Isnt a Greggs sausage roll like 15% pork?
Quality of Sausage Rolls over time
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Isnt a Greggs sausage roll like 15% pork?
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18% but still tastes great
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Greggs sausage rolls barely taste of anything 
IMO they taste of grease.
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Beige mash of beigeness in your mouth now a sausage roll. It has got to the point where I rarely bother with any fast foods now if I'm honest. Last kebab - must be VERY drunk to think of one, and have skipped food everytime I've been out since - I didn't half finish. Burger king/Greggs can't remember my last while sober. They're no longer cheap, but have gotten worse IMO.
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The thing is, they don't even taste like grease from meat but just flavourless oil and fat.
Not just that but they like to keep sausage rolls at their only unpalatable temperature - between room and lukewarm. The sort of temperature i would use if i wanted bacteria to flourish
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Sadly, home-made sausage rolls are the only way to get real quality these days. Not even that much faff if you buy pre-rolled. Nice bit of sausage meat from the butcher, mix with chilli, apple, whatever takes your fancy. Wrap those piggies up, baste, and pop-in the oven! Take them in to work sometimes and they're gone within the hour.
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My butchers does a very good wild boar sausage roll. It's not cheap but that's what you expect with actual quality ingredients.
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Never mastered the homemade sausage roll. Always get too much expansion in the puff pastry which I'm sure TV chefs will tell you is essential for some BS reason but means you have to bite through too much flour and fat before you get to meaty goodness.
Isnt this the reason we have mums for?....
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Local butchers have done quality sausage rolls for as long as I can remember. Downside is they had 6 shops around the town until about 5 years, now down to 2.
They produce their own bacon, pork pies and sausage rolls. All excellent.
They produce their own bacon, pork pies and sausage rolls. All excellent.
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How do you make a sausage roll?
Push it down a hill.
Push it down a hill.
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Its slime because its mechanically reclaimed, plus of course the bits that we find un-appetising.
Although they tend to actually be a lot of the tasty bits as well.
IMHO a sausage roll is better with a shortcrust rather than a puff.
Although they tend to actually be a lot of the tasty bits as well.
IMHO a sausage roll is better with a shortcrust rather than a puff.
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I quite like the taste of greggs sausage rolls, but know I am eating complete filth.
Exactly the same, fast food is no longer cheap, people at work to Mac D once a week and they its like £6-£10 a pop and they all complain of feeling like crap around 3pm
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I've seen it argued that the McD's Double Cheeseburger was very good value for money when you look at the nutrition it provides for ~£1.40.
Don't read that as me saying it's healthy.
Don't read that as me saying it's healthy.
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Never been a fan of sausage rolls, I always find them dry. A Greggs' cheese pasty on the other hand is my dirty indulgence. Not a huge pastry lover though, but I'll happily engage with one of two of those when feeling a little bit fruity.
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What’s the name of that place at train stations that does croissants and pastries? They do a bacon and cheese croissant, used to love them. Better than any sausage roll.
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Upper crust?