[joeysteele]

I think there shoudn't be this tax on the like of pasties, sausage rolls etc, I can see a difference to buying a takeaway meal to eat at home as opposed to a quick pasty at lunchtime.
Having said that, a tray or bag of chips will have VAT on them so maybe it doesn't matter in the long run.

For,when you consider cold caviar has no VAT on it but a hot pasty will, then there is in my opinion anyway an insensitive imbalance in such a policy at least.

As arista pointed out though, Greggs for instance should be able to take this hit, I saw in their window that they were selling sausage rolls hot at 2 for £1, they are normally 65p I think each, so clearly he is spot on in saying that, for if they can do that price now they can do it the future,which would only make their sausage rolls for instance 2 for £1.20 with VAT on.
That's under the price they even used to charge for them.