Shots fired. Now I’ll have to go visit and try this guy’s pies. As well as trying a Greggs to establish a baseline.
Here in Oz a regional oddity is that NSW does not do pasties well, if at all. Tas and Victoria bakers do and some are superb. Some are dismal. Maybe it’s a supply issue – access to turnips.
This seems like something market forces will sort out – and I’m willing to bet there’s room for both.
Fuck Greggs, fuck their stone-cold products, and fuck the naff-arse meme hype surrounding them
Oh my god get over yourselves, it’s just pastries. Sometimes a cheap sausage roll is what you need over a 6 quid artisan pasty.
As a Geordie greggs is my culture as much as Cornwall has its own pasty culture.
Is it just my Gregg’s where the soss rolls are always cold?
To be fair to the guy, his pasties are the bomb.
I discovered Anne’s Pasties about 10 years ago and they are my go to freezer snack. I will have 15-20 delivered each year.
The Cornish are the most protectionary, of all the britons. This is why no one likes them. – Some Roman dude.
Not much changed.
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I’m really not a fan of pastys, i find the pastry too thick/dry to enjoy… so I’ll take a greggs chicken bake over an artisan made pasty any day of the week.
Seems a bit jealous. Make them tastier and they might be able to compete.
The old Gregg’s Cornish pastie they sold in the 80s and 90s was lovely
This from the county that inflicted *Ginsters* on the nation.
I was on holiday near Cornwall and we went for a day visit. We stopped at a lovely cafe and decided to try the cornish pasty. It was mostly potato very little meat and certainly not the best I have ever tasted.
As a cornish person I’d be quite happy to have Greggs down here but without their pasties. They could still do all their other products. Their pasties are an abomination really and shouldn’t be called pasties. But, their breakfast baguettes are a winner when you’re running late for work on a morning.
What‘s with the needlessly aggressive headline? Is he gonna set fire to local Greggses like they threatened to do to Jamie Oliver or something?
Anns pastry cheapest pasty £3.15 and you must buy 6 (£18.90)
Greggs cheapest steak bake £1.50 and you only have to buy one
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In a cost of living crisis having a cheaper option is in the publics interest.
Not ashamed to admit I love greggs, my mates at work where having a debate over which was the best fast food and everyone was arguing over the obvious choices with macs getting the most praise and I walked over and threw greggs into the convo and you could see everyone’s mind get blown when they realised that the humble steak bake is a million times better then a shite cheese burger from maccies.
Dear Pasty Makers, stop gatekeeping! If your baked goods are better then you should enjoy the opportunity to demonstrate this.
Also just as a general reminder the pasty originates from Devon – not Cornwall.
Because Greggs is actually shit. Everything is an anaemic beige and has a flavour to match.
Cornish people insisting they have a deep culture and history
Texans of England?
Dear Fergus,
Who appointed you spokesperson for Corwall?
Fuck off. Someone stick a Greggs right next to these cunts.
Dear Ann’s Pasties,
Greggs is not going to affect your business one little bit.
The people who are buying your pasties are not going to buy the products you cook from Greggs.
As a child I spent many happy summer holidays in Cornwall and my mother’s go to lunch was a Cornish pasty on the beach from the local baker. Huge, heavily root veg based and peppery. Delicious, but not remotely like anything in Greggs.
I love Greggs for their bacon roll sandwiches, sausage rolls and ham, egg and salad roll sandwiches.
In my local store they cook/make on site, the staff are lovely and they sell sweet treats that my kids love, all at a really good price point.
God forbid Greggs starts selling macabre pilchard pies
If I want a Cornish pasty I’d have a Cornish one. If I want something cheap, quick and honestly pretty tasty I’m gonna go to Greggs.
Not to mention their vegan ones are pretty top-tier. My memories of Cornish pasties on holidays were always bland and dry potato-ness that somehow become so soggy and disgusting looking if you leave it for more than 5 seconds.
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Shots fired. Now I’ll have to go visit and try this guy’s pies. As well as trying a Greggs to establish a baseline.
Here in Oz a regional oddity is that NSW does not do pasties well, if at all. Tas and Victoria bakers do and some are superb. Some are dismal. Maybe it’s a supply issue – access to turnips.
This seems like something market forces will sort out – and I’m willing to bet there’s room for both.
Fuck Greggs, fuck their stone-cold products, and fuck the naff-arse meme hype surrounding them
Oh my god get over yourselves, it’s just pastries. Sometimes a cheap sausage roll is what you need over a 6 quid artisan pasty.
As a Geordie greggs is my culture as much as Cornwall has its own pasty culture.
Is it just my Gregg’s where the soss rolls are always cold?
To be fair to the guy, his pasties are the bomb.
I discovered Anne’s Pasties about 10 years ago and they are my go to freezer snack. I will have 15-20 delivered each year.
The Cornish are the most protectionary, of all the britons. This is why no one likes them. – Some Roman dude.
Not much changed.
[deleted]
I’m really not a fan of pastys, i find the pastry too thick/dry to enjoy… so I’ll take a greggs chicken bake over an artisan made pasty any day of the week.
Seems a bit jealous. Make them tastier and they might be able to compete.
The old Gregg’s Cornish pastie they sold in the 80s and 90s was lovely
This from the county that inflicted *Ginsters* on the nation.
I was on holiday near Cornwall and we went for a day visit. We stopped at a lovely cafe and decided to try the cornish pasty. It was mostly potato very little meat and certainly not the best I have ever tasted.
As a cornish person I’d be quite happy to have Greggs down here but without their pasties. They could still do all their other products. Their pasties are an abomination really and shouldn’t be called pasties. But, their breakfast baguettes are a winner when you’re running late for work on a morning.
What‘s with the needlessly aggressive headline? Is he gonna set fire to local Greggses like they threatened to do to Jamie Oliver or something?
Anns pastry cheapest pasty £3.15 and you must buy 6 (£18.90)
Greggs cheapest steak bake £1.50 and you only have to buy one
​
In a cost of living crisis having a cheaper option is in the publics interest.
Not ashamed to admit I love greggs, my mates at work where having a debate over which was the best fast food and everyone was arguing over the obvious choices with macs getting the most praise and I walked over and threw greggs into the convo and you could see everyone’s mind get blown when they realised that the humble steak bake is a million times better then a shite cheese burger from maccies.
Dear Pasty Makers, stop gatekeeping! If your baked goods are better then you should enjoy the opportunity to demonstrate this.
Also just as a general reminder the pasty originates from Devon – not Cornwall.
Because Greggs is actually shit. Everything is an anaemic beige and has a flavour to match.
Cornish people insisting they have a deep culture and history
Texans of England?
Dear Fergus,
Who appointed you spokesperson for Corwall?
Fuck off. Someone stick a Greggs right next to these cunts.
Dear Ann’s Pasties,
Greggs is not going to affect your business one little bit.
The people who are buying your pasties are not going to buy the products you cook from Greggs.
As a child I spent many happy summer holidays in Cornwall and my mother’s go to lunch was a Cornish pasty on the beach from the local baker. Huge, heavily root veg based and peppery. Delicious, but not remotely like anything in Greggs.
I love Greggs for their bacon roll sandwiches, sausage rolls and ham, egg and salad roll sandwiches.
In my local store they cook/make on site, the staff are lovely and they sell sweet treats that my kids love, all at a really good price point.
God forbid Greggs starts selling macabre pilchard pies
If I want a Cornish pasty I’d have a Cornish one. If I want something cheap, quick and honestly pretty tasty I’m gonna go to Greggs.
Not to mention their vegan ones are pretty top-tier. My memories of Cornish pasties on holidays were always bland and dry potato-ness that somehow become so soggy and disgusting looking if you leave it for more than 5 seconds.