What happened to Burger King?

[Cold]

[QUOTE 4159438, member: 259"]You'd have to tear my Gregg's cheese and onion pasty from my cold dead hand. [/QUOTE]


Just seeing the words Gregg's cheese and onion pasty gives me heartburn.

 

[ianrauk]

Fast food chains get a bad wrap, and rightly so in most cases, what seems to be missed in similar discussions is the new hight street menace, Greggs!
seems to me that every town has more than one in the same street. At Breakfast, lunch and tea it never ceases to amaze me the queue of people getting bakes and sausage rolls , seems a staple diet of most school kids too. I'd hazard a guess the nutritional 'value' of a Greggs sausage roll isn't far behind a bigmac

Orpington High Street has 2 Gregg's shops. Either side of the street within 100 yards of each other.
Make of that what you will.

Must admit... I do buy one of their saussy rolls know and again.

 

[ianrauk]

I like the idea of 'a bad wrap' .
And now we learn that a 'chai latte' contains 20 teaspoons of sugar! http://www.theguardian.com/business...nks-25-teaspoons-sugar-starbucks-costa-coffee
FWIW I think all these things are fine as an occasional treat. Unfortunately they're so easy and cheap that some people just eat them all the time and nothing much else.

20 spoons? That would fill the mug or cup with sugar, surely?

 

[Jody]

We always joke about Greggs pacifiers every time we head to a local shopping center. 9.30 in the morning and you see a child not big enough to walk sucking on a sausage roll and covered in pastry as it "keeps them quiet".

 

[ianrauk]

9.30 in the morning and you see a child not big enough to walk sucking on a sausage roll and covered in pastry as it "keeps them quiet".

Works for me.....

 

[machew]

The equivalent, like the power of one of those tiny sweetener pills. It's in that concentrated syrup they inject into these drinks. The amount of sugar in drinks is quite astonishing. And because I don't like sweet foods and drinks all that much, I always find fast food burgers very sweet tasting, which makes me wonder if there's sugar in them as well to make them enticing.

The problem with that picture is that it it almost showing that as the size of the drink increases the amount of sugar increases. Now that is something that I would expect. It would be far better to have the same amount of the liquid on the X axis and then show the amount of sugar on the Y axis. Or show the amount of sugar as a percent of the volume of liquid.

 

[Jody]

Works for me.....

I really hope you're joking.

 

[ianrauk]

I really hope you're joking.

Nope..
Keep's me quite for at least 5 minutes.

 

[Jody]

Nope..
Keep's me quite for at least 5 minutes.

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*Edit as I have just re-read. LMFAO. I read it as "keeps em quiet for 5 minutes"

 

[ianrauk]

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*Edit as I have just re-read. LMFAO. I read it as "keeps em quiet for 5 minutes"

Thought it was a bit of a wooosh moment

 

[Tim Hall]

Orpington High Street has 2 Gregg's shops. Either side of the street within 100 yards of each other.
Make of that what you will.

You could set up some sort of beep test. Sprint between the two shops, grab a sausage roll, sprint back. Repeat until collapse. Eat sausage rolls.

 

[mjr]

Must admit... I do buy one of their saussy rolls know and again.

Open the pastry. Look at the pink filth. If you like good sausages, that should put you off them!

What's the best of the chains at the moment? Leon, though that's mostly London so far? Pret of the big ones?

 

[Markymark]

Look at the pink filth. If you like good sausages, that should put you off them!

 

[ianrauk]

Open the pastry. Look at the pink filth. If you like good sausages, that should put you off them!

Nope, they don't look pink at all and it's certainly not filth. It's just a plain sausage roll. So away with your boring hyperbole.

 

[ianrauk]

You could set up some sort of beep test. Sprint between the two shops, grab a sausage roll, sprint back. Repeat until collapse. Eat sausage rolls.

With a quick visit to what is probably one of the companies worst Wetherspoon's next door...