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

[greenbananas]

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?

Carricks (in Blyth) used to have the window so you could watch the baker baking the breadbuns. We used to wait for the fresh ones coming out of the oven on a Saturday after we had finished shopping then dash off to my grandma's for tea and fresh breadbuns. You also cannot get a pie anywhere in England (you can in Australia but it's a long way to go for a pie) as nice and fresh as the hot pies that you get from the North-East butchers.

Many happy memories of running down to Greggs in the 70s, on a Saturday morning, waiting for the stotties fresh from the oven.

I'm sure the sausage rolls were less fatty back then. They are still lovely for a treat though.

Sausage roll connoisseur here...but never, ever eat Greggs. Meat too 'pink' and strange synthetic taste to them. Greggs scotch pies on the other hand, greasy, fatty, pastry Heaven

100 miles away from nearest fast-food chains...a curse and a blessing in equal measure

muddlingmackem there are:
2 in the Bridges, used to be 3 before Primark built
One opposite the station/ Peters
One on Blandford St
One on Fawcett Street
One in Park Lanr
One at the Uni but I have discovered it is now 2!

So actually 8 or9!

I asked my geordie English class for a simile once and one lad eagerly piped up: 'She was sweating like a fat lass in Greggs'! Still one of my favourite classroom moments

KenDoddsDadsDog

Okay, let's see if I can visualise these:

2 in the Bridges, used to be 3 before Primark built
Yes, remember the one up from Tesco that's gone. One up by Savers. Is the other one the cafe one that was mentioned?

One opposite the station/ Peters
Yes, knew that one.

One on Blandford St
And that one.

One on Fawcett Street
Hmm vaguely.

One in Park Lane
Should have known that one but had totally forgotten about it!

One at the Uni but I have discovered it is now 2!
The closest we get to the uni is walking past it when DH and I are too stingy to pay for any of the car parks, so I wouldn't know those.

So actually 8 or 9!
Do you think we're lucky, or that it says something rather worrying about the Sunderland natives that so many can stay in business?

muddlingmackem I went to school in Sunderland 100 years ago and I remember Carricks. It was an after school treat to go to the cafe there. A posher treat was when my DGM would take us shopping in Joplings and then have tea in their restaurant. They had a blue J on the plates and everything...

Greggs Sausage rolls exist to annoy Yummy Mummies, as they are tangible proof that an All Organic Lentil Weaver Lifestyle is a little bit crap.

Is theire an iPhone App that finds one's nearest Greggs in case of emergency btw?

(Taps nose - knows where local one is, of course....)

All sausage rolls are lips and arseholes. If you're going to kill a cow why not eat all of it so it wasn't killed in vain? Why is it worse to eat a lip than rump?

I remember Carricks too. We used to go to the one at Park Lane when we were in 6th form (St.Anths)
I have no idea why there are so many but they must all do good business! The one at Doxford is always jam packed.

KenDodd wonder if we are contemporaries? I'm ex St Anthony's too.

Ooh I left 1991 and my sis in 1994

KenDodd err ahem not quite contemporaries then. It appears that I am possibly a lot slightly older than you by at least a decade.

Have you ever seen Sweeney Todd? That's why. :o

Not read the whole thread but I believe they are bad because if you look at the sign the specified 'meat' content is 6%, now what they class as 'meat' I don't know....

I bet you still remember Sister Calabsha though?!

Wahhh! I can't believe I typed that! I'm getting mixed up posting on the organic milk thread and this. Pmsl

greggs sausage rolls are the dog's bollocks

I mean, probably literally but who cares. They're great. Like a pot noodle sandwich. You know you really shouldn't, and you'd sooner admit you eat babies, but you know, late at night, when you're on your own...

24 hour greggs?! must admit ive never eaten one, but the cupcakes are lush! justhecate pot noddle sandwich.... being 8 weeks pregnant and craving everything that sounds lush. I would eat anything or anyone that got close enough at the min tho! even the dh is worried to get to close!

KenDodd remember Calabasha? She was in her prime and fully fighting fit in those days. And remember, they got away with it then.

KenDodds

I don't remember the one in Park Lane, I used to go to the one at what is now the Market Square entrance to the Bridges. Then get the No 10 back up to college for an extra maths class with the evening class students. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

carabos

I don't think I ever sat in Carricks to eat. As for Joplings, only ever went in their cafe once, probably about four years ago. My family are from Tyneside so as a child I used to get dragged around Gateshead's shops, fizzy pop in Shepherds cafe was the highlight of that. :)

muddlingmackem I'm amazed that Joplings had a cafe as recently as 4 years ago. It's got to be more than 35 years since I ate there or in Carricks tbh! We used to go there after trips to Caslaw's to get school uniforms as a bribe as a treat.

The only time I got sent to see Calabasha I nearly wet myself with fear. I remember some legendary story about her throwing a girl down O'Connell stairs and breaking her arm.