Bomb in Exeter

That'll teach 'em not to play horribly compressed background music while you're eating your dinner, right?

Dude tried to blow up Giraffe, apparently. Presumably didn't want to live in a world where six-year-olds ate hummus and tzakiki.

Fatwa against chain restaurants? Hmmmmm

Can Chrissie "Let's Bomb McDonald's" Hynde account for her whereabouts?

See, if Giraffe played some decent music, e.g. Scooter, instead of boring world music it would defuse all that internal tension in the would-be bomber.

I know how the dude feels tho, I ordered crispy chilli chicken from my local takeaway on Tuesday night and when I got home they'd given me some Cantonese-style non-crispy bullshit.

you can't become fatwa by blowing up restaurants

Had all sorts of evil 'hmm, bomb was wrapped in a Babygro' thoughts (for those in the US, Giraffe is a microchain beloved of middle class parents where Rainforest Cafe meets Graceland by Paul Simon and the food is meh).

Who wants to blow up the yummy mummies of Exeter?

Exploited chickpea farmer?

Pretty sure it was Littlejohn

TAKE THAT THE SO-CALLED CHATTERING CLASSES

TANGY & SPICED TURKEY ENCHILADAS
Filled with black beans, roasted corn & spinach, topped with spicy adobe sauce, crispy chorizo sausage, sour cream, melted jack cheese, avocado salsa & toasted seeds

^^^tbh, I could go for this right now. As long as the spinach is wilted, not boiled.

Giraffe is evil manifestation of BORISWORLD

Sometimes, the tangy & spiced turkey enchilada is just a tangy & spiced turkey enchilada, dude.

Think there's already a Campaign for Real Greasy Spoon Caffs thread somewhere on here tho.

I was going to say RAEFWORLD but he's gone now.

"Cafe culture" is some of the lamest shit ever. Fuck photographing formica surfaces with outdated cameras in some desperate reactionary grab at the 60s. Give me Costa or give me death.

"Cafe culture" is just an excuse to double or triple the prices. Costa? Shaving foam with a scarlet napkin to wipe it all up.

All the decent greasy spoons are in places like Colliers Wood and Acton and other areas which will never be photographed because they don't have an "E" in their postcode.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/06/cafe_culture_the_best_places_t.html

This article is loathsome.

Sorted For "E's" in Postcodes

Nice photo of the author, not at all snooty and superior (xp)

a cosy den on Lower Marsh Street in south London called Scooterworks

surely here you can munch on a stale biscotti while bobbing to 'The Question Is What Is The Question'

Scooterworld in Lower Marsh:

a) isn't a "cosy den";
b) never plays any Scooter.

And the caff on top of Picc Waterstones certainly isn't all that.

This article is terrible.

The roadside cafe at Alconbury is no longer there

And the caff on top of Picc Waterstones certainly isn't all that.

-- Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 22 May 2008 16:15 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

It's one of two bars in London I've run up a +£100 drinks bill and been charged for only one drink by staff too dumb to realise that our "party" had moved tables (the other's Polka in Soho).

Neal Hoskins is the owner of Wingedchariot Press, set up to bring the best of children's picture books from Europe to the UK. He has worked for many years in central Europe where he represented Oxford University Press, and travelled far and wide within the continent.

As your average Grauniad reader does.

the best of children's picture books from Europe to the UK

No.

Just no.

Make kids fucking READ books with REAL WORDS in as kids, then hopefully we'll stop producing fucking armies of douchebags whose idea of great literature is Neil Gaiman.

There was that one book everyone read once with the family trees and the feuds but it got boring when the hippie turned up.

Yes, that was a major misjudgement of the readership. They ended up having to kill him off and revive him later. It was a Dirty Den kind of deal.

TANGY & SPICED TURKEY ENCHILADAS
Filled with black beans, roasted corn & spinach, topped with spicy adobe sauce, crispy chorizo sausage, sour cream, melted jack cheese, avocado salsa & toasted seeds

not sure if I want my roasted corn topped with photoshopped sauce?? wtf is adobe sauce?!?!?

TOFU & VEGGIE NOODLE STIR FRY
EGG NOODLES, MIXED MUSHROOMS, BROCCOLI, SNAP PEAS, WATER CHESTNUTS & CRISPY SHALLOTS IN SOY, GINGER, LEMON, HONEY & CREATIVE LABS SAUCE

silly ken, adobe is a traditional mud based plaster common in central american buildings.

Sounds delicious

Is it true that Gordon Ramsay has bought the Giraffe chain with a view to rebranding them under the name Fucking Mud Food Yes?

No, Fucking Mud Food... YES?!?!?!

Microsoft Mud Food

Salt

Butter

Adobe

Butter

Bread

Butter

Salty Butter Adobe Sandwich

Done

I'm getting worried about Gordon. Tuned into The F Word last week and he was being held upside down by Geri Halliwell to make him do handstands. Didn't realise it was now F for Fetish.

YES!??!??

That was the big debate in 1974 - Mud or Yes?

"I've Seen All Good Tiger Feet"

"The Cat Crept In On Ice."

I'm liking the sound of this album already.

The supergroup that should have been.

On tour together for the first time ever:

YUS

My first thought when I heard this story was 'who the hell calls their restaurant GIRAFFE?' Now I learn it's a chain, ffs!

"Lonely This Chris Squire"

That epic 35-minute Chris Squire/Ray Stiles bass standoff ending in Guinevere throwing herself from the tower and Les Gray as Lancelot coming on to sing "it'll be lonely this Christmas."

"Somerset has never laughed so much" -- The Daily Expositor

"Owner of a Lonely Christmas"

Great support act too - the Principal Edwards Magic Theatre/Kenny Project.

Yikes! Randomly, I was just at that mall a couple of weeks ago, picking up suits for a wedding.

Everyone on this thread is now a suspect btw.

I'm getting worried about Gordon. Tuned into The F Word last week and he was being held upside down by Geri Halliwell to make him do handstands.

Shaking him down for change? Desperate times meets deserving victim, sounds good to me

I ate in Giraffe once. It's about ten minutes' walk from home. Twas alright. I quite like Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. I don't drink coffee.

Geri was crunching his credit (xp)

then hopefully we'll stop producing fucking armies of douchebags whose idea of great literature is Neil Gaiman

THIS IS WHY I LOVE YOU DOM

My brother's a postman and Giraffe is on his delivery. He says he didn't deliver a bomb.

Just a card saying it needs a signature and can be picked up at the sorting office.

My first thought when I heard this story was 'who the hell calls their restaurant GIRAFFE?' Now I learn it's a chain, ffs!

-- Madchen,

My thoughts exactly!

Dude was a white guy who converted to Islam, btw, so lots of fun rational headlines tomorrow.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7415831.stm

Blast suspect was 'radicalised'
Police say a man arrested in connection with an explosion at an Exeter restaurant had a "history of mental illness".

"We believe despite his weak and vulnerable illness he was preyed upon, radicalised and taken advantage of."

Nice to see the level of articulacy Devon and Cornwall Police looks for from its Deputy Chief Constable.

Fucking Plymouthians.