Greggs Trials | AMERICANS TRY GREGGS | Big Mistake or Worth The Flake?
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- Another AMERICANS TRY classic is back and ready for your viewing! In this video, we try the infamous Greggs for the first time!! We try a few of the most well-known items and even compare the sausage roll to the vegan sausage roll. It is hard to believe that we have been living in England for almost 2 years now and have yet to stumble into one of these iconic stores, but alas here we are! British food has become very near and dear to our hearts, so it was quite a lot of fun to try this nationally beloved chain on camera! Hope you enjoy this one as much as we did!!
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Yo, if you make it to Lord Reichle's realm, ask my butler for my personal assortment of Scotch and English Brews 😁 great video guys! Miss you both!
Baked beans have a high nutritional value. You wanna try Colemans English mustard on steak, Sunday roast with Yorkshire pudding, fish and chips and mushy peas and curry sauce, also if you go out at night to the pub go and get a kebab. Also try marmite, Yorkshire tea made the British way and definately go and have a Indian curry you will love it.
Also try British chocolates like Cadburys and walkers crisps with there massive selection of flavours.
@@davidreichle944 Yes, Sir David! It would be an honor to travel into your lands!!
Miss you too friend!
@@louisbarnett9290 Jordan did try it in our “Americans Try British Slang” video! His reaction was super funny! Alaytra still needs to take a swing at it though 😬😬 We made a candy video too that you should check out!
The best time to eat any Greggs item is when they've been out of the oven 7-10 minutes. If they are eaten straight out of the oven they are like molten lava 🤣
I can't believe you didn't get the steak bake. It's pretty much the poster pasty. I've never been a fan of their sausage rolls, but the steak bakes are fantastic.
They were already out of so much when we went (which was really quite close to opening). The steak bake and cheese and onion were supreme losses to the trial!
It is but I love the sausage and bean cheese melt😋
Their steak bakes are the bomb
@@AroundtheWorldandBeck Steak bakes are top notch as are the cheese & bacon wraps if you can get them fairly hot, although they are a bit more expensive then a lot of the pasties.
@@RyanCogar We will have to try and find those! We are thinking about doing a Greggs Christmas edition! We could loop in some of the items we missed out on!
Greggs = the McDonald's of pastry. You can get far superior better tasting pastries but greggs is quick, cheap and cheerful.
Haha! That’s a great way to put it!!
The reason we like baked beans so much in the UK is because when we were kids, we were always told "beans beans are good for your heart, the more you eat the more you fart, the more you fart the better you feel, so let's have beans with every meal"
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Hahaha! That’s so funny, I was told someone very similar (which now that I recall, is just wild!) “Beans beans the magical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot, the more you toot, the better you feel, so eat your means with every meal”
Yours might at least be factually accurate lmfao 🤣
“Beanz means fartz” 😂
Greggs and sausage rolls in general, should be eaten when they are hot enough to burn your mouth. If you can hold them without wrapping them in the paper bag, then blast them in the microwave for a few seconds before eating. Greggs are also available frozen from Iceland frozen food store.
The Iceland thing we just learned about! That might be the way to get that lava-hot sensation! Fresh out your own oven!!
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As someone who works for Greggs, there's no excuse for confusing the Cheese & Onion with the Sausage Melt. It's a shame to didn't get to try the C&O
The hot sausage roll goes well with a cup of tomato soup. Greggs even do a special deal if you buy both. Nice on a cold winter's day!
Interesting!! We’ll have to give it a go, come winter!
@@AroundtheWorldandBeck a greggs sausage roll and a bottle of pepsi a day was what got me through college
@@bigfrankfraser1391 🤣🤣
Sadly they don't do one of my goto Pasties anymore. They used to do a vegetarian one with veg in a slightly spicy cheese sauce. They were lush!
Sometimes places bring stuff back, hopes for someday 😬😬 Sounds delicious!
The original vege bakes were lovely. They tasted like Heinz vegetable soup. The newer recipie with the creamy veg you mentioned weren't as nice imo. And the og vege pastys were bigger too. :-) Ive no idea why they changed/then stopped making them. Same as the meat and potato pastys. :-(
I love sausage rolls, whenever I get them I get four and just chow down, love them crumbs and all
My favourite Gregg's product has to be the steak bake, it is so meaty with just the right amount of gravy 😋
Seems to be a common one! That and the cheese and onion! (Guess that explains why they were sold out!)
Potato and meat are good as well
@@johnhankinson1929 That’s a new suggestion, is that year round? No one has brought this one up yet!
It’s the only thing I buy
I went to Durham City in the North-East of England just Saturday gone, do a bit of banking, thought to myself "Oh, I wants a sausage roll", So went to bank, then went to Greggs, stood in queue and a bloke in front bought 10 of the things, totally cleared the tray out, so when it was my turn, there was none ready... I was fuming... [Insert naughty 'C' word here!]
:D lol
EDIT: Oh, and yeah, I'm not big on cold sausage rolls, prefer them hot, they are indeed tastier!
Greggs don't make these pastries in-store, they just cook from frozen. You can buy most of the Greggs range frozen from Iceland frozen food stores. They have been doing it for about 10 years or more. It's great as you can have a hot pastry whenever you feel like it, and it's cheaper than buying from Greggs. They make a great snack in the evenings when watching TV. :) I accept no blame for any weight that people put on following this advice! :)
Hahahahahaha! Love it! We’ll have to keep an eye out!
When we buy different bakes from Greggs we get them to bag them up separately and write on each bag what they are so we don't get them mixed up. Your dog knew which was the best, he or she only got excited when you were eating the sausage roll ! lol The steak bake and cheese & onion are our favorites !
Excellent tip for next time!! I didn’t realize how similar they all looked until they were combined!
It was so disappointing they didn’t have cheese and onion that day, we’ll have to make a trip back!
My two golden rules of Greggs:
1. Eat it hot
2. Avoid the ‘coffee’ 😊
This is very interesting, nice one guys
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! We had a lot of fun making this one, Greggs has been talked about so much, we were really excited to try it!
We love a festive bake at Christmas time - aka a fezzy B !! Greg’s at its finest. Great work x
Haha! Thanks! We’ve heard of that! We’ll have to pop in and try it this Christmas!
Yes! Definately do a video on the Festive bake. It's the most anticipated item Greggs sell as its only around for about a month a year. I cannot wait to have my first one of the year! 😁
Greggs is actually a Baker's Shop and now expanding elsewhere. It is not uncommon to take a Sausage Roll home and eat it on a plate for lunch or with some Baked Beans.
So we aren't completely butchering the experience? Haha
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you can buy gregs frozen sausage roll ready to cook in supermarkets, but the fresh hot cornish pasty does it for me
We’re the samples you tried warm? Greg’s is far tastier when it’s hot.
The steak slice in particular is delicious! Any cold pies are unappetising.
She said at the beginning that they were hot and fresh as Greggs is only a few door stops away
The first few were definitely the best, cooled down as we went along. Popped some in the microwave, and you’re right, way better warmed up! Maybe we’ll do a quick clip of us trying them in the store sometime 🤔🤔
Except the sausage rolls I prefer cold sausage rolls .
Sausage rolls are not like pies where with sausage rolls you can eat hot or cold.
@@christopherosborne9277 You know a couple other people have said that they prefer their sausage rolls cold. So maybe there is something there!
The Iceland supermarket chain has a frozen selection of several Greggs products, including sausage rolls. Also, maybe a microwaving of the stuff in this video for 30-60 secs would have given you warm/hot versions? Personally, I usually eat sausage rolls, pasties, pork pies, steak pastry slices and scotch eggs all cold, but maybe that's just me :-) I always cook pies in the oven though.
Yes, we will have to pop in and grab some!
And from we’ve seen in the comments, people seem to prefer Greggs piping hot!! So you might not be in the majority on this one haha
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The food is constant over the country thats why people like them so much
Greggs has a frozen range in Iceland stores so you can bake it at home
That might be the way to go, then you guarantee you eat it fresh 👌🏻👌🏻
Bollocks, everyone likes British style beans.😊
That's so precious calling Greggs a restaurant 😂😂
It's great to see someone who genuinely hates baked beans. A real first.
I honestly don't think I've ever met anyone in Britain who doesn't just calmly accept the culinary tyranny of baked beans. Brits are programmed by Heinz to love them from a very early age, you see.
🤣🤣 Right? It’s like sacrilegious to say anything against beans lol
My sister hates them.
Also try Gregg's Doughnuts, and 🍕 !
Aye 😎 We may have to do just that!
Fudge donuts are the best (or you may call them caramel custard). Yum.
I agree beans in a pasty should band and I like beans. The steak bake is worth a try. Great little review but better if they were hot.
Chicken and the Steak Bake are brilliant for a quick bite in the morning, with a coffee and a Yum Yum (even though I'm in my fifties). Plus you can pick up a sandwich or roll for your dinner (lunch) while you are there. I've also worked across the UK and they are reliably the same quality when you don't know the area.
I got unlucky with the steak bake 2 days running once they were full of gristle haven't been to Gregg's since
@@StevenCullen-sx1ui I've never had an issue, and I've been from Scotland down to Kent. Was it one particular store?
@@martinbobfrank it was one in Huddersfield am not saying bad things about them I just got unlucky but will not go many places like Greggs as with a lot of them being overpriced
@@StevenCullen-sx1ui There's always better and cheaper places, but Greggs is a steady place. I've never been to Huddersfield, but I could of done on the way to Leeds or around there. I remember going to a KFC where I live, and it was terrible. I would never go to a KFC based of that one, but I've been to others where they were brilliant.
@@martinbobfrank have experienced same thing with KFC had one that was disgusting and then went to a different one and it was ok
The word you were looking for was sauce. You use the word gravy where we use the word sauce, except for gravy which is brown with meat. The chicken will be in what we call a white sauce.
The Sausage and Bean Melt is my go to item. On the whole, Greggs is only nice fresh out of the oven. The trays they sell them from aren't heated. A while ago you had people moaning on social media that their sausage rolls and slices were lukewarm at best. Greggs reply was they say everything is freshly baked.
We definitely learned our lesson about eating it hot for our Greggs Christmas video! Totally right, much better warm!
Try ALL the Greg's cakes omg my mouth drools thinking of their cream cakes. Sooo lush. ❤❤
AH! Gone are the Cowboy days. Remember Blazing Saddles.
Drove past a Greggs test and the Sausage Roll was calling me but on a bloody diet and saving the calories for Christmas Day 🎄!!
Stay strong! We’re going on post Christmas diets, think you’ve done it the smart way 😂😂
Always best fairly hot .the steak ones are fantastic.🇬🇧👍
Agreed! We found that out quickly, much better warmed up!!
I really want a Greggs now 😋
That is a side effect, we’ve heard, to watching this video 😂😂
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I feel so sorry for anyone who doesn't like Gregg's, cant beat a sausage roll.
Right?? So simple and delicious! Petition to make this 🥖 the sausage roll emoji instead of bread 😂😂
I don't know what's gone wrong with the vegan sausage rolls. When they were introduced you probably couldn't tell in a blind test how they were different from meat ones but now they are lardy, usually cold and look under cooked. They've also abandoned the gorgeous vegan steak bakes for the bean melts that are good but have little in favour of them over the cheese melt.
@@redf7209 I’ve never tried the Vegan sausage roll but I’ve heard some say their ok.
@@matty6848 still better than nowt to a vegan
You can reheat these pastries. Preheat your oven to 150 degrees C and warm for about 10 minutes. If they come straight out of the fridge you may need to warm them for up to 20 minutes.
That’s a great tip! Probably much better than microwave 😂😂
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@@AroundtheWorldandBeck only use the microwave if you're in a hurry and you don't mind soggy pastry. Otherwise the oven is the only way to keep the pastry crisp. You may need to increase the time in the oven depending on your oven. Start with 10 minutes for reheating and go from there.
@@WatchingDude Excellent! Thank you!
You've gotta have em warmed up for me guys👍
We actually put the leftovers in the microwave after we quit filming and OH MAN is that a game changer!!!
piping hot 🥵
Greggs is way more than the pastry section,it's sandwiches and baguettes are great,it's hot sandwiches are too,then there's the Mexican oval bites, chicken dippers and sauces and the soups in winter are fab...
You are in Britain! We love baked beans - when I was a child beans on toast was what we had for dinner every week. But you should try a real Cornish pasty. I live in the US these days and finding non-super-sweet baked beans is impossible - I have to make my own. I one can get pasties in the upper peninsula of Michigan but sausage rolls you have to make your own.
You got every one except the one you needed to try ! 😭
Check out our Greggs Christmas Menu video, we picked up some we missed!
Cheese and onion or steak are the nicest. Worth trying some of their sandwiches too ....the tuna crunch is lovely!
That seems to be a very popular opinion! (Especially since that’s what the store was out of!!) Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
I went into a Greggs at lunchtime and asked for two cakes and four sausage rolls.
The guy behind the counter used tongs to put them in a bag.
I commented, "It’s nice to see you don’t handle the food here."
He replied, "Nothing here is handled by hand, sir."
"What if you need a pee?" I asked.
“I use the tongs.”
🤣🤣
The old spoon joke.
And what if you opened your mouth for him did he use tongs to keep it open?
Gregg’s coffee is delicious! And not a bad price for a cup either. Love in winter when they do Mint Mocha
Gregg's cakes esp the yum yums are my favourite things to get from there and there hot sausage rolls are divine xx🇬🇧😋🇬🇧
Proud to be from the city it originated from
Oh neat! Where did it originate from/where are you from? 😁
@@AroundtheWorldandBeck newcastle 👌👌
Most if not all can be eaten cold , the reason for the price is that Greggs had to go to court to prove that their stores didn't make the goods on the premises but just warmed them up from being delivered frozen , they heated them up so they could be eaten after they cooled down but it was the public demand that they have them asap hence they were still warm when bought . They won so no vat was applied 😂
Sausage rolls used to be like £0.45 back in the day too😂
Holy cow!! What a steal!!
By the way... the steak bake pastie is the best thing from Greggs. A big seller. Bloody gorgeous. Great video guys👍
Thank you so much for watching! Glad you enjoyed!!
There were quite a few we missed out on, definitely need to go back 😁😁
The thing about the steak bake is it's not very nice cold, and Greggs aren't always served hot and fresh so you do need to ask before getting one.
@@AroundtheWorldandBeck Easily the best
I like a sausage roll when I'm visiting the U.K. Some brits are amazed that we don't have sausage rolls here in Mississippi. That's true, but then they don't have grits or sausage gravy and biscuits so we're even.
British Heinz Baked Beans are great, part of the make up of UK and Irish home meals
Actually had never heard a specific brand referenced as the go-to, good to know!
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@@AroundtheWorldandBeck UK baked beans are nothing like US baked beans. They're far superior.
@@jillhobson6128 Stay tuned, we are filming a video tomorrow where we try UK baked beans
Cheese and bean melt is 9/10
Greggs hot sausage rolls used to be a lot better in the 80's - 90's. The pastry was amazing and would be slightly greasy but not too much. The meat percentage was higher too. A sprinkling of salt and you had the perfect lunchtime snack.
We’ve heard that a lot from people, that it used to be better years and years ago. Maybe Greggs will bring back their retro recipes!
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Greggs products are available at Iceland.
Interesting! We hope to go there soon, we’ll have to keep an eye out!
Greggs sausage rolls are really great hot straight out of the oven. Both the Chicken bake and steak bake are one of my favourites also again hot out of the oven. They also have frozen varieties of them which you can bake yourself but I can't comment on those as I haven't tried them myself yet. Towards Christmas Greggs usually bring out a festive bake with chicken and sage and onion stuffing in them which are definitely worth trying out if you are in the UK then.
Surely the best sausage rolls in the UK are from Marks and Spencer .. you must trythem !!
As if you went to my local greggs lol. Mildenhall on RUclips haha. Greggs sausage roll ftw btw
Edit: have greggs changed their sausage rolls? They used to look more filled out and not just a round sausage in pastry. Been a while since I had one
We did go to the one in Mildenhall, great eye! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
Greggs is great my favourite is a sausage roll.
Sausage Roll for the win !
SOOOooo good!
Have they warmed them up. Much better when eaten warm.
We definitely figured that out in our Christmas Greggs video! So so much better!
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Greg's is t's by no means the finest food, but for something on the go, it's cracking stuff. Much better than a burger or fried chicken. Once you've sampled one of these bad boys, they're like Pringles...Once you pop, you can't stop. I can't believe you didn't try the 'Cheese and Onion slice' - by a mile the best!
I think outside of the Deep South there isn’t much of a tradition of savoury pies in the US.”Pie” there means apple pie or pecan pie.
Chicken bakes are fantastic my all time favourite
Oh dang! Aspiring Keanu reeves look alike couple up in here!
Steak Bake and Sausage rolls from Greggs are the best
Can't believe they were out of steak bakes and the cheese and onion when we went to pick it up. Missing out on some classics. We will have to make sure we go back!
I love Greggs sausage rolls but I couldn't eat more than a dozen at a time 🤣 (just kidding.) There's a good reason their sausage rolls are known about around the world. Their sausage meat is ground more than many other mass produced sausage rolls, so you don't get any of those 'hard bits' in them which are inedible in many other brands. Food for the Gods. 🙋♂
You were right on sausage roll need to buy hot and eat from the bag
Aw you have been greggs u gave self away when you said greggs do pretty good coffee ☕️ 😅
Greggs is cheap and cheerful on the go food. But you can't beat pie's from an independent bakery. Butter pies are my fave.😋
I had a friend come up from Bristol who heard about the legendary pies of Lancashire. Holland's and Greenhalgh's. Greenhalgh's are a local chain of take away bakeries similar to Greggs but a little more expensive and much nicer (in my opinion). My friend returned happy and heavier having bought 10 pies on the first outing alone! You should do a tour of pie/pasty shops across Britain. Lancashire pie and gravy is the best but I also recommend Scottish Bridies (they're usually served with baked beans!) You won't be disappointed!
.... and, for your information, Wigan is said to be the pie capital of the world! Even though I'm from near Blackburn with it's own amazing pie/pastie gods I admit Wigan trumps all 🤣 Have a lovely day x Kia
Am I the only person who thinks a Greg's sausage roll is 1 step above a Spar sausage roll but a step below every other bakery sausage you'll get 🫣
You don't go to Greggs for quality, you go for comfort at affordable prices.
Oh it scores 10/10 on comfort and price! Can’t beat it really 😁😁 Thanks for watching!
Are you eating these cold?
Steak bakes and the festive bakes are lush. I do love the chicken pasty and the sausage roll too. In fact I love Greggs full stop. Yum 🤤
Hahahahaha!! Love the progression of realization there! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
You need to take the camera to Greggs and video you trying the Sausage Rolls hot from the shop!
We really should! Maybe something we will do on socials 🤔🤔
In UK covid lockdown I quickly got addiced to junk food eating lots of Greggs ,cheese sweets and deserts and drinking more combined with no exercise I gained a fanominal amount of weight 90lbs in 7 months. And had a massively increased waist line to prove it
I can't have beans touching any other food. It's got to be on its own or on toast. Then again, I've got aspergers and I'm like Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory lol
😂😂 Understandable!
Defo need to try a steak bake also the yum yums
We did end up trying the Steak Bake in our Christmas Greggs update! Haven’t done the Yum Yums yet!
Hate hate Hahaha awwwww you 2 are pure dead brilliant as we say in Glasgow
Are you eating it hot or cold? It’s best hot, especially hot sausage rolls.
So it was still pretty warm when we were diving in, but comments on this video made sure we ate it warmed up when we filmed our Christmas Greggs Menu video!
@@AroundtheWorldandBeck Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for your videos. I enjoy them.
Cut in half to leave some for D-Rizzle? 🙃
Come to England and we’ll treat you to a whole one 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They do frozen greggs bake at home in Iceland frozen food stores ? Iceland- not the country 😆)
Interesting! We’ll have to keep an eye out!
Chicken bake and yum yums are the best.
Yum Yums? Interesting, you might be the first one to suggest that one! We’ll have to check them out!
The best thing from Gregg's is the Empire biscuit
😮😮 That sounds interesting!
Edit: Just Googled it and it looks amazing! Funny thing is though, the first 4 entries were all talking about how many calories are in it 🤣🤣
If it's cold its not right. It has to be hot to get the real experience.
Agreed!
You should try the Simmons sausage roll 👌
Interesting! Haven’t had that suggestion yet, we’ll have to check it out!
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Very good video always eat hot fresh from buying it
First thing first some days it’s hot some days it cold thats greggs in a nuthshell.
Haha!! Sounds about right!! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! It means a lot!
What about the steak bake you haven’t tried all of Greggs till yo had the steak bake pie
We did end up trying it! Just posted our Christmas Greggs video, we try it there 😁😁
When you. score them, to what do you compare them? How can you not like beans ? You missed the best one , in my opinion, the steak bake!
Greggs…on a PLATE? 😳
On a plate, indoors, sober. It's all wrong
Gotta make do in order to film. But you’re right, much better straight from the wrappings! Thanks for watching!
Fresh out of Compton 😎
Lol 😂
The festive bake is the best it will be out soon
Several people have suggested the festive bake, we may need to do a Greggs, Christmas Edition 😂🎄
Cheese and bean melt is 10% 10%
😁😁
You insult the Greggs, you insult everyone up north. The home and worshippers of tge Greggs.
It will be cold by now! It is essential to eat immediately !
We certainly learned our lesson when we did our Greggs Christmas Menu video!
Count how many times they say like
Not possible. Americans always say like over and over
I always get cheese and onion or pizza from greggs or from pound bakery is another version of greggs but its quite cheaper than greggs.
We ended up trying a cheese and onion in our Greggs Christmas Trial video! (And we have to agree with you, best thing on the menu!)
Baked beans are the "staff of life."
So is bread and it tastes so much better! Jk, to each their own!
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@@AroundtheWorldandBeck Baked beans piled high on hot buttered toast, with a knob of butter melting on top and maybe even a poached egg topping the lot - though that's probably optional - is a typically British simple dish. Sadly though it seems to be a meal that our American cousins don't really "get" - I've seen too many reaction vids where they'll try to eat it with their hands, and declare it to be less than successful. I'm prepared to concede that the toast goes soft, that's why it's definitely a task for a knife and fork.
That’s fair, sometimes the way you eat something can really mess up the experience.
Beans are growing on us a bit, but thus far, we will still choose to order something else if there’s an option to