NIKIT NEWS & OFF LICENCE

Nikit News
8 Inverness Street
London, NW1 7HJ

TWIRL AVAILABILITY: Excellent
TWIRL STORAGE: On shelf
TWIRL PRICE: 60p
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: The name of this shop is possibly a bit unwise. Please don't consider it an invitation. The sign outside advises of a "Meal Deal", where for £2.40 you can buy any chocolate bar, crisps and a Relentless energy drink. I'm not sure if this actually counts as a meal.



I don't care if you have unwrapped the chocolate bar and placed it next to a pile of crisps, it's still not a meal.

SUPERSAVE

Supersave
3 Kentish Town Road
London, NW1 8NH


TWIRL AVAILABILITY: Not available
TWIRL STORAGE: N/A
TWIRL PRICE: N/A
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Very clever. I'd started to suspect there was some sort of cartel responsible for making sure all the shops on this stretch of Kentish Town Road sell Twirls at exactly the same price. Capital Foods and Booty Wine both charge 59p. I thought I'd spotted a pattern. Supersave don't sell Twirls. How convenient.

CAPITAL FOODS

Capital Foods
13 Kentish Town Road
London, NW1 8NH
TWIRL AVAILABILITY: Excellent
TWIRL STORAGE: On shelf
TWIRL PRICE: 59p
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: This shop is just a couple of doors down from Booty Wine. Both shops sell Twirls for exactly the same price, 59p. It's almost like they're running a cartel.

BOOTY WINE

Booty Wine
17 Kentish Town Road
London, NW1 8NH


TWIRL AVAILABILITY: Excellent
TWIRL STORAGE: On shelf
TWIRL PRICE: 59p
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: This shop is fairly well known because it has a bit of a stupid name. "Booty Wine". Christ.

SPHERE XPRESS

Sphere Xpress
61 Parkway
London, NW1 7PP

TWIRL AVAILABILITY: Not available
TWIRL STORAGE: N/A
TWIRL PRICE: N/A
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: I haven't been Twirl Spotting for quite a while. This was my first shop in a long time, so you can imagine how I felt when I discovered they didn't have any Twirls. I was suicidal. Also, this shop is huge. Not huge. But bigger than it looks. It just goes to show that bigger doesn't always mean better. That made cheered me up at least.

CAMDEN NEWS

Camden News
227 Camden High Street
London, NW1 7BU

TWIRL AVAILABILITY: Excellent
TWIRL STORAGE: On shelf
TWIRL PRICE: 60p
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: I spent about ten minutes trying to get a photo of this shop without anyone getting in the way. Camden High Street is very busy on a Saturday afternoon. Here are some of my failed attempts:

BRITISH LIBRARY

The British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB

TWIRL AVAILABILITY: Excellent
TWIRL STORAGE: On shelf
TWIRL PRICE: 95p
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Twirl information and photo supplied by hencehemmo, who when she first contacted me about the price of Twirls believed they were 70p, which she thought was too expensive ("It makes me angry four times a week. I don't even want a Twirl that often but it makes me spit every time I see them. That's taking the fucking piss"). However, when I asked if she'd mind taking a photo for me to add to the blog, I could not have imagined what would come next. The Twirls in the British Library weren't 70p at all, they were NINETY FIVE PENCE. ("NINETY FIVE FUCKING PENCE" as hencehemmo put it.) Well, all I can say is if that's how much the British Library charge for Twirls, I'm glad I'm illiterate.