Romance on menu at Little Chef

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― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bring back Happy Eater. You knew where you were with them.

― Tom, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

don't you think that little chef looks like a map of britain? kind of?

― gareth, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you're suggesting that the changes are symbolic of wider changes in Britain over the last few years, I'm with you Gareth.

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i kind of meant the shape.

― gareth, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:GF7UUt3YTbA:www.pos.epson.co. uk/news/casestudies/littlechef.jpg

Following some major tectonic shifts, maybe.

― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Robin, are you suggesting Britain has become more romantic in recent years?

― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This was the edge it had over Happy Eater, which rather unfortunately for a restaurant chain looked like someone sticking a finger down their throat.

― Tom, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom, that is the international gesture for num num, as any FULE kno.

― Graham, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.princeton.edu/~seismgrh/images/HappyEater.jpg

To me, it suggests some kind of bug-eyed drugs binge. Followed by a self-emetic manoeuvre, I grant you. My family were always a Little Chef family. Never stopped at a Little Chef. It became an AA/RAC, Paul Scott/John Fowles (don't ask) thing for me.

― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Never stopped at a Little Chef' = 'Never stopped at a Happy Eater'

― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Even if not emetic it still implies that Happy Eater is a chain for diners so cretinous they don't understand that the food goes in your mouth.

― Tom, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not really, Nick. Just more internationalist / European.

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh right, yeah. Have you tried those McMozzarella Melts? They're wicked.

― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are you a pikey? = Have you ever eaten at a Little Chef?

― Trevor, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Get out of here with your racist terminology.

― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought Major liked the ol' Happy Eater? (Although they were owned by the same people and basically did the same food didn't they?) I remember wanting to have my birthday party in a Happy Eater because, surprisingly, I think quite a few people did. I always remember the brown and green tiles in the kitchens. And their ace children's menus and glasses with built in straws. There was a nice one outside Bedford.

― Bill, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Get out of here with your racist terminology."

I've travelled the world and the seven seas, and I've never encountered a race of pikeys. Indeed, I shudder at the thought.

― Trevor, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If the word has racial connotations then I'm not aware of them.

― Trevor, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not very serious. I think it has gypsy/Romany origins, but I may be wrong. All right then, get out of here with your classist terminolgy

― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah Nick you're right - I got paranoid and Google'd "pikey", and it has historical connections with Romany gypsies. So albeit unwittingly, it appears I am a jackbooted flagwaving Nazi. *eek*. And before you know it I'll be burning crosses on the verandah and growing a moustache....

― Trevor, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah - and look what the Attachment s forum has to say about it.

― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

YOU SILLY BRITS

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

IO'M HUNGRY FOR LOVE

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pikey - I'd never heard this word until about three weeks ago, the divine LC herself works with this horrid little man called Kevin Shelley who is racist, sexist...well, pretty much everything-ist, he loves that word and through the medium of an outraged LC I am now very familiar with it. As you can imagine, he don't like gypsies. That's OK though, he's ginger.

― DG, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bill: Major made a point of visiting Happy Eater. In fact, it pretty much defined him.

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My art teacher at secondary school, Mrs Watson, told us her husband designed the Happy Eater logo. I have no way of verifying the truth of this claim but she did make us do a project involving designing the interior of a restaurant chain of our own invention (I did an icecream parlour so I could use my new pastels, the scheme was vanilla, strawberry and pistachio aka cream, pink and green. It was sweetly pretty in a smudgy sort of way. I was only 12 at the time, I hasten to add).

― Emma, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When I was eight, our family stopped off at a Little Chef on the way to Southend (hindsight - the horror!). I ordered a burger and was about to attack it using my hands, and my mum told me off!'Use a knife and fork' she said. 'You're not at the McDonald's now!'

hohohohohohohohohoho HAHAHAHAHAHA!

― Will, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That kind of project would have driven me mad when I was 12. Why do silly restaurants when you can design GUNS and TANKS and ALIENS and THINGS, eh?

― DG, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe for 'twas an all girls school? We considered ourselves lucky not to be designing doll dresses, kitten beds and new ranges of kitchenware.

― Emma, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kitten beds and new ranges of kitchenware would be better, 'cos you could draw tiger cubs and big whirly things with knives sticking out.

My art teachers never appreciated my work. I wonder why not...

― Rebecca, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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