yes, the onions were still like boiled sellotape, no idea how / why you do that to a poor onion.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 13 January 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
wonderful revive. still laughing at adam faith. still laughing at boiled sellotapeaesthetic charming, bun looks heinous, menu doing too much. recalls french outlet flunch somehowhad a small fight with an ex once because he went on a longed-for nostalgia visit to the nearest wimpy without me while I was on a very prohibitive diet. thought it was brazen at the time, but in retrospect it was the low blood sugar / yearning for a bendy colouring my thinking.
― verhexen, Saturday, 14 January 2023 07:21 (one year ago) link
i think the spicy beanburger is the only thing i miss and would cautiously revisit
― Wyverns and gulls rule my world (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 January 2023 07:28 (one year ago) link
I don't think I've posted this before - UK competitive eater Beard Meats Food tackles pretty much the full Wimpy menu at the Milford, Stafford branch a couple of years ago. It's a curious wee shack rather than a sit in restaurant, for added novelty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QG3LIX4gQY
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 14 January 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
THAT'S MY CHILDHOOD WIMPY!!
― Wyverns and gulls rule my world (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 January 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link
and yes, it's a shack. but then Milford is basically a pub and a row of houses
― Wyverns and gulls rule my world (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 January 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
Wimpy in Woolwich, London 1987
https://i.imgur.com/u5gqwBM.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 11 February 2024 17:48 (two months ago) link
These photos are grim as hell
This one was my local for many years
https://i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/article22387826.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/1_JS183910396.jpg
― nate woolls, Friday, 19 April 2024 02:58 (one week ago) link
so brown so grim so true to london in the 80s
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 19 April 2024 08:09 (one week ago) link
bugger https://i.imgur.com/u5gqwBM.jpg
nate woolls, is that the one in ogmor, wales?
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 19 April 2024 15:04 (one week ago) link
Lol that's Woolwich. I know the 96 bus well
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:29 (one week ago) link
are you talking about the photo in the post labelled "Wimpy in Woolwich, London 1987" or the other one?
― kinder, Friday, 19 April 2024 21:00 (one week ago) link
Lol don't see the label.
Anyway, feeling local pride though there was another wimpy nearby that I went to regularly
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 April 2024 11:11 (one week ago) link
It's in Porthcawl in Wales xp
― nate woolls, Saturday, 20 April 2024 11:41 (one week ago) link
Ah Porthcawl, yes sorry. Its very prominent iirc
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Saturday, 20 April 2024 14:07 (one week ago) link
I wonder if anyone ever goes into one of Britain's surviving Wimpys, sits down, starts eating their meal and then suddenly realises they're the only person there not recording themselves for a youtube video
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/myMaYrEKA3M/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEhCK4FEIIDSFryq4qpAxMIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJD&rs=AOn4CLDvTYMGj-jHB9NxtAJ4EaEbSoSUcg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1i6pNkmNlFk/maxresdefault.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9vfpLIE_nDo/sddefault.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pqRNd2eMk0o/maxresdefault.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DLmFjxyMDIc/hqdefault.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mZnxWL17x7s/maxresdefault.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oSSWEOQPaxg/maxresdefault.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9Q8GEH7fUgA/maxresdefault.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pCtc2jtlubU/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEhCK4FEIIDSFryq4qpAxMIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJD&rs=AOn4CLC97u5Keu8o8n8RDCRRA5F4ClY4cg
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Saturday, 20 April 2024 14:56 (one week ago) link
Apart from SweatpantsjoeatstheUK, the dudes making their YouTubes of their trips to Wimpy seem to be a very specific kind of older white dude and I would not like to glimpse at their Facebook feeds
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Monday, 22 April 2024 09:16 (one week ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oSSWEOQPaxg/maxresdefault.jpg There is no dignity in pulling a face like this multiple times once you're in your late 40s, mate
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Monday, 22 April 2024 09:17 (one week ago) link
Also all that food looks repulsive. wholemeal buns = puke, and why are those buns such an unusually flaccid beige?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/myMaYrEKA3M/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEhCK4FEIIDSFryq4qpAxMIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJD&rs=AOn4CLDvTYMGj-jHB9NxtAJ4EaEbSoSUcgthis guy has such perfect "manager of the WH Smith's where you worked on Saturdays when you were in 6th form" vibes
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Monday, 22 April 2024 09:20 (one week ago) link
I have absolute no nostalgia for Wimpy but if we're talking about the burgers served up on the charcoal grill at the kebab shop round the corner from where I grew up, that's a Proustian rush right there (RIP Merton Kebab & Burger House on Haydon's Rd, we salute you)
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Monday, 22 April 2024 09:21 (one week ago) link