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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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Wonderland foster child said:
As for the Young People, some twerp of a Zoomer was gushing about "vintage Simpsons" episodes and I realised (once my aged brain rumbled into action) they were referring to episodes I watched at uni, when they first appeared on telly (lol old).
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All of my good "vintage simpsons" episodes are ones I watched with my mother when I was a toddler.
I kept getting confused with Futurama. Why did she keep watching that episode in the future where Homer gets turned into a robot?
 
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Otterly said:
Almost 28 years ago. I’m feeling old. Wasn’t the nineties last week?
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I saw them last week and I have terrifying information.

They have young fans. Actual young. There were what you and I would class as children present. Many of them. They were able to actually jump up and down and not recline wearily in the seats like I do now.

It turns out the reason they can make a new album of new tunes and have it go to number one is because the kids actually like them.

It was a very enjoyable gig. They've been back on the grind enough years that they aren't at all rusty, and they are actually invested in this new music. Which is very well made, it's just not A Maximum High to which I am very attached. Or Change Giver. Or Let It Ride.

Actually they made a barrowload of fine tunes which have held up very well to the cruel passage of THIRTY FUCKING YEARS.

I had a similarly horrifying episode at Interpol the other week, when the enthusiastic twenty year olds next to me struck up a conversation about how excited they were to see them, had I seen them before, when was the first time I had seen them.

Clearly the lighting must have been bad as when I vouchsafed I had first seen Interpol before my young friends were fucking born, they responded in very much the same way as they would to being advised I was a fucking immortal vampire come amongst them.
 
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Otterly said:
and is well into model trains.
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Fucking BIG TIME, he's got one of the largest collections of model trains in the UK (possibly even the largest) he's got train models going back to the Rocket from the time the rocket had just compleated the rainhill trials and the train network was a single line.

He also has some serious interests in railway preservation as well.
 
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wait...why did the PM faggot arrest Clarkson?

I mean...does he not understand optics at all or does he just not give a single shit about what the average cUK person thinks about his government?
 
Clarkson is acting purely in his own self-interests here. I recall some interview a while back where he said he bought the farm after 2008 dirt cheap, and did it mostly because it wouldn't be subject to inheritance tax. He's also a Tory supporter for the most part.
Kier is a useless cunt, but let's not pretend Clarkson is a champion of the people here.
 
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CaptainAutism69 said:
Clarkson is acting purely in his own self-interests here. I recall some interview a while back where he said he bought the farm after 2008 dirt cheap, and did it mostly because it wouldn't be subject to inheritance tax. He's also a Tory supporter for the most part.
Kier is a useless cunt, but let's not pretend Clarkson is a champion of the people here.
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While true, it is possible (maybe probable) that actually living as a farmer for the past few years has opened his eyes a bit. For all Clarkson used to have a bad rep I don't think he comes off as fake.

Everyone I know who's watched Clarkson's Farm has softened on him.
 
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CaptainAutism69 said:
Clarkson is acting purely in his own self-interests here. I recall some interview a while back where he said he bought the farm after 2008 dirt cheap, and did it mostly because it wouldn't be subject to inheritance tax. He's also a Tory supporter for the most part.
Kier is a useless cunt, but let's not pretend Clarkson is a champion of the people here.
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What’s wrong with voting tory? Yes they’re useless bastards but so are the other lot, it’s not like we have any decent to vote for and the last few months have shown that the ones branded Labour are far worse.
As for the inheritance comment - That was tongue in cheek. Nobody, and I mean nobody, would actually farm a farm if they thought that. They’d shove tenants on it and sit back. The man farms. It’s hard work and even if he did buy it as a piggy bank, hes seen the light.
What on earth has he been arrested for? Annoying the boiled ham in power? My goodness, talk about a dumb move, kier.
I swear they are trying to speed run a reenaction of the Appian Way or something, what are they thinking??
Free my man jezza.
 
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Sweeter and Savoury said:
It's really light on the content so I have no clue what's actually happening so that why I thought some local might know more
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The thumbnail image of the arrest is from a 2022 arrest "prank" involving Ant and Dec that was absolutely not staged between them and Clarkson, television is totally real guys.

Jeremy Clarkson was left red-faced after being pranked by Ant and Dec for a segment on last night’s episode of Saturday Night Takeaway.

The presenting duo staged a mock arrest of the former Top Gear host, after posing as protesters at his Diddly Squat farm.

Last year, Clarkson’s efforts to manage his own working farm became the focus of a well-received Prime Video documentary, Clarkson’s Farm.

For the prank, Ant and Dec disguised themselves as protesters and went about leading a demonstration at Clarkson’s farm, handcuffing themselves to his vehicle and having a dump truck unload a mass of soil onto the roof of his vehicle.

Clarkson was seen becoming visibly enraged by the stunt, and failed to calm down when two fake “police officers” showed up.

The phony police announced they were going to arrest the “protesters” – as well as Clarkson, whose continued presence at the scene was supposedly “breaching the peace”.

Clarkson then began swearing and becoming even more outraged, before Ant and Dec revealed that the whole thing had been a ruse.
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Social media claims aren't real, Youtube clickbait videos are fake and it's almost December so don't make me point out any more obvious lies for you all. It would ruin Christmas.
 
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CaptainAutism69 said:
I recall some interview a while back where he said he bought the farm after 2008 dirt cheap, and did it mostly because it wouldn't be subject to inheritance tax.
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He was selectively quoted. He said he bought it for a bird shoot, because he enjoys that sort of thing, and that it incidentally had the benefit of bearing no inheritance tax. The media all cut out the part about the shoot and focused purely on the tax. It's probably the shooting that got him interested in the rest of what happens on a farm.
 
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Otterly said:
Is rod Stewart a rare alright one? Married to the same woman forever and is well into model trains.
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Phalanges Mycologist said:
Fucking BIG TIME, he's got one of the largest collections of model trains in the UK (possibly even the largest) he's got train models going back to the Rocket from the time the rocket had just compleated the rainhill trials and the train network was a single line.

He also has some serious interests in railway preservation as well.
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I remember he was very nice to and patient with Leigh Francis on Bo' Selecta, back in the day, when he was in-character as Avid Merrion, who's whole joke was to go up to celebrities and be weird to them.


This was long before he was a household name as Keith Lemon, shilling for online casinos, so for all Rod knew, he was just another fan.

I think you can tell a lot about famous people by how the interact with the public.
 
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