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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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Phalanges Mycologist said:
the person in question is renound internationally so they will not want to admit it till it all comes out, an when it does bye bye BBC.
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If it’s Attenborough, that’s going to rattle a lot of people. It would be a real shame because BBC wildlife programming Back In The Day was amazing. The camerawork on things like blue planet and the sister series is some of the best I’ve ever seen.
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Any one who worked on Doctor Who during the RTD run is suspect.
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Ah now this IS something i believe. They used to film at Cardiff uni, (do they still, i don’t watch it) and I know someone who worked there during that time. She was really creeped out by the people she met. I remember her talking about it but not who, i do remember her saying it was all really gay (she was an evangelical Christian, I think some of the people she encountered were a bit much for even her levels of ‘love everyone.’ ) Next time i talk to her i will ask.
 
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Otterly said:
If it’s Attenborough, that’s going to rattle a lot of people. It would be a real shame because BBC wildlife programming Back In The Day was amazing. The camerawork on things like blue planet and the sister series is some of the best I’ve ever seen.

Ah now this IS something i believe. They used to film at Cardiff uni, (do they still, i don’t watch it) and I know someone who worked there during that time. She was really creeped out by the people she met. I remember her talking about it but not who, i do remember her saying it was all really gay (she was an evangelical Christian, I think some of the people she encountered were a bit much for even her levels of ‘love everyone.’ ) Next time i talk to her i will ask.
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I rewatched the first episode of Torchwood a while back. it is weird and very rapey.
 
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Otterly said:
Ah now this IS something i believe. They used to film at Cardiff uni, (do they still, i don’t watch it) and I know someone who worked there during that time. She was really creeped out by the people she met. I remember her talking about it but not who, i do remember her saying it was all really gay (she was an evangelical Christian, I think some of the people she encountered were a bit much for even her levels of ‘love everyone.’ ) Next time i talk to her i will ask.
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One of the reasons he quit was John Barrowman was flashing people. He would whip his willy out and wave it around every chance he got. He made complaints and Barrowman was immediately.. given prime time game shows and pushed to be the face of the BBC's family evening blocks. He was first accused in 2008 by the black companion from Doctor Who. He continued to work until 2019 when he said he was suicidal because no one wanted to work with him any more. So the BBC knew he would flash people and try to have conversations while naked and gave him a quiz show where kids compete with adults. And took 10 years to take action. He's back on TV now as a celebrity guest on a Channel 4 SAS show and said he didn't regret flashing people to Loraine Kelly.

The list of names and venom Christopher spits them out with means there's even worst going on behind the scenes.

Why is every gay drama about grooming school kids and why is it considered normal? RTD's queer as folk was about an adult man grooming a teenage boy. There was Sugar Rush about a 15 year old girl trying to shag a brown slut and then an older woman picks her up. It's the only story they tell.
 
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Attenborough - the people who posted that, yea that's the name I've heard there is someone who uncoverd it an supposedly has hard evidence an can name names from what I've heard.

Otterly said:
If it’s Attenborough, that’s going to rattle a lot of people. It would be a real shame because BBC wildlife programming Back In The Day was amazing. The camerawork on things like blue planet and the sister series is some of the best I’ve ever seen.
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Yea that will be a blow for that to be tarnished, however it should rattle a lot of people there are sadly a lot of other bodys rattling the closeted halls of the BBC. The more I am hearing from various bit's I here via the family members I would know this is hugely dammaging. They know this is what would lose them the charter because some victims are alive today and will speek, supposedly mostly when he was out in the field filming the shows.
 
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Kofi Drinka said:
The list of names and venom Christopher spits them out with means there's even worst going on behind the scenes.
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And to top it off, they're stealing his ideas now. He said, three years ago, that Billie Piper should be the next doctor. Though I think he was trolling when he said that...

BrightonAndHoveAlbion said:
Is there anywhere that Christopher talks about this ?
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There's snippets of it on youtube, here and there.
 
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Is there anywhere that Christopher talks about this ? I always like his performances in film and on TV. His stage work is also excellent if you ever get a chance to see it.
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Zoot said:
fucking hell. I wonder if they are desperately hoping to hold out the cover up till after he snuffs it. like they did with Jimmy saville
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He will be protected by the eco warriors. They want his voice to push their narrative. He is trusted to know about nature and makes the ideal spokesman.
 
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No but we still arrest you for pointing that out racist.
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God's Own Sling said:
Frankly I hope it is Attenborough, because despite the fact I've enjoyed (some of) his work in the past, the kind of people who worship the ground he walks on tend to have been some of the most insufferable faggots I've ever met in my life. I want their worldview shattered into a million pieces, turned into a smoking ruin, and rendered down to its constituent atoms so I can laugh, and drink their tears when their Christ-like idol figure turns out to be a big sweaty nonce.

You know, the kind of people who say "yass" and think Cards Against Humanity is actually funny. Its always those sort of people, in my experience.
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Honestly I'm glad im not the only one who thinks like this on cards against humanity. The game seems designed to be played in the school's special sperg room.
 
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I'm pretty sure Attenborough isn't a nonce, if he's anything it's a sex pest.
I swear I remember reading he solicited women on sets and I remember reading on ?Mumsnet that he had a reputation for being rude/misogynistic

This could have also been about his brother Richard. This was like a decade+ ago.
I can't find a single mention now 🤷‍♀️
 
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At this point; literally any of them could be at it, don't get that "vibe" for David though if anything he's always struck me as a bit.. sexless, deep closet homo I could believe though.
Richard was a Hollywood actor though he'll have been up to pierced nipples in it so of course they'll be nothing documentation wise, just like the infamous disappearing pedo dossier.
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Drunk Ecclestone best Ecclestone; Love how he doesn't pretend to be polite or resorts to insults, just calls out the bullshit.
 
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Brace yourselves, fellow Farmers, Palestine Action are going to throw a temper tantrum (or more) from tomorrow:

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/wr98b

At the same time, does a Harlesden Kebab Shop really support Hezbollah?

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In other news, Martine Croxall upsets the woke and trans folks:

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/eZSxE

Finally (for now) the NHS could now send you abroad, if you need an operation, because 'Waiting Time Lists must come down!'

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If it is indeed Attenborough and their just sitting on it until he dies before making it public then could you just imagine the international backlash it would cause if it is true? David Attenborough has done a ton of charity work/founded charities, got a lot of people into working with animals and his shows are shown just about every where on the planet. For it to come out he's a nonce and likely the BBC knew the whole time and just kept it quite would probably tank the BBC as a whole from the outcry alone.

The real funny answer for who it could be for me would be the guy who played Mr Tumble just because I never liked his vibe.
 
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A-Logato said:
If it is indeed Attenborough and their just sitting on it until he dies before making it public then could you just imagine the international backlash it would cause if it is true? David Attenborough has done a ton of charity work/founded charities, got a lot of people into working with animals and his shows are shown just about every where on the planet. For it to come out he's a nonce and likely the BBC knew the whole time and just kept it quite would probably tank the BBC as a whole from the outcry alone.

The real funny answer for who it could be for me would be the guy who played Mr Tumble just because I never liked his vibe.
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There's been a few comments about 'Mr. Tumble' and Russell T. Davies IMO is definitely a guy who needs his hard drive looked at.

Tom Allen as well - smarmy, pompous, fake-voiced 'yoohoo I'm QUEER!' so-called comedian. Also not a nice person IRL (know a few people in Bromley, where he's from, and he was a bully in school who hid behind being gay to get away with it).
 
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Kofi Drinka said:
He will be protected by the eco warriors. They want his voice to push their narrative. He is trusted to know about nature and makes the ideal spokesman.
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A few months back, I was told a story about one of Attenborough's eco documentaries. It was one where they found some sort of seabird dead because of all of the plastic in its stomach. But the bird was not found that way, the plastic was put into its open corpse by the production team.
 
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Made In Wales said:
Finally (for now) the NHS could now send you abroad, if you need an operation, because 'Waiting Time Lists must come down!'
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They did this exact thing in the late 90s/early aughts, and for the same reason as well. A fortune was spent sending people to France for operations so the NHS waiting lists could be cut down. Don't think it'll work this time; the french healthcare system is overwhelmed by north africans and turks these days.
 
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