# Your National Dish Of Shame **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [May 20, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-national-dish-of-shame/964784 "2022-05-20T19:31:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 450
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-national-dish-of-shame/964784/450 "2023-05-03T22:15:01Z")
Hah! I discovered Mr Sizzle back then — and it may well have been you who told me the name on these boards as I recounted one of my most memorable culinary experiences with that sad simulacrum of a hamburger. Too bad about the Indian places, as Wolverhampton is where I first really dove headfirst into Indian food and my love for the cuisine began. Yep, thought I remembered the post. Ten years ago: > [@The best hamburgers in the UK!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-hamburgers-in-the-uk/663382/24): > > Having lived in Wolverhampton for a number of years, I suspect the street food you refer to there is the appalling “Mr Sizzle”, without a doubt the most appalling burger of all time, rolled out down the football ground and late at night to catch the unsuspecting drunk. Wimpy is largely gone in the uk (I am surprised someone mentioned seeing one in Berlin, I only ever saw Wendys for a long time in Europe, McD’s took until late 90’s to make it over there), it didn’t go out of business, it got bo… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-national-dish-of-shame/964784)._