britishers -- tell me about WIMPY BARS and their shitty burgers

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West London is proper.

― jel --, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i def had a wendy's on oxford st around the time crocodile dundee II came out in the cinema - i remember that particular school trip very well...

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

who here has most recently been to a Harvester

Wolverhampton, 1999. I like their honey mustard sauce, but not anything else really.

― Anna, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Also there is a Wimpy in Greenwich and my boyfriend is one of the maladjusted souls who likes lime milkshakes.

― Anna, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

that Greenwich milkshake place is great tho.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

yates in wimbledon is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, dom. i haven't dared enter.

― stevie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think I've ever been in a Harvester. I take it I'm not missing much.

Wetherspoons beer + burger combo

pre-match staple, that is!

I'm with Onimo on the beer'n'burger Wetherspoons thing. Actually I'm usually with Onimo *for* the beer'n'burger Wetherspoons thing. Cheapo food, in a pub, with two such establishments within five minutes of work/ transport to football. What's not to, um, tolerate.

Their curries are OK, actually, but, yeah, it seems a bit silly to not just go for a proper curry, except for the beer being cheaper and it means you don't have to leave the pub then go back to it. But that's not often a problem on any given Thursday. So, basically, they are excellent for UEFA cup pre-match meet-ups (i.e. I don't do this one so much any more)

― ailsa, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

There was a Wendy's in Croydon, about fifteen years ago.

I've not been to a Wimpy since I was about 5 - our local one was in the shopping centre, next door to Woolies. I am told there is still one in Bootle.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish Doughmasters were all over the country.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

A Wendy's opened in Leeds as well. I liked the food there a lot, but apparently few people agreed with me cos it closed after about three months or something.

― braveclub, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never been to a Harvester before.

Has anyone here been to an Aberdeen/Angus steak house? Somehow this seems the unlikeliest of all the propositions so far.

― ledge, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

there's a wimpy's in twickenham

― negotiable, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

This thread is reminding me of how depressingly terrible 90% of the food I ate in england was. :(

― Trayce, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG, there's a Harvester just opened round here - we drove past it tonight! I honestly don't think I've ever seen one before, let alone been in one, we pop round the corner, and our local Brewers Fayre has been rebranded as a Harvester!

― ailsa, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I last went to a Harvester in October 2006 and I will be going again this month. Yes, that's right - the in-laws are back in town. (We have about 20 eateries in Crystal Palace but the folks, bless 'em, refer to the Harvester on Beulah Hill as "the restaurant").

The cod and chips is fine. I wouldn't stray too far from that, though.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Wetherspoon's curries are just like any other microwave curry both in terms of taste and convenience.

The last Beefeater I went to was the Leefe Robinson on Uxbridge Road, Harrow with my 93-year-old grandfather and 91-year-old grandmother. They both like it there.

― Madchen, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Wetherspoon's curries are just like any other microwave curry both in terms of taste and convenience.

And texture - eww soggy poppadoms

― braveclub, Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

*Microwaved* poppadoms.

― Madchen, Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Can anyone enlighten me on the point of Beard Papa? Are there any others except for the Oxford Street one? All they sell is cream buns and have anime style sea-captain decoration. I don't get it. At all.

― Anna, Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

the point of their menu or the theme or the name? I have never heard of the place but "papa's beard" ("le barbe de papa") is what they call candy floss in france? maybe they only eat cream buns and decorate in anime sea-captain style in france, too

― RJG, Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

it's a french restaurant

― RJG, Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Wetherspoons are in the midst of their real ale fortnight at the moment - all £1.99/pint. Sounds quite tempting. I never, ever go in the Postal Order in SE19 but perhaps this weekend (with the arrival of another ILXor [plus one] in the area) I will make an exception if there's a chance I can have four different halves for under four quid. We could work our way through the whole bloody lot.

(Pam, if you're reading this - I'm only kidding. I will not be taking the Mutsy buggy into a public house).

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link

beard papa is a japanese chain. their cream puffs are obscenely good.

― lauren, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

still, a shop on oxford street that sells nothing but cream puffs! i give it six months.

― braveclub, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

that Greenwich milkshake place is great tho.

OTM

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

no, he'll be leaving the buggy outside, obv.

― CarsmileSteve, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.abumazin.net/pics/TV/barba-theatre.gif

Barba Papa?

― CarsmileSteve, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

not just cream puffs. they sell other baked goods, mochi and mochi ice cream, and smoothies/bubble tea kind of drinks.

― lauren, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Whatever happened to Spud-u-Like? Are there still Spud-u-Likes hiding in far flung corners of the UK? Have they been taken over by Fat Jackets?

I went out with a girl who took me to spud-u-like for lunch once.

― onimo, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

There are a few Spud-U-Likes around, still:

http://www.spudulike.co.uk/store/index.htm

― braveclub, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I immediately think of Victoria Wood wondering whether the correct pronounciation might be "spud-yul-e-kay".

"Fat Jackets"! I think they're making a bid to buy out Boober Tuber.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

was that not waynetta slob pronouncing it spud-oo-lick-ay when she named her baby?

of course enfield could have nicked it from wood...

― CarsmileSteve, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Which Greenwich milkshake place? I feel a Bank Holiday outing coming on...

― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Enfield nicked everything from Wood (Green).

That's a much better phonetic representation than mine. Whatever happened to Starchy Archie's?

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

"THINGS ARE CHANGING - BACK SOON!

― braveclub, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

as a brand name is Wimpy no good in this modern age?

they should come back as HULKY.

― blueski, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

GUTSY

― blueski, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

GRITTY

― the next grozart, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

BLUTO

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Matt it is right opposite MVE, very hard to miss!

― Sarah, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Near the very poor pseudo-Mexican restaurants (note to all pseudo-Mexican restaurateurs: burritos and pasta DO NOT MIX)

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

250 posts in 24 hours about Wimpy. TF I don't look past ILM that much.

My brother worked in Dawlish Wimpy when he was 13, washing up. DON'T GET THAT IN MCDONALDS, EH. There's still, I think, one in Newton Abbot. You get cutlery! And plates! I can't remember the burgers at all.

There are two Wetherspoons in Exeter, one of them a GIANT OLD HOTEL on the edge of town with a huge beer garden that is amazing in summer. It is perfectly fine if you want to sit on the grass with a pint or a bottle of Koppaberg. We eat there maybe three time a year when all else has failed.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

hang on surely you don't need to drink Kopparberg as you've got easy access to some sort of local perry?

― blueski, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

You'd think so, wouldn't you?

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, so here's a question. If almost no one really likes Wimpy, how did it last so long in the UK as a viable brand, to the extent of being referenced in punk songs (e.g. X-Ray Spex's "The Day The World Turned Day-Glo")? Had the international chains just not moved in yet?

― mike a, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

International chains didnt get a hold in the UK till the early 80s, I'd suggest. Certainly not outside London.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

We were still getting over The War.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Who remembers;

COME ON OVER TO MY PLACE
HEY HEY
WE'RE HAVIN A WIMPY
WE'LL BE SHAKIN'
CHEWIN' AND [something]
COME ON OVER TONIGHT
YEAH YEAH YEAH

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.wimpyburgers.co.uk/site/enjoy_wimpy/menu.php

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

The Burger King buyout of the Wimpey establishments was 1989, if you need a date for their effective death.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

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