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It was the only place to go if you fancied a bender.
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no, its now a Street Cafe https://www.google.com/maps/@52.243737,0.405454,3a,75y,180h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s5JB37uha4pnJ7-c9SQWFOQ!2e0!6m1!1e1?hl=en |
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https://www.google.com/maps/@52.243737,0.405454,3a,75y,180h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s5JB37uha4pnJ7-c9SQWFOQ!2e0!6m1!1e1?hl=en |
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I always thought that Wimpy bars were for people who were wimps,
like gay bars are for gays. Maybe I should give 'em a go now I know that Betfair forumites use them ... or perhaps not on second thoughts. |
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^ Thanks for that Delta, interesting.
Remember the Wimpy bars very well and their Milkshakes and the Banana Longboats.  And the lukewarm cups of tea ! |
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Still got one in my high street, Beckenham Kent.
It's advertising that Lime Milkshake is back on the menu. |
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I stand corrected, Wimpy were the place to go for milkshakes, before we got health conscious. Burgers...still McDs for me.
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still one on Streatham High Road. Also passed one in Worthing a few months ago, had been voted Wimpy of the year the previous year!
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I went off Wimpy when they switched to brown baps instead of white...for a burger it's all wrong IMO.
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I remember having a wimpey birthday party as a kid and getting to stamp on the feet of Mr wimpey. I still feel guilty about it now.
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think they went out of buisness as "benders" were no longer politically correct
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Slippy, me you and lovegod could all meet up at the Beckenham Wimpy (as its our local) and talk about old times.
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Quite
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I think I know who you are lumponlarge but I'm not 100% certain. I'll be in Beckenham later this week.
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and they,re were none of them god awful gherkins on a wimpy, these days 5 Guys are the best burgers by a country mile.
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If my parents were flush back in the 1970s, Saturday lunchtime treat was being sent out to the Wimpy Bar in Farnham Rd, Slough, for three burgers. Used to seem interminable watching them being cooked, followed by the sprint back home so we could scoff them while watching the first race on Grandstand.
It was never fast food as we know it ... You watched the meat and onions frying on the grill, the buns being toasted. Junk food only arrived when McDonald's opened in Slough High St. I remember queuing there for the first time behind a pair of Yanks, and ordering whatever it was they had, on the basis they must know what they're doing. I'll never forget being instantaneously offered a soggy bun filled with turd and diarrhoea. It turned out that McDonald's were deliberately trying to confuse customers by using the word "relish", which is the US English word for diarrhoea. |
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Morden is never in Surrey, it's in the London Borough of Merton.
I've only ever seen and been into two Wimpey's, I assumed they either had a cull or had shut down, one being in Wood Green and the other opposite Southgate tube station - which is now a P@ddyPower's. Like most chains of a similar nature, they are only good for one thing - the toilet when you need it, I wouldn't put that filth they serve up into my system if I was sponsored to, my body is a temple. |
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Morden is never in Surrey, it's in the London Borough of Merton.
I've only ever seen and been into two Wimpey's, I assumed they either had a cull or had shut down, one being in Wood Green and the other opposite Southgate tube station - which is now a P@ddyPower's. Like most chains of a similar nature, they are only good for one thing - the toilet when you need it, I wouldn't put that filth they serve up into my system if I was sponsored to, my body is a temple. |