IT is the nation’s favourite bakery chain, selling two million sausage rolls a week. But how well do you know your Greggs treats?
Channel 5 documentary Greggs: Secrets Of Their Best Bakes this week revealed the different scoring in the pastry of each goodie is not just to let out steam during cooking.
The markings are a code to help staff quickly tell a steak bake from one filled with cheese and onion.
We want YOU to crack that code for yourselves.
Alex Lloyd names and describes some Greggs favourites and your challenge is to match each with the pictures below.
There is plenty to chew over. Answers at the bottom.
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1. Vegan sausage roll, £1.20, 303 calories: Its launch in January 2019 sparked great debate but it has now become a Greggs menu mainstay after it caused the bakery’s profits to sky-rocket by 52 per cent in just six months.
And that is despite TalkTV’s Piers Morgan claiming it made him vomit.
2. Cheese and onion bake, £1.80, 438 calories: This vegetarian favourite was originally known as a pasty, albeit it is rectangular and flat.
Greggs rebranded it as a bake during 2017, to simplify its menu.
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3. Chicken bake, £1.80, 424 calories: The white sauce that makes a Greggs chicken bake so creamy is created using a mixing technique called high-shearing.
It is made from a combination of cornflour with water, chicken stock, cream cheese and double cream.
4. Corned beef bake, £1.80, 409 calories: Originally a pasty, it was only available in parts of the North until it went into all stores nationwide in 2012.
It disappeared from the menu due to pandemic supply shortages in 2020 but Greggs brought it back as a bake this February – for how long will remain to be seen.
5. Sausage roll, £1.20, 329 calories: The signature seasoning that goes into the Greggs best-selling sausage rolls has been kept so super-secret by bosses that even staff members making them in the factory aren’t told what ingredients go into its creation.
6. Steak bake, £1.90, 409 calories: Greggs’ celebrity fans include Georgie musician Sam Fender.
And the brand is repaying his support this weekend with a Fenders Unplugged music festival in his honour at one of its Newcastle branches – with a specially illustrated logo featuring the singer munching a steak bake
7. Sausage, bean and cheese melt, £1.90, 454 calories: Little Mix singer Jade Thirlwall led protests when this melt was temporarily withdrawn from sale due to supply chain issues in autumn 2021.
The singer – who had a Greggs-themed 30th birthday party – said she was going to “kick off” if the snack was not reintroduced.
8. Vegan Mexican chicken-free bake, £1.90, 426 calories: This spicy, salsa-filled bite is the newest savoury bake on the Greggs menu, introduced just two months ago.
But it caused controversy with some meat-free fans, who prefer the older vegan steak bake substitute to this fake chicken option.
Well, it’s hard to please everyone all of the time.
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Answers :
1. Image G (Vegan sausage roll)
2. Image A (Cheese and Onion bake)
3. Image D (Chicken bake)
4. Image E (Corned beef bake)
5. Image B (Sausage roll)
6. Image C (Steak bake)
7. Image H (Sausage, bean and cheese melt)
8. Image F (Vegan Mexican chicken-free bake)
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