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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    LEO 1 - any of you old 'uns work on this thing?
    My mum was one of the original sysprogs on them

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by Drewster View Post
    .. the plastic chairs... plastic burger.... plastic smiles.... Oh yeah.... they were the days!!
    But before the days when you could pay for it all with a bit of plastic.

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  • Drewster
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    Originally posted by Lockhouse View Post
    ...and those benders used to have half a fried tomato in the middle. I used to go to the Wimpy Bar in Gantshill and have their cheeseburgers. Just writing about it brings the memories flooding back....the plastic ketchup bottles shaped like tomatoes and that plastic menu on a stand.
    .. the plastic chairs... plastic burger.... plastic smiles.... Oh yeah.... they were the days!!

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  • Lockhouse
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    ...and those benders used to have half a fried tomato in the middle. I used to go to the Wimpy Bar in Gantshill and have their cheeseburgers. Just writing about it brings the memories flooding back....the plastic ketchup bottles shaped like tomatoes and that plastic menu on a stand.

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by gricerboy View Post
    If I remember correctly, Wimpy Bars grew out of what was left of the old Lyons Corner Houses. Way before my time & I suspect that of most others on here.
    LEO 1 - any of you old 'uns work on this thing?

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  • gricerboy
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    If I remember correctly, Wimpy Bars grew out of what was left of the old Lyons Corner Houses. Way before my time & I suspect that of most others on here.

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by superz View Post

    i was afraid to open this as i thought it would contain your sexual naughty doings......
    but disappointed to see it's only about food.
    ftfy

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  • darmstadt
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    I thought it was going to be about the Liberal party

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  • SuperZ
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    Originally posted by wurzel View Post
    Bender brunch in fact. Well I would have done if I hadn't stopped eating meat. Found a Wimpy Bar on Hayling Island & couldn't resist going in, albeit for a spicey beanburger. I had no idea there were any left in existence. Brought memories flooding back of trips to the Beau Nash cinema in Bath after which we would always go for a Bender Brunch and a Knickerbocker Glory in the Wimpy next door. A bender, for the uninitiated, was a frankfurter style sausage with notches cut out out of it to make it, er, bend.
    I was afraid to open this as I thought it would contain your sexual naughty doings......but glad to see it's only about food.

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  • wurzel
    started a topic Just had a bender

    Just had a bender

    Bender brunch in fact. Well I would have done if I hadn't stopped eating meat. Found a Wimpy Bar on Hayling Island & couldn't resist going in, albeit for a spicy beanburger. I had no idea there were any left in existence. Brought memories flooding back of trips to the Beau Nash cinema in Bath after which we would always go for a Bender Brunch and a Knickerbocker Glory in the Wimpy next door. A bender, for the uninitiated, was a frankfurter style sausage with notches cut out of it to make it, er, bend.
    Last edited by wurzel; 19 May 2010, 21:34.

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