Clarkson’s Farm

[Oceanrower]

MesoForm said:

48k said:

"Everything served at the pub will be grown in the UK to support local farmers, which means coffee and coca-cola will be off the menu"

And tea too? A quick Google suggests only 1 or 2 companies grow tea in the UK (down in Cornwall) and they're certainly not cheap!

Chocolate, rice, pineapples, oranges, etc.

No lemons or limes.

It’d be a strange pub that didn’t offer orange juice…

[TheDeuce]

MesoForm said:

48k said:

"Everything served at the pub will be grown in the UK to support local farmers, which means coffee and coca-cola will be off the menu"

And tea too? A quick Google suggests only 1 or 2 companies grow tea in the UK (down in Cornwall) and they're certainly not cheap!

I'm sure Clarkson is very happy to not cater to people that go to the pub to drink tea

[Flumpo]

TheDeuce said:

MesoForm said:

48k said:

"Everything served at the pub will be grown in the UK to support local farmers, which means coffee and coca-cola will be off the menu"

And tea too? A quick Google suggests only 1 or 2 companies grow tea in the UK (down in Cornwall) and they're certainly not cheap!

I'm sure Clarkson is very happy to not cater to people that go to the pub to drink tea

He might change his mind when he sees the profit margin in a cup of tea compared to a pint.

[anonymous-user]

From a business point of view, you can't fault it.

Spend Jeff's money on the pub, get another 2/3 series of the most popular show in the UK on Amazon Prime, plus securing a closed supply chain for the farm produce giving control of the pricing...

Plenty of business owners would love to be able to do the same.

[TheDeuce]

Flumpo said:

TheDeuce said:

MesoForm said:

48k said:

"Everything served at the pub will be grown in the UK to support local farmers, which means coffee and coca-cola will be off the menu"

And tea too? A quick Google suggests only 1 or 2 companies grow tea in the UK (down in Cornwall) and they're certainly not cheap!

I'm sure Clarkson is very happy to not cater to people that go to the pub to drink tea

He might change his mind when he sees the profit margin in a cup of tea compared to a pint.

I actually think beer, on the basis the raw ingredients are worth virtually nothing, might be cheaper - provided you make it yourself, which he effectively does.

Also people who drink tea in pubs are too sensible.you need someone who'll drink 7 beers and talk bks at the bar, ideally.

[Doofus]

They'll run out of beer within fifteen minutes of opening on day one. Thereafter, there'll be huge queues snaking around the building, standing room only and a limit of one pint per customer, which you'll have to drink in a marquee on the field next door.

Oh, and you'll be able to buy a bottle of James May's gin for £100, or a t-shirt with "I drank grown-up juice at The Diddly Squatting Dog" for £65.

[Oceanrower]

TheDeuce said:

I actually think beer, on the basis the raw ingredients are worth virtually nothing, might be cheaper - provided you make it yourself, which he effectively does.

Teabag. 1p.
Milk. 3p.
Water. 0p (as near as makes no difference.)

Beer. Duty - £21 per litre of pure alcohol…

[pingu393]

PurpleTurtle said:

I happened to be camping in the Chipping Norton area at the weekend, with my 9yo son and a load of other families from his primary school.

Being July in the UK it was of course pissing it down. One of the dads suggested lunch at Diddly Squat Farm and having checked that 14 quid for a burger and chips was just about palatable we all set off there.

I was last car to arrive and it was utter bedlam, traffic absolutely everywhere, no marshalling of parking, just complete chaos. I asked my lad if we could be bothered to stop, he said no, so we carried on to Hook Norton Brewery which is actually geared up for the number of visitors it expects to handle. We had a delightful fish and chip lunch in their warm inviting Malthouse Kitchen cafe bar, the rest of our mob joined us later on complaining about the total carnage up at JC's place.

I won't be going back to Diddly Squat, but I would definitely recommend Hook Norton Brewery if in the area.

This is why the local hosteleries are so welcoming of JC buying a pub. They know that they will get the spillover, and the chances are it will be the discerning ones who can't be bothered to wait two hours to buy a £14 burger.

[Nexus Icon]

thatsprettyshady said:

98elise said:

AdeTuono said:

pork911 said:

andymc said:

C Lee Farquar said:

Just to clarify, the shop is a fair distance from Chadlington, but next to a camp site and a gypsy site.

In 2021 four families applied for permission to stay elsewhere as the site next to Clarkson's was too dangerous to bring up a family! They got turned down too.

Google The Beeches, Chipping Norton for all the news about the inter family rivalry and murders. It's not a sleepy hamlet

travellers being travellers, quelle surprise

More ph hate speech, quelle surprise

How is that 'hate speech'?

Pork911 is our resident defender of travellers. He was the same on another thread about travellers behavior, then started adding comments about Jews (which got his posts deleted and possibly a short ban).

We currently have a set of travelling folk occupying the local parks. The pub opposite the first one had to shut due to their behavior.

They arrive, cause havoc locally, and leave crap everywhere (sometimes literally) when they leave. They have just moved on from the second park and it's strewn with litter.

Likewise that's not hate speech is an observation.

This, every time these friendly people turn up the pubs all have to shut and the local park becomes a no-go zone. Might be unrelated I suppose.

Just to counter all this - which definitely happens a lot of the time - we had some travellers camp up on a road near us, where the 'grass verge' is about 40 feet wide. Transit pick-ups, couple of ponies, caravans from the 70's, the works. When they left, 6 weeks or so later, it was immaculate bar a couple of probably unavoidable ruts from the rain-sodden ground and RWD Transit combos and a sign staked into the verge saying, "Thank you for having us and for understanding."

Fair warms the heart, stuff like that.

[Sway]

Nexus Icon said:

Just to counter all this - which definitely happens a lot of the time - we had some travellers camp up on a road near us, where the 'grass verge' is about 40 feet wide. Transit pick-ups, couple of ponies, caravans from the 70's, the works. When they left, 6 weeks or so later, it was immaculate bar a couple of probably unavoidable ruts from the rain-sodden ground and RWD Transit combos and a sign staked into the verge saying, "Thank you for having us and for understanding."

Fair warms the heart, stuff like that.

I have a feeling the demographic of those travellers was somewhat different to the majority.

I've met a few Romani, and lots of Irish. Very different!

[BenS94]

Sway said:

Nexus Icon said:

Just to counter all this - which definitely happens a lot of the time - we had some travellers camp up on a road near us, where the 'grass verge' is about 40 feet wide. Transit pick-ups, couple of ponies, caravans from the 70's, the works. When they left, 6 weeks or so later, it was immaculate bar a couple of probably unavoidable ruts from the rain-sodden ground and RWD Transit combos and a sign staked into the verge saying, "Thank you for having us and for understanding."

Fair warms the heart, stuff like that.

I have a feeling the demographic of those travellers was somewhat different to the majority.

I've met a few Romani, and lots of Irish. Very different!

I do wish most of them were like that!

[TheDeuce]

Oceanrower said:

TheDeuce said:

I actually think beer, on the basis the raw ingredients are worth virtually nothing, might be cheaper - provided you make it yourself, which he effectively does.

Teabag. 1p.
Milk. 3p.
Water. 0p (as near as makes no difference.)

Beer. Duty - £21 per litre of pure alcohol…

That's beer duty, not really a 'cost', it just serves to inflate the final price.

Anyhow, I just googled it and so far as I can work out the average ingredients cost for mass brewed beer is about 10p a pint.

Probably about the same as a pot of tea once sachets of sugar and a biscuit have been added in!

[Zetec-S]

TheDeuce said:

Flumpo said:

TheDeuce said:

MesoForm said:

48k said:

"Everything served at the pub will be grown in the UK to support local farmers, which means coffee and coca-cola will be off the menu"

And tea too? A quick Google suggests only 1 or 2 companies grow tea in the UK (down in Cornwall) and they're certainly not cheap!

I'm sure Clarkson is very happy to not cater to people that go to the pub to drink tea

He might change his mind when he sees the profit margin in a cup of tea compared to a pint.

I actually think beer, on the basis the raw ingredients are worth virtually nothing, might be cheaper - provided you make it yourself, which he effectively does.

Also people who drink tea in pubs are too sensible.you need someone who'll drink 7 beers and talk bks at the bar, ideally.

He could just get Lisa to source all the "UK" ingredients

[WestyCarl]

Frankly he could just serve netttle tea and crisps all homemade form his farm for £10 and people would still be queing outside.

His "cancelling" over the Megan article seems a long time ago

[Wheel Turned Out]

Seems like his "Clarksonland" theme park is getting another site.

How is Hawkstone? Is it actually any good or does it get by just because it's Clarkson's?

[Red9zero]

Wheel Turned Out said:

Seems like his "Clarksonland" theme park is getting another site.

How is Hawkstone? Is it actually any good or does it get by just because it's Clarkson's?

I've tried the cider and it was quite nice. Our local off licence has started selling it, but I will stick to my Ashton Press I think.

[abzmike]

If the locals or the council thought the traffic was bad from his shop, wait until they see whats it's like going to and from his pub thats open 11-11, 7 days a week.

[bobthemonkey]

abzmike said:

If the locals or the council thought the traffic was bad from his shop, wait until they see whats it's like going to and from his pub thats open 11-11, 7 days a week.

Will be very different in so much that the current site is down a long, narrow lane with few passing places.

The new pub is practically on its own exit from a roundabout on an A road, which becomes a modern dual carriageway to the east.

[UTH]

Wheel Turned Out said:

Seems like his "Clarksonland" theme park is getting another site.

How is Hawkstone? Is it actually any good or does it get by just because it's Clarkson's?

I bought some to give it a go, because why not......and it's excellent. I immediately signed up to a recurring delivery once a month of 24 bottles, I thoroughly recommend it (the original Lager, not tried any of the other variations he's come out with)

My July box is due to arrive today, actually. Good job it's not sunny, I might have been tempted by a Monday beer if it was.

[james6546]

Wheel Turned Out said:

Seems like his "Clarksonland" theme park is getting another site.

How is Hawkstone? Is it actually any good or does it get by just because it's Clarkson's?

It’s in my local, I’d rather have neck oil, but I don’t mind it