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Daveb
Discworld
1889 Posts |
 Posted - 28/09/2007 : 19:33:08
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| The wolly hat does double as a tea cosy. |
We're all doomed!
Head for the hills before they start heading for you! |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6419 Posts |
Posted - 28/09/2007 : 19:56:00
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Pelagia
Barsoom
452 Posts |
Posted - 28/09/2007 : 20:51:59
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Originally posted by Daveb
The wolly hat does double as a tea cosy.
What's a wolly hat when it's at home? |
Edited by - Pelagia on 28/09/2007 20:52:25 |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5303 Posts |
Posted - 28/09/2007 : 21:08:55
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| Daveb probably has a cat just like yours Pel. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Daveb
Discworld
1889 Posts |
Posted - 29/09/2007 : 08:26:01
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Giant White Rabbit as it appens
Harvey |
We're all doomed!
Head for the hills before they start heading for you! |
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Control Panel
Discworld
1166 Posts |
Posted - 29/09/2007 : 08:27:57
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Originally posted by long time no see
These will add to the Greggs overheads. Will all branches have all teapots? Will different branches have different tea-pots? Will thsi be decided by turnover? Or will the teapots go from branch to branch to keep up customer interest? |
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Control Panel
Discworld
1166 Posts |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1234 Posts |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6419 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2007 : 19:24:30
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Could even be in Kent
or any other place they can find the Land or Old Factory space.
Big Industry
a great deal of money involved. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5303 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2007 : 19:27:11
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| How about the old cement works on the way to Beeding and Steyning? Oh wait ... that is in West Sussex! |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Daveb
Discworld
1889 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2007 : 19:51:05
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| Just outside of Jeopardy! |
We're all doomed!
Head for the hills before they start heading for you! |
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Control Panel
Discworld
1166 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2007 : 19:53:56
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Greggs has missed a trick - or even a treat - by not selling a really terrifying pasty for Halloween.
Perhaps they think the current pasties are more than adequate to the task of being waved in the face of innocent householders who are rash enough to open their doors after dark. |
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Control Panel
Discworld
1166 Posts |
Posted - 02/10/2007 : 21:18:52
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The bad, unmaintained irrigation system in Zimbabwe means that the wheat harvest has failed by two-thirds or more.
A dreadful situation.
No bread - or pasties - for most of them.
Dirty, pathetic
Corrupt
Robert Mugabe
Life in the Veld |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6419 Posts |
Posted - 02/10/2007 : 21:22:59
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Originally posted by Control Panel
The bad, unmaintained irrigation system in Zimbabwe means that the wheat harvest has failed by two-thirds or more.
A dreadful situation.
No bread - or pasties - for most of them.
Dirty, pathetic
Corrupt
Robert Mugabe
Life in the Veld
That is Not Local News. |
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Borninhove
Calaspia
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Posted - 03/10/2007 : 09:32:26
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When I heard on the BBC yesterday that all the bakeries in Zimbabwe had closed down,
my first thought was that it was time for a Gregg's emergency relief 747 filled with
pasties to fly into Bulawayo, distributing nutrition and indigestion to all.
Is there a milk shortage there, too, I wonder. Will they have to wash down the pasties
with (Gasp! Shock! Horror!) tea with evaporated milk???? |
 Valhalla, I am coming! |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1234 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2007 : 10:40:19
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There is a Gateshead Zimbabwe Community Association, so perhaps it will make a case for the Greggs emergency 747 to take off.
Perhaps, in the long run, it would be better for the pilot to open the hatch and ask members of the Association to drop the pasties and baguettes on Robert Mugabe's place, forcing him into exile.
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Control Panel
Discworld
1166 Posts |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6419 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2007 : 14:59:22
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That is about Dinners
Not Take Aways.
That should be on a New thread
about the whole of Brighton.
Once again you a being Lazy.
Each To Their Own. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1234 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2007 : 17:43:28
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Why are not take-aways involved? I have seen some very horrible-looking places, usually with a kebab spinning greasily in the window in front of a glorified heater. You can almost see the germs queuing up for a bite.
Makes a pasty almost seem haute cuisine. |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6419 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2007 : 17:47:52
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Originally posted by Infinite Poppadum
Why are not take-aways involved? I have seen some very horrible-looking places, usually with a kebab spinning greasily in the window in front of a glorified heater. You can almost see the germs queuing up for a bite.
Makes a pasty almost seem haute cuisine.
Yes FoFars are bad news.
That is why Greggs wins every time
with it's very open front and ultra clean
never seen before in the UK.
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
1159 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2007 : 19:25:41
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I went shopping in Stoke last Friday. There, for the first time, I saw (or noticed) a Greggs` AND a Subway. I`d not actually noticed either of these firms before - though I may have passed one somewhere and not been aware of it. Both names were brought to my attention in the first place by LTNS praising them on the forums.
Did I go in and sample their wares? Did I buggery! This is Stoke - I went straight for the nearest Oatcake shop!!! |
Row faster, slaves! Caesar wants to waterski! |
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Control Panel
Discworld
1166 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2007 : 17:49:21
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I am not convinced about the hygiene standards claimed for Greggs. We have to consider the Newcastle setting from which it sprang.
The film director Mike Figgis puts it very well. He describes work on his first film, set in Newcastle. It is called Stormy Monday. He got Sting to appear in it and also, somehow, Melanie Griffiths. He recalls her horrified arrival in Greggs' home territory:
“I remember driving to Newcastle airport to pick Melanie up and saying, I’m so excited you’re here. And then seeing this truckload of suitcases coming off the conveyor belts. I’m talking about fifteen suitcases. I said, I’ll take you round the set. The whole set was this very steep hill with cobblestones called The Side. She was wearing this tiny litle skirt, this skimpy outfit and colossal high heels and smoking these incredibly long filter cigarettes. She’s got these very thin ankles and as we tottered down the hill I kept thinking, oh God, if she falls over she’ll snap her ankle. We passed a pub and this guy came out who was wearing a donkey jacket. He had coal dust literally ingrained on one side of his face, like a Bill Brandt photograph where you can just see his eyes. I think he came out and belched or spat and Melanie just recoiled in horror. She went ‘yuk’, and I suddenly realized, having spent some time in LA, that we’re talking about culture shock of the highest order here.”
He does not mention her reaction to any Greggs pasties eaten on the set by the crew. Perhaps he prefers to shut it out of his mind. |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6419 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2007 : 18:28:17
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Originally posted by Control Panel
I am not convinced about the hygiene standards claimed for Greggs.
Who Cares what you say.
Every Greggs is Ultra Clean
that is the foundation it was built with.
Millions go into them every single day. |
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Control Panel
Discworld
1166 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2007 : 19:13:14
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posted by long time no see
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Millions go into them every single day.
They might not be that fussy.
And I have provided the evidence of the standards which prevail in Newcastle - which shocked a distinguished actress.
If any film had an establishing shot which involved a branch of Greggs, viewers would immediately assume that they were in for a raw, gritty drama rather than any tender love scenes (despite Greggs' recent absurd claims for pasties being romantic). |
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
1159 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2007 : 19:19:49
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| Greggs pasties may be wonderful...Subway stuff may be pretty good too. I shall never know, because if there`s Staffordshire Oatcakes to be had in the vicinity, it`s a case of No Contesty for me¬ |
Row faster, slaves! Caesar wants to waterski! |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6419 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2007 : 19:23:49
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Originally posted by Control Panel
posted by long time no see
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Millions go into them every single day.
They might not be that fussy.
They are very Fussy
they are people that used to go into dusty FoFars for years.
And Fluffy
If you are not into Greggs
what is your point?
This is Infact Brighton Local News
for London Road , Brighton. |
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Control Panel
Discworld
1166 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2007 : 20:15:28
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Does Greggs regard the London Road, Brighton branch as its "flagship"?
We deserve a Sattfordshire Oatcakes instead! That would really put Brighton "on the map".
Meanwhile, in Newcastle, the film director Mike Figgis continued by saying:
"when we drove from the airport, her son had never seen a sheep before. She was explaining what sheep were. There are no sheep in LA., so there's no reason why he would have seen them".
There are also no sheep in the London Road, Brighton. Perhaps they should graze on the Steine?
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Earthsea
United Kingdom
6419 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2007 : 20:22:36
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Originally posted by Control Panel
Does Greggs regard the London Road, Brighton branch as its "flagship"?
We deserve a Sattfordshire Oatcakes instead! That would really put Brighton
Again CP
Who Cares.
All Greggs Stores all have the Same High Standard.
And that is why Greggs are doing very well,
and it is so rare to see stores that Ultra Clean
that means a great deal to the millions that
buy from Greggs.
London Road needs that High Standard,
Fofars are still a dusty store, of course.
Life In The City. |
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Control Panel
Discworld
1166 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2007 : 20:55:05
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All Greggs Stores all have the Same High Standard.
How many branches has LTNS visited with his quality-control device for measuring this? And on what pretext has he been able to go out the back where the stuff is prepared?
Has he reported Forars for its allegedly slovenly attitude to hygiene? What odds that customers in the London Road, Brighton have of catching something unfortunate there?
Also how can LTNS say that Greggs is "Ultra Clean" when germs are invisible?
His vision has perhaps been skewed by the sight of all those tuna baguettes.
Melanie Griffiths would not be persuaded by him to take a different view of Newcastle and Greggs. |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6419 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2007 : 21:03:57
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No One Cares.
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