Anyone had a £1 foot long sausage roll yet?

[High Voltage]

We're all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the kerb

FIFY

There's no way I'm missing out on that one PM set it up and I'm more than happy to knock it down

 

[Chz]

For a quid... I'd question the origin of the "sausage" meat.

What on earth do you think sausages were invented for in the first place? Getting rid of the scraps.

A chap in the Morrison's line

found a thing in his hand all sublime

just a foot of pink meat

in a crust fit to eat

and the girls found it all rather fine

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

What on earth do you think sausages were invented for in the first place? Getting rid of the scraps.

A chap in the Morrison's line

found a thing in his hand all sublime

just a foot of pink meat

in a crust fit to eat

and the girls found it all rather fine

That was in the old days....

 

[Thora]

I don't think it will be as delicious as a Gregg's sausage roll though.

 

[kittyP]

I would be willing to test this

 

[Idris2002]

Have we got any gin? Or did we finish it yesterday?

 

[skyscraper101]

I get foot long Subways all the time. This would be a piece of piss.

 

[Siouxsie]

For a pound it's going to be all pastry and eyeballs....I'd give it ago, but I'd need a gallon on tea to wash it done.

 

[kabbes]

1650 calories. A woman taking moderate exercise uses about 2000 calories in a day; a man 2400. Knock off 200-400 calories from the 2000-2400 if you just sit on your arse all day though.

Add 100g of baked beans and a can of coke and you're up to something like your entire day's allowance of calories, give or take.

For a snack.

Enjoy.

 

[Siouxsie]

I doubt anyone would have one every day. Just a one off treat, maybe.
We all do things we know we shouldn't....I think that's the main reason why we do them.

 

[kabbes]

I doubt anyone would have one every day. Just a one off treat, maybe.
We all do things we know we shouldn't....I think that's the main reason why we do them.

If you have one as a one-off treat, you have taken in twice your daily calorie limit that day. You then need to eat no more than 75% of your normal limit on the other six days of the week (i.e. 1500 calories if you are an active woman) in order to make up for it.

Have you tried restricting yourself to 1500 calories? That feels like a serious diet. Then do it all week. Just so you can have one sausage roll on one day in the week.

 

[Siouxsie]

Personally, I'd run it off.
I don't concentrate or live my life counting calories. If I fancied something to eat that badly, I'd make up for it up elsewhere, hence the running.

 

[kabbes]

Personally, I'd run it off.
I don't concentrate or live my life counting calories. If I fancied something to eat that badly, I'd make up for it up elsewhere, hence the running.

It's about 16 miles of proper running by itself, or closer to 20 miles if you have it with beans and a coke.

 

[pogofish]

For a quid... I'd question the origin of the "sausage" meat.

Its an offer price - it goes up to its proper price of "£1.40-odd next week.

And no, I won't be deviating by Morrisons on my way home to try one.

 

[Orang Utan]

I'd like to try one but my health is more important.

 

[Siouxsie]

It's about 16 miles of proper running by itself, or closer to 20 miles if you have it with beans and a coke.

Knock off the beans and coke, I don't like fizzy drinks. 16 miles isn't that bad really. Metallica blaring through the earphones and my dog running by my side, we cover that by the time the first album is over.
I know that other people may not balance things out and have to struggle to make the difference up, but that's their choice.

 

[kabbes]

Knock off the beans and coke, I don't like fizzy drinks. 16 miles isn't that bad really. Metallica blaring through the earphones and my dog running by my side, we cover that by the time the first album is over.
I know that other people may not balance things out and have to struggle to make the difference up, but that's their choice.

Well, you do as you like. Personally, if I'm going to have something that requires me to either run 16 miles or eat 75% of my normal calorie intake for the rest of the week to make up for it, I'd rather it was something spectacular rather than a really cheap and nasty sausage roll.

If you can do 16 miles in 51 minutes and 15 seconds, you should be entering the marathon and shattering the world record in it, by the way. In reality, you'd have to be a very good runner to do it in less than 2 hours.

And the fizzy drink was because it was suggested in this thread that somebody would have it with a coke. It's not just about you, you know.

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm thinking of upping my runs to a daily half hour, but I don't think even that would compensate for just one salty peppery fatty crusty claggy foot of deliciousness

 

[Winot]

Well, you do as you like. Personally, if I'm going to have something that requires me to either run 16 miles or eat 75% of my normal calorie intake for the rest of the week to make up for it, I'd rather it was something spectacular rather than a really cheap and nasty sausage roll.

If you can do 16 miles in 51 minutes and 15 seconds, you should be entering the marathon and shattering the world record in it, by the way. In reality, you'd have to be a very good runner to do it in less than 2 hours.

And the fizzy drink was because it was suggested in this thread that somebody would have it with a coke. It's not just about you, you know.

Trying not to drop a foot long sausage roll would slow you down too.

 

[Siouxsie]

Well, you do as you like. Personally, if I'm going to have something that requires me to either run 16 miles or eat 75% of my normal calorie intake for the rest of the week to make up for it, I'd rather it was something spectacular rather than a really cheap and nasty sausage roll.

If you can do 16 miles in 51 minutes and 15 seconds, you should be entering the marathon and shattering the world record in it, by the way. In reality, you'd have to be a very good runner to do it in less than 2 hours.

And the fizzy drink was because it was suggested in this thread that somebody would have it with a coke. It's not just about you, you know.

Fine
I didn't think it was all about me...you said 16 miles without the beans and coke.
And 16 miles in around 2 hours is very doable for a fit healthy person....I'm far from superwoman.

 

[kabbes]

The point, for those who struggle to get beyond "But it's my personal CHOICE!!!11!", is that it's incredibly irresponsible to sell a "snack" that is equivalent to almost an entire day's calories. Most people are not aware of how many calories are in their food items or of what they should be aiming to target on average. The overlap between buyers of this snack and those doing 16 mile runs will be pretty non-existent. This is clearly being marketed with the intention of being eaten by a single person in one sitting, and it is not right.

There is a reason we have an obesity crisis, and it is structural.

 

[kabbes]

I'm thinking of upping my runs to a daily half hour, but I don't think even that would compensate for just one salty peppery fatty crusty claggy foot of deliciousness

It might just about earn you three inches of it though.

 

[pogofish]

I'd like to try one but my health is more important.

Get some onion gravy to balance things-up a bit!

 

[Chz]

This is where my occasional bouts of IBS come as a good thing. I'm sure I could eat one and only digest a third of the calories before the chewed remnants spewed out the other end.

 

[DotCommunist]

will they sell me half of one for 50p?

 

[Idris2002]

I think we're out of gin. There might be some brandy left.

 

[Pickman's model]

Badgers

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The point, for those who struggle to get beyond "But it's my personal CHOICE!!!11!", is that it's incredibly irresponsible to sell a "snack" that is equivalent to almost an entire day's calories. Most people are not aware of how many calories are in their food items or of what they should be aiming to target on average. The overlap between buyers of this snack and those doing 16 mile runs will be pretty non-existent. This is clearly being marketed with the intention of being eaten by a single person in one sitting, and it is not right.

There is a reason we have an obesity crisis, and it is structural.

Maybe, but if the foot-long lard stick didn't exist, people could buy multiple smaller lard sticks to reach the same amount of calories.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Maybe, but if the foot-long lard stick didn't exist, people could buy multiple smaller lard sticks to reach the same amount of calories.

If you bought 4 three inchers I reckon the calories would be more than the foot-long jobbie, cos of the pastry on the ends.


HARD.SCIENCE.

 

[Siouxsie]

Also, it may not be about health choices. For some people with limited budgets something that will fill them up for most of the day and only cost a pound isn't a bad choice.
Not everyone can afford to be choosy.