American Reacts to Greggs | British Bakery Chain
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As an American I have never heard of the British bakery chain Greggs. Today I am very interested to learn about this establishment and why it is so popular in Britain. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
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!
How is it that I can comprehend & understand food from every Country, but you can't understand the concept of savoury pastries.They have them in American cities.Imagine a Cornish pasty.Thats a savoury pastry.Simple concept, and old as flour.
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.
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
Porridge is known as oatmeal in America
porridge. {dry puke in a box. just milk and simmer]
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 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
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
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).
Way more expensive in rip off Australia though.
@@chockablock34839 a meat pie? $4.50 here (£2.30).. is that a lot?
"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
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.👵🏴🌹🌹
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
My favourite Greggs takeaway is not buying anything from this ridiculous chain in the first place !!
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
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.
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!)
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.
An American couple who have spent some time in the UK run a CZcams 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”.
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.
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 !!
Ridiculous comment - Stop being lazy and make your own sandwiches at a fraction of the price - I DO !!
@@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. 👍🫡
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.
the Gregg's in our town closed and re-opened at a site x3 times the size due to demand!
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.
Can you imagine not knowing or ever tried a Greggs Sausage Roll, 😢
Love a cheeky Greggs!!
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.
Most people go to Greggs for a sausage roll and it's a fan favourite
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 👍
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.
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.
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!
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)
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 CZcams 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
Imagine putting meat in pastry 😱
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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.
£3 too much !!
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.
@@sgttoxiiczz I agree ! - Have only shopped in Greggs once and was certainly NOT impressed - Supermarket bakeries have much more choice and are far more competative..
I think at times it seems like this man as just landed from another world.
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
We recently had a drive thru Greggs open near us and it made headline news
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.
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.
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
You missed some of the sweets like Bavarian slice and custard slice, eclaires
Latte ave $3.00
Special
Latte + bacon roll ( size of McDonald's saus/ egg muffin)
$4.20
Pasty $2
Saus roll $ 1.50
Cheap decent quality food on the go or sit in and eat
We pay in Pounds mate,not funny money.
Bacon and sausage bap for breakfast in Greggs when on early shifts
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
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
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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. ❤
Sausage, bean and cheese melts are gorgeous! Lovely for lunch on a cold day.
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
Meat in pies are particular favourite of Brits and Australians too.
Hard to go past a pie shop in Australia
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
They do have other products but they're usually seasonal, like the festive bake. Probably why it's not included on the website since it's only around for a limited time, and I'm pretty sure there's actually a wider array of sweet products in stored but it gives a general idea of what you can expect
Meat pies and pastries are also beloved in Australlia.
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.
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?
pasties (or bakes as greggs call them) are a mining food. You put ingredients into a puff pastry, bake it and then when you go into the mine you have a handy meal you can eat when you have your break, cos your hands are full of coal dust you hold one corner of it and eat it to there and then throw that small piece away.
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 😂
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.
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.
Finding out that other countries don’t have the joy that is Greggs has really changed my worldview
I remember back in the day - 1989-90 in Leadenhall Market London there used to be a pastry shop that sold béchamel sauce and ham puff pastries. They were to die for!
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
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.
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
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.
Yes the bakes are indeed pockets of light pastry with the filling inside as named
If you can find the grossly overpriced filling !!
@@brianbrotherston5940 What??
@@davesimpson5702 Have you no manners ?
@@brianbrotherston5940 What are you babbling about?
@@davesimpson5702 I am NOT babbling but it is extremely rude just to use the term WHAT ! - Sorry, but I cannot help if you are so ignorant !!
Porridge oh colonial one is oats heated up in milk to form a thick paste consistency then sprinkled with sugar or berries depending on your taste .🇬🇧
It's more or less what's called oatmeal in the US.
Pastry in the UK is a term for the flour based baked stuff of any kind other than types of bread (of which there are many types too)
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) 😊
They serve soup in cups as well as coffee and tea. Also a vast range of sandwiches The Stake bake is chunks of beef in a savoury sauce., and is one of my favourites, along with the sausage cheese and (baked) bean bake.
A decent cup of tea, or coffee. Their jam doughnuts are nice, plus the muffins, apple danish, custard slice. Bacon and cheese slice, pizza slice (yum). They used to do a beef and stilton slice which was really nice.
Good video. It's only been over the past 30 or so years that Greggs has expanded from being a local bakery chain in the Newcastle area; prior to that there were other bakery chains and franchises elsewhere in the UK - and of course lots of independent ones. In many ways these were the precursors of the fast-food outlets, as most bakers had a heated display cabinet from with the sold hot pies and sausage rolls at the very least - as well as filled sandwiches, rolls and cakes and hot and cold drinks: the kinds of items that many people might pick up for lunch. Those that had the space would often add a fairly basic cafe selling similar items, which Greggs is increasingly doing now, too. Sausage rolls are literally that by the way - sausage meat that has been rolled up in puff pastry and then baked in an over - as opposed to rolls on sausage or sausage sandwiches, which are actual pre-cooked sausages used as fillings!
Greggs bought out some bakery chains in other parts of the UK in the 70’s. Where I grew up in the West of Scotland we had Greggs when I was a young child and I was born in the mid 70’s.
Worked in an office above a Gregg's shop for 20 years. Smelling meat pies cooking first thing in the morning was gross, but chocolate cookies baking all afternoon were irresistable. Best if all were massive vanilla slices - take the lid off first and eat like an iced biscuit, then devour the base topped with 2 inch sweet custard, yum!
Greggs also sell their products to a grocery chain uncooked that you can buy and cook at home.
You can eat in some Greggs or takeaway. They are also franchised on the motorway service areas. There are several in my town.
Imagine if you can a combination of Subway, IHOP,Dunkin Donuts and a small diner or hot drink store. Most of their food comes from a few regional bakeries and are delivered to the individual stores every day by a fleet of vans, which sometimes do a delivery three or four times daily and if a store has an amount of excess items leftover at the end of the day, the drivers collect it and then take it to a small number of their stores where it is sold at a bargain rate the next morning. In my city I estimate that there is at least 20 of their own stores and only one of them is a discount shop, sometimes when the discount delivery arrives the staff make up a box of assorted items or sometimes a customer will ask for specific items, they will get large quantities of loaves or bread rolls and you can pick up a carrier bag of such items still in good condition for a pound or less, possibly a tenth of the normal price. I do know that the local discount store has a line of customers right to the door on a regular basis and at the end of the day they clear their shelves and donate anything leftover toa local street food charity.
Steak bakes are amazing. Sausage rolls can also be fancy. I make at home pork and black pudding sausage rolls. Also pork and chilli as well as vegetarian ones
Usually people go in to buy a hot savoury like a steak bake, and a doughnut, basically eat them the go!
You know when out shopping & don't have time to go to a café, grab a Greggs.
Not all greggs have tables. But there really is no other bakery chain to beat it. They do coffee, cappuccino, latte, fizzy drinks, bottled water etc.
It's really good to be able to buy a hot savoury .. sausage rolls are popular .. & could pick some sweet cakes to the home as well.
You so much make me laugh, I love your videos!! 🙂
Porridge is oats cooked in milk or water and either sweetened with sugar, or a lot of people use salt. A lot of people will plonk a blob of jam in it. Very good for you, very filling too
In the US the closest I'd say would be somewhere like Subway, but for savoury pastries, but you can't customise the toppings. I'm really surprised no one has compared it with this. It's an indoor kiosk with a heated glass glass cabinet for the savoury pastries, another glass cabinet for the sweet pastries, a cold drinks chiller, a sandwich & baguette chiller, a warm section for your fried chicken/potato wedges/soups/hash browns etc to sit in, and then a bit where you can add sugar and milk to your hot drinks. The one near me doesn't even have any tables.
Have you ever tasted a croissant/strudel? Greggs sausage rolls and bakes are basically that, but with savoury pie filling, or sausage. Americans would go wild for it. If they like hotdogs and fried food, then Greggs needs to be in the US too.
As a vegan who works a few shops down from a Greggs, I like to get the vegan sausage roll, vegan steak bake, vegan curry bake (not far off a samosa), vegan mexican chicken bake, vegan "southern fried chicken" baguette, hash browns, potato wedges, belgian buns, glazed donuts, protein bars, and coffees for my colleagues.
I've seen quite a few American CZcamsrs come to the UK and try Greggs and they love it
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 :)
Tyler you may remember i come from Newcastle upon Tyne and guess what i had this morning while in town, yip 2 Sausage Rolls and a Steak Bake from Greggs :) delicious!
I’m from South Africa and when I went to visit my kids in England they are the best!!
I wasn't born in the city I live in now, but when I moved here, Greggs was Thurstons. (I had a chicken bake about an hour ago.)
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 CZcams.
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
I first encountered Greggs in the early 1980s in Manchester. There was one near where I worked. In those days it was mainly sandwiches and cheese pies along with cakes and buns which you bought to eat either at home or in the office not in the shop. I would buy my lunch there and occasional mid-morning or mid afternoon cakes. There was no such thing as take away coffee or tea from there in those days and sales were all over the counter. Now, in many, there is seating. You've never lived if you've not had vanilla slices or sausage rolls.
There are some called Greggs Outlet but I don't know how they differ from the normal ones as I've never been in an outlet. (Outlets in the UK are retail places not electricity connection points!)
High street chain - means a number of shops mainly on high streets in towns and cities across the country.
Porridge will always be offered for breakfast in both Scotland and Ireland and often in England and Wales.
Steak in pastry, think of beef Wellington!
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!
Greggs is also in Ireland
Fun fact: Did you know that all the bakes have different markings on the top so they know which fillings are in each bake?
Hi I work at greggs. sausage rolls and breakfasts are very popular. Also the coffee. We are a really busy shop .
They are called Cornish pasties in the UK-- and the best ones are really ones that are sold and made fresh onsite. We had one where I used to live in Richmond (Upon Thames) and they had delicous ones - I liked Beef and Ale ones, and Stilton (British Blue Cheese) ones. People used to line up for lunch to get freshly made ones.
Not all pasties are Cornish pasties, the ones that ive seen sold in gregs are devon pasties. Although i have seen devon pasties miss labelled as Cornish pasties which is very sad
Yes, you can get coffee in Greggs. If you go in in the morning, you can get a sausage, bacon, or sausage AND bacon cobb, and a drink for around £2.00, (but I haven't been in for several years, so it's probably gone up now). The breakfast cobb they put together while you wait. A drink can be coffee, orange juice or a soft drink. They do hot sausage rolls, (Sausage meat rolled in puff pastry, and a wide variety of bakes, A steak bake is a puff pastry case filled with , (I think?), braised steak, or minced steak? Or you can get them with cheese and beans, or chicken etc. They do a wide variety of doughnuts and cakes, sandwiches and crisps and drinks. You can get a meal deal, a sandwich, a side and a drink for a set price.
Greggs open up very early in the morning and are open all day until about 5pm. In the mornings, it mostly tends to be people going to work grabbing a breakfast cobb, (bread roll with stuff in it), or grabbing something for lunch.
Nottingham city centre isn't that big, and we have about 4 Greggs stores scattered around.
Greggs sells freshly prepared sandwiches and rolls which contain meat and fresh salad. Sausage rolls and pasties. Their cakes are pretty good and they used to make a patisserie cream doughnut with a fudge topping, which was to die for, but they don't make it any more, curious! They do sell bottled water and "soda" but their coffee is good for watering plants.
I have also never heard of Cooplands and Pound Bakery.
Presumably they're Northern as well, though Greggs are everywhere inow.
Bacon and sausage baguette with coffee in the morning. Steak bake, filled roll, sausage roll or pizza slice for lunch. Cakes for treats. Hot and cold drinks - something for most people any time of day
There are usually a good few more sweet options available in the Greggs I've been in. Fresh cream meringues and such
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.
cakes, pies pasties coffee, crisps ('chips') . veggie & vegan pasty/sausage-roll options.
pastry enclosed sweets & savouries.
My favourite biscuit ('cookie') atm is the jammy heart shorbread biscuit with jam ('jelly') .
in Cardiff we have a local bakers/pie shop called Brutons.
You can get a breakfast 'bap'. (bread roll with sausage or bacon).
yes, breakfast, lunch and cakes for dinner.
none in Cornwall, I think - the great pasty wars of '09 🙂
The taste is amazing, when I get Greggs I get a bacon and cheese turnover, sausage roll, steak bake, pizza yum yum, shortbread, custard and caramel English doughnut. The pizza is so underrated it’s weird because it taste like no pizza I’ve ever had before, the sauce is amazing.
Sausage roll is like a hotdog that has a coarse texture and the bread(pastry) flakes to the floor more than what you can actually bite. Steak bake is like catfood inside of the above. I know im not selling it well yet sometimes we just crave it. Personally I go to greggs for the cheap coffee while im at work and a sweet treat like a yumyum (similar to a long glazed donut but its fluffy layered awesomeness)
Greggs is mostly for savoury food in my mind. A quick sausage roll or a steak bake.
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