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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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#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.

 

[-Jack-]

I know Scotland, specifically Glasgow had a huge drug issue but didn’t know it was that bad.

Might aswell get the russ-..nevermind!

The Russian people can be lovely (like any country), but it’s government and current presence is vile and putrid-Greggs should kick the Russians out of Ukraine in my intellectual opinion.

 

[Coolio55]

Good evening, Bongs!
Your government picked the worse time to go full retard with an American company. With the news of Apple giving up security features due to the threat of fines and penalties just fresh off the presses, consider this an ultimatum to your retarded government.

OK. At risk of talking about American politics in the UK thread, I just want to bring this one up again.
This policy has only been posted twice on the forum and the other one was in the US politics thread where people continued talking about something else.

This is actually really bad. This is just globalism with a chud coat of paint.
I am in no way defending that diseased parasite Starmer but this is just the continued hollowing out of everything into a single consolidated bloc.
Irony of ironies, it's the vice president of the US complaining about people not respecting the US's sovereignty while at the same time denying them theirs.
(I understand that the recent tariffs are officially for drug related reasons but the ones against Canada and especially China are suspect although this isn't to imply that they're entirely innocent.)

Schizo "it came to me in a dream" theory time: The UK govt has wanted to do something like this for a long time but I'd bet a disposable amount on a whim that somebody egged them on into doing this.
It's all too convenient that there's perfect red meat to focus on when the US announces their future foreign policy.
Of course, this could all just be the tail wagging the dog. The UK Govt could've easily been doing this for an extended period and it only "leaking" after the change of regime for a quick win.
Still, this whole "five eyes" thing is extremely rotten. After the PRISM leaks, it's public knowledge that GCHQ's meddling in the US has been consensual. This just feels like an ex-post-facto declaration of rape.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

We got trounced at Suez but that was a polifail issue more than a milifail one, I'd say the last proper balls to the walls bust up we got rekt in of actual consequence that we didn't come ontop at the end of was probably... sometime around Cromwell/Charles II? A lot of the Dutch/Spanish wars of the time were technically defeats because we gained fuck all from them, the last true loss was Calais.

Not a bad record for a little island. I'll say this for our brownoid invaders, if the Americans or Jews ever tried to start a war with Britain, they would lose in record time. The muzzies hate, with burning passion, both the Americans (who they class as Jews) and the Jews.

There's nary a paki I've spoken to who didn't quickly segway into killing the jews.

 

[Otterly]

consider this an ultimatum to your retarded government.

They won’t listen. They’re ideologues. They really believe they’re right. Maybe we need some sort of reverse war of independence.

The saving grace is the Americans seem to be very sympathetic to the native white British. Vance will brutalize him.

I hope we see him cry.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Schizo "it came to me in a dream" theory time: The UK govt has wanted to do something like this for a long time but I'd bet a disposable amount on a whim that somebody egged them on into doing this.

I agree with your theory and have held the opinion that Sunak was dropped into the position by one faction, but refused to finish the job, hence the snap GE which decimated the Tories.
The only other useful twonk willing to do the dirty work of globohomo was queer starmer.
I sperg more in the conspiracy thread about this topic but business and politics are at war. Truss tried helping business and was punted. Sunak was an opportunist useful idiot and Starmer is Stalin in the modern day, willing to do what needs to be done for the 'party', even though he has a hand up his arse.

 

[teriyakiburns]

even though he has a hand up his arse.

But enough about Lord Alli.

 

[close]

Which war did the Brits last lose?

Take a walk down your streets and tell me the quality of the people you see. Take a stock of your government and tell me the quality of those too. Do you honestly think your country is capable of fighting Russia, or the US?

 

[Eekum Bokum]

Take a walk down your streets and tell me the quality of the people you see. Take a stock of your government and tell me the quality of those too. Do you honestly think your country is capable of fighting Russia, or the US?

Maybe not the US but we could take Russia.

 

[Kier Starmer]

I do not get Starmer, he appears to be a child trying to get into the "cool" club whilst the "cool" club finds him to be the weird homeschooled kid. The meeting on Tuesday went disastrous for him Schoultz stormed out when Starmer proposed troops branding it as schitzo. He said it was "unhelpful", and "pointless" and said it "would no doubt cause esculation". Meloni did not even go and Macron was "alarmed at the proposal". The Polish were disturbed by the proposal and told Trump about it. It is abundantly clear Europe wants out and Starmer wants to go in for optics when the public is against it. When Germany an authoritarian state looks at you and mutters "the fuck" you know you are too far gone. I have a feeling Starmer set up the meeting and honestly tried to get them to put troops in.

This is a "leader" who is completely out of his depth but someone deeply psychologically touched.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

This is a "leader" who is completely out of his depth but someone deeply psychologically touched.

You are defining leader as someone in charge who wants what's best for his people.
View his as a servant of the WEF following the communist manifesto for western society and it makes sense

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Do you honestly think your country is capable of fighting Russia, or the US?

Russia? It would be tough as they're well versed in Urban combat. America? Yes. They cannot strategize on a battlefield and have zero experience in urban combat.

 

[-Jack-]

Russia? It would be tough as they're well versed in Urban combat. America? Yes. They cannot strategize on a battlefield and have zero experience in urban combat.

Zigger spotted.

 

[Snekposter]

have zero experience in urban combat

Aside from all of that house-to-house fighting we did in the MidEast, of course. I'm sure those 850 Englishmen at Fallujah carried the 10,500 Americans present all by themselves.

 

[Free the Pedos]

Russia? It would be tough as they're well versed in Urban combat. America? Yes. They cannot strategize on a battlefield and have zero experience in urban combat.

Lots of combat in Iraq (less in Afghanistan) was urban warfare.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

We might win a battle or two against the US but ultimately lose any war. What makes the American military scary is its sheer size and its production, no need for strategy when you can drown your enemy in munitions.

America is not the Qing's Banner Armies.

 

[Mr Bunny]

Maybe we need some sort of reverse war of independence.

Just restart the war of 1812 and watch it end with the burning of Westminster.

And then watch the confused faces of American soldiers when they hear a roaring cheer from British forces. Telling Americans they missed a spot.

 

[CryptoHermit]

This is a "leader" who is completely out of his depth but someone deeply psychologically touched.

He was a latchkey kid iirc ie. emotionally neglected and left alone by his parents for much of his life which might explains why he seeks meaning in getting gaped by a paki on the reg.

If he put forward a legion of Norf FC lads going around the country shooting any graffiti or grime with dry ice he'd have a lot more tangible effect on the mood of the country tbh. People seem to tolerate globohomo architecture as long as it looks clean.

 

[isalaide]

Take a walk down your streets and tell me the quality of the people you see. Take a stock of your government and tell me the quality of those too. Do you honestly think your country is capable of fighting Russia, or the US?

If they bring vodka and heroin I see absolutely no reason to fight our Russian brethren

 

[the rat]

If they bring vodka and heroin I see absolutely no reason to fight our Russian brethren

Typical scotswoman being alright with heroin.

 

[FedPostalService]

Russia? It would be tough as they're well versed in Urban combat.

They’ve been stuck in a muddy field for over a year and had their arse handed to them by a nation of farmers and camgirls.

Russia is a nation of alcoholics and AIDS ridden drug addicts.

They won’t be able to go against a NATO power. Even Belgium would fuck them.

If it wasn’t for them being a nuclear power they’d be an irrelevant backwater with a lot of space.