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The glory that is Ruislip High Street was recently betrayed & besmirched.
Betrayed.
The M&S Food store announced it was shutting,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marks_%26_Spencer#Mid_2018_store_cull
(despite the landlord offering to change the lease to 12 months & with no compulsory upwards revisions).
The unit was empty for about 3 weeks.
Besmirched.
A notice on the shopwindows carried the legal notice that an alcohol license application had been submitted for ....... the Coop!
Ruislip is pretty brexitty. The loss of M&S was bad enough, but for it to be replaced by the Socialists behind the Coop. The local inhabitants had assumed that Momentum-led entryism was confined to Brighton & Hackney.
The Coop duly opened before Xmas, and the locals have found that the produce on offer is not confined to quinoa, kombucha & 'knit your own tofu' gift sets.
I must confess that I had not visited this Coop as often as I might, as it is on the opposite side of the road to everybody's favourites palm oil denying supermarket, Iceland, who had lured me in with their 12/£1.89 offer.
However, Iceland's shelf of left over Xmas tat included only their gluten-free 4/£2 reduced down to £1.
This evening, I ventured inside the Coop.
In one of the 'Offer' displays were 'Short Crust Mince Pies' in packs of 4.
They looked disappointingly thin. Deep-fill they were not!
I contemplated, and, in a moment of clarity, I recalled the words of Mick Jagger;
'You can't always get what you want,
but you just might find,
you just might find,
you get what you need'.
The price label was holding the two sides of the clear plastic one-piece tray together, obscuring the price. I lifted a pack, carefully, above my eyeline, to reveal the price.
12p.
Yep, 12p for 4 mincers. 12th Night be damned,
the choral backing vocals swirled round in my head,
it was a Mincer Revelation.
I picked up 8 trays, leaving 3 times as many for others to share my good luck.
Ate two on the way home. Two Mincers, even I couldn't manage two trays of four!
Revelatory headiness replaced by sugar rush.