catinthehat
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Tebay Services - an example to all others. Unlike Little Chef they understand that bacon needs some form of introduction to heat and that melted lard with burnt bits in it does not constitute a sauce.
Did anyone ever like eating at Little Chef?
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My LC was the first one you come to South on the M3
cyberfairy
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Where is it? Have heard a lot about it and know tis somewhere northerly. Mind you, as don't have a car, think would be somewhat pointless and pathetic to go a Motorway service station for express purpose of a meal.catinthehat said:
Herbsman.
Nah Lotion, Pet, Nor Powder.
shoulda stabbed him in the eye with a forkcyberfairy said:I remember a friend once offering to take me for a meal in the country. We drove through lots of lovely little villages in Kent and past lots of quaint olde pubs serving homecooked food before he triumphantly pulled up outside LittleChef
cyberfairy
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Nowadays, with no Little Chef, would not even be able to do that-would have to use a plastic sporkHerbsman. said:shoulda stabbed him in the eye with a fork
A Wetherspoons would be a great replacement however apart from the whole cheap alcohol and driving thing-they do a veggie brekkie for £1.99
moose
like some cat from Japan
My family used to use them regularly in the sixties, when we used to go from Manchester to Devon on A roads for our annual hols. It was considered a real treat, and quite exciting, with all that red Melamine and seeing the food being cooked. Pubs didn't open all day, there weren't service stations, petrol stations just sold fuel, so there really was nothing else (although we regularly stopped in a grass verge and got the Calor gas stove out to brew up). I've eaten many a Jubilee Pancake in my time
They lost their way when the competition arrived.
They lost their way when the competition arrived.
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
You are obviously from a less thrifty family. I had to make do with cheese and pickle sandwiches, ready salted crisps and Trio biscuits eaten whilst illegally squashed with all my siblings for five hours in the back of a second hand Datsun.moose said:My family used to use them regularly in the sixties, when we used to go from Manchester to Devon on A roads for our annual hols. It was considered a real treat, and quite exciting, with all that red Melamine and seeing the food being cooked. Pubs didn't open all day, there weren't service stations, petrol stations just sold fuel, so there really was nothing else (although we regularly stopped in a grass verge and got the Calor gas stove out to brew up). I've eaten many a Jubilee Pancake in my time
They lost their way when the competition arrived.
My mum would still never dream of eating if not in the house or not prepared by her or anything costing over 99p
Dead Cat Bounce
A member of the Waffle elite.
I had many a happy birthday at the Little Chef just of the A23. Free birthday hats and a play ground out the back, this was 20+ years ago.
Or am I getting my childhood memories mixed up with the Happy Eater?
Or am I getting my childhood memories mixed up with the Happy Eater?
cyberfairy
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The Happy Eater was just before my time I think-Wasn't it some big scary Pacman looking logo?Dead Cat Bounce said:I had many a happy birthday at the Little Chef just of the A23. Free birthday hats and a play ground out the back, this was 20+ years ago.
Or am I getting my childhood memories mixed up with the Happy Eater?
Dead Cat Bounce
A member of the Waffle elite.
cyberfairy said:
I think it was, didn't it have a finger pointing towards its mouth?
Direct food this way or how to make your self sick after eating the food?
cyberfairy
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Dead Cat Bounce
A member of the Waffle elite.
cyberfairy said:
Oh my.
Looks like a 3D version of a Rainbow puppet on acid.
((My childhood memories))
cyberfairy
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No but I have taken extrordinary amounts of drugs and alcohol in my defence, m'lordEastEnder said:Are you about 5 or what?
fear-n-loathing
drinking mouthwash
Little Robber more like, me and 3 mates once paid nearly 40 quid for 4 breakfasts and 4 coffees thieving bastards
f for fake
Beer & whisky please
cheep shite, no taste and fucking cold yet hot as the sun. Yep i will miss true english food
beeboo said:
Jubilee Pancakes was Little Chef, and I used to love them. Still do. No longer Little Chef. Just chic craperries and twice the price.
Jubilee Pancakes was the ultimate after party food.
Forced pitstop in one north of Newcastle this summer, and there's NO WAY they were that shite in the 70/80s.
Virtually ankle deep in litter and uncleared tables (it was extremely quiet, mid-morning), none of which got cleared in the hour it took to have breakfast, the women's loo was out of order the entire time, the men's "working" but flooded, and no lock on the cubicle. Utterly disgusting and depressing.
Whereas I have fond memories of my first ever scampi and chips whilst look at some Constable-esque line drawing of a far-flung branch on the placemat from childhood....
Virtually ankle deep in litter and uncleared tables (it was extremely quiet, mid-morning), none of which got cleared in the hour it took to have breakfast, the women's loo was out of order the entire time, the men's "working" but flooded, and no lock on the cubicle. Utterly disgusting and depressing.
Whereas I have fond memories of my first ever scampi and chips whilst look at some Constable-esque line drawing of a far-flung branch on the placemat from childhood....
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Mogden said:
Visiting that Wimpy as a small kid was my only experience of a burger joint until I went to Uni. The shock to my system on entering a Burger King and discovering that you had to eat it with your hands was a sudden realisation that I was a bit out of touch with the times.
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
Yumyum
according to the indy this morning, they were saved at the last minute by some company buying the business. whether that's good news, I don't know.
Dead Cat Bounce said:
f'eckin hell - birthdays at the Little Chef! I thought it was bad that we used to go there as a 'destination' for a special treat, but we never had birthdays at the Little Chef!
(but I probably would have done if I'd had the chance, anything for a Jubilee Pancake
)
High Voltage
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Mid late 80s when coming back from Long Marston Drag Strip me and the boys would ALWAYS stop off for a Little Thief just before getting onto the M5.
Somehow a weekend of Burgers / take away food / too much beer and racing had to be topped off with yet more fried food.
I still, most days start the day with some form of fry up.
The only problem with Little Chef is that they are far from cheap but, when on
Exs that's not really a problem is it?
Somehow a weekend of Burgers / take away food / too much beer and racing had to be topped off with yet more fried food.
I still, most days start the day with some form of fry up.
The only problem with Little Chef is that they are far from cheap but, when on
Exs that's not really a problem is it?
The only times I have been to Little Chefs have been on an annual basis on the way to or from the Glastonbury festival on the A303.
On the way to so that we could meet people to ensure we arrived at the festival together.
From because often it was the first place that you come across that has proper toilet facilities which after four/five days of mud and Glastonbury toilets is valued highly. The cooked breakfasts also always used to go down a treat with the proper plates and knives and forks being especially appreciated!
On the way to so that we could meet people to ensure we arrived at the festival together.
From because often it was the first place that you come across that has proper toilet facilities which after four/five days of mud and Glastonbury toilets is valued highly. The cooked breakfasts also always used to go down a treat with the proper plates and knives and forks being especially appreciated!
Not sure i'd ever been in one before I boycotted them after the Newbury "No Peace Protestors" bollocks in the mid80s
Cid
Proper break this time
Been there a couple of times on the way to my grandparents house, not in the last 10-15 years though. No fond memories here, food was terrible. My mum eventually solved the problem by finding a different route that took a few A-roads through some villages, found a really nice little place that served bigger portions of local produce for the half the price. Always worth trying a diversion through a nearby village if you're not in a hurry. Might add 20 minutes to your journey, but then so does Little Chef service time.
