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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.

 

[Octavia]

Labour is inept. They had to chance to grind Boris but instead they want to pretend they don’t know what a woman is.

Anyway this is a nothing burger. Boris will be replaced with another man or women. The country will continue as-is and that’s down the drain.

Unfortunately this is how it is. The only way things are going to change is if something drastic happens, and considering how awful the gun laws in this country are, the politicians can do as they please. Who knows, maybe fuel prices will get high enough for more things to happen than just some people lying on the A12.

We're not playing a "critical role" in diddly-squat. Both Boris and the journos seem to think that we're really important in this war for their own retarded reasons. Boris wanted his Churchill moment despite possessing absolutely none of the required personal attributes. Plus, the whole we are not a participant in this war thing. The journos just want to feel important about Current Thing I guess.

As a result of this we hoofed over another billion quid to the Ukrainians just last week. How many GPs could that pay for? How big a tax cut could that have allowed?

My dad has a theory that all this military posturing (despite not having the military to back any of it up) is all about keeping our place on the UN Security Council - that's why we joined in Desert Storm, Iraq, Afghanistan and now we're spending money on Ukraine as if we were fighting in it even though we're not, which is especially stupid seeing as it's looking like Russia will at some point grind its way to a position that it can claim is a victory anyway. It's all to keep our place at the literal Big Boys Table. Pathetic. We don't have the economy, the military power or the political mandate for all this adventuring, especially at a time when our own country is on fucking fire from about 15 different crises at once.

This new guy who's got put in charge of the army very recently is a fucking monkey. Yes, we should really prepare to go to war with russia, not because Russia is going to attack us, but because of all the arms and money we send to Ukraine, which should be going to our (by your own admission) undermanned and undergunned military or general public WILL eventually be seen as an act of war, just like Turkey raiding Russian ships containing grain. Faggot.
Sick of all the money going out to Ukraine when we have this cost of living crisis, it should be going to us, not eastern europeans I've never and probably will never meet. Country is too small to even take care of its own people, we gave up on being a military or economical power years and years ago. Fuck the EU, fuck the UN, and fuck the people who gave up on the Empire.

Can someone remind me what was so crap about Corbyn again? Apart from all the usual looney crap I remember him having some good ideas.
Him being widely labeled as an antisemite is also a good sign.

Commie, provably in league with terrorists, old faggot who can't even practice the communism he preaches, supporters are all dangerhairs and genderloons. Has the American syndrome of trying to set up dem programs but can't cite where the money will come from, etc. All around an old faggot.

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Some bombed out city on the news: unfortunate.
£2 a litre diesel: crippling to the country.

Kek, so true. Crazy how a Russian man who probably doesn't live in our country has a better grip of the situation than our own government.

 

[Stasi]

He's not wrong.

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Not our problem: they ain't NATO, they ain't EU. Sanctions aren't doing anything just destroying our own economy. On top of all that we keep handing them sacks of money which no doubt have an amount "diverted" into a few Swiss accounts on the way through.

Some bombed out city on the news: unfortunate.
£2 a litre diesel: crippling to the country.

Boris made a comment just before the shit really hit the fan with half the government quitting, must have been yesterday or this morning, along the lines of "I won't quit, if I quit what will happen to Ukraine?". Which is a monumentally stupid thing to say. Why should the average Brit give a shit about Ukraine with all the problems at home?

I'd understand if missiles were hitting London but this is like saying things are really rather bad in Somalia, I think I'll stick around as PM for a while longer.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

I wonder how much more radioactive a politician would be in the UK than the USA who openly advertised that he believed the British government should prioritize the well-being of the British people over that of corporations, NGOs, and ideology. Eurocucks have refined hating themselves and voting for their own strangulation into an art form.

You might want to look up the episode of Question Time involving the head of the BNP to get an indiction of how radioactive that can be.

 

[Stabmaster Arson]

You might want to look up the episode of Question Time involving the head of the BNP to get an indiction of how radioactive that can be.

Or anything involving Tommy Robinson.

I know he has his flaws, but they never argue in good faith with him.

 

[Octavia]

Or anything involving Tommy Robinson.

I know he has his flaws, but they never argue in good faith with him.

To be fair he is also a monumental retard as well.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Or anything involving Tommy Robinson.

I don’t really consider him a politician hence why I suggested the BNP trashfire that was Question Time.

 

[Stabmaster Arson]

To be fair he is also a monumental retard as well.

I know. He has his moments though. In Panodrama when he gets that slimy BBC journalist in the chair and about ten times in a row says "Did you say/do this?" and the guy says no, of course not how dare you and he replies to his team "Roll the next clip" and shows hidden camera footage of him doing exactly that. It's beautiful. One of the most hilarious things I've ever seen.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

So is Sargon still in Politics?

 

[Octavia]

So is Sargon still in Politics?

Not that I'm aware of, I haven't followed him since 2015. I think he just does a podcast now, youtube keeps recommending it to me no matter how many times I click "Don't recommend this channel".

 

[6MillionCoofs]

So is Sargon still in Politics?

No. After the absolutely thrashing he got he wisely got the message. But seriously, you don’t stay in polotics after the kind of beating he got.

 

[Coccxys]

I'd understand if missiles were hitting London

If missiles were hitting London at least three quarters of the nation would be celebrating.

The big problem we have is how disconnected culturally, politically, and ideologically that place is from the rest of the country. Its not even the murica problem where you have cities vs rural, London is entirely disconnected from even other large cities like Manchester or Birmingham.

Then we pay (a lot) for all our politicians to live in that little bubble and ignore the rest of us until election season rolls around a they suddenly remember they have constituencies (or at least those in marginal seats do).

We don't even get our own politicians anymore, they parachute whatever faggot brownnosed the party leadership best into all the safe seats so you end up in a northern constituency with some London faggot "representing" you. The last time my home town's MP change the parliamentary party overruled the local selection committee and put some southern prick who probably couldn't find the place on a map let alone understand the issues of the area in (of course since massive safe seat and retarded electorate they still won easily after the party had ratfucked everyone involved).

 

[Stabmaster Arson]

If missiles were hitting London at least three quarters of the nation would be celebrating.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

If I had three nukes, and Israel wasn't an option. I'd hit London twice, and drop the third on Birmingham.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Watching an entire audience bully one man is certainly a sight

 

[Coccxys]

That Nick Griffin question time is still my prime example of why leftists should let "the other side" speak. The BNP was taking council seats and getting MEPs, they probably weren't far from their first MP at some point. Letting Nick go on QT and debate sank them hard. If QT had cucked (like some were trying at the time) like they probably would these days then BNP would have probably been strengthened by the censorship.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Griffin was very much an 'okay' leader for the BNP at the time; but was truly dire on Question Time. It's irksome, because the BNP, by and large is about the only party in the last 100 years that has given a shit about the native British people. Griffin himself nowadays when you ask him what he thinks should be done literally just goes 'Get a job, get financially secure, have lots of children, don't be a weirdo on the internet.' Which automatically puts him miles above most of the right wing grifters around the place now.

 

[Otterly]

Oh bloody Hell, have we got any credible cabinet candidates left?

Any left implies we had any in the first place. Last decent MP we had here was robin cook. I often wonder how things would have been different if cook had been pushed forward more and John smith hadn’t died young and left the way open for the foul demon Blair.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Any left implies we had any in the first place. Last decent MP we had here was robin cook. I often wonder how things would have been different if cook had been pushed forward more and John smith hadn’t died young and left the way open for the foul demon Blair.

Blair unironically ruined this country. He broke the balance between the levers of governmental power, and since then we've been flapping in the wind; because our government is set up in a way that is counter to the way it was envisioned to be run.

 

[Otterly]

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

Yeah. I’ll give you that. God what a horror all that is.

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?

He nearly died during covid (genuinely, it wasn’t an act) and has been impaired since. That plus his wife keeping his balls in a jar makes him unsuitable. Which is a shame, becasue he could have been alright - he’s intelligent, utterly without scruple and patriotic. But he’s done a shit job, and he’s a shadow of his former self physically and mentally so out he goes. Next!

Lol Gove must have said something that really got under BoJo's skin

The have a long history of hating each other since school. Gove is competent but utterly ruthless.

Inb4 Portillo gets another position out of nowhere

I’d be alright with portillo. He redeemed himself for me with his pastel blazered travel series of great European train journeys.

Can someone remind me what was so crap about Corbyn again? Apart from all the usual looney crap I remember him having some good ideas.
Him being widely labeled as an antisemite is also a good sign.

One of his campaign promises was a compulsory ‘give ten or so percent of your companies shares to the public’ idea. Literally confiscating private property.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Watching an entire audience bully one man is certainly a sight

Isn’t it just.