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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.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

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?

The reports are still vague as all get out. Some imply he had other weapons. He also apparently was known to the family so I'm not certain how the actual attack played out given it happened at their home. He might have been let in and attacked people separately.

 

[Kier Starmer]

I heard from someone ages ago Rick Stein is odd like nice yet a cunt but he seems OK. Met the Hairy Bikers in passing really sound guys. I heard from a friend going through placement that Heston is a mega cunt, just unpleasant. I've always wanted to meet Delia Smith for some bizarre reason, she seems based. I know for a fact Jamie Oliver too, mega cunt and just piss poor to work with, friend worked under him just as he was getting big.

 

[FedPostalService]

I heard from someone ages ago Rick Stein is odd like nice yet a cunt but he seems OK. Met the Hairy Bikers in passing really sound guys. I heard from a friend going through placement that Heston is a mega cunt, just unpleasant. I've always wanted to meet Delia Smith for some bizarre reason, she seems based. I know for a fact Jamie Oliver too, mega cunt and just piss poor to work with, friend worked under him just as he was getting big.

I remember Pop Bitch always running stories about Delia always being a cunt to the film crew in her home. Whilst Pop Bitch (is that still going?) got a lot right it did seem to report any story as true,

I mean, if there’s workmen in my house they’re getting twenty cups of tea along with a tray of bacon butties an hour if they like, but if they messed about and it was related to my job I’d be an amazing cunt.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

I remember Pop Bitch always running stories about Delia always being a cunt to the film crew in her home. Whilst Pop Bitch (is that still going?) got a lot right it did seem to report any story as true,

I mean, if there’s workmen in my house they’re getting twenty cups of tea along with a tray of bacon butties an hour if they like, but if they messed about and it was related to my job I’d be an amazing cunt.

Do you need any plastering done? and brown sauce/ milk no sugar please.

 

[Coolio55]

I've always wanted to meet Delia Smith for some bizarre reason, she seems based.

Her recipes are fucking appalling though. Fuck Delia.

 

[whogoesthere]

I remember Pop Bitch always running stories about Delia always being a cunt to the film crew in her home. Whilst Pop Bitch (is that still going?) got a lot right it did seem to report any story as true,

I mean, if there’s workmen in my house they’re getting twenty cups of tea along with a tray of bacon butties an hour if they like, but if they messed about and it was related to my job I’d be an amazing cunt.

When I am done rifling through the knicker drawer, I like to whack a few tabs into the bog. Leave the whole upstairs with a strong ciggie smell. Only the best finely rolled Jin Ling off a chav on the Friday market will do for me these days.

 

[teriyakiburns]

The reports are still vague as all get out. Some imply he had other weapons. He also apparently was known to the family so I'm not certain how the actual attack played out given it happened at their home. He might have been let in and attacked people separately.

From what I've gleaned, it sounds like he attacked them with multiple weapons. He might not have used the crossbow at all, which if true makes mention of it all the more suspicious.

He also looks like an almighty faggot. I wonder if it was a gay tryst gone sour and he went for revenge?

 

[Dr J]

I've either worked with or met most of the most famous.
Ask and I'll give an opinion .

Ever work with Michel Roux Jr?

 

[FedPostalService]

Her recipes are fucking appalling though. Fuck Delia.

In defence of Delia, she wasn’t aiming at people who could cook, she was aiming at people who wanted to cook. I remember her getting shit from the press for doing a “how to boil an egg” thing forgetting there’s proles out there who exist on microwave meals and think Kay’s Cooking deserves a Michelin star.

She did more to try and get the unwashed masses to cook than a moral crusade by an effete snob like Jamie Oliver.


Now hit me with the MATI stickers, lads.

 

[Otterly]

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.

i guess I’d better get a new camping knife then. I also use a Japanese machete thing in the garden and it’s very useful. Better get a back for that too….

 

[HairyBadger]

Ever work with Michel Roux Jr?

Only in passing not directly. Very intense but mostly calm.

Jamie Oliver has been mentioned, he's a twat and a cunt, massive ego. I walked of the set and went home.

Rick Stein is more arrogant than a cunt, his way or the highway type.

Only in passing not directly. Very intense but mostly calm.

We were doing a crushed potato dish. New Potatoes lightly crushed and drenched in some garlic and tarragon butter. We over crushed the potatoes.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

He also looks like an almighty faggot. I wonder if it was a gay tryst gone sour and he went for revenge?

My money says he was interested in/formerly dating one of the daughters. It seems the most likely explanation.

 

[FedPostalService]

Rick Stein is more arrogant than a cunt, his way or the highway type.

His seafood always makes me wish I liked seafood though.

 

[HairyBadger]

His seafood always makes me wish I liked seafood though.

I would say the same thing. I like cod, I like haddock and that is about it.

 

[Trig.Point]

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.

Whatever the cause there's a massive housing crisis in the UK. Labour councils in particular have fudged it with the surge in HMO's but those create their own problems and are only a sticking plaster. Even 1.5 million homes over 5 years won't solve the problem but it'll probably prevent the social unrest that's going to come otherwise.

It's also achievable because the demand for housing is backed by the means to pay for it, they just need to force planners to allow them to be built. A few changes to the tax code would also incentivise builders to eat into their land bank.

The NIMBY's are going to scream their lungs out whatever the number of houses built, the government may as well go all out. Council planning officers have way too much power, and need to be put back in their box. They've been blatantly ignoring the law for decades, which states they're meant to actively promote building not act like a fucking handbrake on every project as a matter of course.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

He also looks like an almighty faggot. I wonder if it was a gay tryst gone sour and he went for revenge?

Life-long lefty orbiter, neither daughter would touch his aids-ridden, faggot-piercing cock, so he threw a tantrum and REEE'd them to death, is my guess. The crossbow is a distraction.

Or maybe he was mad they voted reform and he thought they were literally genociding him, so he went for self-defence.

 

[Quintex96]

I saw Jamie Oliver at an Asda in Essex yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a knobhead and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “Eat Fresh, Eat Fresh” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen boxes of Birds Eye Fish Fingers in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the boxes and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

 

[Kier Starmer]

It's why I really like Rick, you rarely get cooks on TV who focus intently on one ingredient type so passionately, his restaurant in Padstow is fantastic, really basic but focuses on flavour. My spouse is from the south USA so seafood is big for us but British seafood recipes are a treasure and often overlooked.

Christ he really is a cunt and I think LA has got to him too much, that is some moonie shit. I did pass Nigella Lawson once in a supermarket just randomly post her domestic abuse stuff and I said thank you for her dessert recipes as they are always really good. She is absolutely stunning though and just really down to earth, bought her a coffee as a tank you. Cracking tits though!

Still my most weird celebrity interaction was Brian Blessed at 05:30 on a to London train, ended up talking to him for about 2 hours about the Artic and Patrick Stuart. One of the funniest people I have come across, just sat there reading the Metro. Another sleeper is Miriam Margoyles based AF.

 

[LaxerBRO]

It's why I really like Rick, you rarely get cooks on TV who focus intently on one ingredient type so passionately, his restaurant in Padstow is fantastic, really basic but focuses on flavour. My spouse is from the south USA so seafood is big for us but British seafood recipes are a treasure and often overlooked.

Christ he really is a cunt and I think LA has got to him too much, that is some moonie shit. I did pass Nigella Lawson once in a supermarket just randomly post her domestic abuse stuff and I said thank you for her dessert recipes as they are always really good. She is absolutely stunning though and just really down to earth, bought her a coffee as a tank you. Cracking tits though!

Still my most weird celebrity interaction was Brian Blessed at 05:30 on a to London train, ended up talking to him for about 2 hours about the Artic and Patrick Stuart. One of the funniest people I have come across, just sat there reading the Metro. Another sleeper is Miriam Margoyles based AF.

Bringing this up since you mentioned Jamie Oliver and his restaurants.

 

[AnOminous]

I hate Jamie Oliver so fucking much.