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

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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)

who here has most recently been to a Harvester

Wolverhampton, 1999. I like their honey mustard sauce, but not anything else really.

― Anna, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Also there is a Wimpy in Greenwich and my boyfriend is one of the maladjusted souls who likes lime milkshakes.

― Anna, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

that Greenwich milkshake place is great tho.

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

yates in wimbledon is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, dom. i haven't dared enter.

― stevie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever been in a Harvester. I take it I'm not missing much.

Wetherspoons beer + burger combo

pre-match staple, that is!

I'm with Onimo on the beer'n'burger Wetherspoons thing. Actually I'm usually with Onimo *for* the beer'n'burger Wetherspoons thing. Cheapo food, in a pub, with two such establishments within five minutes of work/ transport to football. What's not to, um, tolerate.

Their curries are OK, actually, but, yeah, it seems a bit silly to not just go for a proper curry, except for the beer being cheaper and it means you don't have to leave the pub then go back to it. But that's not often a problem on any given Thursday. So, basically, they are excellent for UEFA cup pre-match meet-ups (i.e. I don't do this one so much any more)

― ailsa, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

There was a Wendy's in Croydon, about fifteen years ago.

I've not been to a Wimpy since I was about 5 - our local one was in the shopping centre, next door to Woolies. I am told there is still one in Bootle.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

i wish Doughmasters were all over the country.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

A Wendy's opened in Leeds as well. I liked the food there a lot, but apparently few people agreed with me cos it closed after about three months or something.

― braveclub, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

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