This is genuinely a bit ridiculous

[kaberett]

Things the tiny corner shops just over the road from my flat carry, apparently routinely:

• garlic Lurpak
  
• a flavour of innocent fruit juice that neither of the enormous 24-hour supermarkets on my way home does
  
• Kidderton Ash
  
• Little Black Bomber (not wildly over the odds)
  
• live yoghurt
  
• Swedish crispbread
  
• rose water (ditto at neither of the big supermarkets)
  
• string
  
• sink plungers

ET CETERA.

I am not entirely sure I understand London.

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[milkymoon]

I know we've had similar things happen to us in San Francisco, where you'd find all sorts of random (and lovely) things in corner shops that you wouldn't find in typical supermarkets, only specialist importers and that sort of thing.

[kaberett]

Yep. Only... at least one of these is part of a chain of corner shops??? and has a wider range than any other corner shop I've ever met??? and includes GARLIC LURPAK, I mean, wtf even, who needs GARLIC POSH BUTTER as a STANDARD GROCERY