To Think The Occasional Greggs Sausage Roll Aint that Bad?

[madameovary]

Posting this because I was shamed out my usual judgeyness yesterday.
I had just been to Greggs and bought a sausage roll. Standing at the bus stop a mum in front me with two kids had also been to Greggs and was rummaging in the bag to give her purchase to the kids.
I thought "I bet they're sausage rolls" because she was telling them they might be hot. They were.
I moved aside to let a buggy pass and saw the wee girl, an absolutely gorgeous blonde thing about 2-3. Her older brother was also tucking in. The wee girl smiled at me. I said "They're nice arent they?"
Then the wee girl held out her sausage roll to me with a huge grin.
DD does this - sharing.
I said "No thats ok look I've got one!"
I was quite touched. I looked at the Mum, who was a wee bit harrassed and saw a Mum trying to give some much needed calories to her kids. She smiled and made an indulgent comment about her DD liking to make a mess.

I felt ashamed TBH. Whats wrong with the occasional sausage roll anyway? Better that than sweets.

I had one yesterday it was lovely - far ncier hot than cold.

I'd never had/seen one until I moved to the UK. If they are freshly baked and hot, they are lovely. Local Greggs has been quite disappointing of late on that front though.

And now they put black pepper on all the egg mayo sandwiches---I know they didn't do this a few years back! Very annoying. Bland egg mayo was one of the few things I was eating with my morning sickness a few months back, but couldn't be from Greggs because of the pepper.

I dont really liek their sausage rolls, the children do though and daddy treats them to one occasionally, me however I have to have steak bake!! mmmmmmmmmmmmm

I love their tuna bloomer sarnies as well, and their choccy muffins are lush (my god I wanna go to greggs now)

Their sausage rolls and bridies are lovely. As are the cakes. I had a chocolate cream doughnut yesterday.

nowt wrong with a bit of pig labia and cow eyelid?

yANBU - our local Greggs has a queue down the street at lunchtime and I have been known to give the kids a cheese pie each for lunch, full of calories and fat. Personally I don't like them (am wishy washy southerner) but my Scottish kids love all manner of greasy salty things including bridies and potato scones.

I've never noticed any snobbery about Greggs in Scotland, not to say that it doesn't exist. Here everyone goes to them, office workers,bank managers etc.

The chicken and mango sandwiches are nice but otherwise I haven't been impressed. Nothing to do with MN style snobbery-horror, I just don't think it's that good a bakery.

I can't eat any of their sandwiches because they all contain mayonnaise.

In Liverpool they are called Kirby dummies

Love em myself but in moderation!

dxx

dawntigga

On MN a Greggs sausage roll indicates that someone is a CHAV, ie white and working class and most probably northern to boot.

How dare they not be middle class and live in Islington?

LadyAga "nowt wrong with a bit of pig labia and cow eyelid?"

Nope, grind it up and wrap it in pastry and I will happily eat anything, better than wasting it!

mmmm sausage rolls

i was a bit when i saw a kid in a pushchair with a can of red bull the other day though - the most charitable explanation is that she had the empty can to play with i suppose...

Ha.. good for you!

I was tempted to shout TROLL at you Madameovary for challenging the mumsnet orthodoxy

Nothing wrong with any thing in moderation as for the pig labia and cow eyelid comment the majority of food we eat have things added to it and horror stories involved with it.

If we thought about it too much we wouldnt eat.

Sausage rolls rock!

LOL I love the description of someone who gives their dc's gregs sausage rolls "White, working class and northern"

But there are additives... and then there are additives Welshone51!

I don't understand what the difference is between eating the belly of a pig and any other part of a pig - it is all the same pig?

Some bits taste better/have a better texture but it is all the same stuff.

Ok you've twisted my arm I lurve chicken bakes do these count?

You have a very good point Morloth and if you're up for a bit of offal then good on you for not wasting.

I'm too squeamish to eat any part of the pig, I feel sick when I see a packet of pork scratchings... seriously!

But does that mean that when you eat a lobster do you also eat the mushy guts?

Moderationof these re fine like many other things this is where I find MNsnobbery so blardy stupid - I bet someone popular on ere made a remark and they all followed and that is been writ in virtual stone ever since.

Anyhow I bet greggs are looving the free adverts - 'the forbidden fruit' asd championed by MN snobbery (in an inverse way I think)

Sausage rolls say were fighting back get over us or go to the gym!!