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Dr Jekyll said:
I thought they were going extinct, but apparently a new one is going to open in Bourne End, near Marlow.
Great news for those of us with unsophisticated tastes who nevertheless like to sit down in some comfort and eat our fast food with knife and fork.
Useless fact. I grew up in Bourne end.Great news for those of us with unsophisticated tastes who nevertheless like to sit down in some comfort and eat our fast food with knife and fork.
21st Century Man said:
It's not the lid, it's the spout 
nope its the spout - the air that gets in to the lid with it on is a lot less than what comes out the spout, so makes for issues with the fluid flow... believe me when i say take the lid off, give it a try. it balances it up and the liquid out the spout flows easier and you dont get as much of a mess. the teapots are crap though.
ruggedscotty said:
21st Century Man said:
It's not the lid, it's the spout
nope its the spout - the air that gets in to the lid with it on is a lot less than what comes out the spout, so makes for issues with the fluid flow... believe me when i say take the lid off, give it a try. it balances it up and the liquid out the spout flows easier and you dont get as much of a mess. the teapots are crap though.
It's why some lids have a hole in them but that doesn't work as well as removing the lid.TwigtheWonderkid said:
I take it Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Oxford was fully booked.
IN Oxford, you say?I ate in a Wimpy today, for the first time since probably the mid 90’s. Nostalgia took over and I couldn’t resist.
It pains me to say this, but it was overpriced yet dreadfully average.
I had:
The ‘original half-pounder’ £8.45
Fries (regular) £2.85
Bottle of iced tea £3.15
Total: £14.45 (that was for takeaway, not sit in)
The burger was no better than I could have made at home. The bun was like a cheap dry supermarket bun like you would buy in a packet of 6, the meat was average and tasted again like cheap supermarket burgers, and the lettuce/trimmings looked a little sad and wilted.
The fries were pretty poor and the portion really small. The price of the Lipton ice tea shocked me.
A McDonald’s Big Mac meal, large, would have been £5.89 and infinitely more tasty.
It pains me to say this, but it was overpriced yet dreadfully average.
I had:
The ‘original half-pounder’ £8.45
Fries (regular) £2.85
Bottle of iced tea £3.15
Total: £14.45 (that was for takeaway, not sit in)
The burger was no better than I could have made at home. The bun was like a cheap dry supermarket bun like you would buy in a packet of 6, the meat was average and tasted again like cheap supermarket burgers, and the lettuce/trimmings looked a little sad and wilted.
The fries were pretty poor and the portion really small. The price of the Lipton ice tea shocked me.
A McDonald’s Big Mac meal, large, would have been £5.89 and infinitely more tasty.
Mikebentley said:
I went to the one in Shrewsbury about 6 weeks ago. 3 of us burger chips and drink to take away was £40!, it was rubbish too.
Yep. I felt properly wallet-raped. I eat out a lot, and have no issue spending money on restaurant/pub/takeaway food or drink, but this was just a total waste, rip-off, whatever you want to call it.Basically it was £15 for some piss poor food that I could have made better at home, shoved in a paper bag.
Everyone should heed these warnings
I don’t care how nostalgic it feels to go in a Wimpy, just don’t!Things is with food its not the quality or the price its the experience or memories. I nearly flew to LA a coupe of years back just for the hell of it to have a s
tty taco bell with a mate just to relive old times. I didn;t, he came to me but I still drove 200+ miles to meet up and eat crappy pseudo-Mexican.
Same way my most memorable meal ended up with me being quite ill. I cherish the memory of a "treat" at the Wimpy on Brixham harbour as a kid. Very fancy for such a place at the time!
tty taco bell with a mate just to relive old times. I didn;t, he came to me but I still drove 200+ miles to meet up and eat crappy pseudo-Mexican.Same way my most memorable meal ended up with me being quite ill. I cherish the memory of a "treat" at the Wimpy on Brixham harbour as a kid. Very fancy for such a place at the time!
Mikebentley said:
Saw a Taco Bell in Cheltenham last week, wife says we had a lucky escape as lots of Fbook and ttter posts saying everybody has been getting the sts after eating there.
If you want a proper Mexican meal, go where the local blue collar Mexican workers eat, it's quality and cheap. (talking USA of course tter posts saying everybody has been getting the sts after eating there. )I did this 22 years ago when in Atlanta. The wife’s dad had two 5 bed houses there so we ventured to a canteena type place at the side of a main road one evening. We were the only non Hispanic people there and sat outside under the veranda. Work trucks and vans with only men kept turning up. We had never eaten Mexican food before and didn’t have a clue what to order or what it was or how to eat it. The male server wasn’t really interested in telling us either.
It was a pretty unpleasant experience with the other customers learing at my 19 year old future wife. What we did taste was st too. Have had better since.
It was a pretty unpleasant experience with the other customers learing at my 19 year old future wife. What we did taste was s
t too. Have had better since.Mikebentley said:
I did this 22 years ago when in Atlanta. The wife’s dad had two 5 bed houses there so we ventured to a canteena type place at the side of a main road one evening. We were the only non Hispanic people there and sat outside under the veranda. Work trucks and vans with only men kept turning up. We had never eaten Mexican food before and didn’t have a clue what to order or what it was or how to eat it. The male server wasn’t really interested in telling us either.
It was a pretty unpleasant experience with the other customers learing at my 19 year old future wife. What we did taste was st too. Have had better since.
Funny. I had the complete opposite experience, but then i went to a proper restaurant the Mexicans ate at, not some sIt was a pretty unpleasant experience with the other customers learing at my 19 year old future wife. What we did taste was s
t too. Have had better since.thole shack at the side of the road.Gassing Station | Food, Drink & Restaurants | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff