Heard a whisper that Fish Frenzy is setting up again, having found fortune and fame firstly on Elizabeth St pier, then Burnie.
My spies tell me that the next venue is Swansea - opposite The Banc restaurant, in what is currently the newsagent/bakery.
Now that's a great spot if that's indeed what they're going to do. It'll also put the pressure on a few other outlets there to up the ante!
Friday, 7 December 2007
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yay! spending the week at the shack this week, and sadly dismayed at the lack of casual dining options up here.
After driving thru Swansea looking for breakfast one Sunday morning enroute to Hobart from Coles Bay, I had no choice but to try the newsagent/bakery there.
I ordered a BLT. Not too difficult.
Just as it was served, a nice family of 4 sat next to me at the coffee table, sofa and armchair arrangement I had to myself: Mum, Dad and kids....
I got up. "...you don't have to leave, mate!" said Dad.
"Oh, it's not you..." I replied, as I showed them my BLT, complete with soggy lettuce, soggy bacon and big bluey-green mould "growth" on the underside of my Turkish bread. I pity the pita.
So I showed the older lady behind the counter my sandwich: "Oooooo...YUCK!" she ejaculated. Mmmmm.... ummm, could I get a fresh one d'ya think? (I was bloody starving.)
"Ewwww... you don't want another one do you????".... shaking the head and pulling a face, in sympathy, presumably, at my unfortunate gastronomic predicament.
Well, I need something. I'm bloody starving - is that pie fresh?
(genuine curiosity) ummmm... (a quick feel) it's warm.
Right then. I'll have that. Please.
Thence complex financial shenanigans followed, as the lady calculated what I paid for the mouldy old sanger and then re-imbursed me the difference etc. blah blah. How tedious.
Bakery my arse. How about some fresh bread? Only in Australia. Where "day-old" bread is actually a commodity that people - affluent, bloody middle-class aspirational shoppers - actually seek out as a value-for-money item. It's ONLY A DAY OLD!!!
Unfortunately, places like Swansea attract sea-changers who want to try their hand at a family-run, easy-peasy nickel and dime small business set in a lovely quiet little town by the sea. For a while. Trouble is, it's the poor old customers who suffer.
If you wanna sell newspapers and magazines - do that. Bakery my arse...
And if Fried Frenzy wanna set up in Swansea where the bakery/newsagency folks are "having a go", good luck to them. I'll take a piece of fish battered to within an inch of its life and drowning in chips over the BLT any day.
I know exactly what you're saying Nellie. It'll be great if FF do expand to Swansea.
Shomethedessertmenu - geez you get some bad deals don't you? I'm surprised you actually went ahead after the BLT disaster & enquired about the pie!
Totally agree about the battered fish - and I love FF fish & chips anyway.
BTW I love your plain talk! Keep on commenting, please.
Burn that place to the ground immediately!
No seriously, are they serious/ Mouldy F--ckin bread! Would they serve it to their grandchildren & then ask 'Can I get you something else?'
Whay are they selling food for a living. gives me the shits!
RU F__cking Kidding!
Agreed Anon 6.57. Owning a food outlet should be like having a child! There should be some sort of preliminary course to test your competency at the game!
I went for the pie 'cos I was BLOODY STARVING. Had driven all the way from Coles Bay - still had all the way to Slobart to go etc.
It's called "desperation"....
These newsagents with a bit of pastry on the side - and there are many others with the same ethos - are clueless. They bought a wonderful "lifestyle" business... and they're bloody well gonna enjoy the lifestyle. Fresh baked bread? Come on mate, it's Sunday! Sunday in Swansea!!
Well, bring on the competition, I say. Light a fire under their bum!
If one is marooned in Oatlands (as I was once: no power = inoperable petrol bowser = no fuel = marooned in Oatlands), one has certain expectations: "anything hot? we got wingdings/dingdongs/chickennuggets/chiko roll and davo is doing chiko nuggets - ready in 5 cobber..."
Final word on the great Swansea debacle of 2007: a BLT has CRISPY bacon. This is simply a universal fact. Easy on the mayo (if it's anything other than Thomy it probably resembles... eeewwww... just leave it off). And easy on the penicillin, cobber...
What can I say? Your words about the Oatlands "food" sound like mine about my recent trip up the East Coast - all wingdings & chicken nuggets. WTF is that all about? Those things are just NOT food! As for the use of the foodsafe gloves in these esteemed establishments? Aren't they for when we clean up after work?
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