UK British News Megathread - aka CWCissey's news thread

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.

View image on Twitter


spread happiness@p4leandp1nk
https://twitter.com/p4leandp1nk/status/1080767496569974785

#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs
2764.png



7
10:07 AM - Jan 3, 2019

See spread happiness's other Tweets

Twitter Ads info and privacy


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."

View image on Twitter


pg often@pgofton
https://twitter.com/pgofton/status/1080772793774624768

The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary


42
10:28 AM - Jan 3, 2019

See pg often's other Tweets

Twitter Ads info and privacy


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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
  • Informative
  • Islamic Content
  • Horrifying
Reactions: Elwood P. Dowd, Alrakkan, CharlesBarkley and 15 others
Click to expand...
Kofi Drinka said:
Drugs were a problem for our people before darkies took over towns. It's not a trad larp to think 'lad culture' is self destructive and something that needs to be reversed if we want a healthy country. A lot of small towns in this country now stink of piss and weed. They didn't smell that way when people gave a shit about them. You can't have hedonism with less foreigners and expect things to get better. I want a sustainable country not the smell of weed wafting out of every shop door I pass.
Click to expand...
What about if nobody wants to be a part of your virgin culture though?

Maybe move out of whatever shithole you live in if everywhere smells of weed and piss?
 
  • Winner
  • Agree
  • Disagree
Reactions: Sizzlesurp, Kofi Drinka and BrightonAndHoveAlbion
lamppost said:
What about if nobody wants to be a part of your virgin culture though?

Maybe move out of whatever shithole you live in if everywhere smells of weed and piss?
Click to expand...
I don't mind the hippies having fun in their little gay events but please I don't want to go outside and immediately smell weed and piss and see burger king wrappings everywhere I go. Keep that shit to the hippie festivals or in the house.
 
  • Like
  • Agree
  • Dumb
Reactions: Sizzlesurp, Coolio55, Elysian and 2 others
lamppost said:
What about if nobody wants to be a part of your virgin culture though?

Maybe move out of whatever shithole you live in if everywhere smells of weed and piss?
Click to expand...
That's a lot of towns now. The foreigners move in and don't care about the place and the natives give up trying to keep it clean. Then it gets dirty and the people care even less because none of them think it's their problem. And that's without the impact weed has on people. Do you want your young men to dope themselves up into not caring or to be invested in making their lives better?

lamppost said:
Not many people do tbh.
Click to expand...
But they do. You might live in a nice area but a lot of us have lived in towns the industry left. We're overrun by pakis and niggers and they piss any where. They smoke weed on street corners. The bread and butter working class areas are all becoming like this. Foreigners use them as toilets and the police don't care if a bunch of nogs are smoking weed in the street.
 
  • Like
  • Agree
  • Dumb
Reactions: catsandsoup, Sizzlesurp, No. 7 cat and 1 other person
Kofi Drinka said:
That's a lot of towns now. The foreigners move in and don't care about the place and the natives give up trying to keep it clean. Then it gets dirty and the people care even less because none of them think it's their problem. And that's without the impact weed has on people. Do you want your young men to dope themselves up into not caring or to be invested in making their lives better?


But they do. You might live in a nice area but a lot of us have lived in towns the industry left. We're overrun by pakis and niggers and they piss any where. They smoke weed on street corners. The bread and butter working class areas are all becoming like this. Foreigners use them as toilets and the police don't care if a bunch of nogs are smoking weed in the street.
Click to expand...
I would happily eject layabout stoners into the sun along with the pakis. We seem to have moved on from people having a laugh (and if they're lucky a shag) at glato here mind. Where does lad culture come into this too?
 
  • Like
Reactions: Marcuseh
Overly Serious said:
We're involved in those issues. Kiev was on the verge of making peace with Russia near the start of this and then Boris Johnson flew out there, said God knows what to Zelensky and scuppered the deal. We've given $13bn to Ukraine of our military stockpiles and other military aid and who's counting how much more we've also given in direct financial aid, loans that will never be repaid and the damage to our trade? One of the reasons our energy prices are so bloody high is not just because our idiot government has been ploughing it into wind farms for the past couple of decades, but also because sanctions have cut off Europe's major gas supplier.

100% I get to protest about the stupidity of it all, because I'm affected by it.

And I can protest Gaza too if I want to because even if I suddenly find myself standing shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of socialists, I'm still against Jewish Supremacists exterminating people en masse to get some new beach front property.

I get to protest because I'm British. If we lose that, it's not the people the state likes who'll be forced to shut up.
Click to expand...
See that's where my point about how modern life has changed what/how/why people protest. If it was the 90s the stream of videos coming out of Gaza wouldn't be a thing and outside a footnote/token news story in a broadsheet newspaper now and then most wouldn't even know a war was going on, where now we have vast amounts of information available 24/7 and the ability to network with people you wouldn't realistically have been able to contact before. That energy to want to improve things or fight the evils of the world or whatever makes that protest appealing on a personal level would likely have just been put into some local project/issue, fighting to save the local youth center or get a roof for the church or whatever.

It's good and bad but overall society doesn't have many effective ways to accommodate those constant, rapid and vast influxes of people protesting. What would have been a once a year or decade event to assemble 10k people might now just be any other weekend.

I don't see attempting to remove the right to protest as a good thing, people will just protest in more destructive ways it's kinda in the name/nature of protest. Any amount of trying to educate on the disruption caused a decent percentage will just see that as the goal they had in mind anyway. It's really difficult to figure out a balance.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Overly Serious
Kofi Drinka said:
Drugs were a problem for our people before darkies took over towns. It's not a trad larp to think 'lad culture' is self destructive and something that needs to be reversed if we want a healthy country. A lot of small towns in this country now stink of piss and weed. They didn't smell that way when people gave a shit about them. You can't have hedonism with less foreigners and expect things to get better. I want a sustainable country not the smell of weed wafting out of every shop door I pass.
Click to expand...
Skill issue. No one is saying weed should be allowed to be smoked in public, but I think the weed cafe model adopted in Amsterdam is fine. It's possible to be libertarian on weed/soft drugs, while also being very conservative on crime and immigration. Libertarianism and conservatism should be fused (i.e. we should take the best ideas from both), with a sprinkling of nationalism and remigration theory too.
 
  • Winner
  • Like
Reactions: ApeBass, Just a boring name and Sizzlesurp
Made In Wales said:
Lib Dem faggot MP cries because Priest 'won't give him the Sacrament of Communion'.

Also, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Brighton backs the Priest in question!

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/eFGxZ
Click to expand...
The issue with laws with this is it starts with a premise pretty much everyone can agree with (e.g. someone with terminal cancer should be allowed to end their own lives instead of dying in pain), but quickly expands to essentially a 'voluntary' extermination of those who otherwise would require too much of the State, like Canada's MAID program.
 
  • Agree
  • Like
  • Winner
Reactions: Tzeentch, Overly Serious, SIMIΔN and 3 others
ProximityThrill said:
Skill issue. No one is saying weed should be allowed to be smoked in public, but I think the weed cafe model adopted in Amsterdam is fine. It's possible to be libertarian on weed/soft drugs, while also being very conservative on crime and immigration. Libertarianism and conservatism should be fused (i.e. we should take the best ideas from both), with a sprinkling of nationalism and remigration theory too.
Click to expand...
Bro dude weed mentality messes up so many lives. Weed has been proven to stunt brain development and we all know how it dulls you to the world. A white hippy nation is as bad as a brown nation. Being soft on drugs doesn't help any one and it does damage to people who mess up their brains smoking it. Weed as a form of pain relief given by the NHS is acceptable to me. But dossers smoking pot isn't. You will never stop it completely but you can make sure it's seen like smoking fags where only an idiot would do it.

lamppost said:
I would happily eject layabout stoners into the sun along with the pakis. We seem to have moved on from people having a laugh (and if they're lucky a shag) at glato here mind. Where does lad culture come into this too?
Click to expand...
A lot of our festival culture is identical to lad culture.

It will be interesting to see what happens over Glastonbury. It's obviously pissed off everyone and even upset some of the artists. Will the government actually punish any one? Maybe because Starmer won't like being called out and insulted. Will they decide to clean up their act and maybe it's a bad idea to do what they did this year? Will be interesting.
 
  • Like
  • Agree
  • Thunk-Provoking
Reactions: Croaking Spider, Sizzlesurp, Mound Dweller and 4 others
Kofi Drinka said:
Bro dude weed mentality messes up so many lives. Weed has been proven to stunt brain development and we all know how it dulls you to the world. A white hippy nation is as bad as a brown nation.
Click to expand...
We're not talking about heroin or methamphetamine here. What is your argument for alcohol if these are your arguments against weed? As a beer enjoyer and someone who does not particularly enjoy weed much, I don't see the functional difference as long as they're contained within their designated spaces (i.e. pub/home for alcohol, weed cafe/home for weed.)
 
  • Agree
  • Like
  • Winner
Reactions: Croaking Spider, ApeBass, GloJojo and 5 others
Kofi Drinka said:
Bro dude weed mentality messes up so many lives. Weed has been proven to stunt brain development and we all know how it dulls you to the world. A white hippy nation is as bad as a brown nation. Being soft on drugs doesn't help any one and it does damage to people who mess up their brains smoking it. Weed as a form of pain relief given by the NHS is acceptable to me. But dossers smoking pot isn't. You will never stop it completely but you can make sure it's seen like smoking fags where only an idiot would do it.


A lot of our festival culture is identical to lad culture.

It will be interesting to see what happens over Glastonbury. It's obviously pissed off everyone and even upset some of the artists. Will the government actually punish any one? Maybe because Starmer won't like being called out and insulted. Will they decide to clean up their act and maybe it's a bad idea to do what they did this year? Will be interesting.
Click to expand...
There won't be a festival next year, due to the land needing to lie fallow (every fourth year, there is no festival), but 2027 and beyond... no, actually I wouldn't be surprised if Starmer got their licence revoked.

If there's anything a pompous blowhard doesn't like, it's to be mocked or ridiculed. Starmer will want to be seen as 'Bertie Big Balls' and he'll not only think about ending Glastonbury as a festival but also having words with his KC mates to get all of Kneecap down to HMP Nick along with Gobby Bobby Niggy Noggy.

Parliament breaks up on July 22nd, and Starmer will hope that Labour is still more or less in one piece by then... however, the summer break may prove to offer no 'break' at all.

The powder keg moment is not far off.
 
  • Optimistic
  • Feels
Reactions: GloJojo, Mound Dweller, Nopenopenope and 3 others
Made In Wales said:
There won't be a festival next year, due to the land needing to lie fallow (every fourth year, there is no festival), but 2027 and beyond... no, actually I wouldn't be surprised if Starmer got their licence revoked.
Click to expand...
In the wider scheme of Labour party corruption and festivals/music events done by donors Glastonbury isn't paying it's way like the others. If they can do away with it so another takes it's place or force it's ownership into the hands of the party donors then they will.


Also remember Kneecap played Brockwell Park, had all the same stuff going on just Labour party had a bung so nothing came of it until Glastonbury.
 
  • Thunk-Provoking
Reactions: Made In Wales
ProximityThrill said:
We're not talking about heroin or methamphetamine here. What is your argument for alcohol if these are your arguments against weed? As a beer enjoyer and someone who does not particularly enjoy weed much, I don't see the functional difference as long as they're contained within their designated spaces (i.e. pub/home for alcohol, weed cafe/home for weed.)
Click to expand...
Alcohol can be consumed without any long term side effects. Unless you poison yourself it's only going to give you a hang over. There's nothing wrong with responsible drinking. The same isn't true for weed. It does leave lasting impacts on the brain when it's smoked by younger people.

Made In Wales said:
If there's anything a pompous blowhard doesn't like, it's to be mocked or ridiculed. Starmer will want to be seen as 'Bertie Big Balls' and he'll not only think about ending Glastonbury as a festival but also having words with his KC mates to get all of Kneecap down to HMP Nick along with Gobby Bobby Niggy Noggy.
Click to expand...
I wish I had signed up as Bertie Big Balls.
 
  • Dumb
  • Agree
  • Like
Reactions: ApeBass, GloJojo, Sizzlesurp and 7 others
When I'm PM all weed users will be publicly castrated.

Anyone caught complaining about it or pushing to legalise it will be raped to death by state mandated Pakis.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back