I passed one of these the other day, you know the layby caffs, often sporting a confederate flag for some reason. It had a large notice, stating "under new management" which somehow amused me.
We seem to have lot of these in East Anglia, but not so sure I've noticed them much elsewhere.
Set me wondering, are any BRs regular users of these establishments? Do they need permission to set up shop in the layby? How much are they charged to park there?
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Depends where you are in the country, the council (which is clearly Yankee) around here has banned them.
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Loads all the way up and down the A1
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i was a regular at a local one, he mentioned that he has to pay for a permit to operate from there, didnt say how much though
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I've seen these although never used one. I do wonder how they meet Health and Safety regs re hand washing, toilets, fridges, separate storage for cooked and uncooked meat etc. "I'll have a botulism burger please!"
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I have used them alot in the past - as with everything, there are good and bad ones, there used to be a couple of very good ones on the A34 around Oxford that were open 24/7, but the council shut them down. The same happend to one just outside Romsey. Best way to tell if they are any good is to see how busy they are, the best ones are always busy - you can get some good cheap food in good ones. Most have a generator for the fridge etc and the good ones are very clean.
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I prefer them to bland chains - tea isn't quite the same unless its stirred with a spoon standing amongst 10 others in a mug of tepid, slightly cloudy water. A favourite was North of Sheffield just off the M1, the "Dip Ya Bred Inn". Earthy. Also the Wayfarer on the A590 about 5 miles west of Newby Bridge in the Lakes, top quality bacon and egg barms.
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Over the course of 40 years plus motoring I've used many a side of the road eating establishment and have thoroughly enjoyed the vast majority of the offerings.
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I may have given the wrong impression with my earlier post! What I meant to convey was "How do these places survive the attentions of Council and HSE Jobsworths trying to shut them down?" When butchers have to have different sets of knives and cutting surfaces and 2 washbaisins etc how does a road side caff with a generator and a water tank get by legally? I am sure the food is fine - if it wasn't they wouldn't last long. When I worked in a flight simulator we had to fight tooth and nail to stop money being spent on providing disabled access to the cockpit. We don't recruit blind and limbless people, sorry, differently abled people, these days so it was just a futile exercise in getting ticks in boxes on survey.
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cockpit. We don't recruit blind and limbless people, sorry,
Not true, there was the BA pilot landing us at Perth once.....
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real bacon butties ,count the trucks outside like a vote of confidence
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Stopping for bacon sandwiches at a particular place in Honiton, on the road to Cornwall, became part of the start of our holiday when I was younger.
I think all places like that are meant to be inspected - I remember stopping in a layby recently to use my phone and there was a cafe/caravan thing there that had someone with a clipboard wandering around it. Just because someone operates out of a roadside cafe doesn't mean that they're automatically unclean. Kebab vans, however...!
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It makes a pleasant change to get a bacon butty that tastes of bacon, a proper size mug of tea and a reasonable price. I look forward to stopping at one.
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We have one quite nearby in the layby on the by-pass. The A board at the front claims "Amanda has the best buns" In view of the solid mass of trucks,vans and cars on both sides of the road at all times of the day she obviously has a vote of confidence from her clientele.(as well as good food)
Happy Motoring Phil I
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Stopping for bacon sandwiches at a particular place in Honiton, on the road to Cornwall, became part of the start of our holiday when I was younger.
Same here! I now know it's called Andrea's Cafe or something similar. Near a river.
Great to pull in there just as the sun is coming up and have a bacon butty and tea...
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There used to be a place not all that far up the A1 towards the outer darkness from the real world down here that put REAL butter on your peas (when you ordered sausages, two eggs, bacon, chips and peas with bread and butter and, er, coffee actually, not forgetting the brown sauce which was probably all right there although in a lot of places it used to mutate into a sort of awful tasteless mud).
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>>> not forgetting the brown sauce which wasprobably all right there although in a lot of places it used to mutate into a sort of awful tasteless mud).
I seem to recall they did a study once of Red Sauce bottles - the one shaped like a tomato, with the green 'leaves' as the lid - round various places in britain.
From the pollen/dust/scurve/dandruff etc trapped in the grubby stuff round the neck, They estimated some of them hadn't been washed in over 10 years - they just threw in new red sauce...
Having said that, I'd opt for a bacon buttie and cup of tea, while standing in a laybye, over a 'big muck and fries' any day of the week!
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yumyums (on the main road up to Uni) has saved me many a morning.
Their bacon butties are second to none!
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