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
weve one of these 30 mins drive from the island.
milkshakes were good.
its no supermacs obv.
― the kids are alt right (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 23:22 (seven years ago) link
is supermacs your robust self-esteem's name for your own kitchen
― estela, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 07:06 (seven years ago) link
shame on both of us for the dining opportunities spurned that lead to your recent public ignorance
― the kids are alt right (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 07:42 (seven years ago) link
i got to keogh's which is the main thing
― estela, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 08:13 (seven years ago) link
i really enjoy it that when you try to google "doctor beak's" now you find nothing but information on the black plague.
― mystery local boy (rushomancy), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 08:45 (seven years ago) link
Wimpy, Watney Market London E1, two views:
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/P1020679_zpsvf1lxexc.jpg
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Monday, 13 March 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link
Apologies, should have been this one also;
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/P1020678_zps9wshayvk.jpg
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Monday, 13 March 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link
Whoever redesigned their signage should be hung, bevelled and embossed (tho the lettering as the burger filling is alright).
― nashwan, Monday, 13 March 2017 21:02 (seven years ago) link
slides from some guy's talk about visiting every Wimpy in the country:
https://pt.slideshare.net/franticorang/alistairhoughton
― soref, Monday, 13 March 2017 21:03 (seven years ago) link
https://image.slidesharecdn.com/alistairhoughton-100418012001-phpapp02/95/wimpycrawling-14-728.jpg?cb=1271553798
― soref, Monday, 13 March 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link
ahh watney market. snapped this window display a few doors along from that wimpy bar a couple of months ago - only one view I'm afraid:
http://i.imgur.com/RP4ye5X.jpg
― conrad, Monday, 13 March 2017 21:08 (seven years ago) link
Wimpy Cairo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or6TMUbYGXk
― soref, Monday, 13 March 2017 21:13 (seven years ago) link
haha that slideshow.
had forgotten about the motherwell branch of wimpy, it then got me thinking about brandon parade, and the weird sculptural thing there, and that brought me to this site http://charlesandersonart.co.uk/murals.html
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Monday, 13 March 2017 21:17 (seven years ago) link
Just watched Michael Reeves' The Sorcerers - a 1967 horror movie about an elderly couple who literally lives vicariously through 'the yoof' - and was delighted to find it includes a scene where Boris Karloff approaches Ian Ogilvy in a Wimpy Bar (Chiswick High Road, north of Turnham Green, according to this website: http://www.reelstreets.com/index.php/component/films/?task=view&id=937&film_ref=sorcerers,_the). No signage, but great 60s interiors and shots of burgers being cooked (Ogilvy even asks for "a wimpy" rather than a hamburger.) Sadly haven't been able to find any screenshots online, but will keep digging.
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 19:57 (seven years ago) link
i'm continually impressed by your dedication to this topic.
― new noise, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
Here's the one that's still in Kilmarnock. It's inside a bowling alley.https://www.yell.com/static/image/44a9d830-6094-47fe-baae-bb5f3c5b7334_image_jpeg
― everything, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 22:15 (seven years ago) link