Greggs winning pasty wars

[formerly manx toffee]

one for @Bruce Wayne ...

...is Sayers dead

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30792619

(Open): Shares in bakery chain Greggs jumped 6% after it said strong trading over the Christmas period meant profits would be above expectations.
Like-for-like sales at its stores were up 8.2% in the five weeks to 3 January, and rose 6% in the fourth quarter.
Greggs, a FTSE 250 company, added it was "confident" that it could make "further progress in the year ahead".

 

[Groucho]

Sayers will rise again.

Bakery, bread, dough, rise, oh forget it....

 

[Pienaar's gloves]

Greggs is for snobs from darn sarf.

Sayers is for the working scouse man.

 

[SailorBlue]

Sattertwaites in Crosby were good as well

 

[Donald Twain]

Their 'festive slice' was a winner .

 

[Donald Twain]

Greggs is for snobs from darn sarf.

Sayers is for the working scouse man.

Rubbish!

 

[ste d' indica]

I do miss a bit of Sayers.. Parson's batter Greggs round here, loads better.

 

[hullefc]

Cooplands is King in Hull, with their 4 sausage rolls for a £1 and 5 cheeses straws for a £1.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

one for @Bruce Wayne ...

...is Sayers dead

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30792619

(Open): Shares in bakery chain Greggs jumped 6% after it said strong trading over the Christmas period meant profits would be above expectations.
Like-for-like sales at its stores were up 8.2% in the five weeks to 3 January, and rose 6% in the fourth quarter.
Greggs, a FTSE 250 company, added it was "confident" that it could make "further progress in the year ahead".

I think Greggs can thank the ingenious PR campaign undertaken by the government to give them so much free publicity over the pasty tax. It clearly overcame the dastardly campaign by the opposition to show that eating pasty products is a choking hazard.

Or something. Was that ok?

 

[Moomin]

Cooplands is King in Hull, with their 4 sausage rolls for a £1 and 5 cheeses straws for a £1.

I'm in the cooplands camp, bread rolls are delightful from them.

 

[Kurt.]

@MoutsGoat

 

[Lacina]

Hardly ever see's a sayers anymore, they all become pound bakery shops now.

 

[Chewbacca]

Greggs is for snobs from darn sarf.

Sayers is for the working scouse man.

Pardon?

Greggs are from the North East. In fact I can remember when they only had a handful of shops back in the 70's and a lukewarm Greggs cheese & onion pasty was a rare treat.

 

[Ashtonian]

Sayers are terrible. Used to go to them years ago and now their food just tastes horrible next to Greggs.

I remember Sayers done the best cheese and onion pasty of all time when i was a kid. Then they changed the recipe

 

[Blue 1]

Used to love a Sayers pasty when I visited Liverpool. There used to be Sayers all over the place there, don't see so many now, not had one of their pasties for years so might be remembering them a bit nostalgically.

Greggs is terrible.