Just got one at Garden City I only spent $19.90
The glass is quite good with sealed lid and glass straw and comes in a nice box
maybe it's overflow as its for their 20th Anniversary which was presumably last year as it says they stated trading in 2002
Note: Out of stock at some stores. Ask for availability before you spend.
haha the same reason i dont enjoy it as much and get it once in a blue moon. I really like the egg tuna one but man has the quality continually dropped for that.
Now its just that or the sausage buns for me
I love tuna too
As if I need more reasons to get the spam & egg bun. Thanks OP!
ordered a cake to pick up this week, see whether it is possible to get one if there is stock.
picked up cake order today. there are plenty in stock however the staff said no.
story hasn't ended yet. I had to contact the service team for another issue so i thought I'd ask about this as well - and i should be able to get one now.
smiley face custard bun is the best :)
Never heard of this place but when their other choices are spam & egg, or tuna & egg, then yes the custard bun must be the best thing there. ;-)
I haven't shopped at Breadtop for a while, are they still using small individual plastic bags for their breads and pastry?
I had it late last year around November and yes, the pastries had individual bags.
I usually ask for mine not to be wrapped individually. It's unfortunate that it's done as standard though
It is wasteful, especially when the food is oily or juicy, the plastic bag is difficult to clean and reuse, and the size is a bit small to make useful so it becomes landfill pretty quickly.
I'd rather my $20 be invested in cardboard packaging that can be recycled instead of a glass keepcup for marketing purposes, but that's just me I suppose.
Not sure why this comment and the original is getting downvoted. Seems reasonable.
Carboard packaging would be preferable, but the unfortunate reality is plastic packaging is really cheap. Cheaper than carboard or paper.
Hopefully we can move on from the overuse of disposable plastic sooner rather than later.
Didn't neg you but cardboard is actually worse than plastic.
https://carbonpositiveaustralia.org.au/paper-bags-vs-plastic…
Plastic is a by-product of natural gas (so it already exists whether we use it or not - may as well use, and reuse it, instead of just burning it to get rid of it) whereas paper/cardboard requires 4x more water, produces 3x more greenhouse gases, requires harvesting forests, unlike plastic allows food to go stale fast, paper bags that can resist moisture equal to a thin plastic bag use more resources, are heavier to transport so require more fuel, etc. (There's an example on that page: "Transporting 2 million of paper bags to a recycling facility will require 7 times as many trucks as 2 million plastic bags.")
And unlike plastic cardboard/paper can only be recycled a limited number of times.
It's not the USE of plastic that is the problem. It's how it's dealt with after using it. But even if we threw every plastic bag we see into the ocean pales in significance to cardboard/paper which is several times worse.
@[Deactivated]: So reading that article felt odd because it makes no effort to make a balanced argument between paper bags and plastic bags.
It's commonly agreed plastic bags are cheaper to produce on an energy and cost perspective, but the article just glosses over the real impact of plastic bags: pollution through improper disposal.
Unfortunately plastic bags end up in our streets, parks and waterways, with many ending up in the ocean. The issue of microplastics is a growing one with more research needed to fully undertstand the effects it has on the environment and our bodies. We already ingest 5 grams of plastic every week, mostly through micro and nano plastic. Lets not contribute more to that.
@Michael15286: Well it is short but still mentions better disposal methods are needed. The fact remains, whether individuals choose to use plastic or not makes absolutely no difference to the existence of that bag they don't use. It is still sitting somewhere as a by-product of natural gas production, which if we don't use it for something, is waiting to be burned. I'd rather use plastic and have some of it recycled until governments get their act together to collect and recycle it multiple times, than to pretend I'm doing something effective by not using it which only means they have to burn more of it into the atmosphere.
Who knows why they don't deal with it because It's really not that difficult. e.g. They could eliminate a huge amount by simply placing wire mesh over street drains and employ one person to vacuum the grates one day a week.
As before though, even if it were possible to collect every scrap of plastic in Australia from getting into the dirt/ocean it would still make no difference with third and second world nations pouring tonnes of it into the ocean on a daily basis. :-(
@[Deactivated]: While it is sad that there is no other use for that specific by product of natural gas extraction, that should be a mark against the horribly environmentally damaging practice of mining rather than shopping bags. I would prefer the plastic bags banned and denying oil companies a reason to keep drilling. While it doesn't directly stop it, reducing a revenue byproduct increases the cost of natural gas and allows alternative energy to compete better.
Plastic bag bans are highly effective at reducing what gets into the ocean, as did the mandatory 5 cent cost. They found in the UK that the amount of plastic bags consumed per person each year dropped from 180 to 20. Less bags, less in the ocean.
While you're absolutely correct how the developing nations dwarf us on plastic consumption and waste, we should use our relative wealth to lead the way and start the process. Wouldnt be right to expect those who are poorest to make the sacrifice first.
@Michael15286: Unfortunately "they" (whoever "they" are today, but usually government) continually get it wrong. We've seen what their ban of supermarket plastic bags delivered. A 'solution' that is irritating, inconvenient, and against common sense because it pollutes worse than plastic bags did. We need less government interference in our lives, not more. (Not that we get a say.)
Gas is going nowhere anytime soon unless we want more coal-fired power stations.
Leading the way means countries impoverish themselves. So those countries most capable of innovation go backwards while heavily-polluting ones are in a mad free-for-all, elbows-in-the-nose, rush up the economic ladder, madly polluting without restraint. We can't assume they will follow our example, ever bother being responsible, once they reach the top rung. It's almost certain the worst of them never will. e.g. China is literally raping their own landscape, heavy metals and sewage in their water so the only way someone can drink is by buying bottled water, destroying their arable land to the point they now paint dead forests with toxic green paint to hide the shameful fact nothing can grow there any longer. They're getting worse, not better.
It's only a minor thing, plastic bags for now, but when we require people keep accepting little things, sacrifice this, ban that… it trains us to accept an ever-tightening chokehold around our throats in many other areas.
For example, in the UK they're planning a "trial" in two towns where if people make "too many" trips in their car they get fined. If gov tried that on 20-30 years ago they'd be too fearful to leave their homes. But ban those straws, swap these bags for worse ones, change the gas fitting so everyone has to spend $$$ on a new BBQ unnecessarily (the latest round of nonsense), demand electric cars even as the infrastructure means you can't charge it… we get squeezed, herded into an ever-narrowing funnel of punitive rules resulting in less freedom, a lower quality of life, and the rise of mentally-ill psychopaths like Klaus Schwab demanding we eat bugs while he continues dining on fine steak.
Isnt it for hygiene purposes since covid? My local store individually wraps each bun in clear plastic before putting on the shelf. There are people who grab buns and then put them back with their hands or move buns to get a particular one or cough directly onto the buns.
plastic top
lid
Breadtop's been around for ~20 years. Not sure old old something needs to be for you to consider it not new age 🤣
do trolls feed on sandwiches @ name
The nostalgia edging towards intransigence
Remember the King? The one and only
Decent thickshakes disappeared decades ago. Now they're made using that sloppy white soft serve that reminds me of parrot guano. It's always been around but for years most shops didn't have it because people would walk to another shop to avoid that slop. We can thank McDonalds for that… a couple of generations of ADHD kids who whined to go to McD's for a plastic toy and to slide through other kids' snot on the plastic play equipment (but rarely ate their food) now scoff down the parrot poop with no idea what they're missing. Anyone remember "Oak thickshakes"? They were so thick with their own real ice-cream that the PLASTIC straw would collapse when you sucked on it so you had to wait several minutes for it to melt a bit and took 20 minutes to get through! I can't even find a decent hamburger with all beef mince anymore. There's always some kind of filler added like breadcrumbs, herbs and spices, etc. Oh unless you pay $27+ for some "arteest" to arrange it on the plate like a museum artwork.
member the good ole days when cool shakes came in metal cups?
And Chicko rolls were edible, lol.
Does breadtop do cocktail buns. Sweet bread cake type thing with coconut filling? I can’t find it on their menu.
Pretty sure they still do, it's even in their range sold at Coles stores.
Is it still available in garden City?
Got one at Sunnybank this morning, I only spent $19.
what did you buy for 19 ? buns and breads ?
How would you thoroughly wash the straw properly so mold doesn't grow inside it? Would you need to buy a specific item to scrub inside it? Eg. for smoothies
pipe cleaners
Spent $25 at Carousel and was told they don't have it…
More landfill crap disguised as eco
Maybe worth putting states in title as they only operate in NSW Vic and Qld it seems?
Oh ok cheers I had a quick look at a different location list and only 3 states of stores were listed
Thanks
Are glass straws as dangerous as metal straws?
I'll bite. What is dangerous about metal straws.
According to jv, by the time you've read this comment another 22 babies will have been impaled by metal straws and another 12 will have contracted cancer
A disabled woman in the uk died when she fell onto a reusable cup with a lid and metal straw and the straw went into her face and brain.
(Its one of the reasons why plastic straw bans are really dangerous for disabled people - plastic is the most universally usable straw by people with different issues.)
A boy nearly died when a metal straw punctured his throat.
You dont want to faint or fall or trip while holding one. It doesnt seem to take a lot of weight for them to puncture.
I’d say the glass straw will be safer then. It’ll just shatter in your throat rather than impale you.
@Pratty: I'd be very angry with Breadtop if that happened. I'm not happy with them for a few reasons, but that would definitely be the glass straw.
Naughty, they aren't Keep Cups.
St albans and sunshine ran out.
what are you meant to use this with? i can't picture myself carrying this around to like chatime and asking them to make my drink in this instead of their own cups.
You realize they use a shaker and poor into your cup at the end?
how do i add to cart?
in person
bring my laptop?
Better safe than sorry
Fairwork should look into its wage theft issues, most Chinese working there don't want conflict and chose not to report them. It's probably not every store, but I know some workers there get paid very little, not even minimum wage
Please make a complaint / send in a tip then.
Breadtop in Aus vs Breadtalk in Singapore, i m just curious which one is the legit one.
Breadtop Aus seems to have copied the original Breadtalk Singapore
I love Bread Top. Everything is so soft and sweet.