Foreigner's experience at Greggs | Love it or hate it? 

Greggs is nice and reliable. If you find yourself in a strange town you know what you're getting when you go to Greggs and honestly it's going to be more than half decent, even if not as exciting as you might get from a local baker. I'd go to a local bakery first but I'm not going to turn my nose up at Greggs. The vegetarian sausage rolls are also well worth trying even if you are a carnivore (as I am).

You look so happy wrapped around your steak bake. You are now an honorary Brit.

Impressed by your increased boldness in recording in public!!

As the wise men of AC/DC once said: "It's a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll!" Wise, wise men.

You are actually the first American that tries Greggs to hit the nail on the head with this video - It's brilliant for what it is! Cheap, quick and actually good food! I mean, those steak bakes served on a plate would cost you about a fiver 😂 Good job and glad you enjoyed!

Wow. When it goes to the bakes I go for Sausage and bean. And Sandwich I get a Mexican chicken baguette. Quality stuff. If I could afford to I would go every day 😂✌

I'm in the north so it's almost required to like Greggs. We even have a Greggs drive-through up here. I don't like coffee, but I once had some Portuguese coffee-aficionado friends come to visit me, and they insisted on trying every coffee shop that they didn't have in Portugal, and Greggs actually got the nod as the best one.

I'm not sure you can beat the caramel custard doughnut from greggs if you ever do part 2 sweet things from greggs, this is one to try.

Greggs is the McDonalds of bakeries...not particularly great, but you know exactly what you're going to get! Next time get a cheese & onion bake - that's my fave! 🙂

The best thing about Greggs is the breakfast deal. You can’t go wrong with a bacon roll and a coffee for £2.50

As a formerly puzzled American l’m so glad to finally find out what a Greggs is. I’ve seen them loads of times on Google Street View and for some reason it never crossed my mind that it could be food. I thought it could be a stationery shop, convenience store, book shop…baked goods never crossed my mind. I checked their website and I wouldn’t mind trying a few things there if I ever visit the UK again.

I have a Greggs five minutes away from my flat. Last Saturday I had a steak bake, a sausage cheese and bean bake (you gotta try one of those!) and a triple chocolate doughnut for my lunch. Did I feel proud of myself? No. Did I regret a single bite? HELL, no! 😁 I wouldn't do it every day but when I do...life is good.

Merry Christmas and happy new year T0 ALL Y0U W0RKING AT GREGGS, AND TO THE 0wners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!

Greggs is a life saver to me. Many times I have been in London or Liverpool on a cold wet day and just searched out a Greggs for a hot sausage-roll and coffee, (hot coffee), and been revitalised! Lol Its quick and cheap too, so what's not to like? Love your reactions too! 🙏

Thanks Alanna, it's the law that you have to eat something from Greggs at least once in your life! 🙏🙏

Great video Alanna! We only had our first Greggs open a couple of years ago in Plymouth. I think they were always wary of the many cornish pasty shops we have lol.

WOW alanna not giving a f about people being around while vlogging. this is a milestone in our history. that guy coughing up lumps outside of a greggs. very apt.

Iceland (shop not country) do a range of frozen Greggs. My go to is the Cheese & Bacon Wrap. A slice of cheese, a rasher of bacon with a folded block of puff pastry. Pretty much covers all the essential food groups in a single serving.

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I like to order a sausage roll, with a sausage roll on the side, and I enjoy a sausage roll for a starter, before rounding off the meal with a lovely desert sausage roll

You should have tried the caramel custard doughnuts

I'm biased because I'm a Geordie and Gregg's was born on Tyneside so I grew up with it and I love it.

I did my undergrad in Newcastle, the home of Greggs, so there is one every few hundred metres in the centre. Greggs pasties are better tepid or cold

I've never been inside one, I assume that anything from a retail store like that is overpriced crap with appalling animal welfare. They look good tho! ...just checked and they have decent animal welfare, on par with Sainsburys and Waitrose 😲😲 Prejudiced ...me?!

As a greggs employee I can truthfully say they look after their employees and are one of the best places you could work.

£1.20 for a sausage roll... they used to do 4 for that price!! never been the same since the name change from Thurstons. They did THEE best cornish pasty ever (cant call it that now of course)

ermm, what is there to hate about Greggs. They don't force themselves on anyone. If you don't wanna go, you don't go.

Greggs are a British icon,we couldn't live without them 🤔😋 cheers Alana great video!

Greggs is OK. It used to be loads better when it was a more traditional bakery. It still seems weird to me that they’ve become this huge nationwide fast food chain rather than the local bakers (albeit a chain locally) that I remember them as when I was a kid.

There is a reason that Gregg's is so cheap, and that is that most of what you are consuming is cheap pastry. Nothing nutritious about it, and carbohydrate dence. All adding to the obesity and diabetes health Epidemic in the UK. Enjoy.

I don't hate Greggs, but I regret that a year or so after they moved into my small town, two excellent family-run bakeries went out of business. Their pies, pasties and sausage rolls were much better than Greggs and, despite being smaller companies, they had a wider range of cakes, pastries and bread. Greggs was slightly cheaper, but not dramatically, so I guess it was the Greggs brand-name that drew the customers, especially the younger generation, and the smaller shops couldn't compete in the end. Such a shame!

Greggs are okay, a UK institution I guess, always good in an emergency when you need something quick to eat in when you are in a hurry. You can't beat a good old sausage roll followed by either an Iced bun or a Custard tart or two. Loved the video Alanna and the consumer research, I now have a craving for a sausage roll. 😀😀😀

Greggs went through a phase of buying up other bakeries. I used to work in Glasgow and there seemed to be a Greggs every 100 yards, because of all the shops they'd just rebranded.

Can you get better than a steak bake? Yes, but you'd have to alter the conditions set at 1:20 so that you could've bought the festive bake. Arguably wouldn't even need to do that since I'd choose a cheese and onion bake or a sausage, bean and cheese melt over a steak bake. Either way I also fall on the Love It side of Greggs. Just keep the festive bake's supremacy in mind next time ;)

Never understood the fascination, other than it being cheap. Annoying when you buy a steak slice and it’s stone cold 🤨

Come back to Rainham our little town has a new Bakers which is even better than Greggs...

What you need to do is get yersel upto Newcastle upon Tyne and get some Greggs stottie cakes and fill um with Ham and pease pudding add a tad of salt, its geet canny like As for Greggs in general its very good and tasty for mass produced food ideal to fill a hole. Keep the good vlogs coming 🙏👍

Around the 2-minute mark, is that woman on the phone warning everyone that Alanna's in town ?

I love their spicy chicken nougats they do in batter

Never seen a Greggs as there isn't one here on the Isle of Wight, mind you we are so far behind the times we only got our first Burger King a couple of years ago.

Birds bakery in the midlands destroys greggs!!!

I prefer independent baker. But i work all over the country & can rely Greggs for quick & convenient food. Their Tomato soup is the best anywhere! & I mean Anywhere!! Try a Sausage roll dipped it Greggs Tomato soup. Thats my fav.

I used to love it while they were still running Baker's oven, which was basically Greggs but the food was served hotter and kept warm, for a bit of extra cost to the customer. Now i don't like it unless it's only a few mins out of the oven. Chicken bake over steak for me.

There Cornish pasties we’re the best but for some reason they stopped doing them yrs ago 🥴

Best thing about Greggs is your getting the same taste & product every time you order which can’t always be said for Café or the local Bakery, plus greggs is probably half the price at least.

They should give you a free Greggs Christmas jumper (coming to Primark) for advertising them

Fine if you like pastry. I don't!

Love the new series! Looking forward to the next installment...🇬🇧

I'm like you, they are not the best but I would still get lunch there if that was what there was. It is an old established bakery in Newcastle but I think they only became a national firm within about the last 15 years or so. I do tend to get a sausage roll but also some kind of cake such as bread pudding, an Eccles cake or a doughnut.

I went to Greggs this morning, a bacon roll, sausage roll and coffee. Yum yum in my tum

Don't feed the pigeons with the sausage roll!, that's called cannibalism hahahah 😆

Greggs is basically the MacDonald's of the bakery world - Fast, cheap yet mediocre.

My old girlfriend was applying for a job at Greggs some years ago. Her 3 year old saw the logo on screen, and said: 'Oh Mummy, it's sausage rolls.' :)

Greggs are obviously doing something right, as their ever-expanding empire shows, but they don't offer anything that wouldn't be tastier from your local bakery. It's really a triumph of marketing profile and careful choice of location.

Love a steak bake, chicken slice or corned beef bake 😋

Greggs is great for food that is fresh & quick. In my town we also have pound bakery & in Yorkshire they have Thomas The Baker. All of which are darn good. How did you go to greggs & not get a cake/pastry/donut?

A Greggs a day keeps the doctor away

*This scale is absolutely raving mental and wildly out of control. Just when “seven out of seven” on the first one hasn’t thrown you enough, BANG, in she comes with “four rectangles out of four”. And then she has the coffee.*

If you"re on the go a coffee and a sausage roll is a great way to fill that hunger pang

Strange as it may seem, it is impossible for me to choose my favourite Greggs product, at least not as such. I enjoyed a sausage roll or two from a branch of Thurstons in Sheffield in the mid 70s, which I think was owned by Greggs by then, but wasn't branded as Greggs. I don't recall them as particularly memorable. I think the company has grown massively since last I was in the UK, 20 yrs ago. It wasn't the household name back then that it seems to be today. My youngest, at school in Somerset tells me he and his mates raid a nearby Greggs after every lacrosse scrimage, but then teenage boys will eat anything 🙄.

At this time of year my favourite is Greggs Festive slice, give it a try!

Steak bake is best. Though 🥰

Not a fan of Greggs. Give me an independent Baker or Butcher's or a decent Cafe.

Expensive cold food

Having been out of the UK for years, and with the wonderful bakery that once existed in a particular town, I took my daughters to a Greg’s - we all wanted a pasty. We each had a different pasty. We all took one bite and threw the rest in the bin. It was bloody awful.

Lots of viewers enjoying Greggs. Hate Greggs food and as for the coffee...YUK

The Greggs sausage roll used to be £1

I now want a steak bake

Stop calling yourself a "foreigner" you're a commonwealther

I’m now craving a sausage roll, though it has to be just the right temperature, can’t have it too hot or too cold!

I'm on a very low wage and struggle to make ends meet, but I wouldnt eat that foul food if you paid me

My Dad's dad (yes, my Grandad, but I never met him, killed in WW1) was 'in service' (a servant) as a pastry chef in a big house. Consequently my Dad picked up many of his skills, mainly savoury stuff, though he could bake a mean cake too. Dad's sausage rolls were famous and in the village (more accuratelya small suburb) where I grew up, he would start getting orders for home-made Christmas fayre, inc. Sausage rolls, but also rich, alcoholic Christas cake and Christmas puds (I know it's not your bag!) in October most years. the house would reek of sherry, whisky and cake for weeks on end - and while we were comparatively poor, we never had a duff Christmas really, because his takings from baking exceeded his salary (he worked as a manager in a little local store - what you would call a 'General Store' I guess). He used to make-up tea, a scoop on a sheet of paper and a few flicks of the wrist and he'd make a little, sealed (leak-proof) box, same with flour, sugar etc. If someone asked for a quarter of cheese (quarter of a pound) he would take a cheese wire and ciut it from the block - dead on a quarter - every time! Alchemy. Personally, I'd only eat Greggs as a last resort, not because i hate it, but because it's 'convenience food and, my wife has a Cordon Bleu qualification, so why would I? :)

Leeds city centre has about 7 Greggs outlets within a 10 minute walk of each other. 3 of them are literally around the corner from each other. Also happy 7 year British-versary.

Love Love Love Greggs...... Never the Best..... But it provides good food, Cheap..... I even buy Frozen Sausage rolls from "Iceland" so I can have them fresh at home..... I am very hungry now......... :-)) xxx

Cooplands was better but they couldn't match Greggs pricing.

I really didn't enjoy this. One of my favourite RU-vidrs, eating Gregs? Why?

Why "Love it, or hate it" how about couldn't care less, or, completely indifferent?

Love Thai Chicken Boomer, Steak Bakes & Doughnuts. Everything else, nah.

I wish we had them in Germany. And America.

It was the previous CEO that turned Greggs from a bakery which happened to do baked goods into a food-to-go business, to great success. I see comments about using a local bakery instead but I don't have one. It used to be the Greggs but, for bread, it couldn't really compete with the nearby supermarket (which also does sausage rolls, but they're shite).

Gregg's Festive Bake - Only available in December each year. Food of the gods!

Saturday morning - breakfast bap - bacon-in-a-bun - plus hot drink - £2.50 before 11AM ! What's not to love !!

Why doe's 'Steak bake' get 7 out of 7, yet 'Chicken bake gets 3 out of 4. ??

I love sausage rolls.... put another Dime in the Duke box Baby... X

You went to Rainham? Oh you poor thing, I hope it wasn't too traumatic there. In all seriousness I thought it was illegal to go to a GR Eggs and not get a large warm sausage roll. 🤷‍♂ Random idea... why not compare Greggs and other bakeries vs supermarket versions.

Greggs recent clothing range in Primark did my head in. I felt sorry for any tourist with no idea who probably happily bought the stuff! Just a baffling collaboration! Fond of the edible stuff, though, when in the mood!

greggs was THE place for a hot sausage roll, then they changed them for some reason and now they are as salty as fu@k and I know a few others who think the same, none of us buy them anymore. There's a bakers in Broad Oak near Rye, best sausage rolls around by far. they do, pork, pork and apple, pork and honey, and pork and chilli. they also do the largest chelsea buns you'll ever see

Once they stopped the '2D' meat and potato pasties....well, my life changed...what's the point anymore?...why Greggs? Why?

Addendum: I place Greggs coffee somewhere between Starbucks and Costa. I really don't like Starbucks but love Costa, Cafe Nero is great too. A high Street coffee reaction would be a great video I think 🤔

Love Greggs. Sausage Rolls are the best. Try the Millionaire Shortbread.

Good for the price - loved the beef and veg pasty - the vegan sausage roll is a great advert for staying a meat eater

I've not visited a Gregg's for years. It's horrible food, heartburn central 🤢

Rainham looks like Chav Central. It's not just grim up North.

Depends on its temperature warm it’s quality cold it’s minging

I'm a Geordie. Greggs is from Newcastle. My favourite is the stottie.

Yeah it's usually the breakfast deal for me too, a cappuccino and bacon & sausage bap with brown sauce to start the day.

Any combination of Steak/Chicken Bake, Sausage roll and of course a couple of Yum Yum's 😛

I suppose mass production bakers have a place in the modern High Street, but the food tastes like what it is, cheap, massed produced junk barely fit for human consumption, like McDonald's or Burger King. If you were spoilt enough to have had a good local bakers or a mum like mine who could cook and bake better than anyone else, then a bite of a Greg'gs product is to truly taste disappointment.

Find it a bit embarrassing for us Brits that the non-UK internet has fallen for all the Greggs memes. It's not good food, or even meant to be good food - it's just there to keep you alive for under 2 quid. Pure, stodgy, lukewarm, unhealthy sustenance

LOVE Greggs 👍. It’s probably easier to ask what Greggs product we don’t like. None - we love them all.