A brand new style of fast food hits Shirley high street a suburb of Southampton - Spudulike. First shown: 22/07/1982 If you would like to license a clip from this video please email: archive@fremantle.com Quote: VT27484
Bless Adam Ant at 0:17, a man of simple tastes who knows exactly what he likes. He really couldn't believe that Cheese & Onion had finally come to town! 🏆🇬🇧
Hoping we'll see more of these places now we are independent, modern places of course. Hope fully the government will bring down the rents on vacant shops and commercial properties to encourage new little businesses like this in future. It'll be great to see the high streets booming again.
I remember when not too long ago Krispy Kremes would give away free donuts regularly - you just had to queue up for when their red light was on. Totally living the dream in the Birmingham Bullring 😂
I remember Spud-U-Like in Notting Hill, London in the nineties. Was it 3 quid? Don’t remember. I also know it was one in Kingston when I lived in Surbiton
Wow I'm 41, 🇬🇧 and have never heard of this brand 😂 Without googling did it ever take off or even still going ? In Preston there's a "spud man" on the flag market who sells little jacket spuds in paper bags 👌🏼 (if he's even still there ??)
Yes Dan, you usually see those Jacket Potato sellers on market days, up round here., They do a range of sandwiches too - Burgers, Bacon butties etc... along with brews. Seem a nice set up, most are in pretty trick carvan/ mobile kitchen type units. Some look nice jobs all stainless steel units, wouldn't like to think of cost to own one. However in right places, at right time they could be a goldmine. Have you not seen those food festival jobs too ? Got Bratwursts and Polish delicatessen meats, very European for Blackburn, Accrington and Burnley. No stopping us round here since twinned with Chernobyl. I'll bet theres councils wanting their cut though with permits, not to mention turf wars from competion though. I'd rather wait abit, go home and make something myself, if that was an option on the day.
Shirley high street! I remember when it always seemed empty, so i guess other take aways must have muscled in or maybe off licences had more attractive offerings!
The original founders "chipped" away at Spudulike making it an profitable business. An amicable arrangement with BSM helped Spudlike thrive as a franchise, until BSM got the "sack". Spudulike really likes "spuds" and decided to buy all of Fat Jackets UK stores. Last year things went a tad "potato shaped" the company wasn't able to "peel" the "skins" off their bad debts, store closeures were inevitable. Fortunately for potato lovers, Spudulike stores remain operating, you can even get your "hot potatoes" home delivered by one of those crazy foreign students, darting to and fro amongst traffic, riding a bicycle or moped.
There appear to be branches in Plymouth, Bridge end and Norwich still going to this day. I want a big baked potato with onion bacon mushroom melted cheese and lashings of butter.
@@antman5474 at least we could see the noxious fumes and avoid em, nowadays they're microscopic and get imbedded in the deepest parts of our lungs..... All for the love of emissions... No wonder kids today can't breath and have all these issues regarding health.
Urgghh brings back bad childhood memories. In the 70s I lived in the UK as an expat kid for a few years and I HATED those jacked potatoes they served at school.
Crikey you see people queuing and you think - they arent social distancing. Going to take us a long time to shake the psychological effects of the lockdown off
@@manos3790 SpuduLike have just been bought as they went into administration before the pandemic. There was one in the centre of Southampton until about 4 months ago. This particular one closed in the 90's, became a Chinese and is now a Turkish barber.
