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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.

 

[Kier Starmer]

10% tariff for the UK, Rachel will be screaming. I think it is an excellent political move to oust the cabinet, as you get governments that align with you.

 

[>IMPLYING]

10% tariff for the UK, Rachel will be screaming. I think it is an excellent political move to oust the cabinet, as you get governments that align with you.

>10% for us
>25% for EU
Lmao.
I know we're not as big a market and Trump's soft on the UK but I always appreciate the EU getting shafted in some respect.
(I just became aware they're reciprocal, but still.)

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

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The Kier one is missing at least two chins. And the eyes should be much more closed.

I'm not going to comment on Angela.

 

[Mound Dweller]

10% tariff for the UK

Wow is that it? I was expecting the Chicago Town levy to be 25%+ at the least I guess drumpf really did love his mummy and doesn't want his cousins overcharged too badly.
With the recent bullying the amerilards have been bouncing off of us I've been finding myself more and more recently having dangerous thoughts bros, Chinese thoughts, is belt and road really that bad? it is free money after all. If this multipolar lark really does take off I might buy myself some huawei digeridoos.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

With the recent bullying the amerilards have been bouncing off of us I've been finding myself more and more recently having dangerous thoughts bros, Chinese thoughts, is belt and road really that bad?

Yes
To avoid the one word post if you think differently I recommend Canadian healthcare.

 

[Gorillion others]

Yeah, they really want to make this a thing.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Yeah, they really want to make this a thing.

They really want to shift things towards the conversation that can be had as a result of the show (that online misogynists are causing young males in society to randomly kill) rather than focusing on the show itself. They're in a no-win situation there, since the show is entirely fictional and the threat presented is pulled out of thin air (In this 'fact check' the writer rebuked claims of raceswapping by saying he basically imagined the motives of teenage criminals over the radio), or it was based on a true story but they race swapped the perpetrator thus indicating that they know who is perpetrating a lot of these killings. Can't believe the government tried to create a psyop from a Netflix show of all things.

If you're a normie and go online to see discussion revolving around it, you might end up being exposed to the possibility of the race swap, which might have you thinking, and they'd rather not have that. At bare minimum it looks like the Conservatives aren't going to enable it.

 

[Otterly]

Chinese thoughts, is belt and road really that bad?

It’s far worse than the US.

 

[A-Logato]

Yeah, they really want to make this a thing.

It's easier to blame a nebulous group of people which are fairly easy to dislike and wont really fight back then it is to address any societal issues or god forbid they look inwards at themselves for 2 seconds.

Besides Incels, this show really just wants to go after Andrew Tate. The UK is obsessed with him to an unhealthy degree and at every turn they want to blame him for what is happening to young men when the overwhelming majority of them don't even watch him. They probably only know who he even is because they heard him mentioned on the news every morning.

The shows just another fear mongering propaganda slop for women who seem utterly terrified at the idea of a man who hasn't had sex in 6 months and watched an Andrew Tate short on youtube over the very real fear of gang violence.

 

[FedPostalService]

Besides Incels, this show really just wants to go after Andrew Tate. The UK is obsessed with him to an unhealthy degree and at every turn they want to blame him for what is happening to young men when the overwhelming majority of them don't even watch him. They probably only know who he even is because they heard him mentioned on the news every morning.

The best thing to do with Tate is ignore him. He just be a half caste pimp if we’d ignored him.

Lefties clutching their pearls made him seem dangerous and cool when he is just a retard.

 

[Convallaria majalis]

The best thing to do with Tate is ignore him. He just be a half caste pimp if we’d ignored him.

Lefties clutching their pearls made him seem dangerous and cool when he is just a retard.

And especially with teenagers, the screeching makes them want to like Tate more. A lot of leftists don’t understand boys in the first place, nevermind kids and teens, since they only have their experience of being a child to draw from. You’d think boys were ticking time-bombs.

 

[Narr Then]

There's been plenty of white teenagers killing their exes or someone who's turned them down. I don't see how the race issue comes into it at all. It's more to do with the fact that their immature brains don't understand consequences properly IMO. The violence itself has always existed, we just hear about it more now.

Besides Incels, this show really just wants to go after Andrew Tate. The UK is obsessed with him to an unhealthy degree and at every turn they want to blame him for what is happening to young men when the overwhelming majority of them don't even watch him. They probably only know who he even is because they heard him mentioned on the news every morning.

The shows just another fear mongering propaganda slop for women who seem utterly terrified at the idea of a man who hasn't had sex in 6 months and watched an Andrew Tate short on youtube over the very real fear of gang violence.

Oi, fuck off. I'm a woman, and neither I or any other woman I know thinks like that. Don't assume that you know how women think, that's ridiculous.

And especially with teenagers, the screeching makes them want to like Tate more. A lot of leftists don’t understand boys in the first place, nevermind kids and teens, since they only have their experience of being a child to draw from. You’d think boys were ticking time-bombs.

Exactly that. They'll all know who he is after watching something like this, and let's be honest, he's a fuckin toe rag. But like I said above, this shit has been happening with teenagers since hormones were invented.

The ease of access to rough and/or violent porn and extreme misogyny (and please note that I said extreme) has been an issue amongst young teenagers for ages. We know that. It wasn't as much of an issue before the internet was so readily accessible, unless their dads were into some hardcore German porn or something. They wouldn't have had any frame of reference for it. IMO it's mostly a parenting fault for not being more on top about what their kids are watching online, but, kids are going to access that shit one way or another, eventually. It's down to the parents first, backed up by schools a bit to teach kids how to differentiate between bullshit and the real world, and its consequences.

I read a couple of interesting articles yesterday about who is going to deal with the aftermath and issues brought up by playing this in schools.

Archive link fuck paywalls
And another

You know that it's just going to be played, have a quick 15 minute Q&A afterwards, then they're going to be left to work it all out by themselves. Then be demonised if they get it even slightly wrong. It's ridiculous and will likely cause more problems than there is already. Kids are curious and impressionable. They mimic what they see and hear, especially if it helps them to tamp down their insecurities. And all teenagers have them.

I'm a dutty lefty, but fuck this labour govt (they're not left anyway). I have a teenage grandson who luckily has a good head on his shoulders and has no problem talking to his older relatives about deep shit.

So yeah. Nowt down for this bandwagon jumping bullshit, at all.

 

[A-Logato]

Oi, fuck off. I'm a woman, and neither I or any other woman I know thinks like that. Don't assume that you know how women think, that's ridiculous.

 

[FedPostalService]

Oi, fuck off. I'm a woman, and neither I or any other woman I know thinks like that. Don't assume that you know how women think, that's ridiculous.

There are no women on the Internet.

 

[Judge Dredd]

They're in a no-win situation there, since the show is entirely fictional and the threat presented is pulled out of thin air (In this 'fact check' the writer rebuked claims of raceswapping by saying he basically imagined the motives of teenage criminals over the radio), or it was based on a true story but they race swapped the perpetrator thus indicating that they know who is perpetrating a lot of these killings.

Supposedly Kier Starmer is trying to pass laws based on the show, calling it a documentry. Retarded if true. ...Is it true?

Don't assume that you know how women think, that's ridiculous.

That assumes women think.

The ease of access to rough and/or violent porn and extreme misogyny (and please note that I said extreme) has been an issue amongst young teenagers for ages. We know that. It wasn't as much of an issue before the internet was so readily accessible, unless their dads were into some hardcore German porn or something. They wouldn't have had any frame of reference for it.

There are issues that aren't internet porn. Boys used to do better than girls in school, this was seen as a failure of the school system and was changed. Now girls are doing better than boys in school, and boys are the problem. There's the general treatment of men and boys in media, where white men are either evil or stupid, unless they become gay, passive, effeminate, and defer to women in all things. There's issues with the dating market where women are chasing the top 20% of men, and the bottom 70% are not considered people. I could go on with examples, but I don't want to turn this post into a MRA/MGTOW lecture.

The point is, we've had almost two decades of western society browbeating men and boys. Straight white men in particular. Along with claims that women are just as strong as men and demand equal treatment. What we're seeing is the consequences and inevitable pushback to that. This is what women pushed for, but now recoil in horror at the result.

 

[FedPostalService]

> Create a society without fathers
> Complain about fatherless behaviour

What did the British Left mean by this?

 

[BongoMongo]

God it's all so fucking tiresome.

Keir visited Yorkshire recently, he went to Kirklees. To be honest if he's going to be mummy's bwave wikkle souljer and visit Norf FC, he should get his flabby arse to Bradford and take a look at what "multiculturalism" does to a place.

Fs the city didn't even have a bus station for months on end. Why, you may ask? Because the metro transit authority, overseen by Labour Mayor, Tracy Brabin decided to resurface the parking area with materials too heavy and unsuitable. They were told this but did it anyway?

Few weeks later, whole thing started to collapse into the area underground, immediately underneath it all.

Lots of talk about smiting London with missiles, can we add Bradford to list as well please and thank you?

 

[A-Logato]

God it's all so fucking tiresome.

Keir visited Yorkshire recently, he went to Kirklees. To be honest if he's going to be mummy's bwave wikkle souljer and visit Norf FC, he should get his flabby arse to Bradford and take a look at what "multiculturalism" does to a place.

Fs the city didn't even have a bus station for months on end. Why, you may ask? Because the metro transit authority, overseen by Labour Mayor, Tracy Brabin decided to resurface the parking area with materials too heavy and unsuitable. They were told this but did it anyway?

Few weeks later, whole thing started to collapse into the area underground, immediately underneath it all.

Lots of talk about smiting London with missiles, can we add Bradford to list as well please and thank you?

If Keir was in Kirklees then I gather he massively cherry picked on where he visited and who he spoke to? I can't imagine he went to any Paki centrals like Batley, Dewsbury or Birstall and decided to ask the locals on what they thought of area and what the councils (namely Labour) had done.

Though Dewsbury/Batley is ran by that Gaza MP who wanted cousin fucking marriage so he might have avoided that one as a lost cause.

 

[BongoMongo]

If Keir was in Kirklees then I gather he massively cherry picked on where he visited and who he spoke to? I can't imagine he went to any Paki centrals like Batley, Dewsbury or Birstall and decided to ask the locals on what they thought of area and what the councils (namely Labour) had done.

Though Dewsbury/Batley is ran by that Gaza MP who wanted cousin fucking marriage so he might have avoided that one as a lost cause.

Off top of my head he visited Mirfield? Was running his fat trap about the state of the transport system,promising he would fix it. Perhaps starting with stripping the free bus passes off illegal migrants would be a start?

My local council (not Kirklees) is bad and good depending on what your issues or needs are. I found the council tax team were extremely good with referring me for additional support when I was unemployed last year, and I can't fault them on that.

However, as they're now all using up budget and the whole of West Yorkshire is apparently a gigantic fucking roadworks, I do have an issue with that, especially seeing as how the end game is to, like Bristol, IIRC, to have cameras and barriers everywhere, to ultimately restrict freedom of movement for everyone.

 

[bluegenius8585]

The best thing to do with Tate is ignore him. He just be a half caste pimp if we’d ignored him.

Lefties clutching their pearls made him seem dangerous and cool when he is just a retard.

He is the Streisand effect .

Best thing would be for Mr Potato Tate to fade into obscurity (after getting bitch slapped in Romanian prison)