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To find the idea of a sausage roll for breakfast strange?

133 replies

Notgreggs · 12/05/2025 15:24

Am not sure if it's just me tbh, so happy to be told AIBU!

I was out for lunch with my sister and she was telling me that her daughter (who has SATs) is being given a special breakfast at school every day and their choice for the breakfast was either a sausage roll or for vegetarians a cheese roll (ie. Cheese in pastry). I think there was a vegan option too.

Maybe it's just me but I can't imagine having a sausage roll /cheese roll for breakfast. But then I guess a cooked breakfast is sausage and bacon etc and I guess you get things like danish pastries for breakfast.... I guess I just wasn't expecting it! It's nice of the school to do that for them though, apparently my niece was looking forward to it (she was just a bit confused by the choice of food too I think which is why my sister was telling me the story)

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DrDameKatyDeniseInExile · 12/05/2025 16:34

I guess it's just as normal as a bacon or sausage sarnie really. But yes, agree that, for some inexplicable, reason it seems wrong. I am surprised that school is offering it though as it doesn't seem a healthy choice (not my judgement btw, just saying I imagine schools to say that). When mine had SATS breakfasts it was all very 'healthy' - porridge, scrambled eggs, blueberries. banana etc

Changeyourlifes · 12/05/2025 16:34

I don’t think that’s weird considering what others have said about convenience for the school etc. It’s cheap and cheerful.

But I am going to take your general point a step further and say I find loads of breakfast food to be weird. Like a traditional greasy English…it is so heavy. I don’t get the appeal. Also generally a lot of heavy/claggy things like muffins, toasties, certain pastries. I prefer light and refreshing food first thing,

Anywherebuthere · 12/05/2025 16:39

Not odd at all. It's a normal thing to have. A quick easy thing to eat. Just enough to keep them going but not too much to have them running to the toilet during the tests.

I also find it strange that certain foods are reserved for certain times of the day or for certain occasions.

Bfmamma · 12/05/2025 16:45

I used to work in a bakery and sausage rolls would go first thing!

faerietales · 12/05/2025 16:46

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 12/05/2025 16:33

Grim. I certainly wouldn't let my children eat a sausage roll for breakfast. And not during an important week like sats. They need quality food not UFP ground up pigs balls and fat.

Wouldn’t be MN without an answer like this 🤣

Crunched · 12/05/2025 16:49

I attended a pork pie workshop recently and the instructor said that, in the past, pork pies were commonly offered as a breakfast item- sometimes fried in slices! I guess a sausage roll is from the same category.

Cuppachuchu · 12/05/2025 16:51

I have been known to have a warm slice of quiche for breakfast, tasty!🥧

MrsSkylerWhite · 12/05/2025 16:53

Cuppachuchu · 12/05/2025 16:51

I have been known to have a warm slice of quiche for breakfast, tasty!🥧

Mmmmm. That’s quiche for dinner, then. With branston baked beans.

Vodkamartini3olives · 12/05/2025 17:12

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 12/05/2025 16:33

Grim. I certainly wouldn't let my children eat a sausage roll for breakfast. And not during an important week like sats. They need quality food not UFP ground up pigs balls and fat.

How old are your kids?. My son has midterms this week. Pretty sure he grabbed a Snickers and a can of monster on the way for breakfast.

Munchies007 · 12/05/2025 17:22

Aliflowers · 12/05/2025 16:26

In Ireland there’s sausage rolls on every hot counter at breakfast time. It’s the epitome of breakfast food

Thank you, I was beginning to think I was weird. I'm Irish and would only eat a sausage roll at breakfast time, same as a jambon.

minnienono · 12/05/2025 17:30

Perfectly normal Blush

SheilaFentiman · 12/05/2025 17:34

Totally fine

Romeiswheretheheartis · 12/05/2025 17:37

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 12/05/2025 16:33

Grim. I certainly wouldn't let my children eat a sausage roll for breakfast. And not during an important week like sats. They need quality food not UFP ground up pigs balls and fat.

Of course it's not grim. You do know there are hundreds of kids that don't get any breakfast at all, in SAT'S or any other week? This is by far better than nothing, and also probably better than many of the sugary cereals that are a staple in the majority of households.

SouthLondonMum22 · 12/05/2025 17:38

It's a nice treat for SATs week and likely not much better than sugary cereals, chocolate spread with toast etc that many schools will usually have on offer.

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 12/05/2025 17:39

Oh yum! I want a sausage roll for tomorrow's breakfast now.
You've inspired me.

AngelinaFibres · 12/05/2025 17:47

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 12/05/2025 16:33

Grim. I certainly wouldn't let my children eat a sausage roll for breakfast. And not during an important week like sats. They need quality food not UFP ground up pigs balls and fat.

Oh relax

Needmorelego · 12/05/2025 17:50

faerietales · 12/05/2025 16:46

Wouldn’t be MN without an answer like this 🤣

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@eqpi4t2hbsnktd A staff member probably stopped at Greggs or similar on their way to school and bought them out of their own money.
How terrible of them.

Blobbitymacblob · 12/05/2025 17:55

Breakfast foods are weird. Pastries seem like dessert to me. Cereal is bizarrely over manufactured to the point of hardly being a food at all. A greasy fry doesn’t seem like a good choice to ease out of a 12 hr fast.

I’m not sure I find a sausage roll any odder than any other choice.

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Notgreggs · 12/05/2025 17:56

Needmorelego · 12/05/2025 17:50

@eqpi4t2hbsnktd A staff member probably stopped at Greggs or similar on their way to school and bought them out of their own money.
How terrible of them.

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No, from what I understand a supermarket provided them all for free.

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CoffeecakeSuncream · 12/05/2025 17:58

Blobbitymacblob · 12/05/2025 17:55

Breakfast foods are weird. Pastries seem like dessert to me. Cereal is bizarrely over manufactured to the point of hardly being a food at all. A greasy fry doesn’t seem like a good choice to ease out of a 12 hr fast.

I’m not sure I find a sausage roll any odder than any other choice.

What do you eat for breakfast? Is porridge acceptable? 😜

MrsPlantagenet · 12/05/2025 17:58

I work near a Gregg’s and I see colleagues bringing in a bag that’s gone translucent with grease containing a sausage roll for breakfast. So I think it’s definitely a thing.

Needmorelego · 12/05/2025 18:04

Notgreggs · 12/05/2025 17:56

No, from what I understand a supermarket provided them all for free.

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Very nice of the supermarket 🙂

UK2HK · 12/05/2025 18:05

Cheese isn't actually vegetarian - friendly since it has rennet in it (which comes from the cow's stomach.

Artesia · 12/05/2025 18:06

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 12/05/2025 16:33

Grim. I certainly wouldn't let my children eat a sausage roll for breakfast. And not during an important week like sats. They need quality food not UFP ground up pigs balls and fat.

I perform at my best when fed with ground up pigs balls and fat. Got me through Cambridge finals and law school very successfully (albeit a bit chubbier by the end...). If it was a particularly tough exam I might throw in a can of Lilt and a Biscuit Boost for a real sugar-fat-pig balls rush.

Hankunamatata · 12/05/2025 18:06

Sausages rolls are a huge hit in high school, avaliable from morons break onwards