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

i was gonna say

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

i feel like i will still eat at Wimpy because it is Wimpy even tho most of the menu is pretty sucky

I just recall Wimpy being crazy expensive when I was a kid (you only got a SAUCER full of chips!) but we still went because it was the only place we were allowed to smoke in our school uniforms.

a friend of mine, being a Wimpy aficionado, was at one point trying to visit all remaining Wimpys in the country. he took me to one once, I think it was the one in Greenwich, and tbh I was pretty underwhelmed.

is there still one in brighton? i remember seeing that before. they did a "bender breakfast", which "may contain bone" apparently.

hahaa I forgot about the bender. Wasn't there a 'big bender' too? awesome. They looked fucking gross too

http://www.wimpy.uk.com/images/products/Bender-in-a-Bun-Cheese.jpg

http://pics.livejournal.com/amuchmoreexotic/pic/0003xbqs/s320x320.jpg

"One good thing about this tour was that we always had some money, so everyone was well fed. Although I must say that I missed having a good hamburger now and then. The only place we could locate then that sold hamburgers was called Wimpy's, after the character in the Popeye cartoons, who ate burgers all the time. They smelled and tasted like dog food on soggy buns. Occasionally, when we were desperate, we would send out for these terrible things."

-John 'Drumbo' French on Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's second UK tour, 1968 ('Beefheart: Through the Eyes of Magic', pg. 333)

I had one of these things in Cape Town a couple of years ago. The mustard actually stained my finger for a whole day. The yellow dye would not wash out of my skin.

Spotted in Newark, Nottinghamshire, over Christmas:

http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc497/WardFowler/P1000243_zps155c6e01.jpg

ooh, new logo

britishes: your Newark looks as shabby as our Newark.

don't think i've ever stopped in Newark but it ain't scenic, true

this is round the corner from the wimpy

http://www.newarkscaffold.com/cdata/43179/img/43179_2693495.jpg

britishes: your Newark looks as shabby as our Newark.

psst: nobody tell the Americans that that's what all of the UK looks like, "nice" towns and shabby towns alike, anywhere with a population greater than a few cows looks pretty much like that

I am fairly sure Wimpy isn't any good now, and probably never was, but the mere mention of it does make me wildly nostalgic for some unknown reason. This is a distant glimpse of the Wimpy of my youth, probably a decade before I got there, but since in Swindon the 70s lasted until at least 1987 it's hard to tell:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6149/6001211137_36d933bcd0.jpg

There's still a Wimpy in Dingwall!

http://lds.localdataimages.com/large/1052/10524652.jpg

I forgot about the Dingwall one. The one in Dundee only closed with its host Megabowl about a year ago.

Is there a Wimpy opening in your town?

Andover: Opening Summer 2012
Alton: Opening Winter 2012

http://www.wimpy.uk.com/coming-soon.asp

Hope the halfpounder fans of Yately and Yeovil are patient...

Your closest Wimpy is:

MOTHERWELL
STRATHCLYDE COUNTRY PARK

HAMILTON ROAD
ML1 3RT

This is an Express Wimpy and therefore may not be able to cater the complete Wimpy Menu.

Your closest Wimpy is:
49.6 miles

Yeah, I might not bother with that, thanks.

It is astonishing to think that when Margaret Thatcher first joined the cabinet in 1970, the Wimpy hamburger chain still banned women from coming in late on their own on the bizarre grounds that only prostitutes would be out at that time of night.

I was expecting that quote to pop up in this thread.

two wimpys spotted in the wild last week

Eltham:

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/P1010164_zpsb048044a.jpg

Dartford:

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/P1010181_zpsdd578b05.jpg

ye olde wimpy, bicester, two views:

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/P1010681_zps2fttrinn.jpg

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/P1010682_zpsv16lbbaj.jpg

FREE BOILED EGG

I saw their hot dog option when I went in last week #thingstotrybeforeyoudie

Phantom Wimpy on Union Street, Glasgow

http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc497/WardFowler/P1010804_zpsl8kp3mof.jpg

Still strong in Beckenham

Interior of Sidcup Wimpy, circa 1980:

https://scontent.fman2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13417657_10206703443765831_7633815549786743904_n.jpg?oh=ab641c45907798a9c587f0aed3b04725&oe=57D2F3B6

IF it still exists, it probably looks exactly the same.

...now.

Leicester Square, 1976

http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Leicester-Square-Warner-West-End-1976-KH.jpg

Spot on @1:25: "We went to a Wimpy Bar but it wasn't all that nice"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czDYeM-tQ8

weve one of these 30 mins drive from the island.

milkshakes were good.

its no supermacs obv.

is supermacs your robust self-esteem's name for your own kitchen

shame on both of us for the dining opportunities spurned that lead to your recent public ignorance

i got to keogh's which is the main thing

i really enjoy it that when you try to google "doctor beak's" now you find nothing but information on the black plague.

Wimpy, Watney Market London E1, two views:

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/P1020679_zpsvf1lxexc.jpg

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/P1020679_zpsvf1lxexc.jpg

Apologies, should have been this one also;

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/P1020678_zps9wshayvk.jpg

Whoever redesigned their signage should be hung, bevelled and embossed (tho the lettering as the burger filling is alright).

slides from some guy's talk about visiting every Wimpy in the country:

https://pt.slideshare.net/franticorang/alistairhoughton

https://image.slidesharecdn.com/alistairhoughton-100418012001-phpapp02/95/wimpycrawling-14-728.jpg?cb=1271553798

ahh watney market. snapped this window display a few doors along from that wimpy bar a couple of months ago - only one view I'm afraid:

http://i.imgur.com/RP4ye5X.jpg

Wimpy Cairo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or6TMUbYGXk

haha that slideshow.

had forgotten about the motherwell branch of wimpy, it then got me thinking about brandon parade, and the weird sculptural thing there, and that brought me to this site http://charlesandersonart.co.uk/murals.html

Just watched Michael Reeves' The Sorcerers - a 1967 horror movie about an elderly couple who literally lives vicariously through 'the yoof' - and was delighted to find it includes a scene where Boris Karloff approaches Ian Ogilvy in a Wimpy Bar (Chiswick High Road, north of Turnham Green, according to this website: http://www.reelstreets.com/index.php/component/films/?task=view&id=937&film_ref=sorcerers,_the). No signage, but great 60s interiors and shots of burgers being cooked (Ogilvy even asks for "a wimpy" rather than a hamburger.) Sadly haven't been able to find any screenshots online, but will keep digging.

i'm continually impressed by your dedication to this topic.

Here's the one that's still in Kilmarnock. It's inside a bowling alley.
https://www.yell.com/static/image/44a9d830-6094-47fe-baae-bb5f3c5b7334_image_jpeg