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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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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By *parkle1974Woman
over a year ago

Leeds

Happy Easter x

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands

Never heard of it.

Maybe because growing up we never had a car and when we did we only went local.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Never heard of it.

Maybe because growing up we never had a car and when we did we only went local."

Have you ever been to Mauritius?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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.

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands


"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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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"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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By *izzy.Woman
over a year ago

Stoke area

Good old Happy Eaters. I do remember them, but we usually took our own food on journeys, so didn't stop at Happy Eaters or Little Chef.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"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)
over a year ago


"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 *hrista BellendWoman
over a year ago

surrounded by twinkly lights

Ours was the little chef at Stoney Cross on the a31, would often have breakfast on family days out to Bournemouth

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"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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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

I occasionally stopped at the one on the A17 at Holbeach when driving to college in Norfolk.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I occasionally stopped at the one on the A17 at Holbeach when driving to college in Norfolk."

That was a beauty. Formerly known as Ron's Cafe.

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

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   
over a year ago


"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.

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales


"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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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

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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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"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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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

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

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By *ynecplCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

Never heard of Happy Eater. Remember Little Chef but never stopped off to eat in one. Seem to remember Granada service stations being a thing.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


" 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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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester


" 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

Works for Joan Collins

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"What self respecting 5 year old cares about aspirations from America "

The sort that was brought up on Dallas and Dynasty.

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester


"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

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Happy zombie day

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Happy zombie day"

Did you know that the game Dizzy for the ZX Spectrum was initially created as vehicle for the Happy Eater man?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"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)
over a year ago

Little Chef

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That is all

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Or Wimpy

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham


"Good old Happy Eaters. I do remember them, but we usually took our own food on journeys, so didn't stop at Happy Eaters or Little Chef. "

Same for me

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Or Wimpy"

Mr Wimpy was a strange little man.

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By *bi HaiveMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset


"Or Wimpy

"

God yes!

Their 'Brown Derby' was the dessert of choice.

A

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Or Wimpy

Mr Wimpy was a strange little man. "

He thought highly of you too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Or Wimpy

God yes!

Their 'Brown Derby' was the dessert of choice.

A"

I was a knickerbocker glory fan

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"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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