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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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Otterly said:
We just had an entire fucking pride month. Can they not shut the fuck up for two minutes?
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For some reason we have one the next month in the UK, which turns a pride month into practically a pride quarter.

I’m seeing even less rainbow shit than last month, even then that was hardly any. Nature is healing.
 
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Otterly said:
Feast your eyes
Yuck
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Urgh! Every pic on that was ugly, save Celine Dion who I will be kinder too. I have no idea what "stiff person syndrome" is but I wont condemn someone for being ill. All the trans stuff and the mockery of The Last Supper is nauseating, though.

I've almost entirely tuned out of all the Olympics ceremony stuff. Looking through all this stuff I hadn't realised how miserable it all is.

Say what you like about the Chinese govt. but their opening ceremony was spectacular. This is just a weird mix of degenerate and depressing.
 
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With critics branding the four-hour show as the 'worst ever', viewers reported poor audio caused by the near-torrential rain and even joked online that organisers needed to 'stop the boats'.

Hundreds of thousands of spectators watched 6,800 athletes covered in plastic ponchos attempted to keep spirits high as they travelled down the river Seine in a huge flotilla of 85 boats.

Performances from Lady Gaga and approximately 3,000 dancers, acrobats and actors were hard to hear over the sound of rain, with viewers slamming it as 'the worst Olympic opening ceremony in memory'.

Gaffes with country names, the mounting of the Olympic flag and bizarre scenes which saw as headless Marie Antoinette singing peppered the display last night as sport begins in earnest this morning.
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You tried to piss on God's parade, so He pissed all over yours. Guess who won?
an apparent parody of the Last Supper as technical hitches and rain-drenched performers meant only Canadian singer Celine Dion could save it.
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The most French thing of the evening was totally fucking it up and relying on another country to save them. lol, lmao even.
 
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Necrosan said:
Does a protest really matter if the government can just wait it out? I always thought a protest was a way to say "Fix this shit or else" but if there is no "or else" then why should anyone listen to them?
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I had that going through my head until I noticed the lack of media coverage. This was a golden opportunity for the BBC and others to fully paint protesters as alt right dregs who are worse than Hitler. There's been plenty of footage they could've used and chopped up to enforce their anti UK narrative, so why aren't they taking that chance? And then I realised that it's the same thing they do with the rapefugees.

As optimistic and at points cringy as it is the protest today has a strong chance of waking normies up. They're being shown that if the group is large enough the police will do jack shit to arrest or detain them for speaking the truth.

The livestream is still going but I'll summarise some highlights from the bits I watched:
- Sargon of Akkad/Carl Benjamin was a guest speaker.
- A song was made for the protest... using AI.
- Nigel Farage was called out for not being present at the event AND replacing MPs.
- Laurence Fox was a guest speaker, stating: "The government isn't going to solve this, we are."
- Troons were called out for being sick, degenerate child-molesting fucks.
- Jeremy Corbyn is apparently going to counter protest the march at some point but he hasn't shown up yet.

There were also two arrests that the Express is screeching about but considering there's probably well over ten thousand people attending this protest some arrests would be inevitable. There's been no word from the troon protesters but Stand Up to Racism delivered.

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Chunky Salsa said:
COVID definitely melted kids brains.
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About six months or so ago, I was back home for a week and doing some shopping for the family when I spotted a kid in a primary school uniform strapped into a baby buggy. Now, I grew up in the area and this isn’t a special school for spackers or anything like that — just your normal C of E primary school — and I couldn’t help wondering what the fuck had gone wrong during lockdown.
Overly Serious said:
I thought that was because the yanks nicked all our designs. I don't know where it's got to but I had a (fairly short) book on the subject of British history of military plane development and discovery. Can't remember the title but began with an account of the Farnborough airshow disaster. Might have a rummage through old boxes and see if I can find it. In any case, it had quite a lot to say about the "inspiration" American companies took from British research.

Thanks for the reply - good info.
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Was it Empire of the Clouds by James Hamilton-Paterson?
 
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Florence said:
About six months or so ago, I was back home for a week and doing some shopping for the family when I spotted a kid in a primary school uniform strapped into a baby buggy. Now, I grew up in the area and this isn’t a special school for spackers or anything like that — just your normal C of E primary school — and I couldn’t help wondering what the fuck had gone wrong during lockdown.
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I know that a couple of schools up my neck of the woods very suddenly had to draft nappy changing policies.
It shouldn't be classified as wuflu's fault though. It's your typical shit parenting, just given more allowance.
 
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The BBC finally reported on the protest today.

Literally all the photos feature the counter protests, complete with Palestine and troon flags showing once again that the BBC prefers sucking tranny and rapeugee cocks over being an actual source of news.

Here's a cleaner photo showing off just how many Patriot Protesters ended up in Trafalgar Square btw.

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The most French thing of the evening was totally fucking it up and relying on another country to save them. lol, lmao even.
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Not just any Canadian but Celine Dion. She's not even a singer either so much as a cat strangler. Every time I hear her my heart does its best to not go on.

To quote one of Supernatural's greatest lines:
"Who's Celine Dion?"
"She's a cabaret singer in Quebec and you should be very thankful."

Gabriel is the archangel of knowledge and boy was he dropping some words of wisdom on Sam and Dean right there.
 
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