Greggs

So whats your opinion on the Greggs Pastie ??

For me they are head and shoulders above the rest

i used to have something everyday from greggs i used to love till i saw my belly in the mirror

Yes for me! Every were else are pants, greggs is the best

Steve wrote:i used to have something everyday from greggs i used to love till i saw my belly in the mirror

My ritual when I was on day release at College was down to Greggs for a couple of flat Cornish and to the pub for a pint ( to soak up the pastie of course ) and back to school

where's all the pastie fans

We don't have Greggs here but it's my first stop when I go to the mainland.

Food of kings I believe

Love Greggs but not pasties (soz) there bacon and cheese wraps are like a bit of heaven but they have just closed the branch down which was over the road from work

they seem to have gone a littl upmarket from when I was a kid though with some cafe things open and stuff , getting a little posh for me in them establishments , has to be the little shop with everyone queuing round the counter and out the door for a hot one

janey wrote:

Love Greggs but not pasties (soz) there bacon and cheese wraps are like a bit of heaven but they have just closed the branch down which was over the road from work

bloody hell they close one down they keep openly news one in notts we should have 100s in nottingham

In fairness there is another at the bottom of town but I can't be arsed to walk there

when did you start getting a greggs janey?

When I started at the Gallery cause its right across the road, but I started getting fat so had to limit myself to 1 a week

Its done me a favour closing!

no i mean greggs shop

I've never been in greggs but they sound like a cheap overrated bakery to me

Kathy wrote:I've never been in greggs but they sound like a cheap overrated bakery to me

You got it in 1


Steve only saw them when I started at the Gallery

yea i think they was a north thing because 10 or so yea ago i was talking to some bloke down south he never heard of them before

Kathy wrote:I've never been in greggs but they sound like a cheap overrated bakery to me

Never Kathy how dare you it was part of my childhood and definitely its roots was in the North East

Good old Wiki

Greggs was founded by John Gregg as a Tyneside bakery in 1939.[5] It opened its first shop in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1951.[6]

When John died in 1964, the bakery was taken over by his son, Ian, assisted by Ian's brother, Colin. Major expansion began soon after, including the acquisitions of other bakeries such as Glasgow based Rutherglen in 1972, Leeds based Thurstons in 1974, Broomfields the Bakers, London, Bowketts the Bakers Kent, Tooks the Bakers (East Anglia) and Manchester based Price's in 1976.[7]

In 1994, the company acquired the Bakers Oven chain of bakers' shops from Allied Bakeries.[7]

In 1999, Greggs rebranded its 100 Braggs bakers shops as Greggs of the Midlands and its Leeds-based Thurston chain as Greggs of Yorkshire.[8]

Starting in 2003, in an attempt to test the foreign market, Greggs opened a total of ten stores in Belgium; principally in Antwerp and Leuven.[8] These have all since closed as Greggs concentrates on the UK market.

On 9 December 2008, Greggs announced that all of its 165 Bakers Oven branded shops would be re-branded into the Greggs brand so that all the shops could benefit from the Greggs national advertising campaign.[9]

In March 2011, the company opened its 1,500th shop, in York.[3]

In May 2012, frozen food chain Iceland began selling Greggs pasties.

nice but no massively overrated and expensive

I have literally never had anything from Greggs before if it's like Sayers, Sayers is the best. Ah, I do miss Sayers

Tara wrote:I have literally never had anything from Greggs before if it's like Sayers, Sayers is the best. Ah, I do miss Sayers

Never heard of it , so obviously an inferior brand of bakers , ya canna whack a canny pastie from Greggs like

Dave wrote:

Tara wrote:I have literally never had anything from Greggs before if it's like Sayers, Sayers is the best. Ah, I do miss Sayers

Never heard of it , so obviously an inferior brand of bakers , ya canna whack a canny pastie from Greggs like

Sayers was THE bakers before Greggs opened up here, or at least, became more popular. So shush, Dave, don't insult Sayers

OK

I do tend to make my own cakes etc, guess that's why I've never been in there.

You've let me down Kathy only 17 to go and I've got to leave you all now

Greggs.

rebeccaleanne wrote:Yes for me! Every were else are pants, greggs is the best

Does your part of Yorkshire not have a cooplands? ours in town is 3 shops down from Greggs, I tend to use both depending on what I want, sausage rolls and coffee has to be Greggs as Cooplands coffee is awfull, sammiches and pasties have to be from Cooplands, can't beat their corn beef and potato pasty in shortcrust pastry . Not a fan of Greggs' bread or the pastry they use on their pasties.

Greggs is very tasty. But.... Either too cold or too hot which is annoying.

stig wrote:

rebeccaleanne wrote:Yes for me! Every were else are pants, greggs is the best

Does your part of Yorkshire not have a cooplands? ours in town is 3 shops down from Greggs, I tend to use both depending on what I want, sausage rolls and coffee has to be Greggs as Cooplands coffee is awfull, sammiches and pasties have to be from Cooplands, can't beat their corn beef and potato pasty in shortcrust pastry . Not a fan of Greggs' bread or the pastry they use on their pasties.

i love cooplands! their cheese straws are AWESOME!

You have to try the corn beef pastie Ella, the greatest pastry ever, and their breakfast pastie is the only way anyone should start their day, sausage, beans and scrambled egg in a pastie sounds so wrong but it works so well. I was dribbling while writing about them just now and have just put my coat on, and remembered it's Sunday

our main shopping street has 6 greggs shops we even have them next door to each other and they still get busy you can garintee all the shops have q'S outside most of the day cheese pasties and sausage roll my fav

PS
do all greggs sell stottie cakes or is that still just a northeast thing

stig wrote:You have to try the corn beef pastie Ella, the greatest pastry ever, and their breakfast pastie is the only way anyone should start their day, sausage, beans and scrambled egg in a pastie sounds so wrong but it works so well. I was dribbling while writing about them just now and have just put my coat on, and remembered it's Sunday

hmmm i love everything from cooplands

ham baguette with 1 or 2 chicken bake

I used to get two vegetable pasties and one cheese and onion just as I got off the train. Hard to beat. You lot are spoilt over there with Greggs!

dont you have a greggs over there matty?

Nope. Ireland doesn't have Greggs

that bad

Yep! I went to Glasgow for the first times a good few years back and my mate brought me to Greggs and it really is the best in the world.

i could live off chicken bakes i had 3 once i was being greedy

I always bought three when I went in, and if I didn't finish them I'd have gave them to the pidgeons

i dont share me with anything >

Steve wrote:i could live off chicken bakes i had 3 once i was being greedy

Had 2 meat and tatie flat pasties yesterday and 2 iced ring doughnuts just to tide me over until tea time for our chinese