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

fuck

not even a cut of the profits either

I remember the buns being wholemeal for the Quarter and Half-pounders. Didn't bother me at all, they might even have been better than McD's and BK's overall.

The bun was wholemeal. THE BUN WAS WHOLEMEAL.

Having had a few "gastropub" burgers lately with over-sweet brioche buns taller than any human's mouth, outside incinerated until the whole thing has the texture of a brick, I would go for a nice soft wholemeal bun tbh

since brioche buns became an easy way to try to tell people you're not serving a hockey puck in a ciabatta, there definitely are some bad examples of the same, but i had a burger recently that came in bread and it brought back bad memories, so heavy and doesn't even hold together. a light brioche bun is the best. the m&s ones are nice for your own bbq too.

since brioche buns became an easy way to try to tell people you're not serving a hockey puck

I can also attest that some of those brioche buns LIE

yeah true. p much everywhere in london now does brioche buns, i've had some terrible burgers at team lunches in westminster or whatever, prob the most retrograde spot in the city for pubs/ways of working, and it's always a brioche bun.

Pret can fuck off with their brioche - restore the muffin.

Last one I saw was on Southsea sea front, maybe two years ago?

according to the wimpy website they have 81 restaurants in the uk, perhaps not coincidentally in many locations i'd suspect are living at least 20 years behind the rest of the country

there are two within 20 miles of my current location! maybe i should make a pilgrimage and hope that it doesn't jar loose any repressed memories surrounding the circumstances of my pushup contest

http://www.les-crises.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/quote-s-ils-n-ont-pas-de-pain-qu-ils-mangent-de-la-brioche-marie-antoinette-d-autriche-114706.jpg

now you leave woolwich alone

the chatham branch appears to be deliberately cultivating an air of mystery

CHATHAM
245A High street
Chatham, Kent, ME4 4BQ

Telephone :01634 789424

Hours:
Monday : TBC
Tuesday : TBC
Wednesday : TBC
Thursday : TBC
Friday : TBC
Saturdays : TBC
Sundays : TBC

perhaps it shows up in our plane of reality for just one day every century

it only opens on feb 29th

PORTHCAWL

Note that this is a seasonal Wimpy outlet and opening dates/hours are subject to change. Please contact the outlet for further info.

open once a year on christmas day

i think my nearest is on telscombe cliffs, i think the locals keep it going as some sort of bastion of inedibleness to ward off the marauding waves

Just checked - Southsea is open for biz - here is one of the good reviews..

“A year later and still an O.K. Beanburger and a dump”

3 of 5 bubbles Reviewed 22 January 2017

.. you only feel better after one of those things..

king's lynn branch sounds like it caters for specific tastes

★★★★★
Never had a more delectable bender in my life! It was perfection... It just melted my taste buds with its meaty sensation defiantly recommend to anyone that loves a good bit of meat ;)

If they still did the banana split I might consider visiting the Birkenhead location, but the brown derby doesn't have the same appeal.

everything about this discussion now sounds like a euphemism for adventurous sex after that king's lynn review

I'm always glad to see that the Wimpy in Nottingham remains open, emblazoned with its 'Bender in a Bun' offers.

Last time I ate in a Wimpy was ~21 years ago, and co-incidentally one of the friends I was with had a Bender in a Bun. He said it was like eating a bicycle inner tube.

phwoar

five guys already exists tho

I walk past a Five Guys on the way home from work every evening, and they have a level of modernity and hipness that the marketeers at Wimpy couldn't even dream of.

so wimpy has a bean burger? child jim didn't care for such shenanigans but adult jim who doesn't eat meat would give it a bash

My friend's pet name for me and her is "a bender 'n a bun"

haha

i once went to the wimpy on union street in glasgow when i was wee but all i remember of it was that half the people in there were smoking. way it should be imo, before the nanny state clamped down n such

i used to go to the one on byres road fairly often as a kid and also remember the people smoking and there being a non-smoking section

Eastern Promises has a scene set in a Wimpy. Character has burger, fries and side salad on a plate. Bun is wholemeal.

^^^ accurate

I ate at Five Guys today for the first time. Burger and fillings were swell. Bun held together okay but was a little bit sweet and weird. Received an abundance of spicy chips which were saturated in salt and just not that great. Didn't mind the burger though.

five guys was no better than burger king when i went, and very expensive.

yeah, five guys is insanely expensive for what it is

not to go too far down the burger route but i like shake shack a lot. five guys not so much.

Yeah I paid about £13 for a burger, fries and a drink. You got a choice of free fillings but definitely nothing special.

If anyone visits Bristol, I can't recommend Oowee Diner (a tiny little burger place in Montpelier area) highly enough. I paid less than I did at Five Guys and the burger was INSANELY good. Worth a pilgrimage.

my main takeaway from living away from the uk and coming back to visit is that there are hundreds of expensive burger places everywhere now

we've the same in Aus too. which is criminal because the original chip shop burger is to die for, but there's all these places like new york minute, burger edge, grill'd and such where you end up paying $18 for a burg and chips and that's just not on. oh and don't start me on "royal stacks" near my work who get queues out the door at lunch for burgers with sides of fucking frozen potato gems drenched in cheese goo which is somehow retro and trendy.

fillings

toppings

(hoping this is yet another divisive uk/us usage quirk)

Thick, dry brioche buns seem to be a plague in London at the moment.

bad burgers are an eternal plague.

stupidly expensive burgers a slightly newer one. thanks hipsters

same in Paris now, expensive burgers on brioche are everywhere. I saw one recently for 22€ ! yeah it had foie gras but c'mon. at one such place though, Le camion qui fume, a food truck that also has a resto now, I had the best burger of my life (was 10€ I think?), so it's not all bad.

Drifting further off topic, Manhattan Burger in Berlin does burger, chips and cola for about €7 and is stunning. It shouldn't really be as hard as everyone seems intent on making it look.

love foie gras way too much to ruin it by wrapping a burger around it

yeah that sounds wrong.

had a burger with peanut butter in the other week. sounded interesting on paper, but in reality the pb muted the beefiness of the pattie

bump for Wimpy content.

http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/grace-dent-on-the-highs-and-lows-of-having-the-best-job-in-london-a3552256.html

That one in Southsea/Portsmouth is still there, saw it yesterday.