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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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Used to have this horrible shit processed milk at primary that came in cartons with straws.
Had a great day when I discovered that you could stomp them though. Didn't get found out either.
Was eventually replaced with drinkable milk in standard plastic bottles.
 
Follow a lot of Munchies, just found out there’s 2 groups organising protests about the PIP cuts across the country. Disabledpeopleagainstcuts and cripsagainstcuts. Doubt many will attend, but interesting to keep watch on what happens. Especially since the types attending are usually the Labour lover types. Starmer has it in him to fuck it up further by sending riot police in.
 
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Special spoonie said:
Follow a lot of Munchies, just found out there’s 2 groups organising protests about the PIP cuts across the country. Disabledagainstcuts and cripsagainstcuts. Doubt many will attend, but interesting to keep watch on what happens. Especially since the types attending are usually the Labour lover types. Starmer has it in him to fuck it up further by sending riot police in.
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Get me front row seats. The retard war will not be televised.
 
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Coolio55 said:
Used to have this horrible shit processed milk at primary that came in cartons with straws.
Had a great day when I discovered that you could stomp them though. Didn't get found out either.
Was eventually replaced with drinkable milk in standard plastic bottles.
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If the cartons had dinosaurs on we are milk brothers and it’s also probably the reason I won’t touch milk as an adult.
 
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Special spoonie said:
The ones attending so far, apart from a few genuine looking speds. I advocate the send them to war plan. Obvious troons & NEETs.

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Curious how these non-specific work allergies don't seem to affect men? Doesn't seem to be a natural hair colour among the parasitic cunts either.

Seeing where my 40% tax goes makes me want to commit tax evasion on a grand scale
 
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I am all for helping the genuinely afflicted. I really am. There are some people who are dealt - through no fault of their own,but by sheer shitty chance- a truly awful hand in life.

however as someone with a serious physical disability and whose mental health is a fuckshow who has always worked my levels of sympathy for the butbutbut muh mental elffzz brigade are non-existant. It's bizarre how they can't do the most basic of admin roles but they can and do have fulfilling and active social lives.
 
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Special spoonie said:
Follow a lot of Munchies, just found out there’s 2 groups organising protests about the PIP cuts across the country. Disabledpeopleagainstcuts and cripsagainstcuts. Doubt many will attend, but interesting to keep watch on what happens. Especially since the types attending are usually the Labour lover types. Starmer has it in him to fuck it up further by sending riot police in.
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Snuck in with the benefit cuts is a change in policy where people with serious inherent disabilities such as limb loss or the blind will no longer need to get reassesment as it's obvious that their can be no improvement.

This was something that was fought against by the various munchie infected activist groups, with their fucking Fibromyalgia style aliments. Of all the changes I think that will have the most long term impact.
 
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BongoMongo said:
If this was when you were in primary school then this policy started under Labour.

They also closed more mines than Thatcher as well.

Plenty of reasons to hate that woman that are factually and historically correct to boot.
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It was a joke, although I do remember wondering why we stopped getting milk each morning (this was around '89-'91, I don't remember exactly when). My hometown was completely fucked by her mine closures though, probably not helped by the fact the NCB area headquarters were located there and was a center for a lot of the strike planning. To this day it's still a junkie/dole-scrounger filled shithole.
 
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Overdrive said:
It was a joke, although I do remember wondering why we stopped getting milk each morning (this was around '89-'91, I don't remember exactly when). My hometown was completely fucked by her mine closures though, probably not helped by the fact the NCB area headquarters were located there and was a center for a lot of the strike planning. To this day it's still a junkie/dole-scrounger filled shithole.
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Oh gosh way to miss the point on my part, my sincerest apologies. I think I've mislaid my sense of humour.

I'll admit the mine closures were handled appallingly no matter which party was in power when they closed. The ransack of heavy industry and the decline of traditional values associated with such communities continues to fuck us to this day.
 
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I'll admit the mine closures were handled appallingly no matter which party was in power when they closed. The ransack of heavy industry and the decline of traditional values associated with such communities continues to fuck us to this day.
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It's the parties finding common cause for opposite reasons. Labour under Wilson and Callaghan wanted to move away from heavy industry and resource extraction to a more high-tech and service-oriented (and ultimately, technocratic-socialist) economic base, so began closures of the mines and the re-organisation of education to favour more academic and "scientific" career outcomes. Thatcher in turn wanted to break the unions after the strikes (using global warming as an excuse to move away from heavy industry and resource extraction in the process) and wanted to increase the economic power of the City and the global integration of the economy. The key difference between these marginally diverging goals was the economic system they expected to manage everything. Labour envisioned a heavily centralised command-control economy, where Thatcher preferred a deregulated, probably monopolised, mostly laissez-faire capitalist economy, but both viewed London as a global nexus of trade and finance, with the rest of the UK functioning as a mere economic adjunct to that nexus. In neither case did they particularly care about social cohesion, cultural continuity, or the state of the individual beyond their economic value.
 
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So,how is everyone feeling about the train wreck which went down in Parliament today?

What do people see on the horizon, medium term for the spastics in charge?

I think we're going to be in for either a total bust of a summer or one where people start to push back on this but they've not so far and I'm pretty sure most people haven't got it in them at all at this point.

Anyone remember,when they had us all locked up at home because of a cold, and the National Grid was on verge of collapsing because of strain on it? We need something like the infrastructure to collapse a little bit to get people riled up.
 
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