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[QUOTE=Y0ungN1ck;39063]I read today that Greggs are considering making home deliveries by drone.
All sounds a bit pie in the sky to me…[/QUOTE
Two or three years ago (it may have been more, my mind's calibration of time seems to be less reliant these days than it used be), one afternoon I was in Witham, Essex and having missed lunch, felt peckish and decided I would like a nice steak pie, or even meat and potato. I was waiting to cross the traffic lights and directly opposite was a Greggs. Ideal.
After standing in a queue for several minutes I reached the front and asked the young lady what sort of hot pies they had. A look of extreme disdain spread across her face and she replied, "Pies? We don't sell pies."
The young lady after exchanging smirks with her colleague, obviously took pity on the elderly simpleton who thought that Greggs could ever stoop so low as to sell pies and offered me a Sausagemeat Bake, which had the appearance of an elongated sausage roll. I declined her kind suggestion and departed the shop.
I was dumbfounded. How could they not sell pies? When I lived up on the Tyne 60 years ago there were so many excellent pie shops that a Greggs was never my first choice, just one that you used if it happened to be handy. Nobody was more amazed than me when some years later they took over Carricks which was far better known for all types of catering and more respected.
What is the country coming to if a pie is considered socially unacceptable? What next ... cloth caps ... clogs?
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Ron
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