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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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Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
When did the UK become such a muslim hellhole? Im trying my hardest to think back but it appears recently that the UK has “secret” sand nigger overlords.
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We've always had an influx of immigration, primarily from outside of Europe since even the 60s, but I'd say 1997 is when the floodgates were opened. Can't give an exact year but I think Rotherham is a good barometer. Whilst police were aware of Paki taxi drivers picking up girls, evidence of it being apart of a grooming network was discovered in 2001 by a council-created group called 'Risky business' created with the goal of finding such evidence; the evidence was forwarded to police, who did nothing with it, and the group was closed down for 'being a nuisance' in 2011. The Weir report also came out in 2001, and the police still did nothing with what it contained. I'd put the earliest dates at 1997 or 2001. It's also worth noting that the Weir report was forwarded to police in October of 2001, a month after 9/11, so I think the Norm Macdonald joke was in full effect.
 
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We've always had an influx of immigration, primarily from outside of Europe since even the 60s, but I'd say 1997 is when the floodgates were opened. Can't give an exact year but I think Rotherham is a good barometer. Whilst police were aware of Paki taxi drivers picking up girls, evidence of it being apart of a grooming network was discovered in 2001 by a council-created group called 'Risky business' created with the goal of finding such evidence; the evidence was forwarded to police, who did nothing with it, and the group was closed down for 'being a nuisance' in 2011. The Weir report also came out in 2001, and the police still did nothing with what it contained. I'd put the earliest dates at 1997 or 2001. It's also worth noting that the Weir report was forwarded to police in October of 2001, a month after 9/11, so I think the Norm Macdonald joke was in full effect.
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Yeah I think the main Muslim influx in the north was the 90s. I was in Manchester then and there were certain areas there, Rochdale, Oldham, Burnley etc that were muslim slums back then. Never had the misfortune of going to Bradford or Rotherham but can only imagine it was similar. All those areas listed happened to have had grooming gangs. Imagine everyones shock.

I’m now down south with very little immigrants. Lots of friends are “refugees welcome” types but they’ve never experienced what these places are like. It’s easy to be a true leftie welcoming everyone if the problem is not on your visible on your doorstep.
 
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isalaide said:
Parenting is hard work and often a complete pain in the arse. It is not our job to take the path of least resistance. It is our job to guide and support them and to stop them going off rails until they are young adults and can reasonably make good choices for themselves. Too many people are just not fucking trying and the evidence and the wreckage are all around us. It is not fair on the children.
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Preach. Some days feel so long, and I'm always tired (going to bed at like 9pm these days) but I refuse to be a shit parent. I know I could make my life easier in a bunch of ways, but any time those thoughts creep in I remind myself that things that are worthwhile are always hard work.

And don't get me wrong, I'm no dad of the year. But at least I fucking turn up. I'm there, and I'll play with him and sit with him and read with him and so on. That already makes me better than any parent that gives their kid an ipad and noise-cancelling headphones at breakfast (yes, I actually saw this at a hotel recently).
 
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In a post up thread someone shared screen caps from Twitter about the benefits cuts,of various people gobbing off about them. One of them had a reply from a man called Tim Boxall. Tim is a lolcow in his own right. He lives in a town called Worthing in West Sussex.

Tim does indeed have a range of health issues which are unfortunate, however he is very active in the local cosplay and fetish scene and his disabilities do nothing to stymie this or hamper his social life.

Nearly everyone has health issues or problems or concerns. Some serious and life changing,others minor but still frustrating.

What I am sick to the back teeth of seeing is people who have full, active social lives with no impediment caused by their health issues but as soon as work and gainful employment is mentioned then they are The Sickest Sick Person Ever , FOREVER.

People like that deserve to lose their fun pennies and means to go out and have a better social life than those of us who also have issues,who go to work and pay tax and NI, are funding.

If you can assemble a complex costume that incorporates your wheelchair into your chosen character and costume then you can do something,fucking anything to contribute to your community and wider society.

Fuck grifting shitheads like Tim,moreso because he also has spare money to give to other grifters online. How dare he plead poverty.
 
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PIP freezes now cancelled. PIP just going to be harder to claim from now on basically. £5 billion saved by 2030. How much do we spend a year on the new arrivals again?

The spin is now that people have “blown it out of proportion for the last few days” but it’s obviously a whopper of a u-turn there.
 
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£5 billion saved by 2030. How much do we spend a year on the new arrivals again?
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edit: I got a zero in there that shouldn't have been there. I was wrong anyway even without it.

Around 5Bn.

Possible van of peace in London. They say it's not terror related, which has always been a true statement and never a lie before.
 
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Tbh the cuts were OK, they were heavily watered down though. They can scream about face to face assessments but any staff in the DWP will tell you there are not the staff numbers and contracts are too expensive. NEETS on Twitter are screaming but these changes actually help those with congenital, sustained disabilities. I have a funny feeling that Streeting was involved in this as it seems a very logical set of changes.

That backbench rebellion is still coming Starmer is over Ukraine now though.
 
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Helen Whatley is screaming they didn't go far enough, which tbh is a mental look considering this set of cuts go further than any in the previous decade. You will notice they are sawing off the health component of UC at the knees for anyone under 22, which is going to make lots of parents of 'muh AuDHD' and "muh verra anxious" dumplings well pissed off when they try to sign on. The young folk are to be made to try getting a fucking job rather than going directly onto the sick. This is an excellent plan.
 
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isalaide said:
Helen Whatley is screaming they didn't go far enough, which tbh is a mental look considering this set of cuts go further than any in the previous decade. You will notice they are sawing off the health component of UC at the knees for anyone under 22, which is going to make lots of parents of 'muh AuDHD' and "muh verra anxious" dumplings well pissed off when they try to sign on. The young folk are to be made to try getting a fucking job rather than going directly onto the sick. This is an excellent plan.
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I agreed with their plan to increase unemployment benefit. Agreeing with Labour was not on my list for this year but here we are I guess
 
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I know right, Is that that stipend which is higher if you are looking and decreases if not? I am surprised talked to a few disabled people and they are like it's fine. From what I have seen it's mostly people with mental health affected.
 
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I know right, Is that that stipend which is higher if you are looking and decreases if not? I am surprised talked to a few disabled people and they are like it's fine. From what I have seen it's mostly people with mental health affected.
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It's not like that at present. It's more,if they don't think you're looking for work hard enough they sanction your benefits so you get a reduced amount.
 
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