To be pissed off that Greggs vary regionally?

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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?

Jellygummy, Gregg's used to be Thurston's in West Yorkshire.

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I never realised Greggs do so much regional stuff! Where the hell are they still supplying the meat and potato pasties to so I can move there?

An Elephant's foot is a Yorkshire delicacy consisting of a giant choux pastry bun sliced in half then filled with whipped cream and the top covered in milk chocolate thereby resembling an elephant's foot
HTH

Is it wrong I really want an Elephants foot now?

We still have meat and potato pasties in Liverpool ladydeadpool

Worried you can get butter pies here! I am...south of Preston. In a place famous for its round curranty cakes!

The one beginning with C or E Thyme ? Sorry im.not very good with geography.

An Elephant's foot is a Yorkshire delicacy consisting of a giant choux pastry bun sliced in half then filled with whipped cream and the top covered in milk chocolate thereby resembling an elephant's foot
HTH

Er, that's called 'a choux bun' here in London!

Ladydead. I've read on Wikipedia that Greggs have purchased several regional bakeries over the years, Thurstons of Leeds being just one. So that's where the regional variations come from.

Elephants' Feet sometimes have coffee icing on, too.

Lol, this is a funny thread. I used to shop at the very first Greggs, Greggs of Gosforth. Can still remember the large white sliced loaves in the turquoise and white waxed paper wrappers, and the real stotties. Never ever imagined that Greggs would take over the world one day (well the world of English bakeries).

Oh, just found out Greggs have shops in Wales and Scotland as well. Didn't want to cause offence by assuming.

Loving this thread. Love a Greggs tuna sarnie. My absolute number one guilty pleasure.

Winchester Greggs sells Tottenham cake. :)

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This is a peach melba, though not a greggs one, it's a pastry case with peaches, loooooads of cream and an icing shell.

Again, you can get Tottenham cakes in Greggs in Portsmouth so I'm not sure that's true about the outside London thing.

Ah but people in London get to have Paul's bakery. Doesn't exist anywhere else except in France. And I love it. I might start a petition for them to open one in Yorkshire, except people would be like, "eclair? what the fook is that?"

The one beginning with a C

I used to work in Greggs when I was still at school, when it was still branded Thurstons. It was awesome! I miss the Apple Charlotte, the Chocolate Chip Oyster Buns (their choc chip muffins with chocolate sauce and fresh cream - heaven!) and the original flaky pastry Cornish pasty. I used to have it for lunch in a buttered bap every week! So unhealthy but I wasn’t fussed as I was on my feet all day, and our manager was a bit of a (nice) dragon.

Thanks Brillo. It looks slightly... forbidding.

Butter Pies! I was going to mention those! I'm sure they're exclusively North Western.

I was very sad when fords the bakers closed down in Scotland and I cold no longer obtain what was named as the tipsy cake 😥

An elephant foot sounds like a thing I had in Iceland called (I think) a bollur. On the Monday before a shrove Tuesday they have bolludagur (cream bun day) and all the shops and bakeries are filled with giant choux buns filled with jam and cream and topped with chocolate. They were amazing.

I don’t know if this is still the case, but Scottish Gregg’s fudge doughnuts had custard in the middle, thus making them the food of the Gods. I was so disappointed to find the English ones looked exactly the same but were filled with cream! Cream! Not the same at all!

There is worse! Gregs sell a £1 custard slice which is half the size of the other gregs'! I cannot get a decent one in my area, I have to go to a particular Gregs near my parents'. Shocking.