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

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but... burgers!

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

WIMPY FAB

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

best burger in London, where's it at?

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

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

(hello football displacement activities)

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

best burger in London, where's it at?

Ed's Diner, duh.

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

What in the world is "Doctor Beak"?

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

why aren't curried burgers more prevalent?

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

Because they are not very nice?

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

Because they are not very nice?

why wouldn't it be nice?

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah there are many many bad versions of awesome foods.

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

See also: 'currywurst'

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

Best burger in London - Gourmet Burger King

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Ultimate Burger Co. should be Ultimate Milkshake Co.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

you had toast with your burger?

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

i used to eat lunch regularly in the starburger near battersea park when i worked at westminster college. they are really just greasy spoon cafes with corporate menus, and not bad if you have a guilty love of kebab shop burgers and chips, which i did at the time. very greasy though (perhaps i needn't have ordered the bacon cheese burger...)

there was a wimpy in morden for ages, tho i hear its not there anymore. wimpy burgers really tasted like boiled beef, iirc, and weren't their buns brown? i remember eating motorway service station wimpy returning from a festival a couple of years back, and it was dreck.

i like those hamburger unions/kitchens... they are springing up *everywhere, and they're replaced the pizza hut off leicester square, for egs... they seem more an offshoot of the nando pehnom than any pre-existing burger chains, tho.

― stevie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Morley's is nightmarish.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

marcello, making your own burgers is very very easy! mince + ketchup to bind, refridge for ten minutes and yr ready to go. stick a lump of mozzarella in there for a nice surprise, season to taste (jerk seasoning is great mixed in to a buger, for some reason)

― stevie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Nando's is a step beyond. King of foods.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

they feel utterly soulless and dead inside, though. it's like going to masala zone for a hamburger. i agree with steve about home-made burgers. they are better 99% of the time, even if you don't have a grill.

haha stevie i have never even considered adding ketchup directly to the ground beef. i usually add a little parsley, some salt and pepper, and occasionally some chopped up spinach. there's a place in new york that adds chopped up beets to their burger meat and it's totally delicious but i've never tried it myself. i almost always like to put a few drops of worcestershire on them as they cook.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

woops, i wasn't talking about nando's - i mant those burger union places. nando's usually has personality to spare.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Mandee, come to West Norwood Wimpy ASAP.

I used to love their extra-thick banana milkshake.

This thread has made me desire BURGER. I think I'll go to Red Veg on Dean Street in a minute.

it's like going to masala zone for a hamburger

Ha - xpost. This was my second choice, actually (the veggie burger). Over a fiver though and they take about 20min to prepare it.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

haha stevie i have never even considered adding ketchup directly to the ground beef.

it works to bind it all together, cos i often don't have any eggs in the house, but ALWAYS have ketchup.

― stevie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Jamie Oliver's burger recipe: "breadcrumbs yeah? celery yeah? retrosalad yeah?"

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i have never had a problem with my meats binding up.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Over a fiver though

Where isn't? (BK and McD and yr local pizzachickenfish excepted).

― ledge, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Wendy's didn't last long did they? And as for the American Burger Company if anyone's brave enough to remember that far back - their lime milkshakes tasted like mucus.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Who on earth would order a lime milkshake?

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

We did, once, as an experiment, way back in the days when Pat and Mick had hits.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

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