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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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10:07 AM - Jan 3, 2019

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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.

 

[Crunkle]

I get that it's fun to say "I demand a recount" as someone that has lost but when the council who organised the original count is run by your own party it's just embarrassing and as it means none of the staff counting can leave the building for another 10hrs+ you know it's going to produce a lasting hostility in the area too.

Oh, you just know that those poor fuckers who are flicking through the same ballots for the third time are never voting for Labour.

Alright lads, sleep time! Long old night.

 

[FedPostalService]

Oh, you just know that those poor fuckers who are flicking through the same ballots for the third time are never voting for Labour.

Alright lads, sleep time! Long old night.

It’s kinda comfy that this isn’t America where they’d suddenly start finding boxes of votes for the correct Davos backed party.

 

[Stupor Mundi]

Imagine the recount just gives Reform a bigger lead.

 

[Monopolywheel]

Farage spotted at the building
Is it over for Labour?

 

[cans.wav]

Imagine the recount just gives Reform a bigger lead.

It did and Reform won by six votes

 

[the rat]

It did and Reform won by six votes
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Whoever ordered that recount sure is getting fired lmao.

 

[Monopolywheel]

It did and Reform won by six votes
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Conservatives getting the same amount of votes as the Greens
Truly a 3rd tier party now

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

It did and Reform won by six votes
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So this is Reforms 5th MP and they have their first mayor as well. If Reform wants to keep up what momentum they have Farage needs to push his MP's out in public as much as possible now.

 

[Stupor Mundi]

Conservatives getting the same amount of votes as the Greens
Truly a 3rd tier party now

If the anchor baby isn't ousted for this unprecedented disaster it's actually over for the Tories (at least until Nige shits the bed again).

 

[Cassius Crayfish]

Farage needs to push his MP's out

Understood, McMurdock will be forced out of Reform within the year.

 

[Kier Starmer]

This is unheard of in British politics, so fair play.

It feels like a happening, is this a happening? I think Starmer may be out after this. The Reform is pretty much on their predictions, if not better. This is utterly humiliating.

 

[Otterly]

Reform get Runcorn. 40,000 vote majority for reform for Lincolnshire mayor an I hearing??

Very little coverage of it. But an incredible swing. Comprehensive rejection of both labour and the tories - GOOD they’ve both been traitorous. Will reform fix it all? Highly unlikely, but this is a brexit moment, it shows the electorate are not happy

 

[Crunkle]

Reform get Runcorn. 40,000 vote majority for reform for Lincolnshire mayor an I hearing??

Very little coverage of it. But an incredible swing. Comprehensive rejection of both labour and the tories - GOOD they’ve both been traitorous. Will reform fix it all? Highly unlikely, but this is a brexit moment, it shows the electorate are not happy

Yep, 42% for Reform there, one of my votes included.

Utter collapse of two party politics. The election results here won't change much immediately but they set a precedent and legitimise Reform as the opposition rather than the Tories.

Reform need to get rid of the sweaty fat guy they keep inviting on, though. He was on the full-on Channel 4 pozzed show a few days ago and he spoke third of the candidates and he was already drenched in sweat and stumbling over his entire talking points. If you can be made to look like a mental midget by Daisy Cooper (who, by the way, has a face like a foot) then you need to not be on that stage.

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

Well done Brits. Hopefully this is an portent for what's to come in the Australian election tomorrow.

 

[-Jack-]

Reform get Runcorn. 40,000 vote majority for reform for Lincolnshire mayor an I hearing??

Very little coverage of it. But an incredible swing. Comprehensive rejection of both labour and the tories - GOOD they’ve both been traitorous. Will reform fix it all? Highly unlikely, but this is a brexit moment, it shows the electorate are not happy

Can I be reminded of what Brexit has made better thus far? Which was pushed by Nigel. Understand that it's a push against the "establishment", but weren't most reformers part of the establishment at one point?

Because instead of Poles and slavs, we've got more pakis and pajeets, and I know which are more preferable.

 

[Crunkle]

Just when I think the results can't get any better, I see this:


Imagine going from 53 to 1. Think Lincolnshire might be the first ever Reform council.

Staffordshire is also heavily Reform. Of the 30 declared seats here, 24 are Reform. 6 are Tory.

This is the kind of success that UKIP barely even got to see.

 

[BrightonAndHoveAlbion]

Can I be reminded of what Brexit has made better thus far?

Brexit was about owning the libtards. Never mind that anyone who was for Brexit immediately wanted nothing to do with actually negotiating it.

 

[FedPostalService]

I’m humming The Lincolnshire Poacher. This is hilarious. You’d think from the news that this was just bad for the Tories and not an utter disaster for Labour too.

Godspeed, you funny faced controlled opposition retard. Thank you for the lulz, Nigel. Enjoy that pint.

 

[Plastic Bag]

We're definitely heading for some kind of constitutional crisis in the next election, unless Conservatives agree not to run in certain seats or their votes collapse so badly that it's irrelevant. I can see Labour or Reform winning a majority with something like 26% of the total vote.
No doubt, by 2029, all of this will be irrelevant, just like the 2019 election, meaning nothing.

 

[Crunkle]

Reform is incredibly well-organised in specific areas. The kind of ground-swell and established local support here are footholds, meaning the longer Reform have this momentum the harder it'll be to dethrone them or for the Tories to claw back these losses.

Farage's usual shtick is to fly the bat symbol every few years to get some feet to shift and vote for him. Death by a thousand cuts and delegitimising seems to be the game here. There's so much bullshit about Reform being untested in local government, yet nobody is mentioning that the Reform councillors are heavily ex-Tory. Some of them even ex-Tory councillors or MPs (Andrea Jenkyns is literally a mayor now).

I have a feeling we'll have a slew of defections to Reform in the next few weeks. A few councillors, a fuck load of the grassroots memberships and if we're lucky, we'll get an MP defecting.

The Tory response to this has been so on-brand, too. A few weeks ago, Badenoch was saying how local Tory council leaders could make deals with Reform. Right after, Jenrick positioned himself and now you've got the Tory co-chair ruling out any kind of partnership or deals. At what point do the last remaining Tories just give in?