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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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In a time before the A1 became a much quicker but less interesting road after they took away all the roundabouts, the Happy Eater ruled supreme.
You could get everything there; breakfasts, fish and chips and they even gave you a little lolly if you were a good boy and had finished your meal.
Meals included the 'Happy Eater Fast Fry', 'Bangerbake' and fish and chips, while children's meals included 'Dog's Delight', 'Little Porkers' and 'Mr Happy's Ice Cream'.
It was the 80s. Buckaroo.
The rivalry with Little Chef was the Blur v Oasis of its generation. You had to pick a side - which one was yours?
I was always Team HE. Loved the little man with his mouth open pointing into it - a pose that's now frequently mimicked on page one of the hot photos.
Sadly they're all sex shops or Starbucks now.
Which was your favourite though? Was it my personal favourite at Markham Moor with the big swooping roof? The one at Selby Fork? The two that straddled the A14 at Newmarket? Or the one with the creepy tree on the A31 at Bere Regis? |
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"Never heard of it.
Maybe because growing up we never had a car and when we did we only went local."
Same. I remember the little chef, same thing maybe? |
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"Never heard of it.
Maybe because growing up we never had a car and when we did we only went local.
Same. I remember the little chef, same thing maybe? "
Remember LC, Been into one about 3 times.
Was a special moment growing up to go into one. Never dined out much.
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"Never heard of it.
Maybe because growing up we never had a car and when we did we only went local.
Same. I remember the little chef, same thing maybe? "
Sadly for HE fans, the Little Chef brand won the day after Forte bought them both. |
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"Oh I couldn’t possibly have eaten there, we always went to the Little Chef just south of Grantham. Eating at Happy Eater would have been a betrayal. "
Hmmm. Team LC. I respect your decision but don't understand it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Never heard of it.
Maybe because growing up we never had a car and when we did we only went local.
Same. I remember the little chef, same thing maybe?
Sadly for HE fans, the Little Chef brand won the day after Forte bought them both. "
Ah right. So they were similar. You did find them all on roundabouts  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Never heard of it.
Maybe because growing up we never had a car and when we did we only went local.
Same. I remember the little chef, same thing maybe?
Sadly for HE fans, the Little Chef brand won the day after Forte bought them both.
Ah right. So they were similar. You did find them all on roundabouts "
They were huge rivals though. I cannot stress how big it was. Tom would have been all over it. |
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"Oh I couldn’t possibly have eaten there, we always went to the Little Chef just south of Grantham. Eating at Happy Eater would have been a betrayal.
Hmmm. Team LC. I respect your decision but don't understand it. "
Brand loyalty innit. My old man would never go anywhere else. |
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As a family we often travelled to Newcastle and Yorkshire when I was a kid as we had family up there.
But alas our family were picnic by the car types. Likely to spot us on a lay-by risking life and limb waiting for the camp kettle to get going as we sat about in deck chairs.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"As a family we often travelled to Newcastle and Yorkshire when I was a kid as we had family up there.
But alas our family were picnic by the car types. Likely to spot us on a lay-by risking life and limb waiting for the camp kettle to get going as we sat about in deck chairs.
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I hope you took your litter home with you. |
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"As a family we often travelled to Newcastle and Yorkshire when I was a kid as we had family up there.
But alas our family were picnic by the car types. Likely to spot us on a lay-by risking life and limb waiting for the camp kettle to get going as we sat about in deck chairs.
I hope you took your litter home with you. "
Of course, I’m a good girl  |
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Hmmmm how many Michelin stars did they have?? I have never heard of a Happy Eater (great new username for cheery fans of oral) got to plump for the Little Thief. I lost my bbq sauce virginity at the charnock Richard LC! |
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"Hmmmm how many Michelin stars did they have?? I have never heard of a Happy Eater (great new username for cheery fans of oral) got to plump for the Little Thief. I lost my bbq sauce virginity at the charnock Richard LC! "
How can you not have heard of HE? You're a child of the 80s! I bet you've never heard of Not Now Bernard either! |
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" who/what in the name of God is Not Now Bernard?? As a child of the 80’s, I was brought up with Dallas & Dynasty. HE wasn’t the go to restaurant for an oil tycoon "
NARRATOR: Time would tell that the aspirations and dreams of 1980s America didn't not deliver on their promises.
Sadly, MRSJAE didn't get the memo and still rocks the big hair and shoulder pads  |
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" who/what in the name of God is Not Now Bernard?? As a child of the 80’s, I was brought up with Dallas & Dynasty. HE wasn’t the go to restaurant for an oil tycoon
NARRATOR: Time would tell that the aspirations and dreams of 1980s America didn't not deliver on their promises.
Sadly, MRSJAE didn't get the memo and still rocks the big hair and shoulder pads "
No wonder I haven’t heard of it! What self respecting 5 year old cares about aspirations from America 
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"What self respecting 5 year old cares about aspirations from America
The sort that was brought up on Dallas and Dynasty.
I never understood the plot "
Someone shot JR.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Or Wimpy
Mr Wimpy was a strange little man.
He thought highly of you too "
Well I'd have been a child at the time so now I think he's really strange. |
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