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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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Plastic Bag said:
Someone should ask an MP: What is stopping the UK becoming a majority Muslim country in 50 years time?
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Certain MPs will have the police at your door for that for a non-crime hate crime. Haggis bros should definitely not write to an SNP MP asking this. Fellow Norf FC Pie Monkeys shouldn’t ask a Labour MP that either, especially if they rely from “community“ postal vote fraud to keep their seats.

I have no advice for London as it’s not like British people live there any more.
 
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We couldn't find pigs on blankets (his nibs had one job and forgot to get them) so ended up making our own with full sized sausages and bacon rashers. I have no idea why they tasted so much better. Perhaps it's because they were big? But I can't see going back to little ones next year.
 
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Wonderland foster child said:
I have made entire meals out of yellow stickered Sainsbury's/M&S party food and as a result of eating so much finger food, I may very well have forgotten how to use cutlery.

(One of the most brilliant innovations of our era, by the way, is that all the party food is heated at the same temperature.)

Happy Hogmanay when it comes, and don't forget to order your steak pie from the local butcher.
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My order is in for three two-pound steak pies. The number of actual guests on New Years Day is uncertain but can confirm they will all be pied to the sky. The spare beds will be available for those who fail to find their way home from Hogmanay
 
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BongoMongo said:
We couldn't find pigs on blankets (his nibs had one job and forgot to get them) so ended up making our own with full sized sausages and bacon rashers. I have no idea why they tasted so much better. Perhaps it's because they were big? But I can't see going back to little ones next year.
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You’ll have used much better quality sausage and bacon than the shite the pre-made stuff. You’ve made me hungry just thinking about them.

Batter is batter but would you rather have a home made Yorkshire pudding or an Aunt Bessie’s?
 
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I’ve forgotten his username but does the guy who is a chef still post here? I remember him being a good bloke and would love to hear how he did his Christmas dinner.
 

A female prison officer has been suspended after being arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
It follows reports in The Sun, that a custody officer was detained after a video of her having sex with a male inmate was shared with prisoners at HMP Five Wells in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
The BBC has not been able to verify the nature of the allegations but can confirm she is aged 19 and was suspended from her job at the privately-run prison on 23 December, following her arrest by Northamptonshire Police.
"A prison custody officer has been suspended and arrested by Northamptonshire Police on suspicion of misconduct in a public office," a spokesperson for HMP Five Wells said.
Both the prison and police said they were unable to comment further.
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FedPostalService said:
Guys, avoiding power levelling, but we need to Minecraft everyone who works for a train company and automate the entire service.

Currently trying not to commit murder. In Minecraft.

Fuck Kier Starmer and the RMT.
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BrightonAndHoveAlbion said:
I would rather drive 200 miles across the country than do the same distance on a train.
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The last time I got a train, an old man was next to me for the entire two hour trip, in the sweltering heat and press of people, with nowhere to sit so we were stood by the doors, then he fucking has a heart attack and I have to do CPR for fifteen minutes until the medics at the next station dragged him off.

I haven't used one since lol.
 
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I used to get an internal flight within England several times a year rather than waste a day of my life on train travel. Last time I was on a train some dysgenic London creature had a good 20 minutes screeching fit at being turfed out of other peoples booked seats in first class. Trains belong in the dustbin of history next to the ox cart.
 
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Geoff Capes Vapes Apes said:
I used to get an internal flight within England several times a year rather than waste a day of my life on train travel. Last time I was on a train some dysgenic London creature had a good 20 minutes screeching fit at being turfed out of other peoples booked seats in first class. Trains belong in the dustbin of history next to the ox cart.
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I miss internal flights. Trains were less packed then as there was was competition. Now unless you’re going to London and want to pay through the nose they green taxed that option to oblivion
 
Chunky Salsa said:
The last time I got a train, an old man was next to me for the entire two hour trip, in the sweltering heat and press of people, with nowhere to sit so we were stood by the doors, then he fucking has a heart attack and I have to do CPR for fifteen minutes until the medics at the next station dragged him off.

I haven't used one since lol.
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General Atomics got an American defense contract to develop new ekranoplanes. They're planes that deliberately fly close to the ground and water to take advantage of the "ground-effect" where the oppositional forces force the craft to float. I'd love to see these things come into vogue since they supposedly use less fuel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle
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