To think that Greggs is extremely reasonably priced

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.. for what it actually sells ?

I my local Greggs last week and there are delicious ready made pizza slices for £2.30 -
large cooked steak pie for under £2

sausage rolls for around £1.20

also the app is very good I think -it breaks down all their foodstuffs individually and you have a free item for every 9th one bought

Come on - to have tasty ready cooked food for these sort of prices - it’s pretty good isn’t it ?

This is absolutely hilarious peak Mumsnet. I won't call you cruel, just completely out of touch with reality.

Stop shoving pasties in your mouth OP and get your rifle out!

We used to live in the country and knew a guy who shot.
I still miss the pigeon breasts and rabbit he sold us.
Cheap, healthy and delicious

@pimplin why is it out of touch? Everyone has it in their power to care about what you are eating. I'm not rich - quite the opposite actually, I'm broke and a student nurse. I just think it's shocking that not one person on this thread has actually equated poor quality and cheap to poor welfare. And don't come out with the people are too poor to eat decent meat - I'm pretty willing to bet that the majority of posters on this thread can afford an extra £1 for a decent sausage roll from a butcher.

@Sausagenbacon - there is a brilliant FB page called Giving up the game where people with an excess of game post what they have or people post what they would like. It's fab and there are generally posters around town and cities as well.

I like the Greggs salted caramel latte

Much better than the caramel nutcracker latte Costa has out for Christmas which is awful
The Quality Street Toffee Penny Latte Costa did three years ago was lovely

I missed that post, reads like Anne or Camilla has joined us…

I don’t know where you’re from, but in my city if someone was advertising free meat they just shot, the only knock on the door would be from the coppers asking if they know anything about the local cat population disappearing…

I didn’t even know Greggs sold “Starbucks type” coffee now. When I last used to go frequently I think it was just plain coffee which I didn’t even bother with as I was a teen. I must take a look at the modern greggs one day.

I don't know why anyone uses sandwich shops or bakeries when they can just pop out, shoot a peasant and be done with it.

😂

😂 no @LostTheMarble I meant in the countryside adjacent to the cities! And no pussycat here 😂

Taking the piss out of the only single poster on the thread who has actually questioned the meat they use and the welfare of the animals concerned says more about you than me.

@LostTheMarble And really - for the very last time, I'm absolutely broke, I'm a student nurse living on a pittance and your prejudice is really showing through!

@Gorgonemilezola I'm afraid that's my view- sandwiches aren't too bad and sausage rolls just about ok but the slices are basically gravy slop in warm pastry - which is fine if you just want something hot and cheap- but nice? I would say not really

I’ve not shown any prejudice against you, your reply was completely out of touch for several reasons.

Sincerely, a poster who a single mum/carer on benefits who doesn’t have a gun license or a hanging room for pheasant (if we must lower the bar of social situations).

Thanks Orlando, I'll check it out.
Fwiw, I like a Greggs bacon roll, but it is true that most consumers only eat meat that is so denatured that they can forget about the original animal. And they can ignore welfare issues.
The young man who sold me the game was working class, living on a council estate in the village.
Did anyone watch the tv programmes (in effect, hour-long adverts) with Grace Dent on Greggs.
The one thing that was never mentioned was the quality of the raw materials.

The lattes are so good.

I mean I'm under no illusion about the food I eat. I buy bog standard supermarket meat...I don't think about the welfare of meat I order/eat in cafes, restaurants or bakeries....I assume most meat is factory farmed unless I'm told otherwise. I'm sure locally killed game meat is far superior...but surprise surprise when I'm on my local high street and am feeling peckish, I can't just shoot a pigeon and call it lunch.

Actually @LostTheMarble your comment about Anne or Camilla joining the conversation did show your prejudice. You assumed because I shoot that I'm rich.
You don't need a license or hanging room. I've posted on the thread an excellent page on Facebook where people give away, or charge very little, for game. I didn't suggest anyone needs to shoot or do things the way I do, I simply said it was shocking that people disconnect where their meat comes from to the product they buy these days. And it is invariably people who do this who criticise me and my way of life.
There is a middle ground of course. Greggs is the very lowest quality - even just buying British is upping the game and around here meat from a decent butcher is actually cheaper than supermarket.
Thanks @Sausagenbacon

I used to love an occasional greggs but the last two times I have had something "hot" they just tasted of pure salt. I'm sure they have changed the recipes which is a shame

Even the Royal Family have cried poverty (ridiculously) at points in history so the comparison is still apt. It’s nothing to do with the assumption of money and entirely about the tone and examples used of alternative food sources. It’s a thread about enjoying a fast food that everyone knows is not healthy or the best produced. Coming on to a thread decrying those who are not shooting their own pheasant is completely out of touch, no matter how much backtracking you’re doing now.

I really wasn't decrying those who weren't shooting their own pheasant @LostTheMarble, what an odd take on it. There are plenty of alternatives to Greggs sausage rolls. I've clearly offended you without meaning too, so I'm sorry for that.

Then how did you think it was relevant to the conversation? You can’t see how it’s very much on the far other end of the scale of food consumption? But you haven’t offended me at all, seems quite the opposite since you’re the one who initially quoted me about it.

@LostTheMarble but is it really on the far end of the scale? It is a viable alternative is all I was proposing - game is cheap and often free, plentiful, free range and good for you. I suppose it's in the other end of the scale from foreign, badly reared and badly slaughtered meat which makes it relevant. I was simply voicing my opinion and irritation that often it is people who will eat this without a seconds thought who judge me.
I really don't want to be pedantic, but I'm afraid I will be - initially it was you that quoted me saying about pussy cats!
I'm happy to leave this here - we won't agree, you have your view of me and I have mine of you. Let's agree to disagree as all we are doing is bickering!

Shooting your own meat is hardly a viable alternative for people who live in the city is it.