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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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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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Coccxys said:
The problem is the RF part of the TERF there. We don't need that kind of crazy either.
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These days "Radical Feminism" is the apparently bizarre notion that women are adult human females.

Your mum is fat and I would not have sex with her. But I'm OK with paying for the NHS to do cervical swabs and mammograms because fuck cancer.

Go hug your mum, edgelord.
 
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I want a siege now. Might as well have maximum chaos while we're at it. It took him ages to move out of his foreign office residence, to the annoyance of May, so there is a slim chance. Either that or he comes out and just announces a snap election. The Tories in the Liaison committee yesterday seemed to be terrified he'd do that, and asked him repeatedly to confirm he wouldn't.
He said he wouldn't, but you know Bojo.
 
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The Tories in the Liaison committee yesterday seemed to be terrified he'd do that, and asked him repeatedly to confirm he wouldn't.
He said he wouldn't, but you know Bojo.
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I mean Boris did pass a bill repealing the fixed term parliament act so gave himself the nuclear button in this regard. It would be an amazing moment of spite to the party for ousting him.
 
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I want a siege now. Might as well have maximum chaos while we're at it. It took him ages to move out of his foreign office residence, to the annoyance of May, so there is a slim chance. Either that or he comes out and just announces a snap election. The Tories in the Liaison committee yesterday seemed to be terrified he'd do that, and asked him repeatedly to confirm he wouldn't.
He said he wouldn't, but you know Bojo.
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I am reminded that the guns on HMS Belfast are locked on Scratchwood Service Station.
Apropos of nothing , does anyone have a spanner?
 
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3-2-1836 said:
What type of bullshit office is "leveling up secretary", what the fuck England.
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It's mostly a publicity stunt. One of Boris's pet projects is "levelling up" the north of England to reach the same economic and social level as the south. Apparently this involves spending lots of money in London and the home counties.
 
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3-2-1836 said:
What type of bullshit office is "leveling up secretary", what the fuck England.
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Funnily enough, Gove was the only one doing any work, and had a housing bill on the go that was apparently not bad. But yeah, we have a Levelling up secretary to level up parts of the country that aren't invested in, so anywhere outside London. Levelling Up is another buzz phrase like Build Back Better.
E: Oops Ninja'd
 
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teriyakiburns said:
It's mostly a publicity stunt. One of Boris's pet projects is "levelling up" the north of England to reach the same economic and social level as the south. Apparently this involves spending lots of money in London and the home counties.
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Yeah, they did a terrible job shoring up that northern support they "won" (more like corbyn lost). They had some socila housing activist on the news talking about how good Gove was to work with on issues they were facing, in central London. Funny how it always comes back to that shithole isn't it.
 
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He's resigning. Now resigned. Apparently. Shit Speech. Always someone else's fault, eh Boris.
 
So what's the lowdown on Gove? I heard some posters say he's nutty, but not on why.
 
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