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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.

 

[teriyakiburns]

"We will reduce net migration to 50,000 per annum ......."

Lost my vote already.

Compared to what we have now, it's a huge step in the right direction. They also want a complete freeze on immigration for a "generation", so I assume 20 years, and want to withdraw from the ECHR and the UN convention on refugees, which would free the country up to begin mass deporting illegals and remove the legal obligation to accept all-comers without question. Not even Reform wanted to go that far. This is one of those cases where the first legitimate step creates a snowballing effect. Once you get people to accept the idea of resettlement for "some", it very quickly becomes a mass movement.

 

[Free the Pedos]

e: also I agree that no British-focused party can have a muslim involved at all

Out of curiosity, would you vote for a party with a very anti-Muslim minority involved (Sikh/Hindu/Jew)?

 

[Cassius Crayfish]

Steven Woolfe, who I've always had a lot of time for, has just gone on TalkTV and accused Farage (for the first time ever) of using the same tactic against him and many others that he's using against Lowe. Speaks volumes that he felt he could no longer hold back. I think Farage has seriously miscalculated.

 

[Kier Starmer]

I just listened and Woolfe abandoning Farage is a huge blow. I think he is fucked, the truth is Farage is a snowflake disguised as a right winger. Again I forgot the Kilroy backstabbing, I remember him being a great speaker.

Farage is Retarded capital R for thinking you can have an Indian, Muslim chair for a party promoting traditional values and it never be questioned. Reform was the only representation of the working class and it is now sullied.

 

[A-Logato]

Steven Woolfe, who I've always had a lot of time for, has just gone on TalkTV and accused Farage (for the first time ever) of using the same tactic against him and many others that he's using against Lowe. Speaks volumes that he felt he could no longer hold back. I think Farage has seriously miscalculated.

Let's say what Lowe did was actually pretty bad and was under investigation. If so then why was it kept quiet since December 2024 and never brought up or led to him being suspended sooner? It just so happened to come out right as Lowe took shots at Farage and how he's running Reform. I don't buy Lowe did anything wrong, most of Reforms members don't buy it and even Reforms own lawyer has come out against this recently and slammed Reform over how they've handled this.

 

[The Gene Genie]

I just listened and Woolfe abandoning Farage is a huge blow. I think he is fucked, the truth is Farage is a snowflake disguised as a right winger. Again I forgot the Kilroy backstabbing, I remember him being a great speaker.

Farage is Retarded capital R for thinking you can have an Indian, Muslim chair for a party promoting traditional values and it never be questioned. Reform was the only representation of the working class and it is now sullied.

Farage only cares about looking good for the cameras and getting invited to the country estate parties of the people he wants to be friends with. He has never been a serious politician and the fact that anyone really looks to him as some kind of legitimate figure for change is an indictment on how desperate Britons are for change that they'd hitch their wagon to a shameless grifter like him.

 

[Cassius Crayfish]

 

[Smyrna]

If you want an idea of how many people have been run over by Farage because he thought they were a threat to him and his power, that picture is probably the best visual example (and by no means is it a complete set).

 

[Kier Starmer]

Christ you can make a political cabinet of people Farage has backstabbed.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

The amount of backstabbing Farage has done would make Byzantine officials blush.

 

[Crispy Jakes]

Steven Woolfe, who I've always had a lot of time for

I spoke to him a few times, a very genuine guy and was a real asset to UKIP. Incredibly well spoken and handled hostile media perfectly. He was pragmatic but never hid his views, he's a man cut very much from the same cloth as Lowe and you always knew.

If Reform weren't hellbent on being teal-tories he would have a senior position in the party. Also Mike Hookem is a fat alcoholic cunt who did fuck all but cash his MEP cheque. He was always scared of actually following UKIP policy in-case someone called him an 'ism and had open contempt for the membership's "backwards views". It's notable that all the UKIP brass who weren't total fannies immediately took Woolfe's side, including ones who were in that meeting.

With all that said, this picture is still very funny:

 

[Vesperus]

Christ you can make a political cabinet of people Farage has backstabbed.

It would probably do a decent job, too.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Man I love ‘Right Wing’ parties

The same shit always happens:

Party members and supporters: We aren’t racist
Party kicks out the one white dude people like
Party supporters: Unending hate about brown people.

Every time. Is very funny.

Now they are all like Rupert Lowe should make his own thing, as if that will work. Lmao.

 

[BongoMongo]

Man I love ‘Right Wing’ parties

The same shit always happens:

Party members and supporters: We aren’t racist
Party kicks out the one white dude people like
Party supporters: Unending hate about brown people.

Every time. Is very funny.

Now they are all like Rupert Lowe should make his own thing, as if that will work. Lmao.

Thing is the niggers and pakis make hating them so easy. They're foul.


There's nothing wrong with racism because the races we despise are subhuman vermin. They rape children and inbreed and are low IQ trash

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Thing is the niggers and pakis make hating them so easy. They're foul.

I know. It’s just very funny with the obvious frequency with which this happens. Which is why honestly the Elites in the UK never have to worry. Opposition will always kill itself.

There's nothing wrong with racism because the races we despise are subhuman vermin. They rape children and inbreed and are low IQ trash

Sure. Just might not be the best look when you are trying to win elections where you need them to vote for you and to do that you require funding.

 

[Otterly]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...gle-illegal-school-children-bbc-b2707888.html

While I agree that leading children across a mousetrap covered barn is very peculiar, I will also note that the same people shrieking about it have been fine with indoctrinating children with tranny nonsense and all sorts of nasty gay sex stuff.
If we could could go back to letting children play out in the park without danger from predators, dogs hit and needles, and teaching them stuff like reading writing and ‘rithmatic at school, that would be lovely. Crazies, step away from the children.

Out of curiosity, would you vote for a party with a very anti-Muslim minority involved (Sikh/Hindu/Jew)?

No. Alien Tribal politics. Not happening. My tribe only. Sorry.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

If so then why was it kept quiet since December 2024 and never brought up or led to him being suspended sooner? It just so happened to come out right as Lowe took shots at Farage and how he's running Reform.

Same reason all bad things that members do never get talked about until they do. ‘We won’t hit you for all the bad things we know and you know you did if you play ball’. The second he stopped playing ball the knives come out. Standard British politics.

 

[BongoMongo]

I know. It’s just very funny with the obvious frequency with which this happens. Which is why honestly the Elites in the UK never have to worry. Opposition will always kill itself.

Sure. Just might not be the best look when you are trying to win elections where you need them to vote for you and to do that you require funding.

Racism needs to be made acceptable and okay. Instead of hiding it we need to highlight how dangerous and vile the non whites in this country are and make it clear that's what they're like, this is the harm these "people" do, this is what they cost us.

Racism is a perfectly natural reaction to raping, theiving violent scum.

 

[Crunkle]

I'm app norfff and travelled dahn saaath a few weeks ago. Where the fuck has cash gone? Every place up here accepts cash yet almost every place we went to was cashless. Every fucking place. People even seemed freaked out by the concept of me carrying cash with me.

The disappearance of the high street banks has decimated the concept of a local business that pops to the bank every few days to deposit their cash. And some businesses really take the piss with it, especially restaurants that tack-on a "service charge" like we're in America and these people aren't paid a minimum wage.

 

[BongoMongo]

I'm app norfff and travelled dahn saaath a few weeks ago. Where the fuck has cash gone? Every place up here accepts cash yet almost every place we went to was cashless. Every fucking place. People even seemed freaked out by the concept of me carrying cash with me.

The disappearance of the high street banks has decimated the concept of a local business that pops to the bank every few days to deposit their cash. And some businesses really take the piss with it, especially restaurants that tack-on a "service charge" like we're in America and these people aren't paid a minimum wage.

The south is like the frog boiling pot. They have no clue about life outside their metropolitan bubble and their proximity to London means they try out shit to see if it sticks.

It's like, I have to explain to Southerners,btw there's parts of Norf FC town I live in I don't go to as a white woman on my own because the Pakis are so fucking hostile. They refuse to believe it, they won't have it. So when they come visit, we go for a little walk round the Muslim shit holes and it's amazing watching them see it first hand.