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Why Peckham?
We’ve both lived here for a very long time and love our neighbourhood. One day, Sienna and I were like, ‘do you know what would be funny — if we started a juice bar’. We’ve been shopping at our local greengrocers Ali Baba for almost ten years, and they specialise in more exotic Caribbean fruits and vegetables — there’s always so many new things to try! But we were never ‘juice bar people’, and that’s like the last thing on earth we are still today, but we love new tastes and experiences. Juice is just such an easy way for people to experience that. Kids can drink it, everybody can drink it, no matter where someone’s from or what they do — that’s really important to us. CHRIS:
SIENNA: We get every kind of person; all the guys at the scaffolding yard behind us, art students, the yoga-mums, teenagers with McDonald’s in the other hand, traders from Rye Lane...
‘I feel like one day I’ll get arrested… “Excuse me, you’re not supposed to juice yams”.’ Things have changed a little bit as well, and that’s something we’ve certainly noticed. But there’s good and bad that comes with that. I feel like we’re at a point now in Peckham where you can do something, and if your heart is in the right place it will shine through, and that feels really nice. So I think that was kind of appealing, to have something in the wake of all this change and be a part of the community. C:
SELJ: There’s also the Ali Baba Bar, tell me more about that.
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