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

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Nando's is beloved of primary school children, which I have always taken to be indicative of its place on the lower rungs of gastronomic pleasure.

― ledge, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

The food was OK, to be fair. It's just that the place was parked next to a giant ASDA Home store.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Heh, and a girl at the next table's two sides were rice and chips (=2 veg in Glasgow).

― Madchen, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

I just read this thread, hoping against hope that the Union St. Wimpy's still existed, even though I was about 95% sure it didn't anymore. I think the last one left in town was the Ingram (? Modern Art Museum, whatever) and was sad to see it go. I loved going to Wimpy's, and occasionally stopped in for a burger. For some reason I preferred it to all other fast food chains, and never went to a McDonald's or a Burger King.

The other night I was drunk and had a burger in McDonald's for the first time in a very long while, and it was AMAZING. My American desire for disgusting fast food is hard to supress.

― Gukbe, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Nando's is sort of the Pizza Hut of chicken restaurants - I've never been because I assume it's shit.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

That's KFC Matt.

― braveclub, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Can't do normal American burgerfood any more, it all sinks to the bottom of my stomach like an giant ROCK.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

(I am talkin about the fastfood chains I mean)

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

even though I probably only went to it about three times in three years (OMG so hungover howdowecureit? BUCKET O'CHICKEN!), I miss the KFC on Byres Rd. I guess the street is too posh for it now. I don't have any fast food chains within reasonable walking distance!

― Gukbe, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

if i eat mcdonalds/burger king now - usually when i haven't eaten in 12 hours and am about to pass out - i guarantee i will have apocalyptic shits within 2 hours. i lived off that crap when i was younger - what has happened to me?

― stevie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

there was some commentary on nando's on a similar thread the other day. i haven't heard a single bad thing about it -- such is the company i keep.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

As Ben Elton used to say when he was funny, you might as well flush the Big Mac straight down the toilet and cut out the middleman.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

I've been to Nandos twice - nothing special at all, atmos is like TGI Friday or something - like with ice cream machines and balloons for the nippers etc (perhaps Matt's Pizza Hut thing is more OTM)! And the chicken was fairly dry and bland, not that cheap either. It's not TERRIBLE but definitely lower-average. For people who can't face up to the percieved shame of KFC/Morleys/Amir's/Dollar etc.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Best thing about Nando's: hot sauce!

― braveclub, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

I really like Nando's. Since I gave up eating sad chicken Nando's is the thing I've really missed. (OK, drunken KFC comfort eating too, which I have actually succumbed to, but I felt very bad about it.)

What I particularly miss is their chicken livers in a roll with hot sauce.

xpost Sarah you are insufficiently bourgeois :( I agree their actual chicken qua chicken isn't all that tho.

― Groke, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

The Nandos in Brum isn't too bad at all. And, yes, the kids loved it. The only other thing I know about them is that they say all their chicken is halal.

― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

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― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it was to a link that said 'most of their branches are halal'.

― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

hey, there is still a wimpey in borehamwood! i saw it on sunday, we nearly went in.

i think wimpeys tend to be a [ahem] secondary market establishment, like peacocks and bon marche and littlewoods...

― CarsmileSteve, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

also, in gloucestershire there were Burger Stars (not star burgers) that did a cracking veggie burger and (USP at the time) had unlimited mayo/ketchup/burger sauce/garlic mayo on the counter in big tubs with squirty things on.

― CarsmileSteve, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I thought Nando's major selling point was the Piri Piri and their invitations to see if you're hard enough to have the ultra-hot variety. I am that hard, btw. (But not man enough to actually eat chicken).

Masala Zone is pretty good, I think.

My sub-£5 burger today - a ChiliVeg from RedVeg. £3.25, I think. That seems outrageously expensive now I've typed it out. Back to the £1.80 sushi tomorrow.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

I love the ChiliVeg!

― braveclub, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

KFC is too downmarket to even be Pizza Hut. Also Nando's isn't quite poncey enough to be analogous to Pizza Express.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

And we have yet to discuss the not-entirely-unrelated horror that is the Wetherspoons beer + burger combo.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

lol wetherspoons curry club lol

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

horror that is the Wetherspoons beer + burger combo

pre-match staple, that is! You can't beat a bit of overcooked lamb and a wabbit salad.

― onimo, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

I have never dared to even attempt a Wetherspoons Curry Club curry. Are they as bad as I suspect?

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

wetherspoons food isn't actively bad, it's just not particularly good.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

we need more argentinian steak houses like they have in amsterdam

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

what kind of expectations could you have really, for wetherspoons food.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

It's just the idea of going to Wetherspoons to get a curry, on a specifically designated day. Because, y'know, inner city curry houses are such expensive beasts. Maybe you like a go on a fruitie before your korma?

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Last time I was in Glasgow (1999), I noticed that the Wimpy Bar on Sauchiehall Street was completely empty. On a Saturday afternoon. When all the other nearby eateries were full. I decided to trust the locals and go elsewhere for lunch.

― mike a, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

And we have yet to discuss the not-entirely-unrelated horror that is the Wetherspoons beer + burger combo.

they are like beermats soaked in beef fat and then burned in a deep fat fryer, and sprinkled with the absolute opposite of antacid.

― stevie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

am i imagining this, or did Wendy in the late 1980s have SQUARE BURGERS?

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

i had one four years ago and it was supermarket quality (because it came from the supermarket duh). (xp)

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

You are not imagining that.
xpost

― onimo, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

our local whetherspoons has all the charm of a run down hotel foyer in the 1980s

― stevie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

More of a Yates man, stevie?

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

wendy's still has square burgers. it's their thing.

― lauren, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

yo durrr

wendy's burgers are also the best thing this side of steak & shake you crazy fuckers

― deeznuts, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

who here has most recently been to a Harvester?

only 5 years ago for me!

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

did we even have wendy's in the UK?

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't been to a Harvester (Hendon) in close to 10 years. I could quite fancy one now though!

― admrl, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

We did have Wendy's - there was one in the West End somewhere. But it wasn't like US Wendy's, it had table service, etc.

― admrl, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

I went to an away day last year at a Harvester.

― jel --, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure there was a Wendy's in Acton High Street circa 1980.

― jel --, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

i think i went to a harvester in bristol, like almost ten years ago. first and only time.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh actually, there still is a Wendy's in Acton!

― jel --, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

West London is proper.

― jel --, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

i def had a wendy's on oxford st around the time crocodile dundee II came out in the cinema - i remember that particular school trip very well...

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

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