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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.

 

[Made In Wales]

If we tackled the issue of generational worklessness we would have absolutely no need to rely on importing cheap labour from foreign shitholes.

Yes, but we also have to go back to the days of the Tech. Colleges and learning trades, not just parcel everybody off to University because Nanny Blair said so.

Learn a skill or a trade, from Admin to Contractor if you can do it you can earn a good wage.

We also have to do away with the notion that being a YT or Twitch celebrity means success - yes, some people are interesting but most aren't and rely on donations and grifting to get by. This needs to be viewed the same way as begging - 'we're not paying your wages, get a job and stop being insufferable.'

Common Sense and not Common Purpose.

 

[Zoot]

Yes, but we also have to go back to the days of the Tech. Colleges and learning trades, not just parcel everybody off to University because Nanny Blair said so.

Learn a skill or a trade, from Admin to Contractor if you can do it you can earn a good wage.

We also have to do away with the notion that being a YT or Twitch celebrity means success - yes, some people are interesting but most aren't and rely on donations and grifting to get by. This needs to be viewed the same way as begging - 'we're not paying your wages, get a job and stop being insufferable.'

Common Sense and not Common Purpose.

having a country that people give a shit about again would help with the generational worklessness,. When international finance rules the day and the country favours foreigners, and the leaders are cowards, then its kinda inevitable that people won't give a shit about work.

so much of this stuff is momentum and synergy. when you are going downwards getting turned around is the hardest bit. it is that that seems impossible. but once you are moving in the right direction it all seems possible

 

[BongoMongo]

@Made In Wales : I completely agree with you.

Pushing everyone to go to University was just a way of fiddling the youth unemployment figures.

Remember child trust funds? You know where every baby's parents got a £250 voucher, or £500 if parents were on benefits? And the same at different points in their childhood,to be invested? I had a blazing row with my mum because she said it was a way of making sure 18 year olds wouldn't be "entitled" to getting benefits because they'd have money. I remember thinking , gosh how hard would you have to fuck up if your child is going straight onto benefits at 18 years old? There's no way that woman would have ever let me go down that route so I was confused she saw it as acceptable for anyone else.

 

[Crunkle]

Robert Jenrick, please fuck off.

Your moral grandstanding and tough guy persona isn't fooling anyone and you are very obviously campaigning to be Tory leader. Badenoch is so weak and has no meaningful support amongst MPs to even get you to pack it in. Please stop showing up in every right-wing special interest group YouTube video.

Snaking your way into every retarded "Big Ben Bongs Longer" public awareness campaign in an effort to emulate Farage.

I'm fucking sick of you and you aren't even LOTO yet.

Go and eat a pie like the good old days, fatty boom boom, that is if the Mounjaro lets you keep anything down.

 

[Special spoonie]

Remember child trust funds? You know where every baby's parents got a £250 voucher, or £500 if parents were on benefits? And the same at different points in their childhood,to be invested? I had a blazing row with my mum because she said it was a way of making sure 18 year olds wouldn't be "entitled" to getting benefits because they'd have money. I remember thinking , gosh how hard would you have to fuck up if your child is going straight onto benefits at 18 years old? There's no way that woman would have ever let me go down that route so I was confused she saw it as acceptable for anyone else.

I had that mindset about benefits but it’s hard to keep in it when we are being worked to the bone to give the benefits to illegals instead. I’d rather a nation of our own scroungers. In fact it’s funny we had all that brainwashing turning us against white scroungers, benefits Britain back in the early 2000s/2010 whilst they were opening the doors for the 3rd world to have it instead.

 

[>IMPLYING]

I had that mindset about benefits but it’s hard to keep in it when we are being worked to the bone to give the benefits to illegals instead. I’d rather a nation of our own scroungers. In fact it’s funny we had all that brainwashing turning us against white scroungers, benefits Britain back in the early 2000s/2010 whilst they were opening the doors for the 3rd world to have it instead.

I remember hating benefits and their recipients on principle once upon a time but I think sitting on the couch when I was younger with these on the telly might've contributed to that.


The same media that constantly fluffs up Muslims and other minority groups and are entrenched in Leftist rhetoric for the most part putting on TV programs that disparage the benefits system by putting a bunch of dysgenetic whites front and centre seems contradictory, especially when in hindsight you remember they never put blacks or browns receiving them in the spotlight despite their women being proportionally more likely to be unemployed than white women.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

I had that mindset about benefits but it’s hard to keep in it when we are being worked to the bone to give the benefits to illegals instead. I’d rather a nation of our own scroungers. In fact it’s funny we had all that brainwashing turning us against white scroungers, benefits Britain back in the early 2000s/2010 whilst they were opening the doors for the 3rd world to have it instead.

Little Britain did its job correctly.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

It may have to be overarching, i.e. no benefits even for people who currently get them or less money because we have to save the country from ruin.

No benefits for new entrants, full stop.
Sack 50% of the NHS managers, at random. The system will heal itself.
End all migrant hotels, sink all illegals, round up anyone who doesn't have a passport and drop them onto a French beach.
Legalise and tax weed
Ban all vapes and flood the country with tobacco, then tax the fuck out of it.
Shoot all coke and heroin dealers
Force anyone on meth, heroine or coke into a rehab. Day 1 : place OD levels of drugs in their room, if they die, they die.
Publicly flog all ASBO, chav wankers, regardless of age. Publicly caning mouthy 10 year olds fixes the future.

However, if we can encourage more people on benefits into work (even working in the community cutting grass verges or tending to the flowers etc.) then that's an advantage.

Encourage? lol, lmao even. If having self worth, respect, a schedule and the social benefits that comes with going to work isn't encouraging enough, nothing short of public service will work.
Yes, community service, but they report there, everyday, and collect their pay at the end of the day. Graffiti cleaning, street sweeping, litter picking (have fun in Birmingham), grass cutting, rock breaking, whatever it takes. Get their lazy fucking arses to do something worthwhile. If, after 3 consecutive failures to report to community service, they are automatically enlisted and drafted to the front lines of whatever country wants to pay us for meatbags.

However, those who are disabled, legitimately disabled; missing limbs, knackered musco-skeletons, real mental diseases like parkinsons, they should be paid extraordinary high wages and looked after.

 

[FedPostalService]

current mood. Keep in mind I’m the pinko commie liberal thread who is possibly a secret nigger and I’ve gone full “put them into camps and I don’t care if they are disappeared” mode now.

The normies who I’m speaking to are worse.

Hope lies with the racist proles.

 

[EddyRooney]

I had that mindset about benefits but it’s hard to keep in it when we are being worked to the bone to give the benefits to illegals instead. I’d rather a nation of our own scroungers. In fact it’s funny we had all that brainwashing turning us against white scroungers, benefits Britain back in the early 2000s/2010 whilst they were opening the doors for the 3rd world to have it instead.

That's voting for a less worse option. I'd rather there were NO fucking scroungers. Every single one of them is a parasite on anyone who works for a living. There needs to be a much smaller government in this country. Stop babysitting adults, let them reap the consequences of their actions. The only thing I want from the government is an absolute basic provision of benefits, keep the infrastructure running and defend our fucking borders. The subsequent reduction in taxation would be such a boost to the economy that businesses would be hiring - private sector growth - the only true growth - would ensure jobs to all those who want them ( which should be every able bodied person in the country ).
The NHS is projected to employ 10% of the UK population in a decade. Jesus wept. This downward socialist spiral of an evergrowing government along with the foreign mass ponces must be stopped imediately. Look at the 10 year gilt prices. Look at the national debt. We are screwed.

nationaldebtclock

 

[Turkey Beef]

https://xcancel.com/JamesMelville/status/1931256546664550818
https://sapienlabs.org/

 

[Overly Serious]

Honestly, Pound is one of the most fascinating characters of the 20th centruy and one of the most slandered and wronged.

Thanks. It'll take a bit but I'll start having read through those links when I have the time. Appreciate it.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

ecret nigger

It's really not a secret, you like Turtle Bay, you're a wog/

 

[Made In Wales]

No benefits for new entrants, full stop.
Sack 50% of the NHS managers, at random. The system will heal itself.
End all migrant hotels, sink all illegals, round up anyone who doesn't have a passport and drop them onto a French beach.
Legalise and tax weed
Ban all vapes and flood the country with tobacco, then tax the fuck out of it.
Shoot all coke and heroin dealers
Force anyone on meth, heroine or coke into a rehab. Day 1 : place OD levels of drugs in their room, if they die, they die.
Publicly flog all ASBO, chav wankers, regardless of age. Publicly caning mouthy 10 year olds fixes the future.

Encourage? lol, lmao even. If having self worth, respect, a schedule and the social benefits that comes with going to work isn't encouraging enough, nothing short of public service will work.
Yes, community service, but they report there, everyday, and collect their pay at the end of the day. Graffiti cleaning, street sweeping, litter picking (have fun in Birmingham), grass cutting, rock breaking, whatever it takes. Get their lazy fucking arses to do something worthwhile. If, after 3 consecutive failures to report to community service, they are automatically enlisted and drafted to the front lines of whatever country wants to pay us for meatbags.

However, those who are disabled, legitimately disabled; missing limbs, knackered musco-skeletons, real mental diseases like parkinsons, they should be paid extraordinary high wages and looked after.

Can we make you PM already?

A post c/o 'Active Patriot' on X:

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Lawyer Akhmed Yakoob the solicitor that represented the MANCHESTER AIRPORT ATTACKERS pleads not guilty to helping gang launder millions in cash

He is looking at up to 14 YEARS in PRISON.

He owns two Lamborghinis, a Mercedes Benz G-Class, a Ferrari F8 and was in the process of buying a Rolls Royce

Akhmed Yakoob, 37, who stood as an independent in the 2024 general election, is accused of assisting people 'that wanted help to launder cash of millions of pounds', Westminster magistrates' court heard today (Tuesday).

Yakoob, of Aldridge, Walsall, and accountant Nabeel Afzal, 38, from Birmingham, pleaded not guilty to money laundering, encouraging money laundering and contravening a requirement to apply customer due diligence measures when establishing a business relationship between February 18, 2020 and January 8, 2021.

They were charged after a National Crime Agency probe. If convicted, they could be jailed to up to 14 years, the court heard.

Yakoob stood in Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood's Birmingham Ladywood constituency in the last general election, coming second with 12,137 votes compared to her 15,558, and came third in the West Midlands mayoral election with 69,621 votes.

Yakoob and Afzal were granted unconditional bail to appear at Southwark Crown Court on July 15.

 

[A-Logato]

A post c/o 'Active Patriot' on X:

https://x.com/ActivePatriotUK/status/1934999786358267924

Archive: https://archive.ph/A9k6k

For those without X, the post reads:

Lawyer Akhmed Yakoob the solicitor that represented the MANCHESTER AIRPORT ATTACKERS pleads not guilty to helping gang launder millions in cash

He is looking at up to 14 YEARS in PRISON.

He owns two Lamborghinis, a Mercedes Benz G-Class, a Ferrari F8 and was in the process of buying a Rolls Royce

Akhmed Yakoob, 37, who stood as an independent in the 2024 general election, is accused of assisting people 'that wanted help to launder cash of millions of pounds', Westminster magistrates' court heard today (Tuesday).

Yakoob, of Aldridge, Walsall, and accountant Nabeel Afzal, 38, from Birmingham, pleaded not guilty to money laundering, encouraging money laundering and contravening a requirement to apply customer due diligence measures when establishing a business relationship between February 18, 2020 and January 8, 2021.

They were charged after a National Crime Agency probe. If convicted, they could be jailed to up to 14 years, the court heard.

Yakoob stood in Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood's Birmingham Ladywood constituency in the last general election, coming second with 12,137 votes compared to her 15,558, and came third in the West Midlands mayoral election with 69,621 votes.

Yakoob and Afzal were granted unconditional bail to appear at Southwark Crown Court on July 15.

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Does this really shock anyone? Every business ran by these people is laundering money. Why do you think all of them own the same shitty BMW?

 

[BongoMongo]

The sooner we ban anyone not born in this country from running for public office, owning property or businesses or holding any form of position of responsibility, the better. They can't be trusted.

Islam is fundamentally incompatible with any first world Western democracy.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Can we make you PM already?

Giving the reins of domestic policy to someone who doesn't even live here?
What are we?
The USA?

 

[Made In Wales]

Giving the reins of domestic policy to someone who doesn't even live here?
What are we?
The USA?
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Boris 'Spaffer' Johnson was born in the USA.

Shit, I'd take @Null as PM before Starmer.

 

[Zoot]

fuck i'm praying that something happens that forces starmer into a general election. i don't know i can last this prick.

 

[A-Logato]

"Boy was I right or what?"

fuck i'm praying that something happens that forces starmer into a general election. i don't know i can last this prick.

He'll never do it, once labour gets in then they don't leave and their own back benchers infamously have no spine. At most he'll get made the sacrificial lamb and Jess Philips will take over.