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@binners that is. Listening to Radio four, the station not the band, on the way home and heard that Greggs profits are 14% down. I immediately thought that Binners must be critically ill. Surely 14% of Greggs profits come from his personal consumption of baked goods.
Are you out their Binners and are you okay?
Has gone to shit ever since they started doing hot drinks. Now I have to stand in a queue while 3 people in front order lattes. Used to be walk in get a sausage roll thank you very much done in 15 seconds.
I think it went downhill when it stopped being. Thurston's.
I think it went downhill when it stopped being Birkett's.
Has gone to shit ever since they started doing hot drinks. Now I have to stand in a queue while 3 people in front order lattes. Used to be walk in get a sausage roll thank you very much done in 15 seconds.
Christ don't get me started, it's either that or you stand in a queue for several minutes and you end up with every dildo in front of you suddenly realising they don't know if they want a sausage roll or a steak bake because they were too busy pissing about on their phone.
Saturday mornings are brutal.
Do they actually have someone making coffee? Or is it a shitty machine like in a petrol station? I can't imagine Greggs would be my first choice for a coffee, although this is unlikely to be tested anytime soon.
Christ don’t get me started, it’s either that or you stand in a queue for several minutes and you end up with every dildo in front of you suddenly realising they don’t know if they want a sausage roll or a steak bake because they were too busy pissing about on their phone.
People acting surprised that they might need to make a decision or provide some form of payment is not exclusive to Greggs. It's endemic.
One time I was at KFC, pulling the trick of actually parking up and going into the store because it's usually considerably faster than than sitting in a massive line of lazy bastard morons in the drive-thru. The store was also heaving, queued up right through the CA to the front door and outside. It was easily 20 minutes and probably longer before the woman directly in front of me got served. At which point she turned to the eight kids she had in tow and went "so, what do you all want?" I could've stuck her headfirst into the fryer.
It could be down to Farmfoods, 2 frozen steaky bakes 99p
25 mins in the air fryer sitting on a bed of tin foil as good as any Greggs in my opinion much better
Ok its not takeaway on the go but must be almost 1/4 of the cost
I could’ve stuck her headfirst into the fryer.
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Kentucky Fried Cretin.
25 mins in the air fryer sitting on a bed of tin foil as good as any Greggs in my opinion much better
It would be hot for a start. Not like anything the overrated abomination that is Greggs serves.
Everything I've tried there has been tepid. Absolutely no idea why it's popular.
But anyway. Carry on.
Absolutely no idea why it’s popular.
Steak bakes, it’s the pornhub of food.
hot,dirty,cheap. Pick all three
Hey! Now, don’t slate Greggs coffee orderers we’ve recently discovered Greggs coffee after being rinsed for £11 for two disappointing Starbucks coffees. The coffee isn’t good, but it’s cheap and not disgusting so it’s better than most high street places. Plus there’s potential for sausage rolls.
tbh with how much I’ve been battering Greggs recently I can’t believe it’s not making record profits just off me.
Probably my fault. Since I retired I don’t go for a sausage sarnie and a coffee for breakfast or the occasional steak bake for lunch. Not to mention the odd late lunch of what is left.
The coffee isn’t good, but it’s cheap and not disgusting so it’s better than most high street places.
What you want there is McD's.
People acting surprised that they might need to make a decision or provide some form of payment is not exclusive to Greggs. It’s endemic.
Oh I know but when I've been up since 0545 and I just want home for a kip that's something I really don't need.
Hey! Now, don’t slate Greggs coffee orderers we’ve recently discovered Greggs coffee after being rinsed for £11 for two disappointing Starbucks coffees. The coffee isn’t good, but it’s cheap and not disgusting
Starbucks is already a very, very low bar. You would have to be shoving nescafe or possibly bovril granules into a mokka pot to actually get worse.
It would be hot for a start. Not like anything the overrated abomination that is Greggs serves.
There is that too. I did get a veg curry bake in York that took me by surprise though, was like trying to eat tasty napalm.
Starbucks is already a very, very low bar.
Starbucks coffe is not actually very good , at least to my taste.
They have one job - to make coffee, so if they can't get that right then what are they even for?
Anyone tried the Greggs drive thru yet?
Starbucks coffe is not actually very good , at least to my taste.
Tastes like it's been burnt right?
Considering he hasn't weighed in on the topic, anyone else actually genuinely worried for Binners?
I’ve been battering Greggs
Tell me more....
Has gone to shit ever since they started doing hot drinks. Now I have to stand in a queue while 3 people in front order lattes. Used to be walk in get a sausage roll thank you very much done in 15 seconds.
Amatuer…
get the Greggs app, order food and pickup time ,
sail past the uninformed people and collect your order.
Thank me later 🙂
FFS, if there are steak bake available what kind of idiot would have a sausage roll?
Usually because "steak bakes'll be 10 minutes luv".
Sorry I’ve only just seen this. The issue is that I have indeed been ill, but not critically. I had man-flu over new year. I never left the house for a week, not even to walk to Greggs. I temporarily switched to my sickness diet of Heinz tomato soup with a cheese toasty for dunking.
Obviously this has impacted profits. I think they issued a profits warning as soon as they found out I wasn’t well
Obviously now I need to play catch-up, so now would be a good time to buy shares
Steak bakes are fine but not a patch on the elusive and possibly discontinued corned beef bake
possibly discontinued corned beef bake
Still available, but kept safely away from the posher areas of the UK.
Years ago I worked in Lancaster and the Greggs there did cheese and chorizo pasties. I have never seen them anywhere else and have been accused of having just imagined them, but they were real and were bloody lovely!
FFS, if there are steak bake available what kind of idiot would have a sausage roll?
Usually because “steak bakes’ll be 10 minutes luv”.
Is that different to not being available?
I am also rather partial to the slightly tangy vegetable bakes at Greggs, but round here we have the excellent Stacey's bakery and their superior steak slice which beats the lot.
Hope Binners recovers from the manflu, but I'm suffering cognitive dissonance - I have this venn diagram in my head of STW forum folk overlapping almost completely w sourdough eating, bean-to-cup drinking WFH warriors.
And here we are talking Greggs, KFC, McDs, Starbucks.....I'm not sure how to process this
I have this venn diagram in my head of STW forum folk overlapping almost completely w sourdough eating, bean-to-cup drinking WFH warriors.
And here we are talking Greggs, KFC, McDs, Starbucks…..I’m not sure how to process this
Just because you have sex on tap doesn't mean that you don't fancy the occasional J Arthur.
Heinz tomato soup with a cheese toasty for dunking
You filthy whore tell me more
Is it a Sherman tho cougar, or is it full on skanky gentleman's club..."just 10 minutes luv"
People slating Greggs as if its a surprise they're not churning out michelin star food. Wow...
McDs
I had a great McDs on Christmas Day for the evening meal, it was truly scrumptious and the the best Chrissy evening meal Evers 🙂
Was it in 2001 maybe 2002 when Gregg's changed the recipe of the chicken bake and it no longer tasted like Heinz cream of chicken soup. I was gutted and I still remember the outrage. Simon the Pieman got it in the neck that day.
I'm not a fan of McDs. Aside from their flirtations with things like the McPlant, the only thing I can eat from there is fries. They're invariably cold and soggy unless you go at peak times and one could hardly describe them as filling, but at least they're overpriced.
But, the coffee is decent. It's as good a bean-to-cup as you'll get from any of the usual suspect high street chains. I was talking to a Store Manager about it way back when McD's realised that the UK palate didn't care for the rusty puddle water preferred in the US and so were refitting stores with proper coffee machines. He was dead excited about it.
I was probably one of the first people in the UK outside of staff to try it, it's good stuff. I had a standing order with the McD's across site back when I worked at a bowling alley as a student. They saw my car arriving, they'd pull a coffee. I was always on the edge of not quite being late for work so I'd grab it and run then go back and pay for it at lunchtime. We had a coffee machine in the 'bowl but I'd have to reassemble it from last night's Close and in any case a) the 'bowl managers were fascists who took a dim view of, well, everything, I once had one count how many chips I'd served myself for lunch, and b) it was crap and I knew how grim the inside of the coffee machine was.
I’m not a fan of McDs
There speaks a man who’s never reached for the worlds finest hangover cure… a double sausage and egg McMuffin washed down with a pint of full fat coke
You filthy whore tell me more
There’s nothing more to it. When you’ve got man-flu or a similar affliction, a bowl of Heinz tomato soup (it really does have to be Heinz) with either a cheese toasty or cheese on toast to dunk in it is perfect. Lucazade to accompany, obviously
Hmmmmmm…. I’m now wondering what a Greggs cheese and onion pasty would be like for dunking duties. I need to try it
that does sound good for such a frosty day
Do they actually have someone making coffee? Or is it a shitty machine like in a petrol station? I can’t imagine Greggs would be my first choice for a coffee, although this is unlikely to be tested anytime soon.
Slightly ahead of McD's IMO, on a par with machine Costa.
I agree with the general consensus that if you want "coffee" rather than pay for some sort of artisan experience where the work experience kid murders your order and charges you £5 for the privilege then Gregs coffee is great. That it comes from a machine just means that it's consistently the same everywhere and the person behind the counter gets the rest of your order ready at the same time rather than having to hang around for ages.
That and the egg roll was a decent and reliable vegetarian breakfast compared to the abomination that is the McMuffin.
Had an excellent chat with the folk in Narrative coffee in Rhayader in the summer, just after they opened. One of the most interesting and knowledgeable coffee people I've met, having apparently been in the industry in that there London before returning home.
His view was that the McDonald's coffee set up was better and more reliable for quality* than Greggs, BK or other budget options, and I got the impression he was involved with a few of them.
*all things being relative.
But seriously, go in there if you are up that way.
Why is everyone so bothered about coffee in two places that sell, between them, sausage rolls, bacon buttys, Big Macs. Steak bakes, quarter pounders with cheese, cheese and onion pasties, double sausage and egg McMuffins and chicken pasties?
I think you probably need to take a long hard look at your priorities. You’re clearly deviants
Hmmmmmm…. I’m now wondering what a Greggs cheese and onion pasty would be like for dunking duties. I need to try it
Take it from me, It will be everything you dream it to be.
I just thought i’d update this thread with one of those nice little snippets from life.
My dad is in end of life care with prostrate cancer which is rubbish but we are where we are. My sisters up from London and all the family were together for a nice lunch. Our kid had been to M&S and got lots of lovely culinary goodies, none of which dad looked too impressed with.
I need to nip out to pick up his prescription and as I was going out to the car my mum called me back “your dad wants a word with you”
So I pop back inside and he says “when you get to the pharmacy, there’s a Greggs across the road… can you pop in and get me a chicken pasty?”
We smiled at each other and he didn’t need to add “… because I don’t want any of that fussy nonsense” it was implied.
So I did and grabbed him his pasty and some sausage rolls jam donuts too
I am my fathers son 😀
Are Greggs' donuts any good? I can't say as I've ever had one, oddly.
Oh, in semi-related news,
Oddies has gone tits up after 120 years, citing rising costs and diminishing footfall. This makes me sad.
Lancs Live:
In a statement in November, Lara Oddie, director at Oddie’s, said: "Oddie’s is a fourth-generation family business, started in 1905 by William Henry Oddie. Over the decades, it has withstood two world wars and their food scarcity, the Great Depression, the fall of Lancashire's cotton industry, the rise of powerful supermarkets, and even the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced us to adapt our entire operating model.
"But with an energy crisis quadrupling costs and footfall declining on the high streets, the Oddie family decided it was time to sell. Sadly, an eleventh-hour withdrawal by the buyer has left us with no choice but to consider closure.
"As a family firm, we have always seen ourselves as part of the local community fabric, making this a heartbreaking situation for us, our devoted staff, and the loyal customers in Burnley and Pendle who have cherished our our unique products."
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Are Greggs’ donuts any good? I can’t say as I’ve ever had one, oddly.
Decent IMO, had one at the weekend at the services instead of lunch following a buffet breakfast. Mrs P likes the pink jammies which are pretty good. I had a standard glazed and it was similar to what Krispy Kreme used to be like for a quid. Not stellar but good. The standard jam donuts are just that. Struggle to go wrong there tbf.
Had a coffee too, Greggs definitely better than maccies. Better than recent costs visits too. Obviously not as good as Yorks or your favourite local barista that gives a toss.
Oddies has gone tits up after 120 years, citing rising costs and diminishing footfall. This makes me sad.
Just saw that on the north west news. That is really sad. I have greatly enjoyed many of their wares over the years
Are Greggs’ donuts any good?
Sorry for the spoiled man-child link. But this is what you're looking for.
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