phwoar
― gnaw on my meat oreo (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 18:02 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 18:03 (seven years ago) link
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
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 18:14 (seven years ago) link
My friend's pet name for me and her is "a bender 'n a bun"
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 18:18 (seven years ago) link
haha
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 18:46 (seven years ago) link
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
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link
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
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 19:21 (seven years ago) link
Eastern Promises has a scene set in a Wimpy. Character has burger, fries and side salad on a plate. Bun is wholemeal.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 4 May 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link
^^^ accurate
― Impartial Father (stevie), Friday, 5 May 2017 13:50 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Friday, 5 May 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link
five guys was no better than burger king when i went, and very expensive.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 5 May 2017 15:41 (seven years ago) link
yeah, five guys is insanely expensive for what it is
― finger my 60s Soul Pie (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 5 May 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
not to go too far down the burger route but i like shake shack a lot. five guys not so much.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 5 May 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I paid about £13 for a burger, fries and a drink. You got a choice of free fillings but definitely nothing special.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Friday, 5 May 2017 15:52 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Friday, 5 May 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link
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
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 5 May 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 6 May 2017 06:58 (seven years ago) link
fillings
toppings
(hoping this is yet another divisive uk/us usage quirk)
― j., Saturday, 6 May 2017 07:18 (seven years ago) link
Thick, dry brioche buns seem to be a plague in London at the moment.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 6 May 2017 07:23 (seven years ago) link
bad burgers are an eternal plague.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Saturday, 6 May 2017 07:44 (seven years ago) link
stupidly expensive burgers a slightly newer one. thanks hipsters
― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 May 2017 09:54 (seven years ago) link
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.
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 6 May 2017 10:56 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 6 May 2017 10:59 (seven years ago) link
love foie gras way too much to ruin it by wrapping a burger around it
― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 May 2017 11:04 (seven years ago) link
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
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Saturday, 6 May 2017 11:24 (seven years ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 5 June 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
That one in Southsea/Portsmouth is still there, saw it yesterday.
― Mark G, Monday, 5 June 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
We need photos, Mark
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Monday, 5 June 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
Ah, not going back until Amber's at uni.
― Mark G, Monday, 5 June 2017 20:13 (seven years ago) link
There's still a Wimpy on Lewisham High Street which unlike the McDonald's over the road is curiously un-immortalised in grime.
― Matt DC, Monday, 5 June 2017 20:16 (seven years ago) link
I used to go to the one on Lewisham High Street. Just a couple of times until I realised that actually I didn't like any of their food.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 5 June 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link
wimpy's twitter is like a glimpse into an alternate universe
― he's also fouled up with NON-FAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 June 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
https://mobile.twitter.com/WimpyUK/status/868118503311716362/photo/1
― he's also fouled up with NON-FAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 June 2017 20:59 (seven years ago) link
I love the photos of their awards. How many things are wrong with every single picture. It's this kind of acceptance of mediocrity that makes me think perhaps the UK is the place for me after all.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_kx7aIXUAAATKv.jpg
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 5 June 2017 21:12 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19224841_1463387303715573_2014595867061447693_n.jpg?oh=de593ce610855cf5ffba285094ebca8e&oe=59E4EBA3
― heaven parker (anagram), Monday, 19 June 2017 12:45 (seven years ago) link
'the world wide symbol of eating pleasure'
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 June 2017 12:59 (seven years ago) link
'french fried potatoes' is cracking me up
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 June 2017 13:00 (seven years ago) link
So are these what Peter Gabriel was singing about in "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight"?: "Chewing through your Wimpy dreams/They eat without a sound/Digesting England by the pound"
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 19 June 2017 13:12 (seven years ago) link
the connective tissue between wimpy and prog rock has been disappointingly underexplored thus far, it's true
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 June 2017 13:15 (seven years ago) link
BENDER the meaty frankfurter
― André Ryu (Neil S), Monday, 19 June 2017 13:17 (seven years ago) link
King Wimpson
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 19 June 2017 14:27 (seven years ago) link
I'm sure Bob Stanley has posted pictures of the Amersham branch in the last six months or so.
― djh, Monday, 19 June 2017 18:24 (seven years ago) link
I think the Genesis line is a pun on the hamburger and also the Wimpy housing company that I guess Gabriel saw "digesting England by the pound" as they blanketed England with lots of identikit suburban housing.
― Who's puttin' sponge in the zings I once zung (stevie), Monday, 19 June 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link
what year is that menu from?
― kinder, Monday, 19 June 2017 22:01 (seven years ago) link
sneak preview of the 2018 lineup iirc
― epilate your teeth (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 June 2017 22:04 (seven years ago) link
xp it has halfpenny on it so pre-1971
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 19 June 2017 22:15 (seven years ago) link
No, we had halfpennies post-decimalisation, they went out of circulation around 1984. That'd be in shillings and that if it was pre-1971.
― ailsa, Monday, 19 June 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link
ah
i never knew!
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 19 June 2017 22:37 (seven years ago) link
internet says it's 1972
― El Tomboto, Monday, 19 June 2017 23:06 (seven years ago) link
I did not know (although it was mentioned on this thread ten years ago) that there was a Wimpy computer game for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64. The box looked like this:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Mr._Wimpy_Coverart.png
However, the original cover art as designed by Bob Wakelin* for Ocean Software and rejected by Wimpy, was... this (click through):https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/File:Mr._Wimpy_(Original_Artwork).jpg
The game was apparently not very good, in case you hadn't guessed.
* if you played any games on 8-bit micros or the Amiga circa '84-92 you've probably seen Wakelin's art before: https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Bob_Wakelin plus many others
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 3 September 2017 10:44 (six years ago) link