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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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spread happiness@p4leandp1nk
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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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10:07 AM - Jan 3, 2019

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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.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

My takeaway from this is perceiving anger but also loving black pudding. Is this ambivalence?

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Imagine waking up and being angry at Toad in the Hole

Look at this smug cunt.

Tell me that does not fill you with rage!

 

[SIMIΔN]

I used to go to a school with lots of Muslim kids.
One friend told me she had a hole in the heart, another had 11 fingers at least one died young.
I never joined the dots why it happened to them in particular until much later.

 

[-Jack-]

it is why the continentals laugh at us

I think they just laugh at you for being so pressed about food. Go to the Netherlands or Germany and we pretty much have the same food, just different methods and applications to it.

 

[QE65]

The cavalry are not coming, and decisions about his care and living arrangements need to be made in the harsh light of that reality.

Agree with your post, I would just add that the agency of the greatest generation does need to be factored in. We had a situation where an elderly relative took the bus into hospital, despite having mobility issues, without informing anyone that he was going to do this. There is a pride in some members of the older generations, meaning that they simply don't like asking for help.

Living away from family is also a fact of life for most people. Work opportunities and living arrangements can be miles and miles apart, especially with the horribly inflated population of recent years.

 

[Otterly]

Yorkshire puddings are shit and always have been

Have you ever had them made fresh with duck fat or beef dripping, or is this heretical opinion of your based on (allah forgive me for uttering the words) auntie Bessie’s frozen?

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Look at this smug cunt.
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Tell me that does not fill you with rage!

That with some onion gravy, and a bit of mash, makes me hungry af

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Have you ever had them made fresh with duck fat or beef dripping, or is this heretical opinion of your based on (allah forgive me for uttering the words) auntie Bessie’s frozen?

In this crazy world, Otterly, kids these days won't eat duck fat as it's not vegan, don't know where the freezer is, let alone the oven, and if it can't be air-fried or ordered on a phone, it isn't food.

Long gone are the days when people knew what cooking was, but couldn't do it. We're now at a place where cooking is something that's done on Bake-Off and read about in history books.

I would be shocked if this toad-in-the-hole hater can even make decent mash (the secret is cream and chopped chives), let alone a meal.

 

[Mound Dweller]

Yorkshire puddings are cheap tasty filler to go with Sunday Roasts
Toad in the Hole is just cheap filler food that tastes good because of sausages and gravy
Imagine waking up and being angry at Toad in the Hole

More like stick in the shit IMO, gravy is also overrated but it's nice situationally unlike YPs which are always garbage.

Have you ever had them made fresh with duck fat or beef dripping, or is this heretical opinion of your based on (allah forgive me for uttering the words) auntie Bessie’s frozen?

Frozen food? I'm a heretic I'm not poor.
I have always hated Sunday roasts, parsnips stink of dirt, Yorkshire puddings have the texture of manure, the meat braised to oblivion.
My grandma and dad used to make them from scratch every Sunday or whenever else they felt like torturing us, took them hours which is why we were all starving by the time the "food" was ready and the hunger left us no choice but to consume the manmade horrors.
You know how in Sardinia it's high cuisine to consume maggot loaded cheese and how for Nordics they really love stinky fermented fish? The Anglo version is disgusting in flavour or origin it's just sinfully bleh.

 

[Otterly]

kids these days won't eat duck fat as it's not vegan

Dearie me. This poor misguided child has been fed some sort of upper class overcooked boarding school food. A good Yorkshire pudding is thing from heaven. Fluffy in the middle, crispy on the outside. Bliss.
It’s no wonder everyone’s got colon cancer, they eat slop.

stinky fermented fish

They don’t, but they sure love telling foreigners it’s a delicacy. Surströmming isn’t something they actually eat with any frequency.

 

[-Jack-]

More like stick in the shit IMO, gravy is also overrated but it's nice situationally unlike YPs which are always garbage.

Frozen food? I'm a heretic I'm not poor.
I have always hated Sunday roasts, parsnips stink of dirt, Yorkshire puddings have the texture of manure, the meat braised to oblivion.
My grandma and dad used to make them from scratch every Sunday or whenever else they felt like torturing us, took them hours which is why we were all starving by the time the "food" was ready and the hunger left us no choice but to consume the manmade horrors.
You know how in Sardinia it's high cuisine to consume maggot loaded cheese and how for Nordics they really love stinky fermented fish? The Anglo version is disgusting in flavour or origin it's just sinfully bleh.

With all due respect, you sound like a right miserable twat. Though I’m curious, what do you like to eat, day-to-day?

 

[A-Logato]

There's something awfully funny about Brits arguing about which of their food is better. WW2 and it's consequences have been disastrous for British cuisine.

 

[Replacement Account]

There's something awfully funny about Brits arguing about which of their food is better. WW2 and it's consequences have been disastrous for British cuisine.

I don't know if anyone's really arguing about it, we're mostly laughing at that bloke for being retarded.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

With all due respect, you sound like a right miserable twat. Though I’m curious, what do you like to eat, day-to-day?

Odds on "huel, soy latte and whatever the Johnny Foreigner Ubereats man delivers".

Dearie me. This poor misguided child has been fed some sort of upper class overcooked boarding school food. A good Yorkshire pudding is thing from heaven. Fluffy in the middle, crispy on the outside. Bliss.
It’s no wonder everyone’s got colon cancer, they eat slop.

Preach it, sister. Home made duckfat roasties, yorkshire puds, a smorgasboard of mashed/cheesed cabbage, carrot, suede and parsnips, squeezed on the plate next to a fresh joint of beef, lamb, pork or a crispy-skinned cut of chicken, all blathered in a selection of gravy, mint sauce or apple sauce, is a meal fit for a king. And they say the British have no good dishes, ha!

Cooking that with fresh veg from the garden is what life is all about. It wasn't called "The Good Life" for nothing.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

huel

I always found Huel so fucking weird. It seems made for people that dislike being happy.

 

[A-Logato]

I always found Huel so fucking weird. It seems made for people that dislike being happy.

Huel is to soylent what Reddit is to Tumblr. It's just a repackaged soylent for miserable cuckolds of human beings who believe eating is a chore.

 

[Mao Hao Hao]

My grandma and dad used to make them from scratch every Sunday or whenever else they felt like torturing us, took them hours which is why we were all starving by the time the "food" was ready and the hunger left us no choice but to consume the manmade horrors.

I am so sorry that you had shitty family cooks growing up, denying you the joys of an actually decent Yorkshire pudding and other stuff.

I always found Huel so fucking weird. It seems made for people that dislike being happy.

The name always sounds like the noise I'd make after drinking it, just a retching 'huel' sound.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

I always found Huel so fucking weird. It seems made for people that dislike being happy.

To understand Huel, you have be able to answer yes to the following:

Are you:

• Too busy to cook?
• Too lazy to exercise?
• Living in a bug hive?
• Only a fan of The Matrix films because of the gruel they ate?
• Longing to beg your master for "more" like Oliver Twist?
• Incapable of thinking and just consume product, waiting for next product?

Then we have the perfect, disgusting, grainy, possibly-carcinogenic slop for you!
Huel; when human food is a chore to cook and animal food is too flavourful, try Huel! Huel! - looks like gruel, tastes like stool!

 

[teriyakiburns]

Huel; when human food is a chore to cook and animal food is too flavourful, try Huel! Huel! - looks like gruel, tastes like stool!

Huel: It looks like it sounds.

 

[Snekposter]

Though I’m curious, what do you like to eat, day-to-day?

Food, probably, unlike everyone else on your island that indulges in man-made horrors beyond comprehension.