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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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isalaide said:
Mine never crisp up properly :(
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How do you make them? Metal tin, preferably with thirty years of grease on it, but if you need a new one the high heat ceramic works well. Lard, beef dripping or duck fat wiped around each well in the tin then a bit more in each one. Let the batter sit in the fridge for a few hours. NUKE the tin and the fat. 240c until it’s smoking. Ideally the smoke alarm should be begging for mercy and all the windows open. Batter in a jug, and try to do the ‘open oven, pour batter into smoking fat’ movement in a few seconds. Close door of oven gently, if you whack it they collapse. Ten mins at 230c,down to 220 for the rest. But sometimes they just don’t work, it’s one of those fickle things.
isalaide said:
The last time I was on a train in this country some elderly thing clinging to life soiled itself and everyone had to smell next man's shit all the way to the destination.

Fuck all forms of public transport.
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I used to love getting the train up the east coast. Nowadays, no.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
Starmer asks UK regulators for ideas to boost growth
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Every single one of them should tell him to resign out of the highest window. As an actual, genuine suggestion for how to boost growth.

Other news. Police thwarted by the sophisticated criminal tactic of lying about your name.

Police have pledged to "review" why officers failed to prosecute a fraudster who betrayed the Royal British Legion (RBL) charity and helped himself to more than £20,000 in poppy appeal donations.
Sean Pullen, 50, was the chairman of the Liverpool branch of the RBL when he stole the cash - before burning the empty collection boxes at his homes.
The branch took its evidence to Merseyside Police in 2019 only to be told the force could not help, meaning the charity had to use £200,000 of its own money to bring a private prosecution.
The decision was criticised in court and has raised questions from an MP and a judge.
Pullen pleaded guilty to fraud and was sentenced to a suspended prison term of two years at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday.

The court had heard how the current Liverpool branch chairwoman Elaine Overend had gone to police and outlined the charity's own internal investigation, which began when suspicions were raised in 2018.
In her official statement to the force in 2019, Ms Overend described how she visited Pullen's former home in Scarisbrick, Lancashire and going into the garden to find the remnants of a fire.
"There were actually coins melted into the debris," she wrote.
"I couldn't understand why he would do this and I actually broke down and cried on discovering the fire and seeing what was the [collection] tins melted into a plastic red puddle."


However, police told Ms Overend that there were difficulties with the case, including some relating to the fact that Pullen had changed his name several times.
In a letter, a sergeant told her: "As it stands, there are too many gaps we're unable to fill, the main one being who the suspect truly is."
But in court, James Rae, prosecuting on behalf of the RBL, said the charity's solicitors had in the end simply asked the magistrates' court for an arrest warrant in the name Sean Kevan Pullen, which they knew him as.
When media reports were published about the warrant, Pullen turned up at Liverpool Magistrates' Court of his own accord and surrendered.
Mr Rae noted how in previous hearings a judge had questioned why the police had not been involved in the case.
Ashley Dalton, MP for West Lancashire where Pullen was living at the time, described the situation as "bizarre".
"Lots of people go by different names, but that doesn't mean you can't identify them," she said.
"If there is something preventing [the police] from identifying a person - some sort of legislation that is limiting their ability to do that - then that needs to be tackled."


Ms Overend told the BBC that members of the Liverpool branch were also disappointed with the central Royal British Legion organisation.
"The legion wanted to brush it under the carpet, we as the city of Liverpool branch refused to do so," Ms Overend said.
"We have been fighting, not just the Merseyside Police to get this court, but the British Legion didn't want the publicity because they didn't want people to stop donating to the cause."
The RBL said the investigation process had been a "difficult time for our volunteers and collectors" in Liverpool but a spokesperson said it had nothing to add in response to Ms Overend's comments.
Merseyside Police said the force would review how the case was handled in 2019 "to identify any possible learnings".
It added: "Fraud can have a devastating impact on any victim, but to target a charity is particularly callous and we acknowledge that Sean Pullen has now been sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court."
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Mike Amesbury's meant to be in court Monday by the by for those following Labour MPs who assault their constituents.
 
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Coolio55 said:
Countrywide manhunt for "Pepe Sneed" and "Eric Cartman" still ongoing.
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Those people are viciously posting hate memes online. Unlike this criminal who just stole £20,00 from donations intended to support veterans. He basically did nothing wrong.

Unironically the police involved should be shoved into a blender.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
Despite appearances, this is not a shitpost. This is the actual story on the BBC. Starmer is so bereft of ideas, now that he's lost Sue Gray, that he's begging anyone he can think of to come up with something.
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But that is literally the point of goverment, to come up with the ideas and plans to do things and then put people in roles that are best suited to doing those things.

if the companies knew what to do they would not be in the shit.

More often than not however they do know and are not doing and need to be forced to do so. Which you cannot make them do if you have no idea what is going on.
 
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Otterly said:
Happy middle-bit-between-Christmas and new year everyone. Are we still munching our way through the Christmas ham? Wondering exactly when the leftover turkey will start to be a risk? Have we forgotten what day it is yet? Are you living in a strange hinterland of mild food coma and walks in the park ‘to burn it off’? Have the children got bored enough to start that 2000 piece jigsaw yet? Did you have that awful fog?
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No snow is predicted for this year on the Isle of Man, just been foggy and windy as per usual.
Still got to order the Kintsugi kit I promised my mom I'd buy cus she sent me the money for it, but it has been delayed because I've done research and need to find the ingredients for traditional Kintusugi using real urushi, rice powder, clay powder, gold dust, and other ingredients for a reasonable price that delivers here.
Started a 500 piece puzzle.
I saw a baby seal trying to sleep alone while walking dogs on the beach at night.
Taken all the present wrappings to the tip in my car because not enough space in the bin.
I like your vocabulary, particularly "hinterland" mainlander.
 
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