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

So are these what Peter Gabriel was singing about in "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight"?: "Chewing through your Wimpy dreams/They eat without a sound/
Digesting England by the pound"

the connective tissue between wimpy and prog rock has been disappointingly underexplored thus far, it's true

BENDER the meaty frankfurter

King Wimpson

I'm sure Bob Stanley has posted pictures of the Amersham branch in the last six months or so.

I think the Genesis line is a pun on the hamburger and also the Wimpy housing company that I guess Gabriel saw "digesting England by the pound" as they blanketed England with lots of identikit suburban housing.

what year is that menu from?

sneak preview of the 2018 lineup iirc

xp it has halfpenny on it so pre-1971

No, we had halfpennies post-decimalisation, they went out of circulation around 1984. That'd be in shillings and that if it was pre-1971.

ah

i never knew!

internet says it's 1972

I did not know (although it was mentioned on this thread ten years ago) that there was a Wimpy computer game for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64. The box looked like this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Mr._Wimpy_Coverart.png

However, the original cover art as designed by Bob Wakelin* for Ocean Software and rejected by Wimpy, was... this (click through):
https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/File:Mr._Wimpy_(Original_Artwork).jpg

The game was apparently not very good, in case you hadn't guessed.

* if you played any games on 8-bit micros or the Amiga circa '84-92 you've probably seen Wakelin's art before: https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Bob_Wakelin plus many others

It was a version of Burger Time iirc, i think I liked it

more information than you probably need here:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003312

(it's kind of hilarious how those tiny thumbnails on the side there are actual 1:1 spectrum screenshots, 256x192px)

I can remember the Spectrum/C64 rivalry being quite sectarian at times, and almost spilling into real hate and violence at my local community centre computer club!

the connective tissue between wimpy and prog rock has been disappointingly underexplored thus far, it's true

They come up in Jethro Tull's "Up to Me" too.

xp yeah but Speccy owners were right :D

don't get me showing unflattering images of the much better graphics and colour qualities of the C64 version of Uridium, next to the Spectrum version!

That link to Bob Wakelin's art, annotated, is brilliant
Just wasted too much time on WOS, shame a lot of links have gone

Made it. Sitting in not my local Wimpy but the Eltham one

It's long, thin and tawdry. My burger will be appalling, my mocha worse. Hurrah!

#awaydays?

This is atrocious but quite nice

No, I'm between lessons haha

:D

Oh god I feel actually sick

It's long, thin and tawdry.

I thought this was the burger you were talking about at first.

yeah me too, only just worked out it was the shop

Well, it's what Giles Coren et al get paid for, after all.

One of those thread titles that make you sing along..

"Oh no don't ask why..."

Do the burgers still have a definite gristle taste?

Did we have this exciting and definitely wholly accurate article yet?

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/leisure/showbiz/11331933.Brad_Pitt_has_a_taste_for_Wimpy/

(found while searching for Swindon Wimpy, because for some reason I felt a strange urge to see the picture of it I posted upthread which is now a broken link)

fizzy drinks

I really want to visit the one near(ish) to me in Eastcote

Phil Lynott in a Dublin Wimpy
https://brandnewretro.ie/2012/02/17/old-adverts-52-wimpy-dorset-st-dublin-with-phil-lynott-1968/

"rendezbvous for showband" :D <3

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/12/article-2172701-14075D65000005DC-164_964x677.jpg

Joe Strummer and John Peel @ Wimpy

not an advertisement for wimpy's health benefits tbh

Fosters? really?

I guess sometimes you might need a diuretic, but otherwise I wouldn't use that piss to clean my boots.

Just time for a quick look at the papers... pic.twitter.com/65EhPNHhQd

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Oh man I've eaten there more than a few times :(

i am moved to ponder the mysterious confluence of culture, circumstance and economic trends which has somehow led essex to have 18 surviving wimpys, the most in the uk

Gonna guess massive racism

i'm happy to accept that as correct until i see persuasive evidence to the contrary tbh

A preference for stuff that you had when you were a kid vs stuff that is much better but has no nostalgia value?

Looking on the Wimpy website it seems that I would have to travel 30-40 miles from Cambridge to find a Wimpy, but if I did so, there are 8 to choose from, forming a ring of Wimpy around the neighbouring counties. Peterborough, Cheshunt, Loughton, King's Lynn, Colchester, Maldon, Borehamwood, Billericay. If they opened a branch in Thetford it would be perfect.

It's probably posted upthread but the last time I had a Wimpy, several years ago after probably a decade or more of abstinence, it was crushingly disappointing