To think it's great that Marlborough College pupils are doing amazing work in breaking down class barriers by

[sozzledchops]

queueing outside Greggs at lunch time to load up on sausage rolls, fruit shoots and coke and scoff them in the street. Wonder if their mums know?

At least they were queueing rather than barging to the front....

What a shower of shits

This is clearly a jokey thread. And is marginally funny. It's not amazingly funny but it is marginally.

It's tooooooo serious round here today.

I've never bought anything in Greggs. What do you all recommend?

bugger.

Good lord!! It's clearly a light-hearted threat - but take massive offence, some of you, if it makes you feel better.

How is it any funnier to sneer at rich kids than poor ones LaurieFairyCake?

It's reverse snobbery in action, not humour.

Who's sneering?

Man...

It is funnier.

Standard stand-up comedian fare.

Guess you don't find stand-up comedians funny? They make jokes about povos too (also funny )

I also like the pizza slices but not as much as the pizza baguettes they used to do.

If you go to a private school you know what it is to truly be fed shite, by the way. 'Dead man's leg' was always an unpopular favourite.

It's as though the niceness of the food is in inverse proportion to the fees paid.

Hence the hormonal teenage queue for lard and sugar Greggs.

Festive bake = Lattice pastry filled with tender pieces of chicken, stuffing & sweetcure bacon in a creamy sage sauce with cranberry pieces & red onion relish.

It is the food of the gods

Please expect actual sneering at the rich MORE as we go on - what with the gap between rich and poor getting bigger and people getting more irritated by multimillionaire-we're-all-fucking-in-it-together-honestly-guvnor Osborne and Cameron.

sozzledchops

".........and scoff them in the street. Wonder if their mums know?"

It's quite obvious that many posters do not know that it's bad manners to eat in the street. It is so common these days that I despair. That's the reason we have so much litter from fast food outlets in the street. My school (state gramnmar) would chastise us if we were caught in school uniform eating so much as a wine gum. I still cannot eat - or drink - in the street and I look at those who do with a disdain wonder at why they were not taught the same.

I'm sure you will disagree with what I have written but it's true and I hope there are others out there who were brought up in the same way. I have to say, though, that, apart from fish and chip shops, there were no fast food shops then but it makes no difference. I just cannot eat in the street and I do look down on those who do (regardless of their school or apparent wealth).

mmmmmmmmmmmmm tomorrows lunch.......

cheese pasty

or one of those brie and cranberry things.

big choux pastry bun with cream

diet coke.

oh i cannot wait.

I'm not much of a pasty fan but I love the apple turnovers, and the fresh sandwiches are usually pretty yummy too - much nicer than supermarket ones.

in fact what time does greggs open? i could have it for breakfast.

Laurie I need to read the Urban Dictionary I guess. WTF is a "povos"?
(Don't blame me, I live in the sticks, further out than the back of beyond)

or a toffee apple cream thing.

or a custard slice..

My school also used to ban street-eating and it's not something to do now, it was so drummed into us, but I don't even notice others doing it - why would I?

Are we middle-class not allowed to laugh at ourselves sometimes? I didn't get that memo...

Gawd - this thread is not going to go well....

Wonder if Kate and Beatrice were patrons. Can see a whole new advertising opportunity for Greggs opening up here.

It was supposed to be light hearted, have nothing against the kids at Marlborough College or sausage rolls, fruit shoots I'm not too keen on though.

I didn't grow up here which is why I've never been in one and I am addicted to pastry so I've been a bit scared I might get even fatter if I darken their doors. But god, that festive bake sounds lush

I had a festive slice the other day

and yes I thought this thread was meant to be lightheated too. Getting close to a full moon though

I'm guessing it's similar to a derro (derelict) or maybe even a prole...?!

Perhaps it has its roots in the word poverty.

diabolo SORRY, Scottish term - 'povos' = poverty stricken but slightly derogatory term.