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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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Snekposter said:
What's the weather over there for you Bongs if you're gasping, choking, and on the verge of death from the heat, 30C?
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Bear in mind even the south coast of Bongland is further north than fucking Winnipeg.
Nobody is used to it nor builds for it, and because it's a soggy island this isn't the the nice dry heat you get in the US.
I can cope with California in the summer, but this sounds like a fucking penance.
 
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Vesperus said:
Nobody is used to it nor builds for it, and because it's a soggy island this isn't the the nice dry heat you get in the US.
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I've been to Florida in the summer, and if you think that's a dry heat you guys probably have gills instead of lungs. And I live in the PNW, so I've had plenty of nasty humid days here at home caused by the odd summer rainstorm. Ever been in 30C weather and 100% humidity?

You'll find no sympathy from me on summer weather. Suffah, Euros.
 
Skanks and whores complain about hurty words on a forum. Tyler, the creator continue to be right

Jordan and some influencers are crying that hurty words on meanie-beanie baddy bad site, Tattle Life, forced them into therapy and rehab, because closing a computer screen is impossible.
The story isn't interesting, just some ugly hags moaning about people having opinions on how ugly and skanky they are.

The interesting bit is that they all believe in this:

Influencer Jen Graham agrees, suggesting people should have to verify their identity by uploading a document such as a driving licence or taking a picture of themselves.

"That way it's traceable and someone can't hide behind a secret identity," she says, "and if they're cruel then they're punished."

Graham says that discovering a thread about herself on Tattle Life "massively sent me under".

"It wiped me out for a month and affected how I made my content as I was really anxious about posting."
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Because sluts like this have thin skin, they want you to provide your driving license and passport so that your hurty words can be punished :story:
Fuck off, trollop.
 
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If Starmer gets involved in this Jews vs Iran shit, will that kill of the rest of labour dwindling voter base?

Might fuck reform as well as the Jew side will be the fake right positon and the Jews have probably already bribed the party anyway.
 
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I've been to Florida in the summer, and if you think that's a dry heat you guys probably have gills instead of lungs
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That's true, but "better than Florida" is not exactly a high bar. I was thinking of places that aren't a by-word for insanity.

Seattle is further south than Oléans or Le Mans, and they're so far south they don't even have Greggs'.
 
Fuck me I have a bad feeling that if the Jews are really plaing for a big war in the middle east we are about to get swamped by Muslims. And we have a prime minister with no interest in stopping it
 
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That's true, but "better than Florida" is not exactly a high bar. I was thinking of places that aren't a by-word for insanity.

Seattle is further south than Oléans or Le Mans, and they're so far south they don't even have Greggs'.
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We worship the McMuffin here, not the sausage roll.

Well, we would if McDonald's hadn't gone to complete shit. But mark my words, Bongs, unless you can reverse course soon Greggs' will share in its fate, a once-proud bastion of racism and culture ruined and worn as a skinsuit by Pakis and Jeets.
 
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Fuck me I have a bad feeling that if the Jews are really plaing for a big war in the middle east we are about to get swamped by Muslims. And we have a prime minister with no interest in stopping it
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They don't need a war to do that. Every chance they get they volunteer up the country for more foreigners to move in. Last week they were talking about needing more builders to build all the new houses they're promising to make. Where do they think 17,000 imported builders are going to live if we already lack houses for the people living in that area? They plan to import millions of foreigners to build houses during a house shortage. All the houses they make will be less than the number of houses needed for the labour.

Just two more weeks until Starmer is gone is a cope. Even with party divides Labour know Reform is going to come in and slaughter left wing policy. They won't give up power for anything and their internal differences aren't big enough to stop them banding together. Any one who resigns can be replaced by another idiot. Having no fixed election cycle leads to the worst people clinging to power and with labour being so unpopular and knowing they only won because the conservatives lost will make Starmer double down. He doesn't need to be popular when he can keep pushing through extreme legislation no one supports and there's nothing in place to stop him. It's the same way we have never voted for mass immigration and we oppose all immigration but the laws have been changed to force it on us any time there's so much as a fart in the middle east.
 
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Honestly, the plan is mostly likely to dump all brownoids around Israel into Europe. Get ready to seek asylum in Russia bros.
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It's nicer than Bradford, and there's a better chance you'll meet someone who speaks English.
Chilly in winter. Even northerners will need their Big Coat.
 
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I'm getting to the point where I unironically thing it might end up being our best option. Putin has already talked about giving us refuge from the brown invaders
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I am an Eternal Anglo, doomed to walk the Earth muttering about tea and complaining about the weather. I currently live in New Zealand but plan on moving to the US.
(I have a daughter, and the genetic urge to provide whatever is best for her overrides any lingering patriotism)

But, I lived in Russia for a while, long, long ago. It's actually quite nice. It's a functional "Western" country where they play football, drink beer and have the Internet. The average Russian -to the extent they care- knows that we were on the same side(ish) through the Napoleonic wars, WWI and WWII.

Honestly, you could do worse.

Different alphabet is the big hurdle.

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Does anyone know precisely why they want to map the genome of people. If anyone believes it's to stop bad health then they're weapons grade retarded.
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If you think it's for health reasons I have a unicorn to sell you.

Adding it to the police database is my guess.
 
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He may be daring Starmer to sack him, which would presumably trigger a putsch (successful or otherwise) in response.
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I suspected, given the timing, that he was just putting it out there quietly at the weekend so he could say he warned people down the line.,

Now that Iran got bombed by the Americans I'm certain that was his intent since that will hide it even further.
 
Since no doubt down the line people will claim they weren't warned here's an archive of one of the stories about Wes' remarks.
The health secretary warned there was “no budget” for the introduction of assisted dying laws and suggested MPs had made the “wrong” choice last week.
In a statement issued to his constituents on Facebook after the historic Commons vote on Friday, Wes Streeting said: “Setting up this service will take time and money that is in short supply.”
The process could divert resources from the NHS and other public services, he wrote. “Politics is about prioritising. It is a daily series of choices and trade-offs. I fear we’ve made the wrong one.”
Under the terms of the bill, the NHS will be expected to carry out assisted dying procedures. Analysis shows each death will cost the taxpayer about £15,000. The implementation of assisted dying could cost the health service almost £425 million in the first ten years.


Streeting voted for a change in the law in 2015, later deciding against it because of concerns about the state of palliative care in the UK. He is the first cabinet minister to publicly raise his concerns about the Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s bill since it narrowly passed its third reading last week with a majority of 23. Streeting was one of six cabinet ministers to vote against it.
Sir Keir Starmer voted in favour of the bill, which will now begin its passage through the House of Lords. The first reading is expected as soon as Tuesday.

Streeting, who is a Christian, was rebuked by the prime minister after earlier interventions opposing the bill. Cabinet ministers had been ordered to remain neutral on the legislation’s passage and the issue itself.
The health secretary is understood to be deeply concerned about the impact assisted dying would have on an overstretched NHS. He is also worried about the risks that he believes will come with it.
Writing on Facebook, Streeting, 42, said: “I can’t get past the concerns expressed by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Royal College of Physicians, the Association for Palliative Medicine and a wide range of charities representing underprivileged groups in our society about the risks that come with this bill.
“Gordon Brown wrote this week that ‘there is no effective freedom to choose if the alternative option, the freedom to draw on high-quality end-of-life care, is not available. Neither is there real freedom to choose if, as many fear, patients will feel under pressure to relieve their relatives of the burden of caring for them, a form of coercion that prioritising good end-of-life care would diminish.’ He is right.
“The truth is that creating those conditions will take time and money. Even with the savings that might come from assisted dying if people take up the service — and it feels uncomfortable talking about savings in this context, to be honest — setting up this service will also take time and money that is in short supply. There isn’t a budget for this.”

Several cabinet ministers are thought to feel the same. One said: “The government is under so much pressure … everyone knows money is so scarce and we have to prioritise the things we do with it. Assisted dying is going to eat up a lot of our bandwidth and will undoubtedly mean we won’t be able to do some of the things we wanted to, given the massive competition for resources.”


Another cabinet minister said: “Rachel Reeves voted for assisted dying. I hope that means she has found the money for it.”

A number of those who opposed the bill have raised concerns that assisted dying could take resources away from patients. Dame Siobhain McDonagh, a Labour MP who voted against the legislation, said it could become “the Trojan horse that breaks the NHS”.
The impact assessment of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill estimates up to 28,317 people will die by state-assisted suicide within the first ten years of its introduction. It is forecast to rise from 647 cases in the first year to more than 4,500 by 2038, and could mean costs of £425 million for the NHS over the decade. That sum includes educating all health and social care staff, training doctors and nurses involved in the assisted dying service, setting up a regulator and the costs of the lethal drugs themselves.

Overall, the assessment suggests the government could save more than £640 million because of those who would have been in hospital or in care dying earlier. Some of these savings could be made by the NHS.
Dame Esther Rantzen, who turns 85 today, appealed to peers not to block the bill. The veteran broadcaster, who joined the Swiss assisted dying clinic Dignitas after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2023, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme yesterday that the job of the House of Lords “is to scrutinise, to ask questions, but not to oppose”.
The bill’s opponents have already pledged to use “every means possible” to stop it becoming law, pointing to a Lords convention which allows peers to table as many amendments as they want to a piece of legislation at its report stage — all of which would potentially have to be voted on.


Lord Falconer of Thoroton, the former lord chancellor who supports a change in the law and is expected to have a leading role in taking the bill through the Lords, suggested that it was unlikely the bill would be blocked.
Writing for The Sunday Times, he said: “The Lords has always debated this issue with profound depth and understanding. The reputation of the Lords depends on the quality of its scrutiny. The chamber as a whole will not want and will not allow the debates on this bill to be derailed by filibustering wreckers.
“The Commons, after a prolonged period of debate and scrutiny, has decided the law must change. The Lords will scrutinise and improve but it will respect and give effect to that decision.”
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And as the Time was also good enough to list who voted in another article I'll link that but the table's too big to post.
 
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Streeting is a practicing faggot isn't he? If he takes it up the shit pipe or does a spot of uphill gardening then he is not a Christian.

You cannot be a faggot and a Christian. Not fucking possible.
 
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