Matt Bevin quotes the signature line of Popeye cartoon character J. Wellington Wimpy. "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today." Bevin argues, "Sadly, this has been Kentucky's approach ...

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In the comic strip/cartoon “Popeye,” Wimpy will always gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. Many Americans have shared Wimpy’s craving, and over the past eighty years, their ...

Geoffrey Baer serves up some hamburger history. A viewer wonders what became of a Chicago burger chain that borrowed its name from a cartoon moocher. Geoffrey Baer dishes on that story and serves ...

Named after the hamburger-hungry character in the Popeye cartoons, Wimpy, fast food came to Saratoga in 1961, when Louis and Rae Ellen Gaylord opened a hamburger stand on Saratoga-Los Gatos Road ...

When author Jeff Kinney started writing the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series more than ... Kinney said he thinks of Greg more as a cartoon character than a literary character.

Notably, Mr. Wimpy has an insatiable appetite for hamburgers, offering his famous catchphrase, “I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today” when he’s trying to score a patty.

HAMBURGER FRENZY. Wimpy Hamburgers celebrated its 20th anniversary Tuesday by offering a burger, french fries and a Coke at the 1967 price of 17 cents, a deal that caused near riots at 170 outlets ...