[Closed] Gotta love Greggs!

You should have doubled on everything and spent £8, saving even more money.

what obesity crisis?

My mate cycles to work each day behind the bus, saving himself £2.50 each day.

Dickhead! I cycle to work behind a taxi, saving myself £15 each day.

You see that as a good deal? 🙄
Wow.

How much would you have spent/saved if you weren't suckered into the upsell?

what obesity crisis?

There has been many many studies showing there to be a crisis.

Have you been living under a [Ayers] rock, Mike?

The more you spend the more you save

ironing Jamie Ironing

[i]How much would you have spent/saved if you weren't suckered into the upsell?[/i]

Hmmm....good point, £3.15p! 😳

Hmmm....good point, £3.15p!

Not only 75p then, but the calories, collesteral and poor nutritional content that goes with it. You have been better off using the 75p to buy some banana's.

Popped in yesterday for some lunchtime grub and grabbed a tuna crunch [s]bagette[/s]baguette and thought I'd have a [s]Belgium[/s]Belgian Bun to go with it.

FTFY 😉

[i]Not only 75p then, but the calories, collesteral and poor nutritional content that goes with it. You have been better off using the 75p to buy some banana's.[/i]

Sorry Dad! 😥

Kryton57 - Member
Hmmm....good point, £3.15p!
Not only 75p then, but the calories, collesteral and poor nutritional content that goes with it. You have been better off using the 75p to buy some banana's.

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spelling and maths!!!

Nutritional Content? Grammatical Corrections!?

Ugh, I had whole pack of pringle last night it was wonderful washing down with Um Bongo.

Tasty.

mmmmmmm, Greggs.

Not long now until the festive bake. the first bite every year is the highlight of Christmas.

Had a txt from the Mrs this morning. Stopped to get a coffee and 25p more she could have a bacon role. Would have been madness not to. I have it on good authority it was a tasty decision.

25p more she could have a bacon role.

Is that a euphemism?

Sounds cheap to me!

until the festive bake

I had to google that to find out what it was!

It's got it's own Facebook page. FFS. God help us.

So let me get this right? You went into Greggs and came out, a few quid lighter, without:

A) a steak bake
B) 2 sausage rolls
C) a cheese and onion pasty
D) all of the above

Where was this? You do realise that in most of the North that's an arrestable offence?

[i]God help us.[/i] 😀

[i]So let me get this right? You went into Greggs and came out, a few quid lighter, without:

A) a steak bake
B) 2 sausage rolls
C) a cheese and onion pasty
D) all of the above

Where was this? You do realise that in most of the North that's an arrestable offence?[/i]

I'm trying to avoid the sausage rolls....fell into that trap before and I'm trying to keep my newly trimmed body under control! 🙁

There is no better cure for a hangover than 2 Greggs sausage rolls and a strong coffee.

I'm trying to keep my newly trimmed body under control!

So you went into Greggs?

FFS I hate the 5-2 diet today 🙁

I'm trying to keep my newly trimmed body under control!

[i]So you went into Greggs?[/i]

A Man's gotta eat and I did do a 15mile mtb ride the night before....

(anyway, I checked on the scales this morning and there's been no change!)

greggs is dire

I had 2 of their meat and potato pies as I was starving and it was the only place nearby

I've no idea how they can make all those ingredients taste of absolutely nothing at all

I ate half of one and threw the other away

shite

Usual STW middle class sanctimony 🙄

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Bacon role

There is no better cure for a hangover than 2 Greggs sausage rolls and [s]a strong coffee[/s] an irn bru.

FTFY

Pfft! Meat and potato pie? Spot the Gregg's amateur? Fundamental schoolboy stuff this. The empire of the orange squares was not built on it's meat and potato pies! Now get back there and do it properly with option D from my earlier post. You won't regret it!*

* disclaimer: your waistline might

and it was the only place nearby

Bollocks. There would've been another Greggs as well.

Isn't there a 24hr Greggs in Glasgow?

Or is that an urban myth?

Bollocks. There would've been another Greggs as well.

I'm quite impressed to learn that there are 10 Greggs within half a mile of me.

Isn't there a 24hr Greggs in Glasgow?

Pretty sure there is in Newcastle, it's certainly very late opening.

Hasn't Alex Salmond pledged more 24 hour Greggs in an independent Scotland?

Hmmmm I've a problem to admit. I've never eaten from a Greggs. Never had them in ROI, never felt the need to while I've lived in the UK. There is one right beside work as well.

If the Greggs you shop at doesn't sell stotties, you are in one of the sham export Greggs set up to fleece Southerners of their cash.

This is fact.

Not only 75p then, but the calories, collesteral and poor nutritional content that goes with it. You have been better off using the 75p to buy some banana's.

I live within walking distance of the First ever greggs shop.

https://www.greggs.co.uk/about-us/history/

In the one of the most middle class bits of Newcastle. It doesn't open 24h though.

I love pie and I love cake. I don't go enough... Had a proper craving for a steak bake about halfway through a double century last month but couldn't find a greggs in Berwick.

Had a proper craving for a steak bake about halfway through a double century last month

Wow! How did you know what you were going to score in the cricket match?

Agree with Surfer. Far too much middle class pie-eaty < see what I did there?

If the Greggs you shop at doesn't sell stotties, you are in one of the sham export Greggs set up to fleece Southerners of their cash.

Damn right. I remember I was down south and asked if they had any cheese savory stotties. They looked at me like I was a nutcase...

[i]They looked at me like I was a nutcase...[/i]

It was how you said it not what you said! 😉

Is it true that scottish Greggs make deep fried saussage rolls ?

Binners may need to move further north.

I support my local bakers, it's abit like supporting your local bike shop, just more cakey.

As for sausage rolls, it's pink muck piped into a fatty pastry, no thank you.

Not Greggs, but was in Asda today. KitKat Chunkies at the checkout - 60p each or three for £1.

Really is no wonder people get suckered into buying more than they need.

Has anyone else noticed that the most nutritionally pious seem to be the most miserable buggers?
I guess bad food can be good for you.

As for sausage rolls, it's pink muck piped into a fatty pastry, no thank you.

...but it's really tasty with some HP sauce on it.

Although, I should say I have never had a Greggs, but sausage roll is a sausage roll, yo!

Hmmmmm, pieous.

Wandered into the local Greggs on my lunch. The smell of it made me wander out pretty fast. I'll stick to my burrito* thanks 🙂

*veggie one at that

I'm laughing at all of your pathetic trans fat laden cravings whilst sipping a kale and spinach smoothie. Stick to your class and put your Gregg's postings on some bloody soccer forum please.

I was impressed with Dumfries, it had 3 Greggs & you could see one of the others from the doorway of one. & they do bridies in Scottish Greggs, unidentifiable "meat" pie beats steak bake every time

surfer - Member
Usual STW middle class sanctimony

wanting to be able to taste what you eat is middle class? 😉

I'm all for cheap eats, I just don't get greggs, it's rank

I'm laughing at all of your pathetic trans fat laden cravings whilst sipping a kale and spinach smoothie. Stick to your class and put your Gregg's postings on some bloody soccer forum please.

Waaaaaay too much bait on that hook.

I'm laughing at all of your pathetic trans fat laden cravings whilst sipping a kale and spinach smoothie

Careful now, too much iron can be fatal. 8)

Wandered into the local Greggs on my lunch. The smell of it made me wander out pretty fast. I'll stick to my burrito* thanks

*veggie one at that

The reason I used to go to the Greggs near my last work was because the canteen food looked and smelled that bad that a walk in the wind and rain to the local Greggs was a better option!

That and hangovers.

Careful now, too much iron can be fatal.

*applauds* 😀

very good!

I feel I must confess. I popped into Greggs again yesterday and once again succumbed to the 2 for £1 Belgian Buns. 😳

However I did a 20mile mtb ride in the evening and my riding pal thought I had been taking steroids such was my hill climbing ability.

Perhaps I've discovered something?

A man does not need to justify his cake or meat purchases to anyone, especially himself.

Have they gone upmarket? I had a look inside a Greggs about a year ago out of curiosity and it all looked like a load of cheap crap to me... 😕

Rockape63 - it's not just Belgian buns that do this. Bakewell pudding is like rocket fuel (it evens comes with a crash shortly after).

There's a Greggs in Newcastle that has a sit-in area. Is this what passes for a romantic date in tha toon?

Just had two morrisons scotch pies. How the hell i got to the end of the first and still decided to proceed with the second is worrying. Muck.

Back to Greggs - Chargrilled chicken Oval bite and a drink £3.50? Who do they think they are fortnum and bleeding masons? £1 Bakery in preston for real value (don't think too hard about the contents) gluttony for me.

I'm all for cheap eats, I just don't get greggs, it's rank

+1, utterly vile! I just don't understand the obsession! Subway, West Cornwall Pasty Co, Burger King, various other vendors of sweaty food, but just not Greggs!

Mr Woppit - Member

Have they gone upmarket? I had a look inside a Greggs about a year ago out of curiosity and it all looked like a load of cheap crap to me...

Says more about you than it does about the purveyors of affordable, yet tasty, pastry-encased, slightly over-greasy loveliness, brother Wopster. 😉

Anyway... this thread is useless without pictures. Have you seen my bike?.....

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😀

Have you EVER ridden that bike Binners? Mine was only that clean once!

(nice transfer btw!)

It gets ridden all the time. Thats a piccie from when I just built it. It doesn't look anywhere near that clean now. Still not cleaned it from Mondays night ride 😀

Have they gone upmarket? I had a look inside a Greggs about a year ago out of curiosity and it all looked like a load of cheap crap to me...

Nice to see the middle class angst standards are kept up.

I suppose you only eat expensive crap.

looks like they're expanding into other ways of presenting their animal derived pink processed shite

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I've never been into a Greggs. Am I missing out?

I like the Chicken slice, havent had one for about a year now. Nearest Greggs is about 14 miles away.

Nearest Greggs is about 14 miles away.

I just wish they still did chicken and mushroom pies. It's all 'slices' now.

Could one not purchase a number of slices and reconstitute them into a pie?

Could one not purchase a number of slices and reconstitute them into a pie?

I imagine it would be more a case of re-re-re-constituting it!

looks like they're expanding into other ways of presenting their animal derived pink processed shite

😆

Is there anything 'in' Greggs food that is bad? I.e. unusually high fat or thats hydro sats? Otherwise I don't see an issue. A muffin is a muffin its not rocket science and a slice has pastry- thats not rocket science.

Moderation and I think because its 'cheap' the inverted-snobs howl with anger.

Moderation and I think because its 'cheap' the inverted-snobs howl with anger.

I don't think there is actually much "wrong" with Greggs, it's just not particularly high quality. I can get a better bacon butter or pizza in several places but it's convenient and cheap and not inedible.

For those who overdo it, we still have an NHS.