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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.

 

[judegdubey]

The guy with the knife was arrested less than an hour before the riot started, I not long read about it in the news, try the daily mail it's the nearest to a big name non left news outlet we got.


The whole "optics cuck" thing is just living in fantasy land. I'd be all for it if a few riots and disorder would change anything, it won't just ask the national front, the bnp, the edl. All separated by decades yet what was actually achieved? Immigration is worse than ever and the pakis have more power than ever.
Compare that to the reason the ira was able to carry on as long as they did and even at the end of it get off on countless murders was due to optics. Not only did they have the Catholic working class support they had the middle class too, which meant they were bankrolled enough to conduct their campaign for years.

England need genuine change not just an outburst of anger for a night, theirs plenty of ways to target mosques if their determined to do that without smashing up a community and looking every bit as bad as their animals their protesting about. How many commenting have actually ever attended rallies for this same cause? As all I'll say is I know first hand a large percentage attending don't have any real convictions they just go for a tear up and some bevvies with their mates and all they achieve is turning a large portion of the public away from the cause.

 

[Coelacanth]

theirs plenty of ways to target mosques if their determined to do that without smashing up a community and looking every bit as bad as their animals the protesting about.

Okay then. Care to point out what those ways are for all of us? I'm sure if we haven't already tried them the people would choose anything other than violence.

Side note: there's going be another protest down at Downing Street tonight during Questions Time. Who wants to bet they won't even acknowledge what's happened over the past three days?

 

[judegdubey]

Okay then. Care to point out what those ways are for all of us? I'm sure if we haven't already tried them the people would choose anything other than violence.

Side note: there's going be another protest down at Downing Street tonight during Questions Time. Who wants to bet they won't even acknowledge what's happened over the past three days?

Okay then. Care to point out what those ways are for all of us? I'm sure if we haven't already tried them the people would choose anything other than violence.

Side note: there's going be another protest down at Downing Street tonight during Questions Time. Who wants to bet they won't even acknowledge what's happened over the past three days?

Not on a public forum I don't no. I'm sure you got an imagination.

And no we haven't tried them, certainly not in recent time.

That just reads as someone who never seen these rallies first hand. While their was more than justified anger at whats happened in south port similar scenes have played out all over the country in previous years at rallies because 90% of the people who attend go more for enjoyment than ideological reasons. If it weren't at a rally its be outside the pub or at the football.

As much everyone myself included jokes about nigger=violence theirs still plenty white folk that like a tear up.
But their in the minority when it comes to the native English population and their will never be actual change until its the majority that come together and anything that harms that I'm gonna call out.

 

[Hazel Motes]

Seeing those three dead girls in the papers and the news turns my stomach. It makes me ill knowing they were murdered. That they are gone from this world when so many wasted lives continue unabated is a crime. For that reason, I understand the rioting. For those who have been involved in similar scuffles, they will know it is initially cathartic, like smashing a glass in anger or releasing tension with a kiss. One's finally elated with an honest statement that society seemingly can't ignore. When politicians talk tired platitudes of 'healing' and 'coming together', this rioting is as close as the community will be as one. I do not have to agree with it to understand the motives, but the more I see those photos of those small dead faces, the more rotten I feel, and the more I empathise.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

I having this ever growing belief that a significant part of the rights online voice, mostly the "alt right" types exist soley to demoralize and make you feel helpless and that there is no point in doing anything about the state of things, I believe thats why Fuentes exists and why /pol/ is able to stay online without issue. Any optics cuck, negative nancy or just vooote harder type needs to be called out for exactly what they are: gay niggers, shit cock suckers of the absolute highest degree possible.

Oh yes, this is and has been a tactic for more than a decade. In more direct ways even. Just go to a gaming site and try to talk about fighting, doing or even talking about the censorship of something. You will instantly get a small army of people mocking even the idea. Supposed like minded "enemies of censorship" who never seem to see any, or at least any "serious" enough that they don't view pushing back as being somehow dangerous, "silly" or not important. It was the very same way for the organization of boycotts etc. The mere idea, despite all the success of the left with such threats, was instantly met with mockery and "fear". It unironically took beer to finally break that narrative.

 

[Bukke Bruse]

The protest videos have been entertaining, my favorite is this one:
A protester walks up to the cops full of confidence, then he gets hit in the head from behind, turns around and is hit in the crotch.

Source

 

[Smar Mijou]

I don't pretend to have all the answers but torching police vans and smashing up innocent peoples communities ain't it, just cause theirs a mosque there doesn't mean it's exclusively Muslim in the local houses.

What the fuck are you talking about man, smashing up a random mosque is retarded and will in no way help any cause to reduce migration.

This KKK LARP is cringey as fuck.

More and more people are waking up to the issues of our immigration policies and it's becoming a lot easier to talk about it in public. That needs to continue, not chimping out like retards and giving the media exactly what they're dreaming of to counter the narrative of a muslim butchering kids

Oh yeah, because siting back idly and watching their government import Sub-Saharan niggers and Muslim rapists by the boatload, while persecuting the native population has worked wonders for the people of Britain so far... Something that you cucked and emasculated little bitches need to get through your heads is thet sometimes violence is the  ONLY solution to a problem, optics and perception be damned.

 

[Otterly]

Oh yeah, because siting back idly and watching their government import Sub-Saharan niggers and Muslim rapists by the boatload, while persecuting the native population has worked wonders for the people of Britain so far... Something that you cucked and emasculated little bitches need to get through your heads is thet sometimes violence is the  ONLY solution to a problem, optics and perception be damned.

Violence doesn’t come out of nowhere. The mental barrier of just talking about it and being ALLOWED to be mad about it without having your life ruined needs to be overcome as well. Right now we live in a police state where mild statements like ‘maybe importing a few million people and not building any corresponding infrastructure is why we can’t get a doctors appointment..?’ Will see you fired and unpersoned and unbanked. There’s a massive amount of inertia, caused by what is essentially speech control (via social media and cancellations) which leads to what is basically mind control. When everyone around you ‘seems’ to support a thing few are brave enough to oppose it. We just lived through Covid and the crazy shit surrounding it, we’ve seen this up close
The Troubles was unique because there were two very clear sides, with a ready made base who believed very very fervently in what they wanted. You’d not get impersonated for saying your piece, becasue your whole community thought it too,

As soon as the UK hits that point, where it’s acceptable to say it, things will pop off. That’s why the news is censored so hard, it’s why you’re made to feel alone. As soon as a critical mass of people said ‘fuck you im not wearing your fucking masks and QR coding into the fucking pub’ it stopped. The British government is terrified of the masses. They know things are sliding down into violence and they have no way of controlling it if it genuinely pops off. Their control point it stopping people even considering it.

 

[Weeb Slinger]

Tbf that Machete fight is because Southend is half an hour out from London - apparently gangs from there decided to come down for the week as it's the second week of summer holidays. Chalkwell fair coming up as well.

That said this is worse than normal for Southend. I guess now they feel emboldened to fuck around because Labour might give them softy sentences if they get caught.

I am familiar with Southend and can comment on the background to last night's sorry events.

In recent years, over the Summer holidays, there have been outbreaks of youth violence in and around the town. The mass brawl on Chalkwell beach a few years ago, or the running battles just along the cinder path in Old Leigh are very much the feral youth of the borough running amok. The more centralised gang violence that has become an annual July/August fixture along the Golden Mile is mostly perpetrated by out of towners. Every year it gets a little bit worse. In the aftermath, the Council wring their hands and you maybe see a few more police, but they do nothing to the point where their sideline presence adds insult to injury. A life-size statue of PC Plod from Noddy would be more efficacious.

 

[Kiwi Sneed Snake]

At some point you'll have to accept that I'm actually a white, blue eyed guy.

White at heart Nigger by nature.

 

[Overly Serious]

The biggest lie ever told was that the Nazis were evil. They weren't, they were just efficient and not very subtle, typical Germans.

The Nazis spoiled Fascism for everybody.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

The Nazis spoiled Fascism for everybody.

The Nazi's could have been brought under control with the help of the British and Russian diplomacy, if we had have ignored the yanks, who back-stabbed us anyway.

National socialism works and it works so well that you can't even say that it works without serious IRL consequences.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Oh yes, this is and has been a tactic for more than a decade. In more direct ways even. Just go to a gaming site and try to talk about fighting, doing or even talking about the censorship of something.

Civil disobedience is more than fighting.

I will not support people from a culture who consider other cultures less than human I will not use their businesses where possible (looking at you Asda).
Wash your own car instead of taking it to the illegals at the car wash
Buy fresh food from an allotment instead of the pesticide sprayed crap in tesco.
Only use supermarkets for their loss leaders.
Guerilla garden, apple trees can grow anywhere.
Pay in cash, usuary is a sin never apologise.
Take what you can off the grid, temu does single room solar lighting kits.
Make your hobby into a side hustle a cash in hand hustle.
We are at war with a government that wants us gone and not just in Minecraft.

 

[JPG]

https://x.com/PaigeGCMG/status/1818578905122435429

 

[Eekum Bokum]

The Nazi's could have been brought under control with the help of the British and Russian diplomacy, if we had have ignored the yanks, who back-stabbed us anyway.

National socialism works and it works so well that you can't even say that it works without serious IRL consequences.

Aight goin a lil bit too far here, thought you were meming.

 

[Smar Mijou]

Violence doesn’t come out of nowhere. The mental barrier of just talking about it and being ALLOWED to be mad about it without having your life ruined needs to be overcome as well. Right now we live in a police state where mild statements like ‘maybe importing a few million people and not building any corresponding infrastructure is why we can’t get a doctors appointment..?’ Will see you fired and unpersoned and unbanked. There’s a massive amount of inertia, caused by what is essentially speech control (via social media and cancellations) which leads to what is basically mind control. When everyone around you ‘seems’ to support a thing few are brave enough to oppose it. We just lived through Covid and the crazy shit surrounding it, we’ve seen this up close
The Troubles was unique because there were two very clear sides, with a ready made base who believed very very fervently in what they wanted. You’d not get impersonated for saying your piece, becasue your whole community thought it too,

As soon as the UK hits that point, where it’s acceptable to say it, things will pop off. That’s why the news is censored so hard, it’s why you’re made to feel alone. As soon as a critical mass of people said ‘fuck you im not wearing your fucking masks and QR coding into the fucking pub’ it stopped. The British government is terrified of the masses. They know things are sliding down into violence and they have no way of controlling it if it genuinely pops off. Their control point it stopping people even considering it.

I 100% agree. Granted, I'm a typical Amerimutt/ redneck/hillbilly/low-IQ/world-ignorant/insert whatever stereotype here, but it cannot be understated just HOW MUCH the 1st and especially 2nd ammendment are unique and special compared to most governed societies in the world. The founding fathers of the US realized that the government's fear of it's population was paramount, and understood that very well, to the point that the very first parts of our constitution were specifically called out to allow the citizens to criticize the government, and to arm themselves against that very same government. And anyone who is critical of the need for guns, or wants to criminalize nebulous "hatespeech" cannot see the forest for the trees. You Britbongs are a perfect example of that, sadly. Mudslimes are free to gangrape while you'll be jailed for calling them out. Its bizzare. Hell, it only took 25 years for Australia to go from a near total gun ban to draconian lockdowns and jailing their citizens over the bullshit Covid mandates.

I see the incremental creeping on these rights in the US as troubling, and the reason why the media switch all of a sudden flipped on Elon Musk the moment he bought Twitter and actually allowed people to have an opinion that wasn't pre-approved by the globohomo governments. You are right in that just allowing people to truly speak their minds freely is a really powerful tool, and the faggots in charge really hate that.

 

[Ly Erg]

Aight goin a lil bit too far here, thought you were meming

There is no such subtlety in A&N.

 

[Hongourable Madisha]

Huw Edwards pleads guilty to child porn. He had Category A images of children - that's sexual penetration, sex with animals or sadism. It wasn't just the coke-addicted 17 year old he was messaging either that the nonce apologists were handwringing over ("nooo the age of consent is 16, it should be legal to have pictures of 17 year olds"), that was bad enough: these were of kids age 7 to 14.
How the BBC kept this quiet so long, I do not know.

 

[JohnnyG]

Any American will tell you to go to a poor neighborhood and whether it be black or white, Indian, Iranian, Chinese or icelandic, my best wishes after 11PM in what you find yourself in for. Poor = crime. They are by a huge margin (like triple, quadruple) going to be more criminal.

This is just laughably untrue, by such a huge margin it's silly to deny it. Do I need to find the table showing the *poorest quintile* of White majority districts (literal post-industrial Appalachian poverty towns) have lower violent crime rates than the *richest quintile* of black majority ones (DC-VA-MD suburbs of 6-fig DEI jobs)?

What the fuck are you talking about man, smashing up a random mosque is retarded and will in no way help any cause to reduce migration.

Notice how the fat drag queens and troons at things like the Olympics only attack Christianity but not Islam or Judaism? How do you think Muslims would respond, and what does that say about Christian responses to being attacked?

 

[pot of sneed]

How the BBC kept this quiet so long, I do not know.

Because they protect their own, until things get too hot and they have to throw out a sacrificial crumb under the wheels. Make no mistake, if it hadn't gotten out he'd still be protected.