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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.

 

[Product Placement]

That’s the entire point of their existence. Your post is like saying the Provisional IRA were fond of potatoes and the pope in its complete lack of originality.

More so the issue of being a one issue party.

 

[teriyakiburns]

It's like looking at Argentina.

Argentina's a good comparison, actually. I expect we'll skip the military junta thing, but we're definitely on a downslope to the sort of moribund, graft-based apparatus of state that so characterised Argentina's government for most of the last century. You'll know we're there when officials and the police start taking "undocumented fines" to leave you alone.

We built their railways. There's a lesson in that somewhere, though I'm not sure what it is yet.

 

[Coccxys]

But still, what happened to your country?

The competency crisis came for us. I work in a high tech industry, all of our experts have either retired or about to. All the next most senior people are early/mid 30s with a level of experience that goes with that. We have no middle, it just doesn't exist.

When we have a vacancy we either have to recruit someone who is like 2 years to retirement and hope we can get the next level ready in time, or recruit someone not qualified and hope we can train them before it becomes an issue.

We have just had to institute word and excel training as mandatory for all grads we hire as there is a significant potion of those we hire that can't operate those to any decent level, and these are all STEM grads.

If that's happening in my industry I can only imagine how that translates to others, then it starts to explain a lot of what's happening.

 

[Coolio55]

The competency crisis came for us. I work in a high tech industry, all of our experts have either retired or about to. All the next most senior people are early/mid 30s with a level of experience that goes with that. We have no middle, it just doesn't exist.

When we have a vacancy we either have to recruit someone who is like 2 years to retirement and hope we can get the next level ready in time, or recruit someone not qualified and hope we can train them before it becomes an issue.

We have just had to institute word and excel training as mandatory for all grads we hire as there is a significant potion of those we hire that can't operate those to any decent level, and these are all STEM grads.

If that's happening in my industry I can only imagine how that translates to others, then it starts to explain a lot of what's happening.

Actually, that one might just be the fault of Steve Jobs. Kids and their D*mn smartphones.

 

[Overly Serious]

someone could set up a cytube for it, people want to watch the shitshow live while talking

I don't know what cytube is but if there's a way for us all to hang out and chat without PL'ing I'm probably in. Certainly nobody else is going to stay up and watch it with me!

We should have a dedicated thread for it when it kicks off at least, though. Not here.

 

[Coccxys]

OK election thread here https://kiwifarms.st/threads/2024-uk-general-election.195182/

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

No one wants to win it

Could it be possible that the retardation we're seeing with Tories, Labour and American Democrats, not to mention a flurry of European parties, is calculated? Those in power, especially those in power during covid, know something big - health or wealth wise, is coming down the pipeline and they don't want to be caught holding the bag?

2030 occurs in the middle of the next lot of parliament/leaders. Coincidental timing for France and UK to call snap elections that line up with the yanks?

 

[pot of sneed]

But still, what happened to your country?

We fought for the wrong side in WW2.

 

[Product Placement]

I don't know what cytube is but if there's a way for us all to hang out and chat without PL'ing I'm probably in. Certainly nobody else is going to stay up and watch it with me!

We should have a dedicated thread for it when it kicks off at least, though. Not here.

cytybe is what is used for movie night streams.

Just set up account for the stream if people want to watch it, but I don't plan to stay up all night with it so will be stuck with what ever live streams I add before I go to sleep.
So if someone else wants to set up a replacement go for it, if not, here

https://cytu.be/r/UKelection

 

[High-Fructose Corn Syrup]

This is a British thread for British people, there's nothing for Yanks here

Yes there is, watching the UK burn down.

My hope....

IndyRef 2
Irish Reunification
Islas Malvinas back to their rightful owner
Gibraltar back to its rightful owner
ect. ect.

 

[Overly Serious]

Yes there is, watching the UK burn down.

Britain is too wet to burn right now. You'll have to settle for a quiet sinking below the waves.

 

[Dr J]

Islas Malvinas back to their rightful owner

Those are our Malvinas, you don't even get to LOOK at our Malvinas, EVER! You understand that?

 

[Spunt]

Yes there is, watching the UK burn down.

My hope....

IndyRef 2
Irish Reunification
Islas Malvinas back to their rightful owner
Gibraltar back to its rightful owner
ect. ect.

We'll get right on that as soon as you give Alaska back to the Russians.

 

[High-Fructose Corn Syrup]

They sold it.

We'll get right on that as soon as you give Alaska back to the Russians.

 

[Yeeted Teet]

Actually, that one might just be the fault of Steve Jobs. Kids and their D*mn smartphones.

One thing that really shocked me about having to deal with the public is the sheer level of tech illiteracy in young people who've been addicted to the internet since their early teens. They only know how to use apps. They spend 10 hours a day "using technology" but if you sit them down in front of a desktop computer and ask them to open a PDF and then print it, they can't. Oldies and the middle aged get mocked for not keeping with the times but they weren't as bad, in my experience, they seemed to have higher chances of having used a real PC in the past.

 

[Coelacanth]

Well gentlemen I have done it. I have proven I have a loisence to vote and I have voted.

Now I'm going to break out the booze and see what plays out. It has been an honour watching my country burn with all you retards. See you on the other side.

 

[Otterly]

One thing that really shocked me about having to deal with the public is the sheer level of tech illiteracy in young people who've been addicted to the internet since their early teens.

I have had to explain multiple times that a filing system has a function. You can’t just dump it all in a folder and use search. They’d never seen a file structure before.
I consider myself average for a non technical gen x and I’m looked on as some kind of technical whizz by people we hire which tickles me immensely becasue I don’t have a fucking clue.
We have one twenty something who can use VBA and they look at her like she’s descended from the clouds with magical gifts. It’s quite bizarre I always assumed kids would be great with tech

 

[whogoesthere]

One thing that really shocked me about having to deal with the public is the sheer level of tech illiteracy in young people who've been addicted to the internet since their early teens. They only know how to use apps. They spend 10 hours a day "using technology" but if you sit them down in front of a desktop computer and ask them to open a PDF and then print it, they can't. Oldies and the middle aged get mocked for not keeping with the times but they weren't as bad, in my experience, they seemed to have higher chances of having used a real PC in the past.

I remember in the late 90s and early 2000s people were talking about the youth of the day becoming almost like an army of hackers in how advanced they will become with growing up with the internet and computers. The youth are fucking technically retarded, even basic phone settings are beyond most of them. Strange thing as well is they don't even try to bullshit about it like they used to do. I miss the crazies "hey you faggot, I have your ip, its 192.168.1.1 and I am coming to get you right now!".

Anyway, voting for the technophobes, pencils made with immigrants, football team is gay and overpaid. NHS. At some point I think democracy is just gay and over with, maybe this is what the final stages of the modern era ending feels like.

 

[isalaide]

I need to go find my loiscence so that I can vote, because the blue rosette retard squad tried to fiddle my vote out of me.
Despite the fact Scots law has never required a woman to use a married name as a 'legal' name, I have no photo ID that matches my polling card, so I needed the special Don't Disenfranchise Me letter to vote using my fucking legal name.
And I can't remember where I've put it.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

One thing that really shocked me about having to deal with the public is the sheer level of tech illiteracy in young people who've been addicted to the internet since their early teens. They only know how to use apps.

I saw hints of that, flipping heck, more than ten years ago now. Helping handle a new team of email handlers for a company and had to lunge to stop one lass sending an email back to a customer that I spotted from three desks away due to all the red lines indicating spelling and grammatical errors.

She had used no punctuation, no captialisation and most of the words were written in text speech. None of which registered to her as a problem when I explained that. Had she employed the spell checker function it might have fixed half of them but that was beyond her.

Never found who hired her, if I did I'd have asked if they spent the entire interview staring down her top since there's no way she passed any sort of even half hearted questioning.