The cost of living crisis squeezed household budgets to breaking point in 2022 and shows little sign of easing up this year as energy bills continue to rise and inflation remains in the double digits.
20.01.2023 - 15:47 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Greggs employee has revealed the markings hidden in plain sight that you may have never noticed on their iconic bakes.
Whether it's a chicken or steak bake, Brits flock to the nation's favourite bakery daily to get their hands on the signature pastries. If you're a fan and eat them immediately, you might not have noticed that each type has different markings.
The revelation comes after a Greggs worker took to social media to answer customers' burning questions and revealed the unique symbols they give to classify each bake.
Posting on the Casual UK Reddit forum, one user wrote: "I work in Greggs. What would you like to know?"
The discussion thread has already garnered over 2,000 comments in just 20 hours. One query, which came out as the most popular with 572 upvotes, addressed the different pastries' patterns.
The user asked: "Can you tel us the pattern on the pastry that identifies whether it’s a steak bake, chicken bake, vegetable bake, etc. thanks."
In response, the employee shared the patterns for each bake are the following:
Many other requests consisted of people begging for the return of popular discontinued items like the steak and stilton sausage roll and the BBQ chicken and bacon toastie.
While the worker admitted they have no power to bring back the missed items, fans refused to give up hope.
"I need you to bring them back. I believe in you," begged one user.
Another wrote: "Well then they'll just need to recontinue them, won't they?! Can you be our person on the inside and help us make it happen?"
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