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...to not understand why Greggs sausage rolls are so bad?

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greenbananas · 19/12/2011 18:42

I've just seen yet another thread in which Greggs sausage rolls are deemed bad food for toddlers (mentioned along with McDonalds, fruit shoots etc.)

Am I missing something? I really don't understand... Surely they are just pastry and sausagemeat? Are they any worse than other sausage rolls?

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KenDoddsDadsDog · 19/12/2011 18:44

They are like everything else, bad if you eat them for every meal. Where I'm from though as soon as a baby can sit up, it has a Greggs bag and bottle of tea in the pram. Minging.

Gigondas · 19/12/2011 18:45

Dunno about other types - but salt fat and potentially quality of meat make them pretty unhealthy.

That said I do like them myself as a guilty treat

almondfinger · 19/12/2011 18:47

Because there is sausage meat and there is sausagemeat. Theirs is prob minimal pork content, mostly scrag ends, offal etc. And the sausage and pastry is full of salt and other presertatives and additives. Not what would be classed as part of a healthy diet for anyone let alone toddlers.

Saying that, my husband loves them.

Gigondas · 19/12/2011 18:47

Bottle of tea? Heard of bottle of coke but amazed kids like the taste.

Agree it's about everything in moderation - remember having a right judgy pants conversation with some people I work with re food choices as a treat. What surprised me was that they were fine with wagamamas for their kids but not other places but the obscene salt content in some wagamamas stuff seemed to have slipped their notice .

midnightexpress · 19/12/2011 18:49

KenDoddsDadsDog, my friend calls them 'Glasgow dummies'.

(Disclaimer: we live there)

(further disclaimer: my DC have never eaten a Greggs sausage roll).

They are gross though OP. You can pretty much wring the fat out of them.

tanfastic · 19/12/2011 18:49

Well they are beige shite full of saturated fat that's probably why.

I have been known to feed my child the odd one every now and then. Can't say I've had any disapproving looks though.

Everything in moderation that's my motto.

Tortington · 19/12/2011 18:51

AMBROSIA

midnightexpress · 19/12/2011 18:52
Grin
WilsonFrickett · 19/12/2011 18:52

There's no such thing as a 'good' sausage roll IMO - they are full of saturated fat (buttery pastry, fatty pork) and because the meat is processed it's likely to be mechanically recovered and high in salt. Greggs ones are massive as well.

Having said that, I love the odd one at this time of year. But not as a regular 'lunch', it's a treat thing. (While we're on the subject, I suspect a Greggs cheese slice kicks the ass of a sausage roll for fat content but no-one moans about people giving their DCs those, do they?)

squeakytoy · 19/12/2011 18:54

on an occasional basis they wont do anyone any harm or kill them.. as part of the everyday diet, they would be high up on the list for blocking arteries and causing obesity..

snowmaiden · 19/12/2011 18:54

You cannot call the stuff in a geggs sausage roll meat- it is pure slurry! The slime and scrapings from the inside of the pig UUGGHH!!!! [vomit emoticon]

KenDoddsDadsDog · 19/12/2011 19:02

Midnight express - here they are Sunderland soothers / pasty babies!

RaraGigglePixie · 19/12/2011 19:09

A friend told me where she is from they call them Gateshead Gobstoppers. Grin

They are just foul. It's not even food is it? We didn't have a Greggs where we lived in Devon. Have moved now and still not seen one. In fact the only place I've seen a Greggs is when I was in the Lake District. Are there even that many around?

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greenbananas · 19/12/2011 19:09

Thank you for all your replies. I think I am beginning to understand - it's just the fat, the salt and the poor quality of the meat, right? That makes sense.

Of course, I do realise the Greggs thing has probably been done to death on mumsnet. I was just curious.

Tbh, part of the reason I was asking is that I am a teeny weeny bit jealous of parents who can buy sausage rolls for their children when they are in town. (My own son has life-threatening food allergies, and I dream of being able to nip into Greggs instead of packing all his food in a coolbag before I even leave the house.)

Ambrosia, Custardo? Are you playing bingo?

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Oakmaiden · 19/12/2011 19:12

My 6 month old loves them...

Original poster
greenbananas · 19/12/2011 19:12

And of course also the way they are overused by 'lazy' parents...

In moderation, a Greggs sausage roll might be okay as part of a generally healthy and balanced diet. Would you agree? Or are they simply the work of the devil?

(I am blatantly trying to provoke extreme opinions now Grin)

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Oakmaiden · 19/12/2011 19:14

I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me there. Grin I don't have a 6 month old. And when I did they didn't eat sausage rolls.

But they are 13, 8 and 6 years old now, and are all quite partial to a Greggs sausage roll as an occasional treat.

I'm not fond of pastry myself, but there you go...

KenDoddsDadsDog · 19/12/2011 19:15

Only today in town there was a woman shouting "Our Anthony calm down or you'll not get yer sausage roll" . There are 7 Greggs in Sunderland city centre alone.

TurkeyBurgerThing · 19/12/2011 19:15

Apparently you can buy them from Iceland now! Yum. [spew]

BarfTheHeraldAngelsHeave · 19/12/2011 19:16

I bloody love a Gregg's sausage roll now and again, or better still, a sausage and bean bake.

marriedandwreathedinholly · 19/12/2011 19:17

Love Greggs.

Whenever the DC need a packed lunch they ask if it can be a Greggs one - DS can polish off a blt, sausage roll, and two yum yums in a jiffy during rugby training.

A bit of what you fancy sometimes does you good. DH also approves - they have been one of his most successful share purchases and he buys his lunch there whenever he can and I nip in for a loaf too.

According to DH they were a fab way of turning 10K into 20K so please do keep going to Greggs Grin

ouryve · 19/12/2011 19:18

They're revolting. Isn't that a good enough reason?

(And I doubt there's much actual lean meat in the sausagemeat)

JingleyBalls · 19/12/2011 19:18

Thats because you live in Sunderland KenDodds, us in Newcastle are more refined Xmas Wink and have chai latte in a bottle.

The sausage in a Greggs sausage roll is more arseholes and lips than it is pork an full of salt.

Usually seen being given by the common berghaus clad charver to their barely sitting fake burberry and fugg wearing toddler while they walk smoking a tab.

Still, they are rather yummy.

KatieScarlett2833 · 19/12/2011 19:19

Greggs sausage rolls eaten hot straight from the shops are like crack cocaine.

One is never enough, and YY to the sausage and bean bake...

KenDoddsDadsDog · 19/12/2011 19:21

Jingley - I know one of the Greggs dynasty who lives in a converted lighthouse, it must be good money.
I'm off to Fenwicks windows tomorrow so will remember my chai and yo sushi !!