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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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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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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.
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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.
 
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Shiverpeaks said:
We can tell you're a green party voter form the utter bullshit you spew like this. No, we don't call them "Asian" because they're not fucking Asian. Asians are ching chongs and they are quite easy to tell the difference from a child rapist in a suicide vest. The BBC and labour/green voters call them Asian to hide crime statistics, everyone else calls them by their ethnicity or "indian" if they have no idea.

You are completely out of touch with reality.
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Are you a retard LARPing as English?

If you’re being polite you call brown people Asians. The Chinese have, weirdly, always been called Chinese.

Maybe you want to threaten to bully me out of this thread again or just fuck off again as you’re embarrassing your fucking self.
 
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Shiverpeaks said:
We can tell you're a green party voter form the utter bullshit you spew like this. No, we don't call them "Asian" because they're not fucking Asian. Asians are ching chongs and they are quite easy to tell the difference from a child rapist in a suicide vest. The BBC and labour/green voters call them Asian to hide crime statistics, everyone else calls them by their ethnicity or "indian" if they have no idea.

You are completely out of touch with reality.
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That has not been my experience. The moment it got established people found "Paki" rude, we switched to calling them Asian, which is why the BBC Asian Network predominately plays bhangra. It's the yanks who say Asian to mean yellow.

I'm certainly not a Green voter and I don't think someone out of touch with reality would suggest we need to make it more socially acceptable to say we want to crack down on non-white immigration due to cultural differences, but this board has an agree to disagree rule and says not to have one on one conversations so we'll leave it there.
 
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Shiverpeaks said:
We can tell you're a green party voter form the utter bullshit you spew like this. No, we don't call them "Asian" because they're not fucking Asian. Asians are ching chongs and they are quite easy to tell the difference from a child rapist in a suicide vest. The BBC and labour/green voters call them Asian to hide crime statistics, everyone else calls them by their ethnicity or "indian" if they have no idea.

You are completely out of touch with reality.
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Is it your hobby to pretend to be a blithering imbecile or are you genuinely this dense?
 
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FedPostalService said:
In this UK Asian is a catch all term for people of Pakistani/Indian (dot not feather)/Bangldeshi/Sri Lankan origin, the rest we just call their country of origin.
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I'm aware, but I usually can't tell if a person is Chinese, Japanese or Korean so I personally use the catch-all 'Asian' for them as well. I usually refer to Indians as Indians
 
Fucking hell, its not that hard.

In the UK we say Asian to mean paki, indian, middle east or something like that. Worships Allah, rapes kids, eats shit, you know whom I speak off.

If they are a Chink, they are a Chink. Or maybe Oriental, although thats really fallen out of favor but you still get it now and again.

Keep in mind, mainland central Europe considers the UK mega racist and hateful, so they complain. But some are French so who cares.

Americans say Asian to mean Chinks, Japs, the slant eyed gang. Thats because they get way more of them than they do pakis and streetshitters.

Thats all it is folks, its nothing deep. Doesnt mean anything, you can still hate who you like and blame which ever group you were recently psyopped into hating on telegram. Its all gravy.
 
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Chunky Salsa said:
Asian is just newspeak for 'paki' at this point. If they're indian, they specify the dammed region of India they are from, and if they're non paki asian, we sometimes even get their city of origin. Asian is for when some dull eyed paki, with fluid on his brain, and horrible skin diseases has yet again raped a 7 year old in broad daylight within clear view of the police.
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You're right, it is newspeak and it shouldn't be tolerated. It's a false narrative and any one arguing it's "how we do things" is part of the problem. It's not how actual UK people talk about these ethnic groups with each other. It's the BBC and people drooling on themselves being politically correct to not offend the child rapists. Why would you ever make it easier to cover up sex crimes and the people doing it?
 
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You're right, it is newspeak and it shouldn't be tolerated. It's a false narrative and any one arguing it's "how we do things" is part of the problem. It's not how actual UK people talk about these ethnic groups with each other. It's the BBC and people drooling on themselves being politically correct to not offend the child rapists. Why would you ever make it easier to cover up sex crimes and the people doing it?
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It's absolutely how "UK people" talk. If I say to anyone I know that I met an Asian bloke or an Asian woman, their first assumption will be someone from the Indian subcontinent (or like a Brit whose background is from there).

Like I said, tune into the BBC Asian Network and tell me what music they're playing. This isn't even a PC thing. The only time I've encountered people seething about this is Yanks who think Asian means Chinese/Japanese/Korean and think everyone's trying to hide that pajeets have done something bad when they call them "Asian", because yeah that's why Americans do it.

Once again I've got to ask how old you are. If you're a zoomer who grew up on the Internet you maybe don't get this, because you keep watching Americans react to the word "Asian". For Americans, they call them Indians, and then have to specify "red dot or woo-woo", because they historically had way more East Asians that browns.

Also nobody says "UK people" and that makes me a bit suspicious.
 
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AssignedEva said:
Also nobody says "UK people" and that makes me a bit suspicious.
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More like "UK 'people'" really. AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I have heard 'oriental' recently, but my friend is extremely posh sounding, and coming from him, it sounded extremely bigoted lol; especially as he was talking about women. Rather enjoyed that.
 
FedPostalService said:
Or Corbyn, who wanted to scrap Trident, then the unions kicked off as a lot of jobs really on the nuclear subs, so he proposed to just have the subs sail around but with no nuclear weapons on. Or how he was going to reopen the coal mines, and when told that would breach his own green policies, he’d just pay people to dig coal that wouldn’t be used.
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There were corbyn supporters like Clive Lewis and Paul Mason who worked out a path for Corbyn on Trident. Which was for him to simply stop talking about it. If he were ever to enter office as prime minister he could have written the letters of last resort and ordered that the submarines be scuttled if there was ever a conflict. He could have delayed the trident renewal, and eventually after his term of office the deterent would be on the way out, 5 or 10 years and it would have been too expensive to start production before the vanguards went out of service. He could have given contracts for additional attack submarines and the unions would have been happy.

He did have a path, it's just he only had certain people he listened to, he's not that smart and he's addicted to grand standing. Also he never really wanted or expected to be prime minister.
 
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