Cafe and Diners

[amethyst]

As a kid growing up I remember those orange juice machine by the counters that used to go round and round.Bottles of fanta orange,coca cola bottles,Limeade in a bottle.Or those strawberry milk shakes you used to have in the wimpy.It never tasted the same in the house with nesquick.Those chunky juke boxes the red chairs to sit on with black & white squares on the floor.It was great to have a treat now and again.

[darren]

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Sometimes i think they tasted better cause u enjoyed them better because perhaps u went to a cafe when out on a day trip..

Wasnt mad about nesquick..

[amethyst]

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Sometimes i think they tasted better cause u enjoyed them better because perhaps u went to a cafe when out on a day trip..

Wasnt mad about nesquick..

I think it tasted a bit powdery and I mean we didnt have the gaget to make a creamy milkshake in our homes like what they used in diners etc

[Richard1978]

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There was a cafe like this in the Manchester Arndale Centre well into the 1990s, but looking like something from the turn of the 1980s.

[amethyst]

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Remember those squeezy plastic bottles filled with tomato or brown sauce I am sure there was one for mustard too.

[80sChav]

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As a kid growing up I remember those orange juice machine by the counters that used to go round and round.Bottles of fanta orange,coca cola bottles,Limeade in a bottle.Or those strawberry milk shakes you used to have in the wimpy.It never tasted the same in the house with nesquick.Those chunky juke boxes the red chairs to sit on with black & white squares on the floor.It was great to have a treat now and again.

Indeed amethyst - I recall these so well too. In my then Home Town we had one or 2 Cafe's - they had a reputation for being rubbish for everything else par the drinks. It was the same too in a suburb Town of that Town - one on the edge of the Market was a right run-down dump but still good in it's own way!! It was almost like the one on Only fools and horses in a way!

Luckily in a Town fairly near my now Home Town they still have a Wimpy and it still is similar (decor-wise) to the Wimpy's of old and the ones who tried to copy them as too it is with it's menu (how it is laid out0 but the price is way over the top for meals there now I feel - though on good day's monatry-wise I guess I will still go in!!

[darren]

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LIKE THESE.

Remember those squeezy plastic bottles filled with tomato or brown sauce I am sure there was one for mustard too.

[amethyst]

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Yes they did but I am sure a tomato sauce bottle had a shape of a beef tomato

[victorbrunswick]

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Yes they did but I am sure a tomato sauce bottle had a shape of a beef tomato

The "Queen's Own Ketchup" wielded by Richie in the classic chess fight bit from "Bottom" comes to mind.
They're playing chess with a chess set missing many of the pieces which they substitute with bits and bobs including a tomato-shaped ketchup bottle.

[Richard1978]

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The "Queen's Own Ketchup" wielded by Richie in the classic chess fight bit from "Bottom" comes to mind.
They're playing chess with a chess set missing many of the pieces which they substitute with bits and bobs including a tomato-shaped ketchup bottle.

I remember that episode.

[zabadak]

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Yes they did but I am sure a tomato sauce bottle had a shape of a beef tomato

I think the rebooted Wimpys still have those...