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Yes, plenty of free Waitrose coffees consumed !! I didn't get very far with the free newspaper thing, as they would invariably lie around the house being unread. It's just so much easier to consume digital media these days.

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Too risky to drop it down the toilet though. :ohmy:

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Yeah I have a Tim's just over the road from my building and at best I'll go there once every other month.

Gregg's does some solid food items that are well priced.

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No contest, Greggs every time......in both choice and value...at least that was the case back in the day......

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Gregg's, schmeggs.

Surprised so many seem to like this chain. Perhaps it's expat nostalgia. What items do you like from there?

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There are WHAT?! If there's one in London I'm taking a trip immediately.

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There doesn't seem to be any in London. I was in Belfast on Saturday and funny enough they have 2 there.

https://timhortons.co.uk/find-a-tims.php

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I'm just going to throw Bird's Bakery into the mix. Far superior to Gregg's. And anyone who spells Horton like that needs a good slap :p

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Crikey, more than I thought.

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I think one could sum it up as stuff made with pastry. :lol:
I'll go further and say individual ones that you can buy hot and snack on, probably having something different every day for a month or just enjoying your favourites.

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Actually, I did pop in there this morning. Some dodgy savouries, some sickly sweet bakeries (circa 1960) and, surprising, a chilled shelf of Pret style baguettes. Perhaps someone for everyone. Moved on to a new tea room and had a very nice Chai of some sort (£3.25).

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Because there is no dedicated donut thread...
One of Germany’s richest families, whose company owns a controlling interest in Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Panera Bread, Pret a Manger and other well-known businesses, plans to donate millions to charity after learning about their ancestors’ enthusiastic support of Adolf Hitler and use of forced labourers under the Nazis, according to a report Sunday.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5096397/k...eme-nazi-past/

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For me, it's the hot stuff.
No shortage of fast food, Tacos, wraps, pizza slices, sandwiches and all the supermarkets have their hot food areas for 'meals' and I can pop over to the hospital where a Lebanese/Indian take-out place (that operates three miles from me) has a stall selling samosas that are still hot for lunch when I get back home.

But sausage rolls, steak bakes, chicken bakes, cheese pasties, steak and kidney pies, chicken and mushroom pies, cheese bakes, philly steak bake, bacon and cheese bake and all the rest...I can't believe they wouldn't be popular for people nipping out of the office to get something to snack on at lunch time.

It seems the only way you can get anything resembling these things is to make your own, buy frozen or get in your car and go to a specialist place that might have one or two hot pastry items instead of a shop full. Unless, of course, you just happen to work near such a place.

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I do like samosas. I think in recent years I have gone off shortcrust pastry (which for the waistline is no bad thing).

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