Foreigner's experience at Greggs | Love it or hate it?
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- As a foreigner living in the UK, let's visit Greggs!! Do I love it or hate it... only one way to find out. Make sure to leave your verdict on Greggs! I'll be visiting as many iconic British businesses, restaurants and chains as I can!
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Hey! I'm Alanna - a twenty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.
I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a CZcams video every Tuesday & Friday plus an additional video every Saturday on my Patreon account. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 5:30pm GMT/BST on Twitch.
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You look so happy wrapped around your steak bake. You are now an honorary Brit.
😂 Thank you!
As the wise men of AC/DC once said: "It's a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll!"
Wise, wise men.
Best quote of the day mate.👍
Sex and drugs and sausage rolls.
Hiya Mike, I've just finished Brian Johnsons book, it was a bloody good read
It really is, twenty minutes into town!
And as Kiss once said, God gave sausage rolls to you.
Or, as The Stones say "I know, they're only sausage rolls but I like em".
You are actually the first American that tries Greggs to hit the nail on the head with this video - It's brilliant for what it is! Cheap, quick and actually good food! I mean, those steak bakes served on a plate would cost you about a fiver 😂 Good job and glad you enjoyed!
Greggs is nice and reliable. If you find yourself in a strange town you know what you're getting when you go to Greggs and honestly it's going to be more than half decent, even if not as exciting as you might get from a local baker. I'd go to a local bakery first but I'm not going to turn my nose up at Greggs. The vegetarian sausage rolls are also well worth trying even if you are a carnivore (as I am).
If I find myself hungry in a strange town Greggs is the last place I'd go, just ahead of McD's but most of the time I'd rather not bother with anything at all.
Impressed by your increased boldness in recording in public!!
As a formerly puzzled American l’m so glad to finally find out what a Greggs is. I’ve seen them loads of times on Google Street View and for some reason it never crossed my mind that it could be food. I thought it could be a stationery shop, convenience store, book shop…baked goods never crossed my mind. I checked their website and I wouldn’t mind trying a few things there if I ever visit the UK again.
As others have said, they're a nationwide bakery and sandwich outlet, the baked food equivalent to KFC, or McDonalds. The menu range is pretty much the same, wherever the store is located. At this time of year, they usually add some festive items to the menu.
@@brianwhittington5086 One difference between them and KFC or McDonalds is that it is mostly take-away rather than eat in. You will usually have about 4 tables to eat in, but most people don't use them.
@katrinabryce You have to pick your time, or be lucky to drop on an empty table.
@@katrinabryce Take-away, and the food they sell isn't necessarily hot, which saves on taxes. It *may* be hot, but that's just because it happens to be freshly baked, not because it's deliberately served hot. The "pasty tax" was a controversial government plan to change the law in 2012.
@@redfishswimming I still struggle with that, whenever someone says "I had 5 guys last night", I think "Impressive but I didn't need to know that" and then realise they meant food.
The best thing about Greggs is the breakfast deal. You can’t go wrong with a bacon roll and a coffee for £2.50
Well, I couldn't really call that a coffee....but that is a good price for a bacon roll.
Egg & Bacon muffin and unlimited brews (Latte for me) for £3.25 at Wetherspoons...........
@@Salfordian weatherspoons breakfast deals are incredible.
@@chuck1804 just get a normal coffee if you don't want the iced one. Greggs coffee is really good
@@chuck1804 - I think you may not realise that @Andrew Jones meant a hot, 'proper' coffee & bacon roll (must be with brown sauce!) and NOT that tinned cold (coffee flavoured milk - LOL!)....
I'm in the north so it's almost required to like Greggs. We even have a Greggs drive-through up here.
I don't like coffee, but I once had some Portuguese coffee-aficionado friends come to visit me, and they insisted on trying every coffee shop that they didn't have in Portugal, and Greggs actually got the nod as the best one.
YEP
Greggs is the McDonalds of bakeries...not particularly great, but you know exactly what you're going to get! Next time get a cheese & onion bake - that's my fave! 🙂
The Micky D analogy is spot on. There are other way better fast food joints, but you know what you're getting with Micky D (Greggs).
Ahh that's such a good analogy!
Nah, Pound Bakery is the McDonald's of bakeries: that one is even lower down 🤣
Nah, Pound Bakery is the McDonald's of bakeries: that one is even lower down 🤣
Nah, Pound Bakery is the McDonald's of bakeries: that one is even lower down 🤣
As a greggs employee I can truthfully say they look after their employees and are one of the best places you could work.
That's not true
I have a Greggs five minutes away from my flat. Last Saturday I had a steak bake, a sausage cheese and bean bake (you gotta try one of those!) and a triple chocolate doughnut for my lunch. Did I feel proud of myself? No. Did I regret a single bite? HELL, no! 😁 I wouldn't do it every day but when I do...life is good.
Sausage cheese and baked bean bake is beautiful 😊
The only way that's a balanced diet is if you've got one of those bakes in each hand!
@@andrewcharles5575 😂
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I'm biased because I'm a Geordie and Gregg's was born on Tyneside so I grew up with it and I love it.
Wow. When it goes to the bakes I go for Sausage and bean. And Sandwich I get a Mexican chicken baguette. Quality stuff. If I could afford to I would go every day 😂✌
WOW alanna not giving a f about people being around while vlogging. this is a milestone in our history.
that guy coughing up lumps outside of a greggs. very apt.
I'm not sure you can beat the caramel custard doughnut from greggs if you ever do part 2 sweet things from greggs, this is one to try.
I honestly never thought about the donuts but they seem to be pretty popular in the comments!
I mean there is 2 counter’s for a reason😂 you haven’t even experienced half the shop yet 👍
those things were around in the early 90s in Warrens in the West Country. I've tried the Greggs ones and they ain't great in comparison sadly. The one Warrens do these days look fancier but they're very similar to 90s ones and much better than Greggs. The Greggs one just have a very cheapy vibe but then Warrens is expensive these days. They weren't in the early 90s though.
Greggs went through a phase of buying up other bakeries. I used to work in Glasgow and there seemed to be a Greggs every 100 yards, because of all the shops they'd just rebranded.
Just a phase?
Best thing about Greggs is your getting the same taste & product every time you order which can’t always be said for Café or the local Bakery, plus greggs is probably half the price at least.
Greggs is a life saver to me. Many times I have been in London or Liverpool on a cold wet day and just searched out a Greggs for a hot sausage-roll and coffee, (hot coffee), and been revitalised! Lol Its quick and cheap too, so what's not to like? Love your reactions too! 🙏
Merry Christmas and happy new year T0 ALL Y0U W0RKING AT GREGGS, AND TO THE 0wners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!
Iceland (shop not country) do a range of frozen Greggs. My go to is the Cheese & Bacon Wrap. A slice of cheese, a rasher of bacon with a folded block of puff pastry. Pretty much covers all the essential food groups in a single serving.
Their fruit pasty range is nice too
Completely forgot about the bacon and cheese wrap! Ps. nice disambiguation.
Never been to an Iceland but that sounds delicious. I think I'll check that out.
@@CowmanUK Iceland started with just frozen food (hence the name). They have expanded into other grocery items and also trade as 'Food Warehouse'. I would liken them to ALDI or LIDL. Cheaper than the big supermarkets and some good quality items.
And it's now the only place you can get the vegan steak bakes.
I did my undergrad in Newcastle, the home of Greggs, so there is one every few hundred metres in the centre. Greggs pasties are better tepid or cold
I like to order a sausage roll, with a sausage roll on the side, and I enjoy a sausage roll for a starter, before rounding off the meal with a lovely desert sausage roll
I went to Greggs this morning, a bacon roll, sausage roll and coffee. Yum yum in my tum
Love the new series! Looking forward to the next installment...🇬🇧
More to come!
Thanks Alanna, it's the law that you have to eat something from Greggs at least once in your life! 🙏🙏
I prefer independent baker. But i work all over the country & can rely Greggs for quick & convenient food.
Their Tomato soup is the best anywhere! & I mean Anywhere!!
Try a Sausage roll dipped it Greggs Tomato soup. Thats my fav.
Great video Alanna! We only had our first Greggs open a couple of years ago in Plymouth. I think they were always wary of the many cornish pasty shops we have lol.
Greggs are okay, a UK institution I guess, always good in an emergency when you need something quick to eat in when you are in a hurry. You can't beat a good old sausage roll followed by either an Iced bun or a Custard tart or two. Loved the video Alanna and the consumer research, I now have a craving for a sausage roll. 😀😀😀
*This scale is absolutely raving mental and wildly out of control. Just when “seven out of seven” on the first one hasn’t thrown you enough, BANG, in she comes with “four rectangles out of four”. And then she has the coffee.*
Greggs are a British icon,we couldn't live without them 🤔😋 cheers Alana great video!
Thanks so much!
Greggs is OK. It used to be loads better when it was a more traditional bakery. It still seems weird to me that they’ve become this huge nationwide fast food chain rather than the local bakers (albeit a chain locally) that I remember them as when I was a kid.
I used to love it while they were still running Baker's oven, which was basically Greggs but the food was served hotter and kept warm, for a bit of extra cost to the customer. Now i don't like it unless it's only a few mins out of the oven. Chicken bake over steak for me.
Greggs Cheese and Onion Bake is my hangover guilty pleasure, so strange in concept but so good in real life. I also really like the festive bake when it comes out this time of year! And ofc sausage roll is a great snack - I've also been partial to a pizza slice every now and again
At this time of year my favourite is Greggs Festive slice, give it a try!
What you need to do is get yersel upto Newcastle upon Tyne and get some Greggs stottie cakes and fill um with Ham and pease pudding add a tad of salt, its geet canny like As for Greggs in general its very good and tasty for mass produced food ideal to fill a hole. Keep the good vlogs coming 🙏👍
Leeds city centre has about 7 Greggs outlets within a 10 minute walk of each other. 3 of them are literally around the corner from each other.
Also happy 7 year British-versary.
They also have a factory/regional distribution centre there too i go there often since i deliver the stuff from Newcastle (Head Office) often,,Leeds make all the creams and donughts :)
Good to find somewhere that the big issues of the day are being debated. OK hat in the ring, steak and chicken bakes are far too salty but the cheese and onion is sheer joy in a paper bag. Our Greggs in central Manchester opens at 4am
it's next to the train station so perfect for home going clubbers and there are always queues. They really know their target market
If you"re on the go a coffee and a sausage roll is a great way to fill that
hunger pang
My old girlfriend was applying for a job at Greggs some years ago. Her 3 year old saw the logo on screen, and said: 'Oh Mummy, it's sausage rolls.' :)
Thank god! As a home town export, these assessments of Greggs can be taken a bit personally.
£1.20 for a sausage roll... they used to do 4 for that price!! never been the same since the name change from Thurstons. They did THEE best cornish pasty ever (cant call it that now of course)
It was the previous CEO that turned Greggs from a bakery which happened to do baked goods into a food-to-go business, to great success.
I see comments about using a local bakery instead but I don't have one. It used to be the Greggs but, for bread, it couldn't really compete with the nearby supermarket (which also does sausage rolls, but they're shite).
Good to see getting to the heart of modern British culture
even fr0m calif0rnia,, L0ve Newbury, been t0 greggs there
Greggs is great value for a quick cuppa tea or coffee and their sweet treats are good too 👍👍😊
Greggs is great especially the breakfast deal other than that Steak bakes. Greggs is now available on a lot of motorway service stations offering affordable food
I don't hate Greggs, but I regret that a year or so after they moved into my small town, two excellent family-run bakeries went out of business. Their pies, pasties and sausage rolls were much better than Greggs and, despite being smaller companies, they had a wider range of cakes, pastries and bread. Greggs was slightly cheaper, but not dramatically, so I guess it was the Greggs brand-name that drew the customers, especially the younger generation, and the smaller shops couldn't compete in the end. Such a shame!
That looks so good! I don't care if they're made by machine by millions, I want one.
Yeah it's usually the breakfast deal for me too, a cappuccino and bacon & sausage bap with brown sauce to start the day.
Gregg's Festive Bake - Only available in December each year. Food of the gods!
They should give you a free Greggs Christmas jumper (coming to Primark) for advertising them
Love a steak bake, chicken slice or corned beef bake 😋
You should have tried the caramel custard doughnuts
sounds like this series is gonna be great! great start to it too
That sausage roll 🤤
I mean, not that I’ve ever had one, but it’s pastry and sausage. Sign me up!
I've never seen someone so excited just to go to Greggs.
See how excited she gets when visiting a Wetherspoons.... LOL!
been ar0und the w0rld, its number 0ne with ME
If you are travelling and don't know the local area, need a quick lunch, it is great to know that at Greggs you know where you stand. Obviously it was better before the sausage roll tax came in cause then you always got it hot.
I just came back from greggs and this shows up, eyyyy I'm not surprised lol ~addicted~
I'm like you, they are not the best but I would still get lunch there if that was what there was. It is an old established bakery in Newcastle but I think they only became a national firm within about the last 15 years or so. I do tend to get a sausage roll but also some kind of cake such as bread pudding, an Eccles cake or a doughnut.
When I moved to the south coast in the mid 90s there were no Gregg's down here. The cheapest cheese and onion pasty in a local bakery was £1.00, whereas in Gregg's in Durham it was 41p. I had worked in London before moving here and there was a Gregg's in Wandsworth, where a cheese and onion pasty was 55p. I thought that I was being ripped off.
One Christmas after visiting home I brought a load of Gregg's pasties and stotties back for my poor, deprived southern friends to try.
Strange as it may seem, it is impossible for me to choose my favourite Greggs product, at least not as such. I enjoyed a sausage roll or two from a branch of Thurstons in Sheffield in the mid 70s, which I think was owned by Greggs by then, but wasn't branded as Greggs. I don't recall them as particularly memorable. I think the company has grown massively since last I was in the UK, 20 yrs ago. It wasn't the household name back then that it seems to be today. My youngest, at school in Somerset tells me he and his mates raid a nearby Greggs after every lacrosse scrimage, but then teenage boys will eat anything 🙄.
will and kate sh0uld take the kids!
Hiya Alanna, I don't mind Greggs Bakery, Greggs were founded in Newcastle Upon Tyne, not too sure when, it's not my favourite, we've got a Butchers in Whitehaven called Haighs, the sausage rolls are much larger but its costs a little more than what Greggs have got, the Cheese and Onion slice's turn to slop once you've had 2 bites out of it, that's for our north American cousins, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Had a Greggs sausage roll dipped into Greggs tomato soup at dinner time. Marvellously tasty.
I love the consistency of Gregs no matter where you are you know what you’ll get, but there’s just something wrong about coffee in a can
I tried one... It tasted like coffee 'flavoured' milk ! 'The votes are in, have been counted and verified...' I'm sticking with the Greggs 'proper' (hot) coffee...
Can you get better than a steak bake? Yes, but you'd have to alter the conditions set at 1:20 so that you could've bought the festive bake. Arguably wouldn't even need to do that since I'd choose a cheese and onion bake or a sausage, bean and cheese melt over a steak bake. Either way I also fall on the Love It side of Greggs. Just keep the festive bake's supremacy in mind next time ;)
Greggs recent clothing range in Primark did my head in. I felt sorry for any tourist with no idea who probably happily bought the stuff! Just a baffling collaboration! Fond of the edible stuff, though, when in the mood!
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For some reason I always go there when I'm with my sis in Scotland. She loves the breakfast type items. When you're really peckish there's nothing like a steak bake n coffee.
Greggs is not so bad and there’s always one handy no matter where you are in the UK, but this is the commercial side of bakery foods. This brand came from the little shops that every town and city had in the uk, we still have a lot of the wee private bakers in Scotland and I would visit them before Greggs if one’s handy. My goto is defo sausage rolls although they are not as good as they once were, great video thanks
Trying to work out where Greggs was in Rainham, then I saw the Tesco store sign. Got it. So that's where it is. Wetherspoon is easier to find.
Greggs are obviously doing something right, as their ever-expanding empire shows, but they don't offer anything that wouldn't be tastier from your local bakery. It's really a triumph of marketing profile and careful choice of location.
Having been out of the UK for years, and with the wonderful bakery that once existed in a particular town, I took my daughters to a Greg’s - we all wanted a pasty. We each had a different pasty. We all took one bite and threw the rest in the bin. It was bloody awful.
If they are warm it's ok but they are never warm😩
See, that's where you went wrong. You went to Greg's. Greg cant bake. You need to go to Greggs.
The bakes are a shadow of their former selves nowadays, but the sausage roll does still reign supreme.
Greg's terrible.
It's definitely at least a rung up the ladder from Spoons! I don't mind a Greggs but I wouldn't say I love it.
I use that Greggs all the time, as I work in Rainham, I always get Belgium iced buns
I knew you would like the steak bake, you are now in food heaven, but only have one now and again
Love my greggs corned beef bake and also love stoties (for the non geordies a stotie is a type of flay bread only available in the North east of England)
I live in the USA now and I miss Gregg's but a steak bake is square to go on cheese butty with brown sauce
Best hangover cure lol
Love the chanel Canuck
Never seen a Greggs as there isn't one here on the Isle of Wight, mind you we are so far behind the times we only got our first Burger King a couple of years ago.
LOVE Greggs 👍. It’s probably easier to ask what Greggs product we don’t like. None - we love them all.
Greggs have started to move into Cornwall, but local bakers are up in arms about them (surprise!).
Saturday morning - breakfast bap - bacon-in-a-bun - plus hot drink - £2.50 before 11AM !
What's not to love !!
I worked for Greggs for 6 years from 1996-2002 most of them as a shop manager. They have changed beyond all recognition from my days though.
What’s not to love? A big fan of their breakfast rolls and their black coffee! 👍
Great video Alanna love greggs steak bake sausage roll jam doughnut bacon and cheese wrap yum yum yum ❤️
Just in case you didn’t know. Iceland sell Greggs products. 8 Greggs Sausage rolls for a fiver. They were £3.75 about a year ago but Iceland decided to take advantage of the cost of living crisis and increase the price by over 30% admittedly, they did it in increments but even so. Anyway, if you do fancy a sausage roll every now and then. It saves having to go to Greggs every time. By the way. They take 25 minutes at gas mark 5/6. Do not follow the cooking instructions on the box unless you want them burned.
Ham and cheese toasties are sooooo good and the yum yum are really good
Thank you
Corned beef pasty and vege sausage roll. Yum!
Love, love, love it. My go to is the cheese and onion bake or the vegan sausage roll (wow game changer) accompanied by their milk chocolate cookie.
Sittingbourne, Kent is about to get a Greggs drive-thru. We’re moving up in the world…
i have been going to Greggs since i was about 16 or 17 and finishing my education and now i'm in my 30's and i still think they're excellent...i don't care what anyone else thinks. they don't charge too much...they have good variety...they aren't overly indulgent or greasy like some fatty American places i have seen or too boring like some other English places. their sausage rolls and baguettes are good in particular iMO but i also like their basic but satisfying donuts...you don;t need over 100 flavours of donut to be happy...unless you're an american.
IMO Greggs are perfect for the drop in and get what you need for lunch fix...or if u need to grab something quick and leave fix. they have so much versatility on pastries, food and drink...
Greggs is good because its from the North. If you go to Sunderland, there are about 3 outlets on each street.
I love their spicy chicken nougats they do in batter
I'm a Geordie. Greggs is from Newcastle. My favourite is the stottie.
Love the new angle. One of the best things about Greggs is mingling with the salt of the earth outside ☺
I’m now craving a sausage roll, though it has to be just the right temperature, can’t have it too hot or too cold!
Correct, Deb! I'm craving one as well now and I had a massive curry only hours ago...
My neighbour works for Greggs delivering supplies to their shops.
The free samples are great, and i have to agree regarding the Chicken vs Steak slices
the Steak one wins it for me too.
No town or city is complete without a Greggs for those must have snacks.
2 steak bakes or 2 corned beef pasties( a north east thing which the southerners havent caught on to) a jam or suger strand doughnut and its was much better years ago when it was just a northeast bakery chain
I have never been into a Greggs until recently because I hate flaky pastry. Although it is very nice for sweet pastries with cream in them, it's just dire for a savoury item. My brother drove me to a hospital appointment 60 miles away and pulled into a Greggs for a snack on the way. I went in just for a pee. I recently learned that the toilets are always to the right in Greggs and that was true. To get there I had to fight my way through a very long queue inside. Tim Martin may be controversial, but he is the typical English eccentric, which is a unique feature of this country. He is not afraid to say what he thinks even if it loses him trade. I too am a Brexiteer, but even I thought his contribution to the debate was over the top, and yes, eccentric.
Love it.
Steak bake every time second is the sausage roll
Don't feed the pigeons with the sausage roll!, that's called cannibalism hahahah 😆
Love their steak bakes, the Christmas turkey bake is brilliant
Nothing wrong with Greggs as far as I'm concerned, especially when you want something hot "To Go"
Can't say I've ever been to one! I think I might be the only person in the UK who hasn't.