Real England

will massively Leave voting Cornwall's Cornish pasties losing their EU PGI status mean Greggs can start labelling their Beef + Veg rolls as such again? Fucking liberty eh?

Benji's was all over central London ten years ago, don't know what happened there. I can imagine a Greggs in Gibraltar.

Benjis was DISGUSTING. Very cheap, pappy bread and scant filling in the sandwiches.

something opening in Oxford that isn't an identikit tourist tat shop churning out union flag mugs and Harry Potter shite? surely not!

I wonder if the various pasty firms with names like The Real Cornish Pasty Co. operate in Cornwall. none of them sell Cornish Fairings or I'd visit them more often - but then I'm not Cornish and I only wanted a tin to take to my Dad, who's from Devon, which is obv v much the wrong side of the Tamar for understanding Real Cornishness

anyway this thread has been v helpful as I didn't know Gail's did sausage rolls. how did this pass me by? for some reason I thought it was all gluten-free cakes and stuff, one of which appeared in our work one time and was moderately tasty until it went mouldy within 24 hours, which was a bit offputting (it was kept in a tin but probably should have been in the fridge overnight but the box didn't mention that)

Always had an antipathy towards greggs as they seemed to be running sayers out of liverpool. In sayers the pastries were always warm, in fact the traditional pasty filling was akin to molten lava. Just read that sayers are making a return to liverpool city centre so that's good news, alas I'm now in scotland where greggs have a total monopoly

I've always had an antipathy towards Greggs because of the muck they serve up as food!

I have been told my homemade sausage rolls (made with a combo of sausage meat and wild rice-based stuffing) are better than the Gail’s ones :-)

I don't mind Greggs for the odd steak bake or tuna sandwich, cheap and shit is how I roll!

beautiful sentiment calz, makes me feel patriotic

The sausage rolls I make were a reductions swoop on sausage meat and puff pastry and cost roughly £1.50 for 12! Look out, Jack Monroe!

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burnt out stub of a candle symbolises that this knight of the road has been grieving his late princess for a long time.

Brexit #Sevenoaks style pic.twitter.com/0Lzw3IMTeS

— lindenkk (@Linden_Kemkaran) January 31, 2020

for some context it isn't an ironic post, she's a tory and this is all good!

Seven oaks, twenty gammons

lindenkkk

I have been to Sevenoaks once and that checks out

I’m on the floor of a train that’s full of Home Counties types that either look like mike gapes or Tom blenkindip and like 80% of them gave England flags as an item of clothing

Fiver if you shout "come on Tim!"

I’m not that drunk lad

At least three en are wearing no tops and England flags as capes. Fascinatingly there’s a woman with a hirl and helmet in front of me and I want to ask her whee she plays but I also don’t want to out myself in front of someone with a visible poppy tattoo

ahh rugby fans

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/08/burning-calories-pig-starts-farm-fire-by-excreting-pedometer

BBC News website with the wacky comedy headline on the front page as usual: Pedometer-eating pig's poo starts farm blaze

...then they go for the double with the headline on the article page: Bacon saved after pedometer-eating pig's poo starts farm fire

I’ve been repeatedly travelling the length of the country for the past two years and just realised I’ve hundreds of bleak photos from train/bus windows. Thread: pic.twitter.com/vFf4KKCf58

— Darran Anderson (@Oniropolis) January 3, 2020

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Bridlington's Chapmans Funland has filled mechanical grabber arcade games with toilet rolls after seeing the item fly off the shelves over the public's fears they may need to self-isolate.

One man from Pontefract who did get lucky and bagged himself a toilet roll on the machine, said: "I'm chuffed to bits. It were worth driving 68 miles and spending £30 to win that."

xp the third one, Victoria, is my view at least half the week & that whole run-up is bleak af

The last sentence has finished me pic.twitter.com/q6U1wFNZzS

— Andy Ha (@AndyHa_) March 11, 2020

And a bag of Doritos. Sounds like it was worth getting sent home for!

Never change Rochdale. pic.twitter.com/1IE0YRFcYJ

— Elliot Eastwick (@Faycebuk) March 12, 2020

"scare"!

Oh mate. pic.twitter.com/P4wK1OtcEo

— Angry People in Local Newspapers (@angrypiln) March 14, 2020

Coronavirus: What happened on a day without football?

I'm sure someone who's more familiar with football can make a tres funny joke about how Southampton can't even occupy the centre in a game of Noughts & Crosses where they get to go first.

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the local Rector Revd Debbie Nash has decided there won't be any jitterbugs being spread under her watch.

Greengrocer's' apostrophes in full swing, on the other hand

needless ordinal superscript also (worse imo, if not i suppose incorrect)

Rector vs vector

lol, top work

It's a beautiful old building with a medieval section that must be at least 700 years old. Never dared enter it though. It's quite intimidating when it is full of middle aged middle class white folk, who although quite harmless looking have murderous stares of death like something out of Tales of the Unexpected. Rector Revd Debbie always nods or says hello when I pass through with the dog and seems a really wholesomely nice person though. I think she appreciates I don't let him piss on the graves!

Coronavirus: Man proposes in Iceland store
A nurse proposed to his girlfriend in a branch of Iceland after a romantic trip to the country of the same name was cancelled due to the coronavirus.

Ledge

GET IN

This guy was fucking flying round Morrisons like it was Rainbow Road, he nearly ran me over in front of the fish counter, I had to jump out the way and he didn't acknowledge me at all. When he left all he had bought was bottled water and scratchcards. pic.twitter.com/gzshh3hlgK

— Baby Etrigan (@aboynamedposh) March 28, 2020

What’ve I just seen . pic.twitter.com/wZl7xEUBRM

— Owen Hallworth (@HallworthOwen) April 5, 2020

thinking about thos beans!

jesus god

no wonder there were no tins of beans & sausages in Aldi last time i went

Pictured behind the toast: customer's detachable lower jaw.

Brilliant Message from Derbyshire police on Normanton Rd last night that’s the language people speak & understand round here Its a Rap, stay safe & STAY @ HOME, PC Mcginley your an absolute legend 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/EZ47tzIqps

— Ajit Singh Atwal (@AtwalAjit) April 5, 2020

driven inside by the cringe