I think that person said that Gregg's is like the McDonald's of bakeries because they're everywhere, not because there's any comparison with their food offerings!
Indeed, that giving directions post was a little exaggerated, but not by much. I live in Swansea, for example, and I know of four Greggs in this city alone, and there's probably a few more I've not encountered.
True but in Newcastle the home city of greggs they are everywhere. We even have a greggs diner in primark. There are so many here that you could walk about 3 miles and pass 6. From my home I am about 1 mile from greggs in 5 different directions
Also because like McDonald's, they're standardised across all stores and are fairly good but it's not the best food ever. If someone from America wanted to try a sausage roll I wouldn't get them a greggs one. I like greggs and McDonald's but they're mass produced, cheap and cheerful convenience foods- not the best examples out there. I just had a sausage roll from a small independent bakery/sandwich shop and it was much better than Greggs.
greggs is one of those places you don’t plan on getting like ‘can we get a mcdonald’s tomorrow for takeaway’ it’s kinda just a, oh there’s a greggs or you’re passing greggs and you just want some comfort snack food that’s more like a meal also to note, greggs is associated with work food, there’s a saying here where i live about a ‘greggs run’ and someone will go out and order everyone’s greggs order and come back, like a coffee order
Greggs will always have a special place in my heart, its not overpriced as hell compared to most chains we have in the UK and its pretty filling stuff. I love the place
Bread? Why do Americans look at puff pastry and say it looks like bread? It absolutely isn't bread! It's savoury pastry......Like a pie topping that isn't sweet..... People go to Gregg's predominantly for lunch on the go....a savoury bake or sausage roll, a sweet bun of some kind, and a drink. The 'bakes' are sold hot to be eaten immediately.
@@siloPIRATEtheir bread tends to be sweet and bouncy due to the amount of rubbish in it. The uk would never be allowed to sell their bread and call it that.
there's a pub in Dorset, sits on a cliff, that does AMAZING Cornish pasties... can have a plat-sized pasty whilst overlooking the sea, with a refreshing cider... nothing better on a nice day
While Greggs isn't exactly 'fine dining' it IS good wholesome snacks at a very reasonable price!They do have cafe facilities for those who want to sit at a table and make a proper meal of it! The do also sell loaves of fresh bread and rolls etcat a different counter if you are taking them away. Very versatile !
Porridge is just what americans call "oatmeal". It's oats cooked with milk or water, and sometimes with things like honey, fruit, or spices added. You said "these look like a hot pocket", and you're mostly right. A "bake" is very similar to a hot pocket, except that the pastry is more flaky than bread-like. Most people go to Greggs to get a sausage roll.
Other than the "English pasty shops" I have never seen anywhere in America selling anything like Greggs. Maybe some places do but I have been on 30-40 trips to 10 or 12 different states over the last 20 years.
Britain offers you a multitude of amazing food. Greggs is a bakery chain originating in the North East of England, and it is in the North where you will get the full range. How I miss Greggs Stotties the beautiful bread of the NE. They sell bread, pastries, doughnuts, and lunch baguettes. Pastries are cooked on each site, and also sell coffee, tea, and hot chocolate. A high street chain means that the shops are situated in the high street or thereabouts. If you go to any US food store you will find oats to make porridge, you call it oatmeal. Most cafes now serve porridge. Doesn't Panera sell bread and more that makes them nearest to Greggs. You may have a lot of food choices in America, but in big cities. We have the choices nearly everywhere, I live in a small market town we have Chinese, Indian, Italian, Turkish. Greek, British, Thai, Arab, we did have Mexican, but no longer.👵🏴🌹🌹
I'm from the north of England. Yeah, Greggs had a reputation of being a bit "low class" and easily dismissed, especially in years gone by, but the people who do are just being a bit snobby. For me, it's always been a "belly filler" if I'm in a rush or a quick snack whilst shopping. It's perfectly fine, fast food. (The steak bakes are good!)
When I first began to use Greggs myself in the mid 90's it was more of a "bakery" with lots of different loaves for sale plus some bakes, cookies and cakes aimed at low income people I would say. Now it is as you are viewing it on-line. Meat stuffed inside pastry has always been a UK thing since pre- medieval times. It's very convenient and fills a gap whilst you are out shopping or lunching at work. Nice video.
As you mention several times from the reddit posts, it's a bakery first and foremost. Pre packaged sandwiches, "bakes" (pasties or small pies, probably 3" x 4" and flat), actual small pies, small cakes and sweet baked goods make up most of the available goods, and they also sell tea, coffee, and cold bottled fizzy drinks. Whilst they do (sometimes) have a table, it's not really an eat in kind of place. Normally you'd drop in on a lunchbreak or whilst passing, get a sandwich or a bake, a drink, and possibly a sweet thing and either eat it on the go, or back at work. They're a fairly good price for what it is, which is reliable, standard, not-particularly-fancy food that you can eat whilst moving and usually with one hand (letting you also carry shopping or hold onto your pet/child/elderly relative). It also runs very much on the "we've got what we've got, so make a selection, pay, and keep moving" principle, although they try to keep everything stocked throughout the day. Porridge is oatmeal. Usually sweetened, although not always. "Savoury". It's a pie or pastry that's made with savoury ingredients rather than sweet. A sausage roll is essentially a hotdog or frankfurter in savoury puff pastry. The steak bake has finely chopped steak and (brown) gravy inside, and yes, they're like hot pockets. You start with a sheet of pastry, put the filling on it, and then fold the pastry over and seal the edges, then bake it. They also (as the site shows) do cheese and onion, chicken, sometimes minced (or ground) beef, and seasonal options (like the Christmas "turkey, stuffing, and cranberry" one.
Sausage rolls. Pizza slices. Sandwiches. Salad rolls. Cakes. Plus everything to eat. Coffee. It's nice if you're in town walking past, pop in, and take away a snack . There's more to the menu than you've shown.
Greggs opens at 6am so all the workers going to the job early can get the bacon and/or sausage sandwiches in for breakfast. They have a wide selection of cakes, bakes, pies and pasties for sale right up until 7pm, much of them are classic menu items going back 30+ years. The coffee is also pretty cheap and decent. When I was 2 years old my mother would get me a Greggs sausage roll for £0.15 and I would eat it in my push chair. This is possibly my earliest memory.
I live in the north east of England and we have 4 greggs stores in my town, greggs is somewhere you can go for breakfast, dinner (lunch) or tea (dinner).
The nearest thing in the US to our Sausage rolls are what you call Pigs in blankets (not to be confused by UK Pigs in Blankets which are sausages wrapped in bacon). Greggs were originally found on High/Main Streets, but increasingly have branches in Petrol stations, Grocery stores and shopping Malls
An American couple who have spent some time in the UK run a TH-cam channel called “The Magic Geekdom” and they did a review on Greggs about a year ago, which I’d say is pretty fair and balanced. I’ve only visited a Greggs a couple of times in my life, but its products are not really things I buy or consume often, but the times I have been I’d say it’s pretty good & certainly pretty cheap and filling for those wanting something quick and easy that is reasonably good “on the go”.
@@brianbrotherston5940A fraction of the price? only if you live with a family to eat it up before it goes off, if you buy offers in the supermarket… Much prefer going to a shop like Greggs, getting good prices for cheap, heating it up and eating it and not a worry about washing it up. 👍🫡
I have a Greggs just across the road from my house...I don't go in there very often. I like the bacon rolls, the steak bakes, the cheese & bacon puffs, and the chocolate doughnuts.
My Greggs obsession is actually mostly for the morning breakfast sandwiches as you can get a bacon roll and a coffee for less than £3 which is excellent value.
I prefer my bacon rolls from a cafe simply because its cooked there and then. I find Greggs bacon is often cold and dry because they cook it in batches.
@@sgttoxiiczzmy local Gregg's does store made/fried brekkies. Everything cooked and made in store. Breakfast roll? They fry the eggs sausage and bacon there. And gotta say it's like a home made brekky when you're too lazy lol
At Greggs, all our food is made fresh daily, meaning at the end of each day, any food that hasn’t been sold, is removed from our shelves. To prevent food waste, we send as much food as we can to our Outlet shops, where it is sold the next day at a discount. A Greggs Outlet is a shop where our unsold food is redistributed and sold at a lower price. Our Outlet shops help us to tackle food waste, while allowing people in disadvantaged areas to enjoy our food at a huge discount.
Greggs have nearly 3,000 branches nationwide and are still expanding. It’s basically a fast food takeaway shop that have limited seating and they stay open until 6,7 or 8 pm depending on location. Their prices are fairly cheap and you can fill yourself up for not much money. There are many TH-cam videos of Americans trying out Greggs over here !
Many people, myself included, love Greggs for ‘food-to-go’, often taking food from the shop and eating it on a bench on the street or in the park. I adore their cheese ploughman’s baguettes. Love your videos. Ian Bower Lincoln UK :)
So here in the UK every town and village had a local bakery where you would buy bread and baked goods such as pies and cakes, most towns still have their own local bakery's. Most people would class Greggs as an standard bakery where as the normal local bakery will be of a higher quality and classed as artisan, but will be more biased towards bread and pies. Greggs is a bakery / sandwich shop franchise so most towns have at least one Greggs, our small town has 3 😁 They do breakfast sandwiches, also lunch sandwiches, then various pies and 'baked slices' cakes, donuts. Popular items are, breakfast bacon sandwich, the steak bake and the sausage rolls. Most food delivery apps such as Deliveroo and Uber eats also deliver Greggs to your door.
Fun fact Greggs used to display alot if the stuff they sold in their windows. They never had indoor seating until early 2000's i think. Edit: Greggs basically sells a variety of sweet things like muffins, gingerbread men, ice slices, doughnuts etc. A bake is basically a thinner pie with a filling in (my favourite has to be the chicken bake) then there's a variety of sandwiches, cold drinks and yes takeaway tea and coffee. There is a very small area of hot food too such as chicken goujons and wedges. Yes it is a chain of "restaurants" but most people treat it as a takeaway. During special occasions they decorate some cakes like plastic spiders on mini cakes at halloween and santa biscuits at christmas. All in all it is probably more popular than mcdonalds as they keep their prices down and you can find one basically all over the uk.
Such savoury baked food shops exist in cities and towns all over Europe, but not as national chain enterprises. A host of local and regional fare wherever you are. A delight.
Same, down by Liverpool. Used to be a lil shoebox sized building then they moved next door and have seats double the ovens and cabinets to store all the goods. Lol Gregg's is the UK.
I’m nearly fifty and bakeries like Greggs and ones that were regional to the part of Scotland I grew up in, were quite prevalent. In fact the small town I grew up in probably had around half a dozen bakeries selling Scotch Pies, Sausage Rolls and Bridies along with bread and cakes. One of our regional chains opened its first shop in 1900 and Greggs was founded in 1939.
Bakeries have been prevalent in the UK high streets since the 1800s, so either you are the oldest person ever to live, you weren't very observant or your parents kept bakeries hidden from you so you wouldn't ask for cakes and stuff.
What Americans call pies are mostly sweet tarts. Technically, pies have a top and bottom pastry crust, and in the UK (and perhaps most other countries) usually contains a savory/meat filling. Greggs used to be a conventional bakery, selling fresh bread and cakes. Then they started making and selling sandwiches, and eventually expanded from there to become the place to grab an "on-the-go" snack. Strangely, you can no longer simply buy a loaf of bread there.
It's the savoury bakes that are at the heart of the Greggs franchise. Sausage rolls, steak bakes, etc. At lunchtime it's always queued out the door. School kids go there regularly. Prices are reasonable.
Anyone remember the Steak and Cheese roll? Looked like a sausage roll but had strips of steak in a thick gravy with cheese. Amazing. Discontinued now. ❤
Love me some Greggs, Sausage Rolls, Cheese Bakes. They generally only heat up the products in store and make them at a local Greggs factory/distribution centre.
No they actually bake most of their products in store/or on the premises, they arrive either chilled or frozen from the main production factory though I believe they have more than one of these. there main product is their famous sausage roll, I read somwhere how many they produced each day it was over a million that equates to roughly 5 sausage rolls every second.
If you ever come to the UK then Greggs is an absolute must, they're pretty much in every town/city. 0:18 "Greggs also operates two stores in Belgium" Greggs is primarily a bakers, with over 2,450 shops across the UK including 500 with franchise partners, but they're a very common lunchtime stalwart for a lot of people, especially those working in those cities. At lunchtime it's very common to see a queue going out of the door and along the street. Iceland (a freezer food chain in the UK) also sell Greggs food that can be cooked at home. There's quite a few other American channels that have done "reviews" of Greggs food, you should react to one of those so you can see what the actual food looks like. 5:38 In the US, think of Subway, then you're on the right track. 5:59 Yes they do coffee, including different holiday versions, usually in Autumn/Christmas, people will get stuff for eating straight away or taking home, depends on their need. 7:41 I think they mean as far as ubiquity is concerned, they're EVERYWHERE, again, there's almost 2,500 of them, JUST IN THE UK! 8:27 Again, Think Subway but better and cheaper 9:10 If they were to open in the US I would guess they would feature pies more than the things they usually do, Americans seem to like a pie. 12:25 They usually look just like the photos, remember the rolls will have been baked on-site. You can also just buy rolls or cold things like Sausage Rolls (probably their favourite item) to cook/use at home. 12:49 HOW DARE YOU, kidding, porridge (or Porage if you're a true Scot) is made with oats, that's basically it, ground oats. 13:10 A savoury is "not a sweet" snack, so something which is not meant to be a sweet/dessert item. Think pies, bakes, scotch eggs, etc 13:40 It's not bread but it is pastry. Think about the top of a pie, that kind of pastry. 13:49 Yes, Steak and a thick gravy, Steak bakes are also a very popular item and it's decent quality meat. 14:30 Hence the "savoury" 17:26 People will usually get a lunch of a hot savoury, a sweet and a drink, whether that's Gregg's coffee or more likely one of their fresh fruit juice bottles. Usually they'll have a "meal deal" where you can buy all 3 for a cheaper price than they would total separately. I'd definitely recommend looking up a review from another American, there's TONS on TH-cam.
@@brianbrotherston5940 Your comment was inexplicable in relation to mine - so my concise use of what was the result! Your personal derogatory comment was clearly indicative of your ignorance not mine!
Sausage rolls are 🔥🔥 and are what Greggs are most known for. A sausage roll and a hot drink are what so many people turn to when they’re in a hurry and want something quick. They’re bangin.
Greggs is life.... Anyone who disagrees isn't worth talking to. There's one area in the US that loves cornish pastys because some cornish miners moved there years ago so the locals still eat them. Greggs would do a roaring trade in that area!
you go during your lunch break, get a chargrilled chicken, and a steak bake for the walk back. Maybe a few sausage rolls, especially if there's a fresh tray out. On the highstreets at lunchtime, there's usually a queue out the door
They go for a SNACK and you can also buy them at the counter to take away . People out shopping who dont want a restaurant can get them in containers to take away and as there is always some nearby green space close in English towns, they go and sit in the park or even in the grounds of the Church etc and have a picnic! Most Greggs shops have their 'cafe' and take orders if you want to sit and order.Its not my 'thing' really but what they do is really good quality! Tyler, the pastry is PUFF pastry with generous savoury fillings and very light!
A bakery used to be a place that sold bread to homes in villages or towns that could not afford to (or did not have) a bread oven, as in the rhyme 'prick it and pat it and mark it with B'. They began to sell pies/meat pastries to the factory workers 19th century. They also sold 'sweet buns' (like cakes) and furthermore cakes in general. Greggs is just one of these bakeries, but as more shops were built they became the preferred place to go. People buy freshly made bread, cream cakes, yeast doughnuts, tea or coffee and lunch items such as sandwiches, filled baguettes, sausage rolls, steak pasties, pizza slices, and meat pies. Cakes are for Afternoon Tea (3:30pm). You can also get breakfast rolls with sausage, bacon and egg. You tend to 'take away' as opposed to eating in, but some do have a spot 'o' luncheon during shopping in the town.
when i was a long distance HGV driver it was just great to call into a motorway sevice station go to GREGGS and get a tomato soup and a couple of sausage rolls get back to the cab and dunk the sausage rolls in the soup just like doing biscuits in tea
the sausage bean and cheese melt is DIVINE... amazing! the steak bake is pretty awesome too tbh... check out some American reacts to having Greggs for the 1st time, like Magic Geekdom or something... that'll give you a great idea of what it's actually like
As a Brit who gets a Greggs sausage roll every morning on my way to my uni lecture, it blows my mind that Americans don't know what sausage rolls are. Mad that init
30 odd years ago Greggs took over a local Bakery and the bread was crap, they hadn't heard of Sourdough and the sausage rolls were not as good as under the original owner, a handed down family recipe for the sausage meat that died with him. No handmade Birthday or Anniversary Cakes either. Left with only one artisan Baker, the other side of town so had to get the car out. Hot out of the oven Hot Cross buns at 6am on Good Friday were gone as well.
It is a coffee shop now in terms of what they offer. They have a barista machine and they offer a few types of coffee. But that's recent, now you don't ask for a white coffee you ask for a white americano. They generally close by 2pm and no bacon/sausage baps after 11am. After 11am it's what they have left over including various baguettes with ham/cheese/chicken and popcorn chicken. Alongside steak bakes, Cornish pasties, sausage rolls if you want something hot. Also they do lots of doughnuts, cookies, slices etc.
Like others here I too have watched as Greggs turned from the north east's best kept secret to National treasure. The sausage rolls are my go to. Four for 3-4 quid and your sorted for the day. My first Greggs- back in the dark early 1990s hung over after my first night out in the legendary 'Toon'.
There are a lot of bakery chains all over Europe. In Germany we have traditional bakeries that have several branches. It is more cost effective to have one big bakery delivering their products to their shops. There are dozens of regional chains but some national or international chains. On top of that there are "baking shops", bakeries and supermarkets that only bake off frozen stuff from an industry supplier by the sales staff, not bakers. In most cases these stores are franchise stores.
Americans are just beginning to notice that not only are there other countries in the world which is a shock to many of them, but that a lot of these countries are a lot more interesting, sophisticated and generally better than America... Tyler is learning so much and is a very likeable chap 😀
Steak bake and sausage roll are standard when going to Gregg's also might want a sandwich and something sweet depending on how hungry you are. Tomato soup tastes like no other 👍
Greggs is an institution over the Pond. When I was a kid, they were called 'Braggs'. In 1999, Greggs rebranded its one hundred Braggs shops as Greggs of the Midlands. I used to pop into Braggs in the early 90s (pre-Greggs) on my lunch break when at Tech college. They did a delicious Pineapple cream tart. Yum.
Great video. Porridge is oatmeal and it’s puff pastry not shortcrust so it’s savory. The most popular buy at Greggs is definitely the sausage roll. I think Americans would definitely enjoy them I can’t believe they don’t sell them there.
Ps there are more Gregg's stores in the UK than there are McDonalds (reason being the food is actually edible and not chemically induced crap like McDonalds)
I have a soft spot for Gregg's. If you hard up, they do deals for something like a warm sausage roll and a coffee really cheaply. The most commonly bought foods are probably sausage rolls and the steak and chicken bakes. It's no accident it started in the North-East, any area with a great deal of poverty. Posher coffee shops fall down a bit because they are too expensive, and seem to have an obsession with never serving anything but sweet things. It is amazing that you Americans have no word for non- sweet edibles. We often call these 'savouries', and are what Gregg's excel in, without completely cutting out the sweet stuff.
I loved this in college for a quick lunch as a Greg’s was only across the road and served the same things as our lunch room but cheaper in most cases I would usually grab a steak bake and a doughnut on a Wednesday when I only had 30 min in between classes as I could eat in line for lifts for class
Many love Greggs, the only ones that usually don't are the ones who want people to be going to the more expensive local bakeries, and of course all the folk in Cornwall because they love their independent places with the official Cornish pasties (i believe Greggs do sell basically the same but they can't be called Cornish). I don't like Greggs simply because i can never get the food hot, you have to time it just right otherwise it's barely warm and all stodgy. You will get better quality at local none chain bakery's but the price increase is much more than the quality increase.
The difference is that a lot of customers for Greggs arrive on foot. Less of a car culture here. So imagine you are on lunch break from a nearby business, or are out shopping and fancy a quick lunch. You can buy a savoury item and eat it walking along if you're in a hurry, or find a bench if the weather is nice. Look up Cornish pasties and their history - miners used to encase their dinner in pastry before lunchboxes existed (you discarded the pastry). We have shops specialising in those - used to be a Devon Savouries chain; not sure if it's still going.
Hi we have about 5 Greggs in coventry UK. Greggs sells a wide variety of goods ,you can get enything from brekferst, lunch and pasty ,or meat or vegetable slices,donuts , chocolate eclairs field with cream, some of the larger Gregg HAVE setting , a stake bake is about £3 .the s andwichs are made each day and thay have paster pot wich have pesto and mine motsereler ball's. Hopefully this will help you understand. Take care. 😄😄😄👍👍
How timely, I had a Greggs delivered about 3 hours ago! (Bacon and omlet roll with coffee and 4 sausage rolls to feast on over the next few days). EDIT - The video was good, but my Greggs was better :)
"High Street" more or less equals "Main Street". "High Street fashion", for example, means clothing you can buy in stores along the town's main shopping thoroughfare. It's the place in town where you can do most of your shopping outside of a commercial center or mall, along with restaurants, bars and the like.
Big fan of your vids dude!! This made me laugh so much! Please bear in mind that Greggs sausage rolls are like 90% of what Greggs is that is absolutely the main the item and the other stuff is just extras haha… if you ever have a Greggs sausage roll it Will change your life… especially if you get on that has just came out… the pizzas are class too!! Love Greggs… there is a massive one in Newcastle that serves into the early hours so class when your super drunk haha 😛 Can I just say, this reminded me once I was in Dubrovnik in crotia and as a drunk Brit all I wanted was a pasty and I some how stumbled across a bloody pasty shop somewhere in the middle Of town that was open and I’m not joking that I was able to grab a Cornish pasty and a sausage roll… my mates thought I imagined it but o had a pasty and a burger hidden in a drawer the next day hahaha
I'm from the UK I'm mind blown how do Americans not know about sausage rolls 🤯 they r number 1🔥
i cant agree with you more
As an American, I couldn’t agree with you more. Beefy bakes and sausage rolls are to die for.
@@jamesf931i’m from france and i agree with u
we got all the countries lol (im also in the uk)
I don’t know why it’s seemingly so surprising for Americans to put meat in pastry. That is something I need to research.
"When do you go to Greggs?"
Anytime you like. 🤣
As long as they're open. You'd look a bit odd, just staring through the window longingly at 3am waiting for them to open in 5 hours.
@@AndrewHalliwell london has its first ever 24 hour greggs lol
Gregg's is open very late in Newcastle the have bouncers on the doors 😂😂😂
@@Leenufcand a longer queue than the McDonalds across the road lol
I prefer lunch time for a wells Somerset Greg’s i live in wells Somerset uk
I think that person said that Gregg's is like the McDonald's of bakeries because they're everywhere, not because there's any comparison with their food offerings!
Indeed, that giving directions post was a little exaggerated, but not by much. I live in Swansea, for example, and I know of four Greggs in this city alone, and there's probably a few more I've not encountered.
True but in Newcastle the home city of greggs they are everywhere. We even have a greggs diner in primark. There are so many here that you could walk about 3 miles and pass 6. From my home I am about 1 mile from greggs in 5 different directions
100% agree!
Also because like McDonald's, they're standardised across all stores and are fairly good but it's not the best food ever.
If someone from America wanted to try a sausage roll I wouldn't get them a greggs one.
I like greggs and McDonald's but they're mass produced, cheap and cheerful convenience foods- not the best examples out there. I just had a sausage roll from a small independent bakery/sandwich shop and it was much better than Greggs.
@@bwilson5401 Girl Gone London did a video about this a few weeks ago. Apparently it isn't really a thing in the US.
greggs is one of those places you don’t plan on getting like ‘can we get a mcdonald’s tomorrow for takeaway’ it’s kinda just a, oh there’s a greggs or you’re passing greggs and you just want some comfort snack food that’s more like a meal
also to note, greggs is associated with work food, there’s a saying here where i live about a ‘greggs run’ and someone will go out and order everyone’s greggs order and come back, like a coffee order
I would say Greggs #1 item is the Sausage roll then the steak bake or Sausage ,cheese & bean melt
Nah, 1# item is the sausage roll, followed by cheese and onion bake for me 😉
Vegetable bakes are pretty neat too!
In some parts of England I have seen a corned beef hash bake. It is exquisite.
Sausage rolls are good and cheap
Their sausage rolls are the mutts.
The sausage meat in a Greggs sausage roll shouldn’t be liquid
Greggs will always have a special place in my heart, its not overpriced as hell compared to most chains we have in the UK and its pretty filling stuff. I love the place
Bread? Why do Americans look at puff pastry and say it looks like bread? It absolutely isn't bread! It's savoury pastry......Like a pie topping that isn't sweet.....
People go to Gregg's predominantly for lunch on the go....a savoury bake or sausage roll, a sweet bun of some kind, and a drink. The 'bakes' are sold hot to be eaten immediately.
Americans seem to refer to any type of pastry or "brown" food covering as "breading"!
Most of our food is beige.
Maybe it's because of how their bread is
@@siloPIRATEtheir bread tends to be sweet and bouncy due to the amount of rubbish in it. The uk would never be allowed to sell their bread and call it that.
American bread we would consider it to be cake not bread due to the amount of sugar in it
If you're interested in sausage rolls then you should check out Cornish pasties too
Cornish pasties are awesome, the real Cornish ones are in a league of their own.
there's a pub in Dorset, sits on a cliff, that does AMAZING Cornish pasties... can have a plat-sized pasty whilst overlooking the sea, with a refreshing cider... nothing better on a nice day
Don't expect him to ever read the comments.
...and Bridies.
@@wessexdruid7598 yeah, I know... this was more for other watchers tbf
I don't think I could live in America without our amazing foods
While Greggs isn't exactly 'fine dining' it IS good wholesome snacks at a very reasonable price!They do have cafe facilities for those who want to sit at a table and make a proper meal of it!
The do also sell loaves of fresh bread and rolls etcat a different counter if you are taking them away. Very versatile !
Porridge is just what americans call "oatmeal". It's oats cooked with milk or water, and sometimes with things like honey, fruit, or spices added.
You said "these look like a hot pocket", and you're mostly right. A "bake" is very similar to a hot pocket, except that the pastry is more flaky than bread-like.
Most people go to Greggs to get a sausage roll.
Steak bake defined my hangover recovery at 20 yrs old. …20 yrs later, the bacon and sausage roll, with coffee fuels my day.
My understanding is that Americans tend more to sweet baked goods. Us Brits more often than not have savoury pies & bakes.
Other than the "English pasty shops" I have never seen anywhere in America selling anything like Greggs. Maybe some places do but I have been on 30-40 trips to 10 or 12 different states over the last 20 years.
…. And a yumyum
That is actually a very good pointer to why Greggs has not expanded to America
I took a couple of visiting US friends to Greggs. As soon as they tried a sausage roll and steak bake. They were like we so need this in the US.
Most people go absolutely nuts over their sausage rolls! ❤❤
my brain can't comprehend the non-existence of a sausage roll
Facts! They save lives
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Or if you're English maybe you just don't want to. 🤔
If u look at the pastry on the bakes, they have different patterns, so its easy to recognise what it is
Meat pies (beef, lamb, chicken, curry etc) and sausage rolls are sold in every service station and bakery in Australia. Nothing like a good pie. ❤
Of course, Australia is also home to the Pie Floater.
@@billyhills9933 as an Aussie I had to google that 😂 seems like something mainly sold/popular in one state (SA).
@@chockablock34857 a meat pie? $4.50 here (£2.30).. is that a lot?
@@billyhills9933we sometimes have pie floaters in the uk too 😏💩
Australians really are just British people without the Ozone layer.
Britain offers you a multitude of amazing food. Greggs is a bakery chain originating in the North East of England, and it is in the North where you will get the full range. How I miss Greggs Stotties the beautiful bread of the NE. They sell bread, pastries, doughnuts, and lunch baguettes. Pastries are cooked on each site, and also sell coffee, tea, and hot chocolate. A high street chain means that the shops are situated in the high street or thereabouts. If you go to any US food store you will find oats to make porridge, you call it oatmeal. Most cafes now serve porridge. Doesn't Panera sell bread and more that makes them nearest to Greggs. You may have a lot of food choices in America, but in big cities. We have the choices nearly everywhere, I live in a small market town we have Chinese, Indian, Italian, Turkish. Greek, British, Thai, Arab, we did have Mexican, but no longer.👵🏴🌹🌹
I think at times it seems like this man as just landed from another world.
Correct, it's called America 😂
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Good description of America!
You don't wish you could try a Gregg's and have your mind blown all over again?
I'm from the north of England. Yeah, Greggs had a reputation of being a bit "low class" and easily dismissed, especially in years gone by, but the people who do are just being a bit snobby. For me, it's always been a "belly filler" if I'm in a rush or a quick snack whilst shopping. It's perfectly fine, fast food. (The steak bakes are good!)
Those same people who are snobby about Greggs and complain about them opening one also tend to be the first ones in the que at lunch time.
heat to eat southern fried chicken sandwich is better
Mmmmmm! steak bake's
The steak bakes are so good
Porridge is known as oatmeal in America
porridge. {dry puke in a box. just milk and simmer]
Don't disrespect the porrige m8.
It's is really more like oats and milk
Oatmeal is a type of porridge but not all porridge is oatmeal (it can be made of things other than oats)
I NEVER KNEW THAT-
When I first began to use Greggs myself in the mid 90's it was more of a "bakery" with lots of different loaves for sale plus some bakes, cookies and cakes aimed at low income people I would say.
Now it is as you are viewing it on-line.
Meat stuffed inside pastry has always been a UK thing since pre- medieval times.
It's very convenient and fills a gap whilst you are out shopping or lunching at work.
Nice video.
Top comment 👍👍, exactly what I was about to say
As you mention several times from the reddit posts, it's a bakery first and foremost.
Pre packaged sandwiches, "bakes" (pasties or small pies, probably 3" x 4" and flat), actual small pies, small cakes and sweet baked goods make up most of the available goods, and they also sell tea, coffee, and cold bottled fizzy drinks.
Whilst they do (sometimes) have a table, it's not really an eat in kind of place. Normally you'd drop in on a lunchbreak or whilst passing, get a sandwich or a bake, a drink, and possibly a sweet thing and either eat it on the go, or back at work.
They're a fairly good price for what it is, which is reliable, standard, not-particularly-fancy food that you can eat whilst moving and usually with one hand (letting you also carry shopping or hold onto your pet/child/elderly relative). It also runs very much on the "we've got what we've got, so make a selection, pay, and keep moving" principle, although they try to keep everything stocked throughout the day.
Porridge is oatmeal. Usually sweetened, although not always.
"Savoury". It's a pie or pastry that's made with savoury ingredients rather than sweet.
A sausage roll is essentially a hotdog or frankfurter in savoury puff pastry.
The steak bake has finely chopped steak and (brown) gravy inside, and yes, they're like hot pockets. You start with a sheet of pastry, put the filling on it, and then fold the pastry over and seal the edges, then bake it. They also (as the site shows) do cheese and onion, chicken, sometimes minced (or ground) beef, and seasonal options (like the Christmas "turkey, stuffing, and cranberry" one.
Sausage rolls. Pizza slices. Sandwiches. Salad rolls. Cakes. Plus everything to eat. Coffee. It's nice if you're in town walking past, pop in, and take away a snack .
There's more to the menu than you've shown.
It's not expensive either and very clean.
@@weejackrussellyes I love it!
iceland, a food shop in the uk also has a greggs section which is basically sponsered and in a fridge
My local Tesco has a Greggs as well as the Tesco cafe
Greggs opens at 6am so all the workers going to the job early can get the bacon and/or sausage sandwiches in for breakfast. They have a wide selection of cakes, bakes, pies and pasties for sale right up until 7pm, much of them are classic menu items going back 30+ years. The coffee is also pretty cheap and decent. When I was 2 years old my mother would get me a Greggs sausage roll for £0.15 and I would eat it in my push chair. This is possibly my earliest memory.
I don't know what Greggs sausage roll recipe is but they are one of if not thebest sausage rolls you can get especially if they are hot.
Hot sausage rolls in winter are fuel! And the breakfasts! Omg they'd great. Xmas pasties are genuinely mouthgasm. Nothing makes me happier than greggs
@@jonmcknight18 Aldi sell frozen sausage rolls that once thrown into the oven, taste almost on par with Greggs sausage rolls.
You got a sausage roll for 15p?! Jesus, that's cheap. Wish the prices hadn't changed 😭
I live in the north east of England and we have 4 greggs stores in my town, greggs is somewhere you can go for breakfast, dinner (lunch) or tea (dinner).
My favourite Greggs take out is the Steak Bake.
For me, it's the chicken bake.
preach Dave I'm with you my dude my favorite food on greggs along with a sausage roll
More a end of the day greggs roulette player guy myself, get a bag of random stuff and a few boxes of donuts at a reduced price
Same
nahhhh, it's the hot southern fried chicken sandwich
I love Greggs. When I had a few days in London I couldn't find anywhere that sold British grub and was relieved when I found Greggs!
The nearest thing in the US to our Sausage rolls are what you call Pigs in blankets (not to be confused by UK Pigs in Blankets which are sausages wrapped in bacon). Greggs were originally found on High/Main Streets, but increasingly have branches in Petrol stations, Grocery stores and shopping Malls
Knowing him he probably wouldn’t even know what pigs in blankets are either not very bright 😂
An American couple who have spent some time in the UK run a TH-cam channel called “The Magic Geekdom” and they did a review on Greggs about a year ago, which I’d say is pretty fair and balanced. I’ve only visited a Greggs a couple of times in my life, but its products are not really things I buy or consume often, but the times I have been I’d say it’s pretty good & certainly pretty cheap and filling for those wanting something quick and easy that is reasonably good “on the go”.
Greggs is now McDonalds biggest rival.
My daughter works for McDonalds (mgt). She always on about what Greggs doing
We could not live without our lunchtime sausage rolls and sandwiches !!
@@brianbrotherston5940A fraction of the price? only if you live with a family to eat it up before it goes off, if you buy offers in the supermarket…
Much prefer going to a shop like Greggs, getting good prices for cheap, heating it up and eating it and not a worry about washing it up. 👍🫡
The sausage roll is by far the most popular item, sausage wrapped in puff pastry (most delicious when warm)
afaik it's sausage meat wrapped in puff pastry - they don't put in formed sausages. There's no sausage casing.
I have a Greggs just across the road from my house...I don't go in there very often. I like the bacon rolls, the steak bakes, the cheese & bacon puffs, and the chocolate doughnuts.
My Greggs obsession is actually mostly for the morning breakfast sandwiches as you can get a bacon roll and a coffee for less than £3 which is excellent value.
I prefer my bacon rolls from a cafe simply because its cooked there and then. I find Greggs bacon is often cold and dry because they cook it in batches.
@@sgttoxiiczzmy local Gregg's does store made/fried brekkies. Everything cooked and made in store. Breakfast roll? They fry the eggs sausage and bacon there. And gotta say it's like a home made brekky when you're too lazy lol
At Greggs, all our food is made fresh daily, meaning at the end of each day, any food that hasn’t been sold, is removed from our shelves. To prevent food waste, we send as much food as we can to our Outlet shops, where it is sold the next day at a discount.
A Greggs Outlet is a shop where our unsold food is redistributed and sold at a lower price.
Our Outlet shops help us to tackle food waste, while allowing people in disadvantaged areas to enjoy our food at a huge discount.
Greggs have nearly 3,000 branches nationwide and are still expanding. It’s basically a fast food takeaway shop that have limited seating and they stay open until 6,7 or 8 pm depending on location. Their prices are fairly cheap and you can fill yourself up for not much money.
There are many TH-cam videos of Americans trying out Greggs over here !
Greggs have more stores than mcdonald's uk stores
There is one in Glasgow that is open until late/early hours to catch the post pub crowd
As a railway worker greggs are a godsend
most interchange stations have one or near by
Where u can get a bacon buttie and a cup of tea for circa £3
Many people, myself included, love Greggs for ‘food-to-go’, often taking food from the shop and eating it on a bench on the street or in the park.
I adore their cheese ploughman’s baguettes.
Love your videos.
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Can you imagine not knowing or ever tried a Greggs Sausage Roll, 😢
Truly an existence I would not wish upon my worst enemy
So here in the UK every town and village had a local bakery where you would buy bread and baked goods such as pies and cakes, most towns still have their own local bakery's.
Most people would class Greggs as an standard bakery where as the normal local bakery will be of a higher quality and classed as artisan, but will be more biased towards bread and pies.
Greggs is a bakery / sandwich shop franchise so most towns have at least one Greggs, our small town has 3 😁
They do breakfast sandwiches, also lunch sandwiches, then various pies and 'baked slices' cakes, donuts.
Popular items are, breakfast bacon sandwich, the steak bake and the sausage rolls.
Most food delivery apps such as Deliveroo and Uber eats also deliver Greggs to your door.
Most people go to Greggs for a sausage roll and it's a fan favourite
Like the man said, it's the religion of the North.
Fun fact Greggs used to display alot if the stuff they sold in their windows. They never had indoor seating until early 2000's i think.
Edit: Greggs basically sells a variety of sweet things like muffins, gingerbread men, ice slices, doughnuts etc. A bake is basically a thinner pie with a filling in (my favourite has to be the chicken bake) then there's a variety of sandwiches, cold drinks and yes takeaway tea and coffee. There is a very small area of hot food too such as chicken goujons and wedges. Yes it is a chain of "restaurants" but most people treat it as a takeaway. During special occasions they decorate some cakes like plastic spiders on mini cakes at halloween and santa biscuits at christmas. All in all it is probably more popular than mcdonalds as they keep their prices down and you can find one basically all over the uk.
I’m from South Africa and when I went to visit my kids in England they are the best!!
Do you think Greggs would do well in south Africa?
Such savoury baked food shops exist in cities and towns all over Europe, but not as national chain enterprises. A host of local and regional fare wherever you are. A delight.
Love a cheeky Greggs!!
the Gregg's in our town closed and re-opened at a site x3 times the size due to demand!
Same, down by Liverpool. Used to be a lil shoebox sized building then they moved next door and have seats double the ovens and cabinets to store all the goods. Lol Gregg's is the UK.
My local one looks like its built into the side of a warehouse
We never had these shops when I was growing up. our Mothers and grandmothers used to bake the Sausage Rolls themselves for the men to take with them.
I’m nearly fifty and bakeries like Greggs and ones that were regional to the part of Scotland I grew up in, were quite prevalent. In fact the small town I grew up in probably had around half a dozen bakeries selling Scotch Pies, Sausage Rolls and Bridies along with bread and cakes. One of our regional chains opened its first shop in 1900 and Greggs was founded in 1939.
Bakeries have been prevalent in the UK high streets since the 1800s, so either you are the oldest person ever to live, you weren't very observant or your parents kept bakeries hidden from you so you wouldn't ask for cakes and stuff.
What Americans call pies are mostly sweet tarts. Technically, pies have a top and bottom pastry crust, and in the UK (and perhaps most other countries) usually contains a savory/meat filling.
Greggs used to be a conventional bakery, selling fresh bread and cakes. Then they started making and selling sandwiches, and eventually expanded from there to become the place to grab an "on-the-go" snack. Strangely, you can no longer simply buy a loaf of bread there.
There is never a bad time to go Greggs!
It's the savoury bakes that are at the heart of the Greggs franchise. Sausage rolls, steak bakes, etc. At lunchtime it's always queued out the door. School kids go there regularly. Prices are reasonable.
Anyone remember the Steak and Cheese roll? Looked like a sausage roll but had strips of steak in a thick gravy with cheese. Amazing. Discontinued now. ❤
Gregg's is for Sausage Rolls (warm) or Bacon Cobs with coffee,is a typical breakfast snack whilst on the way to work
Cobs! When you go outside of the Midlands in England, no-one knows what a cob is!
Birds sausage rolls are much better!
@@merylmelI think he meant roll?
Love me some Greggs, Sausage Rolls, Cheese Bakes. They generally only heat up the products in store and make them at a local Greggs factory/distribution centre.
I've seen our local one put in uncooked steak bakes/sausage rolls into on-site ovens, regularly (yep, I LOVE their Steak Bakes. ) ...
Food is freshed baked but may not be hot 😸
No they actually bake most of their products in store/or on the premises, they arrive either chilled or frozen from the main production factory though I believe they have more than one of these. there main product is their famous sausage roll, I read somwhere how many they produced each day it was over a million that equates to roughly 5 sausage rolls every second.
They receive the food pre-made but the pastry is raw. They get baked in-house
If you ever come to the UK then Greggs is an absolute must, they're pretty much in every town/city.
0:18 "Greggs also operates two stores in Belgium"
Greggs is primarily a bakers, with over 2,450 shops across the UK including 500 with franchise partners, but they're a very common lunchtime stalwart for a lot of people, especially those working in those cities. At lunchtime it's very common to see a queue going out of the door and along the street. Iceland (a freezer food chain in the UK) also sell Greggs food that can be cooked at home.
There's quite a few other American channels that have done "reviews" of Greggs food, you should react to one of those so you can see what the actual food looks like.
5:38 In the US, think of Subway, then you're on the right track.
5:59 Yes they do coffee, including different holiday versions, usually in Autumn/Christmas, people will get stuff for eating straight away or taking home, depends on their need.
7:41 I think they mean as far as ubiquity is concerned, they're EVERYWHERE, again, there's almost 2,500 of them, JUST IN THE UK!
8:27 Again, Think Subway but better and cheaper
9:10 If they were to open in the US I would guess they would feature pies more than the things they usually do, Americans seem to like a pie.
12:25 They usually look just like the photos, remember the rolls will have been baked on-site. You can also just buy rolls or cold things like Sausage Rolls (probably their favourite item) to cook/use at home.
12:49 HOW DARE YOU, kidding, porridge (or Porage if you're a true Scot) is made with oats, that's basically it, ground oats.
13:10 A savoury is "not a sweet" snack, so something which is not meant to be a sweet/dessert item. Think pies, bakes, scotch eggs, etc
13:40 It's not bread but it is pastry. Think about the top of a pie, that kind of pastry.
13:49 Yes, Steak and a thick gravy, Steak bakes are also a very popular item and it's decent quality meat.
14:30 Hence the "savoury"
17:26 People will usually get a lunch of a hot savoury, a sweet and a drink, whether that's Gregg's coffee or more likely one of their fresh fruit juice bottles. Usually they'll have a "meal deal" where you can buy all 3 for a cheaper price than they would total separately.
I'd definitely recommend looking up a review from another American, there's TONS on TH-cam.
All that hard work you did.... 😞 Tyler NEVER visits the comments. Someone might be nasty to him.
Tyler has never been out of the US... He will never go to the UK. Stop wasting your time.
@@damonx6109 I'm sure he's seen Greggs in other videos that he's reacted to!
@@damonx6109I don’t think Tyler has ever left his home to be honest with how narrow his mind is
Wow, Some real hostility in here. Have a sausage roll n' chill
Meat pies and pastries are also beloved in Australlia.
A high street chain is a store you will commonly find in towns on a street where you will find a street primarily comprised if shops.
Yes the bakes are indeed pockets of light pastry with the filling inside as named
@@brianbrotherston5940 What??
@@brianbrotherston5940 What are you babbling about?
@@brianbrotherston5940 Your comment was inexplicable in relation to mine - so my concise use of what was the result! Your personal derogatory comment was clearly indicative of your ignorance not mine!
Sausage rolls are 🔥🔥 and are what Greggs are most known for. A sausage roll and a hot drink are what so many people turn to when they’re in a hurry and want something quick. They’re bangin.
Greggs is life.... Anyone who disagrees isn't worth talking to. There's one area in the US that loves cornish pastys because some cornish miners moved there years ago so the locals still eat them. Greggs would do a roaring trade in that area!
you go during your lunch break, get a chargrilled chicken, and a steak bake for the walk back. Maybe a few sausage rolls, especially if there's a fresh tray out. On the highstreets at lunchtime, there's usually a queue out the door
My American husband tried his first Greggs sausage roll and decried they weren’t available in the states. They’d make a killing over there. ❤❤
They go for a SNACK and you can also buy them
at the counter to take away . People out shopping who dont want a restaurant can get them in containers to take away and as there is always some nearby green space close in English towns, they go and sit in the park or
even in the grounds of the Church etc and have a picnic!
Most Greggs shops have their 'cafe' and take orders if you want to sit and order.Its not my 'thing' really but what they do is really good quality!
Tyler, the pastry is PUFF pastry with generous savoury fillings and very light!
It's cheap and cheerful (you can get a sausage roll and a flat white coffee for £2.85 which is approximately $3.40 can't complain about that) 😊
A bakery used to be a place that sold bread to homes in villages or towns that could not afford to (or did not have) a bread oven, as in the rhyme 'prick it and pat it and mark it with B'. They began to sell pies/meat pastries to the factory workers 19th century. They also sold 'sweet buns' (like cakes) and furthermore cakes in general. Greggs is just one of these bakeries, but as more shops were built they became the preferred place to go. People buy freshly made bread, cream cakes, yeast doughnuts, tea or coffee and lunch items such as sandwiches, filled baguettes, sausage rolls, steak pasties, pizza slices, and meat pies. Cakes are for Afternoon Tea (3:30pm). You can also get breakfast rolls with sausage, bacon and egg. You tend to 'take away' as opposed to eating in, but some do have a spot 'o' luncheon during shopping in the town.
when i was a long distance HGV driver it was just great to call into a motorway sevice station go to GREGGS and get a tomato soup and a couple of sausage rolls get back to the cab and dunk the sausage rolls in the soup just like doing biscuits in tea
2 sausage rolls, a caramel custard donut and a hot chocolate is my order 🤤
the sausage bean and cheese melt is DIVINE... amazing!
the steak bake is pretty awesome too tbh...
check out some American reacts to having Greggs for the 1st time, like Magic Geekdom or something... that'll give you a great idea of what it's actually like
As a Brit who gets a Greggs sausage roll every morning on my way to my uni lecture, it blows my mind that Americans don't know what sausage rolls are. Mad that init
Love a good old gregs cheese bean and sausage pastry
Over here in Britain, my friend doesn’t like sweet pastries, funny how they differ a lot.
I disagree with a Reddit comment. You CAN buy a loaf of bread and I have done on occasion.
True, but I don't think most people do.
30 odd years ago Greggs took over a local Bakery and the bread was crap, they hadn't heard of Sourdough and the sausage rolls were not as good as under the original owner, a handed down family recipe for the sausage meat that died with him. No handmade Birthday or Anniversary Cakes either. Left with only one artisan Baker, the other side of town so had to get the car out. Hot out of the oven Hot Cross buns at 6am on Good Friday were gone as well.
In a few branches. I think most branches of Greggs stopped selling loaves in 2018.
Greggs now give bread away through Breakfast club Sponsorship. The school I work in gets a weekly delivery and it is Greggs own half in half bread.
Our local Greggs used to be called Bakers Oven, and it sold pretty much the exact same stuff, but it tasted better, maybe because I was younger
It is a coffee shop now in terms of what they offer. They have a barista machine and they offer a few types of coffee. But that's recent, now you don't ask for a white coffee you ask for a white americano. They generally close by 2pm and no bacon/sausage baps after 11am. After 11am it's what they have left over including various baguettes with ham/cheese/chicken and popcorn chicken. Alongside steak bakes, Cornish pasties, sausage rolls if you want something hot. Also they do lots of doughnuts, cookies, slices etc.
Like others here I too have watched as Greggs turned from the north east's best kept secret to National treasure. The sausage rolls are my go to. Four for 3-4 quid and your sorted for the day. My first Greggs- back in the dark early 1990s hung over after my first night out in the legendary 'Toon'.
I was born in Scotland in the mid 70’s and we had Greggs up there when I was a kid. Greggs expanded from just being in North East England in the 70’s.
There are a lot of bakery chains all over Europe. In Germany we have traditional bakeries that have several branches. It is more cost effective to have one big bakery delivering their products to their shops. There are dozens of regional chains but some national or international chains. On top of that there are "baking shops", bakeries and supermarkets that only bake off frozen stuff from an industry supplier by the sales staff, not bakers. In most cases these stores are franchise stores.
How can a grown man not know what a high street chain is?or what porridge is? Or what savory means?
Because he is dumb🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Americans are just beginning to notice that not only are there other countries in the world which is a shock to many of them, but that a lot of these countries are a lot more interesting, sophisticated and generally better than America... Tyler is learning so much and is a very likeable chap 😀
American problems 😂
Just a American also I approve it’s the religion on northern England lol
Greggs also sell fantastic cheese scones!
Steak bake and sausage roll are standard when going to Gregg's also might want a sandwich and something sweet depending on how hungry you are. Tomato soup tastes like no other 👍
The second image looks like it's from wrekenton high street in Tyne and wear
We recently had a drive thru Greggs open near us and it made headline news
Workers in cities often grab a Gregg’s pasty for a lovely savoury lunch.
Greggs is an institution over the Pond. When I was a kid, they were called 'Braggs'. In 1999, Greggs rebranded its one hundred Braggs shops as Greggs of the Midlands. I used to pop into Braggs in the early 90s (pre-Greggs) on my lunch break when at Tech college. They did a delicious Pineapple cream tart. Yum.
Great video. Porridge is oatmeal and it’s puff pastry not shortcrust so it’s savory. The most popular buy at Greggs is definitely the sausage roll. I think Americans would definitely enjoy them I can’t believe they don’t sell them there.
Ps there are more Gregg's stores in the UK than there are McDonalds (reason being the food is actually edible and not chemically induced crap like McDonalds)
PPS, McDonald's in the UK is highly regulated and the food is much better than that outside the UK like in the states.
I have a soft spot for Gregg's. If you hard up, they do deals for something like a warm sausage roll and a coffee really cheaply.
The most commonly bought foods are probably sausage rolls and the steak and chicken bakes.
It's no accident it started in the North-East, any area with a great deal of poverty. Posher coffee shops fall down a bit because they are too expensive, and seem to have an obsession with never serving anything but sweet things. It is amazing that you Americans have no word for non- sweet edibles. We often call these 'savouries', and are what Gregg's excel in, without completely cutting out the sweet stuff.
"What do most people go to Greggs to get?"
Indigestion.
Simultaneously unfunny and untrue 🤡
I loved this in college for a quick lunch as a Greg’s was only across the road and served the same things as our lunch room but cheaper in most cases
I would usually grab a steak bake and a doughnut on a Wednesday when I only had 30 min in between classes as I could eat in line for lifts for class
Many love Greggs, the only ones that usually don't are the ones who want people to be going to the more expensive local bakeries, and of course all the folk in Cornwall because they love their independent places with the official Cornish pasties (i believe Greggs do sell basically the same but they can't be called Cornish). I don't like Greggs simply because i can never get the food hot, you have to time it just right otherwise it's barely warm and all stodgy. You will get better quality at local none chain bakery's but the price increase is much more than the quality increase.
The difference is that a lot of customers for Greggs arrive on foot. Less of a car culture here. So imagine you are on lunch break from a nearby business, or are out shopping and fancy a quick lunch. You can buy a savoury item and eat it walking along if you're in a hurry, or find a bench if the weather is nice. Look up Cornish pasties and their history - miners used to encase their dinner in pastry before lunchboxes existed (you discarded the pastry). We have shops specialising in those - used to be a Devon Savouries chain; not sure if it's still going.
Bacon and sausage bap for breakfast in Greggs when on early shifts
At our theatre there was a discussion on how to improve the health of the stage crew.
Management suggestion was
Close Greggs!!
Imagine putting meat in pastry 😱
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Hi we have about 5 Greggs in coventry UK. Greggs sells a wide variety of goods ,you can get enything from brekferst, lunch and pasty ,or meat or vegetable slices,donuts , chocolate eclairs field with cream, some of the larger Gregg HAVE setting , a stake bake is about £3 .the s andwichs are made each day and thay have paster pot wich have pesto and mine motsereler ball's. Hopefully this will help you understand. Take care. 😄😄😄👍👍
Even tiny little Nuneaton has 3.
You should do a video reacting to Americans try Greg's there is a ton of them on you tube
Less chance of a takedown strike with original content
Had one this morning, it's a national treasure
How timely, I had a Greggs delivered about 3 hours ago! (Bacon and omlet roll with coffee and 4 sausage rolls to feast on over the next few days). EDIT - The video was good, but my Greggs was better :)
Delivered? Luxury!
"High Street" more or less equals "Main Street". "High Street fashion", for example, means clothing you can buy in stores along the town's main shopping thoroughfare. It's the place in town where you can do most of your shopping outside of a commercial center or mall, along with restaurants, bars and the like.
If a town in England doesn't have a Greggs it isn't a town
so true
Big fan of your vids dude!! This made me laugh so much! Please bear in mind that Greggs sausage rolls are like 90% of what Greggs is that is absolutely the main the item and the other stuff is just extras haha…
if you ever have a Greggs sausage roll it Will change your life… especially if you get on that has just came out… the pizzas are class too!! Love Greggs… there is a massive one in Newcastle that serves into the early hours so class when your super drunk haha 😛
Can I just say, this reminded me once I was in Dubrovnik in crotia and as a drunk Brit all I wanted was a pasty and I some how stumbled across a bloody pasty shop somewhere in the middle
Of town that was open and I’m not joking that I was able to grab a Cornish pasty and a sausage roll… my mates thought I imagined it but o had a pasty and a burger hidden in a drawer the next day hahaha