And then there's Posh Greggs aka Gail's, but my attempts to be pescetarian mean I'm giving them and their sole reason for attendance (the sausage roll) a swerve atm
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:17 (four years ago) link
I think Greggs might work in Belgium. I have vague memories of Meades saying there are vile Anglophile tendencies for English junk food there whilst mockingly eating a cone of chips or something.
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:18 (four years ago) link
In Real Kernow news: Greggs tried, and failed, in Cornwall https://www.theguardian.com/business/shortcuts/2020/jan/15/give-us-real-pasties-why-greggs-is-leaving-cornwall
Greggs has been forced to close its only branch in Cornwall after a backlash from Cornish residents over the selling of pasties.The bakery chain opened its first store in the county in September 2018 with an outlet at a service station in Saltash but said it will now shut following a "thorough review".It means Greggs will return to no longer having a presence in Cornwall despite having around 1,500 branches across the country.The announcement was celebrated by residents who claimed the decision marked a vindication for the traditional Cornish pasty. Some opponents had branded Greggs as "junk" and warned the chain was never likely to survive long-term in the county.
Greggs has been forced to close its only branch in Cornwall after a backlash from Cornish residents over the selling of pasties.
The bakery chain opened its first store in the county in September 2018 with an outlet at a service station in Saltash but said it will now shut following a "thorough review".
It means Greggs will return to no longer having a presence in Cornwall despite having around 1,500 branches across the country.
The announcement was celebrated by residents who claimed the decision marked a vindication for the traditional Cornish pasty.
Some opponents had branded Greggs as "junk" and warned the chain was never likely to survive long-term in the county.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:18 (four years ago) link
will massively Leave voting Cornwall's Cornish pasties losing their EU PGI status mean Greggs can start labelling their Beef + Veg rolls as such again? Fucking liberty eh?
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:24 (four years ago) link
Benji's was all over central London ten years ago, don't know what happened there. I can imagine a Greggs in Gibraltar.
― fetter, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:25 (four years ago) link
Benjis was DISGUSTING. Very cheap, pappy bread and scant filling in the sandwiches.
― santa clause four (suzy), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:32 (four years ago) link
something opening in Oxford that isn't an identikit tourist tat shop churning out union flag mugs and Harry Potter shite? surely not!
I wonder if the various pasty firms with names like The Real Cornish Pasty Co. operate in Cornwall. none of them sell Cornish Fairings or I'd visit them more often - but then I'm not Cornish and I only wanted a tin to take to my Dad, who's from Devon, which is obv v much the wrong side of the Tamar for understanding Real Cornishness
anyway this thread has been v helpful as I didn't know Gail's did sausage rolls. how did this pass me by? for some reason I thought it was all gluten-free cakes and stuff, one of which appeared in our work one time and was moderately tasty until it went mouldy within 24 hours, which was a bit offputting (it was kept in a tin but probably should have been in the fridge overnight but the box didn't mention that)
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 12:01 (four years ago) link
Always had an antipathy towards greggs as they seemed to be running sayers out of liverpool. In sayers the pastries were always warm, in fact the traditional pasty filling was akin to molten lava. Just read that sayers are making a return to liverpool city centre so that's good news, alas I'm now in scotland where greggs have a total monopoly
― or something, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 12:10 (four years ago) link
I've always had an antipathy towards Greggs because of the muck they serve up as food!
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link
I have been told my homemade sausage rolls (made with a combo of sausage meat and wild rice-based stuffing) are better than the Gail’s ones :-)
― santa clause four (suzy), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link
I don't mind Greggs for the odd steak bake or tuna sandwich, cheap and shit is how I roll!
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
beautiful sentiment calz, makes me feel patriotic
― ogmor, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 12:34 (four years ago) link
The sausage rolls I make were a reductions swoop on sausage meat and puff pastry and cost roughly £1.50 for 12! Look out, Jack Monroe!
― santa clause four (suzy), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 12:35 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESRzRL5XYAAE-GW?format=jpg&name=large
burnt out stub of a candle symbolises that this knight of the road has been grieving his late princess for a long time.
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
Brexit #Sevenoaks style pic.twitter.com/0Lzw3IMTeS— lindenkk (@Linden_Kemkaran) January 31, 2020
― calzino, Saturday, 7 March 2020 19:59 (four years ago) link
for some context it isn't an ironic post, she's a tory and this is all good!
― calzino, Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
Seven oaks, twenty gammons
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:07 (four years ago) link
lindenkkk
― calzino, Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
I have been to Sevenoaks once and that checks out
― Garu you just posted flange (wins), Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
I’m on the floor of a train that’s full of Home Counties types that either look like mike gapes or Tom blenkindip and like 80% of them gave England flags as an item of clothing
― median punt (gyac), Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
Fiver if you shout "come on Tim!"
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
I’m not that drunk lad
― median punt (gyac), Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
At least three en are wearing no tops and England flags as capes. Fascinatingly there’s a woman with a hirl and helmet in front of me and I want to ask her whee she plays but I also don’t want to out myself in front of someone with a visible poppy tattoo
― median punt (gyac), Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link
ahh rugby fans
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Saturday, 7 March 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/08/burning-calories-pig-starts-farm-fire-by-excreting-pedometer
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Sunday, 8 March 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
BBC News website with the wacky comedy headline on the front page as usual: Pedometer-eating pig's poo starts farm blaze
...then they go for the double with the headline on the article page: Bacon saved after pedometer-eating pig's poo starts farm fire
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 8 March 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
I’ve been repeatedly travelling the length of the country for the past two years and just realised I’ve hundreds of bleak photos from train/bus windows. Thread: pic.twitter.com/vFf4KKCf58— Darran Anderson (@Oniropolis) January 3, 2020
― ogmor, Monday, 9 March 2020 10:17 (four years ago) link
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTE0MDQ0NDUz.jpg?&width=640
Bridlington's Chapmans Funland has filled mechanical grabber arcade games with toilet rolls after seeing the item fly off the shelves over the public's fears they may need to self-isolate.One man from Pontefract who did get lucky and bagged himself a toilet roll on the machine, said: "I'm chuffed to bits. It were worth driving 68 miles and spending £30 to win that."
One man from Pontefract who did get lucky and bagged himself a toilet roll on the machine, said: "I'm chuffed to bits. It were worth driving 68 miles and spending £30 to win that."
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
xp the third one, Victoria, is my view at least half the week & that whole run-up is bleak af
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
The last sentence has finished me pic.twitter.com/q6U1wFNZzS— Andy Ha (@AndyHa_) March 11, 2020
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 12 March 2020 08:42 (four years ago) link
And a bag of Doritos. Sounds like it was worth getting sent home for!
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 12 March 2020 09:12 (four years ago) link
Never change Rochdale. pic.twitter.com/1IE0YRFcYJ— Elliot Eastwick (@Faycebuk) March 12, 2020
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 March 2020 10:01 (four years ago) link
"scare"!
― calzino, Thursday, 12 March 2020 10:06 (four years ago) link
Oh mate. pic.twitter.com/P4wK1OtcEo— Angry People in Local Newspapers (@angrypiln) March 14, 2020
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Saturday, 14 March 2020 12:33 (four years ago) link
Coronavirus: What happened on a day without football?
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 15 March 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
I'm sure someone who's more familiar with football can make a tres funny joke about how Southampton can't even occupy the centre in a game of Noughts & Crosses where they get to go first.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 15 March 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ES_pzJDWAAAwWjW?format=jpg&name=mediumhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETK9FPeXYAQDcei?format=jpg&name=medium
the local Rector Revd Debbie Nash has decided there won't be any jitterbugs being spread under her watch.
― calzino, Sunday, 15 March 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
Greengrocer's' apostrophes in full swing, on the other hand
― akb23 (Matt #2), Sunday, 15 March 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
needless ordinal superscript also (worse imo, if not i suppose incorrect)
― mark s, Sunday, 15 March 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
Rector vs vector
― ymo sumac (NickB), Sunday, 15 March 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
lol, top work
― mark s, Sunday, 15 March 2020 20:18 (four years ago) link
It's a beautiful old building with a medieval section that must be at least 700 years old. Never dared enter it though. It's quite intimidating when it is full of middle aged middle class white folk, who although quite harmless looking have murderous stares of death like something out of Tales of the Unexpected. Rector Revd Debbie always nods or says hello when I pass through with the dog and seems a really wholesomely nice person though. I think she appreciates I don't let him piss on the graves!
― calzino, Sunday, 15 March 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link
Coronavirus: Man proposes in Iceland storeA nurse proposed to his girlfriend in a branch of Iceland after a romantic trip to the country of the same name was cancelled due to the coronavirus.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 21 March 2020 12:46 (four years ago) link
Ledge
― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 21 March 2020 12:48 (four years ago) link
GET IN
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
This guy was fucking flying round Morrisons like it was Rainbow Road, he nearly ran me over in front of the fish counter, I had to jump out the way and he didn't acknowledge me at all. When he left all he had bought was bottled water and scratchcards. pic.twitter.com/gzshh3hlgK— Baby Etrigan (@aboynamedposh) March 28, 2020
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Saturday, 28 March 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
What’ve I just seen . pic.twitter.com/wZl7xEUBRM— Owen Hallworth (@HallworthOwen) April 5, 2020
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 6 April 2020 09:53 (four years ago) link
thinking about thos beans!
― calzino, Monday, 6 April 2020 09:56 (four years ago) link
jesus god
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 April 2020 10:02 (four years ago) link
no wonder there were no tins of beans & sausages in Aldi last time i went
― Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 April 2020 10:07 (four years ago) link