When it comes to the sausage roll, high street fixture Greggs would be the first name most people think of. But while the chain’s £1.20 offering may be the most popular meaty treat in the land, it’s not necessarily the best.
So podcaster Robbie Knox went on a no-expenses spared sausage roll scavenger hunt across London to track down the Rolls Royce of sausage rolls. First stop was Selfridges, at the top of Oxford Street in central London. Robbie met up with wing-woman Chelsea, from the Cheap Holidays podcast, to check out the offering at the UK’s first department store.
At Selfridges Food Hall, £3.99 buys you a good-sized Cumberland sausage roll, which the reviewing duo thought was an upmarket blast from the past. “That tastes like the sausage rolls I had as a kid, but a posh version of it,” Robbie said.
He and Chelsea agreed on a score of six out of 10 for the slightly dry offering. Fortnum and Mason, founded by a member of Queen Anne ’s staff back in 1707, has long held a reputation as the country’s premier grocer. It’s reputed to be the birthplace of the Scotch Egg, so it seemed like a good next place to find the Scotch Egg’s slightly more common cousin, the sausage roll.
The Fortnum’s offering was not only slightly cheaper, at £3.50, but deemed to be “instantly much better” than the Selfridge’s snack – earning a solid eight out of 10. The team’s next stop, Absolutely Fabulous fashion mecca Harvey Nichols, turned out to be something of a mi.
