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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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It's funny, Starmer could announce death camps for migrants and mandatory scone breaks and it'd still be considered too little, too late. His party has been in power for an entire YEAR and it's taken this long to come up with drastic action for the number 1 voting issue in the UK.

Funnily enough all of this reminds me a lot of David Cameron, he started watching his support get cannibalised by UKIP so figured he'd do something to shut them up for good: Give them a vote for Brexit and when it inevitably fails then UKIP are dead in the water. But then it didn't happen so the Conservative government decided to be spiteful by following through with Brexit and immediately opening up the borders to more Pakis, Indians and Um-Bongos. The public want to cut immigration? Well let's just see about that!

So the care thing looks like it's been announced so that when carers leave and there's a care crisis he can smugly go "I told you so" and import a gorillion bomalians... except anyone who knows anything about care workers at the moment knows that White British carers are stuck on 18 hour contracts with no overtime so that they can't be considered full time workers, whereas our colourful carers are working 50+ hour weeks so they hit the salary threshold. It'd be fixed almost instantly as care homes would have to either cut customers or bite the bullet and finally give Doris a liveable wage.
 
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Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
except anyone who knows anything about care workers at the moment knows that White British carers are stuck on 18 hour contracts with no overtime so that they can't be considered full time workers, whereas our colourful carers are working 50+ hour weeks so they hit the salary threshold.
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So at the moment from within the care sector it is indeed being over ran with foreigners in even some of the most white areas of the country. The amount of sponsorship contracts that are being handed out is utterly insane and yes they are brining their families along with them once they gain this sponsorship and setting up near where these homes are (as they must live within x miles of the home).

Now something that I am a little more privy to then most is that the types of people who are getting over here as careers are to say the least concerning. This ranges on the low end of people who don't know any English, Illegals, visa over stays and all the way up to actual wanted terrorists.
 
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A-Logato said:
The idea of Brexit was 0 foreigners. If you would have told us the vote was really between choosing do we want Eastern euros trash or niggers and jeets then we would have probably stayed if we knew what we were actually voting for.
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You'd have gotten niggers and jeets AND eastern euros if we'd stayed in the EU. Same as the rest of Europe is getting.

EU law says that any asylum seekers who set foot on EU soil cannot be deported to any place that might be dangerous. Their application for this is very selective. The 'Syrian' refugees could not be deported according to EU law, but (prior to the current nonsense of course) any Ukrainians fleeing the Civil War there were immediately sent back.

Part of the problem is the ECHR, which we are still a member of. The other, more serious part is that the elites don't want unfettered immigration to stop.
 
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I really hope that people don't fall for labours new bullshit; but I'm often let down by people forgetting the basic rule of "Watch what they do, ignore what they say." When it comes to politics.
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I think the days of them being able to con most of us are well and truly over - when both sides are calling them out continuously it's bad news for them.

Usually, one side will at least be supportive or 'gentle' towards the Government if it's their side who's won, but with this Government there is very limited support - even the #FBPE freaks of X/Twitter are now saying 'I regret voting for Labour, I'm voting Lib Dems/Greens next time'.

This Government is on borrowed time.
 
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Chunky Salsa said:
I really hope that people don't fall for labours new bullshit; but I'm often let down by people forgetting the basic rule of "Watch what they do, ignore what they say." When it comes to politics.
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When I neglecting the fact this thread is for Greggs, I gave a long, non-pasty related diatribe about how the media and attempts to suppress certain news can both benefit and harm the government, and how more and more people are getting their news online as the years go by, especially after the pandemic forced people to use the internet in ways other than recreational (forcing remote workers to make linkdn accounts, youngs having to do but be on the internet, etcetera).

I don't think a lot of people are going to hear of this. Radio listeners will get a condensed overview, which'll go in one ear and out the other at work. And if you're a telly watcher with freeview (60% of the country), the next time the news'll when you get off from work at 3 will be at 5PM on channel 5, when you ought to be watching The Chase, or at 6pm on ITV, at which point you'll watch the same episode again on ITV+1. Or you got in, slapped on More4, and let the back-2-back Four in a bed and Come Dine with Me marathons carry you to tea time. Not a PL, I swear.

Otherwise it might get overshadowed by Trump's pharmaceutical price caps, which could potentially increase the cost-burden of the NHS, which'll become a issue that'll take prominence — tax hike, increased borrowing, or spooky privatisation. We'll have to see.
 
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Chunky Salsa said:
I really hope that people don't fall for labours new bullshit; but I'm often let down by people forgetting the basic rule of "Watch what they do, ignore what they say." When it comes to politics.
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Honestly it really depends on who you ask, some people are going to see through what the Labour as doing as "red meat" and trying to out right wing Reform and the Tories whilst at the same time letting in record amounts and spreading them around the country at your expense. These tend usually to already be right wing people.

On the flip side you get left wingers who see what Labour is doing as the up most betrayal and see zero subtext on political chicanery going on. Labour has started deporting people, turned on trans people and began kicking out all the obvious socialist and communist aspects of the party and that all they care about.

Really the only people who are going to buy what Labour is doing is the most Milquetoast, centrist or none political individual or what >IMPLYING said, someone who watches the TV and takes in what ever slop is presented to them at face value though as of late even these types of people are become less and less.
 
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Whoever is in charge of Starmer's account needs to be sacked. The constant tweets with no information like 'promises made, promises delivered' without even telling us what the fucking promise was are doing more damage to his public image than his actual policies.

Self-sabotage at it's finest.
 
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I really hope that people don't fall for labours new bullshit; but I'm often let down by people forgetting the basic rule of "Watch what they do, ignore what they say." When it comes to politics.
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You’re forgetting that people are retarded.

No votes Labour for their policies. They do it to feel good about themselves.
 
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Buttfuck McGee Returns said:
Whoever is in charge of Starmer's account needs to be sacked. The constant tweets with no information like 'promises made, promises delivered' without even telling us what the fucking promise was are doing more damage to his public image than his actual policies.
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I'm waiting for "LAW AND ORDER!!" and his own personal covfefe arc. Either that, or the inevitable moment whatever zoomer intern is running the account uses it to favourite gay interracial gangbang porn. You know it's coming, even if it's Keir running it.
 
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I said this a long time ago but it looks like it might actually be coming true, but it looks like the public have finally had enough of the standard two party system because both Labour and the Conservatives are far too big to be able to satisfy their entire voter base (which ranges FAR across the political spectrum). I know we've said it for a while but the sheer momentum and anger against the traditional two parties is something like I've never actually seen before. Normally people would show their dissatisfaction by not voting, but Reform is an amalgomation of voter apathy in general, voter apathy from both Labour and the Conservatives AND people who are straight up angry and want change.

Labour's last two leaders were Jeremy Corbyn and Kier Starmer who are pretty much opposites as far as the votebase is concerned, Corbyn was an ultra left wing nutter and Starmer is a boring centrist. Under many political parties this wouldn't be possible to have this much of a swing in votebase and in any rational world Labour would have split into two parties... except due to the two party system they have to stay together otherwise they'll get destroyed by the Conservatives.

The Conservatives on the other hand first had their first big wobble when UKIP came about and essentially cannibalised half their votebase by being significantly more right wing than the Conservatives but obviously managed to right that with the Brexit vote which saw UKIP no longer have a need. It showed that they TOO had two radical parties within the same party which required a split, but they had to stay together otherwise they'd get destroyed by Labour.

See the issue here? Both Labour and the Conservatives should be fragmented into multiple parties but can't because they have to play chicken and hope the other party does first, as otherwise they'd be slaughtered in elections due to FPTP.

Reform on the other hand have came in and managed to cannibalise both Labour AND the Tories because the biggest issue by far in the UK is immigration. They're also hitting the magic FPTP number where if an election was called today they'd go from just a couple of seats in parliament to having the majority. They're essentially grabbing voters from traditional Labour trade union type voters AND ultranationalist Conservatives, both of which are large enough votebases to have been parties by now, and they would have had they split.

Maybe I'm just being hideously optimistic here but the problems were telegraphed for years, but no party wanted to be the brave one to split their party completely, hence why you have the fucking bizarre situation of factions within parties which backstab each other to gain power. By not splitting, both parties have essentially got the worst outcome where thanks to FPTP the bigger party will eat them all up and leave them with a handful of MPs.

And you know what? Good. I hope the Tories have ZERO SEATS. I hope Labour get fucked hard. I hope the people who did all they could to sabotage the PR referendum realise what FPTP is going to do to a minority Labour and Tories. I hope Kemi and Kier have to fuck off to the US like Rishi did because public outrage is too much for them to reside in any UK city. I hope the UK media who have told us for decades that immigration is a great thing become unhirable. I am fucking FURIOUS and seeing Kier Starmer try and put a little bandage on the immigration issue after the ship has already sailed is just the icing on the fucking cake.
 
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