It's The Principle....."Epic Win"

[The Dread Pirate]

By 'eck, you're damn right there. Subway is only fit for pig swill.

I'm not too sure about that the pigs may also turn up their noses at it!

 

[skyripper]

I also notieced that the price sign in Tesco still stated it was a 64.5g bar, once I complained they removed the sign and it's yet to be replaced with a new one - I see these things all the time and more so over the past year.
Instead of putting prices up there reducing the amount you get for ya money.

Just keep an eye out you will see what i mean

Innocent Smoothies are another one. Their 1L pack is now about 800ml instead for the same price and the packaging looks just the same. Since they got bought by CocaCola.

On the absurdity of canteen / crap food outlets, I was eating at one place (govt establishment) which had outsourced everything - transport, cafe, IT support, buildings maintenance etc. to the same company (i'll call them Shirko).

Anyway, one day I had a steak pie for lunch, or I wanted to. What I got was a pie with some gravy in it and no meat. When I complained I was told to 'Raise a service desk call and it would be investigated'. I got my money back a day later. I actually just wanted a ****** pie! Bonkers.

 

[ebilcake]

Greggs isnt that bad compared to pathetic assortment of snacks I get from the Tesco Express near my workplace.

 

[nydryl]

This a wind up?

Only a idiot would go to a Greggs mass produced crap.

Yes, you're correct, only idiots buy food in Greggs. Coming from cheets64 who sits atop the world's intellectual peak.

 

[RomanNose]

I had a similar story the other day, I hardly ever buy soft drinks and the one day I decided to use the vending machine, it gave me 4x the amount I payed for!

 

[PiKe]

Only a idiot would go to a Greggs mass produced crap.

Is that what they're calling themselves these days? No wonder they're trying to improve their profits!

 

[cheets64]

Yes, you're correct, only idiots buy food in Greggs. Coming from cheets64 who sits atop the world's intellectual peak.

You are talking to someone classed as a Pie Eater, so I know my pies from my pies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Pie_Eating_Championship

 

[Danthus]

...........

All 8 of us was given our Money back, a managers bussiness card that she had written separate codes on for each of us and was told to present this card when ordering and we would be given free food upto the value of £5 per day for 1 month! we was also told that the fillings will be put back to normal from now on, they also removed the remaining pasties off the shelves.

Epic Win in my eyes.... LOL

That is £1200 of free food based on a 30 day month.

Actually that is based on 7 days, so a little less.

 

[Kosmiche]

I want to know what happened to the pasties that were removed.

I hope they went to a good home.

 

[Ahleckz]

I complained after my sausage roll was only half full of sausage. Got a £2 voucher. I was happy with that.

 

[nydryl]

You are talking to someone classed as a Pie Eater, so I know my pies from my pies.

From the age of 5 I have been known to close friends simply as 'Pies' so I also claim to know my pies...and yes Greggs have nothing on most local bakeries

 

[cheets64]

You ever been to Fray Bentos?

 

[G-MAN2004]

Classy guy.

 

[nydryl]

You ever been to Fray Bentos?

Haha no but it's only about a 5 hours drive from Montevideo.

 

[danza]

The one and only time I went to a Greggs, I got food poisoning.

 

[Hastarius]

Never been into a Greggs, not sure if that's good or not. Fray Bentos pies I love though

I'd just pop into my local bakery if I fancied something but good on you for not letting it go and getting free lunch everyday for a month, brilliant

 

[Feek]

Plus they are produced at large factory and baked in store so how would the manager know what goes in the products.

Exactly. The local Greggs shop has no control over how items are produced, they're all made centrally which makes parts of the original story even more unlikely.

It's funny how times change though, I'm sure it was only a couple of years ago that Greggs were considered godlike in the bakery world on these fine forums. Now, look at the hate!

 

[Dj_Jestar]

ITT: OP stomps feet like a child, instead of accepting apology like an adult. You were in Greggs.. and expect quality?!

or more like, as others have said:

ITT: OP is making it up.

EDIT: Actually, what I think really happened was this:

This is what i happend while on my lunch break today.......

Decided for a change (as not been for ages) to go to Greggs, I ponderd over the pasties for a few moments and picked a Sausage & Bean Melt as not had one of those for say 12 months or so, During Eating it I found it was just Mushed up Beans and no Sausage as all!

(now I know when Greggs first brought these out about 2 or 3 years ago there used to be 2 full sausages inside packed with Beans, now it's credit crunch time so they reduced this to chopping the sausages up and you would get 4 or 5 sausage sizable chunks too in there)

But the one I had didnt have any so I sulked for a bit, wishing I'd had the courage to complain, so instead I though I'd post on the internet that I did complain, to get some self validation.

Epic Win in my eyes.... LOL

 

[JDMaverick]

Subway > Greggs.

But Greggs isn't too bad either

I used to work in a bakery that supplied some of Subways different rolls. Never been back there.

 

[Nexus]

The fact that they are prepared to potentially give away so much free food goes to show just how little it costs them to produce their goods, especially with them skimping on the fillings which are the most expensive part.