Keep Calm People!

[mistyoptic]

The only enjoyable experience I've ever had at a motorway service station was at Tebay.

https://www.tebayservices.com/

If you should venture South, the Gloucester services is run by the same folk and also good. Unlike Rheged, which was a disappointment

 

[lazybloke]

The vegan sausage rolls are still amazing - so good that many vendors have copied the idea.
Which is A Good Thing!

p.s. the GWR App train times were all up the spout yesterday. Expect locusts on the horizon ...

I noticed the same at Epsom yesterday (Southern and SWR services).
It was eventually 8 minutes late, I've had worse. The board continued to give it's optimistic status of "on time".
Worse was the usual 8 carriages had been truncated to just 4, making it a very busy experience. It must have been hell a few stops earlier leavining Waterloo.

 

[fossyant]

I don't care. Currently in Llangollen and the bakery does propper Welsh Oggies. Every flavour you fancy (ish).

 

[Slick]

The only enjoyable experience I've ever had at a motorway service station was at Tebay.

https://www.tebayservices.com/

Funny you say that but I'm just back tonight from a trip to Birmingham. The way down is always a non stop flight as I had to do a days work and then head down, which is a bit of a pain, but the good thing is once you get over that Kingston bridge, you get a clear run down. On the way back I usually do a splash and dash at Southwaite services, but due to the clear roads and additional speeds I was running out of fuel by Tebay and called in there. It was mobbed, which is always a tell tale sign of quality and the next time I'm heading back home, I'll make a proper stop and get a dinner there.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

For proper road trip grub, Stainmore cafe on the A66 is a great truck stop. None of the poncified over-priced Tebay tofu tat, egg and chips ftw.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

When you see this, keep driving

 

[Dogtrousers]

I have been to Gregg's once in the last 10 years, at a service station. The sausage rolls were very poor. In fact I'd go as far as to compare their "sausage rolls" to a Ginsters pasty i.e. not very nice, not very authentic,

You're missing the point of Greggs and Ginsters. They're not meant to be "nice" or "authentic".

They're not bloody smashed-avocado-on-slate hipster artisanal pastry products lovingly crafted from local organic produce. They're crap. They're meant to be like that.

 

[Electric_Andy]

You're missing the point of Greggs and Ginsters. They're not meant to be "nice" or "authentic".

They're not bloody smashed-avocado-on-slate hipster artisanal pastry products lovingly crafted from local organic produce. They're crap. They're meant to be like that.

Oh right. Well I am no stranger to cheap and nasty satisfying food, but I find cheapo Morrisons sausage rolls far nicer. Same goes for pretty much any pasty other than Ginsters. I do not know how Ginsters manage to make a pasty so utterly vile and get away with it!

 

[AndyRM]

From Wiki...

The Ginsters family were in the business of supplying horse manure to foundries for mixing with sand for the moulds for casting.

'Nuff said.

 

[AndyRM]

Also, Greggs did this last year over Christmas. I went and it was glorious:

https://www.greggs.co.uk/news/greggs-and-fenwick-create-the-ultimate-fine-dining-experience

 

[Alex321]

For proper road trip grub, Stainmore cafe on the A66 is a great truck stop. None of the poncified over-priced Tebay tofu tat, egg and chips ftw.

Not sure Tebay do Tofu

They have a farm shop on site, and a lot of the produce comes from their farms.

Overpriced? Maybe, depends on what you are used to I suppose. Most of us think most motorway services are overpriced. But you are paying for the convenience of not having to go off the motorway and hunty for something else.

 

[cookiemonster]

From Wiki...

The Ginsters family were in the business of supplying horse manure to foundries for mixing with sand for the moulds for casting.

'Nuff said.

They didn't supply Tesco with lasagne at one point?

 

[Dogtrousers]

From Wiki...

The Ginsters family were in the business of supplying horse manure to foundries for mixing with sand for the moulds for casting.

'Nuff said.

I think that the only time I ever eat Ginsters pasties is sitting on petrol station forecourts on long bike rides.

There's something about a horse manure pasty accompanied by the scent of petrol fumes that really lifts my flagging spirits.

 

[biggs682]

Never had a Greggs

 

[matticus]

I think that the only time I ever eat Ginsters pasties is sitting on petrol station forecourts on long bike rides.

There's something about a horse manure pasty accompanied by the scent of petrol fumes that really lifts my flagging spirits.

That was also MY first introduction to Ginsters. They were the least-worst option at many petrol stations.

After a few years of such experiences, I was astonished to see someone buying them in a supermarket; why would you buy a Ginsters from somewhere that also sells real food??