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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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10:07 AM - Jan 3, 2019

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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.

 

[Dr J]

Gareth will inexplicably keep his job for the world cup.

I told my brother, and he agreed, that Southgate will just fail upwards

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

And bookies are still saying England are favourites to win.

That at least makes sense, bookies giving predictions they know won't pay out is expected.

 

[Midwit]

Morse

I'm more partial to The Sweeney myself, I prefer my coppers loud and violent.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Unless he's put on 20 kilos and shaved his head, I'm not having it. Ron should be fat, angry, tatted, and NORF.

Wasn't Ron from the East End?

Brosnan's the odd one out there, but he's a good enough actor I'll give him the benefit of the doubt...

 

[teriyakiburns]

Wasn't Ron from the East End?

Yeah, but the norvern bit of it.

I know Ron would be plenty chuffed to have Brosnan playing him, but it still vaguely annoys me. Brosnan doesn't look like an ex union rabble-rouser. He looks more like someone the rabble would be getting roused against.

 

[EddyRooney]

That at least makes sense, bookies giving predictions they know won't pay out is expected.

Bookmakers are effectively market makers, they only reflect the sentiment of the market. Their "opinion" is a commonly misheld conception.
It's like a broker - any position they have that is considered a risky liability will simply be offset with another broker to mitigate the risk.

 

[Shining Wit]

I told my brother, and he agreed, that Southgate will just fail upwards

To Man Utd, with any luck

 

[East_Clintwood]

To Man Utd, with any luck

We've already had our fill of shitty managers who somehow can't get good players to actually play, thanks though.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

I know Ron would be plenty chuffed to have Brosnan playing him, but it still vaguely annoys me. Brosnan doesn't look like an ex union rabble-rouser. He looks more like someone the rabble would be getting roused against.

I agree but I'm willing to see what they do with him. Could be terrible, could work.

 

[Coelacanth]

Well lads I have had a real shitty 24 hours,

A friend of mine had to have an ambulance called yesterday and I had to stay with them because there was no way in hell I was letting a friend go through this alone. It took 4 hours for the ambulance to arrive, and once we got in we literally had to wait until 3AM for the doctors to come see us. Friend is fine thankfully, but really shaken up.

What got me was while I was walking around the waiting room trying to stretch my muscles. It was fucking awful. Most of them were white and were all waiting no different from us. But a lot of them were clearly suffering and no joke the police were called out several times to remove people who had snuck in and looked shady as shit.

The paramedics were exhausted too. There was literally an alert sent out that was Code 9 (cardiac arrest) and literally none of them could take it because they were stretched so thin. Someone no doubt died last night and it chills me to my bones.

Healthkiwis I am so sorry. I'm sorry this is the shite our so-called "healthcare providers" put you through and then use you as meat shields when the chickens come home to roost. You don't deserve this.

The absolute fucking state of the NHS.

 

[Product Placement]

BBC debate just over an hour away, can't wait for them to be asked again the same questions and for them to give the same answers, because clearly taxing private schools and national service are things we need to hear more about.

will play here if anyone wants to watch it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cqqqqx25rz0t

 

[Fungible penis]

BBC debate just over an hour away, can't wait for them to be asked again the same questions and for them to give the same answers, because clearly taxing private schools and national service are things we need to hear more about.

will play here if anyone wants to watch it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cqqqqx25rz0t

Turned it off, utterly turgid wank from both.


THIS made me trololol though! Novara paying 7k to get publicly owned.

https://x.com/Survation/status/1805648887002042368?t=DVLnb_4uzLmIFLaXDCd8Ag&s=19

 

[QE65]

If Matt Goodwin's Xitter is to be believed, I'm expecting an army of salmon pink suits, Union Jack pork pie hats, and L'amour Toujours playing across the country on 4th July.

 

[whothefuck]

Most Anglos still have a very high percentage of pre-germanic DNA. Usually around 80% or even higher, though it varies by region, with the lowest being in the south and east. There are even significant populations with direct descent from the pre-celtic indigenous people of great Britain. The primary spread of Anglo Saxon influence in the British isles is cultural rather than genetic.

Is it true we're related to the Basque or is that a myth? I've read a bit about it, but its not univerally agreed upon.

 

[isalaide]

BBC debate just over an hour away, can't wait for them to be asked again the same questions and for them to give the same answers, because clearly taxing private schools and national service are things we need to hear more about.

will play here if anyone wants to watch it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cqqqqx25rz0t

I want the hour of my life I spent watching that back.

These fucking debates are absolutely pointless unless the producers man the fuck up and do as the Yanks do: cut the mics of the speaker after the prearranged time. There is absolutely no reason for speakers not to interrupt each other and it becomes fucking pointless about sixty seconds in.

 

[3deadniggers]

I want the hour of my life I spent watching that back.

These fucking debates are absolutely pointless unless the producers man the fuck up and do as the Yanks do: cut the mics of the speaker after the prearranged time. There is absolutely no reason for speakers not to interrupt each other and it becomes fucking pointless about sixty seconds in.

Arent they pointless any way? They're going to talk bollocks and not mean a word of it either way. It would be more constructive to make them play cards against humanity

 

[Thomas Talus]

Both are great. I'd argue Morse (and Lewis and Endeavour) was more of the same but Death in Paradise to me most lines up with New Tricks. It's all about a little humour, an easy story and if I am completely fair in most episodes minimal tension just so the episodes that do have it hit you hard. Very much easy watching but there is some real emotion in there. New Tricks tended to drop some slightly harsher ones than Death in Paradise but both mostly tended to be more funny investigation stories.

My parents love Morse & co., as well as New Tricks.

 

[Bloom Worm Cross Field]

Arent they pointless any way? They're going to talk bollocks and not mean a word of it either way.

They didn't even get Farage in when he's roughly tied for second place in the polls. It's all just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic anyway but without Farage it's more like keeping the chairs where they are and arguing if they should be set to recline 30 degrees or 35.

If Matt Goodwin's Xitter is to be believed, I'm expecting an army of salmon pink suits, Union Jack pork pie hats, and L'amour Toujours playing across the country on 4th July.

Unfortunately I think the whole Russia thing has taken the wind out of their sails over the last week. The media are playing the exact same game with Farage as they did with antisemitism for Corbyn - find the one wedge issue and only ask about that, and whatever the answer is becomes the next story and the cycle repeats. Farage should have known better though, he should have given short and simple answers that in no uncertain terms laid the blame on Russia for the invasion. He was never going to look good with this rigmarole of " The invasion happened because of NATO/the EU, no I'm not saying that Russia isn't to blame, but it was caused by eastwards expansion". That and the candidate for Salisbury of all places praising Putin, jesus christ.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Is it true we're related to the Basque or is that a myth? I've read a bit about it, but its not univerally agreed upon.

It looks like it's a bit of a reach - it's an extrapolation by one academic based on one genetic marker. There's no archaeological evidence for it.

He was never going to look good with this rigmarole of " The invasion happened because of NATO/the EU, no I'm not saying that Russia isn't to blame, but it was caused by eastwards expansion".

It's a daft argument because the last eastward expansion of NATO was in 2004. Yet all the politicos start moralfagging about it, nobody ever refutes it on factual grounds.
It's also not clear why it's obvious that post-Soviet Ukraine is part of Russia's sphere of influence and should be left alone, but post-Soviet Poland is A.O.K. and can be Westernized...

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

My parents love Morse & co., as well as New Tricks.

New Tricks fell off a bit in later seasons but the early ones nailed it. Very odd cast compared to so much that was on then but it worked great.