it's the mid-afternoon so not many people expected, but place is half full, mainly with kids who've just finished school, but still, no sign that this place is dying.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 13 January 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
Staff seem to be mostly Spanish, kids seem to be leaving, still most of the tables are occupied. Stereo is playing Sweet Harmony by The Beloved, always a favourite. let's see what's on the menu.https://i.postimg.cc/Rh01JDZw/20230113-154751.jpg
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 13 January 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
chose the "bendy with cheese" - a little disappointed that it isn't called a "bender in a bun" now, but relieved that I can ask for it without difficulty.https://i.postimg.cc/J7yvF6qs/20230113-155141.jpgsausage is good, meaty, tomato is mealy, too many onions, bread is nasty, like the cheapest rolls from the supermarket, actually crumbles as I eat. I'll give it a 5/10
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 13 January 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
they started playing Shape Of My Heart, so I made my excuses and left.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 13 January 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link
Last Wimpy I had was at a service station en route home from Reading festival in like 2003 or so. Bun was brown and stale and gross.
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Friday, 13 January 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
last nostalgia Wimpy i had might have been around the late 2000s. normally i'd say no such thing as too much onions but given these had the texture and flavour of boiled sellotape i'd make an exception
― Wyverns and gulls rule my world (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 January 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
My mate Paul worked in Stevenage Wimpy and used have to put on the Mr Wimpy costume for kids parties and have the shit kicked out of him by sugar-crazed nippers.
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 13 January 2023 17:22 (one year ago) link
yes, the onions were still like boiled sellotape, no idea how / why you do that to a poor onion.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 13 January 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
wonderful revive. still laughing at adam faith. still laughing at boiled sellotapeaesthetic charming, bun looks heinous, menu doing too much. recalls french outlet flunch somehowhad a small fight with an ex once because he went on a longed-for nostalgia visit to the nearest wimpy without me while I was on a very prohibitive diet. thought it was brazen at the time, but in retrospect it was the low blood sugar / yearning for a bendy colouring my thinking.
― verhexen, Saturday, 14 January 2023 07:21 (one year ago) link
i think the spicy beanburger is the only thing i miss and would cautiously revisit
― Wyverns and gulls rule my world (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 January 2023 07:28 (one year ago) link
I don't think I've posted this before - UK competitive eater Beard Meats Food tackles pretty much the full Wimpy menu at the Milford, Stafford branch a couple of years ago. It's a curious wee shack rather than a sit in restaurant, for added novelty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QG3LIX4gQY
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 14 January 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
THAT'S MY CHILDHOOD WIMPY!!
― Wyverns and gulls rule my world (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 January 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link
and yes, it's a shack. but then Milford is basically a pub and a row of houses
― Wyverns and gulls rule my world (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 January 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
Wimpy in Woolwich, London 1987
https://i.imgur.com/u5gqwBM.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 11 February 2024 17:48 (two months ago) link
These photos are grim as hell
This one was my local for many years
https://i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/article22387826.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/1_JS183910396.jpg
― nate woolls, Friday, 19 April 2024 02:58 (two weeks ago) link
so brown so grim so true to london in the 80s
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 19 April 2024 08:09 (two weeks ago) link
bugger https://i.imgur.com/u5gqwBM.jpg
nate woolls, is that the one in ogmor, wales?
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 19 April 2024 15:04 (two weeks ago) link
Lol that's Woolwich. I know the 96 bus well
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:29 (two weeks ago) link
are you talking about the photo in the post labelled "Wimpy in Woolwich, London 1987" or the other one?
― kinder, Friday, 19 April 2024 21:00 (two weeks ago) link
Lol don't see the label.
Anyway, feeling local pride though there was another wimpy nearby that I went to regularly
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 April 2024 11:11 (two weeks ago) link
It's in Porthcawl in Wales xp
― nate woolls, Saturday, 20 April 2024 11:41 (two weeks ago) link
Ah Porthcawl, yes sorry. Its very prominent iirc
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Saturday, 20 April 2024 14:07 (two weeks ago) link
I wonder if anyone ever goes into one of Britain's surviving Wimpys, sits down, starts eating their meal and then suddenly realises they're the only person there not recording themselves for a youtube video
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/myMaYrEKA3M/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEhCK4FEIIDSFryq4qpAxMIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJD&rs=AOn4CLDvTYMGj-jHB9NxtAJ4EaEbSoSUcg
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― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Saturday, 20 April 2024 14:56 (two weeks ago) link
Apart from SweatpantsjoeatstheUK, the dudes making their YouTubes of their trips to Wimpy seem to be a very specific kind of older white dude and I would not like to glimpse at their Facebook feeds
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Monday, 22 April 2024 09:16 (two weeks ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oSSWEOQPaxg/maxresdefault.jpg There is no dignity in pulling a face like this multiple times once you're in your late 40s, mate
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Monday, 22 April 2024 09:17 (two weeks ago) link
Also all that food looks repulsive. wholemeal buns = puke, and why are those buns such an unusually flaccid beige?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/myMaYrEKA3M/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEhCK4FEIIDSFryq4qpAxMIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJD&rs=AOn4CLDvTYMGj-jHB9NxtAJ4EaEbSoSUcgthis guy has such perfect "manager of the WH Smith's where you worked on Saturdays when you were in 6th form" vibes
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Monday, 22 April 2024 09:20 (two weeks ago) link
I have absolute no nostalgia for Wimpy but if we're talking about the burgers served up on the charcoal grill at the kebab shop round the corner from where I grew up, that's a Proustian rush right there (RIP Merton Kebab & Burger House on Haydon's Rd, we salute you)
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Monday, 22 April 2024 09:21 (two weeks ago) link