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My son didn't believe me about a Jacket Potato shop!

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CantFindTheBeat · 10/11/2023 19:21

Was just reminiscing about massive jacket potatoes (where have all the big ones gone??)

Which led to pondering the demise of Spud U Like 😭😭😭😭😭

My 22 year old son didn't believe a shop that only sold jacket potatoes ever existed until Google provided evidence.

Anyone else remember Spud U Like?

Or got memories of other eateries that have been retired to memory lane?

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MsInterpret · 10/11/2023 21:50

emummy · 10/11/2023 19:35

In Edinburgh the Tempting Tattie is ace, been going since I was a student in the 90s

Where's The Tempting Tattie? On a (delayed) train to the burgh right now and could do with one tomorrow.

greengreengrass25 · 10/11/2023 21:50

Yes there was one at Notting Hill, used to love going there

Stressedafff · 10/11/2023 21:52

Spindles Centre here in Oldham still has the corn stand! It’s to die for 🤤

Theres a jacket potato van in Hyde, Tameside too which do the nicest big jackets

I started getting my spuds from a fruit and veg stall in the market hall, so much nicer than the supermarket ones

Badgrief · 10/11/2023 21:53

GrouchyKiwi · 10/11/2023 21:19

Edinburgh apparently has a mashed potato restaurant now too, and I have to say I am tempted to trek into the city to try it.

Admittedly a few years ago, but had a very underwhelming experience in an Edinburgh mashed potato + sausage restaurant.

Rewis · 10/11/2023 21:54

The first and only one I've visited was in 2018 in Edinburg around near the station. My bf still reminisces that lunch.

MrShady · 10/11/2023 21:55

https://thehotpotatotram.co.uk is local to me

RinklyRomaine · 10/11/2023 21:57

We used stop at a Wendy's somewhere in N London and I loved it because I hated burgers; so so I could have a lovely huge sour cream or cheese and bacon jacket while everyone else had burgers and chips. That was about 35 years ago. I know there are still Wendy's about but haven't seen one in years. I wish more places did a jacket option and that the big black potato ovens were still the method of choice, the taters were amazing.

Jewelspun · 10/11/2023 21:58

I googled and there is one in ........

Basildon! 😂

Monsterjam · 10/11/2023 21:59

userxx · 10/11/2023 19:23

I know someone who used to work in one, she used to shag her boyfriend on the sacks of spuds. Put me right off eating in there 🤮

This is exactly what I expect from a spud-u-like and hasn’t put me off at all… may make a special blue water trip for one

Monsterjam · 10/11/2023 21:59

A potato that is not a shag on top of them

xyz111 · 10/11/2023 22:01

pinkglass9 · 10/11/2023 19:22

Bluewater still has one!

It's gone!!! It's now sells Bau Buns.

ClydeBank · 10/11/2023 22:01

AnTeallach · 10/11/2023 20:57

There was a Spud U Like between Edinburgh Uni's Pollock Halls and the main university campus back in the 80s. I lived above it!

might that have been the magnificent POTATOLAND by any chance? 😁

My son didn't believe me about a Jacket Potato shop!
TeenTraumaTrials · 10/11/2023 22:03

The Tempting Tattie is on Jeffries Street near the station. I was in a place across the road from it a couple of weeks ago and we were commenting about if still being there. I plan to go there next time i am working in the city centre.

emummy · 10/11/2023 22:04

@MsInterpret it’s on Jeffrey St, very handy for Waverley. However I fear it may be closed at this time of night…

anybloodyname · 10/11/2023 22:04

I was pregnant in 1984 .. my only craving guilty pleasure was a jacket potato with sweetcorn and lots of butter
Spud u like served their corn cold but warmed mine up for me I was there so often
Heaven 🤭

InSpainTheRain · 10/11/2023 22:08

I loved Spud U Like! Used to go in one regularly in North Finchley. I now fancy a jacket potato tomorrow after reading this thread!

Fizbosshoes · 10/11/2023 22:08

grumpycow1 · 10/11/2023 20:51

There’s an Italian deli style cafe near Holborn which does amazing jackets! Loved Spud U like too

I need to know where this is!!
I very rarely go out for lunch at work but I'd make an exception for good jacket potato!

MStarG · 10/11/2023 22:08

In Melbourne, Australia they have a chain called Spudbar, it's sooo good! Not many beans to be seen on the menu though 😂

MadameameBeans · 10/11/2023 22:10

The one in Chester had roman ruins in the basement which you could go and look at. Cheese and beans jacket with garlic bread and a drink for a fiver, I still miss it even now!

userxx · 10/11/2023 22:10

@AutumnCrow It wasn't that one...... it's probably happened more than we thought, up and down the country 😆

purser25 · 10/11/2023 22:10

Loved spud u like think they did one with soured cream and chives delicious

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 10/11/2023 22:16

cocoapple · 10/11/2023 21:40

Omg the sweetcorn pots🤤 They still have a stand in the shopping centre near me and it’s the first thing I can smell when I walk through. I want sweetcorn now🫣

I'm not sure if it's still there but there was a stall in Lewisham Shopping Centre for years selling cardboard cups of corn. Never seen the appeal!

user1477391263 · 10/11/2023 22:28

They’ve got one in Meadowhall! It’s not a weird idea.

Icanttellyouanything · 10/11/2023 22:29

Nishky32 · 10/11/2023 19:31

The closure of Birmingham’s Mr Egg is an ongoing source if sadness 😂

Where else could you get egg and chips at 3am? 😀