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

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

saw a massive one on the coast of Porthcawl in Wales at the weekend. highlight of my visit

pretty accurate one in Tinker Tailor.. also

http://www.btlnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/LR-Tinker-Tailor-Soldier-Spy-3.jpg

With the brand recognition and affection Wimpy has, they could totally resurrect themselves as a more modern burger bar - dirty beef porn style - and probably do quite well. Cooler and more sophisticated than McDs or Burger King (keep the slightly clean, modernist decor), less hipster than your indie mini chains.

Five Guys, basically.

five guys already exists tho

they should turn the remaining wimpys into unique horror-dining experiences where you have to scarf your grey, flaccid wimpy burger on the hoof while trying to avoid the terrifying attention of a feral, cannibalistic mr wimpy, who roams the restaurant in search of human sport

if you avoid mr wimpy for the duration of your meal you get to eat free; if you don't, you get recycled in the vast soylent green factories of post-brexit britain (and charged for your meal)

I had my last Wimpy burger at a service station driving home from Reading Festival about 13 years ago. The bun was wholemeal. THE BUN WAS WHOLEMEAL.

Wholemeal buns were usually reserved for the bean burgers, iirc.

I can't remember the last time I even saw a Wimpy. My brother used to work in the Dawlish one. There was lone in dawlish! Early 80s franchising gone mad.

One not lone. Too excited.

The last Wimpy I ate was about 2 years ago at the Porthcawl one spotted by Dog Latin. Porthcawl funfair was hosting its annual Elvis festival. The whole thing was grim af.

i saw one in ireland on the way back from a rave in the wicklow countryside a long time ago, at a petrol station in the middle of nowhere.

which makes sense: Wimpy has been in Ireland on two occasions, in the 1960s, and more recently in the early 2000s.[29] In the 2000s, petrol station chain operator Petrogas took on the master franchise for Ireland,[30] and had operated a large number of sites until 2010.[31]

i saw one in ireland on the way back from a rave in the wicklow countryside

really, there needs to be a 'real ireland' thread

Wholemeal buns were usually reserved for the bean burgers, iirc.

This was def not a bean burger