The Greggs Adventure

Contains: Turkey slices, emmental cheese, spinach, tomatoes, and honey mustard mayonnaise.

Greggs have clearly been trying to step up their game in recent weeks. We’ve seen the introduction of such highfalutin’ delights as Red Thai Chicken. Today I’m trying the oddly named “Turkey Swiss Style”.

This is a baguette, but there’s a slightly classier element at play compared to the standards. We meet Emmental cheese for the first time at Greggs, combined not just with spinach (I say!) and honey mustard mayonnaise (again, not sure if this is something I’ve seen in a Greggs sarnie before).

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Contains: Spicy chicken, Pepper Jack cheese, jalapeño peppers, red onion.

It has been difficult to find anything in Greggs that I haven’t already reviewed. I tend to jump on the new products pretty quickly since I covered the classics when I first started. However I still dip my head into the local Greggs when I pass it during my lunchbreaks. Today I saw something lurking tucked away under the Sweet Chicken Teriyaki – a baguette in unlabelled packaging named “Mexican Bandit”.

To give a sandwich such a name is to issue a challenge. “Bandit” implies badness, and “Mexican” gives you a (faintly racist) idea of what kind of ingredient you’re going to get from it. Of course, what we have here is a sandwich containing jalapeño peppers. And spicy chicken. And, uh, Pepper Jack cheese (apparently this is cheese with bits of spicy stuff in). And god knows what else.

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Contains: Chicken breast with a coronation crème fraiche dressing, mango chutney and mixed leaf lettuce.

In June 1982 a boy was born to two loving parents. You all know who those parents were. They didn’t love each other. They didn’t even, by most accounts, like each other. But they did love their baby boy. That boy, Billy, would go on to deal with the very messy and public divorce of his parents, the tragic death of his mother, and would eventually fight alongside his fellow troops in defence of the country that gave him so much, and eventually meet a beautiful and charming young woman named Catherine.

Billy and Catherine loved one another so much that he proposed – while on holiday, the flashy bastard. Now that their wedding is officially scheduled for the end of April 2011, Greggs have decided to commemorate this unique event by releasing a series of limited edition Royal Wedding sandwiches.

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Contains: Red Thai chicken with coconut and lime, baby spinach, on wholemeal bread.

Greggs seem to be churning out the limited edition new sandwiches this year, and while their previous two attempts have fallen flat (see the Chicken Teriyaki and Chicken Arrabbiata for examples of ambitious and yet failed sandwichery), this latest offering sounds like a pretty strong addition to the line-up.

What do you expect when you buy a Red Thai Chicken sandwich? A mildly spicy sauce? It appears that Greggs have used the same chicken that’s used for the tasteless chicken goo encountered smothered betwixt various breads elsewhere in the bakery. But even though I have doubts about the quality of the actual chicken, this is actually a pretty decent Red Thai sauce for a sandwich.

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