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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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FedPostalService said:
I think I know the next massive scandal, guys: prescription painkillers.

I know a couple of people who are in “constant pain” and it seems they’re using this to mask what is becoming crippling pain killer addiction. Rather than find the source of this mystery pain they just keep getting repeat prescriptions from their GP to keep them quiet.

I have a no painkiller rule in general. If I’m in actual proper pain my body is telling me to ease up on my workouts; I’ve injured myself badly before ignoring pain.

Anyhow, I’d got pretty bad DOMS recently after increasing my workouts out intensity and mentioned it in work. Immediately a few people offered me pretty serious pain killers.

I’m used to there being at least one fat chick constantly on horse strength pain killers, as you need to have one in the corner of every office by law it seems, it it was men this time offering me it.

It’s starting to frighten me a bit as it’s a weird addiction. People seem high functioning on it for years then suddenly fall right into a horrific junky abyss.

Anyone else notice this recently or am I just very unfortunate with the people who I work with and know?
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Better than alcohol rotting peoples bodies from the inside out
On the other hand alot of issues with painkillers would fade away if they just legalised weed
 
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They are supposed to be careful about codeine and anything stronger than that, but the reality is that if you have a condition of which a symptom is chronic pain, you are not getting seen in a hospital clinic for literally years unless there's a suspected malignancy. The wait just to see orthopaedics is two to three years, everywhere. Then the wait for a new knee or hip... The wait for a new knee where I am is currently ten years. So either you can white knuckle 13 years of deteriorating knee pain.... or the GP can write you a script for something that lets you sort of sleep at night.

And then, like you say, people end up on some fairly heavy dope for years. The time release fentanyl patches are much much more common that you might realise. Which makes you think when you realise people are driving on them. Honestly I think older people in particular are stoned more of the time than we realise.
 
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The Christmas songs trolling Starmer
It has topped the charts and already been heard more than a million times but the Christmas hit criticising Sir Keir Starmer was actually created by a duo who have never met.

Freezing This Christmas is about the government's slashing of winter fuel payments for pensioners and the resultant 'hardship' inflicted on its victims.


The track was written by freelance marketer and writer Chris Middleton and uses the melody of Mud's 1974 hit Lonely This Christmas and has been released under the mock band name Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers.

It was sung by Frank Sinatra impersonator Dean Ager, 51, from Worthing, who recorded it in just 15 minutes.

All revenue generated from sales will go towards charities supporting the elderly.

The song features the lyrics: 'It'll be freezing this Christmas, without fuel at home, it'll be freezing this Christmas, while Keir Starmer is warm. It'll be cold, so cold, without fuel at home, this Christmas.' ...
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Also currently at no 3 in the charts is Left Wing Wonderland
 
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teriyakiburns said:
I'm trying to work out what angle they're pushing for this this. Is it introducing the idea of mentally unstable people inflicting a psychological toll on those around them, so we should stop catering so much to them? Or is it reinforcing the idea that we should enable the anxieties of others?
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They're seeing that the tranny wars are starting to get boring so want to make another flavor of mental illness the new talking point.
 
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FedPostalService said:
Wait, they still have music charts? Those have had zero relevancy for over twenty years.
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Except when Thatcher died. Then all of a sudden the BBC had a real keen interest in keeping the wicked witch song off of the play rota. Never have I seen such distain for a number 1 since The Sex Pistol's God Save The Queen.
 
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FedPostalService said:
I think I know the next massive scandal, guys: prescription painkillers.
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Pretty much everyone with any kind of chronic condition is on them as others have said, I know a woman who has been waiting 4 years for a new hip but her ops keep getting cancelled because of "concern about medication levels" so it's self-sustaining cycle of shit, great way to stop someone moaning about lack of care is to drug them up. A guy I know has TWO ENTIRE KITCHEN CABINETS full of (prescribed) tramadol because he likes to "space it out" so he's never not buzzed, shits crazy.
It's not like the US pill crisis where it's being pushed by those who stand to gain financially it's just good old pervsely incentived negative consequence.
 
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Mound Dweller said:
Pretty much everyone with any kind of chronic condition is on them as others have said, I know a woman who has been waiting 4 years for a new hip but her ops keep getting cancelled because of "concern about medication levels" so it's self-sustaining cycle of shit, great way to stop someone moaning about lack of care is to drug them up. A guy I know has TWO ENTIRE KITCHEN CABINETS full of (prescribed) tramadol because he likes to "space it out" so he's never not buzzed, shits crazy.
It's not like the US pill crisis where it's being pushed by those who stand to gain financially it's just good old pervsely incentived negative consequence.
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I know someone who has struggled for years needed both knees replaced who just has paracetamol of an evening as he won’t touch stronger stuff. Mainly because he couldn’t pop out to watch the footy with the rest of his old mates if he was on NHS zombie pills.

The amount of pain he be in on a daily basis is unimaginable and he doesn’t complain. The really don’t make men that tough anymore.
 
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Starmer has appointed Sue Gray to the lords. I bet he'll have her back in the cabinet next year.

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I've never seen anyone turn a shade of mustard from codeine
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Each Codeine pill contains a 500mg dose of paracetamol, which is processed through the liver. The maximum dose is 1000mg every four hours, with no more than 4000mg in 24 hours. Anyone who takes codeine and then tries to top up with an extra paracetamol will overdose, and is almost guaranteed to suffer severe liver damage as a result. Each year, around 100,000 people require emergency treatment for paracetamol overdose poisoning, with 300 of those dying of acute liver failure. It isn't known how many people die from chronic liver failure caused by paracetamol overconsumption, but given how it functions and is processed it is likely in the thousands, comparable to chronic alcohol poisoning.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
It isn't known how many people die from chronic liver failure caused by paracetamol overconsumption, but given how it functions and is processed it is likely in the thousands, comparable to chronic alcohol poisoning.
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And the ibuprofen type painkillers fry your kidneys with longer term use. The irony is that as long as you’re not addicted, opiates are actually safer in terms of organ damage. Of course they’re massively addictive for many so they add paracetamol so you dont take too many.
We badly need whole new classes of painkillers - there’s very little promising in the pipeline that has good funding. Some interesting components of marine and other venoms (spider, etc) but the funding isn’t there. Same as antibiotics. We spend billions on marginally just-as-shit SSRI studies and nothing in new antibiotics and painkillers.
 
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