To think that Greggs is extremely reasonably priced

Their products are heavy on the pastry/dough and light on the meat and even lighter on quality meat.

There are times though when only a Greggs sausage roll hits the spot.

Yes I love a Greggs bacon roll 🤣 it's about £2.50 with a coffee too. Coffee is obviously not the nicest but it's ok

I love Greggs! Their sausage rolls are the best! And they do a lot of good works too with giving stuff away to community projects.

Shame about the double g connotation though!

It’s cheap as it’s made with poor quality ingredients and that’s reflected in the taste.

Only ever had the cheese & onion roll/bakethingy and it was disgusting.

@Declutterthoseemails actually I save a fortune by prepping game - I've done 12 birds yesterday and I paid nothing for them. I've recently had 4 rabbits for £6 which will do lots of portions.
I saw a post on our local FB page from a woman desperate for help with food - couldn't feed her kids and couldn't wait for food bank. I not only offered her 8 pheasants for free but I also offered to come over and show her how to prep them, and put her in touch with someone who could get her a good supply. I was told I could as vile and cruel and instead she'd go to Iceland.
I'm a student nurse. I'm pretty broke most of the time!

It's for tax reasons actually! Serving hot food above a certain temp means there is VAT added.

This says to me you can afford to not find it acceptable. Not everyone has that luxury

And actually, not one person on this thread has made a connection between the meat being 'not the best quality' and the fact the animal welfare is a massive part of that.
Cheap, poor quality meat is a result of poor animal welfare standards. Personally I don't think that's acceptable.

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.

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True, usually pretending to think McDonald's is spelt Macdonald's to show how little they have to do with such an awful place.

I am loving the mint hot chocolate they have on at the moment. The thing I dislike about greggs is, why can’t they keep the pastries hot? Other bakeries manage it? Is that why they are so cheap, they don’t want to pay the leccy to give me a hot vegan sausage roll? The chances of walking in when the stars are aligned and they just came out the oven are very slim. Plus their veggie choices sandwiches are a bit meh.

We have Greggs Outlets in selected areas of Glasgow. No wonder we're all fat bastards

Exactly this! Plus what someone said up thread about them all being the same - I have a child with sensory/food issues and Greggs sausage roll is a safe food and can be found pretty much anywhere!

Oh yeh, it's probably really shit food, terribly bad for me, etc, but tasty and gentle on the bank account, and using the app I seem to get free stuff all the time!!

#TeamGreggs all the way here

The trick for me is to buy things from Greggs because I like them.

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I know you. You’re the person who made that can I eat off £30 a month and gave a list consisting of biscuits and doughnuts

I must be tight as I think Greggs is expensive, the quality was never the best but at least it was cheap. Used to be 4 sausage rolls for a quid.

They have closed most of the independents and small chains down round here now.

Until COVID we had a 24 HR drive through near us, the lines of taxis, police cars and fire engines went on for miles. Might be a slight exaggeration.

They do some healthier options now. They’re not as nice as Pret or similar but they’re also not £8 for a lunch bowl.

@OnlyFoolsnMothers ignore, there is always at least one pretentious twat on threads like this

lol- you have zero idea how often i give my kids cake or take them out for
cake but thanks for that parenting advice- next you’ll be telling me they shouldn’t be on screens 7 hours a day

They are the height of disgustingness. Just rank

On the other hand the chicken bakes are better than Wenzels.

Greggs still lowest of the bakeries though. I'd rather Gails Wenzels then Greggs

As a family of 5 it would be great if we liked Greg's (as in good value for money). Unfortunately we all hate it, the look and smell turn my stomach, let alone the taste.
We have much nicer, more expensive, bakeries nearby and as it's a treat I don't mind paying the extra.