Chorizo sausage

[RichardCranium]

We went to that stall last year and bought a shed load of dodgy stuff and binned it all in late jan

The German sausage stand in the corner of the market? With the fat bloke selling "eyebrow raisers"? About a dozen different sausages in a bag for a £10?

He was really funny.

Did you see the comedy Welsh bloke failing to sell Welsh whisky? He was ignoring the potential customers - desparate not to make he sale, he was. I was looking for the camera; I was sure he was a stooge for Candid Camera. Comedy red hair wig and everything. I've never actually seen someone so stereotypically Welsh in Wales.

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Somebody told me of an office they worked in Germany where the loos had no doors. Is this common? I know they do the thing with the shelf on the pan so they can have a little poke about before flushing. I know a lot of CUK'ers are working over there - can you enlighten us while we are on the subject?

I first met one of those many years ago doing a gig for Tandem on an installation in factory in Poland. 'Disconcerting' is my main memory.

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I first met one of those many years ago doing a gig for Tandem on an installation in factory in Poland. 'Disconcerting' is my main memory.

The shelf business or the no door thing?

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The German sausage stand in the corner of the market? With the fat bloke selling "eyebrow raisers"? About a dozen different sausages in a bag for a £10?

He was really funny.

Did you see the comedy Welsh bloke failing to sell Welsh whisky? He was ignoring the potential customers - desparate not to make he sale, he was. I was looking for the camera; I was sure he was a stooge for Candid Camera. Comedy red hair wig and everything. I've never actually seen someone so stereotypically Welsh in Wales.

Me and my bro used to do that on the run up to xmas. I'd get something like a gross of 3XL t-shirts all with the same image, and he'd have some other tat. Set up on adjoining stalls near the Fish Market in Doncaster and basically chat up all the passing totty on xmas party outings. It really was a laugh. One time had this irate woman come up and scream at us that we had no intention of actually selling anything and were just there to chat up the young ladies, and no way was she allowing her twin daughters out tonight. She was only half right: they did anyways...

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The shelf business or the no door thing?

Both. Shudder.

[Alf W]

I was at the Christmas Market last night in Manchester... they have a stall with THE yummiest looking chorizo...

Hmmmmm Chorizo

Blimey, it wasn't you I was chatting to outside the Revo bar at about 1:30am was it?

[cailin maith]

Blimey, it wasn't you I was chatting to outside the Revo bar at about 1:30am was it?

Nope - I was well tucked up in bed by then!

[BoredBloke]

The German sausage stand in the corner of the market? With the fat bloke selling "eyebrow raisers"? About a dozen different sausages in a bag for a £10?

He was really funny.

Did you see the comedy Welsh bloke failing to sell Welsh whisky? He was ignoring the potential customers - desparate not to make he sale, he was. I was looking for the camera; I was sure he was a stooge for Candid Camera. Comedy red hair wig and everything. I've never actually seen someone so stereotypically Welsh in Wales.

I wonder how much a stall costs? The one doing coffee for 3 quid a go with a small shot of some spirit in it was selling them as fast as they could make them. So if they serve 600 people in an hour (10 a minute- is pretty easy given they have about 5 on the stall on a Friday and saturday night) that's 1800 an hour! So if their peak is 5 hours that's 9k a night on a Friday and Saturday. All in lovely hard to trace cash. If you say that in their non peak times they only make 10% of this then 10 hours per day Sunday to Thursday is 1.8k a day. On a Friday and saturday if they earn that during the day, outside their non peak hours that's (5*1.8) + (2*1.8) +(2*9) = 30600 a week or a tulipload better than contracting!

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I wonder how much a stall costs? The one doing coffee for 3 quid a go with a small shot of some spirit in it was selling them as fast as they could make them. So if they serve 600 people in an hour (10 a minute- is pretty easy given they have about 5 on the stall on a Friday and saturday night) that's 1800 an hour! So if their peak is 5 hours that's 9k a night on a Friday and Saturday. All in lovely hard to trace cash. If you say that in their non peak times they only make 10% of this then 10 hours per day Sunday to Thursday is 1.8k a day. On a Friday and saturday if they earn that during the day, outside their non peak hours that's (5*1.8) + (2*1.8) +(2*9) = 30600 a week or a tulipload better than contracting!

A stall at Doncaster Market was £20 a day on a first come first serve basis (so you had to get up early). On the last few days before Xmas any old tat will sell as people get desperate for a gift, any gift, and if it's unusual or a hard to find size like 3XL T-shirts they'll go for it..

Yeah, it's good money, and we used to go out of our way to try to not to sell stuff, as it was a lark.

I remember a guy doing hot mushy peas with mint sauce in a cup who reckoned he'd earned more in one day than he did in his proper job in a year. He got so wrecked in the pub on the Friday night, he missed out on the queue for a stall on Saturday morning. So he came and shared with us. Proper totty magnet that stuff was.