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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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YouGov report: "Scepticism towards transgender rights has grown across the board since 2022"

Where does the British public stand on transgender rights in 2024/25? ​


"Notable in this most recent study – conducted in mid-December 2024 – is the growing resistance on transgender rights among those groups that are typically more permissive on the issue, like women and young people."

Some interesting stats here if anyone fancies deploying their autism for a deep dive. Full PDF: YouGov Survey Results

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Chaos Theorist said:
"Why single out the religion of the ethnonationalist country that has exiled the Gazans"

You do understand that the Jewish people in Britain has enormous reach in the media and government right?
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Uh. No.

The Jews haven't been "The exotic people with money" in the UK for a few centuries now.

Arabs and Chinese are the exotic foreigners with money. The latter are mostly indifferent to Jews unless conveneient like on a university campus, but the former are quite famously anti Jew.

The Jews are generally depicted as an especially diabolical flavour of whiteness in the UK media wise, specifically for "They're not a minority so they get no pass". Can't have the minorities getting done for anti minority hate crimes. It just wouldn't fit the narrative.

Most of the Newspapers are owned by foreigners, but they're more likely to be Arab, EU or Chinese backed than anything else. None of which are known for being very fond of Jews, see the likes of Ireland and Spain as Palestinian-Stans at the "nice" end, and the Middle East as the "not so nice".
 
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Karen of Human Resources said:
Uh. No.

The Jews haven't been "The exotic people with money" in the UK for a few centuries now.

Arabs and Chinese are the exotic foreigners with money. The latter are mostly indifferent to Jews unless conveneient like on a university campus, but the former are quite famously anti Jew.

The Jews are generally depicted as an especially diabolical flavour of whiteness in the UK media wise, specifically for "They're not a minority so they get no pass". Can't have the minorities getting done for anti minority hate crimes. It just wouldn't fit the narrative.

Most of the Newspapers are owned by foreigners, but they're more likely to be Arab, EU or Chinese backed than anything else. None of which are known for being very fond of Jews, see the likes of Ireland and Spain as Palestinian-Stans at the "nice" end, and the Middle East as the "not so nice".
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what utter shite
you have infected the education, media, and judiciary with your foreign tribe thinking
you are a fish denying the water
 
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P 0 P 5 said:
what utter shite
you have infected the education, media, and judiciary with your foreign tribe thinking
you are a fish denying the water
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Wear a Kippah in Bradford, Rochdale, Birmingham or London and see how you do.

Hard to deny it when even the Cops have threatened to lock them up for being "Visibly Jewish" and "Not being able to gurantee their safety".
 
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Programmer Socks said:
"Notable in this most recent study – conducted in mid-December 2024 – is the growing resistance on transgender rights among those groups that are typically more permissive on the issue, like women and young people."
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Can guess a few things specifically with the more permissive groups but I suspect a big one with the women will be those that feel tricked. Particularly due to it getting lumped in with the LGB a lot of people really struggled to understand what transgender meant and I know at least one woman who though an effeminate man was a transgender man. Once it became clearer that's when a lot of opinions changed and people do not like feeling like they have been deceived into supporting something.
 
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P 0 P 5 said:
Lancashire chip barm & gravy, contemplating the broken mill windows, followed by a meat pie barm for dessert
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I don’t miss anything from up norf apart from meat and potato pies. The pies here are just not the same. It’s genuinely sad that people don’t know what they missing out on and that they think that Melton Mowbray pork pies are a good thing.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
Don't knock it. Pie wit mushy peas and a proper big oven bottom saw many a lad through his day.
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isn't there an Australian thing they have mushy pea soup then plonk a mutton pie into it? :story:

little mushy pea anecdote: guy I worked with said put vinegar into your mushy peas, he swore by it, tried it and it was fucking disgusting.
 
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Cloaca Rimjob said:
I never understood people getting curries from the chinkies. it's made from powder you can buy in the shops.Be just as easy to make it yourself. haven't had chips n curry sauce in donks.
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it's about a quid for Home Bargains and is exactly the same as chip shop curry
P 0 P 5 said:
Lancashire chip barm & gravy, contemplating the broken mill windows, followed by a meat pie barm for dessert
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It's spelt MUFFIN
teriyakiburns said:
Don't knock it. Pie wit mushy peas and a proper big oven bottom muffin saw many a lad through his day.
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you missed a word.
 
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Cloaca Rimjob said:
is everyone doxxing their location now by what they call a bread roll? :story:
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fuk off govna. I'll nife you in the apples and pears before I let you get to me jellied eels. Barman get me a nice merlot.
teriyakiburns said:
A muffin and an oven bottom are completely different things and I will die on this hill (the hill looks like a barmcake).
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no
 
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