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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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60 year old murdered by nigger. BBC tip toe on eggshell-laden thin ice.

An Elizabeth line worker who died after being attacked at an east London station was "the most loving person", his family has said.

Jorge Ortega, 61, was taken to hospital with serious head injuries after British Transport Police (BTP) officers were called to Ilford station at about 20:50 GMT on Wednesday to reports of a serious assault. He died on Friday.
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He said: "This was a horrific and tragic incident which has resulted in a man losing his life.

"I would like to reassure the public that this is an isolated incident."
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They're all isolated, these isolated incidents.

Mr Jamgbadi appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Friday and was remanded in custody.

He has also been charged with affray and possession of a prohibited offensive weapon in a private place.
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A full article and only one mention of the wog. A Mr Jamgbadi (First name is something like Ayohoulojoya. BBC have scrubbed that bit)

Seems as the article doesn't mention it, the wog chimped out and killed the old white dude who was a ticketseller.

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A man has died and two people have been seriously injured after reports of a disturbance in west London.
Metropolitan Police officers were called to Birkbeck Road, Acton at 04:05 GMT on Sunday where officers found a man injured at the scene.
Despite the efforts of the emergency services, he died a short time later.
The London Ambulance Service (LAS) said two people were taken to major trauma centres as priorities.

Police said a number of other people were believed to have been injured nearby with some receiving treatment.
The force said a large crime scene was in place including a number of road closures.
The spokesperson added: "While we recognise the impact this will have on local residents and businesses, it is essential to provide us with the best chance to secure evidence."
"The public can expect to see a significant police presence in the area as officers begin their investigation."
An ambulance spokeswoman said: "We sent a number of resources to the scene, including ambulance crews, a paramedic in a fast response car and an incident response officer. We also dispatched London's Air Ambulance.
"Sadly, despite the best efforts of our crews, one person died at the scene.
"Two patients were taken as priorities to major trauma centres."
Police have appealed for witnesses.
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Not one single word on what actually happened, in London, where everyone has a smartphone.
 
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isalaide said:
Not sure why you are shitting on genuine refugees saying that, now their home nation is safe, they will no longer continue to seek refuge in another country but to go home. That sounds more than reasonable tbh.
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If they were genuine then they wouldn't have skipped over every country in Europe and safe parts of the middle east to come here.
 
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A-Logato said:
If they were genuine then they wouldn't have skipped over every country in Europe and safe parts of the middle east to come here.
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They mostly travelled here directly due to having family here and speaking mostly English as a second language. Most of Syria's healthcare staff had been trained in the UK at some point. You will remember even Assad himself and his wife practiced as NHS consultants here in the North East of England.

Syrians who fled were disproportionately educated professional people. As you said yourself - doctors and engineers. They had the money and ability to flee Assad and did so.

If your government tomorrow started rounding up its 'ideological enemies' - and something tells me you didn't vote Labour last time - and holding them indefinitely prior to execution, and you could get the fuck out to your sibling in a safe country to claim asylum, you'd grab your kids and fucking go. Nothing the fleeing Syrians did was something any of us wouldn't have done in the same situation.

People have every right to be upset about the long term effects of mass migration over decades, and indeed every right to be flat racist and say they just don't want any brown people coming here. But let's not act stupid and pretend there are no circumstances in which we would book it out of this country before the fucking secret police came for us and our families. We all would, if we were able to.

I'm glad they will be able to go home and hope desperately that the new Syrian regime is able to rebuild from the catastrophe that has been the last decade there. I also hope that if the government here starts dropping white phosphorus on my kids' fucking schools, there is a country somewhere who will understand why I am standing in their airport with my shitty blue passport throwing myself on their collective mercy.
 
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A-Logato said:
here are those doctors and engineers in action. Similar clips from London as well.
https://x.com/Tauroctonia/status/1865832671584084288
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You have a rando tweet. I have a number of years volunteering with church and other social organisations who have helped with meeting basic needs of Syrian refugees.

Posting on the internet "they shouldn't be hereeeeeee reeeeee" is not the same thing as looking into the face of a severely injured woman your own age, who lost three of her four kids in two separate bombings trying to flee her home country before her entire extended family was liquidated, and ree'ing "why did you leeeeeeave". I don't have that capacity for fucking lying. I do not have that capacity to pretend she came here "for the benefits reeee". She came here because she was running for her fucking life and she has suffered more than I hope I will ever have the misfortune to experience.

I hope if our positions were reversed someone would take me and my surviving child in and try to help me survive. As long as I hope for that, I do not have the hypocrisy to say I want my country to refuse everyone and anyone who turns up on its doorstep desperate and asking for help.

You are as ever entitled to think and act differently.
 
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I worked for a few years (~2012-2018 )with a Syrian refugee that was, prior to fleeing the country, a highly skilled and placed telecoms engineer. While I got very harsh vibes from him based on the regime he had escaped from, Wayne (Wafiq) always struck me as a genuine guy trying to do the best for his family. I never really held any illusions that he would shoot me right in my fucking face if I came between him and providing for tribe, but that was never a vibe I had a real issue with. To be expected, really.
 
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isalaide said:
You have a rando tweet. I have a number of years volunteering with church and other social organisations who have helped with meeting basic needs of Syrian refugees.

Posting on the internet "they shouldn't be hereeeeeee reeeeee" is not the same thing as looking into the face of a severely injured woman your own age, who lost three of her four kids in two separate bombings trying to flee her home country before her entire extended family was liquidated, and ree'ing "why did you leeeeeeave". I don't have that capacity for fucking lying. I do not have that capacity to pretend she came here "for the benefits reeee". She came here because she was running for her fucking life and she has suffered more than I hope I will ever have the misfortune to experience.

I hope if our positions were reversed someone would take me and my surviving child in and try to help me survive. As long as I hope for that, I do not have the hypocrisy to say I want my country to refuse everyone and anyone who turns up on its doorstep desperate and asking for help.

You are as ever entitled to think and act differently.
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I've had to live around a lot of Syrians for a while and I can safely say that I have little to no sympathy for them and I'll leave it at that. As well no one said they couldn't leave Syria but they choose to come here of all places and looked over so many other countries and I think we know exactly why they'd want to come here of all places.

The outward migration figures coming over the next few months will validate me.
 
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6MillionCoofs said:
We would all do the same.
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Absolutely. And you can, probably should, take that as both a strong signal that we are all just humans trying to make our way through life, and also fucking apes willing to gank each other at a moment's notice. It's not personal, but at the same time the more fool you if you pretend that dynamic doesn't exist.
 
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isalaide said:
You have a rando tweet. I have a number of years volunteering with church and other social organisations who have helped with meeting basic needs of Syrian refugees.
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Small Syrian diaspora in my home town. Nice polite people and really hard working. A bit of wealth behind them too. All trying hard to integrate too.

I know there’s arseholes on boats but even my old dad and is old school racist friends like the ones near us.

So can agree.
 
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