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Defending greggs!

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notremotelyintofootie · 29/01/2011 14:52

Their sausage rolls in particular!

I know they are seen as being up there with fruit shoots etc but today I will defend them to the death!

Dd is 14 months and has had a cold for a few days but woke today with a temperature of 38.4, it has gone up to 39.6 and back to 38 but dd doesn't want to play, or really eat, she has had bf and some very diluted squash but generally not interested.... Until ds (11) came back with a ring doughnut for her and some greggs sausage rolls! She basically ignored the cake but gobbled up the sausage rolls!

Yay! All hail greggs sausage rolls!

She is now on me asleep thanks to food and ibuprofen...

OP posts:
MrsSparkle · 29/01/2011 20:05

This is the problem you see. 46p thereabouts for a sausage roll. They can only charge that amount because they are mass produced, the more you make the less you can charge.

This gives the customer a false sense of how much things should cost. A sausage roll in other bakeries vary but on average are around 70p. But because greggs are selling theirs so cheap people think other bakeries are expensive when they are not.

Then greggs try to claim how everything is so freshly made in store when actually they are just a bake off. It is all made in a factory somewhere and then driven miles away to be baked off in one of their shops. They are not a proper bakery so I don't get the greggs "the bakers" tag.

pointydug · 29/01/2011 20:11

tesco finest chippo sausages (84% meat I think), 24 for £4 so that's less than 20p a sausage. Puff pastry is not an expensive product at all. So 46p a sausage roll in one of the largest bakery chains does not seem exceptionally cheap to me.

ValiumSandwichTime · 29/01/2011 20:16

They don't have that chain where I am, and I wish they'd open up in Ireland. It was always the cheapest place to get a sandwich, banana and a coffee. why do people slag it so much? must be an english in-joke pastime, slagging shops that are good value Confused

ValiumSandwichTime · 29/01/2011 20:17

sorry, just realising, I am confusing 'english people' with mumsnetters. I keep doing that. Grin

ElectricSoftParade · 29/01/2011 20:21

Stotties are the most lovely bread and I miss them. When I visit the North East I always have to gorge on them! I miss them Sad

I come from Newcastle and as I am very old and my memory fails me I remember there was another bakers Carricks? or something like that and their chicken and mushroom pasties were just heaven.

But I do love a sausage roll from Greggs Smile

MrsSparkle · 29/01/2011 20:28

Don't get me started on tesco. Anyway, 46p is very cheap. Remember it is not just ingredients, there is labour to fork out for and other over heads. Customer always forgot that.

X amount for that! Really?

Yes because someone has to be paid to make it (and if it is an independent it will be made by hand, not a machine) and someone has to be paid to serve you and you are buying in a shop that has rent, rates and other expenses. So yes it does cost x amount.

MrsSparkle · 29/01/2011 20:39

Plus I doubt that the sausage rolls have a high meat content. They don't put sausages in, they make up a sausage roll mix in a great big machine which has some sausage meat in it and other assorted goodies. Shudder. They mix it all together and create a weird, pink mix to go into the pastry. I dread to think what they put in that mix to make that pink colour.

100 per cent pork would be really firm so the higher the meat content the firmer the sausage roll filling is. Greggs is really soft. Shudder.

pointydug · 29/01/2011 20:41

Exactly. Not a high meat content at all, I wouldn't have thought. So v cheap.

BitchTeaRiskit · 29/01/2011 20:46

Namchange because I don't want to be recognisable!

I know somebody that works in Greggs.
I think there's less meat in their sausage rolls than in their vegetable pasty that's for sure!

pointydug · 29/01/2011 20:48

Their saussage rolls are full of rubbish including some big spoonfuls of some sort of flavour enhancer, I'm sure.

Doesn't everyone know their sausage rolls are full of shite? I thought everyone did.

MrsSparkle · 29/01/2011 20:53

So actually greggs are very clever then because it cost them peanuts compared to what it cost independents.

If it cost them say 20p to make a sausage roll and they are charging more then double that. The customer is saying considerably more then it costs them to make, and for a crap product in terms of meat content. No wonder they are so rich, they are laughging all the way to the bank. . .

pointydug · 29/01/2011 20:56

I doubt it will cost them even 20p for one sausage roll.

Not necessarily very clever, just good at running a business.

MrsSparkle · 29/01/2011 21:00

And ripping people off by doing such a high mark up on crap ingredients.

pointydug · 29/01/2011 21:02

Not ripping people off. Providing something that people like for a cheap price. No one is forcing them to buy it.

Greggs don't rip anyone off any more than the next business.

MrsSparkle · 29/01/2011 21:02

Bitchtea that is funny. Anything else you wanna share before you name change back?

OTTMummA · 29/01/2011 21:03

I don't care if its made of arses and eyelids, it takes bloomin larvely Grin

OTTMummA · 29/01/2011 21:03

tastes*

MrsSparkle · 29/01/2011 21:07

Each to their own I suppose. . .

shudders

OTTMummA · 29/01/2011 21:07

plus, its wrapped in that lovely pastry so i can't see the 'pink stuff' lol.

MrsSparkle · 29/01/2011 21:08

Each to their own I suppose. . .

shudders

Foxinsocks · 29/01/2011 21:11

their chicken bloomers are quite nice

MrsSparkle · 29/01/2011 21:13

Do I want to know what a chicken bloomer is?

pointydug · 29/01/2011 21:14

Rest assured there ain't much chicken in it.

Foxinsocks · 29/01/2011 21:15

it's a big chicken sandwich with thick brown bread and lots of chicken and mayo (and salad). Bit of a doorstop.

Foxinsocks · 29/01/2011 21:16

washed down with a ribena, an almost perfect lunch ;-)