‘No more biting into the wrong bake!’ chuffed Greggs fans say as they realise what the symbols on the paper bags mean
THERE’S nothing worse than taking a big bite into your chicken bake – only to find it’s actually cheese and onion.
But it’s now a whole lot harder to make that mistake, thanks to a key on the paper bags used by staff in the store.
Tabz took to TikTok to share a look at the bags, writing: “Absolutely groundbreaking stuff from Greggs.
“No more biting into the wrong bake!”
“Think the workers got bored of saying the patterns, not gonna lie,” Tabz captioned the video.
The bag featured different images for each of the baked products, including a sausage roll with a wide diagonal pattern indicating a meat one, with a closer vertical line pattern showing a vegan roll.
A vegetable bake has little triangles on it, a steak bake has diagonal slits, while a chicken bake has long wiggly line.
The only confusion that may be made is between the chicken bake and the sausage, bean and cheese melt – as the latter has a similar pattern just with slightly shorter lines.
A corned beef bake has little circle cutouts on the top, while the cheese and onion bake has arrow lines pointing from right to left.
“Yes! No more biting into my hubby’s stakebake instead of my vegan sausage roll,” one person commented on the video.
As another said: “Yes! because before my grandpa bought me a sausage roll but it wasn’t vegan and I ate it!”
“I’ve eaten a lot of Greggs in my time but never noticed this!” a third marvelled.
“Thank God!” someone else said.
“Ordered a steak bale once, got a chicken, almost threw up – that was vile!”
But others insisted that the key has been on the bags for ages.
“It’s due to allergies, so we don’t give out the wrong one and get sued,” one wrote.
“This has been a thing forever how did you not notice?” another added.
As a third said: “They’ve always done this, no?”
“This is what the workers have behind the counter,” someone else said.
Greggs in numbers
Did you know Greggs sausage rolls have 96 layers of pastry?
The first Greggs opened in 1951 on Gosforth High Street.
There are also 2,473 shops around the country — a thousand more than McDonald’s.
Greggs is now valued at £2.6billion thanks to its budget deals.
Nearly £2 in every £100 spent in UK hospitality is done in a Greggs.
Newcastle still remains the sausage roll capital of the UK, with Geordies scoffing 17.9 million of them a year.
While others insisted they didn’t need a key to be able to tell which Greggs offering was which.
“The fatty that I am – I know every pattern!” one wrote.
“I don’t need that – I already have it memorised,” another added.
“Is it bad I knew this without the pictures…?” a third commented.