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

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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?

Memories. You are so right

There used to be a jacket potato van outside Boots in Broadmead, Bristol. They also did amazing steak baguettes. Downstairs in The Galleries was a frozen yoghurt store "I can't believe it's yoghurt" They were two of my favourite places when I went into town as a teenager 😂

Victoria Wood said "Is it Spud You Like?! Maybe its Spudoolickay!"

"imagine all the 'tatoes"

It’s exotic!

Whaaat? This sounds amazing! One of the few things I can eat till I burst is Esquites, aka Mexican street corn. Also the cob version, Elotes. Genuinely one of the most inhaleable foods ever.

I remember Spud U Like. Loved their chilli and their coronation chicken too.

I also miss:

Wimpy. Very few of them around now.

Happy Eater.

I am too young to really remember Berni Inns but I had a peek at a menu on a retro food site and they seemed wonderful places. I enjoyed Victoria Wood's little number about them in The Day We Sang too.

I mourn the demise of so many good greasy spoon cafes. Did what they said on the tin and often delicious meals too.

We've got a local takeaway called the hot potato. The previous owners used to have every jacket potato filling imaginable. But it was taken over and changed into a kebab shop. I don't know why I liked it better selling jacket tatties. But they kept the name.

Assuming this is still current ...

https://lewishamshopping.co.uk/food-and-drink/yummy-cupcorn

So true that so called baking potatoes are just not big enough

I used to work of Oxford street and we used to get our baked potatoes from BHS. They used to start cooking the potatoes at dawn, then give you the butter and filling and in tiny pots so you could butter the potato first. Happy days

When I was in my late teens and early twenties I loved going to the one in Manchester on Piccadilly (where Subway is now). A shop called Shared Earth was next door and I bought a beautiful carved wooden box from there. I loved looking.royndnShared Earth and then going in Spudulike!

Tattie shops, Cranks and those roasted chestnut sellers with hot coal brasiers in London!

Dragons Den that idea. I would if I had any money.

Oh this is taking me back to being a student in Aberdeen. Night out at the Triple Kirk then Tasty Tattie on the way back to halls!

I remember it. First encounter was Edinburgh in the 80's......my taste buds were in heaven!!! Chicken curry and jacket potato bliss ❤️

I’m pretty sure white rose in Leeds still has a spud you like.

We had a local places called Tatties, it was brill.
Re large potatoes, our Coop sells god sized loose ones

@GuitarGeorgina , I use to go in that one too , it's a subway now .

Up until last year (ish) there was one in manchester arndale food court .

There is a spud van on Oxford Road that is great.
Many years ago the council tried to get that and the fruit & veg stall moved / closed down because they 'were not in keeping with the area'
( for those of you that don't know manchester this area has 100s of take aways in the area and is prime student area )
Lot of the students and local businesses banded together to defend both small businesses, it was a landslide victory .
Both businesses are still going strong 😋

I think simple food like jackets are often the very best. I often fantasise about a good hour to myself in a quiet village cafe with a jacket potato for lunch!

DD is 22 and we used to go to spud u like all the time, it only closed in 2019.

I loved Olivers! With their weird little mugs 😂 I also remember their chocolate flake cakes, which seemed so grown up to me as a 6/7(??) yr old

I have a vague memory of spud u like (spudulikay) being mentioned in one of the Terry Pratchet Johnny Maxwell books. Don't think I'm imaging it.

@Teafoot

Spud u like was definitely a thing, there was one in Harrow, near the market that my sister and my mum went to all the time! We thought it was a real treat at the time! I miss those days so much!! And I miss spud u like massively thinking about it!!