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https://news.sky.com/story/row-over-new-greggs-vegan-sausage-rolls-heats-up-11597679

A heated row has broken out over a move by Britain's largest bakery chain to launch a vegan sausage roll.

The pastry, which is filled with a meat substitute and encased in 96 pastry layers, is available in 950 Greggs stores across the country.

It was promised after 20,000 people signed a petition calling for the snack to be launched to accommodate plant-based diet eaters.


But the vegan sausage roll's launch has been greeted by a mixed reaction: Some consumers welcomed it, while others voiced their objections.

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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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Cook and food poverty campaigner Jack Monroe declared she was "frantically googling to see what time my nearest opens tomorrow morning because I will be outside".

While TV writer Brydie Lee-Kennedy called herself "very pro the Greggs vegan sausage roll because anything that wrenches veganism back from the 'clean eating' wellness folk is a good thing".

One Twitter user wrote that finding vegan sausage rolls missing from a store in Corby had "ruined my morning".

Another said: "My son is allergic to dairy products which means I can't really go to Greggs when he's with me. Now I can. Thank you vegans."

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The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary


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TV presenter Piers Morgan led the charge of those outraged by the new roll.

"Nobody was waiting for a vegan bloody sausage, you PC-ravaged clowns," he wrote on Twitter.

Mr Morgan later complained at receiving "howling abuse from vegans", adding: "I get it, you're all hangry. I would be too if I only ate plants and gruel."

Another Twitter user said: "I really struggle to believe that 20,000 vegans are that desperate to eat in a Greggs."

"You don't paint a mustach (sic) on the Mona Lisa and you don't mess with the perfect sausage roll," one quipped.

Journalist Nooruddean Choudry suggested Greggs introduce a halal steak bake to "crank the fume levels right up to 11".

The bakery chain told concerned customers that "change is good" and that there would "always be a classic sausage roll".

It comes on the same day McDonald's launched its first vegetarian "Happy Meal", designed for children.

The new dish comes with a "veggie wrap", instead of the usual chicken or beef option.

It should be noted that Piers Morgan and Greggs share the same PR firm, so I'm thinking this is some serious faux outrage and South Park KKK gambiting here.

 

[Failed Lurker]

people who won't fuck the job up any more than the last guy.

I know what you you were getting at, it's the same view I was trying to go for however, when was the last time we had someone who didn't fuck the job up? I'd recognise it was probably Blair pre-Iraq though that was only down to how much of a fuck up Major had been, that they couldn't have made shit any worse.

 

[CWCissey]

I know what you you were getting at, it's the same view I was trying to go for however, when was the last time we had someone who didn't fuck the job up? I'd recognise it was probably Blair pre-Iraq though that was only down to how much of a fuck up Major had been, that they couldn't have made shit any worse.

William Hague?

He seemed to just muddle along quietly in the background in whatever role he played.

 

[Anal birth]

Well you know what I mean, people who won't fuck the job up any more than the last guy.

Watch Jeremy Hunt win by doing nothing again, the Luigi motherfucker slime.

Surely we can expect an election by autumn?

 

[CWCissey]

Surely we can expect an election by autumn?

I imagine so.

Looks like I may get to spoil a ballot on the National level this time.

 

[Weeb_Killer]

I don't think there will be a election this year. The new prime minister will still have a 80-odd seat majority, which they'll want to use to shore up their premiership before heading to the ballots.

Funny thing is, we could see Starmer as well as Angelina Rayner (fanny like a fog horn) resign due to receiving fixed penalty notices for breaking lockdown laws this week. If rumours are true, they're currently appealing the decision, but I doubt they will be able to overturn them. Which could lead to leaders of both parties resigning in the same week.

What an absolute shit show. I'm voting as far right as my conscience will allow at the next election, regardless.

 

[Weeb Slinger]

So Sunak and Javid have quit over that handsy touchy bloke being appointed whip (IIRC?). Thoughts on this whole clown show?

This is Sunak and Javid laying the foundation for their campaigns to be the next Prime Minister. You can't throw your hat into the leadership race after Boris has been ousted and expect to be regarded as anything more than a continuation of his largely disastrous tenure at Number 10.

Regardless of how he is regarded in private by those who his policies have enriched, the Conservatives must know that, if they are to survive, they need to make a clean break.

It will be a brave man or woman who follows in the wake of Johnson's uncoordinated shambling. This winter is going to be a very rough ride for the UK. A lot of birds are about to come home to roost.

 

[Overly Serious]

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If they were resigning over our giving all our money and weapons to the Ukraine and sanctions that double our electricity and heating bills, fine. But apparently the only thing that pricks their conscience is some drunk bloke asking for a slapped face. Actual death and devastation is apparently not worth a raised eyebrow.

William Hague?

He seemed to just muddle along quietly in the background in whatever role he played.

Major proponent and architect of Britain's bombing of Libya. Though the biggest culprits were Clinton, Obama and Sarkozy there's still plenty of blood for Hague's hands.

Best MPs I can think of from the top of my head are Sarah Champion who headed up a lot of the abuse inquiries in Rotherham and fought to stop it being buried. And Alan Simpson. Nothing particular about him other than he resigned due to the Iraq War and stated he could do more good not as an MP than as one. Ironically, given I don't like the party much, both Labour, Best I can come up with.

 

[Anal birth]

I'm sure you'll all be shocked to know that Nadine Dorries has chosen to stand by her man

 

[tehpope]

Another one

 

[CWCissey]

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A backroom boy.

Call me when Brady starts swinging.

 

[teriyakiburns]

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that's our party leader frontrunners in play.

e: Cougared. Oh well. Bit more commentary then: if Javid has any sense, he'll let Sunak take the leadership ahead of him, so he can take the fall for all the shit Boris has set up, and give Javid a clear run as the real fixer. I funnly expect Sunak will do that with Javid instead, which will be a disaster. Javid has been pretty decent as health secretary, whereas Sunak has been the worst combination of "tory austerity" and money-printing madness you could possibly imagine.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

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Well there’s an announcement nobody seen coming. I know jurno’s are usually pretty hot on the subject but there’s been no rumours of a cabinet reshuffle as far as I’ve seen, so maybe they’re just sick of Bojo at this point.
PMQs should make for an interesting watch tomorrow if Boris decides to be there for this one.

 

[CWCissey]

Well there’s an announcement nobody seen coming. I know jurno’s are usually pretty hot on the subject but there’s been no rumours of a cabinet reshuffle as far as I’ve seen, so maybe they’re just sick of Bojo at this point.
PMQs should make for an interesting watch tomorrow if Boris decides to be there for this one.

Queenie's probably going to let rip too. I think it's their weekly meeting tomorrow.

 

[RealMuthaForYa]

The appointment of Steve Barclay as Health Secretary is causing a Britbong Troon Chimpout /Archive. Every cloud etc

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In other news, PaddyPower have Sunak as front runner to replace Bozza.

 

[Ly Erg]

Can confirm that Rishi Sunak, Sajid, Bim, Jonathan Gilli's, Saqib Bhatti and Andrew Murrison have resigned

The new front are Nadhim Zahawi as Chancellor and Steve Barclay for Health.

 

[Raoul_Duke]

Has it occurred to no one that if Sunak replaces Johnson, the eclipse of Britain is complete? It'd be ruled over by the descendent of one of their colonial subjects, a fraction of the empire it once was, and under the control of an elite that actively hated anything "British". Good god.

Oh god, it will only get worse for all of us, won't it?

 

[6MillionCoofs]

If rumours are true, they're currently appealing the decision,

He's had to come out saying he'll still go because of those rumours of him fighting the decision so you absolutely know he's fighting them. He wouldn't feel the need to come out otherwise. And therefore you know it’s got to be bad.

but I doubt they will be able to overturn them. Which could lead to leaders of both parties resigning in the same week.

Is it strange I have less faith in current labour sticking to what they said than the conservatives? If anything, he'll be made to leave not go willingly.

What an absolute shit show. I'm voting as far right as my conscience will allow at the next election, regardless.

What would that party even currently be?

 

[Judge Dredd]

If I was the security guard I would have just turned off the light in the room, locked the door and left them there.

Its about fucking time someone beats the absolute shit out of these cunts.

The next person who glues themselves to something should just be left there, like that asshole who glued his dick to a Starbucks counter in the name of vegan "milk". Or the hippies who chained themselves to trees. Just let them enjoy the inevitable consequences of their actions, and see how long it takes for a copycat to appear.

Have the emergency services turn up with hacksaw. They'd suddenly stop gluing themselves to things.

Those protest groups gluing themselves to things feel like controlled opposition to me. They feel so hollow and insincere while "protesting" for something the government already wants to do.

 

[Fish Fudge]

Those protest groups gluing themselves to things feel like controlled opposition to me. They feel so hollow and insincere while "protesting" for something the government already wants to do.

That's what irritates me more than anything - their inability/unwillingness to actually do anything that tangibly achieves their goals.

And it's not just the government - every organisation under the sun right now, every large corporate entity, is bending over backwards trying to find ways to cut emissions, find alternative energy sources, etc. C-suite executives, in public and behind closed doors, will tell you that this is a huge priority for their business. There's collaboration between competitors going on that I would have assumed ludicrous 10 years ago, all in the name of sustainability and finding alternative energy solutions. Huge teams of people in a lot of organisations are now solely focused on this goal.

And then there's these twats. A bunch of impotent academics and unemployed losers, desperate for a bit of attention.

 

[Clem Fandango]

I just hate the names of these fuckwit groups. I didn't think it could get any dumber than "Insulate Britain" (...seriously?), But fuck me, Just Stop Oil?? As if it were genuinely that simple. Sounds like something a petulant primary school child would say.