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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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Hey Johnny Bravo said:
What about fer-ma-sees?
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Chemists, chemists, chemists.
Miriam Margoyles said:
I feel like this is something that doesn't get talked about a lot, but there is basically no locally made entertainment aimed at children in this country any more.
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Aside from Wallace and Gromit of course. Though even that's outsourced to Netflix now.
Tied to which there was an article about them being confused by one phrase used in the more recent one.
“Peter ad-libs quite a lot. At one point, he’s astonished at something and shouts: ‘Flippin’ Nora.’ One day we did get a note back to ask: ‘Who is Nora and why is she being flipped?”’

Crossingham said that they convinced the bosses Ka’s comment was “not rude, not an expletive” but “an innocent turn of phrase”.
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Can't even spell Kay. Flipping journalists.
FedPostalService said:
I will say Hey Duggee is amazing.
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A-woof.
6MillionCoofs said:
It’s not that they had ADHD etc. it’s that the programming now is designed to be crack for them
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Western animation thread might be the place to ask about any research showing that, might have been posted in there before.

As regards the children's entertainment stuff people are correct that a lot of it is American (or American dubbed) now which is a shame. We did some decent children's stuff but these days not so much.
 
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Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
None of this is propaganda, this is all my subjective experience. As in, the things I've encountered while being in America where I've thought "this would fuck me up if I lived here".

>Most of what you list here is either a net benefit
You're proving my point about the US and the UK being very different countries.
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I'm not sure what to tell you, buddy. In the USA, you can get ahead if you work hard, obey the law, and treat people like individuals. In the UK, you get what you get. We welcome immigrants who do it the right way and the choice is yours.
85CentSoda said:
I blame Hollywood for starting it, and new media/social media, like Youtube, for massively accelerating it. Globalization is a bitch.
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What's really funny is I use a lot of British terms, spellings, and pronunciations due to all the British music I consume. I pronounce "garage" like a Brit. I say "rubbish" and "bin" instead of "trash can."
 
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Hey Johnny Bravo said:
What about fer-ma-sees?
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Middle English, so it's been around for a long time.

The general rule is this: if it's a shop primarily dedicated to medical things with a pharmacy inside it, people call it a chemist. If it's purely a place for dispensing prescription medicine, whether on its own or inside something else, it's called a pharmacy. Some chemists call themselves pharmacies because a big word sounds posher than a small word, but you'll never see the pharmacy in a hospital or attached to a GP's office called the chemist.
 
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I also say "innit" a lot, call foolish people muppets, call snitches a "grass," use the verb "nicked" for theft, and often say "I can't suss it out." After the popularity of Among Us, I stopped saying "suss" as much for obvious reasons.

Also, as a thread tax, I guess Keir Starmer's brother died?
 
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FedPostalService said:
One thing we all missed is Two Tier Kier spent his entire career calling his brother a hopeless retard for brownie points and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone point out how horrific that is.
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But he was a retard. He was brain damaged at birth. He wasn't even allowed to sit any fucking exams at school.
 
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Hey Johnny Bravo said:
I also say "innit" a lot, call foolish people muppets, call snitches a "grass," use the verb "nicked" for theft, and often say "I can't suss it out." After the popularity of Among Us, I stopped saying "suss" as much for obvious reasons.

Also, as a thread tax, I guess Keir Starmer's brother died?
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You also won't stop talking about yourself, like any of us give a shit. Which is about as American as you can get.
 
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Hubelublub said:
No. One thread without you Yank faggots shitting things up. We can shit things up on our own.

Americans, the moids of nation-states.
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You guys come into the US Politics General all the time. This isn't a De-Yankified Zone. At least, not yet.
 
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