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

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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.
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― 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)

I've never been to a Harvester before.

Has anyone here been to an Aberdeen/Angus steak house? Somehow this seems the unlikeliest of all the propositions so far.

― ledge, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

there's a wimpy's in twickenham

― negotiable, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is reminding me of how depressingly terrible 90% of the food I ate in england was. :(

― Trayce, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, there's a Harvester just opened round here - we drove past it tonight! I honestly don't think I've ever seen one before, let alone been in one, we pop round the corner, and our local Brewers Fayre has been rebranded as a Harvester!

― ailsa, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

I last went to a Harvester in October 2006 and I will be going again this month. Yes, that's right - the in-laws are back in town. (We have about 20 eateries in Crystal Palace but the folks, bless 'em, refer to the Harvester on Beulah Hill as "the restaurant").

The cod and chips is fine. I wouldn't stray too far from that, though.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

Wetherspoon's curries are just like any other microwave curry both in terms of taste and convenience.

The last Beefeater I went to was the Leefe Robinson on Uxbridge Road, Harrow with my 93-year-old grandfather and 91-year-old grandmother. They both like it there.

― Madchen, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Wetherspoon's curries are just like any other microwave curry both in terms of taste and convenience.

And texture - eww soggy poppadoms

― braveclub, Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

*Microwaved* poppadoms.

― Madchen, Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

Can anyone enlighten me on the point of Beard Papa? Are there any others except for the Oxford Street one? All they sell is cream buns and have anime style sea-captain decoration. I don't get it. At all.

― Anna, Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

the point of their menu or the theme or the name? I have never heard of the place but "papa's beard" ("le barbe de papa") is what they call candy floss in france? maybe they only eat cream buns and decorate in anime sea-captain style in france, too

― RJG, Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

it's a french restaurant

― RJG, Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Wetherspoons are in the midst of their real ale fortnight at the moment - all £1.99/pint. Sounds quite tempting. I never, ever go in the Postal Order in SE19 but perhaps this weekend (with the arrival of another ILXor [plus one] in the area) I will make an exception if there's a chance I can have four different halves for under four quid. We could work our way through the whole bloody lot.

(Pam, if you're reading this - I'm only kidding. I will not be taking the Mutsy buggy into a public house).

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

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