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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.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I had an older lifelong Labour voter I know yesterday show me a screenshot of an article showing that debt to GDP is not as high when compared to 1945. They told me "I hope Labour borrows massively so that we can have a mass housing-building effort like after the war" and I've not heard anything more blackpilling than that for a while.

I can only assume the whole"build more houses, we need to build more houses, more houses houses houses" thing has been psy-opped into the national consciousness over a long period. My own father, who used to be quite firm on the subject of there being too many new housing developments and too many people, has recently been saying things along the lines of "we could build more houses if they got rid of green belts" and how there's plenty of room to build enough houses for everyone and still provide enough food. He's also insisted that there's a lot of land that should be used for food but isn't. I hear similar sentiments a lot, from a lot of different people. I don't know how they square the circle of paving over farmland and somehow still having enough land to feed everyone.

I went for my reddit moment and told him that England (not Great Britain, because Scotland's low population heavily skews the stats) was already more densely populated than Japan in 2011 and can only have gotten more densely populated since. I think it's the third most densely populated country in Europe by now, with just a couple of microstates ahead of it. I don't expect it'll have sunk in yet. Nobody clapped either, the fuckers. It's depressing how quickly people knuckle under to this sort of propaganda. The rona shit made it obvious and now I just can't stop seeing people spin 180 in previous, dearly-held beliefs because the right people told them to change.

 

[East_Clintwood]

So Wandsworth is trending on Twitter again because apparently yet another dumb slag of a guard was filmed shagging a prisoner. I'm shocked, shocked I tells ya.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Labour so far:

• Only 1/3rd of the people in prison should be there.
• We will possibly try and be able to reduce the number of boat people coming in by a small amount (Not stop it, lol, lmao even).
• There is less money than we thought
• We are going to build 15,000 houses across the UK.

All of these are on the BBC as articles. The corbyn-era ,champagne-socialis,t nu-labour never went away, they just changed their clothes. By the next election, the small villages and towns in the countryside, will be over-flooded with migrants and ex-cons, their scenery destroyed with Wind Turbines, DSS, low-income housing and they'll be taxed to high heaven and back.

If people haven't figured it out yet, the middle-class are the enemy of Labour, and they will pay.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

We are going to build 15,000 houses across the UK.

You missed two 0s off that.

So Wandsworth is trending on Twitter again because apparently yet another dumb slag of a guard was filmed shagging a prisoner. I'm shocked, shocked I tells ya.

Alright, let's see. First results are the Sun spotting the original one out and about in London. I'm not pasting the article since it's a Sun one and and as such they are 100% about the photos they got.


The new trending story, if the Star can be believed, was a fake one capitalising on the real news.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/truth-behind-prison-officer-filmed-33195056

Social media users were left in shock when a second video went viral, appearing to show a prison officer having sex with an inmate.

The footage looked eerily similar to a video filmed inside HMP Wandsworth, which appeared to show an inmate bonking an on-duty prison guard while a second inmate films.

But despite setting Twitter on fire, the new video isn't quite what it appears to be. Instead of being a real video filmed inside a prison, it is the work of a former plumber who made a copycat version.


Andy Lee, who is from Dublin but lives in Stevenage, posted the saucy clip online and said he fooled ‘millions’ into thinking it was real.


Seizing an opportunity, Andy, who runs 'the world’s first porn star university', bought a police uniform on eBay and built a set.

He then hired Kayla Wild to play an officer and speaking exclusively to the Daily Star, he said: “You have seen the story going viral and I thought the video was hot as hell and that’s basically the stuff I do anyway.

“I thought I would have a go at making my own version so I built a prison cell - but I wasn’t expecting it to go this viral and my phone hasn’t stopped going all day. It has taken off like crazy. I filmed it on Snapchat to make it more authentic and we had a bit of fun and I decided to give it away on the internet for free.

“The reaction has just been wild and it is getting shared on WhatsApp groups, Telegram groups and on Facebook council estate groups - people are loving it.”

He has already racked up millions of views but he said Kayla was getting some abuse online from people who assumed it was real. But he described her as a “star” and advised others not to take it too seriously.

In the video, Andy rocked Nike top and shorts while Kayla, with her hair tied up, donned a black and white police uniform.

After posing a picture on Instagram, where he has 143,000 followers, one person replied: “Only you could pull this one off mate. Well in on the marketing.”

A second added:” Omg legit thought this was real for a second.”

Andy rose to fame after unleashing his 10.5inch penis on Channel 4s My Massive C*** and he later revealed how he came from nothing in Dublin’s north inner city.

He described being a young Catholic lad with no money to someone who was suddenly famous for his massive dong.

The content creator moved to Australia in 2008 before moving to London two years later where a chance encounter with a stranger at the gym changed his life.

He said: “A fella just said that I have a really big c*** and that I should go into porn, so I did. I was 21.

“I did some solo videos for a while, but I gave it up to become a gas engineer and plumber. However, my work found out and I left. I've been doing porn full-time ever since."

 

[Dr J]

Really? I hope you're right because the BBC article said 15,000 and my thought was "What's the point? more than that come in to the country every week".

I mean, realistically 15000 is about what they'll actually build. If they even manage that

 

[Amin Yasister]

Starmer has pledged to build 1,500,000 houses in 5 years. Just under 6,000 a week. 1,150 a day.

At roughly 30 small houses per acre, that is 50,000 acres, or 78 square miles.

Never. Going. To. Happen.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Starmer has pledged to build 1,500,000 houses in 5 years. Just under 6,000 a week. 1,150 a day.

At roughly 30 small houses per acre, that is 50,000 acres, or 78 square miles.

Never. Going. To. Happen.

I bet you somewhere down the line they'll try push for commieblocks as the solution.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

I bet you somewhere down the line they'll try push for commieblocks as the solution.

They're pronounced Megablocks citizen. 6 months in the isocubes for misinformation.

 

[teriyakiburns]

They're pronounced Megablocks citizen. 6 months in the isocubes for misinformation.

Seems we found ourselves in the timeline where we're lorded over by Judge Spedd.

 

[Snekposter]

Seems we found ourselves in the timeline where we're lorded over by Judge Spedd.

You mean he hasn't just changed his face and name every few years at best for the past few decades?

 

[FedPostalService]

Starmer has pledged to build 1,500,000 houses in 5 years. Just under 6,000 a week. 1,150 a day.

At roughly 30 small houses per acre, that is 50,000 acres, or 78 square miles.

Never. Going. To. Happen.

So they’re either going to just let builders build, which won’t happen at NIMBY types will just object to planning go in on about rare wildlife if a development obstructs their view.

They’re going to have private for sale houses mixed in with a bunch of houses the developers have to give to Housing Associations, which is going to be a disaster as it tanks the price of the house as soon as the council start moving junkies and asylum seekers in, as well as the people if above.

They’re going to build yuppy flats in brownfield sites, which raise the average wage of that area, meaning they no local will qualify for extra government support. They tried this thinking having middle class families might make the locals aspire to being better, but instead young couple buy their first property there, think about starting a family, see all the local kids at the schools have fleas, sell up and move to a middle class area.

Build 1960s style new towns/over spill areas that have zero amenities as well as being cut off from local labour markets, which in turn turns them into heroin filled hellholes in one generation, as well as every problem mentioned above.

It’s going to die on its arse.

 

[Kier Starmer]

Yeah I don't see how this will end well. The problem is interest rates and the lack of interest in buying a house. If you don't want children or have a small (no) family owning a home is kinda pointless because they are so overexpansive. Buyers are aware of what you get from other countries in terms of homes and British ones just don't cut it. Selling is a complete crap shoot too, you either sell or don't sell. All this shit is because they let private investors have a shit ton of homes. They should just cap them at a limit, it's all either extreme generational wealth or embezzling anyway.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Manhunt as BBC racing commentator's family killed (a)

It's a tragic story and I feel for the man, losing his wife and children this way. However... this is a serious nudge. There's been a steady drumbeat of stories about dangerous crossbows are and how there needs to be more regulation. Now they've got their photogenic victims to use as a launching platform for a ramped up campaign to ban crossbows, or to implement an onerous licensing regime that amounts to much the same thing.

 

[FedPostalService]

Yeah I don't see how this will end well. The problem is interest rates and the lack of interest in buying a house. If you don't want children or have a small (no) family owning a home is kinda pointless because they are so overexpansive. Buyers are aware of what you get from other countries in terms of homes and British ones just don't cut it. Selling is a complete crap shoot too, you either sell or don't sell. All this shit is because they let private investors have a shit ton of homes. They should just cap them at a limit, it's all either extreme generational wealth or embezzling anyway.

Plus creating a massive supply in housing and tanking existing house prices won’t win the next election.

There’s so much capital held up in house that a lot of people are waiting to inherit sell their parents home before the can buy their own.

It’s like they’ve not thought this through.

 

[Overdrive]

Manhunt as BBC racing commentator's family killed (a)

It's a tragic story and I feel for the man, losing his wife and children this way. However... this is a serious nudge. There's been a steady drumbeat of stories about dangerous crossbows are and how there needs to be more regulation. Now they've got their photogenic victims to use as a launching platform for a ramped up campaign to ban crossbows, or to implement an onerous licensing regime that amounts to much the same thing.

I was just thinking the other day given the rise in the talk here about crossbows that there would likely be some big "crime" committed with one soon so they can be banned/regulated into the ground, and then this happens.

 

[Kier Starmer]

I would feel bad but they will be just used as bait to ban them. I cannot wait til next year's BBC dramatization where the family is portrayed by middling BBC actors and the theme is "we should've listened bruv." Elden Ring is the problem not a military system that treats members like shit and spits them out for mental problems and then they act on their delusions.

We clearly need more loisences

edit - think of all the off-colour edits you can do around crossbow shots though.

 

[FedPostalService]

I was just thinking the other day given the rise in the talk here about crossbows that there would likely be some big "crime" committed with one soon so they can be banned/regulated into the ground, and then this happens.

Sword YouTube is going mental as it looks like they’re talking fucking about around with laws that could mess with re-enactors and sword training all because Africans will walk around London with concealed machetes ignoring that it’s illegal.

They are trying to go after Swiss Army knives too.

I like a bit of outdoors shit but I do have to consider if I’m hiking in Scotland the police can choose to arrest me for legally carrying a knife that meets all regulations for me to carry, and could be a tool that saves my life in the middle of nowhere, just because they feel like it and without any evidence of criminality.

 

[HairyBadger]

It’s like they’ve not thought this through.

Really?

Sword YouTube is going mental as it looks like they’re talking fucking about around with laws that could mess with re-enactors and sword training all because Africans will walk around London with concealed machetes ignoring that it’s illegal.

They are trying to go after Swiss Army knives too.

I like a bit of outdoors shit but I do have to consider if I’m hiking in Scotland the police can choose to arrest me for legally carrying a knife that meets all regulations for me to carry, and could be a tool that saves my life in the middle of nowhere, just because they feel like it and without any evidence of criminality.

Wild blue person here that camps.

UK law states that a knife blade must be 3 inches or under and immediately foldable.
That in court means it can have a detent, but not lockable.

Scot's Law is an Addition to UK Law in this matter. In Scot's Law, you must have a valid reason for you blade.

 

[FedPostalService]

Scot's Law is an Addition to UK Law in this matter. In Scot's Law, you must have a valid reason for you blade.

I have heard A LOT of stories about people getting arrested with fishing gear and having a knife with them.

I’m sure that 99% of the time it’s the police fucking with local ne’er-do-wells but the fact I get that on my record when I have to do a security check, and have to explain I was going to the back of beyond and had equipment I needed in case I was lost/injured, needed to start a fire, and had the misfortune not to say “hello” polite enough to a police officer and was arrested for committing no crime is disconcerting.

 

[HairyBadger]

I have heard A LOT of stories about people getting arrested with fishing gear and having a knife with them.

I’m sure that 99% of the time it’s the police fucking with local ne’er-do-wells but the fact I get that on my record when I have to do a security check, and have to explain I was going to the back of beyond and had equipment I needed in case I was lost/injured, needed to start a fire, and had the misfortune not to say “hello” polite enough to a police officer and was arrested for committing no crime is disconcerting.

The Police have an understandable attitude to knife possession when found down the jogging shorts of a jakey in the schemes of Glasgow, or Dundee or Edinburgh. But when a camper in the middle of know where on the West Coast?