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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 thought space fights are best near the equator?
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They are, which is why France the EU launches from French Guyana. The speed of the earth's surface at the equator provides a little extra boost, meaning you can get a bigger payload to orbit for a certain amount of fuel. The further north you go, the slower the surface is moving, and also the more northerly your launch direction has to be.

The UK has no overseas territories with the space and stability to launch near the equator, so it has to use something within the British Isles instead. Most of the country is ruled out because of the direction a launch has to take at this latitude, which would mean dropping spent stages over the Danes and Norwegians. A launch from the northern islands would travel north of the Norwegian coast and over the Arctic sea.
 
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The twins have just discovered their school drywipe markers wipe off their wall boards at school but do not wipe off mummy's wallpaper. Any suggestions for removing it or at least ameliorating it until I can redecorate after the holidays
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Just have to accept that your home is now an artistic commune, best you can hope for is a brief creative phase.
 
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isalaide said:
The twins have just discovered their school drywipe markers wipe off their wall boards at school but do not wipe off mummy's wallpaper. Any suggestions for removing it or at least ameliorating it until I can redecorate after the holidays
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You're probably screwed, but it could be worth trying something like this?
Eraser pen

Not sure how it'll fare with marker ink but worth a go, your other option is put furniture in front of it and pretend it never happened
 
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isalaide said:
The twins have just discovered their school drywipe markers wipe off their wall boards at school but do not wipe off mummy's wallpaper. Any suggestions for removing it or at least ameliorating it until I can redecorate after the holidays
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Not sure about wallpaper but on hard surfaces going over it with more ink means the fresh wet ink makes the dried ink wet again and easier to remove.

Failing that thinners and a match.
 
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Also worth noting that they continue to seethe about the Tories and Reform so much that Farage and Kemi are both on the cover. Unlike the heads of other political parties like the Lib Dems and the Greens helmed by...fuck if I know. Discount Nick Clegg and some rapist in a skirt?
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The Lib Dem twat is snowboarding ( similar to all his election stunts - well it rhymes with it ) in the background ? Ed "don't ask me about the Post Office Scandal" Davey.
 
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GB News found themselves a lolcow! Remember this kid, the 15 year old UKIPper?
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He's been busy since then. When he got elected to be the head of King's College London's Conservative Society, he ended up unanimously no-confidenced within a month because he kept spouting off lolbertarian views that didn't actually have much to do with the belief of the Conservative party.
Anyway here he is arguing that brother/sister and father/daughter incest should be legal.

His main argument is that a kid suffering from inbreeding is still better off being alive rather than being dead, and eugenics is bad. Therefore since they're only alive because of incest, incest must be good, as they wouldn't be alive if there wasn't incest, and banning incest or cousin marriage wouldn't help those children, and preventing incest babies from being able to enjoy existence is worse than any potential harm from inbreeding. He also refuses to discuss his views on the age of consent beyond he "thinks there should be one" but the specifics would have to wait for him to write an academic paper.
I thought this was an elaborate troll/parody but he has since doubled down on his Substack (which was originally written for The Critic)
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and now has a piece in the Spectator
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My favourite quote:
When the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt asked focus groups about a hypothetical brother and sister who had doubly protected sex on holiday, he found their response to simply be that it was wrong, even if they couldn’t explain why. After stonewalling me at dinner last night, my mum gave the same response to the same question.
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:story: I bet their family Christmas is going to be fun.
isalaide said:
The twins have just discovered their school drywipe markers wipe off their wall boards at school but do not wipe off mummy's wallpaper. Any suggestions for removing it or at least ameliorating it until I can redecorate after the holidays
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It's an alcohol based ink - if you saturate it with neat vodka you might get it to lift a bit, but it really depends on your wallpaper.
 
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I am never reading the spectator again even to get an opposing viewpoint on something what the fuck. They should be embarrassed to host that shit even for outrage clicks. Also, mountain climbing?
 
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