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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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QE65 said:
I'm not shocked that a Guardian writer would defend CV fakery.
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I mean they employed Johann Hari who famously plagiarised his work from others and in addition to that, became a Wikipedia editor under an assumed name and wrote about himself there, too.

The Guardian is not an organisation overflowing with ethics.

FedPostalService said:
You don’t escalate a war. War is the final stage. Stop being a fag.
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If a war between two countries becomes a war between four, that war has escalated. If an invading country avoids destroying critical infrastructure away from the front and then later begins to do so, or other such moves from limited war to total war, the war has escalated.

There is still plenty of room for the Russia-Ukraine war to escalate in both those directions. And Kier Stalin is just the man to do it.
 
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Overly Serious said:
If a war between two countries becomes a war between four, that war has escalated. If an invading country avoids destroying critical infrastructure away from the front and then later begins to do so, or other such moves from limited war to total war, the war has escalated.
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World War I and II started because everyone was being a fag on the run up to it except for German.

If we let a bunch of inbred alcoholic and drug addicts who have been stuck in mud for three years frighting farmers win this land grab because they used some fireworks and internet retards believe the “Russia Stronk” memes than they’ll keep marching into places and one day it will be WWIII.

Putin misusing a couple of ICBMs was a sign of weakness, not of strength.
 
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Special spoonie said:
Blackrock is already “kindly” bringing in schemes helping to buy Ukrainian land to help “rebuild”.
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Well Ukraine would have to be a Nato member for this or any new Blackrock investments will go up in literal smoke under Russian fire. Backburner conflicts all have escalation phases even post peace treaty.
 
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General Emílio Médici said:
Any of you bongs got some good news, rumours and sources on whatever the fuck is going on in Londonstan? Something about a bomb/attempted bombing on the US Embassy and some comotion at Gatwick airport at the same time?
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It's coming up to the holiday season. Expect to see random evacuations, temporary closures and IT glitches at; Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh airports.

I'm not saying this instance is a nothing burger, I am saying the EU do not want people flying, or travelling.
 
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