Never been in a Wimpy. I checked their website. 3 in Scotland. Kilmarnock..well ok...but in Dingwall and Fraserburgh! Amazing.
Where is the Mr Wimpy character?
There used to be a massive one in Dumfries but it's gone now. The one near me suffered when McDonald's opened at the end of the shopping precinct around 1990, that was the death knell but it survived for at least another 20 years. To this day i can still recall that smell of grease and cooked burgers that the place used to have.
Strangely enough they're currently installing a new Wimpy in Aylesbury!!!!
My grandmother used to take me and my sister for days out in Aylesbury when we were young children, and a Wimpy would definitely be one the places she'd take us. I have memories of a grey concrete shopping center with some concrete ducks and a large sticky up bit which housed a McDonald's or maybe it was a Wimpy I forget.
I miss McDonald's Root Beer. I know I'm probably in a minority of one, but I loved that stuff.
The first Wimpy I ever had was in Majorca on my first holiday abroad when I was 13. The bloke running it cooked the burger on an outside barbecue, cut up all the salad fresh etc. Probably the best burger I've ever had. Imagine my disappointment when I eventually had one in the UK...
Strangely enough they're currently installing a new Wimpy in Aylesbury!!!!
My grandmother used to take me and my sister for days out in Aylesbury when we were young children, and a Wimpy would definitely be one the places she'd take us. I have memories of a grey concrete shopping center with some concrete ducks and a large sticky up bit which housed a McDonald's or maybe it was a Wimpy I forget.
Apparently there's a Wimpy still in Birkenhead and they still sell the Bender in a Bun there.
I used to remember there being one in the Strand in Bootle (where the bugs wear clogs) but it's changed to a BK now I think, not been the Strand for ages.
I too love Root Beer, always go for it in the states. Such a shame it didn't really catch on over here.
A fellow connoisseur!
If you want to try one over here then Asda do a pack of 6 330ml cans - Ben Shaw I think. Been a while since I've had it but remember as it being quite good. Aldi do one in a 1-litre bottle but I wasn't particularly keen on it - tasted watered down. Cheap though!
You know what's messed up though? Living in the states most of the bottled, and canned Root Beer is average! The McDonalds here don't sell their version of it! Liquid Germoline I used to call it, but I think it was the best Root Beer ever!
...and ASDA, or any other supermarket used to do an OK cheapy rootbeer usually called something as boring, or stereotypical as "American Rootbeer", or "Stars n' Stripes Rootbeer".....Ironically actually better than the stuff you get in the states.
A&W is OK, Barq's is bloody awful, and the independant ones like Fitz's, Jone's, Dad's Rootbeer have so much sugar in them your tastebuds go numb after 3 gobfulls, and your teeth start to hurt....
You know what's messed up though? Living in the states most of the bottled, and canned Root Beer is average! The McDonalds here don't sell their version of it! Liquid Germoline I used to call it, but I think it was the best Root Beer ever!
...and ASDA, or any other supermarket used to do an OK cheapy rootbeer usually called something as boring, or stereotypical as "American Rootbeer", or "Stars n' Stripes Rootbeer".....Ironically actually better than the stuff you get in the states.
A&W is OK, Barq's is bloody awful, and the independant ones like Fitz's, Jone's, Dad's Rootbeer have so much sugar in them your tastebuds go numb after 3 gobfulls, and your teeth start to hurt....
That's the Asda one - American Rootbeer in a blue-ish can (possibly with Stars and Stripes on it). About £2 for a six-can pack the last time I bought some. I had to stop a few years ago as I was drinking too much of it.
I'd pay a fair bit for a few litres of the old McDonalds rootbeer - agreed, it was amazing. Liquid Germoline! I think that was everyone's name for it over here. I'm glad it's not just me that loved it because everyone I know think rootbeer's rank.
I actually did have a rootbeer once that was better than McDonalds. It was at a cowboy ranch in the desert when we visited Vegas back in 2002. It was on tap at the saloon - ice cold and it was incredible. Wish I could remember what the ranch was called. It was like a proper ranch - all old wood and piles of horse crap everywhere. Looked like it was built in the 1880s.
There is one Rootbeer here that's available in bottles, but you can buy in in micro brewed kegs....yup it's that pretentious! but it's delicious!
This stuff!
It's got like a touch of mint, star anise, and maybe nutmeg in it, or some equally unlikely shite! But if you get it freezing cold you can chug a bottle of it in about 3 seconds, and be like more! MORE! MOOOORRREEE!!!!!
Kinda like Dr. Zoidberg with anchovies!
There is a good chance this could be the one you're on about though.....
Whenever I hear about rootbeer, I mostly think about it as a present in Tojam&Earl for the Megadrive. I've had it once or twice when I was last in the US in 2007 or so but I can't even remember exactly what it tasted like. A hint of licorice in that taste, perhaps?
I wonder what you guys think of what we call Malzbier (literally malt beer when translated), which apparently is called Malta in English? I mean the stuff described in this Wikipedia article. There's a well-known brewery called Oettinger in Germany which is infamous for having dozens of types of beer all being extremely cheapo (so it is sometimes derided as a kind of "bum beer"), but their "Malta" is great and by far my favourite of this type. I doubt it is being exported to the US though so you most likely will never get to try it ...
Fun fact, kinda ... the three owners of this brewery (stated in the Wikipedia article) share either my first or last name amongst them :P
Not a fan of root beer myself..but I have been known to drink 'Kvass' on occasion which is a slavic variety of malt. Also there is a Lithuanian malt beer drink which is a cut above in my opinion..cant remember the name. Sainsbury sold it a while back too. American ... too sugary.
Dirk Meyer above :) mentions Oettinger..hmm..lovely, plus my an old friend of mine had a Mk1 VW Golf tuned by Oettinger...went like a rocket... must have been powered by 97% octane Oettinger beer
Ooh. that's my 2500th post. Make mine a Sasparilla!
They probably still have bouncers in McD's in Liverpool city centre as well but I've been out in Liverpool twice in the last 2 years I think, and neither time went anywhere near McDonalds.
I haven't been in since pre pandemic. It was full of screaming kids running about and was sometimes hard to find a seat. I use them on Just East sometimes.
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There used to be a massive one in Dumfries but it's gone now. The one near me suffered when McDonald's opened at the end of the shopping precinct around 1990, that was the death knell but it survived for at least another 20 years. To this day i can still recall that smell of grease and cooked burgers that the place used to have.
Dumfries oh..I wonder why it's hardly anywhere now...I mean, I'd go there when faced with a KFC.
My grandmother used to take me and my sister for days out in Aylesbury when we were young children, and a Wimpy would definitely be one the places she'd take us. I have memories of a grey concrete shopping center with some concrete ducks and a large sticky up bit which housed a McDonald's or maybe it was a Wimpy I forget.
I miss McDonald's Root Beer. I know I'm probably in a minority of one, but I loved that stuff.
The first Wimpy I ever had was in Majorca on my first holiday abroad when I was 13. The bloke running it cooked the burger on an outside barbecue, cut up all the salad fresh etc. Probably the best burger I've ever had. Imagine my disappointment when I eventually had one in the UK...
I too love Root Beer, always go for it in the states. Such a shame it didn't really catch on over here.
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I used to remember there being one in the Strand in Bootle (where the bugs wear clogs) but it's changed to a BK now I think, not been the Strand for ages.
A fellow connoisseur!
If you want to try one over here then Asda do a pack of 6 330ml cans - Ben Shaw I think. Been a while since I've had it but remember as it being quite good. Aldi do one in a 1-litre bottle but I wasn't particularly keen on it - tasted watered down. Cheap though!
...and ASDA, or any other supermarket used to do an OK cheapy rootbeer usually called something as boring, or stereotypical as "American Rootbeer", or "Stars n' Stripes Rootbeer".....Ironically actually better than the stuff you get in the states.
A&W is OK, Barq's is bloody awful, and the independant ones like Fitz's, Jone's, Dad's Rootbeer have so much sugar in them your tastebuds go numb after 3 gobfulls, and your teeth start to hurt....
That's the Asda one - American Rootbeer in a blue-ish can (possibly with Stars and Stripes on it). About £2 for a six-can pack the last time I bought some. I had to stop a few years ago as I was drinking too much of it.
I'd pay a fair bit for a few litres of the old McDonalds rootbeer - agreed, it was amazing. Liquid Germoline! I think that was everyone's name for it over here. I'm glad it's not just me that loved it because everyone I know think rootbeer's rank.
I actually did have a rootbeer once that was better than McDonalds. It was at a cowboy ranch in the desert when we visited Vegas back in 2002. It was on tap at the saloon - ice cold and it was incredible. Wish I could remember what the ranch was called. It was like a proper ranch - all old wood and piles of horse crap everywhere. Looked like it was built in the 1880s.
There is one Rootbeer here that's available in bottles, but you can buy in in micro brewed kegs....yup it's that pretentious! but it's delicious!
This stuff!
It's got like a touch of mint, star anise, and maybe nutmeg in it, or some equally unlikely shite! But if you get it freezing cold you can chug a bottle of it in about 3 seconds, and be like more! MORE! MOOOORRREEE!!!!!
Kinda like Dr. Zoidberg with anchovies!
There is a good chance this could be the one you're on about though.....
I wonder what you guys think of what we call Malzbier (literally malt beer when translated), which apparently is called Malta in English? I mean the stuff described in this Wikipedia article. There's a well-known brewery called Oettinger in Germany which is infamous for having dozens of types of beer all being extremely cheapo (so it is sometimes derided as a kind of "bum beer"), but their "Malta" is great and by far my favourite of this type. I doubt it is being exported to the US though so you most likely will never get to try it ...
Fun fact, kinda ... the three owners of this brewery (stated in the Wikipedia article) share either my first or last name amongst them :P
Dirk Meyer above :) mentions Oettinger..hmm..lovely, plus my an old friend of mine had a Mk1 VW Golf tuned by Oettinger...went like a rocket... must have been powered by 97% octane Oettinger beer
Ooh. that's my 2500th post. Make mine a Sasparilla!
I always thought McD's one had a hint of Dettol, in a nice way.
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They probably still have bouncers in McD's in Liverpool city centre as well but I've been out in Liverpool twice in the last 2 years I think, and neither time went anywhere near McDonalds.
I'll get my coat.
Phil O'Fish is the manager of course.
"Is that a McDonut, or a meringue?"
"Nay, you're correct, it is a McDonut"