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Onimo has just texted me to tell me that the Wimpy in Union Street in Glasgow is no more :-/

― ailsa, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Wimpy Milkshake however are another kettle of "cumberland rings". (Am I making them up??? OH SO INDIE ARGH)

Milky Wimpshake! My indiest pals liked 'em so I pretended to too but I had never heard a note of theirs until I decided to steal some from the internet, at which point I said "eh" and forgot about them again.

I really liked Swindon Wimpy as a nipper. That is the kind of classy individual you are dealing with here. Anyway, I liked the food better than McDonald's and the Burger King it turned into, and you didn't feel so pressurised to rush and leave, maybe because it wasn't usually as busy.

― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

ALAS

― RJG, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

There was one in Glasgow that made really, really great burgers. It's an O'Brien's now.

― stet, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

The West Ealing Wimpy is still open for business!!!

― jel --, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

finally some good news!

i doubt i'll ever go back tho :/

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/news_images/1603_4136_2.jpg

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

I wish life was like that cartoon

― admrl, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

good morning adam!

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

I think someone had taken the Y of the Wimpy swingy thing that they have out on the street last time I went past.

Southern Fried Chicken always seems more popular.

― jel --, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

good morning you fine little fellow

xp

― admrl, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

you fine little fellow

crossposts

― RJG, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

WIMPY FAP, WIMPY FAP, WIMPY FAP!!
we never had it. :(

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

But you can't buy pints in Wimpys anyway.

― braveclub, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

but... burgers!

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

There's one in Nottingham still. In the Broadmarsh shopping centre.

Milky Wimpshake! etc
I'll thank thee to not diss my ex-boyfriend's band on a thread about exquisite burgers. Mm.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

we have these guys in ontario:
http://www.mywimpysdiner.com/banerfoter/headerleft.jpg

when all you had, burger-wise, to choose from in your crappy town was McDicks, Burger King and Harveys... Wimpy's - not so bad!

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

WIMPY FAB

― braveclub, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

best burger in London, where's it at?

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

there's a wimpy at Norton Caines services on the M6 toll road

(hello football displacement activities)

― Porkpie, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

The bun was fucking BROWN BREAD last time I had a wimpy (possiblt the same time Madchen had her Bender), wtf. Way to spoil a burger, Wimpy.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

best burger in London, where's it at?

Ed's Diner, duh.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

not had one there. would go with Bodeans provisionally but maybe they're not really thick enough.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

hi does anyone else want to diss wendy's? because if so i will slap you in the face

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think brown bread spoils a burger at all. For some reason it makes wholegrain mustard more acceptable in a burger also.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

I went to a Wimpy's in the UK! I wish I could remember where. In either Birmingham or Stafford, I am thinking. I dont recall it being all that, I just wanted to go cause I loved the name :D

― Trayce, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

What in the world is "Doctor Beak"?

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

All a google search yields is some 17th C. engraving, and that CAN'T be right.

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

There is a Wimpy in Kirkcaldy. We went there a couple of months ago to try it out and it was probably the most disgusting eating experience I have ever had. Not even close to the standard of McD or BK.

It's a shame as I seem to remember it being okay back in the 70's/80's before McD's became ubiquitous.

― cheasyweasel, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

YES a burger thread! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Sadly the Wimpy in my town has closed and been replaced by an Indian restaurant. But the good news is they kept the shape of the old sign and put their sign on it! Result.

― klankton, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

why aren't curried burgers more prevalent?

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Because they are not very nice?

― braveclub, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/HappyEater.jpg

What is he doing to himself?

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

There is a Wimpy in West Beirut! At least there was in 2002.

― rener, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

Because they are not very nice?

why wouldn't it be nice?

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure I've had a 'curry burger' somewhere and I remember thinking 'uggh' as I was eating it. Perhaps it was just a bad version of something that could be awesome though.

― braveclub, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

yeah there are many many bad versions of awesome foods.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

See also: 'currywurst'

― braveclub, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Best burger in London - Gourmet Burger King

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

Correction - Gourmet Burger KITCHEN (I've only ever been to a Burger King once - the one which replaced Wimpy at Piccadilly Circus - and it made me sick).

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

I really enjoyed a burger I had at Hamburger Union, right until the moment I got home and was COPIOUSLY SICK. (I think the sickness might have been worth it though!)

Biggest liars ever = "Ultimate Burger".

― Sarah, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ultimate Burger Co. should be Ultimate Milkshake Co.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't been tempted into either of those multi-branch establishments.

Still, you have to admit that in South London terms Wimpy's could never hope to compete with the unstoppable juggernaut that is Morley's.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

Best milkshakes = that American Eagle Diner or whatever it's called in Fitzrovia.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

best burger i've had in recent times - the one i ate last week at home using Waitrose Aberdeen Angus quarter pounder, some manchego-esque paprika-ey cheese, red onion and tomato ketchup. things have gone uphill ever since (because downhill is good really, think about it).

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

M&S did a do-your-own-burger thing last year (Gastrogrill!) which I liked a lot and naturally they immediately stopped making it.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

The prefix 'gastro-' always makes me think of flu and stomach bugs.

― braveclub, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

I had the best ever burger from the Anchor and Hope gastro pub in Southwark. It came with a chunk of bone which one could scrape the marrow out of to spread on toast.

― ledge, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

you had toast with your burger?

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah. And a grilled potato cake thing. And no bun. Ok it wasn't exactly a conventional burger.

― ledge, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

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