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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.

 

[GameratePTSD]

Why does our government hate us for using the farms? I mainly use it to keep up to date with my favourite deathfat lolcow and sometimes engage in high level autism..is that a bloody crime?

Not yet...

 

[6MillionCoofs]

They were probably also upset during the summer riots they couldn’t get anybody on this site too.

Have a second of reading would have told them why they could. Everyone is wise to their shit.

Like when it’s a common joke by the normies that the feds are monitoring their accounts they are certainly not going to find anything on anyone even more clued in.

 

[Mr Bunny]

while imagining his opponents being slammed by negros in political prisons.

See an American thread!
It's got mutts law and everything.

 

[anklyscr]

Yeah, it's so weird that suddenly all these guys with IP address in random third world countries are posting in a thread about UK politics! Well, I'm sure everything's above board.

Also, I just love that at the top of every page is the original story about the Greggs vegan sausage roll; it makes it seem like everything that happened since is just downstream of that. Looks like it didn't work out so hot...

We’re all just seeing how many bennies we can get and how to answer the asylum questions.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

See what I mean?

Concern trolling, baiting, and what I assumed was a gimmick, calling everyone Feds.

Please, give me your honest answer - what do you think of Elon Musk? Is he a danger to our democracy??


It's the modern equivalent of the Brass Bull or the Iron Maiden - the inhumane and bizarre punishments of a particular place and time.

The 1700s had gibbeting, and modern Anglo-American culture adopted "the rape negro" - wherein the condemned are used as sex toys by black slaves.

It even has a similarly innocuous euphemism - dropping the soap.

You are a defective-cocked, fed-posting, glow-in-the-dark NCA nigger.

Post again about how you're manufacturing energetics from adblue, I want to see you speedrun a ban

 

[FedPostalService]

what do you think of Elon Musk? Is he a danger to our democracy??

I think he is an autistic retardant who can get conned by a dog killing Malaysian but it’s his right to be an autistic retard.

I hope I didn’t offend your e-daddy.

 

[Mr Bunny]

We already have a flag.

Yes, I noticed. It's beautiful.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

So what does apple’s private relay do then?

I don't know. I avoid all apple products like the plague.

 

[Special spoonie]

I think Majorie Taylor Greene is a loony. She reminds me a bit of mad nads dorrries. but isn’t it mad whenever our journo scum goes to America now, all they get is “fuck off, you’ve got rapey migrants”
Shows how low we’ve sank.

 

[Overly Serious]

3. If Farage is a plant meant to set the limit on acceptable right-wing rhetoric, he has been a dismal failure, as even his subordinates in his own party have sprinted past hi

That was a fantastic post - much insight, many thinkings. I only want to comment on the above in so far as your're not wrong if that's what Farage is meant to do. But rhetoric aside if he splits Reform's support base and the issue isn't fixed by May council elections, it will do a lot of damage to Reform's chances. Formerly they were on course to make devastating inroads into local councils. Now, I'm less sure.

So yeah, I think Null has indirectly assisted the very government he hates by doing this

I feel so too. Stage 2 of Bongland's authoritarians would be to say "look, people are widely able to use VPNs and TOR technology to retain access to this non-compliant website. These technologies must be restricted."

Why does our government hate us for using the farms?

They hate anything they do not control. Especially speech and information. The reason being is that the State cannot control the population by pure force. They must rely on controlling what the population think and think about.

 

[BrightonAndHoveAlbion]

Concern trolling, baiting, and what I assumed was a gimmick, calling everyone Feds.

Don't forget to call him a nigger too.

 

[FedPostalService]

Don't forget to call him a nigger too.

Don’t make me post a photo of my Big British Cock to prove my whiteness.

 

[Amin Yasister]

I look on KF as the posts show me news that isn't from BBC, Sky, C4, other MSM, and without the lies or woke slant on everything.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

That was a fantastic post - much insight, many thinkings. I only want to comment on the above in so far as your're not wrong if that's what Farage is meant to do.

You don’t try and openly debank yiur controlled op to the point everyone calls you authoritarian arse clowns. It does you no good. It did them no good.

No, i don’t think Farage was meant to set what is acceptable. I just think he is a lazy greedy arsehole.

 

[FedPostalService]

I look on KF as the posts show me news that isn't from BBC, Sky, C4, other MSM, and without the lies or woke slant on everything.

That’s why they don’t want us to use here.

 

[Overly Serious]

I'm not concerned about a ban, I accepted that at its face value. I just wanted to correct the record for the weird caste of chortling sycophants.

Spoiler: wall

I violated the rules of the site - simple as that. Nothing more, nothing less. There wasn't some vindication of your paranoid schizophrenia. It's a creeping kind of "self-policing" - the UK govt is profoundly weak, and ineffectual.

The entire conversation was:

"Stop being a digital menace or I'll ban you."

"I cannot stop being a digital menace."

No Feds, no drama, nothing else. I just thought "that's a fair cop" then wandered back after a few months.

You didn't need to lie, or invent anything more than it. If I get banned, it's for Ban Evasion and nothing more.

It was either here, or at the first sign of a railroad incursion in the East.

Also, my health has gotten a lot better. Thank you for asking.

You were fedposting. And you had this weird idea that you could legal technicality around fed posting, somehow. That doesn't work because the decision maker isn't some binary algorithm that you can fox, but null who is a human being and does what he likes and what is in the best interests of the site.

If you say yourself that you "cannot stop being a digital menace" (which is a rather charitable rephrasing on your part) then I expect you to just be banned again. You were permabanned, right? Null nor the site need the headaches of someone violating site rules that way.

You don’t try and openly debank yiur controlled op to the point everyone calls you authoritarian arse clowns. It does you no good. It did them no good.

That's a fair point. I'm not certain he is controlled opposition, at least not knowingly. @>IMPLYING probably has the right of it in suggesting Farage is simply out of touch combined with some control freakery and I would say this makes him de facto controlled oposition by the people in position to exploit that, i.e. to give or withold press coverage, to prosecute Lowe or not, etc. But it's not impossible nor would be the first time for the Left hand to not know what the Right hand is doing. The debanking was initiated by the bank itself iirc and it ultimately worked in Farage's favour politically.

But we don't really know for certain at the end of the day I think. What probably matters more than whether he is wittingly or unwittingly serving Reform's political opposition, is how Reform's base stops him.

 

[Corette]

Don’t make me post a photo of my Big British Cock to prove my whiteness.

BBC should be properly labeled as NSFW.

 

[Kier Starmer]

This plan of theirs will fail horribly, remember this is the same cabinet whose Deputy PM for her work history has -3 years as a care assistant then sucked constant dick in the unions. The same woman who thinks you can build 1.5 million homes in 3 years. They don't even have enough prison spaces either because the Crown Prosecution Q is 70,000+.

Like I have said, this is all the dominos lining up and Starmer is petrified. Notice how the sword ban is in August.

 

[Gorillion others]

Okay euro bros.

How cooked are ya?

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Okay euro bros.

How cooked are ya?

You'd have to go ask them. This is a British thread (where we're also fucked).