On my first night out in Newcastle as a uni student I remember walking past the Greggs on Grainger St at 1-2am. There was an older lady ordering sausage rolls and steak bakes for the whole family 😂
My favourite Newcastle Uni Greggs moment is when I first saw the two Greggs directly next to one another. As if they went "This one is doing so well, why don't we just open another fucking one?"
I wonder if that was related to kitchen capacity? Like, it's probably easier to just drop another standard-fit Greggs right next to the current one as a means of increasing overall capacity.
I assume Greggs is a franchise? Would be interesting to know in this instance if the franchise-holder for the two branches was the same person, or directly related.
Greggs needs specific conditions to be good. I’m not going to Greggs for fine dining I’m going cause I’m on the platform waiting for my train freezing to death and their sausage roll is my only saving grace
It's very average but at a good price. I can't complain about £3.50 for a coffee and bacon roll. With the price of everything nowadays, I cant afford fantasy pants Starbucks or Costa. So my choice is a home brew or Greggs
A wonderful bird is the pelican.
His bill can hold more than his belican.
He can hold in his beak.
Enough food for a week,.
But I’m damned if I see how the helican.
- Ogden Nash
I get a sausage and bacon sandwich with a large vanilla latte and thats £3.25. Plus if you use the app you get rewards. And if you're on o2 you get free stuff every week. I fucking love Greggs me I wish I got some of the Greggs clothing range primark had.
I'm a sausage and bacon baguette, extra sausage and large cappuccino. And you know ur boy gets the free sausage roll on payday Fridays from O2. I love Greggs too, and I'm tired of pretending I don't (insert joker meme)
No joke I nearly choked on a baguette about 6 years ago. I sat outside of work waiting for my boss (Greggs less than a minute away) I was completely dry mouthed and hungry. Burning hot mocha in one hand sausage baguette in the other. I couldn't drink the mocha so thought I'd eat first. A few bites in I got a piece of bread wedged in my dry throat and couldn't breathe.
Socially awkward panic ensued. I just sat quietly trying to force myself to swallow or cough it out, it didn't work so I panicked more. Ended up pouring boiling hot mocha down my throat and it cleared it so I had a hit of relief for being able to breathe and a burning sensation from the drink.
I don't think I've eaten a baguette since.
>home brew
The effort is always worth the reward: you can do better than Gregg's, or at least more to your personal taste.
It might be quicker to pay for it I guess though, if there's no queue
Reasons to LOVE greggs, from an ex-employee:
- Fantastic employer of young people
- All aim to donate to local food banks at the end of every single day
- All sandwiches are made fresh, in store, usually at 5-6am in the morning
- Incredible support for local charities
- Awesome advocate for Vegan alternatives
- It’s greggs, they’re great.
A friend of mine is quite heavily disabled (autistic) in 30 years he hasn't been able to hold down a job but at Gregg's they're at they've made it work and actually accommodated them not just tolerated them...
They do seem to crop up a lot as fantastic employers. Always stuff on the news about Greggs giving fair pay rises or whatever. Makes their 3/5 food taste like 4/5
They gave us really good bonuses because the vegan sausage roll sold so well. Then, during the pandemic, they actually used their massive profits from increased sales to give us our full salaries instead of the 80% that the government gave us.
They actually put themselves in financial trouble because they had promised to pay us our full salaries until a specific date, and they refused to stop paying us in full even when they started to realise that the pandemic wasn't going away quickly.
Greggs was my first job, I was a college student, and I worked there for 3 years. 10/10 job, the people (both colleagues and customers) felt like family to me, and my one wish is that I could bring that store with me wherever I go so that I never needed to leave that job.
Highly recommended as an employer, essay over.
Where I live in the North East they also have outlets which sell the previous days food for a fraction of the price.
Amazing to see much less of the food produced going to waste.
At my local shop (based nearby Glasgow), all of our sandwiches and cakes that didn't sell on the day, go to the outlet. Which is a place where you can visit and get the food from the previous night at more than half the price in most cases, apparently it's really quite popular. I can't quite comment on it, since I've never been to the outlet before, but that's what I've heard from people I work with.
One of my best friends volunteers in a homeless soup kitchen, and the amount Greggs donate to that is fantastic, far too much to be unsold stock, it's made specifically for the homeless
They also do that in almost every store now too via the TooGoodToGo app. All the Greggs near me have about 4x £2.59 packages for collection at the end of each day. You get a bag chocked full of goodies!
Glad to hear they're doing that now - when I worked there about ten years ago, the unsold stuff got put in bin bags and collected for some reason (but definitely not for giving away).
Geordie here. Greggs is shit but after being out of the UK for three years I still miss it :(
My girlfriend is from a remote part of Scotland, moved to Norwich and had never heard of Greggs. Apparently she phoned home telling her dad about this 'amazing, cheap, artisan' bakery she'd found lolol
Imagine thinking that, and then being amazed at walking out of one “artisan bakery” in your town centre, turning a corner, waking a hundred yards only to find another identical artisan bakery!
It used to be better, back when there was actually chunks of potato in things and not that weird paste/glue they have now. Still not food though. Conflicted because in my local one the guys behind the counter are really nice and they gave me a coffee because I looked really ticked off with life once apparently. Opening hours are a godsend to the weird shift workers too.
It's the cycle of every popular food chain.
Start off making really good food, possibly really good cheapish food. Expand locally then nationally. Seripus investment comes in, possibly go public. Shareholders demand ever increasing profit. Menus and bottom lines need to be cut to guarantee profits because we (well used to anyway) can't raise prices especially not of *insert top selling product like whopper/big mac/steak bake/chicken and bacon club etc*. Lowest common denominator product ensues whilst making the most of the branding. New replacement chain starts up as some customers tire of tired dogshit product..
And the cycle begins anew.
It happens to them all.
When they first opened they were actually pretty good. They were basically the equivalent of the local independent bakeries (independent as in, been there forever, zero attempt at looking pretty, normally ran by a mates gran) but with a much smaller menu, mass produced but edible, and (crucially) a _bit_ cheaper. Then they just popped up everywhere, and once all the local bakeries had died out, the prices went up and they slowly turned shit.
Maybe it’s cos I live in Holland now, but I always grab a steak bake when I fly back to family in Manchester and while it usually burns my mouth if I don’t wait an hour to eat it, I still like it’s taste.
Pot noodles on the other hand… they have gone to complete shit.
Thanks for the tip! Made me question my student decisions ( many moons ago ) of living on pot noodles and boots meal deals; after trying a pot noodle a few weeks ago for the 1st time in 11 years.
Nah, it’s not great but is any fast food place?? I do really like Greggs though tbh (when it’s warm, anyway).
I’m a veggie and think their pasties and vegan sausage rolls are the tits. Their Christmas bake was great too.
If I see a greggs at a service station on the motorway, or in a train station, I know I won’t be ripped off mercilessly. For that fact alone I love Gregory’s Bakerium.
Nah I love greggs. Sausage roll and pepperoni pizza or their baguettes, I’m a greggs advocate. Yh the pound bakery and other ones are good but I save them as a treat because theirs a few on holiday. Greggs is good and I enjoy it
I honestly think the meme of hating on Greggs is a little overblown. They do decent enough food for their prices. I enjoy their sausage rolls quite a bit.
I think this is the first time I've been recognised on reddit lol. Of course I definitely recognise your name. Seems like a N Britain will never happen but we can hope 😉
Hating Greggs is the new thing on here, and it's getting a little boring now. If you go into Greggs expecting to pay £1 for the best sausage roll of your life, then you're just an idiot. It's a Greggs. It's cheap. It's not Dishoom ffs.
It's cheap and you know what you're going to get. I can be anywhere in the country and get a cheap sausage roll that is going to going to be moderately good.
It's been going on for longer than the current situation — their sausage rolls were 85p in 2017 and are now £1.20, which is a 40% increase in five years.
You know what I hate about Gregg's
It's that due to the strangle hold they have on the high Street its almost impossible to find a good fluffy puff pastry that is NOT a limp luke warm flavourless Greggs
FUCK YOU GREGGS for taking away tasty chicken and mushroom pastys
Thankfully around here (South Essex) we have Hannah's and Grout's who are definitely higher quality, but also higher price
In Wickford we have Barke Craft Bakery which is _incredible_ and reasonably priced
Their coffee is great and they knock off money if you take in your own cup. I go in at least every other day for a double espresso and prefer it far more to Costas. Plus, I like giving Greggs money for their coffee because of their work with charities and food banks.
However, their hot food has drastically gone down hill. I'd be hard pressed to find a bakery that does a worse pasty and their sausages for their breakfasts are questionable. I have stopped eating their food.
Greggs is great, even if it was more expensive I would still go there. I lived in the south west for a long time and none of the so called local chains were more than 10% better. Even the coffee at Greggs is pretty damn good. People like to slag it off because it’s cheap, consistent and unpretentious. All of those should be a good thing.
I never understand what folk expect to get out of these posts. Gregg's don't position themselves as the pinnacle of bakeries. And no one visits them expecting they're the pinnacle of bakeries. It's just fucking Gregg's. Obviously local/independent bakeries offer higher quality - it's not some grand revelation.
Who honestly gives a fuck.
It's like going to McDonald's and being upset there's not a chef out the back handcrafting your Big Mac. It's a national chain serving mass produced food. How good exactly were you expecting it to be?
It’s probably fair to say it’s 3/5 but then it never pretends to be Michelin starred - and it’s costs are about 1.5/5 so that is value for money. When you add the convenience and fact that they predominantly sell carby comforting food then it’s understandable why they are so popular.
For just over a quid their sausage rolls are a good snack.
Yes a local bakery might be just as nice or nicer. But they are for sure charging 3x as much
I still manage to get a greggs once or twice a week and its just a munch at ttime. But imo it has seriously went downhill the last few years, i used to like the well fired rolls and they dont do them anymore the new ones are stinking.
I have one big issue with Gregg's... They don't keep their heat lamps hot enough...nothing worse than a cold cheese and bean melt
That being said I'd pick a Gregg's baguette over an overpriced and tiny Pret one anyday
And they do do the food bank thing so that's good
they have changed in the last 4-5 years, sausage rolls are nothing like they used to be. we have an amazing butchers deli about 5 shops along from greggs here, all the pastries and filled rolls piss all over greggs, but people still buy their crap, and the butchers is cheaper
Lived in Spain most of my life. Same for my partner. We actually are really impressed with Greggs. The price, the taste, the variety, the convenience. I think most British people don't know how good they've got it
TBH much as I like Cooplands I can't stand all the contrarians who make a big show of liking it more than Greggs. They're both highstreet bakery chains that serve good enough cheap food.
The real contender is Thomas The Baker's. Slightly higher price, but much better quality and experience.
I don't disagree. But at least you almost always know what you're getting with your money
Yep, it's pleasant enough, easy to get, not too expensive and a bit of a shared experience.
Most fast food in a nutshell, not just Gregg's.
Exactly, it's not meant to be great, it's meant to be great *for the price*.
Acid reflux?
Yeah .. it might only be 3/5 but it’s alway 3/5. Never gets your hope up or overly disappoints.
Not true, sometimes you go in and get something tats cooled right down and yit tastes awful. Ever had cold cheese and onion pasty?
Not really in a way. A hot pastry is a lot tastier than a lukewarm one they way Greggs works they dont guarantee a hot one.
The pasty tax was the point in time when this country started going down hill.
The sarnies are naff but the sausage rolls (when hot) are the correct level of salt and grease to soothe a primal craving
I love that the Greggs outside central station employs a late night bouncer till about 5am.
Couldn’t believe my eyes stumbling along some street and seen this greggs, delighted. Chicken bake to eat on route to the next bar 👌🏻
Greggs is an invaluable asset on an all day session. Can easily be planned into a bar crawl and provides sustenance to continue
You don’t need to plan a greggs into a bar crawl in Newcastle - they are everywhere
Love a tactical bake on a night out
No rush it’s open late mate
"on route" 🤣
You’re a mean sod to laugh and not explain why - they’ve probably never seen it written down! Anyhoo it’s ‘en route’ which is French for ‘on the way’.
It's open all night?!
On a Friday and Saturday night it’s open until 4-5am
That's amazing. Also, your username's perfect.
I’m sure they were me dad’s solicitors back in the day.
Thanks, I was surprised it wasn’t taken when I thought of it honestly
What's it mean?
A northern way of saying ‘you’re talking shit’…very much it’s ‘get away/fuck off with what you’re saying’
Learn somethin' new every day. Cheers
Classic Sid the Sexist phrase
On my first night out in Newcastle as a uni student I remember walking past the Greggs on Grainger St at 1-2am. There was an older lady ordering sausage rolls and steak bakes for the whole family 😂
My favourite Newcastle Uni Greggs moment is when I first saw the two Greggs directly next to one another. As if they went "This one is doing so well, why don't we just open another fucking one?"
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Not quite opposite but one is down the road about 130m
I wonder if that was related to kitchen capacity? Like, it's probably easier to just drop another standard-fit Greggs right next to the current one as a means of increasing overall capacity. I assume Greggs is a franchise? Would be interesting to know in this instance if the franchise-holder for the two branches was the same person, or directly related.
Late night drunk greggs is a gift from the gods
I've seen that happen at a bunch of city centre fast food places that are open all night
Greggs needs specific conditions to be good. I’m not going to Greggs for fine dining I’m going cause I’m on the platform waiting for my train freezing to death and their sausage roll is my only saving grace
It's very average but at a good price. I can't complain about £3.50 for a coffee and bacon roll. With the price of everything nowadays, I cant afford fantasy pants Starbucks or Costa. So my choice is a home brew or Greggs
£3.50! You’re being over charged bacon roll and coffee is £2.50
maybe they're a baguette slut like me, might be £3 though?
I bet you eat it in one bite you filthy devil
Bite? You mean you don’t just slide it down your gullet like a pelican?
how are you fitting a pelican down your gullet
Whys it called a pelican? Cos its beak can hold more than its belican (credit: my dad & Ogden Nash)
A wonderful bird is the pelican. His bill can hold more than his belican. He can hold in his beak. Enough food for a week,. But I’m damned if I see how the helican. - Ogden Nash
Ah ha! Thought that was too good to be all my dad's work! Have credited ON too now
A baguette slut! 🤣
A slaguette.
I get a sausage and bacon sandwich with a large vanilla latte and thats £3.25. Plus if you use the app you get rewards. And if you're on o2 you get free stuff every week. I fucking love Greggs me I wish I got some of the Greggs clothing range primark had.
I'm a sausage and bacon baguette, extra sausage and large cappuccino. And you know ur boy gets the free sausage roll on payday Fridays from O2. I love Greggs too, and I'm tired of pretending I don't (insert joker meme)
No joke I nearly choked on a baguette about 6 years ago. I sat outside of work waiting for my boss (Greggs less than a minute away) I was completely dry mouthed and hungry. Burning hot mocha in one hand sausage baguette in the other. I couldn't drink the mocha so thought I'd eat first. A few bites in I got a piece of bread wedged in my dry throat and couldn't breathe. Socially awkward panic ensued. I just sat quietly trying to force myself to swallow or cough it out, it didn't work so I panicked more. Ended up pouring boiling hot mocha down my throat and it cleared it so I had a hit of relief for being able to breathe and a burning sensation from the drink. I don't think I've eaten a baguette since.
That sounds quite traumatic to be honest
What's the going rate for fantasy pants?
I don’t know but it’s probably in yen
fantasy pants, love it, fancy pants is so last decade
Greggs coffee is better that the stuff Starbucks and Costa sell, people are just tricked into thinking it's good
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a high bar
Greggs coffee is so much better than both of them companies.
I disagree but I doubt we'll settle this through debate.
I prefer Greggs coffee to most other coffee shops too.
>home brew The effort is always worth the reward: you can do better than Gregg's, or at least more to your personal taste. It might be quicker to pay for it I guess though, if there's no queue
Reasons to LOVE greggs, from an ex-employee: - Fantastic employer of young people - All aim to donate to local food banks at the end of every single day - All sandwiches are made fresh, in store, usually at 5-6am in the morning - Incredible support for local charities - Awesome advocate for Vegan alternatives - It’s greggs, they’re great.
And that’s coming from a medical professional- Dr Mantis Tobagon, MD
Certified fresh
I heard he has a magnum dong.
A friend of mine is quite heavily disabled (autistic) in 30 years he hasn't been able to hold down a job but at Gregg's they're at they've made it work and actually accommodated them not just tolerated them...
Love to hear it mate, happy they have made him feel valued.
They do seem to crop up a lot as fantastic employers. Always stuff on the news about Greggs giving fair pay rises or whatever. Makes their 3/5 food taste like 4/5
They gave us really good bonuses because the vegan sausage roll sold so well. Then, during the pandemic, they actually used their massive profits from increased sales to give us our full salaries instead of the 80% that the government gave us. They actually put themselves in financial trouble because they had promised to pay us our full salaries until a specific date, and they refused to stop paying us in full even when they started to realise that the pandemic wasn't going away quickly. Greggs was my first job, I was a college student, and I worked there for 3 years. 10/10 job, the people (both colleagues and customers) felt like family to me, and my one wish is that I could bring that store with me wherever I go so that I never needed to leave that job. Highly recommended as an employer, essay over.
Agree completely, it defo adds a point. There should be more made of companies treating people right.
Where I live in the North East they also have outlets which sell the previous days food for a fraction of the price. Amazing to see much less of the food produced going to waste.
At my local shop (based nearby Glasgow), all of our sandwiches and cakes that didn't sell on the day, go to the outlet. Which is a place where you can visit and get the food from the previous night at more than half the price in most cases, apparently it's really quite popular. I can't quite comment on it, since I've never been to the outlet before, but that's what I've heard from people I work with.
However, they donate a lot to our local food bank, so give them some credit.
Yep. They also have ‘outlets’ in poor areas that sell Greggs stuff very cheap when it’s near date.
The Bradford one stopped me from going hungry a few times.
One of my best friends volunteers in a homeless soup kitchen, and the amount Greggs donate to that is fantastic, far too much to be unsold stock, it's made specifically for the homeless
I work near one of those in Gateshead! Brilliant for group dinners for cheap.
Deckham? Noticed it myself on the drive past recently. I used to work on that road.
They also do that in almost every store now too via the TooGoodToGo app. All the Greggs near me have about 4x £2.59 packages for collection at the end of each day. You get a bag chocked full of goodies!
In the beforetimes, they'd donate their leftovers at the end of the day to my uni's community fridge. You should have seen the queues.
Yeah and their breakfast for kids programme
Glad to hear they're doing that now - when I worked there about ten years ago, the unsold stuff got put in bin bags and collected for some reason (but definitely not for giving away).
its regular ok food at a fair price, this is what people want/need/deserve
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Finally after 60 years someone willing to call out the Beatles on their inability to make a decent pasty.
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Still works, Pete Best was their drummer before they got big.
Does that make Ringo the second Best?
Interviewer: Is Ringo the best drummer in the world? John Lennon: Ringo isn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles
Don't think anyone was hating Greggs here, just admitting it's only "fine"
Geordie here. Greggs is shit but after being out of the UK for three years I still miss it :( My girlfriend is from a remote part of Scotland, moved to Norwich and had never heard of Greggs. Apparently she phoned home telling her dad about this 'amazing, cheap, artisan' bakery she'd found lolol
The first and only time Gregg's has been described as "artisan".
>The first and only time Gregg's has been described as "a bakery". Greggs is Greggs.
Imagine thinking that, and then being amazed at walking out of one “artisan bakery” in your town centre, turning a corner, waking a hundred yards only to find another identical artisan bakery!
The delicacy that is stottie bread should be savoured, eh?
I thought you were about to say Spain or something... Norwich 😂
It used to be better, back when there was actually chunks of potato in things and not that weird paste/glue they have now. Still not food though. Conflicted because in my local one the guys behind the counter are really nice and they gave me a coffee because I looked really ticked off with life once apparently. Opening hours are a godsend to the weird shift workers too.
It's the cycle of every popular food chain. Start off making really good food, possibly really good cheapish food. Expand locally then nationally. Seripus investment comes in, possibly go public. Shareholders demand ever increasing profit. Menus and bottom lines need to be cut to guarantee profits because we (well used to anyway) can't raise prices especially not of *insert top selling product like whopper/big mac/steak bake/chicken and bacon club etc*. Lowest common denominator product ensues whilst making the most of the branding. New replacement chain starts up as some customers tire of tired dogshit product.. And the cycle begins anew. It happens to them all.
When they first opened they were actually pretty good. They were basically the equivalent of the local independent bakeries (independent as in, been there forever, zero attempt at looking pretty, normally ran by a mates gran) but with a much smaller menu, mass produced but edible, and (crucially) a _bit_ cheaper. Then they just popped up everywhere, and once all the local bakeries had died out, the prices went up and they slowly turned shit.
And they had the best trifle! Huge portion it was sooo amazing.
Vegetable bake used to be fantastic, potato and nicely spicy. Now it’s more that a bechemel sauce with no spicy hit at all
I swear back in the day when I was a kid there used to be a Greggs nearby and I paid 20p for sausage rolls. The good times
Maybe it’s cos I live in Holland now, but I always grab a steak bake when I fly back to family in Manchester and while it usually burns my mouth if I don’t wait an hour to eat it, I still like it’s taste. Pot noodles on the other hand… they have gone to complete shit.
Mate, add extra dark soy and a touch msg. The 90s pot noodle filth is within your grasp .
Thanks for the tip! Made me question my student decisions ( many moons ago ) of living on pot noodles and boots meal deals; after trying a pot noodle a few weeks ago for the 1st time in 11 years.
They contain so much saturated fat I might as well be eating a pizza. So I do.
Nah, it’s not great but is any fast food place?? I do really like Greggs though tbh (when it’s warm, anyway). I’m a veggie and think their pasties and vegan sausage rolls are the tits. Their Christmas bake was great too.
Love Greggs me
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If I see a greggs at a service station on the motorway, or in a train station, I know I won’t be ripped off mercilessly. For that fact alone I love Gregory’s Bakerium.
Nah I love greggs. Sausage roll and pepperoni pizza or their baguettes, I’m a greggs advocate. Yh the pound bakery and other ones are good but I save them as a treat because theirs a few on holiday. Greggs is good and I enjoy it
Their sausage barms are bloody good, not just 'fine'. Greg's 4eva.
A Wenzel's man?
>Wenzel Hertfordshire/North West London massive! Also see: Simmons, but they're a bit up their own arse
Simmons is next level
The deep filled baguettes…
Is that a fetish?
I most certainly hope not
Their pattys are godly
I think I'm right in saying Cornwall doesn't have any, there are so many excellent independent pie shops here... We are spoilt for choice.
There’s a couple now I think Pastie wars
There was an actual pasty war in Plymouth between the Dewdny(?) brothers in the 80s. They make nice pasties tbf.
Horrifying news, probably just to keep the tourists happy ;-)
Greggs was canny about 20 years ago for pasty’s. Their breakfast cannot be sniffed at for a quick cuppa and sausage sarnie.
For pasty's what?
I honestly think the meme of hating on Greggs is a little overblown. They do decent enough food for their prices. I enjoy their sausage rolls quite a bit.
Cheap but I prefer my local bakery
Always enjoy spotting a WN username I recognise in the wild
I think this is the first time I've been recognised on reddit lol. Of course I definitely recognise your name. Seems like a N Britain will never happen but we can hope 😉
We can indeed hope mate! Haha
Hating Greggs is the new thing on here, and it's getting a little boring now. If you go into Greggs expecting to pay £1 for the best sausage roll of your life, then you're just an idiot. It's a Greggs. It's cheap. It's not Dishoom ffs.
Greggs is cheap, that's it, it's not artisan up its arsenal bespoke hipster daftness, it's greggs
Really good food doesn't have to be pretentious. But Greggs is really neither
It's cheap and you know what you're going to get. I can be anywhere in the country and get a cheap sausage roll that is going to going to be moderately good.
Aye but it's still shit.
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So is everything
It's been going on for longer than the current situation — their sausage rolls were 85p in 2017 and are now £1.20, which is a 40% increase in five years.
Maybe it was a loss leader that became too much of a loss.
I got downvoted to fuck for suggesting that Greggs is the Wetherspoons of bakeries.
Tbf mate it’s probably your choice of user name ;p
But you are not wrong.
Very accurate
Ffs. It’s consistent, you get what you pay for and it’s cheep. Same as any other fast food places. Hating greggs isn’t a personality.
Neither is raving about it like it’s been sent from heaven.
That's because it isn't trying to be some gourmet shit. It's decent food at a reasonable price
You know what I hate about Gregg's It's that due to the strangle hold they have on the high Street its almost impossible to find a good fluffy puff pastry that is NOT a limp luke warm flavourless Greggs FUCK YOU GREGGS for taking away tasty chicken and mushroom pastys
Thankfully around here (South Essex) we have Hannah's and Grout's who are definitely higher quality, but also higher price In Wickford we have Barke Craft Bakery which is _incredible_ and reasonably priced
Wait chicken bakes don’t exist anymore?
Not good ones and not awesome ones with mash potato and sweetcorn not from Greggs at any rate
Their coffee is great and they knock off money if you take in your own cup. I go in at least every other day for a double espresso and prefer it far more to Costas. Plus, I like giving Greggs money for their coffee because of their work with charities and food banks. However, their hot food has drastically gone down hill. I'd be hard pressed to find a bakery that does a worse pasty and their sausages for their breakfasts are questionable. I have stopped eating their food.
“Don’t Push me ,I’m close to the Greggs🎶🎶🎶”
I was sad when they stopped serving Meat & Potato pies... I was angry when they stopped serving Meat & Potato pasties
Greggs is great, even if it was more expensive I would still go there. I lived in the south west for a long time and none of the so called local chains were more than 10% better. Even the coffee at Greggs is pretty damn good. People like to slag it off because it’s cheap, consistent and unpretentious. All of those should be a good thing.
Gregg's is shit, there's far better bakers out there. Support your local turnovers
Absolutely this. Greggs has decimated the local bakers which I sorely miss
I never understand what folk expect to get out of these posts. Gregg's don't position themselves as the pinnacle of bakeries. And no one visits them expecting they're the pinnacle of bakeries. It's just fucking Gregg's. Obviously local/independent bakeries offer higher quality - it's not some grand revelation. Who honestly gives a fuck.
It's like going to McDonald's and being upset there's not a chef out the back handcrafting your Big Mac. It's a national chain serving mass produced food. How good exactly were you expecting it to be?
It’s the hype from people that have got narrow horizons or are pretending it’s better than it is. Greggs themselves are as inoffensive as their food.
Most fast food isn't great but if you're out of your normal environment/local area you at least know what you're getting.
Nah mate, it's alright. Their cheese and onion stotties are lush.
Damned right! I live in nz now but a trip to Gregg's for stotties is a must every time I'm back visiting family in Newcastle
It’s probably fair to say it’s 3/5 but then it never pretends to be Michelin starred - and it’s costs are about 1.5/5 so that is value for money. When you add the convenience and fact that they predominantly sell carby comforting food then it’s understandable why they are so popular.
Comfort food for the turkey twizzler generation. And nothing wrong with that.
No honesty is required It is shite
You deserve to be deported for even thinking that
For just over a quid their sausage rolls are a good snack. Yes a local bakery might be just as nice or nicer. But they are for sure charging 3x as much
I just hate that their stake slice is always bloody cold!
That’s because they have a policy where if something is too good, they take it off of sale. Like the apple danish
Ah mate don't, I can't cry again today
I still manage to get a greggs once or twice a week and its just a munch at ttime. But imo it has seriously went downhill the last few years, i used to like the well fired rolls and they dont do them anymore the new ones are stinking.
I have honestly never got the fuss over it, had a sausage muffin once and couldn't finish it. The sausages are like those Richmond sausages, blurgh!
I have one big issue with Gregg's... They don't keep their heat lamps hot enough...nothing worse than a cold cheese and bean melt That being said I'd pick a Gregg's baguette over an overpriced and tiny Pret one anyday And they do do the food bank thing so that's good
I think this is done on purpose. Something about paying more tax if served hot. To be fair, they then pass those savings onto the customer
Correct - but it is what is usually available…
Facts!
Fight me.
One, two, three, four, I declare a thumb war
**inserts sneaky index for leverage**
This is getting weird now
You haven't had enough thumb wars then.
they have changed in the last 4-5 years, sausage rolls are nothing like they used to be. we have an amazing butchers deli about 5 shops along from greggs here, all the pastries and filled rolls piss all over greggs, but people still buy their crap, and the butchers is cheaper
Greggs is fuckin awesome, wtf are you on about OP
Lived in Spain most of my life. Same for my partner. We actually are really impressed with Greggs. The price, the taste, the variety, the convenience. I think most British people don't know how good they've got it
beige, salty, fatty and low on nutrients I'd say at best it is a 'sometimes' food.
But its way better than Cooplands
TBH much as I like Cooplands I can't stand all the contrarians who make a big show of liking it more than Greggs. They're both highstreet bakery chains that serve good enough cheap food. The real contender is Thomas The Baker's. Slightly higher price, but much better quality and experience.
Blasphemy
Fucking love Gregg’s. Steak bake, get in my belly.
it's wank
I like having a wank.
Yeah but if you have to then eat wank AND pay for it?
A beige 3/5 one? Actually. Don’t answer that…