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To think that Greggs is extremely reasonably priced

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Jumell · 03/12/2024 07:58

.. for what it actually sells ?

I my local Greggs last week and there are delicious ready made pizza slices for £2.30 -
large cooked steak pie for under £2

sausage rolls for around £1.20

also the app is very good I think -it breaks down all their foodstuffs individually and you have a free item for every 9th one bought

Come on - to have tasty ready cooked food for these sort of prices - it’s pretty good isn’t it ?

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pimplin · 03/12/2024 13:25

Comedycook · 03/12/2024 13:25

I don't know why anyone uses sandwich shops or bakeries when they can just pop out, shoot a peasant and be done with it.

😂

Comedycook · 03/12/2024 13:25

I don't know why anyone uses sandwich shops or bakeries when they can just pop out, shoot a peasant and be done with it.

Gillettethebest · 03/12/2024 13:24

I didn’t even know Greggs sold “Starbucks type” coffee now. When I last used to go frequently I think it was just plain coffee which I didn’t even bother with as I was a teen. I must take a look at the modern greggs one day.

LostTheMarble · 03/12/2024 13:22

OrlandointheWilderness · 03/12/2024 13:09

@Sausagenbacon - there is a brilliant FB page called Giving up the game where people with an excess of game post what they have or people post what they would like. It's fab and there are generally posters around town and cities as well.

I don’t know where you’re from, but in my city if someone was advertising free meat they just shot, the only knock on the door would be from the coppers asking if they know anything about the local cat population disappearing…

LostTheMarble · 03/12/2024 13:19

pimplin · 03/12/2024 13:00

This is absolutely hilarious peak Mumsnet. I won't call you cruel, just completely out of touch with reality.

Stop shoving pasties in your mouth OP and get your rifle out!

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I missed that post, reads like Anne or Camilla has joined us…

JenniferBooth · 03/12/2024 13:17

I like the Greggs salted caramel latte

Much better than the caramel nutcracker latte Costa has out for Christmas which is awful
The Quality Street Toffee Penny Latte Costa did three years ago was lovely

OrlandointheWilderness · 03/12/2024 13:09

@Sausagenbacon - there is a brilliant FB page called Giving up the game where people with an excess of game post what they have or people post what they would like. It's fab and there are generally posters around town and cities as well.

OrlandointheWilderness · 03/12/2024 13:07

@pimplin why is it out of touch? Everyone has it in their power to care about what you are eating. I'm not rich - quite the opposite actually, I'm broke and a student nurse. I just think it's shocking that not one person on this thread has actually equated poor quality and cheap to poor welfare. And don't come out with the people are too poor to eat decent meat - I'm pretty willing to bet that the majority of posters on this thread can afford an extra £1 for a decent sausage roll from a butcher.

Sausagenbacon · 03/12/2024 13:03

We used to live in the country and knew a guy who shot.
I still miss the pigeon breasts and rabbit he sold us.
Cheap, healthy and delicious

pimplin · 03/12/2024 13:00

OrlandointheWilderness · 03/12/2024 08:59

Just grim!

This does irritate me. We shoot. We have pheasants/partridge/hare/rabbit/venison/duck. I've got 6 brace of pheasant hanging in the outhouse ready to prep today that have been shot by us, yet there are SOME people who eat at places like this who would be the first ones to say we're animal abusers and cruel.
Greggs sausage rolls contain 19% meat! And it isn't local, free range and British, it's pink paste from god knows where.

Just a pet peeve. Because we care about what we eat - we only eat free range and well reared animals. The birds from shooting we make sure are dispatched quickly and treated with respect (that's why you don't carry a pheasant by the feet, upside down. It's disrespectful.) and utilised as much as possible. There is a serious disconnect between people and the food they eat that has come about.

This is absolutely hilarious peak Mumsnet. I won't call you cruel, just completely out of touch with reality.

Stop shoving pasties in your mouth OP and get your rifle out!

SybilTheSpy · 03/12/2024 12:43

Sausagenbacon · 03/12/2024 12:38

YES. I've just watched that episode again. So funny. And acute. Anne keeping on saying that, no, she worked product development at some big company

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Head of Product Development at Glaxo Smith Kline Worldwide 😂😂

Love that scene

princesspadam · 03/12/2024 12:41

There is a Greggs Champagne Bar in Newcastle which is fun 😂

To think that Greggs is extremely reasonably priced
To think that Greggs is extremely reasonably priced
Sausagenbacon · 03/12/2024 12:38

YES. I've just watched that episode again. So funny. And acute. Anne keeping on saying that, no, she worked product development at some big company

Comedycook · 03/12/2024 12:31

Have you tried Gregg's Liz....Anne used to work there.....

😂

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Jumell · 03/12/2024 12:28

Shittyproblem · 03/12/2024 10:20

@Jumell Are you the CEO, or a shareholder ?

Unfortunately not !

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Sausagenbacon · 03/12/2024 12:26

Don't get the love for Gail's tbh. There's one just opened in Bristol and it's £££ and a real BHS 1970s vibe.

user2848502016 · 03/12/2024 12:22

Yes they are good to be fair, their coffee is nice too

Seagullproofoldbag · 03/12/2024 11:50

We went in to Greggs in Plymouth during the summer holidays to buy my son a drink from the fridge. After queueing and watching the flies playing in the warm food cabinet, you couldn't pay me to eat anything from there.

Portakalkedi · 03/12/2024 11:20

Haven't ever had more than the odd pasty, but they seem very much on the ball with marketing, so prices are low but the quality of ingredients can't be up to much. They provide countrywide consistency at affordable prices, which is what a lot of people want (as with McDonalds). Had a look in one last week, as I was out and needed to buy a sandwich, but they don't do the nice ones (bloomer bread?) they used to, was all baguettes - no doubt to keep prices down - more bread to less filling, looks bigger, so seems better value.

JingleB · 03/12/2024 11:12

Declutterthoseemails · 03/12/2024 07:59

I'm just very disappointed they don't sell anything with a beautiful buttery biscuit base personally.

On the other hand, I’ve never been to the bakery to be greeted by a bald tosser striding about naked with a sock on his todger.

Thank the gods.

Coffeecakelatte · 03/12/2024 11:11

LostTheMarble · 03/12/2024 11:03

I wasn’t have a go at you, if Greggs isn’t your thing that’s absolutely fine. I’ve long gone off McDonald’s, I’m not sure if it’s age or how they cook it but the childhood days where a Maccies was the ultimate treat is now just a complete disappointment. Sorry, my post was in jest of the UPF cultist, that’s why I didn’t quote your entire post!

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That's okay. I'm with you on Mcdonalds, apart from their cappuccino which I do like. They used to do a good sugar ring doughnut which is no longer available as well.

Now, a zinger salad with an extra zinger, with the signature fries from my local KFC I can do (but only on a Friday afternoon, because that's when the good team are on that cook it fresh, and it is never stale at that time).
I definately enjoy a treat, I just have to enjoy it. I am the same with icecream, can no longer eat Ben & Jerry's, but like magnum cracked (both full of crap, but it's the taste if that makes sense). I guess it is all just personal preference, but alot of them need to upt their game imo.

AshLeaf · 03/12/2024 11:10

anyone buying such cheap meat products needs to have a good think about the animal welfare implications of that

MyNamesGaryAndImAddictedToChips · 03/12/2024 11:10

YourSnugHazelTraybake · 03/12/2024 08:04

Depends what you're comparing it to. We've got a chain in the north east ( was locally owned but recently bought out by Asda) that sells sausage rolls at 4 for £1.25, so compared to that Greggs is extortionate and the local one doesn't do very well. We have a second local bakery with several shops that also are cheaper than greggs.

I remember when Greggs WAS my local bakery in the NE!

Many years later when I first saw one near me (no longer in the NE) I stupidly got excited thinking I could get a stottie. 🙄😔😭

ThatRareUmberJoker · 03/12/2024 11:09

My daughter worked in Greggs for a year and the horror stories I heard. Greggs will never see another penny of my money.

Dimpliy · 03/12/2024 11:06

A cheese and onion pasty from Greggs is comfort food but it's low quality carbs, not healthy. So not worth more.