FabSwingers.com forum: Greggs in Cornwall Uproar

By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago

Chelmsford

Greggs the Scottish chain made famous for their steak bake and sausage rolls are looking for new sites in Cornwall and reports that traditional Cornish pasty makers are concerned. For some reason the Cornish sometimes call a pasty an oggy which seems designed to confuse the tourists they despise who they call grockles.

What's going on here guys. It's all over the news

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By *oppabear82Man
over a year ago

near you

Just seen it on the news.

Greggs taking on the cornish pasty.

My opinion is each to their own.

It's not exactly a big deal at the end of the day.

I'm more of a sausage bean and cheese melt man myself haha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't think greggs is Scottish

Didn’t it start in the north east?

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By *ife NinjaMan
over a year ago

Dunfermline

Greggs is from Newcastle and they bought various regional shops to get bigger.

Cornish pasty shops rip you off. One at my station wants to charge you a fiver for one. Fuck that

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By *ts the taking part thatMan
over a year ago

southampton

The Cornish pasty outlets at motorway services are extortionate but ginsters & Walls etc already compete in shops etc around Cornwall.

Greg's are the go to when taking a family into the services as vastly cheaper.

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By *icassolifelikeMan
over a year ago

Luton

Wenzel’s is better.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Let them be in uproar.

Cornish pasties are ‘orrible anyway. Not enough meat, too much veg’, and generally taste quite boring to me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Look I'm sorry but you just cannot compare Gregg's to an authentic Cornish pasty.

A morning shopping at Trago Mills and a large Cornish pasty for lunch? You know, the kind of luxury pasty where you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to find the bits of steak? Yeah, that's the shit for me

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By *nigmaschild300Man
over a year ago

dunfermline

The cornish are just whining buggers fullstop.

Hate tourists and any outsiders . Should just build a wall and be done with it.

And their pastys are shite

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By *ease N Please78Couple
over a year ago

Truro

This is a fun thread.

I think Greggs has 3 shops down here now.

I would think mainly used by people on holiday (which is all year round now) , bit like the British people that go aboard but only want to eat British food, "none of that foreign muck for me"

In the less tourist places they not have any shops, take my town, we have 6 different pasty shops, all the locales have their favourites, so they all survive amazingly.

Please remember a very large proportion of our population aren't Cornish, so as in all walks of life you will come across many nice people and many not so nice (take fab as an example).

I think most genuine Cornish people will make people coming down holiday welcome as they know they are needed to help our county survive.

Bit of information for you "grockels" is the Devon name for holiday makers I think, we call em Emmits down ere me ansome.

Love the comment above about going to Trago and getting pasty, now there is someone that has definitely come to our beautiful county.

Top tip, if you are planning coming down, leave until next when the upgrade of the A30 is finished, it's going to be a long car park down here this summer!!

Cornwall lesson over

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Greggs the Scottish chain made famous for their steak bake and sausage rolls are looking for new sites in Cornwall and reports that traditional Cornish pasty makers are concerned. For some reason the Cornish sometimes call a pasty an oggy which seems designed to confuse the tourists they despise who they call grockles.

What's going on here guys. It's all over the news"

Are Greggs unpopular in Cornwall then, Tom? Are they being Bude by the locals?

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By *ablo minibar123Woman
over a year ago

What's going on here guys. It's all over the news"

The Cornish don't call tourists grockles, you are getting confused with Devon tom

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

What's going on here guys. It's all over the news

The Cornish don't call tourists grockles, you are getting confused with Devon tom"

We call them grockles in Dorset aswell, people have car stickers saying ‘I am not a grockle’.

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By *ablo minibar123Woman
over a year ago

What's going on here guys. It's all over the news

The Cornish don't call tourists grockles, you are getting confused with Devon tom

We call them grockles in Dorset aswell, people have car stickers saying ‘I am not a grockle’.

Yes I did seem to remember it being a bit more widespread, but they definitely don't use it in Cornwall.

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By *ong-leggedblondWoman
over a year ago

Next Door

Tom,

The cornish call visitors emits.

And Greggs pasties wouldn't be very nice.

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By *achel SmythTV/TS
over a year ago

Farnborough

"The Cornish pasty outlets at motorway services are extortionate but ginsters & Walls etc already compete in shops etc around Cornwall.

Greg's are the go to when taking a family into the services as vastly cheaper. "

I have only twice ever tasted the Pasties from the Cornish Pasty shops at service. They are over priced … and both were gristly and the meat rubbery … never had one again - urrgh! Xx

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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago

Chelmsford

What's going on here guys. It's all over the news

The Cornish don't call tourists grockles, you are getting confused with Devon tom"

Devon Tom...?

Who is this imposter. Does he tell the news?

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By *entlemanFoxMan
over a year ago

North East / London

"The Cornish pasty outlets at motorway services are extortionate but ginsters & Walls etc already compete in shops etc around Cornwall.

Greg's are the go to when taking a family into the services as vastly cheaper.

I have only twice ever tasted the Pasties from the Cornish Pasty shops at service. They are over priced … and both were gristly and the meat rubbery … never had one again - urrgh! Xx"

Snap, absolutely horrible and nothing like a real Cornish Pasty.

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By *MisschiefxTV/TS
over a year ago

London

Pasties are the greatest item of food ever invented. You also only get good pasties in Cornwall.

Oggy is a chain of pastie shops. Cornish people don't call pasties Oggies, they are referring to the shop. It's like saying we call food 'tescos'.

But articles are usually deliberately wrong to spark arguments and engagement...

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By *ablo minibar123Woman
over a year ago

What's going on here guys. It's all over the news

The Cornish don't call tourists grockles, you are getting confused with Devon tom

Devon Tom...?

Who is this imposter. Does he tell the news?"

Oh he does, and he researches before he posts threads too

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By *jonesMan
over a year ago

Plymouth

I doubt Cornish pasty makers are concerned ...there's enough chomping chubsters to hoover up everything

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

McGreggs?

With the hordes of tourists there, there's probably a market, even if their 1st outlet closed.

They're probably cheaper than a lot of places there and Cornish pasties won't have anything to fear. I'm uncertain they're even selling any pasties in Cornwall. But they wouldn't be Cornish pasties at Greggs

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

Fun fact. They sell cornish pasties in Wisconsin USA. As well as figgy pudding

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By *eeliciouschaosWoman
over a year ago

Wherever

As a foreigner, that’s the most British thread I’ve seen in a long time.

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By *ease N Please78Couple
over a year ago

Truro

"Pasties are the greatest item of food ever invented. You also only get good pasties in Cornwall.

Oggy is a chain of pastie shops. Cornish people don't call pasties Oggies, they are referring to the shop. It's like saying we call food 'tescos'.

But articles are usually deliberately wrong to spark arguments and engagement..."

No cornish people do call a pasty an oggy hence a chain of shops opened with that name.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’m not going to bite.

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By *reasyontheeyesMan
over a year ago

out in the sticks

Greggs,Walls or Ginsters have no idea how to make a decent pasty IMHO

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By *MisschiefxTV/TS
over a year ago

London

"Pasties are the greatest item of food ever invented. You also only get good pasties in Cornwall.

Oggy is a chain of pastie shops. Cornish people don't call pasties Oggies, they are referring to the shop. It's like saying we call food 'tescos'.

But articles are usually deliberately wrong to spark arguments and engagement...

No cornish people do call a pasty an oggy hence a chain of shops opened with that name. "

I have never called a pasty an Oggy or heard anyone call a pasty an Oggy. It's always 'Paahsty'.

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By *ease N Please78Couple
over a year ago

Truro

"Pasties are the greatest item of food ever invented. You also only get good pasties in Cornwall.

Oggy is a chain of pastie shops. Cornish people don't call pasties Oggies, they are referring to the shop. It's like saying we call food 'tescos'.

But articles are usually deliberately wrong to spark arguments and engagement...

No cornish people do call a pasty an oggy hence a chain of shops opened with that name.

I have never called a pasty an Oggy or heard anyone call a pasty an Oggy. It's always 'Paahsty'. "

Take it your not cornish then

Google oggy and you will find out.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/oggy

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By *riar BelisseWoman
over a year ago

Delightful Bliss

What's going on here guys. It's all over the news

The Cornish don't call tourists grockles, you are getting confused with Devon tom

We call them grockles in Dorset aswell, people have car stickers saying ‘I am not a grockle’.

And in Hampshire

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By *estarossa.Woman
over a year ago

Flagrante

Oh No! Concerned!

Surely not!

Surely they are at least Outraged or somethin Tom!

Slow news day?

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

What's going on here guys. It's all over the news"
really can't see the Cornish pasty makers being worried unless its about the coat difference taste wise Cornish is best

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By *oubleswing2019Man
over a year ago

Colchester

If Greggs do move to Cornwall, and if they do sell pasties, it's a natural example of free-market capitalism, and the market working as intended.

I expect it would exert downward pressure on prices from independent pasty shops. However no one should have a monopoly on anything and a free market should be just that.

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Finedon ,

For a pasty to be called a Cornish Pastie it has to have been made in Cornwall.

Ginsters are probably the largest supplier of pasties and supply pretty well all of the major supermarkets.

I believe also that Morrisons have their own bakery in Cornwall.

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By *MisschiefxTV/TS
over a year ago

London

"Pasties are the greatest item of food ever invented. You also only get good pasties in Cornwall.

Oggy is a chain of pastie shops. Cornish people don't call pasties Oggies, they are referring to the shop. It's like saying we call food 'tescos'.

But articles are usually deliberately wrong to spark arguments and engagement...

No cornish people do call a pasty an oggy hence a chain of shops opened with that name.

I have never called a pasty an Oggy or heard anyone call a pasty an Oggy. It's always 'Paahsty'.

Take it your not cornish then

Google oggy and you will find out.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/oggy"

You take wrong. I'm Cornish.

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By *uksungCouple
over a year ago

wednesbury

Had numerous cornish pasties and they rank very low in my opinion. Had Welsh one which were much better.if cornish pasties are good enough they'll weather the storm if not they go bust. That's capitalism I'm afraid.

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

It's just a folded pie, get over yourselves Cornwall.

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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago

Chelmsford

Let's not be too hard on the Cornish here. The Pastie was actually invented with a crust so that tin miners could hold it by the crust and not get coal dust on their food..

It was actually a good invention

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Let's not be too hard on the Cornish here. The Pastie was actually invented with a crust so that tin miners could hold it by the crust and not get coal dust on their food..

It was actually a good invention "

Not coal dust, tin miners ,you find arsenic with tin and copper, and a traditional pasty ,3/4 savoury 1/4 apple or jam

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

What's going on here guys. It's all over the newsreally can't see the Cornish pasty makers being worried unless its about the coat difference taste wise Cornish is best

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cost difference lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was always told as a kid by the locals on our annual holidays down in Cornwall that a true Cornish Pasty has one half meat and then a thin slice of pastry in the middle separating the other half which would have a fruit filling. Usually apple.

The reason being the Cornish miners would take them to work and eat them for their lunch with each side providing both main and desert course as it were.

So a solely meat filled pastry is just a pasty and not a "Cornish Pasty".

Hey, happy to be corrected if the locals were just teasing us kids but one lady we knew even went as far as baking us some, complete with a mark in the pastry so you knew which was the meat end.

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

"I was always told as a kid by the locals on our annual holidays down in Cornwall that a true Cornish Pasty has one half meat and then a thin slice of pastry in the middle separating the other half which would have a fruit filling. Usually apple.

The reason being the Cornish miners would take them to work and eat them for their lunch with each side providing both main and desert course as it were.

So a solely meat filled pastry is just a pasty and not a "Cornish Pasty".

Hey, happy to be corrected if the locals were just teasing us kids but one lady we knew even went as far as baking us some, complete with a mark in the pastry so you knew which was the meat end. "
Thats a miners pasty and at one point recently you could still buy such a pasty lunch and desert in same lunch box

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The reason being the Cornish miners would take them to work and eat them for their lunch with each side providing both main and desert course as it were.

So a solely meat filled pastry is just a pasty and not a "Cornish Pasty".

Hey, happy to be corrected if the locals were just teasing us kids but one lady we knew even went as far as baking us some, complete with a mark in the pastry so you knew which was the meat end. Thats a miners pasty and at one point recently you could still buy such a pasty lunch and desert in same lunch box

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By *ablo minibar123Woman
over a year ago

"Let's not be too hard on the Cornish here. The Pastie was actually invented with a crust so that tin miners could hold it by the crust and not get coal dust on their food..

It was actually a good invention

Not coal dust, tin miners ,you find arsenic with tin and copper, and a traditional pasty ,3/4 savoury 1/4 apple or jam "

They still sell the half and half ones down by me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We don't use the word grockles, we call them emits.

Don't judge anything by service station mass produced crap, especially pasties.

Try Gear farm or Ann's, then you can judge.

Oggy was called before they were delivered down the mines, so yeah, they can be called that but it's not common tbh.

As for Gregg's, it's like an Irish bar in lanzarote eh?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It really isn't and that's coming from a lover of pies. I lived near Wigan before moving here so I feel well trained to judge such matters.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I know of one at launceston, everyone drives past it to get to Philip Warren's place right behind it, now they do proper pasties.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As an outsider in Cornwall, I beg to differ, but respect is earned.

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By *ornucopiaMan
over a year ago

Bexley

"Let's not be too hard on the Cornish here. The Pastie was actually invented with a crust so that tin miners could hold it by the crust and not get coal dust on their food..

It was actually a good invention "

Why would there be coal dust down a tin mine?

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By *ease N Please78Couple
over a year ago

Truro

"Let's not be too hard on the Cornish here. The Pastie was actually invented with a crust so that tin miners could hold it by the crust and not get coal dust on their food..

It was actually a good invention

Why would there be coal dust down a tin mine?"

I think it was actually to avoid Arsenic, which I believe you do get in tin mines.

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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago

Chelmsford

"Let's not be too hard on the Cornish here. The Pastie was actually invented with a crust so that tin miners could hold it by the crust and not get coal dust on their food..

It was actually a good invention

Why would there be coal dust down a tin mine?"

To get to the Tim then you usually encounter coal..

It's a geological fact...

Tin mines were very dusty

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

"Let's not be too hard on the Cornish here. The Pastie was actually invented with a crust so that tin miners could hold it by the crust and not get coal dust on their food..

It was actually a good invention

Why would there be coal dust down a tin mine?

To get to the Tim then you usually encounter coal..

It's a geological fact...

Tin mines were very dusty "

Your made up facts are getting Pasty joke now Tom

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