Best fiver I spent recently 🙂

We’ve just lost the Greggs in our town. They are run as a franchise apparently.

Good job you didn’t choose Costa - £3.65 just for a cappuccino!! 🙄

AreWeThereYet

We stock up on stotties too whenever we go north Purplepixie. I don't understand why they don't sell them all over the UK - there are people from the NE living all over the UK. Last time we went we came back with 12 stotties - 4 for us, 8 for other people

My Geordie DH is constantly saying the same as you, AreWeThereYet! I’m sure it would be a winner - after all, you don’t have to be a Geordie to like it!

So am I with you Urms. We were out shopping where a branch has opened up so, never having had one, tried the sausage roll. I did not like the filling, a soft sludge not a sausage! Prefer the ones I make. Perhaps the veggie one would be better.

I love a quick Greggs for lunch on the go, especially one of their chicken bakes. And I don’t feel a bit guilty for choosing it over the independent round the corner, where the pasties have way too much pastry and way too little filling and cost twice as much. Each to their own though - fortunately they both seem to be thriving.

Half a large stottie

That's it!
That's what I had when I was up that way.

Very nice it was, too.

A stottie is just a bread cake MissA - anything from 6inches wide, but less than 2inches thick. Sliced in half (horizontally) and filled with whatever you like.
Pease pudding - also known as Geordie hummus - and cooked ham is a winning combination.

Yes absolute ripoff prices in these chain coffee shops - I stood with my mouth open when I realised I was paying £4.40 for a flat white at Costa in Reading Service station on M4 recently. Nobody else in the queue turned a hair - just accepted it. Expect its increased even more by now.

Are stotties the ones that have pease pudding inside?

We stock up on stotties too whenever we go north Purplepixie. I don't understand why they don't sell them all over the UK - there are people from the NE living all over the UK. Last time we went we came back with 12 stotties - 4 for us, 8 for other people

Ah, memories.
One of my first big arguments on gransnet was about Greggs sausage rolls. 🤭

Have to love a Gregg’s sausage roll.

I have never bought anything from Greggs much prefer to support independent shops and bakeries.

Kind of a fiver..... I actually spent £25 on a five metre remnant of heavy weight linen and that works out at £5 per metre. What a bargain!

Actually sausage rolls from elsewhere are much the same as the Gregg's ones, in terms of being fattening and unhealthy.

That includes Mark's and Sparks, too.

An acquaintance I chat to when swimming at our local baths tells me the sausage rolls at our local market are 'even better than Greggs'! So evidently Greggs is the benchmark.

I used to live in the north east where Greggs started and they used to be much better back in the early days. The cheese and onion pasties are like sludge now. They do excellent stotties in the north east but sadly not in the East Midlands where I live so I buy a few on my visits and freeze them. I think the food is ok value for money but very very fattening. I could spend £5 in a better way. On wool!!! Haha!!!

My son recently read on line that some American tourists enthused about G R Eggs. It will be forever called that in our house.😂

I find Costa coffee undrinkable, many times.
Tepid, so that the (naughty) sugar doesn't melt, then bitter and too sweet when you fight your way through the froth, and get close to the bottom.

See 'American Woman's Baffling Mispronounciation of Gregg's' on YouTube.
I don't know how to share it here.

❤️ Greggs
Years ago I worked for Bakers Oven HQ. I’m sure Greggs was part of that company.
Was a great company to work for ❤️
Happy Days

I will choose Greggs over Starbucks or Costa anytime. But all these places need to be only occasionally as there is nothing healthy in any of them.

My mum always bought her bread from Greggs and I was often asked togo there for it when visiting. We didn't have a local branch where I lived in Oxfordshire so I didn't realise it was a national chain until we moved to Slough 20 years ago. We have many branches in the town and I have a friend who works in one of them. He often brings cakes from there to church events.
I'm quite partial to their steak bakes if I need a quick snack while out and about. My daughter is a fan of their sausage rolls but I've never tried one.

Why is it cheap?

All this used to be said about Aldi and Lidl just a few years ago.