Early morning baked goods. 

"Svend" (svend) 01/28/2019 at 01:54 • Filed to: None

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Popped to Greggs bakery.

2x steak bakes,

8x sausage rolls,

4x raspberry and apply doughnuts and

6x mini yum yums.

DutchieDC2R > Svend 01/28/2019 at 02:44

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Gregg knows whats up! 

pip bip - choose Corrour > Svend 01/28/2019 at 02:51

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looks good

Svend > DutchieDC2R 01/28/2019 at 03:03

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The U.S. has McDonalds, etc... we have Greggs (actually, there is a drive through McDonalds directly across the road from this Greggs).

I’d rather have food that fills me rather than McDonalds that fills a small hole briefly and then leaves you hungry again. 

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/28/2019 at 03:07

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Not as fast as fast food as such but it’s great filling food you can eat in a hurry but still enjoy. 

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > Svend 01/28/2019 at 03:16

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That’s what she said

DutchieDC2R > Svend 01/28/2019 at 03:37

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I couldnt agree more with that last statement. I often go for the (much) more expensive option of Five Guys, which serve a proper burger that actually tastest like one, instead of going for McD’s and being hungry again an hour after Ive eaten.

Ive been to the UK numerous times but I havent seen a Greggs yet. Is it something local...?

Svend > DutchieDC2R 01/28/2019 at 03:57

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They are nation wide. They started out in the north east of England (I believe Sunderland , but not too sure). They started as just a bread bakers then went into other baked goods, they are more known for their pasties and bakes as well as small cakes. So much so that they stopped baking bread and focus more on the pasties and bakes, small cakes, sandwiches and baguettes, sausage and/or bacon rolls.

Looking it up, in 2015 there were 1,650 Greggs shops across the U.K.

There are six where I live,

Four in the city centre with the northern most a five minute walk from the southern most.

DutchieDC2R > Svend 01/28/2019 at 04:43

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Ive added Greggs to the list of things I need to see and do when going to the UK the next time. 

Svend > DutchieDC2R 01/28/2019 at 05:03

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I think you’ll like it. It’s quick easy eating that you can eat while walking, on a park bench, sat on the grass, etc... You’ll only have a paper wrapper to dispose of and that’s it. 

Greggs have upped their game in the last few years. Many were little shops that you went in, got your stuff and left, then some expanded and got sitting areas and then recently they made much more of the whole atmosphere of the place.

This morning’s place.

The one at the end of my street.

It’s by no means haute cuisine, but it’s traditional tasty, filling, everyday food.

DutchieDC2R > Svend 01/28/2019 at 05:20

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That does look very nice! It reminds of your Costa stores, also a very classy interior and relaxing atmosphere.

I do enjoy tasty, filling foods. I stop by ocassionally by Dunkin Donuts (crazy, Ive mentioned 2 originally American stores in Holland already here), but am often on the lookout for the smaller, crafty made foods. Theres this new trend going on here with ‘Bubble ’ wafels, where they pretty much tend to dump everything on bubble wafels.

There’s one small shop in particular that makes a very, very good pulled chicken dinner plate, combined with that bubble wafel thing and some sort of honey sauce. Man, my mouth is watering just by thinking of it already.....

Svend > DutchieDC2R 01/28/2019 at 05:50

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Bubble waffles look interesting, never seen them before I Googled them just now.

You should do, Costa, then Greggs then a Wetherspoons.

Costa, good coffee and cheaper than Starbucks,

Greggs, cheaper and tastier, filling food than McDonalds,

Wetherspoon, pub chain where you can buy an English breakfast and wash it down with a pint for just a few quid (yes, they even do an ‘American breakfast’ of fried eggs, hash browns, pancakes, maple syrup, sausages and bacon), they do ‘curry clubs ’ on Thursday nights, of curry, rice, a side or two and a pint for £7.

DutchieDC2R > Svend 01/28/2019 at 06:12

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Ah man, English breakfasts are the best. I dont exactly know the correct difference between an English and a Scottish one, but I do know that I love downing them with a couple of pints when Im there. Its truly ‘The breakfast of champions’, or at least, thats the why it makes you feel when you finish it, LOL.

Im not too much of a fan of beans (not just black or white ones, but beans in general), so I usually order without beans, but often get either extra bacon or hash browns. Hash browns, another amazing invention. No idea where they originally come from, dont care either, but man, Ive had some very good ones along with a perfect English breakfast.

Speaking of culinary greatness, last year October, while visiting Scotland, I had fried Pizza and a fried Burger. The burger was a bit much, but the fried Pizza, a Margarita, was surprisingly good. 

Svend > DutchieDC2R 01/28/2019 at 06:38

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Typically a Scottish breakfast will have fruit pudding (as well as black pudding, there are three different types of black pudding, northern England, southern Scotland and north east Scotland , each have a slightly different recipe), Scottish breakfasts are likely to have potato scones in place of hash browns and will have a sausage either made of pork or beef (or both) called a square sausage or lorne sausage depending where in Scotland you are, it’s essentially a square sausage pattie.

When you say fried pizza and fried burger. There are several different ways.

For a fried pizza it can be a frozen mini pizza (occasionally larger) dropped in a deep fat fryer (on the left) , or a pizza dunked in batter and then deep fried (on the right) .

Same with the burger, it can be deep fried, battered and deep fried,

(battered burger pattie in a bun)

(full burger and cheese in a roll, dunked in batter and then deep fried)

There is one where it’s a regular burger in the middle but the buns top and bottom are replaced with battered deep fried burgers.

Little known fact. in the very old days they would make batches of really thick porridge and set to one side what they didn’t eat, then the next day they would cut off a slice and fry it. 

DutchieDC2R > Svend 01/28/2019 at 07:14

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Ah yes! That was exactly the breakfast I had in Scotland, minus the square sausage. It was in Edinburgh, maybe that was the reason..? It was a typical, small Scottish shop though, not really visited by tourists. As far as the potato scones vs hash browns discussion goes, man, I honestly couldnt choose. I do love the scones, but the hash browns are heavenly too.

As far as the deep fried pizza and burger go, they were the battered variants.

So the right pizza on the picture and the burger on the first photo.

I read about the old age and the porridge before heading to the UK. I usually tend to try the local stuff, no matter how weird or unconventional. When I visited Japan, my friends and me tried raw squid and raw octopus. It was........quite the experience....

Svend > DutchieDC2R 01/28/2019 at 07:38

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Potato scones are quite different to regular scones. Potato scones are typically like very thick small pancakes cut into four triangles or folded over.

Lol. When I lived in Paphos, Cyprus (before it went incredibly touristy and, well, shite) we used to walk out into the sea, grab a baby squid and take it back to shore and smash it’s head on the rocks, take it to one of the, at the time, many b each front eateries and they’d cook it and serve it. Now if you gave my calamari I’d probably bin it. So many places don’t know what to do with it here.