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
Spotted in Newark, Nottinghamshire, over Christmas:
http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc497/WardFowler/P1000243_zps155c6e01.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 7 January 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
ooh, new logo
― Manhattan Transfer Window (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 January 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
britishes: your Newark looks as shabby as our Newark.
― happier than GG Allin in a laxative factory (Eisbaer), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
don't think i've ever stopped in Newark but it ain't scenic, true
― Kindle Nagasaki (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
this is round the corner from the wimpy
http://www.newarkscaffold.com/cdata/43179/img/43179_2693495.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 7 January 2013 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
psst: nobody tell the Americans that that's what all of the UK looks like, "nice" towns and shabby towns alike, anywhere with a population greater than a few cows looks pretty much like that
I am fairly sure Wimpy isn't any good now, and probably never was, but the mere mention of it does make me wildly nostalgic for some unknown reason. This is a distant glimpse of the Wimpy of my youth, probably a decade before I got there, but since in Swindon the 70s lasted until at least 1987 it's hard to tell:http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6149/6001211137_36d933bcd0.jpg
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 7 January 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
There's still a Wimpy in Dingwall!
http://lds.localdataimages.com/large/1052/10524652.jpg
― ailsa, Monday, 7 January 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
I forgot about the Dingwall one. The one in Dundee only closed with its host Megabowl about a year ago.
― michaellambert, Monday, 7 January 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
Is there a Wimpy opening in your town?Andover: Opening Summer 2012Alton: Opening Winter 2012
Andover: Opening Summer 2012Alton: Opening Winter 2012
http://www.wimpy.uk.com/coming-soon.asp
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
Hope the halfpounder fans of Yately and Yeovil are patient...
― sktsh, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
Your closest Wimpy is:MOTHERWELLSTRATHCLYDE COUNTRY PARKHAMILTON ROADML1 3RTThis is an Express Wimpy and therefore may not be able to cater the complete Wimpy Menu.
MOTHERWELLSTRATHCLYDE COUNTRY PARK
HAMILTON ROADML1 3RT
This is an Express Wimpy and therefore may not be able to cater the complete Wimpy Menu.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
Your closest Wimpy is:49.6 miles
Yeah, I might not bother with that, thanks.
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
It is astonishing to think that when Margaret Thatcher first joined the cabinet in 1970, the Wimpy hamburger chain still banned women from coming in late on their own on the bizarre grounds that only prostitutes would be out at that time of night.
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
I was expecting that quote to pop up in this thread.
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
two wimpys spotted in the wild last week
Eltham:
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/P1010164_zpsb048044a.jpg
Dartford:
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/P1010181_zpsdd578b05.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
ye olde wimpy, bicester, two views:
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/P1010681_zps2fttrinn.jpg
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/P1010682_zpsv16lbbaj.jpg
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 24 May 2015 11:14 (nine years ago) link
FREE BOILED EGG
― nashwan, Sunday, 24 May 2015 11:19 (nine years ago) link
I saw their hot dog option when I went in last week #thingstotrybeforeyoudie
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 May 2015 12:19 (nine years ago) link
Phantom Wimpy on Union Street, Glasgow
http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc497/WardFowler/P1010804_zpsl8kp3mof.jpg
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
Still strong in Beckenham
― nashwan, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
Interior of Sidcup Wimpy, circa 1980:
https://scontent.fman2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13417657_10206703443765831_7633815549786743904_n.jpg?oh=ab641c45907798a9c587f0aed3b04725&oe=57D2F3B6
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 05:01 (eight years ago) link
IF it still exists, it probably looks exactly the same.
― get on (down) / to the funky (sound) / of (snoball), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
...now.
Leicester Square, 1976
http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Leicester-Square-Warner-West-End-1976-KH.jpg
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
Spot on @1:25: "We went to a Wimpy Bar but it wasn't all that nice"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czDYeM-tQ8
― everything, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link