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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.

 

[FuckedOffToff]

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

Can't you spare one for Edinburgh?

 

[CWCissey]

Can't you spare one for Edinburgh?

Nah the castle's cool

 

[Johan Schmidt]

How’d he pull that off?

Blair centralised power into the office of the Prime Minister. He relied mainly on issuing direct commands as PMs, rather than using the cabinet. He strengthened the executive office within whitehall, made massive changes to how the PM functioned; including appointing roles such as chief of staff. The prime ministers office increased in size, and the roles of special advisors to the PM was massively expanded from IIRC 8; to 25. He made it normal to excise the cabinet, and rely entirely on close advisors, and his own decisions. It turned it from a PM, into a president.

Why did it end up working differently than intended?

Because the British government relies on a balance between the commons, the Lords, and the PM to function in a democratic manner. What Blair did was weigh the process towards the PM, and then packed the Lords.

Can't you spare one for Edinburgh?

Edinburgh gets dirty bombs to preserve the nice buildings.

 

[soy_king]

Up until yesterday it was Boris. Priti Patel is way more right-wing but idpol prevent them from attacking her which is funny. There's Jacob Rees-Mogg but he's a buffoon, not a threat.

After that maybe J. K. Rowling, which is funny because she's actually really hard Left (apart from the whole "being a billionaire thing) but the TERFs of TERF Island are doing a better job of annoying leftists than the right, which is embarrassing.

What exactly is wrong with Mogg, aside from him being the definition of upper class?

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Blair centralised power into the office of the Prime Minister. He relied mainly on issuing direct commands as PMs, rather than using the cabinet. He strengthened the executive office within whitehall, made massive changes to how the PM functioned; including appointing roles such as chief of staff. The prime ministers office increased in size, and the roles of special advisors to the PM was massively expanded from IIRC 8; to 25. He made it normal to excise the cabinet, and rely entirely on close advisors, and his own decisions. It turned it from a PM, into a president.

Ah. Yeah that would do it. I did not realise he was that expansive.

and then packed the Lords.

Oh. I forgot he made a Lord out of literally eceryone.

 

[HarryHowler]

What exactly is wrong with Mogg, aside from him being the definition of upper class?

The fact that he has a complete lack of ability to read the public mood? From what I understand, he was the one who suggested intervening to stop Owen Paterson from being punished, which in retrospect was the point where things went into terminal decline for Johnson.

 

[soy_king]

The fact that he has a complete lack of ability to read the public mood? From what I understand, he was the one who suggested intervening to stop Owen Paterson from being punished, which in retrospect was the point where things went into terminal decline for Johnson.

I mean fair enough, just asking because I haven't kept track of his doings after Brexit

 

[Otterly]

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.

Hear hear. He was also the chief architect of the Iraq war, and presided over the idea of regulating the financial sector with a ‘light touch’ which led to all sorts of issues with dodgy practises and the northern rock collapse era. As well as the social stuff, like ‘rubbing the rights nose in diversity’ by importing migrants at an unprecedented level. He literally tore British society’s infrastructure apart and it’s never recover. The man is a demon. I loathe him.

Can't you spare one for Edinburgh?

Look, you can take out sighthill and Craigmillar with whatever you like, and if you’re very nice I’ll let you drop a neutron bomb on the Grange on the condition I get an empty building of my choice. That’s my final offer. Do it in August.

 

[Stabmaster Arson]

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.

Griffin was shit and muscled out who would have been the real danger. Bowden. If he had been allowed to be kept leader, he would have wiped the floor with every panelist and the audience too at Question Time. I think that cancer he got was the security services doing somehow you know. It progressed very fast.

 

[Spunt]

I mean fair enough, just asking because I haven't kept track of his doings after Brexit

Mogg is everything people hate about Tories. Total electoral liability. He's mentally stuck in the 1950s, right down to thinking women belong in the kitchen and that mental illness should be treated with the draft. You might like those things, but as someone with strong libertarian leanings his old fart paternalist Conservatism really sticks in my craw. Every time he's on TV he says something that makes me cringe. Utterly out of touch with real people, detests the idea of social mobility, and is only where he is because of the old Etonian Old Boy's Network rather than any intellectual merit - exactly like Boris, which is why his nose has spent the last decade welded to Boris' cackpipe.

When people who hate Labour think of Labour politicians, they think of Diane Abbott, or maybe John Prescott. When people who hate Tories think of Tory Politicians, they think of Jacob Rees-Mogg.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Think of Prince Andrew more as a unshiftable wart on the backside of the royal family. They are powerful (staggeringly rich, massively connected to the old Establishment) and Prince Andrew gets some shielding by being part of that. But in and of himself he's a useless, shiftless lump. So if he fucks up, expect people to cover for him. But don't look to see him despatching people. He's a goon, not a crimeboss.

Do you at the very least have some of these "crime bosses"?

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Up until yesterday it was Boris. Priti Patel is way more right-wing but idpol prevent them from attacking her which is funny.

Did you forget the Labour letter where they basically explained to her that she is not behaving enough like her minority should to actually be treated as such? Still astounded so many of them put their names to that.

 

[Coccxys]

Hear hear. He was also the chief architect of the Iraq war, and presided over the idea of regulating the financial sector with a ‘light touch’ which led to all sorts of issues with dodgy practises and the northern rock collapse era. As well as the social stuff, like ‘rubbing the rights nose in diversity’ by importing migrants at an unprecedented level. He literally tore British society’s infrastructure apart and it’s never recover. The man is a demon. I loathe him.

Don't forget he's the one responsible for the god awful human right act that has served as nothing but a way for people to dodge legal consequences of their bullshit.

Did you forget the Labour letter where they basically explained to her that she is not behaving enough like her minority should to actually be treated as such? Still astounded so many of them put their names to that.

Yup, this one.






Front pages of tomorrow's papers are much as you'd expect for each.

Spoiler: papers

 

[Thomas Talus]

Front pages of tomorrow's papers are much as you'd expect for each.

Spoiler: papers

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I thought the Sun was supposed to have the boobs on page 3, not the cover.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

I thought the Sun was supposed to have the boobs on page 3, not the cover.

Har Har Har.

 

[Failed Lurker]

Look, you can take out sighthill and Craigmillar with whatever you like, and if you’re very nice I’ll let you drop a neutron bomb on the Grange on the condition I get an empty building of my choice. That’s my final offer. Do it in August.

Not just Shitehill and Craigmillar surely, got to be a few other spots that could do with a clean up? Would make for an interesting firework display for the end of the festival.

 

[Stabmaster Arson]

Don't forget he's the one responsible for the god awful human right act that has served as nothing but a way for people to dodge legal consequences of their bullshit.



Yup, this one.

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Front pages of tomorrow's papers are much as you'd expect for each.

Spoiler: papers

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Award for most hysterical and laughable goes to the Daily Mail, for sure.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Yup, this one.

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That's the one. Arseholes.

 

[Vesperus]

For the next 24 hours, I am officially a Hugh Grant fan.

https://metro.co.uk/2022/07/07/hugh...sic-played-outside-parliament-on-tv-16960018/

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Front pages of tomorrow's papers are much as you'd expect for each.

Spoiler: papers

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"One last party."

Blair will always be remembered for Iraq/Afghanistan. Boris will always be remembered for having a party.