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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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10:07 AM - Jan 3, 2019

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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.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Stay warm over there. I hear it's supposed to get close to freezing. I don't even put a jacket on until it's below freezing, but I know you Brits aren't used to that.

Puff.

 

[FedPostalService]

Stay warm over there. I hear it's supposed to get close to freezing. I don't even put a jacket on until it's below freezing, but I know you Brits aren't used to that.

As someone who enjoys hiking I love this weather as I get to use my proper winter kit that sits and gathers dust usually.

 

[ParasiteSteve]

Stay warm over there. I hear it's supposed to get close to freezing. I don't even put a jacket on until it's below freezing, but I know you Brits aren't used to that.

We like the cold. It's the heat we do not do well with. Those 25 degree days are like living on the surface of the sun. Nice sub zeros are pleasant. I can actually wear my scarf when I walk the dogs.

 

[Mao Hao Hao]

Stay warm over there. I hear it's supposed to get close to freezing. I don't even put a jacket on until it's below freezing, but I know you Brits aren't used to that.

There's dozens of guys where I live wearing shorts (one even had flip flops on when he was heading to the local shops). Weather only gets truly dire when you see the postie finally wearing long trousers.

 

[Pig Boss]

Puff.

He's obviously not familiar with the Norf folk. I don't think I've ever seen a Geordie wearing a jacket.

 

[BongoMongo]

4 lions is good tho

unfortunately the political establishment pulled a norm

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Is he a martyr or a fucking jalfreizi??

 

[The Gene Genie]

I'm in one most Fridays anyway playing pool and losing money on horses, what could go wrong?

Wagwan bro? It's a Norf ting innit?

 

[Midwit]

which would mean dropping spent stages over the Danes and Norwegians.

I don't see the issue here.

your gravy non lumpy

Unfortunately me mum's was a tad too thin.

but the hatred that Poms that come to Australia have for Eastern Europeans intrigues me.

Eastern Europeans are vastly overrepresented in a lot of unskilled labour positions even in the whiter parts of the country.

We'll just have to meet at a rough northern social club that will scare the doxing faggots off.

The train up's gonna cost a bit for me.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I don't see the issue here.

They have the best pastries and whatever norwegians are good at.

Bros, I just walked back from my dad's place. The official temperature is -1, but it is way, way colder than that. Like -3 or lower. I think they're lying about it.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

The train up's gonna cost a bit for me.

You don't have to buy it.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

He's obviously not familiar with the Norf folk. I don't think I've ever seen a Geordie wearing a jacket.

You are correct. All the Brits I deal with directly are pussies from London who dress like Eskimos when it's below 5 Celsius and freak out when we get more than a few inches of snow.

 

[Monopolywheel]

Some good news lads

 

[pangolins]

That attack fucked me up. I was a seasoned London commuter back then, although I wasn’t in London that day. Suicide bombers in London? Unthinkable. London was no stranger to terrorism, but barbarism on that scale was just beyond belief.

The problem with the British tendency to keep calm and carry on… well it means that 7/7 is basically forgotten. What was its legacy? Four Lions?

Same for Manchester Arena and it’s only been seven years.

I know quite a few people who were at that Ariana Grande concert and remember being so worried for them, fortunately everyone I knew was alright and it was gcse year for a lot of Ariana fans I knew so they weren't there at all because it was exam time.

I actually stumbled across the green party links in south Leeds when trying to work out where exactly it was that the Beeston based 7/7 bombers were hanging out preparing for the attacks. Mohammad Siddique Khan used to be one of the top results when you googled Leeds Beckett Alumni but they scrubbed that at some point. He used to be a 'learning mentor' at Hillside School in Beeston which is now a community office rental place still called Hillside. All the Leeds based bombers met in the Hamara youth access point, the main Hamara centre is based in an old Church but the youth access point was on a small shopping parade nearby. They also trained in gym that was in the basement of the Kashmiri community centre, which at the time was also the main mosque in the area, they were also associated with a another mosque in the area based out of a house which is still home to an islamic charity. Both of the mosques have gone on to have new purpose built premises that are obviously mosques at a glance, definitely the most expensive buildings in the immediate area. I believe the bombers were also associated with an islamic bookshop that has no traces and is currently an empty unit now opposite a shop now called 'techflix and chill' and also a 3rd mosque near the aldi has some links.

The bomber Shehzad Tanweer worked at his father's chip shop and the bombers hung out in the space above it after one of the mosques decided they couldn't use the basement any more. Ocean fisheries is still in the family, despite them trying to pretend it wasn't immediately after the attack, the owner is now Shehzad's brother Razvain and the space above is used for his insurance business which I believe he works with Omar Mushtaq, local green party council candidate. There is a permanent Omar Mushtaq Banner attached to the outside of the business, Omar Mushtaq is also associated with the Hamara centre.

You've got to do some digging to find this stuff out, besides the two huge mosques and the third farther away and the 4th under construction none of this is obvious if you were to just visit Beeston.

 

[bort420]

You are correct. All the Brits I deal with directly are pussies from London who dress like Eskimos when it's below 5 Celsius and freak out when we get more than a few inches of snow.

any time my flights into Heathrow are delayed due to like 1/4 in of snow it reminds me why Britain has been taken over by leeches. you're telling me the former rulers of the world can't clean a runway?

 

[Snekposter]

any time my flights into Heathrow are delayed due to like 1/4 in of snow it reminds me why Britain has been taken over by leeches. you're telling me the former rulers of the world can't clean a runway?

They've got union rules about unsafe work conditions.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

They've got union rules about unsafe work conditions.

It's pronounced onion rules because they like to cry when you try to work with them.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

The problem with the British tendency to keep calm and carry on… well it means that 7/7 is basically forgotten. What was its legacy? Four Lions?

Same for Manchester Arena and it’s only been seven years.

4 lions is good tho

I used to think Chris Morris' stuff was very, very funny, when I was younger, but I've found myself thinking about and reappraising some of it more and more recently.

The Paedogeddon stuff, most of all. "Ha ha ha, you're talking Nonce-Sense! Ha ha ha ha, we've got Dr. Fox to say that paedophiles have more in common with crabs than you and me! Ha ha ha ha ha, the bloke can't ackshually define what an indecent image is! Ha ha ha ha ha, the way that the media report about paedophiles is very overblown, ackshually, and it's worrying how quickly the public will resort to violence against paedophiles!"

OK.

But then it came out that Dr. Fox was actually a paedophile.

And who does the argument that you can't ackshually define what an indecent image is, ackshually, benefit, Chris?

Oh no, the media get a bit hysterical about paedo shit and people don't like paedophiles? That's awful. We'd better all be extra nice to paedophiles from now on, then.

The Four Lions film is a bit like that, for me. Like, yeah, OK, the sort of people that commit atrocities are generally a bit stupid.

They also indiscriminately murder people with explosive devices.

Why are you trying to humanise these people again?

Ha ha ha ha ha, the police snipers shot an innocent person because they thought that the guy dressed as a Wookiee was ackshually dressed as the Honey Monster! The police are so incompetent!

Yeah, OK, but that wouldn't have happened if the four central characters in this story, who we're apparently supposed to empathise with, hadn't have been carrying out a terrorist plot to murder civilians to begin with.

I feel like I must emphasise, I don't think Chris Morris is a closet paedophile or a terrorist sympathiser or anything like that, I just think he's an edgy leftie who says and does politically edgy things to be funny and piss off the right-wing, without really thinking about people's actual concerns.

 

[teriyakiburns]

any time my flights into Heathrow are delayed due to like 1/4 in of snow it reminds me why Britain has been taken over by leeches. you're telling me the former rulers of the world can't clean a runway?

Their procedures assume global warming has made it too warm to need snow clearing equipment, so they have to scrounge it up from elsewhere whenever it snows.

 

[FedPostalService]

It's pronounced onion rules because they like to cry when you try to work with them.

Don’t get me started on those lazy bastards. I’m not back in the office until next week and I dread to think what those retards have been plotting over the three weeks I was off.

Ha ha ha ha ha, the police snipers shot an innocent person because they thought that the guy dressed as a Wookiee was ackshually dressed as the Honey Monster! The police are so incompetent!

That was the bit which fucked me off. Are the police full of retards? Yes, but fire arms officers are really highly trained. ”Both sides bad” doesn’t work when you’ve got retards planning to blow up civilisation and affable retards trying to over zealously protect the public.

Riz Ahmed is wanker too. Oxford graduate from an extremely wealthy family that’s part of the fucking established who was ranting in interviews that if they didn’t have more sand people in Star Wars the community would start Minecrafting themselves in supermarkets.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

That was the bit which fucked me off. Are the police full of retards? Yes, but fire arms officers are really highly trained. ”Both sides bad” doesn’t work when you’ve got retards planning to blow up civilisation and affable retards trying to over zealously protect the public.

Exactly right.

The only reason they even started shooting in the first place was because they were trying to prevent the attack that the movie's protagonists were attempting to carry out. The Muslims are arguably just as responsible for that innocent person being killed as the sniper who pulled the trigger.

He also wrote an article in The Guardian about Martin Amis, which was basically 'Muslims dindu nuffin', and compared Amis to Abu Hamza. Even as someone who doesn't like Martin Amis, comparing him to an actual terrorist who accidentally blew off his own hands and blinded himself in one eye because he wanted to kill non-Muslims seems a little extreme to me.