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To be fair most of Greggs stuff is at least edible, it's just the abomination they try to pass off as a Pasty.
The only thing I don't like about the rest of Greggs is the lack of range in the sandwiches.


Bloody Hell

Pret or Eat I can buy a knife, fork and the sandwich makings for a week for the price of one of theirs in central London.

Yeah, they're not cheap. Pret Up 'North has at least not changed their prices for quite a few years now, I think they realised people up here wouldn't pay them

The USA has Wal-Mart, which generally has pretty good layout. It's so big you can get disoriented in the middle of it.

I like Ikea. I found my ideal wallpaper for my bedroom in Ikea. They didn't sell it, they'd just used it in one of their little bedroom setups, but they'd very helpfully put a little note to one side saying the wallpaper came from B&Q.

I like Greggs pasties, too. Probably because I'm on a diet and anything hot and greasy has an everlasting appeal

Deb

Hot and greasy works for me, too, but not in large amounts.

Is it true you can get a decent meal in Walmart from all the free tasters

I haven't been to Wal-Mart often enough to know, but my local supermarket often has a lot of free samples to hand out, as does the food court in my local shopping mall.

American shops seem to be generous with the free samples, you get a minute chunk of cheese or a slice of sausage on a cocktail stick.

I've noticed that too. I was bowled over the other day when a guy was handing out free samples of Boar's Head ham in my supermarket. This is expensive stuff, and the chunks he was giving out were fairly big .