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

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Which Greenwich milkshake place? I feel a Bank Holiday outing coming on...

― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Enfield nicked everything from Wood (Green).

That's a much better phonetic representation than mine. Whatever happened to Starchy Archie's?

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

"THINGS ARE CHANGING - BACK SOON!

― braveclub, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

as a brand name is Wimpy no good in this modern age?

they should come back as HULKY.

― blueski, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

GUTSY

― blueski, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

GRITTY

― the next grozart, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

BLUTO

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Matt it is right opposite MVE, very hard to miss!

― Sarah, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Near the very poor pseudo-Mexican restaurants (note to all pseudo-Mexican restaurateurs: burritos and pasta DO NOT MIX)

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

250 posts in 24 hours about Wimpy. TF I don't look past ILM that much.

My brother worked in Dawlish Wimpy when he was 13, washing up. DON'T GET THAT IN MCDONALDS, EH. There's still, I think, one in Newton Abbot. You get cutlery! And plates! I can't remember the burgers at all.

There are two Wetherspoons in Exeter, one of them a GIANT OLD HOTEL on the edge of town with a huge beer garden that is amazing in summer. It is perfectly fine if you want to sit on the grass with a pint or a bottle of Koppaberg. We eat there maybe three time a year when all else has failed.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

hang on surely you don't need to drink Kopparberg as you've got easy access to some sort of local perry?

― blueski, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

You'd think so, wouldn't you?

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

OK, so here's a question. If almost no one really likes Wimpy, how did it last so long in the UK as a viable brand, to the extent of being referenced in punk songs (e.g. X-Ray Spex's "The Day The World Turned Day-Glo")? Had the international chains just not moved in yet?

― mike a, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

International chains didnt get a hold in the UK till the early 80s, I'd suggest. Certainly not outside London.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

We were still getting over The War.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Who remembers;

COME ON OVER TO MY PLACE
HEY HEY
WE'RE HAVIN A WIMPY
WE'LL BE SHAKIN'
CHEWIN' AND [something]
COME ON OVER TONIGHT
YEAH YEAH YEAH

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.wimpyburgers.co.uk/site/enjoy_wimpy/menu.php

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

The Burger King buyout of the Wimpey establishments was 1989, if you need a date for their effective death.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

McDonalds didnt open a UK 'restaurant' until 1974.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

In Woolwich innit. Opened by Noel Edmonds?

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

The Burger King buyout of the Wimpey establishments was 1989, if you need a date for their effective death.

McDonalds didnt open a UK 'restaurant' until 1974.

In Woolwich innit. Opened by Noel Edmonds?

It's all upthread, though probably hiding under shitty red "skipping" box

― onimo, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

I work a block away from a Beard Papa. It is amazing.

― admrl, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh Nick you mean the Imperial don't you? I hated that place, but the outside was alright. Bludy enormous as I remember.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Taco Bell was pushing things too far for the UK market.

― blueski, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

to the extent of being referenced in punk songs

Now you've got "Wimpys Are Shit" by Peter & the Test Tube Babies stuck in my head. Although they do also sing "and so is McDonalds" and that song is from '83 or so, so McDonalds had reached Brighton by then, at least.

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Notable Taco Bell employees

* José Padilla, alleged supporter of terrorism
* Boyd Rice, noise music pioneer and Social Darwinist ("...when I was sixteen. Just long enough to cause enough trouble to get kicked out of there." Recounted in RE/Search No. 11: Pranks!.)
* Krist Novoselic, Nirvana bassist.
* Steve Smith, Wide Receiver for the Carolina Panthers NFL team.
* Kevin Sellers, vocalist of hardcore punk band The Outsiders
* John C. Dvorak, former TechTV personality and current This Week In Tech pundit, worked there while attending college.
* Tyler Spencer, aka "Dick Valentine" from Electric Six.
* Mike Kennerty, guitar player for the All-American Rejects
* David Barbe, recording engineer/producer (Played in Sugar, and Meryland, Produced Drive By Truckers, Son Volt, many others)
* Hulk Hogan, professional wrestler.
* Jenna Jameson, famous adult film actress
* Jason Lee, former skateboarder and currently starring in My Name Is Earl

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Now you've got "Wimpys Are Shit" by Peter & the Test Tube Babies stuck in my head.

Also "A Bang and A Whimpy" (sic) by Attila the Stockbroker.

― mike a, Thursday, 3 May 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Also the John Cooper Clarke ditty which ends "not with a bang but a Wimpy."

― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 3 May 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Actually the whole lat verse of Psycle Sluts is kind of relevant...

"or you can dine and whine on stuff that's bound to give you boils
hot dogs direct from cruft's
done in diesel oil
or the burger joint around the bend
where the meals thank christ are skimpy
for you that's how the world could end
not with a bang but a wimpy"

― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 3 May 2007 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

i just went in holborn burger king and they no longed do milkshakes. is this just the one branch or have burger king fazed them out altogether? weird.

― acrobat, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

*longer

― acrobat, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Spotted last week: Wimpy at M&D's.

― jim, Saturday, 30 June 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

O God!!!

― JTS, Sunday, 1 July 2007 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

Is Cumberland ring what you get the next morning after a meal at Wimpy's? Or is it something else?

― moley, Sunday, 1 July 2007 03:07 (eighteen years ago)

i like that you get a plate and a fork and a knife and such but the food itself is very poor.

― Dy, Sunday, 1 July 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

are these still around?

― Ed Kranepool borrow Chico Escuela's soap and never give it back (Eisbaer), Sunday, 26 September 2010 14:44 (fifteen years ago)

ya-hah

― l'avventura: pet detective (history mayne), Sunday, 26 September 2010 14:45 (fifteen years ago)

You can still get a Bender in a Bun (like a rubber hose) and a Spicy Beanburger (explosive results after a couple of hours).

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 26 September 2010 14:56 (fifteen years ago)

One near me in Watney Market, Shadwell. Never been in, 20 years since I've been in one probably.

― mmmm, Sunday, 26 September 2010 15:00 (fifteen years ago)

according to wikipedia:

"In the UAE it [the spicy bean burger] is called the Bean Royal."

― Ed Kranepool borrow Chico Escuela's soap and never give it back (Eisbaer), Sunday, 26 September 2010 15:01 (fifteen years ago)

i have friends working in Dubai right now, i should ask them if they've seen this there.

― Ed Kranepool borrow Chico Escuela's soap and never give it back (Eisbaer), Sunday, 26 September 2010 15:01 (fifteen years ago)

Last time I ate in one was the Brighton branch in 1996.

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 26 September 2010 15:06 (fifteen years ago)

i went to one with my dad and brother for nostalgia value a couple of months ago, seemed kinda depressing. food was meh, and the milkshakes are crap now.

that "dr beaks" thing is nuts. why would you want to associate your restaurant brand with:

a) someone people see when they're ill

b) a part of the chicken that nobody would ever eat

― ed chilliband (max arrrrrgh), Sunday, 26 September 2010 15:12 (fifteen years ago)

Had a Wimpy burger about 18 months ago and it was hugely disappointing tbh. The onions were bland as fuck.

― dociah t. azzahole (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 September 2010 15:57 (fifteen years ago)

They always are, and they're always grey.

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 26 September 2010 16:10 (fifteen years ago)

the woman serving didn't look much like Eleanor Bron either :(

― dociah t. azzahole (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 September 2010 16:15 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

this franchise still fascinates me

― it might look subversive, but it's actually crap ... crap does exist (Eisbaer), Sunday, 12 February 2012 07:13 (fourteen years ago)

http://cdn.fxguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/779c0a.jpg

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 12 February 2012 07:22 (fourteen years ago)

i was gonna say

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Sunday, 12 February 2012 07:24 (fourteen years ago)

twas that film which brought wimpy's to mind, yes

― it might look subversive, but it's actually crap ... crap does exist (Eisbaer), Sunday, 12 February 2012 07:49 (fourteen years ago)

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