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HarperPR
29-11-2008, 04:27 PM
...which shop in Britain has the most branches nationwide? I bet there's one in YOUR high street too!

(pd is barred from answering on the grounds that I already told him!:D)
SteveT
29-11-2008, 07:06 PM
Dunno. Ask me one on football.
HarperPR
29-11-2008, 07:12 PM
Okay. Who recently scored four goals for the Marlborough Legends in one match?:D
aspwatterson
30-11-2008, 10:18 AM
...which shop in Britain has the most branches nationwide? I bet there's one in YOUR high street too!
(pd is barred from answering on the grounds that I already told him!:D)

Unless it is a play on the word 'branches' and something cryptic, I would guess a betting shop chain?

andi :m2:
pete c
30-11-2008, 05:46 PM
probably smelly old subway.
HarperPR
01-12-2008, 10:56 AM
Unless it is a play on the word 'branches' and something cryptic, I would guess a betting shop chain?

This is an actual fact, not a cryptic puzzle or anything. No play on branches. And no, not a betting shop chain.
HarperPR
01-12-2008, 10:57 AM
probably smelly old subway.

No.:)



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Wee Steve
01-12-2008, 11:21 AM
Not the Wonder of Woolies, surely?
HarperPR
01-12-2008, 12:39 PM
No, not them either.:biggrin:
Wee Steve
01-12-2008, 05:08 PM
Oh, OK, Post Office.
NoCelebrity
01-12-2008, 06:17 PM
Starbucks or McDonalds?
HarperPR
01-12-2008, 06:20 PM
Guess what, Steve?

That is the wrong answer! (And how many have a PO in their high street now? Even Postman Pat has had to move, and Walford's has closed.:biggrin:)
SteveT
01-12-2008, 06:30 PM
I'll take a punt on Oxfam.
HarperPR
02-12-2008, 01:00 AM
Not Starbucks, McDonalds or Oxfam! When I first heard this, I thought Boots or WH Smith, but neither. When I then found what it was I didn't believe it, but since have been on the look-out and blimey, they ARE everywhere!
NoCelebrity
02-12-2008, 05:13 AM
Western Union? UPS? Mecca in a box? (for lack of a real name)
critch
02-12-2008, 10:33 AM
Tesco? or maybe the co-op?
HarperPR
02-12-2008, 12:55 PM
With the number of Metros and Express's springing up, you might think it'd be Tesco, but no, nor Co-op.

I will give a clue though, it is food related!:wink:
Travellerman
02-12-2008, 01:10 PM
Shell? :D ..........................
critch
02-12-2008, 02:30 PM
food related and probably one down my street...... chippy?
HarperPR
02-12-2008, 02:58 PM
Remember it's a branch name you're looking for. And no, they don't do chips!
bigchris
02-12-2008, 07:25 PM
Greggs ?!? Good old pasties and pies ?!?
HarperPR
02-12-2008, 11:50 PM
Greggs ?!? Good old pasties and pies ?!?

Chris...? You know what I'm going to say, don't you? That is the wr...RIGHT answer!!! And you have won tonight's star prize: a custard slice and a barm cake!:biggrin:

Yes, there are apparently over 1000 of Greggs the baker shops. Is there one in the Wyck?
critch
03-12-2008, 08:41 AM
It's a little odd that answer for me as I have a bakers up the road from me! If it'd been a Greggs I might have guessed that, but no, it had to be a pimbletts!
aspwatterson
03-12-2008, 01:20 PM
Yes, there are apparently over 1000 of Greggs the baker shops. Is there one in the Wyck?

There's two Greggs in Basingstoke.

Perhaps it's BOGOF 'buy one get one free' of their horrible pasties/pies?
Mind you the sarnies taste better if you eat them whilst in the queue!
And paying for them!

chrs
andi
bigchris
03-12-2008, 07:40 PM
Yes, there are apparently over 1000 of Greggs the baker shops. Is there one in the Wyck?

Yes I believe there is ... though I've never been to it ... I always end up at the Subway ( don't understand Pete C's comment ... I swear by them !! ) ... I just thought it might be Greggs ... as I saw Patrick McGuinness last week ... and a lot of his show is Greggs based ... so their name got stuck in my head ... I hope he gets paid more for advertising to a paid up audience ( though actually ... we were on the guest list and didn't actually pay ! ).
Wee Steve
04-12-2008, 09:00 AM
Never seen a Greggs in my life.

Now, Harry Gregg, that's different.
He was a goalkeeper for Manchester United before they became carp and called themselves Man U so that ignorant people who can't deal with words of more than one syllable could know who you meant.

:leaving:
critch
06-12-2008, 12:56 PM
It's a little odd that answer for me as I have a bakers up the road from me! If it'd been a Greggs I might have guessed that, but no, it had to be a pimbletts!

And no sooner do I write this and I discover that pimbletts has gone bust and been bought out, possibly by waterfields!
HarperPR
06-12-2008, 02:13 PM
It's a little odd that answer for me as I have a bakers up the road from me! If it'd been a Greggs I might have guessed that, but no, it had to be a pimbletts!

Do you know St Mary's Arcade, Bridge Street and Higher Parr Street? Listings for a Greggs in all!:) Seems even in these hard times we're not going to stop eating cake! Maybe they're the place to get a job: can you survey a Bakewell tart?!:biggrin:
SHAUN I
06-12-2008, 09:59 PM
Greggs are very big in the Northwest, there are 3 in Preston City centre! The SteakBake is my usual choice. :biggrin:
critch
06-12-2008, 10:22 PM
Do you know St Mary's Arcade, Bridge Street and Higher Parr Street? Listings for a Greggs in all!:) Seems even in these hard times we're not going to stop eating cake! Maybe they're the place to get a job: can you survey a Bakewell tart?!:biggrin:


Oh aye, I know all those Greggs! I'm sure I could survey a bakewell tart - you can survey pretty much anything you want, although I'm not entirely convinced what they'd want me to do with it afterwards. And in regards to eating cake. I'm sure it was in the french revolution that when they ran out of bread they moved on to cake....is that right or have I got my facts confuzzled????? :)

P.S. Is your business a bit slack too considering you've time to google greggs in St H? lol.
HarperPR
06-12-2008, 11:05 PM
Oh aye, I know all those Greggs! I'm sure I could survey a bakewell tart - you can survey pretty much anything you want, although I'm not entirely convinced what they'd want me to do with it afterwards. And in regards to eating cake. I'm sure it was in the french revolution that when they ran out of bread they moved on to cake....is that right or have I got my facts confuzzled????? :)

Mais oui, Marie Antoinette. But it may be more to do with the translation as it is disputed whether she actually did say exactly that.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/550/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-let-them-eat-cake
HarperPR
06-12-2008, 11:13 PM
Is your business a bit slack too considering you've time to google greggs in St H? lol.



:biggrin: I'm their PR, dontcha know! Do you think I should contact them, for a laugh? They could do with a bit of an image (and sandwich) makeover. And I could get everyone here to be mystery shoppers!
NoCelebrity
07-12-2008, 04:04 AM
Mais oui, Marie Antoinette. But it may be more to do with the translation as it is disputed whether she actually did say exactly that.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/550/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-let-them-eat-cake

One of our American documentaries suggested Marie didn't realize the peasants being out of bread meant they were starving! Ignorance kills?
wobbly bob
09-12-2008, 07:43 AM
Mais oui, Marie Antoinette. But it may be more to do with the translation as it is disputed whether she actually did say exactly that.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/550/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-let-them-eat-cake


the way i heard it was that, in those days, if the bakers ran out of bread, they were OBLIGED to sell cake at the same price...

but we'll never know for sure, i guess...