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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.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

I heard that he didn't enter a plea because he's having trouble with his voice, he felt a little hoarse

 

[No. 7 cat]

Because the muslims are very new to the Green party and only joined because Labour isn't Pro-Palestine
So they vote Green as a protest vote
Muslims don't really seem to care about how woke the party is. All they care about is Palestine

Labour means more bennies, maximum pandering to Islam, and unlimited immigration (not that the Tories were much better) for the Paki. Palestine is important, but think the Moslem thinks firstly of increasing the power of their community. Homo tolerance is something for the whites. Labour is the best path for that ambition.

 

[Slimy Time]

I’m squinting and on my phone but I think the white haired older lady is Caroline voaden, dark blonde is Liz Jarvis and the one in the coral jacket is vicky slade. All Lib Dems.

All of whom took the massive heroic step of abstaining from the recent vote in true Lib Dem, "never win an election and sit in government unless its a coalition" fashion.

 

[isalaide]

I suppose it does show the horsefuckers have learnt something from the Mr Hands incident, they have sized down to Shetlands

 

[FedPostalService]

I suppose it does show the horsefuckers have learnt something from the Mr Hands incident, they have sized down to Shetlands

I wouldn’t have considered a Shetland pony literally built for BBC.

 

[2SLGBQTIA+ 2 Furious]

Man, 43, accused of having sex with a Shetland pony after breaking into farm appears in court

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14262827/Man-sex-Shetland-pony-breaking-farm.html

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I was wondering why Gregory Porter wasn't on the Hootenanny this year

 

[Otterly]

having sex with a female mare,

As opposed to a male mare? The absolute state of current year journalism. The person writing this doesn’t know what a mare is, yet thinks they are qualified for a job using the English language to describe events

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

As opposed to a male mare?

You don't know if that mare's gender identity matches the one it was assigned at birth.

 

[Otterly]

You don't know if that mare's gender identity matches the one it was assigned at birth.

As it gallops, honking, over the event horizon.
Am I just ‘old woman yells at cloud’ or is the whole general background knowledge people have gone these days? I feel like the people we have coming in new to work don’t know anything past a very superficial pop culture. Maybe every generation feels like this.
Bring back hanging, anyway.

 

[FedPostalService]

As opposed to a male mare? The absolute state of current year journalism. The person writing this doesn’t know what a mare is, yet thinks they are qualified for a job using the English language to describe events

I can’t wait for some bearded closeted homosexual conservative Burger to release his YouTube documentary called “What is a mare?”

 

[-Jack-]

As it gallops, honking, over the event horizon.
Am I just ‘old woman yells at cloud’ or is the whole general background knowledge people have gone these days? I feel like the people we have coming in new to work don’t know anything past a very superficial pop culture. Maybe every generation feels like this.
Bring back hanging, anyway.

It depends on the age range I guess? That, or they don't have much substance to their personality besides work.

 

[isalaide]

Great, four free lynx for the zoo https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-scottish-woods-after-capture-of-another-pair

 

[FedPostalService]

If only we regulated the release of non native humans into this country with the care and severity that we treated the release of non native species.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Am I just ‘old woman yells at cloud’ or is the whole general background knowledge people have gone these days? I feel like the people we have coming in new to work don’t know anything past a very superficial pop culture. Maybe every generation feels like this.

I'm a millenial nearing thirty now, and honestly, it's a bizarre thing to talk to younger people coming in as grads. A lot of them - not all mind you - seem to have been beamed down from some spaceship for all the understanding of things they have. I hate to sound like an old person, but none of them read, none of them have any cultural grounding, and none of them seem to have any real world knowledge. One of the new grads was musing at lunch recently that he didn't 'get' what the difference between pork and pig was.

I have no idea that even means? Like, what are you trying to say you madman?

 

[Just a boring name]

"How's your year been, Damion?"

"Not gonna lie, mate - I had a bit of a Mare"

 

[isalaide]

If only we regulated the release of non native humans into this country with the care and severity that we treated the release of non native species.

The rich elite of the UK are substantially more interested in the safety of farmed grouse than they are in the safety of girls in care. This is a statement of fact.

 

[Midwit]

One of the new grads was musing at lunch recently that he didn't 'get' what the difference between pork and pig was.

This person clearly hasn't had to walk through a cow field to get to the local train station, I bet they'd get confused and call it a beef field though.

 

[QE65]

The rich elite of the UK are substantially more interested in the safety of farmed grouse

Certain members of this group do have a recreational interest in pigs.

 

[-Jack-]

I'm a millenial nearing thirty now, and honestly, it's a bizarre thing to talk to younger people coming in as grads. A lot of them - not all mind you - seem to have been beamed down from some spaceship for all the understanding of things they have. I hate to sound like an old person, but none of them read, none of them have any cultural grounding, and none of them seem to have any real world knowledge. One of the new grads was musing at lunch recently that he didn't 'get' what the difference between pork and pig was.

I have no idea that even means? Like, what are you trying to say you madman?

If you're nearing thirty wouldn't that make you an older gen-z? I assumed Millenials were in there mid 30s-40s, though I can never really understand the official timeline.

 

[anklyscr]

If only we regulated the release of non native humans into this country with the care and severity that we treated the release of non native species.

Do you not know about the magic soil that makes any 70iq mongoloid from shittystan into a right proper Brit once they land at Dover.