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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.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Some horrifying news that I don't remember from last year:

Hainault murder accused wanted to kill, court told

It is alleged the first attack happened at about 06:15 when Mr Monzo drove his grey Ford Transit van at speed into pedestrian Donato Iwule who was "catapulted" into a nearby garden.

Mr Monzo then got out of the van and hit Mr Iwule in the face with a sword, the court heard.

Mr Monzo must have seen Daniel and "moved quickly like a predator" behind him, Mr Little said.

"He lifted the sword above his head and then swung it downwards towards Daniel's head and neck area," he said.

"His life was snuffed out in an instant."

One officer, PC Yasmin Mechen-Whitfield, chased the defendant through a series of alleyways through residential properties, the court heard.

She was hit three times with the sword, which had a 60cm (24in) blade, sustaining "significant injuries" that could have "easily" killed her, the court heard.

Mr Monzo then broke into the home of a couple before going into their bedroom where they were asleep with their four-year-old daughter, the jury was told.

The prosecutor said: "Their bedroom door suddenly opened and the defendant entered their bedroom holding what they described as a machete in his hand but was of course the same sword.

"He shouted out towards them 'Do you believe in god?'

"What happened must have been truly horrifying and confusing," Mr Little said.

Mr Monzo attacked the male resident with the sword, only stopping when the couple's daughter started crying, the jury heard.

Mr Monzo then struck another police officer, Insp Moloy Campbell, with the sword before attempting to flee, the prosecutor said.

He added that Mr Monzo then climbed on top a garage before he was eventually disarmed and arrested.

When police arrested Mr Monzo and asked if he understood, he replied: "Allah, Allah will unite us all" and "God, God, will reunite us all," the court heard.

The interesting part for me, apart from this being a multicultural terrorist attack that has been kept quiet, is that the bbc use lower-case g god when this nutter asked if they believed in god, yet used capital G God when referring to Allah.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Front page of Tesco:

Asda not doing it yet (though that might be down to their IT being shite, like everything else about em these days). Same with Morrisons and Aldi, both of which would normally be flying the "progress" pride flag (the very worst niggerfaggot flag) by now.

Speaking of flags, neighbour's still got his union flag up. I think I might go and salute it.

 

[isalaide]

My missus was in a lot of pain during childbirth (baby's spine was apparently rubbing against her spine, which sounds fucking painful to me). After three hours of almost constant screaming, they finally gave her one aspirin, served on a paper plate. Absolute joke.

Eta: She had preeclampsia too, but that didn't seem to make any difference.

After my emergency section, when I finally got out of ICU and down to the ward, the midwives were only willing to give me two paracetamol.

You've just about fucking killed me, I can't move in the bed unaided let alone sit up, I'm weeing in a bloody cardboard pan thing because I can't move to a fucking toilet and you bitches have taken out my fucking catheter, there's fucking tubes and IVs with blood and iron and random fluids hanging out everywhere, two fucking paracetamol. I didn't need two fucking paracetamol, I needed interred in a fucking Dreadnought chassis.

I Karened until they brought me an actual doctor. No fucking regrets. You have to advocate for yourself. I mean a section as Otterly points out is a major fucking open abdominal surgery. It is not a two paracetamol or one aspirin (Christ on a bicycle) job.

Also, back labour is an absolute fucking bitch, your missus is a warrior, I hope she gets a good mothers' day.

I would also in this list of complaints about UK maternity care like to add, the practice of bringing lassies with sections right out of recovery from the operating theatre and then leaving the baby alone with them in a plastic bucket away from the bed is fucking barbarous. You get any other sort of surgery and start getting up and walking around straight away and the nurses read you the riot act and tell you to lie the fuck down and be quiet for a bit. Yes, you need to mobilise, DVTs, I get that. They don't need to leave you bleeding through your dressings as the sole source of care and comfort 24 hours a day for a baby you literally can't reach without getting out of the bed and walking around. Jesus. Even pull the fucking bucket up to the bedside. I tore my stitches trying to get to baby before they woke up every other baby on the ward. That did not need to happen. You just feel so fucking uncared for at a time when honestly you're a bit beat up physically, emotionally, all that shit. This is a fucking maternity unit. The state of birthing women is not news there. They could give out some fucking cups of tea here and there.

And honestly, rooming-in is a brutal practice if you've had a long labour and a section, because your body needs a fucking sleep. Even a couple of hours kip. I know in American hospitals they have nursery units or whatever where SOMEONE will take the bairn for a couple of hours so you can have a wash or a very necessary nap or a shit in peace. Not having them here is just... look, it's just brutal and fucking unnecessary.

You're sore and a bit emosh and very hormones right before and after you give birth. A bit of fucking kindness would make the whole experience a lot more pleasant.

 

[fakemon]

The interesting part for me, apart from this being a multicultural terrorist attack that has been kept quiet, is that the bbc use lower-case g god when this nutter asked if they believed in god, yet used capital G God when referring to Allah.

Just shoddy reporting, copy/paste, but yes, the capitalization of Allah probably influenced the capitalization of God in the following sentence.

none should have been capitalized, to show maximum disrespect to allah and to god (who are one and the same, and who can suck my dick)

 

[FedPostalService]

The Greggs website is homo free but I think we could have all guessed that.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

allah and to god (who are one and the same, and who can suck my dick)

allah is a goat fucking fabrication. God is our Lord and saviour.

 

[Otterly]

Some horrifying news that I don't remember from last year:

Brave policewoman, chased him through multiple gardens and got sliced for her trouble.

After my emergency section, when I finally got out of ICU and down to the ward, the midwives were only willing to give me two paracetamol.

Familiar. I got nothing, they SAID I should have paracetamol and they wrote it down and assured me it’d happen and then they fucked off, leaving me in some discomfort, to put it mildly, and they never came back except to shout at someone for something or roll their eyes. So no painkillers at all, nothing whatsoever. When I asked I got the eye rolling, and then they’d fuck off again and not bring anything. There’s a lot more to it than that, which I shan’t go into because I can barely think of it without wincing, but the sliced abdomen wasn’t the worst thing, and no1curr anyway, and I’d happily seal the entire staff in and blast the entire unit into the black hole at the centre of the galaxy. They can roll their fucking eyes and be on their phones as the gravitational pull shreds them to atoms.

And honestly, rooming-in is a brutal practice if you've had a long labour and a section,

In most euro countries, you get your own basic but clean room, with your own toilet (shared but scrupulously clean showers down the hall) and your husband or whoever is with you gets a bed in with you and he’s supposed to bring you the baby and all that, on his mandatory week or two of parental leave post birth.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Brave policewoman, chased him through multiple gardens and got sliced for her trouble.

Absolutely. It's shocking that she was the only one who chased him. Give her a promotion and raise.

 

[Russian Bot #5361]

Absolutely. It's shocking that she was the only one who chased him. Give her a promotion and raise.

You're making a lot of assumptions in saying that it is shocking that she was the only one chasing him. We don't know the circumstances of the dispatching information and availability of officers at the time to determine anything about the actions or inaction of other officers. Though I do agree that she ought to get a promotion and raise for such a display of bravery. I would never be a bobby precisely for this reason, there's no way I would willingly sign up to chase knife / sword wielding maniacs armed only with CS spray, a baton, and a stab vest. In other words, look at the size of the balls on that lass.

 

[Kier Starmer]

The Greggs website is homo free but I think we could have all guessed that.

You say that but I was served by the most limp wristed deathfat faggot last week. Enemies are clearly in the hen house. Still better service than the pakis and nogs in the city Greggs though.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Marks and Spencers probably don't have anything up because of the massive cyberattack that they're still getting fucked by. They're not going to get anything back by September at the earliest because they offloaded their entire IT support team to India and now they're absolutely fucked when they need IT specialists who actually know what the fuck they're doing.

Oh by the way they admitted that customer details and credit card information was hacked (but encrypted they say) so I'd strongly suggest everyone who has ever shopped there changes their bank card between Easter weekend and today changes it ASAP.

It has been VERY interesting to see faggot fatigue come into play. It used to be something that they'd put up knowing that 90% of the public would be fairly open towards it and fuck the 10% because they're not real people. NOW? Some places are finally waking up to the point where they might have to go back to being vaguely politically neutral.

 

[Made In Wales]

https://x.com/VoWalesOfficial/status/1930330267689930882

Nick Lowles of Hope Not Hate runs away when questioned by Stan Robinson.

Is that fear in his eyes? Is he worried that nobody with a brain believes him?

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

You're making a lot of assumptions in saying that it is shocking that she was the only one chasing him. We don't know the circumstances of the dispatching information and availability of officers at the time to determine anything about the actions or inaction of other officers. Though I do agree that she ought to get a promotion and raise for such a display of bravery. I would never be a bobby precisely for this reason, there's no way I would willingly sign up to chase knife / sword wielding maniacs armed only with CS spray, a baton, and a stab vest. In other words, look at the size of the balls on that lass.

After police arrived, the defendant approached them brandishing the sword, the court heard.

In body camera footage played to the jury, police are seen repeatedly shouting at him to drop his sword as they called for backup.

One officer, PC Yasmin Mechen-Whitfield, chased the defendant through a series of alleyways through residential properties, the court heard.

From the article. With it saying police are seen shouting at him, it sounds like multiple police. If there weren't multiple police to respond to a muzzie driving into people and decapitating little black kids using a sword, then what's the fucking point in police?
6 bobbies can arrest an autistic kid calling them a lesbian but nobody can respond to alluha ackbar?

 

[Mound Dweller]

They can roll their fucking eyes and be on their phones as the gravitational pull shreds them to atoms.

Maybe it's just my inner hemanwomanhater speaking, but the way I've always heard feeemaaale midwives/nurses/non doctor medical professionals described in general is all very meangirlsy, is it classic infighting from the fairer sex or is there more to it?

Give her a promotion and raise.

It's a nice idea, but cops who do stuff like actually chase down knoife wielders or bumrush shotgun wielding armed robbers never ever get anything of substance, as many a constable's wall full of hollow commendations will attest, and never will they get anything more because it's promoting the sort of "actually doing their jobs" stuff the bosses don't actually want.

 

[Made In Wales]

https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1930195544481116666

Fatty Boom Boom cries 'unfair, waah!'

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

6 bobbies can arrest an autistic kid calling them a lesbian but nobody can respond to alluha ackbar?

What did I say about soft targets? Police LOVE situations like this because they don't have to lift a finger restraining them and can be back to the station to police big Baz on twitter within 15 minutes.

I've personally witnessed absolutely hilarious scenes on nights out where multiple policemen are putting their bodyweight on some coked up shithead who is on the ground trying to fight them off.

Gone are the days where two bobbies would be enough to completely push some smackheads shit in, now every fucking minor incident requires about 10 police officers because A) Nobody is fit enough to restrain someone and B) they can't punch or kick people anymore so have to do that retarded 'shoving' thing they do.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

https://x.com/VoWalesOfficial/status/1930330267689930882

Nick Lowles of Hope Not Hate runs away when questioned by Stan Robinson.

Is that fear in his eyes? Is he worried that nobody with a brain believes him?

He doesn't need anyone with a brain to believe him, he knows he's safe.

Were that piece of shit held to the same standards as every other idiot online in summer last year he'd be sat in a cell right now.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I find it fairly curious how Hope Not Hate and Lead By Donkeys were doing a billion things while the Tories were in power yet Labour are harming their precious Trannies and talking about immigration and these fifth columnists are nowhere to be seen.

 

[Russian Bot #5361]

Gone are the days where two bobbies would be enough to completely push some smackheads shit in, now every fucking minor incident requires about 10 police officers because A) Nobody is fit enough to restrain someone and B) they can't punch or kick people anymore so have to do that retarded 'shoving' thing they do.

It's worth bearing in mind that officers are also afraid to use force, as any use which picks up enough media attention or looks bad optically, regardless of its reasonableness in the circumstances, could lead to conviction. Though the police, through their unions and contractual guarantees, will be given paid leave during the investigation process, it's still a very lengthy process which can cause a lot of emotional distress, as first they will be suspended pending an investigation by an independent body, then if they are to be charged, they will likely be waiting up to two or three years until a crown court trial. Even if they are found not guilty at trial, the police force will then conduct an internal investigation into the matter, and the officer may lose their job regardless.

This process can ruin people, and I have witnessed firsthand the impact that this has on an individual and his family. It's fucked, and if it were me I would be shit scared to use any force too, as I wouldn't want to lose my job or have years of my life run through a shitty bureacratic machine that wants to ruin you.

 

[Made In Wales]

https://x.com/VividProwess/status/1930329498819428752

Oh PLEASE let this happen!

Shalom, Greta, now into jail with you!

Oy Vey!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgq0jw0eqzo

18 year old IQ deficient boy avoids prison for violent assault on female teacher, saying that 'the stupid cow deserves it'.

https://www.gbnews.com/news/neighbour-row-cheshire-village-church

Cheshire village descends into chaos as 'poison letters' and WITCHCRAFT allegations plague 14th-century church.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgnz3r2m7eo

Might be worth checking to see if you're affected by this, if you're a Britbong.