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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.

 

[HairyBadger]

People will never forgive the Anglo for teaching their ancestors to use a knife and fork, to not eat off the floor and to use a flush toilet.

Love and understanding and tolerance is a very western progressive ideal. Not an idea, an ideal.

That ideal only exists when you raise up others to believe in that ideal, the ideal that a smooth, safe and tolerant society is one worth developing and working for.

How does that ideal translate into Tickityfuck backwater Angola where owning a single shoe is enough to have a meat cleaver slice through your skull?

Like a zoo, sometimes you have other sit back and wait for the animals to learn.

 

[K!w!Fartz]

People make stupid jokes about how the British are evil CoLonIZeRs that deserve to be genocided in Britain, but the British colonizers in question are the ones not living in Britain. The British people who did colonize are the white people living in different countries now like America. If their logic is that British colonizers are evil and deserve to be genocided, they should focus on white Americans, Canadians, Australians, whatever, not British people who've never left their island, but of course, the logic doesn't have to be sound for them.
It's all just an excuse for the useful idiots of the native white populations to agree with and turn a blind eye to allow them to keep getting away with stabbing, stealing, and generally abusing the hand that feeds them.

 

[teriyakiburns]

If their logic is that British colonizers are evil and deserve to be genocided, they should focus on white Americans, Canadians, Australians, whatever, not British people who've never left their island, but of course, the logic doesn't have to be sound for them.

You forget, we're all colonisers now. Even the Irish. The unstated foundational belief is that white men don't actually belong in Europe; that there are no native English, or French, or German, or Italian, because they're all invaders. We're witnessing the unironic normalisation of the previously crackpot fringe belief that whites colonised and stole Europe from a native black population. It's been underway for a couple of decades already, but is only now starting to leak out of the weirdo side of academia and become institutionalised, which means it could enter mainstream thought as soon as the mid 30s. Same exact path as troonery, which spent decades as a similarly crackpot fringe of the gay "community", but then exploded into mainstream dogma within a single generation. By this logic, social justice demands that the current coloniser populations be replaced by brown bodies.

 

[K!w!Fartz]

You forget, we're all colonisers now. Even the Irish. The unstated foundational belief is that white men don't actually belong in Europe; that there are no native English, or French, or German, or Italian, because they're all invaders. We're witnessing the unironic normalisation of the previously crackpot fringe belief that whites colonised and stole Europe from a native black population. It's been underway for a couple of decades already, but is only now starting to leak out of the weirdo side of academia and become institutionalised, which means it could enter mainstream thought as soon as the mid 30s. Same exact path as troonery, which spent decades as a similarly crackpot fringe of the gay "community", but then exploded into mainstream dogma within a single generation.

I just want a fucking race war at this point. I'm tired of this slow boil of diversity, acceptance, and one-sided empathy, it's extremely fucking gay.

 

[isalaide]

So apparently the bomb squad are at Chester bus station currently?

 

[Kier Starmer]

Honestly I am just team race war too, just settle with blood in the streets and use the momentum to topple power. Whoever is the victor is the victor at least then a winner is declared.

The defense are trying to have the Southport terrorist's case dimissed which please do. The fallout will be incredible.

Being part of a former farming family the farming stuff has made me reall mati. At heart I would love to rear animals but it is a very rugged and unforgiving life where you are broke constantly. Once I leave the Island though I think I will get some goats and make goat cheese as a hobby with some Chickens.

What is with all the bombs, there was a bomb scare at Birmingham last week too.

 

[A-Logato]

If someone with better credentials can explain why this video is retarded to me, I'd appreciate it

So as a residential brit I'll expand upon my previous rant.

Essentially why this video is so bad is due to the fact he is from London or at the very least from a well off area. The way he characterises the "poors" is very telling as he seems to treat them as stupid, uneducated racists (i.e his Dorset interviews and Southport coverage). Any concerns they have about immigration which predominantly get dumped onto them and they have to feel the consequence must be either down to economics or the alt right on twitter, it can't be lived experience.

Even when he covers it in France he's only taking the side of the immigrants, it doesn't matter that they travelled all the way across Europe to get here and for some reason these people can't apply legally, it only comes down to the fact were so good and we should be letting them in. There's no other angel to this in his mind.

He has the believe set only someone who's never had to live around what they have voted in. Go up into the north of England and you'll see why these people voted Brexit in such high numbers. Their community's have been destroyed, their jobs (what was left of them) were taken from them and they have people like this down in London telling them they should like it as they mock them.

 

[teriyakiburns]

So apparently the bomb squad are at Chester bus station currently?

They evacuated the train station. Nothing seems to be on the news about it.

 

[HairyBadger]

Honestly I am just team race war too, just settle with blood in the streets and use the momentum to topple power. Whoever is the victor is the victor at least then a winner is declared.

The defense are trying to have the Southport terrorist's case dimissed which please do. The fallout will be incredible.

Being part of a former farming family the farming stuff has made me reall mati. At heart I would love to rear animals but it is a very rugged and unforgiving life where you are broke constantly. Once I leave the Island though I think I will get some goats and make goat cheese as a hobby with some Chickens.

What is with all the bombs, there was a bomb scare at Birmingham last week too.

Send me a link when you figure out the goat cheese.

 

[Monopolywheel]

Not sure if anyone posted this yet, but I watched this video and I don't like it.

• If you're not a fan of a lib britbong giving his take on the recent immigration shit, don't watch it
• OT likes to paint patriotic britbongers as mindless retards that just hate black and brown people for no reason
• THEY ARE ATTACKING THE LEGAL IMMIGRANTS
• somehow stricter border control made immigration easier? instead of crossing by land, they use boats instead
• OT admits there's an immigration crisis but it's actually the government's fault, not the immigrants themselves
• OT really tries to appeal to emotion in the video, he shows homeless families that have been stopped by French Police
• OT says "right-wingers don't have empathy towards immigrants"
• Whenever OT showcases a normal UK person talking about the immigration problem, OT has to act like redditor about it
• Most of the points that the UK people have are pretty normal, nuanced opinions but that doesn't fit the narrative, does it?
• Disavows riots/political violence, but acts like "OH BUT WHEN LIBERALS DO IT, IT'S A PROBLEM"

The only thing he got right in the video is that Londoners are scum and deserve to be hated

 

[HairyBadger]

So as a residential brit I'll expand upon my previous rant.

Essentially why this video is so bad is due to the fact he is from London or at the very least from a well off area. The way he characterises the "poors" is very telling as he seems to treat them as stupid, uneducated racists (i.e his Dorset interviews and Southport coverage). Any concerns they have about immigration which predominantly get dumped onto them and they have to feel the consequence must be either down to economics or the alt right on twitter, it can't be lived experience.

Even when he covers it in France he's only taking the side of the immigrants, it doesn't matter that they travelled all the way across Europe to get here and for some reason these people can't apply legally, it only comes down to the fact were so good and we should be letting them in. There's no other angel to this in his mind.

He has the believe set only someone who's never had to live around what they have voted in. Go up into the north of England and you'll see why these people voted Brexit in such high numbers. Their community's have been destroyed, their jobs (what was left of them) were taken from them and they have people like this down in London telling them they should like it as they mock them.

Londoners mocking the working peoples of the north never works out well.

 

[Wuornos]

Londoners mocking the working peoples of the north never works out well.

Northerners don't have the monopoly on being working-class or being poor. Try being poor and working-class down South where everything is more expensive.

 

[Snekposter]

to use a flush toilet

Jury's still out on how effective they actually were when it comes to India.

 

[isalaide]

Northerners don't have the monopoly on being working-class or being poor. Try being poor and working-class down South where everything is more expensive.

A moment of silence for the native communities of the South West whose villages and towns have been turned into a fucking theme park for cunts from London.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

They evacuated the train station. Nothing seems to be on the news about it.

Apparently a nothing-burger.

https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/live-updates-chester-railway-bus-30433882

Looks like a lot of false flag stuff at the mo.

 

[the rat]

Not sure if anyone posted this yet, but I watched this video and I don't like it.

• If you're not a fan of a lib britbong giving his take on the recent immigration shit, don't watch it
• OT likes to paint patriotic britbongers as mindless retards that just hate black and brown people for no reason
• THEY ARE ATTACKING THE LEGAL IMMIGRANTS
• somehow stricter border control made immigration easier? instead of crossing by land, they use boats instead
• OT admits there's an immigration crisis but it's actually the government's fault, not the immigrants themselves
• OT really tries to appeal to emotion in the video, he shows homeless families that have been stopped by French Police
• OT says "right-wingers don't have empathy towards immigrants"
• Whenever OT showcases a normal UK person talking about the immigration problem, OT has to act like redditor about it
• Most of the points that the UK people have are pretty normal, nuanced opinions but that doesn't fit the narrative, does it?
• Disavows riots/political violence, but acts like "OH BUT WHEN LIBERALS DO IT, IT'S A PROBLEM"

I've seen quite a few of these fucking videos in my recommended for you lately, especially by a faggot called JimmyTheGiant who also goes on about how he escaped from being an ALT-RIGHT HECKIN' NAZI and became the better, empathetic, liberal muslim loving faggot he is today.

Why are the south full of some of the biggest faggots in history?

 

[Mound Dweller]

he escaped from being an ALT-RIGHT HECKIN' NAZI and became the better, empathetic, liberal muslim loving faggot he is today.

I remain convinced the hope not hate types were an m15 op all along and that tommeh waxy-lemon is in on it too, their stories are always the same and they always have mysterious family backgrounds with suspicious links to overseas fun, worst example is that o9a/druid/mullah guy who flipped through about 9001 extremist ideologies cultivating dissent before he hit retirement age and poofed away.
Do actual dissents even exist, did they ever?

 

[isalaide]

I've seen quite a few of these fucking videos in my recommended for you lately, especially by a faggot called JimmyTheGiant who also goes on about how he escaped from being an ALT-RIGHT HECKIN' NAZI and became the better, empathetic, liberal muslim loving faggot he is today.

Why are the south full of some of the biggest faggots in history?

The nice weather makes them soft. They have not been hardened in the eternal October of the North.

 

[The Gene Genie]

I remain convinced the hope not hate types were an m15 op all along and that tommeh waxy-lemon is in on it too, their stories are always the same and they always have mysterious family backgrounds with suspicious links to overseas fun, worst example is that o9a/druid/mullah guy who flipped through about 9001 extremist ideologies cultivating dissent before he hit retirement age and poofed away.
Do actual dissents even exist, did they ever?

The Norman yoke has become increasingly efficient at stamping out dissenters, to the point that they have now been forced to invent them out of thin air to justify themselves.

 

[EddyRooney]

Being part of a former farming family the farming stuff has made me reall mati. At heart I would love to rear animals but it is a very rugged and unforgiving life where you are broke constantly. Once I leave the Island though I think I will get some goats and make goat cheese as a hobby with some Chickens

Send me a link when you figure out the goat cheese.

Send me a link when you figure out how to make goat cheese with some chickens.