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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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spread happiness@p4leandp1nk
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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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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The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary


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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.

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.

 

[isalaide]

Neil Buchanan

Neil Buchanan is fine and works in consultancy on children's television development. He got back with his old band some years back for a while but isn't playing with them any more. He last sort of surfaced a couple of years ago to deny the hilarious rumour meme that he was Banksy or at least part of Banksy.

 

[Mao Hao Hao]

Happy New Year (soon anyway) fellow UK Kiwis! Maybe things will get better and Kier will collapse under the weight of his own idiocy, or be burned at a stake, but that's a very optimistic hope.
Currently smashing a Terry's chocolate orange open on the corner of a table (I remember they used to be much bigger, like, decent orange sized not a satsuma) and trying to stay awake enough for at least midnight as came off work while ago and have more work tomorrow. May even have some cider, if I stay awake long enough for that.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Happy New Year (soon anyway) fellow UK Kiwis! Maybe things will get better and Kier will collapse under the weight of his own idiocy, or be burned at a stake, but that's a very optimistic hope.
Currently smashing a Terry's chocolate orange open on the corner of a table (I remember they used to be much bigger, like, decent orange sized not a satsuma) and trying to stay awake enough for at least midnight as came off work while ago and have more work tomorrow. May even have some cider, if I stay awake long enough for that.

Modern chocolate oranges with the hollowed out segments are a disgrace. Won't be long until I get into the scotch in an attempt to forget i'm back in work on Thursday.

 

[Otterly]

Happy new year to you all. I’m hiding in the kitchen before bringing the dessert out…
2024 was somewhat of an anus horribilis for me, so I’m hoping 2025 is better. I wish you all a 2025 filled with happiness, peace and good health.
(And crushing your enemies, driving them before you and seeing the lamentations of the (trans)women.)

 

[teriyakiburns]

Bubbles are chilling in the fridge as we speak. I'm debating whether to brave the rain and surprise my other brother down the road, since he's stuck home alone and minding his kids.

 

[Otterly]

Bubbles are chilling in the fridge as we speak. I'm debating whether to brave the rain and surprise my other brother down the road, since he's stuck home alone and minding his kids.

Yeah do. Take a drink and some snacks for the children.
Howling gale here, any fireworks that get through the rain are going to be sideways…

 

[ThrobbingWalloper]

Happy New Year All!

I'm working tomorrow as apparently old people need caring for all year round. Selfish buggers.

Did my bit by organising a work car share so staff aren't spending hunners on taxis by Ahmed. Rule is if you're getting a lift bring a bottle for the driver to enjoy later.

 

[Shig O'nella]

I'll likely be seeing in the New Year getting rained on in the yard while shirtless.
Got rather a lot of early lambs coming thanks to some fucking townie's inability to stick to the damned footpath or shut a fucking gate.

Anyone who is hitting the pub, hoist one for me, eh?

 

[-Jack-]

Bubbles are chilling in the fridge as we speak. I'm debating whether to brave the rain and surprise my other brother down the road, since he's stuck home alone and minding his kids.

Nice that your brother lives down the road, bring him some beer/bubbles and bring the kids age appropriate drinks, WKD.

 

[isalaide]

Terry's chocolate orange open on the corner of a table (I remember they used to be much bigger, like, decent orange sized not a satsuma)

Someone else remembers this. Honestly thought I was losing the plot over this. My hands have not grown in thirty years but the orange is decidedly smaller in my hand. Plus the crappy hollow segments. Just charge me a fair price for an entire chocolate orange, please, it's not like I'm not going to eat the entire fucker in one go anyway.

As for opening, if you have access to granite worktops or even better flooring, drop the bugger straight on the stuck together end from a height of three feet or so. Cracks perfectly.

 

[BrightonAndHoveAlbion]

kids age appropriate drinks, WKD

When I was a kid it was Frosty Jack's but you can't get that anymore because of woke !

 

[BongoMongo]

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I miss Bodger and Badger. Also whatever happened to Neil Buchanan?
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Buchanan is fine. Bodger, however,is dead.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

ahem... that's SIR Sadiq Khan to you.

Disgusting. The king knighting this evil man is knowingly spitting in the face of every one of his subjects. That cancer should have done its fucking job.

 

[Wonderland foster child]

Nice that your brother lives down the road, bring him some beer/bubbles and bring the kids age appropriate drinks, WKD.

Pfft, WKD is 4% ABV. Be the Fun Uncle and bring Dragon Soop - 7.5% ABV and caffeine.

https://www.dragonsoop.com/

Happy 2025, all, whenever it arrives.

 

[Wuornos]

I'm currently sat in the kitchen tucking into the buffet I've spent most of the day preparing. Family are in the front room watching some bollocks on the TV.

Happy New Year to you all.

 

[A-Logato]

Sat at home, ordered myself a pizza and plan to watch some movies.

On another note though reports of massive armed police presences in almost every main city in the UK and Europe, to such an extent some places like Germany have deployed their equivariant of the national guard and Amsterdam is effectively an iron wall. Any chances of anything kicking off tonight? Likely just a response to what happened in Germany as I don't think they could live down another incident like that so soon.

 

[Otterly]

I'll likely be seeing in the New Year getting rained on in the yard while shirtless.
Got rather a lot of early lambs coming thanks to some fucking townie's inability to stick to the damned footpath or shut a fucking gate.

Anyone who is hitting the pub, hoist one for me, eh?

That’s very early. Hope you get mild weather the next few weeks

reports of massive armed police presences in almost every main city in the UK and Europe, to such an extent some places like Germany have deployed their equivariant of the national guard and Amsterdam is effectively an iron wall.

Worrying. Haven’t heard anything, hope nothing too bad goes off.

 

[isalaide]

On another note though reports of massive armed police presences in almost every main city in the UK and Europe, to such an extent some places like Germany have deployed their equivariant of the national guard and Amsterdam is effectively an iron wall. Any chances of anything kicking off tonight? Likely just a response to what happened in Germany as I don't think they could live down another incident like that so soon.

No, we are scheduled for mass public disturbance, violence, rioting and destruction of property on the 2nd. The Old Firm game hasn't been played on New Year's Day itself for as long as I can remember.

I have a bad feeling this game is the one where someone gets killed in the mayhem. It's been ramping up for a few years now and now there's significant trouble around each game. The behaviour in Argyle Street the other week was fucking outrageous. It only takes one stupid cunt with a knife.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Modern chocolate oranges with the hollowed out segments are a disgrace. Won't be long until I get into the scotch in an attempt to forget i'm back in work on Thursday.

You are such a Debbie Downer.

 

[Hubelublub]

We aren't. I don't know where the idea that we are actually comes from.

Because the British will complain and self-deprecate, about themselves, the weather, and the country. The Yanks are an arrogant sort who will boost their country even as their cities burn. It's a nation of salesmen, always trying to sell you on themselves.