The Secret Life of the Burger Van
Euron Griffith tours Wales via its burger vans, hearing stories from the catering trade and finding out how they offer a listening service where regular visitors swap tales.
Euron Griffith tours Wales via some of its burger vans, dotted around laybys and car parks as far removed as Pontardawe and Anglesey, the Brecon Beacons and the Welsh border. With five star hygiene ratings and fresh-sourced ingredients, these vans offer more than fast food: they also offer a listening service, like a mobile confessional, where regulars and passers-by can swap stories.
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Duration: 01:32
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They might seem like mavericks in the world of mass catering, about as welcome to the nutritionist as a plague of greenfly in a rose garden. But the burger vans of Wales are much more than mere purveyors of burgers, bacon and baps. They’re popular meeting points for men and women on the move, a place to swap news and stories, and sometimes they can be a sort of confessional, where complete strangers can impart the strangest confidences.
Euron Griffith explores the secrets of some of Wales’ finest roadside caterers, from North to South. From Pontardawe, near Swansea, to the Brecon Beacons, and from Deeside to Anglesey, Griffith keeps his nose to the ground - and picks up a lot more besides the smell of onions!
Meet the woman who once sold a bap to Prince William; meet the man who sells burgers 364 days a year, and enjoys a fry-up at Christmas; and meet and the man who has seen off 38 competitors one-by-one. Relish these and many more sizzling tales from the laybys and car-parks of today’s Wales.
Broadcasts
- Sat 21 May 2016 13:32Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Wales
- Sun 22 May 2016 18:04Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Wales
- Thu 26 May 2016 00:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Wales
- Sat 29 Oct 2016 13:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Wales
- Sun 30 Oct 2016 18:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Wales
- Thu 3 Nov 2016 00:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Wales