― Sarah, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
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― blueski, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
to the extent of being referenced in punk songs
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
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― acrobat, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Spotted last week: Wimpy at M&D's.
― jim, Saturday, 30 June 2007 01:44 (sixteen years ago) link
O God!!!
― JTS, Sunday, 1 July 2007 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Is Cumberland ring what you get the next morning after a meal at Wimpy's? Or is it something else?
― moley, Sunday, 1 July 2007 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
i like that you get a plate and a fork and a knife and such but the food itself is very poor.
― Dy, Sunday, 1 July 2007 12:23 (sixteen years ago) link
are these still around?
― Ed Kranepool borrow Chico Escuela's soap and never give it back (Eisbaer), Sunday, 26 September 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
ya-hah
― l'avventura: pet detective (history mayne), Sunday, 26 September 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
You can still get a Bender in a Bun (like a rubber hose) and a Spicy Beanburger (explosive results after a couple of hours).
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 26 September 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
One near me in Watney Market, Shadwell. Never been in, 20 years since I've been in one probably.
― mmmm, Sunday, 26 September 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
according to wikipedia:
"In the UAE it [the spicy bean burger] is called the Bean Royal."
― Ed Kranepool borrow Chico Escuela's soap and never give it back (Eisbaer), Sunday, 26 September 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i have friends working in Dubai right now, i should ask them if they've seen this there.
Last time I ate in one was the Brighton branch in 1996.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 26 September 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i went to one with my dad and brother for nostalgia value a couple of months ago, seemed kinda depressing. food was meh, and the milkshakes are crap now.
that "dr beaks" thing is nuts. why would you want to associate your restaurant brand with:
a) someone people see when they're ill
b) a part of the chicken that nobody would ever eat
― ed chilliband (max arrrrrgh), Sunday, 26 September 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Had a Wimpy burger about 18 months ago and it was hugely disappointing tbh. The onions were bland as fuck.
― dociah t. azzahole (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 September 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
They always are, and they're always grey.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 26 September 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
the woman serving didn't look much like Eleanor Bron either :(
― dociah t. azzahole (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 September 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
this franchise still fascinates me
― it might look subversive, but it's actually crap ... crap does exist (Eisbaer), Sunday, 12 February 2012 07:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://cdn.fxguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/779c0a.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 12 February 2012 07:22 (twelve years ago) link
i was gonna say
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Sunday, 12 February 2012 07:24 (twelve years ago) link
twas that film which brought wimpy's to mind, yes
― it might look subversive, but it's actually crap ... crap does exist (Eisbaer), Sunday, 12 February 2012 07:49 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like i will still eat at Wimpy because it is Wimpy even tho most of the menu is pretty sucky
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 February 2012 09:05 (twelve years ago) link
I just recall Wimpy being crazy expensive when I was a kid (you only got a SAUCER full of chips!) but we still went because it was the only place we were allowed to smoke in our school uniforms.
― owenf, Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
a friend of mine, being a Wimpy aficionado, was at one point trying to visit all remaining Wimpys in the country. he took me to one once, I think it was the one in Greenwich, and tbh I was pretty underwhelmed.
― salsa shark, Sunday, 12 February 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
is there still one in brighton? i remember seeing that before. they did a "bender breakfast", which "may contain bone" apparently.
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
hahaa I forgot about the bender. Wasn't there a 'big bender' too? awesome. They looked fucking gross too
http://www.wimpy.uk.com/images/products/Bender-in-a-Bun-Cheese.jpg
http://pics.livejournal.com/amuchmoreexotic/pic/0003xbqs/s320x320.jpg
― owenf, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
"One good thing about this tour was that we always had some money, so everyone was well fed. Although I must say that I missed having a good hamburger now and then. The only place we could locate then that sold hamburgers was called Wimpy's, after the character in the Popeye cartoons, who ate burgers all the time. They smelled and tasted like dog food on soggy buns. Occasionally, when we were desperate, we would send out for these terrible things."
-John 'Drumbo' French on Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's second UK tour, 1968 ('Beefheart: Through the Eyes of Magic', pg. 333)
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
I had one of these things in Cape Town a couple of years ago. The mustard actually stained my finger for a whole day. The yellow dye would not wash out of my skin.
― TURPS-DEFCON1.jpg (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link