Grumpy Moore Street Traders

bobbyss · 01-03-2020 12:48PM #1

Feeling like a vitiman c fix I was picking ten mandarins at the stall. There were plenty of green and rotten ones I noticed. 'If you want to pick your own go to a supermarket' she said but her tone was 'Fock Off outta here' . She lost a customer.

I may have ended up with five green ones had she picked them. Anyone else find the Moore Street Traders charming?

Pkiernan · 01-03-2020 12:56PM

I found the Asian traders there to be really nice.

Steer clear of the auld dublin slags would be my advice.

Bio Mech · 01-03-2020 01:19PM

If your life career was selling cheap rotten fruit and veg in Dublins smelliest street would you be happy?

tdf7187 · 01-03-2020 01:22PM

Ah heyore leave it out

Rufeo · 01-03-2020 01:47PM

Are they still on the go. With supermarkets with lots of fresh produce?

Been through there lots of times but never bought anything.

Your Face · 01-03-2020 01:52PM

That street could do with a good power wash.

Leg End Reject · 01-03-2020 01:52PM

Your Face wrote: »

That street could do with a good power wash.

The traders too.

JohnnyFlash · 01-03-2020 01:55PM

You didn’t order a carton of Russian fags off them.

01-03-2020 01:59PM

When I moved to Dublin I was looking forward to going to Moore street to experience the auld Dublin warmth and wit that the traders are famous for.

Well that was a lie. Horrible aul hags the lot of them.

whisky_galore · 01-03-2020 02:00PM

The wit and charm of auld Double N.

bobbyss · 01-03-2020 02:23PM

In fairness to them any time I have been through the street around their stalls, it is is very, very clean.

Once got bunch of bananas there but by time i got home everyone of them had turned black.

the purple tin · 01-03-2020 03:08PM

Why do they always shout 'Luvalee for de dinner' after they shout out whatever they are selling, strawberries, bananas whatever. I don't really fancy bananas for dinner tonight thanks anyway.

the purple tin · 01-03-2020 03:10PM

Bio Mech wrote: »

If your life career was selling cheap rotten fruit and veg in Dublins smelliest street would you be happy?

That street never seems to get any sunlight either, and de auld vocal chords would be banjaxxed with all the shoutin.

pauliebdub · 01-03-2020 03:12PM

I have no idea how they are still in business considering there's a Lidl on Moore st that also sells fruit and vegetables. The whole street is so run down and unattractive.

NickNickleby · 01-03-2020 03:14PM

tdf7187 wrote: »

Ah heyore leave it out

I say, a posh street trader!

leeev ih rouh!

Vitamin C how are ye! There's probably quite a few undiscovered vitamins lurking beneath those stalls. No thank you very much.

Airyfairy12 · 01-03-2020 03:17PM

How are they still making a living from selling the odd few bananas and gone off oranges. It must cost them more to buy the fruit and veg and pay the insurance costs to actually run the stall.

NickNickleby · 01-03-2020 03:27PM

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

How are they still making a living from selling the odd few bananas and gone off oranges. It must cost them more to buy the fruit and veg and pay the insurance costs to actually run the stall.

hahahahahahaha.

inSHURDence, wots dah?

Airyfairy12 · 01-03-2020 03:36PM

NickNickleby wrote: »

hahahahahahaha.

inSHURDence, wots dah?

Theyed have to rent the space even if they dont have insurance, you cant just set up a stall to sell what you want.
Street markets all over the country that have been going for years and years every saturday are no more because of the rents and insurance to set up a stall.
I could only imagine what the costs are like in Dublin.

Atlantic Dawn · 01-03-2020 03:40PM

The smell of pure rotten fish and general disease and decay around the entrance to Ilac centre on the street is absolutely sickening to the stomach. I've not heard any "cigarettes or tobacco" shouted in a few weeks, has the blind eye shown over the years been revoked?

NickNickleby · 01-03-2020 03:43PM

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Theyed have to rent the space even if they dont have insurance, you cant just set up a stall to sell what you want.
Street markets all over the country that have been going for years and years every saturday are no more because of the rents and insurance to set up a stall.
I could only imagine what the costs are like in Dublin.

I'm sure its a lot more organised now, but going back decades I had a distant relative who had a 'stall' (pram) around that area, and the main obstacle to setting up the stall was trying to break in to the community. If ye weren't wanted or known, and didn't have the muscle in the background, you were out.

Collie D · 01-03-2020 03:46PM

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

How are they still making a living from selling the odd few bananas and gone off oranges. It must cost them more to buy the fruit and veg and pay the insurance costs to actually run the stall.

Smokes. Vast majority if not all of the few remaining stalls are selling them under the counter.

Collie D · 01-03-2020 03:48PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

The smell of pure rotten fish and general disease and decay around the entrance to Ilac centre on the street is absolutely sickening to the stomach. I've not heard any "cigarettes or tobacco" shouted in a few weeks, has the blind eye shown over the years been revoked?

It’s a bit more discreet than that although still very obvious. It’s like an episode of The Wire. Pay one guy and walk around to another for the smokes which are hidden in various places.

Deebles McBeebles · 01-03-2020 04:03PM

Collie D wrote: »

Smokes. Vast majority if not all of the few remaining stalls are selling them under the counter.

Is that true? I've heard it before but rarely up that way to test it for myself.

I know dey do be doin' a greah trade on de loiters alroigh.

Outlaw Pete · 01-03-2020 04:20PM

I seen one of them punch her husband (I presume) around last year. Almost knocked him out with the first punch and her second put him down. Hurling abuse at him about how she had enough of him.

B.A._Baracus · 01-03-2020 04:31PM

They're a bunch of inner city / from the flats scumbags. Wouldn't have anything to do with them.

corner of hells · 01-03-2020 05:43PM

I'm originally from the city and some of my mother's extended family were and still are street traders , they'd have been her cousins.
Most are licensed traders , with the licences in the family for years.
They all made good livings with one of her cousins sons going on to set up a fairly well known solicitors practice, her other son being a Garda.
Income wise , I'm not sure about the Moore street traders but the Henry street traders at Christmas make a minimum of 10k a month in December.
My mothers side were mainly involved in selling fresh flowers.
None of us are or were scumbags or criminals.

Thelonious Monk · 01-03-2020 07:17PM

pauliebdub wrote: »

I have no idea how they are still in business considering there's a Lidl on Moore st that also sells fruit and vegetables. The whole street is so run down and unattractive.

It's just a few quid on top of their dole so it's prob not hard to at least break even

Guy:Incognito · 01-03-2020 07:22PM

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Theyed have to rent the space even if they dont have insurance, you cant just set up a stall to sell what you want.
.

Whatever about just setting up ,judging by the knock off crap sold at Christmas, they most certainly can sell what they like.

Thelonious Monk · 01-03-2020 07:23PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Whatever about just setting up ,judging by the knock off crap sold at Christmas, they most certainly can sell what they like.

It's disgraceful that those horrible stalls are allowed, on one of the main shopping streets. Not a good look.

olestoepoke · 01-03-2020 07:25PM

Bio Mech wrote: »

If your life career was selling cheap rotten fruit and veg in Dublins smelliest street would you be happy?

Such snobbery

olestoepoke · 01-03-2020 07:27PM

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

It's disgraceful that those horrible stalls are allowed, on one of the main shopping streets. Not a good look.

Why don't you just stay far away over the Southside of the city and keep your snobbery to yourself?

Grumpy Moore Street Traders

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