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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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spread happiness@p4leandp1nk
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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.

 

[McMitch]

Minor footnote, it was actually Colin Wilson that wrote the Mythos story Return of the Lloigor which suggested that the Welsh specifically had tainted bloodlines as legacies from the lost degenerate continent of Mu.

The connection was more from SOI being written after Lovecraft discovered one of his aunts was Welsh, and it makes for a great joke especially in these days where blacks are culturally appropriating Lovecraftian horrors to be about themselves.

 

[FedPostalService]

SUFFER ENGLAND

Can I report a post made by the site owner if he’s being a cheeseless gay?

 

[Overly Serious]

Can I report a post made by the site owner if he’s being a cheeseless gay?

I mean, do you feel lucky? Well, do ya Britpunk?

 

[Chaos Theorist]

SUFFER ENGLAND

Vordrak still living rent free

 

[Wuornos]

Right lads, I’ve settled on voting for Reform as a fuck you to all the gay ops the establishment are running on them.

I’ll naturally tell anyone one IRL I just spoiled my ballot.

I'm voting Reform too. Why deny voting for them? Own it.

 

[FedPostalService]

I'm voting Reform too. Why deny voting for them? Own it.

I move in pozzed circles and it’s more trouble than it’s worth. I’m already at war with the union tards in my work, they’d double their efforts trying to get me sacked.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I'm voting Reform too. Why deny voting for them? Own it.

It is wild to me that basic bitch "Actually running a country"policies that reform run on are treated as the second coming of the NSDAP. Even if they win, and by some miracle got a supermajority the UK would still be the most libshit lefty European nation.

 

[FedPostalService]

It is wild to me that basic bitch "Actually running a country"policies that reform run on are treated as the second coming of the NSDAP. Even if they win, and by some miracle got a supermajority the UK would still be the most libshit lefty European nation.

Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Sweden… there’s a ton more to listed who are super pozze. We’re not even the most cucked in Western or Northern Europe. Fuck, we’re a lot less cucked than most blue states.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Sweden… there’s a ton more to listed who are super pozze. We’re not even the most cucked in Western or Northern Europe. Fuck, we’re a lot less cucked than most blue states.

Yeah but I didn't think of those. Not so smart now are you, huh?

 

[ERROR_ENTRY]

The face of a man who realizes the state of Bri'ish justice:

British police sentence man to 4 months over Master Sword toy (archive)
by Brandon Lyttle on July 3, 2024

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British courts have sentenced a man to four months in jail for carrying a tiny Master Sword replica in public.

According to the Warwickshire police, the man was found guilty of possessing a bladed weapon in public. On June 8 he was spotted carrying the toy in the town of Nuneaton. Police were informed of his toy-carrying activities via CCTV footage and responded promptly.

Anthony Bray, a 48 year old man was approached by police and insisted he had no intentions of using his toy to cause harm and it was intended to be a “fidget” which he used to keep his hands occupied.

The Master Sword is the iconic weapon wielded by Link in The Legend of Zelda series and is used to slay the evil Ganon whenever he appears throughout history, the two bound by fate to fight.

In a 12 month period ending in March 2023, there were 244 fatal stabbings in England and Wales and 101 of those were committed with household kitchen knifes. We haven’t been able to find any statistic on Master Swords.

Same guy: https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/nuneaton-serial-burglar-jailed-four-3033221

He's been in and out of prison since 1989.

 

[FedPostalService]

Yeah but I didn't think of those. Not so smart now are you, huh?

I’m willing to concede that I didn’t think that you didn’t think and I am a retard.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

The face of a man who realizes the state of Bri'ish justice:

British police sentence man to 4 months over Master Sword toy (archive)
by Brandon Lyttle on July 3, 2024

View attachment 6150491

British courts have sentenced a man to four months in jail for carrying a tiny Master Sword replica in public.

According to the Warwickshire police, the man was found guilty of possessing a bladed weapon in public. On June 8 he was spotted carrying the toy in the town of Nuneaton. Police were informed of his toy-carrying activities via CCTV footage and responded promptly.

Anthony Bray, a 48 year old man was approached by police and insisted he had no intentions of using his toy to cause harm and it was intended to be a “fidget” which he used to keep his hands occupied.

The Master Sword is the iconic weapon wielded by Link in The Legend of Zelda series and is used to slay the evil Ganon whenever he appears throughout history, the two bound by fate to fight.

In a 12 month period ending in March 2023, there were 244 fatal stabbings in England and Wales and 101 of those were committed with household kitchen knifes. We haven’t been able to find any statistic on Master Swords.

What the article doesn't say is that he's a persistent burglar: https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/nuneaton-serial-burglar-jailed-four-3033221, https://archive.is/OR4OX
It looks like the police arrested him on a pretext to keep him off the streets. Can't say I blame them.

Labour have suddenly taken a hit in the polls today. I mean they're still easily winning but someone fucked something up in the campaign.

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There's always supposed to be swingback just before election day. I suspect it's a harder election than usual to poll for, as pretty much everybody hates all the parties.

 

[No. 7 cat]

Apparently the palace cost £2m to (re)build by 1870. Adjusting for inflation that's roughly £200m. If you take the most generous increase by scaling the value by the increase in the country's GDP, you get just over £2bn. How on Earth is renovating a building supposed to cost up to £22bn for fucks sake? How much could it cost to push the thing over and rebuild like for like?

Yeah £200 million would be too little jam for the important people to share out.

Maybe wheeling out BoJo has helped the Tories slightly. Unlike Wishy Washy, he has a record, a bit of a record for winning.

 

[AssignedEva]

Rather than bemoaning things like how parliament still is built around things that no longer matter such as the front benches being sword distance apart, perhaps we could reintroduce the things that made them necessary. Have MPs carrying swords into parliament, etc. Sunak has short arms and would soon be dispatched for example. And Jacob Reese Mogg would undoubtedly consider himself quite dashing sporting an English fencing sword.

At the very least the Tory leadership contests would have ended very differently

I'm willing to consider strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as a basis for a system of government, because I don't have much faith in the current one.

 

[Otterly]

This was during the furore over "Stop and Search". He asked the officer if they were at the library to try and even out the racial numbers for Stop and Search and police officer sheepishly admitted they were.

I remember being with my elderly parents at the airport and them being searched. The lad who did it cheerfully admitted they had to even the numbers out, by ticking a few more white people off and apologised profusely to us as he swabbed the bags down for explosives (we were not carrying explosives.) he seemed quite embarrassed by it.

 

[Overly Serious]

@Otterly To be fair, if you're going to start messing with explosives, doing it when you're elderly is the most sensible time to do it. One also presumes that by that point you've reached the maximum possible pissed-off'ness with the world you're going to attain.

I'm surprised more people don't choose to go out with a bang.

 

[Coelacanth]

SUFFER ENGLAND

Quick, everyone ask him if we can have notifications for stickers and join dates below our avatars back! That will get him out of the thread in no time.

 

[MugolEx]

>be bri'ish
>go to prison

In my opinion, this should be law in every country.

 

[Otterly]

We are used to suffering.

 

[Sneak 'n' Snore]

The face of a man who realizes the state of Bri'ish justice:

British police sentence man to 4 months over Master Sword toy (archive)
by Brandon Lyttle on July 3, 2024

View attachment 6150491

British courts have sentenced a man to four months in jail for carrying a tiny Master Sword replica in public.

According to the Warwickshire police, the man was found guilty of possessing a bladed weapon in public. On June 8 he was spotted carrying the toy in the town of Nuneaton. Police were informed of his toy-carrying activities via CCTV footage and responded promptly.

Anthony Bray, a 48 year old man was approached by police and insisted he had no intentions of using his toy to cause harm and it was intended to be a “fidget” which he used to keep his hands occupied.

The Master Sword is the iconic weapon wielded by Link in The Legend of Zelda series and is used to slay the evil Ganon whenever he appears throughout history, the two bound by fate to fight.

In a 12 month period ending in March 2023, there were 244 fatal stabbings in England and Wales and 101 of those were committed with household kitchen knifes. We haven’t been able to find any statistic on Master Swords.

Hmm I wonder who be so opposed to the bri'ish being armed with Master Swords