Why I added one of the UK’s most loved brands to my watchlist
Returning to the UK for my brother’s wedding has reintroduced me to some old favourites. Dairy Milk chocolate without the wax added to manage the heat in Australia. Percy Pig sweets (sorry, lollies) from Marks & Spencer. And, of course, Greggs.
For the uninitiated, Greggs is the undisputed king of British bakery chains. It has over 2600 blue and yellow branded locations across country. All selling sausage rolls, steak bakes, donuts, coffees and other inexpensive food and drink items.
To give you a better idea, here is the selection that awaited me around the corner from Glasgow’s Queen Street Station on Saturday July 5 at roughly 10am:
And here is the haul of sausage rolls that my brother and I snagged from a Greggs drive-thru near…
