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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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BongoMongo said:
Last night was great. It was windy and pissing it down.

We had curry for tea, watched some Sopranos, and were in bed by 11pm.

Because of the weather all the absolute, bastard cunts who would have otherwise been setting off their poxy fireworks, couldn't. It was fucking magnificent.

How peaceful it was really highlighted and made apparent how much of a blight fireworks are.
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Your poor wife, having to share a bed with you after a curry!
 
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Trig.Point said:
You can read the same into how the farmers are getting fucked, or rather have fucked themselves or how people that send their kids to private schools have made little effort to promote the social benefits of private schools.
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We went to private schools and we send our kids to one. The social benefit is that our kids don't have to associate with poor folks or anyone with learning needs. This is not a benefit to society, just to our kids. It is a completely selfish decision. I have no shame or regret about it, but I can't pretend that I believe I am acting in the best interest of 'society'. I am buying my kids a significant privilege and advantage in life, quite deliberately. No one is coming out to bat for the 'social benefits' of what we are doing because we are all well aware of what we are doing. We have fucking bailed on the state education system because our little Jemimas and Tristans are too precious to associate with the Olivia-Maes and the Jacksons.
 
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isalaide said:
We went to private schools and we send our kids to one. The social benefit is that our kids don't have to associate with poor folks or anyone with learning needs. This is not a benefit to society, just to our kids. It is a completely selfish decision. I have no shame or regret about it, but I can't pretend that I believe I am acting in the best interest of 'society'. I am buying my kids a significant privilege and advantage in life, quite deliberately. No one is coming out to bat for the 'social benefits' of what we are doing because we are all well aware of what we are doing. We have fucking bailed on the state education system because our little Jemimas and Tristans are too precious to associate with the Olivia-Maes and the Jacksons.
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You’ve made the right decision. Sadly in Englandshire you have pretend to be religious to get you kids into a decent state school.
 
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FedPostalService said:
You’ve made the right decision. Sadly in Englandshire you have pretend to be religious to get you kids into a decent state school.
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That does no fucking good in Scotland whatsoever since the Catholic schools remain sited in the poor areas.

Like I say, I have no regrets over it whatsoever, but I also fully understand the effect of the most engaged, and the most time-rich and resource-rich parents completely fucking bailing on the state system. Yes, via taxation I remain a net contributor to the system and all that, but whatever energy and drive for change I could bring, either personally or as a professional Karen mummy, is quite simply not there. It is the antithesis of the aim of the comprehensive system. I'm going to do it anyway for as long as it is legally allowed, because parenting is inherently a selfish activity. I am however not going to be a fucking hypocrite and pretend that's not why I'm doing it. I am giving wild side eye to anyone at this point trying to argue there is a social good in sending Matilda and Nicholas to Dotheboys Hall or St Hockeysticks.
 
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That does no fucking good in Scotland whatsoever since the Catholic schools remain sited in the poor areas.

Like I say, I have no regrets over it whatsoever, but I also fully understand the effect of the most engaged, and the most time-rich and resource-rich parents completely fucking bailing on the state system. Yes, via taxation I remain a net contributor to the system and all that, but whatever energy and drive for change I could bring, either personally or as a professional Karen mummy, is quite simply not there. It is the antithesis of the aim of the comprehensive system. I'm going to do it anyway for as long as it is legally allowed, because parenting is inherently a selfish activity. I am however not going to be a fucking hypocrite and pretend that's not why I'm doing it. I am giving wild side eye to anyone at this point trying to argue there is a social good in sending Matilda and Nicholas to Dotheboys Hall or St Hockeysticks.
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My brother is lucky as the catchment area he’s in has papey schools on par with private ones. I’m so glad we moved away from my home town. I could think of me or my brother sending our kids to our old school.
 
I watched Father of the Bride Part 2, played that Robocop video game, then spent the rest of the night forcing myself through Burroughs' Naked Lunch (worse than I remember). In for bed before twelve- new year's tradition.
 
isalaide said:
We went to private schools and we send our kids to one. The social benefit is that our kids don't have to associate with poor folks or anyone with learning needs. This is not a benefit to society, just to our kids. It is a completely selfish decision. I have no shame or regret about it, but I can't pretend that I believe I am acting in the best interest of 'society'. I am buying my kids a significant privilege and advantage in life, quite deliberately. No one is coming out to bat for the 'social benefits' of what we are doing because we are all well aware of what we are doing. We have fucking bailed on the state education system because our little Jemimas and Tristans are too precious to associate with the Olivia-Maes and the Jacksons.
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The whole point of society is to produce children and future generations who won't burn everything down. Your children, hopefully, are more likely to be net contibutors to society than what many of the shit tier state schools are producing.

Private schools create their own problems, and reinforce some of the worst aspects of British culture. However they're not the cause of the failings in the state sector.
 
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isalaide said:
I am giving wild side eye to anyone at this point trying to argue there is a social good in sending Matilda and Nicholas to Dotheboys Hall or St Hockeysticks.
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It is though just only in bad-selfish greater good terms that aren't socially acceptable to actually bring up.
Kids do better in groups when the herd is at the same level if you cut out the tards and bright-eyes everyone benefits, this goes against equality dogma however and will never be mentioned in good faith
 
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Sir Baz the Intolerant said:
Crack down hard on companies using illegal migrant labour, making the financial penalties a percentage of total company value rather than a flat rate, and make it high enough to genuinely impact their ability to survive.
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Need to make individuals responsible, from line managers up to c suite legally responsible too. Zero tolerance. Whistleblowers/cooperating witnesses to get paid out of the fines
 
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isalaide said:
We went to private schools and we send our kids to one. The social benefit is that our kids don't have to associate with poor folks or anyone with learning needs. This is not a benefit to society, just to our kids. It is a completely selfish decision. I have no shame or regret about it,
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Don’t even think of guilt. I cant afford to send mine to private schools but if I could, I absolutely would. You do the best you can by your kids, that’s the whole point of parenting. Anyone telling you it’s wrong is just jealous they can’t afford it
 
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Broadside said:
People are probably sick of being run over by pakis every time they go shopping.
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Never forget the time Tesco staff were yellow labelling products and they literally had to put a barricade up before they shelved it, otherwise all the pakis and niggers would quite literally fight and bum rush it. This was in Woolwich (South East London) so you can imagine the scenes, never visiting that shit hole again.
 
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Miriam Margoyles said:
Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but if most asylum seekers are Muslim, why are they going home for Christmas? A holiday that they wouldn't celebrate?
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Maybe it's just meant as the descriptor of the period of time?
Muzzies here still take leave around Dec/Jan unless they own a retail business.
 
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