oh and they sell a bacon and cheese halfpounderhttp://www.wimpy.uk.com/images/products/HalfPounder%20Bacon%20%20Cheese.jpg...which looks like two brake discs with yellow plastic sandwiched between
― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
oh man
― dell (del), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
I used to work at Burger King, if anyone has Burger King-related questions
Their Whopper is indeed the bomb
― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
xp Ingredients: bacon, 2 x burgers, 'Kaiser' bun, cheese slice (processed), onions (dehydrated), tomato ketchup
― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
the onions look the most appealing in that photo tbh
― dell (del), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
That picture's from their website, where they're trying their damnedest to make the food look as appetising as possible.
― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
i wanna know why its insouciant cheddar tongue is mocking me
― dell (del), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/tMNb1.gif
― dell (del), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
could totally go for a cornish pasty but will settle for an empanada from porto's.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2120/2311122432_b3ff1f9399_m.jpg
http://www.portosbakery.com/
― orinoco flowbee (get bent), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
wow, i just learned via wikipedia that empanadas originated in Europe. for some reason i thought they were an indigenous Peruvian creation.
― dell (del), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Square Pie looks pretty good, but I've never been to one. Anyone have any experiences?
― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
the wimpy half pounder and the giant isopod: separated at birth?
http://www.wimpy.uk.com/images/products/HalfPounder%20Bacon%20%20Cheese.jpg
http://www.seasky.org/deep-sea/assets/images/giant-isopod-front-se42.jpg
― orinoco flowbee (get bent), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
Did the Peruanos eat wheat?
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
Giant isopod probably less gristle-y.
― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
many thanks for the future nightmare provisions /: turn images off turn images off turn images off
― dell (del), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
I love a BK but my Minnesotan work buddy refuses to eat there in the UK because fuck paying 12 dollars for a BK burger basically
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
i like to imagine that the isopod is really a gentle, sweet lapdog and not the cartoon-evil hellspawn from the murky depths it appears to be.
― orinoco flowbee (get bent), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
ergh if you say so... anyway, thank goodness it's extinct!
― dell (del), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
see i quite like woodlice they always seem like affable guys to me but at that size...no
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
exactly
― dell (del), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
Giant isopods are not extinct. Just stay out of the deep Atlantic.
― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
yes, thank goodness they're extinct!
― dell (del), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
There's probably one in your bathtub right now.
― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
Don't mess with a giant isopod, they eat dead whales.
http://www.xoggoth.org/images/woodlouse.jpg
― orinoco flowbee (get bent), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
xp They probably draw the line at going to Little Chef though.
― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
Actually I remember being in a Little Chef and seeing a guy who looked like John Lennon.
― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
bullet holes, stench of decay kind of thing?
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
burger king : elvislittle chef : john lennonarthur treacher's : ke$ha
― dell (del), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
oh wait, she's not dead.
yet
Greggs: Franz Ferdinand
― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
Spud U Like: Ian Curtis
― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
Wimpy: Jimi Hendrix
just Bob tbh
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
Pret: Joyce Grenfell3 Quid a Pasty are You Fucking Having a Giraffe? Company: Robert Maxwell
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
Dixy Chicken: Dixie Chicks
― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
Pizza Hot 2 Go: Asian Dub Foundation
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
Square Pie: Geri Halliwell
― Hysterically Hardcore (snoball), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
Bagel Nash: Kate Nash
yeah i heard that rumour too
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Chicken Cottage: George Michael
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
NV i will rep for the satisfaction of a gregg's pasty in certain circumstances but it might as well be a different food to what you get at the west cornwall outfit. yeah it's £3 but so are most lunches and that's for the large.
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
tbh I kvetch but it's partially comedy class prejudice and partly cos the only "gourmet" pasty i had from one of these kinda shops was pretty underwhelming for the cash.
I've never had a cornish pasty that's tasted a tenth as good as the ones i remember from devon and cornwall when i was a kid. modern pasties are totally under-peppered
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
good Greggs pasties = sausage, beans and cheese; the chicken fajita one they sometimes do, and the christmas one
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
Of that lot, West Cornwall Pasty Company by a nautical mile.
Yes, it is not as good as proper pasties and they are not fit to even dice, say, Portreath Bakery's potatoes, but it is good food, effective, easily found, satisfying, tasty and not actually hugely pricey if you get a vegetarian option.
Though, had it been on offer, I would probably have picked Pasty Presto as my preferred fast food pasty source of choice, though I know this inspires cries of "abomination!" and "heresy!" because they put carrots in some of their pasties. But in a spicy Moroccan chickpea curry pasty, they can put carrots in if they like and I'm not going to complain. If they ever open a branch in London, I'm in trouble, because OMG their Rhubarb and Custard pasty is some kind of next level deliciousness I could easily become addicted to.
Also, WCPC because of the pirate on their logo. Like, either that is the hugest pasty ever made, or the pirates in West Cornwall are really really REAAAALLLY small.
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
i am still slightly puzzled at the notion of Cornish "pirates" surely these dudes were really smugglers and the kind of dudes who beat shipwrecked sailors to death on the beach trying to cash in on the modern "gosh aren't pirates cool/hilarious" internet horror?
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
I am not going to get into a historical discussion of seafaring practices and pirates vs smugglers vs wreckers (the first two may have some overlap, but you're talking about wreckers, who were generally uncommon, historically, in seafaring communities) on a thread about fast food, especially with someone who is just trying so hard to be cynical about everything.
The only thing I find weird about the logo use of the pirate, is that pasties are actually associated so heavily with tin-mining, rather than seafaring. But whatevs.
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
aww you're no fun. and i'm the least cynical person i know.
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
I'd be a lot more fun if I were sitting on Falmouth Docks, eating a pasty. But I'm cranky when I'm in pasty withdrawal.
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link