Category: Travels

This one is especially for my Brit Readers, and it was sparked by this article.

Since visiting her first Wetherspoons with her now husband Andrew in 2024 — it was The Moon Under Water in Watford, in case you’re wondering — Stacey Gitten has now visited 71 Wetherspoons up and down the country. It’s a mission that has seen her travel as far as Edinburgh from their home in Southampton, and she ‘even went to Wales just to go to a Wetherspoons’, she tells me. 

But despite having visited 71 of the chain’s carpeted pubs — a mission that she has documented on TikTok under the handle @staceyintheUK (she moved from Chicago to be with her husband) — Stacey has tried surprisingly little of the menu. In fact, she has a go-to order; her control she uses to compare across the ‘Spoons outlets.

(It’s Eggs Benedict, by the way.)

For my Murkin Readers, Wetherspoons (or “Spoons”) is a budget-friendly alternative to the typical pubs and restaurants Over There, with a common menu across almost all establishments, with some local variations.

Okay, I have an admission to make:  I’ve never been to a Wetherspoons pub.  There’s no reason for this, unless it’s a subconscious desire not to go to any chain restaurants when I’m Over There.  I remember being tempted by The Bear in Melksham (I went to that town often because it’s just down the road from Free Market Towers), but never went inside.

Perhaps I should have.  (Unless it was because they didn’t serve Wadworth 6X?  I dunno.)

Anyway, is our Murkin transplant in the article an idiot?

All input will be gratefully received.