Wheelistically @ Claire.NU

Last night, talk­ing to K…

- K pokes Claire repeatedly to the tune of “Wimpy, wimpy, wimpy” due to my amaz­ing level of weak-and-feebleness -

“Every time you say that I think of Mr Wimpy.“
“Mr Wimpy?“
“Yeah, do you remem­ber Mr Wimpy?“
– K thinks -
“I remem­ber the little Mr” she says refer­ing to the sign, still a bit puzzled.
“Yeah, it was Mr Wimpy before it became Wimpy, with the little man.“
– K thinks -
“Oh yeah, I remem­ber him… He was on all the menus!” she said, now grin­ning and con­tin­ued… “He was a little — “
–in uni­son–
“Beefeater Burger!”

For those of you unaware, Mr Wimpy, or rather now Wimpy is a UK fast food chain. It was much more pop­u­lar with the fast-food eat­ing pub­lic in dec­ades gone by and is now seen as only a mar­ginal step-up from a road-side “Greasy Spoon”-trying-to-go-up-market, hav­ing now been sur­passed by US fast-food conglomerates.

Mr Wimpy was our ver­sion of Ron­ald McDon­ald, if you will. He was a beef­bur­ger shaped char­ac­ter with arms, legs and a large nose and wore a Beefeater Uniform.

Unfor­tu­nately, when I asked Google if it remembered Mr Wimpy, it seems the only sur­viv­ing evid­ence of his leg­acy is the Mr Wimpy com­puter game for the 1980s C64.