To want everyone to stop moaning about the pasty tax?

[BupcakesandCunting]

Because it is really making me want a Greggs vegetable pasty?

Honestly, I have got a hankering for one that will not desist.

Pack it in everyone.

If that's the case Whatmeworry it was daft of them to pick a diversion that would negatively impact a really solid area of Tory and Lib Dem support. I for one will be stockpiling pasties instead of petrol.

I for one will be stockpiling pasties instead of petrol.

But you can make your own pasties, whereas petrol sadly....

A good point, but I don't have a car.

My local Greggs don't do this vegetable pasty either and as a vegetarian, my only option from there is cheese and onion. Which I am wary of, in case there's too much onion. So I limit myself to the very occasional muffin, jaffa cake doughnut, novelty biscuit for DS or a peach melba.

I so miss living near a Parson's Bakery. I used to love their veggie sausage rolls every once in a while.

I still don't know what a pasty tax is :(

The whole pasty thing is a deliberate smokescreen to get the Granny Tax, 50p let off etc off the front pages IMO

Yes, and so is the fill your jerry can with petrol bruhaha.

You should try actually selling pasties! This tax thing is almost as fucking irritating as the whole 'you can call it a Cornish Pasty if it isn't made in Cornwall' bollocks!

Make your own, if you feel that "disadvantaged". Dead easy, if you have had the proper upbringing and education.

E320 I was just going to say the same thing!

Easy to do - and one of the most useful things my MIL has taught me (including making the pastry)

I don't understand how they can do this thing with "heated" food though. The whole point of bakers/pasty/pie shops is that they cook the food on the premises then sell it as it cools. If you are unlucky and get a cold pasty because its the end of the tray, do you not have to pay VAT?

The tax doesn't bother me as I prefer my sausage rolls / pasties cold. I like ambient-temperature crisp pastry not warm flabby stuff.
And when they are warmed up you can see how much fat they contain. Bleugh.

Never mind bleeding pasties, what about my cooked chickens from sainsbos?

Be healthy they say. Exercise more and eat well. THEN THEY SLAP A TAX ON MY LEAN PROTEIN.

Fuckers.

Anyway, as someone pointed out on bbc earlier, in summer your hot food might actually not be as warm as the ambient temperature, and really to VAT them you would need a room thermometer anda food thermometer and Id want every item tested at the time of the contract of purchase being exchanged to ensure I was paying the correct amount of taxation.

Did I say fuckers?

The availability of the vegetable pasty is hit and miss, sadly.

However the abundance of pie shops in my area makes up for it a bit.