OK - a certain 'baker' which has begun it's evil plan to take over the world, has blue and white packaging and smells like school dinners... what's the deal? Everywhere you look in town there's poorly-looking people with hands full of pasties - not the end of the world, it's their choice if they think that's a meal. My gripe is the amount of litter - don't people use bins anymore? If it's from G***gs does it not count? What about rats? Health and hygiene? You can't walk round town without a soggy blue and white wrapper flying up and trying to attach itself to your person.

Man, Sheffield must have the most outlets in the world!! Pretty soon the definition of Yorkshire cuisine will be ' G***gs pasties'.

G****s pasties - aka "Pitsmoor Pacifiers"...

i love greggs pasties!!!! :love: :love:

I couldn't eat anything from there with "meat" in it, if it's that cheap you have to wonder what parts of an animal they are using.

Sandwiches are pretty good too! I know its the done thing to knock the big chains but Greggs do their thing pretty well. Bakers Oven is the same chain by the way.

No no, you misinterpret - no 'done thing' going on here. It's filth and people yam it down their throats like it's nectar!! And like all the other 'big chains' it ain't really food (as in no nutritional value, just makes you fat and spotty) and it kills the small businessman. I'd happily pay over the odds for a real Yorkshire pie, made by hand, etc, but some 60p frozen rubbish delivered by the truckload don't get my tastebuds excited at all. So basically that and the amount of rubbish on the streets is what I'm talking about.

Bakers Oven is the same chain by the way.

not very suprising

Sandwiches are pretty good too! I know its the done thing to knock the big chains but Greggs do their thing pretty well. Bakers Oven is the same chain by the way.
Are they really. Why so much more expensive then....don't answer that ....of course it's the brand thing.

i love greggs pasties!!!! :love: :love:

I agree. The OP clearly has no taste. Greggs is nice and cheap, and has a wide range of stuff. They're no Ainsley's (West Yorks phenomenon), but at least it's not Subway. Aren't there more Coopland's (in the town centre, anyway) than Gregg's?

it kills the small businessman. I'd happily pay over the odds for a real Yorkshire pie, made by hand, etc, but some 60p frozen rubbish delivered by the truckload don't get my tastebuds excited at all.

Actually, you make a good point here. I'd much rather have a pasty from Scott's, or - best of all - Perfectionary on Sharrowvale Road.

Everywhere you look in town there's poorly-looking people with hands full of pasties - not the end of the world, it's their choice if they think that's a meal. My gripe is the amount of litter - don't people use bins anymore?There are bins in Sheffield ?????

Cooplands Rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

its not just sheffield.....i was in manchester the other week and i stood in a place where i could see 3 greggs at once

Greggs and Bakers Oven are run as separate businesses, but, yes they are owned by the same group. They are sometimes right next door to each other in some towns - and have to compete for the business.

Yeah, it's amazing. You try and get permission for takeaway premises in Sheffield and the council don't want to know, unless your name is Greggs, it appears.

Steak bakes... :)

Steak Bakes are amazing.

Has anyone else noticed Chavs are beginning to adapt to Greggs?

We have one in Firth Park and it must make some real money on Tuesday mornings because its the 2nd port of call for most of the residents around here ;)

I agree - steak bakes are amazing... amazing that they're legally allowed to call it 'steak'. I don't know about 'chav' (I thought they were called townies or pikeys), but it seems Greasy Greggs is being adopted by just about everyone in Sheffield. Everyone who thinks condemned meat and sloppy pastry is a meal, that is. It makes me gip just thinking about, but the worst thing is walking through town and being forced to watch people eating that slop.

I agree - steak bakes are amazing... amazing that they're legally allowed to call it 'steak'.

Ignorance is bliss ;)

Ive just been to the one on the Moor, Yum Yum :D

They have nice sarni's... and buns... but I tend to avoid the pasties and whatnot because I'm a pain in the backside and have to have my food piping hot... none of this lukewarm nonesense... :thumbsup:

I agree - steak bakes are amazing... amazing that they're legally allowed to call it 'steak'. I don't know about 'chav' (I thought they were called townies or pikeys), but it seems Greasy Greggs is being adopted by just about everyone in Sheffield. Everyone who thinks condemned meat and sloppy pastry is a meal, that is. It makes me gip just thinking about, but the worst thing is walking through town and being forced to watch people eating that slop.Have you got shares in Cooplands or summat?? :suspect:

lol:| Nah just fed up with watching slobs chomping on pasties everywhere I go. And the streets are over-flowing with their rubbish.

lol:| Nah just fed up with watching slobs chomping on pasties everywhere I go. And the streets are over-flowing with their rubbish.But thats nothing to do with Greggs......thats to do with scruffy gits not disposing of their rubbish properly. :rolleyes:

There are bound to be more pasty munchers these days.........Maccys on The Moor has shut. :D

i said the exact same thing the other day when i was in town they must be raking it in, the amount of shops they have

I wonder what there Share price is?

Plus, there are as many Cooplands as there are Greggs, if not more.

I wonder what there Share price is?

Plus, there are as many Cooplands as there are Greggs, if not more.

3851.50 GBp, up 54 from an opening price of 3838, if that means anything to ya...
http://www.ir.greggs.plc.uk/greggsplc/
Amazing, t'internet, right?

Has anyone ever had a Pirates pasty?

3851.50 GBp, up 54 from an opening price of 3838, if that means anything to ya...
http://www.ir.greggs.plc.uk/greggsplc/
Amazing, t'internet, right?

Has anyone ever had a Pirates pasty?

Yes it means the £3.40p I payed at lunch today has done something

Hmmm...
Sounds like your beef (or steak bake - *cringe*) is with ppl not with Greggs (Bakers, Maccys, KFC or whatever). No one forces the public to buy these products (however awful) these larger corporations sell yet they do.

All the littering and bad diets is down to poor education, bad manners or influence (or even convenience).

I blame the parents myself personally. :O)

Just think in a couple of years like the true 50x state of the America we are - we can sue! Supply and demand - can't wait for my cinnamom flavoured pasty and peanut butter crabsticks!

I agree - steak bakes are amazing... amazing that they're legally allowed to call it 'steak'. I don't know about 'chav' (I thought they were called townies or pikeys), but it seems Greasy Greggs is being adopted by just about everyone in Sheffield. Everyone who thinks condemned meat and sloppy pastry is a meal, that is. It makes me gip just thinking about, but the worst thing is walking through town and being forced to watch people eating that slop.
There is only one pasty shop in Sheffield - Proper Pasty Company near peace gardens - :thumbsup:

dunno why, their sandwiches are overpriced and frankly quite crap!

There is only one pasty shop in Sheffield - Proper Pasty Company near peace gardens - :thumbsup:

Well, there's 2 (or is it 3) in the town centre. And a little outlet at the university union. And some kind of bizarre franchise at the carwash on Abbeydale Road (although they sell some very dodgy pasties). I know of a few other places where they're springing up...
Face it, they're just a chain, like any other. The higher quality (if you would argue for that) is reflected in the price: 3-4 times that of a Greggs. Perfectionary pasties are my favourite, but there's only a limited supply. An old man goes in every day and buys two (according to Linda), complaining that they give him indigestion. But he's hooked...

theres approx 1260 Greggs (not all in Sheffield im afraid), and 1200 Bakers Oven usually pretty close to one another. Theres 40 odd Cooplands. God I'm bored..
how many pastys is that if each Greggs and Bakers oven sells 100 a day.. a quarter of a million! If 100 grams of cow goes into each one thats ........:huh: .......25000 kgs of cow and if each cow weighs about 250 kg, thats ........:huh: ..... 100 cows a day, encased in golden pastry and seved luke warm.

yum yum

Nowt wrong with Greggs if you ask me!! I often wonder what people who complain of the quality of places like greggs actually eat the majority of the time?? Fair enough its not gourmet and im the first to appreciate a decent slab of sirloin or a pasta dish with a well made sauce, but Greggs isnt trying to be that. Its just a sarni shop for gods sake. What do you do if you want a pasty... bake one in your lunch hour every time you want one??

Well, there's 2 (or is it 3) in the town centre. And a little outlet at the university union. And some kind of bizarre franchise at the carwash on Abbeydale Road (although they sell some very dodgy pasties). I know of a few other places where they're springing up...
Face it, they're just a chain, like any other. The higher quality (if you would argue for that) is reflected in the price: 3-4 times that of a Greggs. Perfectionary pasties are my favourite, but there's only a limited supply. An old man goes in every day and buys two (according to Linda), complaining that they give him indigestion. But he's hooked...
Only know of one store- dont really care if there are 3 - on the odd occasion of wanting a pasty - I would go here rather than any of the tack in the high street bakeries for sure.

theres approx 1260 Greggs (not all in Sheffield im afraid), and 1200 Bakers Oven usually pretty close to one another. Theres 40 odd Cooplands.

Anyone remember Graftons, the Rotherham bakery chain? They went bust last year after 85 years in business.

I spoke to one of the owners the day they had to tell staff the money had run out. She told me in the last twenty years they'd gone from people coming in to buy all the bread, etc, for a household, to people just popping in to pick up a quick snack.

It's the supermarkets that have done for the traditional bakeries - and Greggs, Bakers Oven etc have found a new niche selling stodgy snacks. Fair play to them, if people will buy it, but maybe there should be another name for this, rather than calling it a bakery?

yeah, gregs, not my idea as a meal, like you say , a pasty, sausage roll, but most important, you have to have what THEY put on ya sarny, not what you choose to eat

lol, thts true, plus if they took other thing every one would be gettin heart attacks n blocked arteries,with all tht pastry n rubbish :(

I love their sausage rolls, and chicken pasties :thumbsup:

Not been there for ages tho

Worked at the Cooplands bakery where they made all the stuff for a fortnight.

Was fasinating, at the start of the line and having to heave the dough* up to the line for whatever delights were being made that day, that whenever i grabbed a scoop of flour to stop the long line of dough falling and to keep a new roll of dough together that, every so often along with the flour a beetle went in as well - can't stop a line so off it went into all sorts of edible delights, though pretty squashed by all acounts. Beetle surprise ala Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Mind you, all major bakeries will have the same problem with beetles in their industrial flour sifts (or whatever they are called).

The only way you can guarantee you won't get one without is if you make it yourself or buy from a small sole bakery. The technology might have changed since '97, mind to get the rid of them from the flour vats.


* might not be called dough.

Banjo Griner,

I mentioned this awhile ago, but nobody took note :rolleyes:

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=530622#post530622

Oh well, at least we're reading from the same page. :)

yeah, gregs, not my idea as a meal, like you say , a pasty, sausage roll, but most important, you have to have what THEY put on ya sarny, not what you choose to eat

What is so difficult in buttering some bread, creating your own filling, cutting it if you want to, taking it to work or wherever, and eating it? Granted, a fresh, home made pasty could prove tricky at most workplaces .... but making a butty or two .... sheesh, it's not Michelin star cuisine .....

Make your own food, Greggs shut down, and real businesses might be able to sell stuff we actually want or need. And if the chavs starve as a result I hardly see that as a bad thing ......

Yeah it works out cheaper, you control what you shove in your face and it's more nutritious. It takes 5 minutes to knock up some butties, and if I could be bothered I actually would make my own pasties on a Sunday eve - just not that mad on them, unlike many fervent Greggs supporters. :)

It's fast food wrapped up in another outfit I guess, and as we're always being told by westminster: we don't know how to eat. I'll be the first to admit to eating stuff that ain't always healthy, but I don't eat fast food ever because it's not my thing - fear of gristle and worm-pies/beetle pasties that u read about. And it ain't natural... sit me in a restaurant with a decent chef in the kitchen i'm a happy bunny, but frozen slop made on a production line (which applies to all fast food) ain't right for me.

I'll quite happily eat all sorts of stuff that ain't exactly healthy, not to mention drink unhealthily too ...... ;-) , but it truly astonishes me, and this is the nub and the gist of the whole brou-ha-ha, how b****y lazy people are. If my ex had her way, she would have had sandwiches from Cooplands, not to mention, and this is my favourite, take out coffee from Greggs (she works in an office with about 648 kettles), because she "couldn't be bothered to go to the canteen" :huh:

So basically, a fiver a day on almost inedible c**p, and coffee that you can't possibly buy in a jar, and *shock* boil some water for, but because of her malaise with the corridor to the canteen, she would go out in wind, hail and sleet to get some watered down example of ditchwater ..... :loopy: , and having to visit two different shops to get it all .....:huh: .....

At least I cured her of that ...... it didn't stop her being about as much fun as the Siege of Leningrad mind .....

Gregs is taking over every city in the country, but subway is as bad

Yeah, Greggs is the favoured pikey restaurant, whereas Subway is the Greggs of the spiky mullet brigade. They feel safe sporting their two-tone mullet hacks, bullet-belts and tank tops in Subway, and they can also lounge around drinking frothy mocha-latte-frappachinos. Ahh... imagine if a mullet and a pikey bred - what kind of hideous offspring would they produce?

(I apologise to all the pikeys for this disturbing mental image)

Don't pull Greggs down they are great they sponsor quite a few breakfast clubs at schools in sheffield and i voluntary work at one of them children get toast , cereals and juice free each morning before school.

i'm surprised at the amount of subway bashing going on

Greggs corned beef pasty's are gorgeous. Subway make a lovely meatball sarnie, reminds me of the meatballs in the cafe in Ikea Leeds (the best reason to go!)