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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20/10/2007 : 18:27:42
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| I've noticed a West Cornwall Pastry stand on Churchill Square. It seemed quite busy ... |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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 Posted - 21/10/2007 : 12:05:41
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There is also one in Duke Street.
They are another chain.
They like to give an impression of being a real thing but these pasties are cooked before being delivered - and then merely reheated. |
Edited by - Infinite Poppadum on 21/10/2007 12:08:41 |
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No Expert
Barsoom
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Posted - 21/10/2007 : 15:47:56
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| Like greggs with their sub standard shit filled pies and pasties. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1236 Posts |
Posted - 22/10/2007 : 10:27:13
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The government is planning to send letters of complaint about poor upbringing to the parents of obese children.
Will this have an effect upon Greggs' turnover? |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6439 Posts |
Posted - 22/10/2007 : 11:01:43
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5311 Posts |
Posted - 22/10/2007 : 11:10:51
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Originally posted by long time no see
No.
No? Is that because Greggs doesn't sell pasties to the parents of obese children? |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6439 Posts |
Posted - 22/10/2007 : 11:22:55
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No because this is More
of a Problem at home.
McDonalds the Americans
do far more damage.
FACT. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5311 Posts |
Posted - 22/10/2007 : 13:59:05
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| So English parents of obese children have the American McDonald at home? |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6439 Posts |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5311 Posts |
Posted - 22/10/2007 : 14:28:58
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| Aha ... it isn't McDonalds that deliver ... it is dinner2go ... and I bet they would deliver Greggs as well if someone was to ask for it. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6439 Posts |
Posted - 22/10/2007 : 15:38:31
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Not Greggs
they are not "big" meals like those Americans.
And it is on that site because that American
firm wants orders taken direct to Brighton homes.
FACT. |
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Barsoom
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Posted - 22/10/2007 : 18:23:25
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| It's 'American' this 'Jap' that, is it fun to be a racist? |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 23/10/2007 : 17:21:57
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| Unfortunate as the proposed culling of badgers will be, this could have an effect upon the economy if Greggs uses their meat as addition to its pasties and thereby keeps the price down. |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6439 Posts |
Posted - 23/10/2007 : 17:36:59
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It would effect the Americans McDonalds much more.
FACT. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5311 Posts |
Posted - 23/10/2007 : 17:51:32
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Originally posted by long time no see
It would effect the Americans McDonalds much more.
FACT.
How is that then LTNS? |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Daveb
Discworld
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Posted - 23/10/2007 : 19:25:31
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If I may, the McDonalds Badger Burger is very popular.
The Baby Brock Bites follow close behind.
All with the added bonus of catching TB instead of CJD. |
We're all doomed!
Head for the hills before they start heading for you! |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 23/10/2007 : 19:59:28
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Although badgers are swift to turf from the sett any of them who is ailing (evidently an inspiration for NHS hospitals), they are also intelligent and sensitive creatures who would be even more upset on learning that any of their clan had ended up in a Greggs pasty.
We can be sure that if Greggs continues with this terrible economy measure, there will be packs of badgers braving the daylight to make their feelings known; they will risk emerging from Preston Park and will head along the London Road, and by the time they get to Greggs, any assistant rash enough to think they can be bought off by proferring a tuna baguette will find their teeth sunk into calf and ankle at a velocity which will make the staff's screams audible at the Palace Pier - and beyond. |
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Daveb
Discworld
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Posted - 23/10/2007 : 20:06:43
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Originally posted by Infinite Poppadum
assistant rash enough
Who is this? A specially trained badger baguetteer? |
We're all doomed!
Head for the hills before they start heading for you! |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5311 Posts |
Posted - 23/10/2007 : 20:20:57
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quote:
Originally posted by Daveb
quote:
Originally posted by Infinite Poppadum
assistant rash enough
Who is this? A specially trained badger baguetteer?
Or maybe just a spotty oik on work release? |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1236 Posts |
Posted - 24/10/2007 : 10:41:40
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If this is what badgers get like in the ordinary course of events, think how livid they will be when they reach Greggs on the London Road, Brighton after learning that some of their species have ended up inside a pasty.
What "middle management" idiot or "pasty architect" at Greggs' headquarters ever thought that this extra filling was a good idea?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/3023369.stm |
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Control Panel
Discworld
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Posted - 24/10/2007 : 13:59:53
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The Board of Directors at Greggs was certainly foolhardy to ask its Head Chef (Staff Division) to create a special, life-size, badger-shaped pasty for the Directors to celebrate one Friday lunchtime the economy measure. They opened the champagne too soon.
The Head Chef must marvel at the irony of being asked always to serve the Directors and their guests food far superior to that available in Greggs' "outlets" (a word often associated with sewage pipes). |
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Control Panel
Discworld
1166 Posts |
Posted - 24/10/2007 : 19:31:18
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Greggs is weighing up the option of cancelling the badger-filled pasties for fear of badger reprisals. However, the firm also has to consider the loss of the money it has spent upon posters and adverts which will offer an all-in deal under the heading "Come to Greggs for a Sett-Meal!"
As Greggs advertsing goes, this verges on the subtle. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 25/10/2007 : 10:00:22
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The expression "pasty faced" is never used as a compliment.
This means that Greggs stands condemned. The chain should be closed down forthwith. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1236 Posts |
Posted - 25/10/2007 : 11:22:35
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A very interesting piece here about the fate of indvidual firms - such as Abel and Cole, Ben and Jerry's, Body Shop - when they are taken over by corporations. "Eco Nutters" should stand up to such things and not be bought off!
Oh, for the days when Greggs was a humble, genuine pie-maker.
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/ethicalliving/story/0,,2198604,00.html |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5311 Posts |
Posted - 25/10/2007 : 15:05:36
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| Interesting indeed. Seems as if ethics is secondary to the lure of corporate inclusion. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Daveb
Discworld
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Control Panel
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Control Panel
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Posted - 27/10/2007 : 12:12:52
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| As the London Road, Brighton is set to remain a wilderness, Greggs will be introducing a special menu of locusts and wild honey. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 28/10/2007 : 18:12:44
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Shouldn't the onion in a cheese and onion pasty be more crunchy than is usually the case?
All too often, such pasties as Greggs have put the contents through a blender, and so the onion is just a pervasive flavour - and bland at that - rather than something to enjoy on its own account.
I shouldn't be surprised if they use Spanish onions instead of the stronger English ones.
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 29/10/2007 : 10:41:39
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In Chattanooga Joey Chestnut, from California, won the hot-dog eating contest by eating 103 small hamburgers in eight minutes yesterday. The prize was $10,000.
The previous record of 97 Krystal burgers - which are 2 1/2 inches square --was held by Japan's Takeru Kobayashi. The event is called the Krystal Square Off.
Kobayashi did not compete this year because he was not only suffering from loss of a wisdom tooth but had been undergoing chiropractic treatment,
How would the contestants have fared if they had been faced by Greggs' products? I should think that anybody who got through four pasties in eight minutes would be the front runner.
Would Greggs be so generous as to offer a $10,000 prize, or would the firm try to get away with presenting the winner with a tuna baguette? |
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