EN-ROLL IN GREGGS
Pastry-loving students start first Greggs Society with daily visits to high street chain
The students will be spoilt for choice for baked goodies there, as there are 33 Greggs in Newcastle alone
A BUNCH of pastry-loving students have started the first Greggs Society.
The undergraduates make daily visits to the high street snack chain, have held a Greggs crawl and are planning a factory tour.
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They bonded over a love of warm bakes, hailing them a “salvation at the end of a night out” and “in times of desperate hunger”.
It was launched at Newcastle University last week and already has 50 members from a recruitment drive at the freshers’ fair.
They will be spoilt for choice for baked goodies there, as there are 33 Greggs in Newcastle alone.
The student website promises: “We will come together to consume these flaky delights in a wide array of social activities.”
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Psychology student and co-founder Luke Phillips, 19, of Welwyn Garden City, Herts, said: “I have found my calling in life.
“Since we started the society we have been to a Greggs every day. We have just got our student loan.
“It was mental at the freshers fair. Everyone walking past did a double take of the Greggs society — it’s completely bonkers.”
He started it with computer science student Louie Horn, 19, from Huddersfield, and Esme Heath, a fine arts undergraduate of Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
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Louie said: “It’s hard to find someone who can’t eat anything at Greggs.”
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