Spud-u-Like has closed down

[Sparklingbrook]

One of my favourites! Or spud-oo-lickay as Victoria Wood referred to it.

www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/04/spudulike-closes-all-37-outlets-as-high-street-downturn-continues

Wondered why it was closed at Bluewater the other day! Loved that place.

I haven't seen a branch since the 1990s - I thought they'd closed down decades ago!

I loved the ones in food halls. The DSs would have some old rubbish from the burger places and I could have a baked spud, everyone happy.

Good but expensive in Staffordshire a couple of months ago.

We sometimes called our cat, 'cat u like' for a joke.

Yes, I agree not cheap for what is just a potato but they had a certain charm.

Blimey I thought they went years ago. The on in our town closed in the early eighties.

We never had one locally but they seemed to do okay in food halls at shopping malls and outlet centres.

DH is in a peck because his deliberate spud-ooo-likkaay pronunciation won't be available to piss me people off anymore

He can spend all day telling people 'spud-ooo-likkaay' have shut all their shops.

Did he think of that all by himself Monica or did he just watch Victoria Wood in the 1980s?

There is/was one in our local shopping centre but I never had one because I like my baked potatoes just so, and can't bring myself to eat one prepared by anyone else in case there are bad bits, eyes or if it hasn't been cooked from fresh right then.

Didn't Wayne and Waynetta call their child Spudulike? pronounced SpudUlika? :)

This

I thought they’d gone about 20 years ago.

Yes, but what of her sister, Frogmella?

Im so sorry for the staff what an awful situation to be in though im not suprised its gone i found it rediculously expensive for what it was and not normally that nice but still staff are without jobs and that's never good

Newsflash-they did not close down 20 years ago. That's why they are closing down now.

Someone I know sold their thriving business to Spudulike many years ago and made a fortune.

I'm with Sparkling. When we go out for the day then he ds ccould have his maccies/KFC/whatever and dh and I can have a jacket potato. It was a good fast food option for ds who has to eat a very low salt diet.

I haven't seen these since the 90's thought well gone

I know that now I just thought they had. They are a very 80/90s thing.

I do love a food hall. You can all sit together but all have what you want (well used to). DH always disappears and comes back with something fantastic from the noodle places.
I will have to broaden my horizons...

Was it literally just baked potatoes??

If it helps, the tikka sauce they used was the Lloyd Grossman jars you can buy in supermarkets, though obviously in bigger tubs.

I'm a plain baked beans girl myself.

Here's the menu IvanaPee.

www.spudulike.com/menu

Thanks @Sparklingbrook
Never heard of them!