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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.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

Because its funny. And I am tired of pretending its not.

Well that says more about Americans sense of humour than anything. Then again, you are the nation that birthed The Big Bang Theory.

 

[mofu mofo]

Can someone tl;dr what made the film ban-worthy in the first place?

tl;dr He fucked with the court and now the court is fucking with him, again. It's not his first Contempt of Court rodeo.

He libelled (rather than defamed, since it was in a published work) a literal child over a school fight, lost the libel case, had to pay compensation and presumably part of the outcome of that case was that he was given an injunction to bar him from repeating/rebroadcasting the libellous/defamatory statements.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Every Western country is shit. America has wilding bucks by the million and state governors who take your kids away if you don't troon them out. UK has police state bullshit and is basically run by savages at this point.

It's not a competition. We're both fucked

 

[JustStopDude]

It's gonna come out that this doesn't have fuck all to do with his silly movie.

It's always the way with these grifters.

 

[Shinkai]

Every Western country is shit. America has wilding bucks by the million and state governors who take your kids away if you don't troon them out. UK has police state bullshit and is basically run by savages at this point.

It's not a competition. We're both fucked

Exactly it's always a pot / kettle situation. If I could choose I'd rather not be living in either

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Tommy Robinson is weak and way too soft, still stuck trying to argue he isn't racist as if anyone who is calling him so is doing it for honest reasons.

But the fact he has been arrested for something as stupid as showing a documentary showing off the issues with massive uncontrolled migration is insane, and you can bet your ass if someone as milquetoast as Robinson gets that done to him it means NO ONE is gonna be safe to criticize the Bong government.

Interesting that this has happened now though. Is this a sign of what Starmer's government will be like? Just arrest the opposition that tries and actually push back instead of playing designated controlled opposition?

 

[Obnoxious Asshole]

Retard vs. Retard. Lennon-Yaxley is an idiot, and the Crown is a bigger idiot for provoking the hyphenated idiot.

 

[Train Operator]

Well that says more about Americans sense of humour than anything. Then again, you are the nation that birthed The Big Bang Theory.

the British love calling Americans fat and making school shooting jokes. it's like the first thing they bring up when they learn you're American.

your leader is a fucking drooling corpse and I like laughing at how your country is cheering him and some kackling hypocrit street-shitting nigger on like they're Nixon, Bush or even Clinton levels of competent.

British people deciding not to answer the monarchy anymore and building a nation by Brits, for Brits, who signed the decleration of independance as Brits, who, even after the country was officially no longer under the tyranical rule of the monarchy, still had their first six presidents as native Englishmen.

I never tell the yanks how their country works.

lol

 

[AN/ALR56]

British people deciding not to answer the monarchy anymore

Why is that a bad thing?
The monarchy hasn't been native since the Roman era, your current family is a German one, before that it was a dutch one and before that it was the scottish and before that it was mostly french.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

lol

Point out the bit that's wrong? Your leader is a drooling corpse, days away from that changing from figuratively to literally. Kamala is a street-shitting nigger. Both are incompetent.

 

[Shinkai]

the British love calling Americans fat and making school shooting jokes. it's like the first thing they bring up when they learn you're American.

And from everything I've seen it's always the opposite. Can't go anywhere without AT LEAST OUR SKEWLS or GOT A LOICENSE without even anything being said so yknow. Confirmation bias I suppose.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

If only they had America's first amendment.

 

[Fake News Anchor]

No he isn't.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/CnTsG3Fnx9aW/

At 27:57 Tommy Robinson admits he's Jewish when 'confronting' Mark Collett.

He deleted the original video, but you can still find Metokur's stream on it.

EDIT: I'm a big gay retard, it wasn't Tommy who was the undercover Jew in the video - but it was Tommy who released the exposé and tried to force Collett and other nonzionists out of the movement for being NAHZEEs.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Why is that a bad thing?

Monarchy is tradition, it something to tie the people to the country and something to be proud of, a history and documentation of what was. Unfortunately for us, our Monarchy died with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

America was banging for a bit, pure chill n grill. Then it went el loco.

 

[QE65]

Robinson has managed to raise enough of a stir to actually get large protests of working class Englishmen on the streets of London. He's commendable for that reason, and for being willing to put a finger in the eye of the UK government at the expense of his own safety. He was also one of the few people who raised the grooming gang scandal in the UK before most news organisations and commentators even acknowledged it (when it couldn't be denied any further). The Manlet canary in the coil mine.

However, he is also a grifter who sponges up funds whenever possible. But hey, nobody's perfect. If I recall, some of his recent Tweets were responding to the incident at Manchester airport with something like: "we'll send the boys over if something isn't done soon..." (don't have the link because phone posting), but maybe this has contributed, alongside the documentary breeching some stupid subsection of a law?

 

['Ole Dente]

Every Western country is shit. America has wilding bucks by the million and state governors who take your kids away if you don't troon them out. UK has police state bullshit and is basically run by savages at this point.

It's not a competition. We're both fucked

Listen here Willy Wonka, America always fucking wins at everything, all the time, no exceptions and if that means we have to be #1 at being dogshit, than by god we will be the epitome of excrement and you will never, in the entire scope of your existence, ever never ever come close to being as good.

And that is why we’re better. We are the BEST in the world, from the fucking



TOP




ON



MOTHER



FUCKING



DOWN



and you are not allowed to ever forget it.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

INB4 we get flooded with yanks telling us how our country works.

There's nothing more obnoxious than when a newfag user like you acts like they own the place.

No nigger, I don't need a loicense to post in your sacred thread.

 

[Train Operator]

Point out the bit that's wrong? Your leader is a drooling corpse, days away from that changing from figuratively to literally. Kamala is a street-shitting nigger. Both are incompetent.

i don't disagree with it. I just enjoy how you complain about Americans talking about your country and how you'd never act like you knew how our country works then immediately starts talking about how our country is and how it works.

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

My honest reaction.

 

[Necrosan]

I honestly don't have any fucking idea how can the UK ever go back or reverse the globohomo curse. They won't get violent, they won't pack up their shit and leave, so what's even there to do?