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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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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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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.
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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.
 
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Clem Fandango said:
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.
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It's infuriatingly naive. There's genuine efforts to build new models happening as we speak, unprecedented levels of investment into areas where companies will fully admit that they won't turn a profit pursuing, but that they have to do it regardless. There's a real urgency in the way it's spoken about, by people who are actually running the day-to-day operations of society.

What do they think would happen if we "just stopped oil" anyway? How did they travel to that protest? How was their computer manufactured and where does it get electricity from, so that they were able to organise themselves across the internet in the first place? What food do they eat, and how do they get it? Where did their clothes come from, and how were they manufactured? What do they think society would look like tomorrow, if we halted all oil use today?

You're right - they're children.
 
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Judge Dredd said:
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.
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That's because all of these groups are spin-offs of Extinction Rebellion, who are almost certainly controlled opposition, because no-one could be legitimately as clueless about how fucking useless and self defeating their tactics are.
 
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Fish Fudge said:
And then there's these twats. A bunch of impotent academics and unemployed losers, desperate for a bit of attention.
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Yup. Literally every single person is telling these ways 'hey, we get it, we hear you and we are working on it, it's just very complicated and will take time and what you are do is not helping' and yet they just won't listen.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
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.
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Not been paying much attention, but hasn't Javid been both shockingly competent and pro-UK? Same with Patel? IIRC a lot of old colonial elite that emigrated to the UK when things began falling apart and their descendants have just as much if not less fondness for the street shitter demographic than we Kiwis do.
 
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Not been paying much attention, but hasn't Javid been both shockingly competent and pro-UK? Same with Patel? IIRC a lot of old colonial elite that emigrated to the UK when things began falling apart and their descendants have just as much if not less fondness for the street shitter demographic than we Kiwis do.
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Javid, yes. Priti Patel is an authoritarian shite, which is presumably how she ended up with the home office brief.
 
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Good to know about both, especially that Priti Patel has so seamlessly integrated into the Bong political ranks.
 
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Lol she can’t even blame Westminster this time.
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Javid, yes. Priti Patel is an authoritarian shite, which is presumably how she ended up with the home office brief.
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As terrible a prime minister Patel would be, it would be funny to throw it in Labour’s and Lib Dem’s faces that not only are the tories on their third successive female prime minister, but they also have the first minority prime minister.
We could export the salt from their tantrums for generations to come.
 
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Well that fell flat on its face again
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Lol she can’t even blame Westminster this time.

As terrible a prime minister Patel would be, it would be funny to throw it in Labour’s and Lib Dem’s faces that not only are the tories on their third successive female prime minister, but they also have the first minority prime minister.
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It's like bizarro world. We could end up with the Conservative party led by son-of-a-bus-driving-immigrant Sajid Javid, and the Labour party led by toffee-nosed-elitist Sir Kier Starmer QC.
 
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Muhammad revealed as the most popular UK baby boy name for 2022​

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Muhammad revealed as the most popular UK baby boy name for 2022

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Lily overtook Olivia to claim top spot on the girl's list, while Sophia came second
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Muhammad has been revealed as the most popular UK baby boy name for 2022 so far.

The list of the top 100 names for baby boys and girls have been released by BabyCentre.

Noah came in second on the boys' list, closely followed by Jack, Theo, Leo, Oliver and George.

While Ethan, Oscar and Arthur completed the top 10.

Lily overtook Olivia to claim top spot on the girl's list Philip Toscano

Among the other boy’s names to make the top 100 included Ali, Jaxon, Arlo, Abdullah, Hunter and Zion.

While on the girl’s list, Lily overtook Olivia to claim top spot for the first time in seven years.

Sophia finished in second, Olivia in third, while Amelia was placed in fourth for 2022.

Ava, Isla, Freya, Aria, Ivy and Mia were the other names to feature in the top 10 on the girls list.

While names such as Amber, Johnny, Wayne, Coleen and Rebekah failed to make the list, with BabyCentre believing the trend was down to recent high-profile court cases.

Sarah Redshaw, the managing editor for BabyCentre, said: "Parents proved they are judge and jury when it comes to baby names as they threw the book at Amber, Johnny, Wayne, Coleen and Rebekah, all at the heart of expensive high-profile court cases.

"I predict the impact of Johnny (Depp) and Amber’s (Heard) battle and the Wagatha Christie effect will continue and we will see those names fall further in the charts."
 
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BibiLivesMatter said:
Can someone provid a tldr for non bongs on why Boris is getting Caesar right now? I know about them trying to vote him out for partying during covid lockdown, but what else is causing this huge exodus of people from his party?
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Sargon & co talk about it here. Maybe it covers what you're looking for.
 
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Can someone provid a tldr for non bongs on why Boris is getting Caesar right now? I know about them trying to vote him out for partying during covid lockdown, but what else is causing this huge exodus of people from his party?
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For TLDR, he lied, lied about lying, pretended to be a conservative while parroting mainstream woke talking points, has been weak on immigration, weak on the institutional corrosion of our traditions, and has fallen in lock step to every WEF initiative going.

But that's why the general population have turned against him. What's causing these tory stooges to resign is that they're just simply fed up of defending the prime minister week in and week out from various scandals, all of which could have easily been avoided if he had just told to the truth from the start. Most can see the writing is on the wall, and are jumping ship rather than going down with it.
 
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BibiLivesMatter said:
Can someone provid a tldr for non bongs on why Boris is getting Caesar right now? I know about them trying to vote him out for partying during covid lockdown, but what else is causing this huge exodus of people from his party?
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There's really no single reason why, just a series of stupid decisions that have accumulated over time. The latest is picking a gropey bastard called Pincher to be deputy chief whip. Boris's problem is that he wants to act the big Churchillian statesman, but he's not got any sort of eye or patience for the actual minutiae of leadership. he wants to be presidential and have all the trappings of office (like the expensive flat and being seen with the Queen), but he doesn't want to be bothered actually doing his job, so he just agrees to whatever is the quickest and easiest solution to the problem in front of him. All that profligacy has finally caught up to him
 
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