.

 

Place after the Cafe, sells aquariums and stuff.
All directions are coming from the A127 to the Carpenters Arms roundabout.

If he's sold out, tell him what you want.