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To be pissed off that Greggs vary regionally?

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Creambun2 · 04/10/2017 08:24

Why can't I get a greggs iced split in the home counties? And why are greggs bread puddings not avaliable in the south?

Are regional tastes so different that the whole uk can't enjoy a nasty but strangely alluring and edible iced split?

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BarbaraofSevillle · 04/10/2017 09:09

An elephant foot is a big round pastry shaped like an elephants foot filled with cream and topped with chocolate. It was made from choux pastry so was a less elegant version of the chocolate eclair.

Thanks eve. Google didn't bring up anything except actual ears on actual donkeys.

I did also try googling for elephant's foot and got nothing about pastry and a lot about large trunked mammals and interestingly something about a great big melted lump of chernobyl fuel that is known by the same name Confused.

TheNoodlesIncident · 04/10/2017 09:11

We used to get Devon Splits from our local bakery, they were like an iced finger bun but enormous, like Tom's thumb after Jerry's lamped it with a hammer

They were divine but no doubt contributed to my excessive cellulite problem Sad Why can't cakes be delicious AND low calorie...

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Creambun2 · 04/10/2017 09:12

The icing on an iced split is radioactive!

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Ginkypig · 04/10/2017 09:26

I miss greggs macaroni pies too Sad

I was in Leicester and asked for one and they looked at me like I'd asked for puppy on toast!

I explained to them what one was and they said no that doesn't exist no business would make that you must be confused at which point I thought there's no point and left wishing I was back in Scotland.

RhiannonOHara · 04/10/2017 09:26

I rather like that I can only get Welsh cakes in Welsh Greggs', although it means I have them very rarely (am in London; have friends in Wales but don't get to go and visit very much).

I used to live somewhere where Greggs baguette-type sandwiches were called Big Softees. When I moved to London, went to Greggs and gaily asked for a tuna Big Softee, I thought they were going to call the police. Grin

Areyoulocal · 04/10/2017 09:28

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AnnieAnoniMouse · 04/10/2017 09:29

The greater issue here us that they stopped doing the vegetable pasty

What? If they stop doing them in the SE, you'll hear me roar!

Macaroni Pie. OMG. How far north do I have to go to get one of these?

I didn't even think about it varying regionally, but it makes sense.

They put a Greg's in our pretty little village. I did get quite sniffy about it (not so much the shop as the signage) but I didn't go so far as boycotting it 🤣

BarbaraofSevillle · 04/10/2017 09:32

Glad I'm not the only one to have committed a Greggs related regional faux pas.

When I worked in Greggs there was a postman who used to come in every Saturday and buy a Cornish pasty and a cheese and onion pasty and two buttered breadcakes and ask for the pasties to be put in the breadcakes.

I was unaware of the concept of the pie barm at the time and I can't remember if he was a Yorkshire Local or from t'other side ot'pennines.

My favourite Greggs products from that time were the potato and meat pie and the apple charlotte (apple and custard in a pastry tart case with whipped cream on top). Both sadly no more unfortunately.

AccrualIntentions · 04/10/2017 09:33

They vary even within cities. I couldn't get an iced split in a Greggs in the posher bit of town, because there was "no demand" Confused

chocatoo · 04/10/2017 09:33

Split sounds delicious. Mouth is watering!

amusedbush · 04/10/2017 09:37

I miss the Greggs macaroni pies too.Luckily all of the other Scottish bakers sell them.

It's not the same. There's something cheap and gross and amazing about a Greggs one Grin

ThymeLord · 04/10/2017 09:43

Annie they stopped doing them here after the pound bakery opened Sad It was a dark, dark day.

HalloweenStar · 04/10/2017 09:47

As long as they don't stop selling the Halloween bat biscuit I don't care. Although they can stop putting the price up so much

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Creambun2 · 04/10/2017 09:48

As an aside why are the greggs pizza slices so awful? I swear they tip a bottle of vinegar into the tomato puree

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RedHelenB · 04/10/2017 09:53

Not many shops I avoid but such a horrid smell from our pound bakery. Never see anyone buying from there. Still.3 Greggs and plenty more cheap bakers around

Auldspinster · 04/10/2017 09:59

Macaroni pies are food of the gods, Aldi sell them here in Edinburgh but that could also be a regional thing.

FizzyGreenWater · 04/10/2017 10:01

I might as well have been asking for a unicorn kebab

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CancellyMcChequeface · 04/10/2017 10:04

I haven't been to Greggs since they changed the vegetable pasty recipe to add cheese. I loved those pasties, but I can't stand cheese, so to me they are now ruined forever. Sad There was already a cheese and onion pasty for cheese fans!

MiaowTheCat · 04/10/2017 10:04

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limitedperiodonly · 04/10/2017 10:08

My mum used to work in a small Greggs-type chain in the 70s. She would make whatever people asked for and think up a price. Everyone else would rigidly stick to the list - I'm sure some of them enjoyed saying: 'That's not on the list'.

She was eventually put in charge on the sandwich counter and her dangerous off-menu ways became policy because she'd take so much money.

Her bread pudding made with left over stale sliced bread from the shop was nectar.

BeatriceBeaudelaire · 04/10/2017 10:17

Where are the sausage, bean and cheese melts in London???
I was thrilled to find a greggs so close when I moved here ... but there’s bugger all there

toomanydicksonthedancefloor1 · 04/10/2017 10:20

Im in South Yorkshire. Here we call them an iced finger. And I love them cut open with loads of butter on. Yummy!

Never ever heard of a bread pudding, what is it?

MrTrebus · 04/10/2017 10:21

OP all the greggs near me do bread pudding and I'm in Portsmouth. Doesn't get more South than that.

BeatriceBeaudelaire · 04/10/2017 10:21

@Zaphodsotherhead I thought it was cream whipped with icing sugar ... not fake cream???

toomanydicksonthedancefloor1 · 04/10/2017 10:22

YYY to the mince pies, best ever!