Or "just buy your food from a place that isn't so mired in ponce it actually has people convinced that a tenner for some lettuce is acceptable"
Admittedly I haven't lived in london for nearly 5 years now, but it used to amuse me that there was a Benjys and a Pret next door to each other on Goodge St. You paid twice as much for the same sandwich in Pret and the only single thing you got extra was a smug sense of Guardian-reading superiority. That wasn't worth the £1500 difference in the course of my PhD, in my book
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:30, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

now here i do have to disagree
i loathe benjys, and its successor after it went under and rebranded (BJ's or PJ's or something?) because i find the bread is dry and there is too much bread and not enough filling.

i did use the uxbridge one for breakfast toast sometimes though when i worked out there. it's haute-cuisine in uxbridge, is that place.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:38, Reply)

I haven't actually eaten in Benjys since my PhD
which was 15 years ago, more or less. It was fine when it started, though.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:41, Reply)

they were the first company to give their leftovers to the homeless
i liked that
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:47, Reply)

yeah .... then Pret started banging on about it much louder
that rather annoyed me, when Benjys had been quietly doing it and not making a big scene about it. Because then they all had to stop after Pret made such a big thing about it that Environmental Health started questioning about whether it was "safe"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:53, Reply)