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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]

Some pre-dinner tidbits from GB News:

Fraudster handed three years in jail for £550,000 scam selling fake Scottish-grown tea to prestigious hotels:

https://www.gbnews.com/news/fraudster-jailed-scam-fake-scottish-grown-tea-thomas-robinson

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/B6BBS

Tax warning: Alarm sounded over 'kamikaze Budget' amid fears Rachel Reeves will be 'ordered to massively hike taxes':

https://www.gbnews.com/money/tax-warning-alarm-sounded-kamikaze-budget-rachel-reeves-hike

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/z9Ln7

Keir Starmer's fatal error was to take a scalpel to the benefits bill instead of a sledgehammer - Miriam Cates:

https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/labour-disability-benefits-welfare-keir-starmer

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/F60nV

Council leader resigns with 18-year-old left in charge of £1.5bn local authority:

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/warwickshire-news-councillor-leader-resigns-reform

Archive: https://archive.ph/HVhAA

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Tax warning: Alarm sounded over 'kamikaze Budget' amid fears Rachel Reeves will be 'ordered to massively hike taxes':

Wasn't this part of the Toies getting on board to pass these bills?

You talked about genetic problems, I asked like what? You want to talk about Polynesian people we can talk about a propensity to diabetes. You want to talk about Pakistani communities in Bradford, you can debate birth rates. You want to say Shia Islam is at odds with Western values you can explain that. But you said that Iranian ancestry is introducing genetic problems. So... like what?

Old Persian man just wants to know what you meant.
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They're not us. That's the genetic problem. That's the cultural problem. That is all the problems summed up in 3 words. I don't care what diseases they are at higher risk of or what their IQ level is. I don't even care if they play cricket better than us. They aren't us.

How brown are you?

 

[Zoot]

They aren't us.

And these aren't their lands.

We don't need any further justification then time is up, we don't want browns here anymore, get the fuck out.

 

[Kier Starmer]

Spoiler: how I feel about race mixing

I am going to be brutally honest, I think race mixing should be illegal. I come from a farming and military background, and even saying you were interested in a black belt would get you in trouble. I never have because I find most other races disgusting, they just pretend to be intelligent, but at their core, they want to either do the following;

• rape
• ook
• Use jive language
• Cook and masquerade it as food, but overseason it.
• pop kids out like a spider.

If people were punished for diminishing our collective seed, then they would not do it. Also for illegal Pakis popping out their degenerate sub-IQ hellspawn they should be swiftly plucked in the river. These "children" will never know intelligence

I know horrible and brutalist, but I see what Canada is like, then here, and you need to be brutal.

 

[Otterly]

Fraudster handed three years in jail for £550,000 scam selling fake Scottish-grown tea to prestigious hotels:

There are some scams so obvious you can only admire them. Ah yes, we all know that Yorkshire tea is grown on the high altitude tea gardens of likely moor, and that tea grows well in Scotland …

 

[teriyakiburns]

EDIT EDIT EDIT: Fuck me - "To allow doctors to opt-out of euthanasia work via a conscience clause without penalty." DENIED!

Eat the bugs
Live in the pod
Murder mentally ill people on the orders of the state

(If this gets through the lords, I'll probably never let my dad in a hospital again. There's every chance he might not come out.)

I can't even imagine Kier "Fucking Boring" Starmer saying those words, or doing anything even one millionth as exciting

I can, in a round-about way. Remember, this is the man who had his home secretary instruct the CPS to prosecute the southport protestors for even the smallest of infractions, because his ego was hurt by their refusal to follow the rules. He's a ruthless, egomaniacal sociopath and they have a tendency towards deep, pervasive anger issues that they've learned to conceal behind a mask of one sort or another. For all that he might appear plastic-faced and emotionless most of the time, you can nevertheless see the seething anger and resentment in his body language when he gets even the slightest bit of pushback in public interactions.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

 

[Overly Serious]

There are some scams so obvious you can only admire them. Ah yes, we all know that Yorkshire tea is grown on the high altitude tea gardens of likely moor, and that tea grows well in Scotland …

I was going to say, is Scotland known for it's tea? Also:

"He deceived luxury establishments by selling imported tea as Scottish produce, offering varieties with names like Highland Green"

If some Scottish bloke approached me with a bag of something he called "Highland Green" I would not think it would be tea.

 

[Kier Starmer]

This mother fucker was uppricing Yorkshire Tea. Odd question, I want a good tea, I always have mine with milk, may I have some recommendations from the masses, please?

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

This mother fucker was uppricing Yorkshire Tea. Odd question, I want a good tea, I always have mine with milk, may I have some recommendations from the masses, please?

Yorkshire Gold is the gold standard. Once you've tried that there's no turning back.

 

[Le b0wski]

Well there are lots of Christian denominations that don't have this stuff, but they will all expect you to believe in God. That's why I suggested CoE in the first place!

EDIT:

Jesus! Amendment 60: To deny euthanasia if there was a real risk that the patient does not meet the eligibility criteria. DENIED!

EDIT EDIT: "To require doctors to document the content of their euthanasia discussions with the patient and share those records with a medical examiner". DENIED!

EDIT EDIT EDIT: Fuck me - "To allow doctors to opt-out of euthanasia work via a conscience clause without penalty." DENIED!

So much drama being applied to everything to do with this bill. Those lists are compiled by people wanting to portray everything in the worst possible way to stir up emotions more. Can see my post a bunch of pages back showing the progress of the bill, it's had committee discussions but way off the amendment stages.

While I don't trust the government much at all I also get that they try not to repeat laws that already exist or create laws in such a way that they aren't workable in the real world. Like the opt-out of euthanasia work if looking at how doctors, surgeons and medical professionals are trained and contracted then no existing doctor would just be randomly plucked up with 0 training and forcefully told to get to work on the euthanasia of people, much like how your run of the mill GP isn't randomly taken out of the GP surgery and told they are doing an autopsy today.

Also medical examiners in the UK don't typically interact with anyone that's still alive. It sounds important and most have no idea what they do but a GP contacting a medical examiner while the patient is still alive and might not even die is just not how the NHS works.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/medical-examiners/

 

[They were once men]

Council leader resigns with 18-year-old left in charge of £1.5bn local authority:

Maybe he's based and will not spend it on housing more sand people.

 

[Zoot]

Maybe he's based and will not spend it on housing more sand people.

Maybe he will fund a paramilitary organisation off the books to drive all the browns out of his constituency.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

There are some scams so obvious you can only admire them. Ah yes, we all know that Yorkshire tea is grown on the high altitude tea gardens of likely moor, and that tea grows well in Scotland …

There is a very small UK Tea crop it's a single farm on the South Cost of Cornwall that grows Tea but it's a tiny production like insignificant in volume mostly done just because they can an the vine yard they are growing it had the space an the soil was bad for growing Grapes (think post fungal infection) and the Tea bush is not effected by it in the slightest.

Ironically one thing Scotland does produce in Volume is seed potatoes.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Labour voters when a 17 year old MP is voted in: "I'm so glad that we have youth in our politics now"

Labour voters when an 18 year old becomes head of a Reform council: "Kids have no place in politics"

 

[Otterly]

single farm on the South Cost of Cornwall that grows Tea but it's a tiny production like insignificant in volume mostly done just because they can

I did not know that. I’ll have to get some !

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

I did not know that. I’ll have to get some !

If you do let me know because I'd be curious to taste it myself.

 

[Jason_Cruiser]

Labour voters when a 17 year old MP is voted in: "I'm so glad that we have youth in our politics now"

Labour voters when an 18 year old becomes head of a Reform council: "Kids have no place in politics"

18 is a bit young though. I'd rather have someone in their mid-late 20s, at least then they some experience without being out of touch geriatric boomers.

 

[Made In Wales]

This mother fucker was uppricing Yorkshire Tea. Odd question, I want a good tea, I always have mine with milk, may I have some recommendations from the masses, please?

Welsh Brew is my go-to.

If you're ever this side of Offa's Dyke, Aldi and Lidl have readily available stocks.

 

[EddyRooney]

18 is a bit young though. I'd rather have someone in their mid-late 20s, at least then they some experience without being out of touch geriatric boomers.

Mid-late 20's ? They would have so much life experience and wisdom by then. That decade would make all the difference !
We need politicians that have worked in the real world for a substantial period of time. I don't mean in academia or trade unions either. A real job, where being useless at it has real world consequences. Where they have had to pay a fortune in tax and so will actually understand and be able to empathise with the need not to waste it as governments do.
It is a tragedy of modern times that politics is now dominated by career politicians. The whole spectrum of politics attracts morally questionable narcissists. I hold them all in equal contempt.