It's a cob! Nottingham man 'sabotages' Greggs bacon roll advert

That settles it then

It's an age-old debate all over the country - what do you call a bread roll? Obviously here in Notts it's a cob.

So proud Nottinghamian Chris Downes felt compelled to put UK bakery chain Greggs right on our regional dialect.

When he spotted an A-board outside his local shop in Stapleford advertising 'the nation's favourite bacon roll', he wasn't going to take it lying down.

He returned yesterday, replacing the word 'roll' with a sticker saying cob.

The 33-year-old embroiderer said: "I like my Greggs and I go there regularly. I was standing in the queue one day and I saw the roll sign. Everyone in the queue was asking for a bacon cob.

"I thought it would be funny to stick a sticker on there - it's still on there this morning."

Chris, who lives and works near the Greggs shop in Derby Road, added: "I don't plan on sabotaging all the Greggs - they just know me there so I thought I could get away with it.

"I travel the country quite a bit and when I go somewhere else and ask for a bacon cob they look at me gone out."

Greggs supervisor Laura Brothwell said: "It's funny. We have left it on so people can see it."

She said the majority of shoppers ask for a bacon cob but they do get all kinds of variations.

"Someone asked for a batch - I think that's from Coventry - I had to ask the guy what it meant."

If Greggs need to look to an authority on the subject for guidance, celebrity baker Paul Hollywood called it a cob back in 2017.

On the Great British Bake Off's bread week, he referred to the doughy stuff as a cob sending social media into total meltdown mode in the process.