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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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HairyBadger said:
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?
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I just want the right to scalp annoying tourists with a KA-BAR on the West Highland Way
 
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FedPostalService said:
They are trying to go after Swiss Army knives too.
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It wouldn't surprise me if they wheel out that old coalition plan to ban sharp-ends on knives entirely. After all, a bunch of sleb chefs said you don't need the pointy bit to chop onions, and never you mind how bloody hard it would be to gut a fish or fillet chicken with a giant butter knife.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
It wouldn't surprise me if they wheel out that old coalition plan to ban sharp-ends on knives entirely. After all, a bunch of sleb chefs said you don't need the pointy bit to chop onions, and never you mind how bloody hard it would be to gut a fish or fillet chicken with a giant butter knife.
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Most those guys don’t know how to cook basic French, Spanish, or Italian dishes with the correct ingredients and good luck doing a brunoise or even julienne cut with a knife that isn’t sharp right to the tip.

Blunt knives are dangerous knives when you’re cooking and I have the scars to prove it.

Maybe the Chinese cooking knife can do it but then you’ve got people running around with cleavers.

British celeb chefs make me want to fed post and cooking is my autism.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
never you mind how bloody hard it would be to gut a fish or fillet chicken with a giant butter knife.
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The sort of people who consider that law only buy pre-prepared meat and are too squeamish to consider butchering their own, probably the people who wanted that special "no touch" doypack packaging for raw meat so they could tip it in a pan without having to handle raw meat, can't handle fish "having a face" when they eat it and maybe are vegan or expect us all to eat bugs.

Anyone with common sense knows you need sharp tipped knives in the kitchen. How are you even supposed to prep mango if you can't pierce the skin first?
 
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HairyBadger said:
I've either worked with or met most of the most famous.
Ask and I'll give an opinion .
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Is Gordon Ramsey as retarded and clueless as he seems? I’ve heard it’s an act and is a regular good chef off camera.

How did Marco Pierre White go from based cooking guy to stock cube shilling whore?

Sorry, like I said, this is my autism. I’ve had no training but I’m a plucky amateur.
 
FedPostalService said:
Is Gordon Ramsey as retarded and clueless as he seems? I’ve heard it’s an act and is a regular good chef off camera.

How did Marco Pierre White go from based cooking guy to stock cube shilling whore?

Sorry, like I said, this is my autism. I’ve had no training but I’m a plucky amateur.
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Both are decent guys that put on an act for the TV. They both demand the highest excellence in their kitchens, but not the monsters as seen on TV.

With Ramsey when he insults you, insult him back, he rarely has a comeback and gets the message you won't be bullied.
I think with Ramsey I retorted with " you have a face like an old mans ball sack". He never tried to insult me again, but did get involved and help me out.

He is not a high end chef, but he knows his stuff.

Marco is different. Prove you know the basics, be better than he expects you to be and he softens.
 
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FedPostalService said:
Is Gordon Ramsey as retarded and clueless as he seems? I’ve heard it’s an act and is a regular good chef off camera.
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A friend of mine visited him in his old holiday place in Trebetherick and vouches he's a nice guy (although his wife is a bit of a snob).

He's hammed it up on camera but my impression of him is he's actually pretty humble about what he doesn't know and is just passionate about cooking. Good with kids. But that doesn't sell episodes on American TV.
 
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Both are decent guys that put on an act for the TV. They both demand the highest excellence in their kitchens, but not the monsters as seen on TV.

With Ramsey when he insults you, insult him back, he rarely has a comeback and gets the message you won't be bullied.
I think with Ramsey I retorted with " you have a face like an old mans ball sack". He never tried to insult me again, but did get involved and help me out.

He is not a high end chef, but he knows his stuff.

Marco is different. Prove you know the basics, be better than he expects you to be. He'll give you the money to open your own place on a 80/20 split, 20 his side.
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A friend of mine visited him in his old holiday place in Trebetherick and vouches he's a nice guy (although his wife is a bit of a snob).

He's hammed it up on camera but my impression of him is he's actually pretty humble about what he doesn't know and is just passionate about cooking. Good with kids. But that doesn't sell episodes on American TV.
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I appreciate the answers. I know a guy who loves Ramsey, but he has a pretty large high end catering firm, so he’s the sort of guy most people in the business will be nice too regardless. If he’s good to the rank and file that’s amazing.

The Marco Pierre White thing restored my faith in humanity.
 
FedPostalService said:
I appreciate the answers. I know a guy who loves Ramsey, but he has a pretty large high end catering firm, so he’s the sort of guy most people in the business will be nice too regardless. If he’s good to the rank and file that’s amazing.

The Marco Pierre White thing restored my faith in humanity.
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With Marco, if you have the basic skill and the correct attitude he will support you and bring you up. He created Ramsey after all.

Ramsey will teach you every technique you need to know. Don't take business advice from him, but as a cook ( not chef ) he is top of the game.

Ramsey is a superlative cook, Marco is a chef.
 
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Morethanabitfoolish said:
FYI they got the guy, alive and in custody, injured with no shots fired by the police. None of which lined up with my bingo card so no clue what happened.
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I'm assuming it was a repeating cross-bow? How do you watch your (sister/mum) get killed by a crossbow (How? was he firing harpoons?) and then you just stand there while he reloads?
It's got to have been three quick shots in succession, right?
 
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