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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.

 

[Otterly]

we pay so much tax. Taxed in everything, taxed in income, taxed on savings from income, taxed if you give it to someone, taxed when you die, when you drive.
I could cope with that if I lived in 1970s Sweden and got a pristine country for it, heck I’m happy to have my council tax pay for prettifying the parks and the floral displays, the care of the elderly, fire service etc.
I just don’t want it spent in foreign wars, rapey foreign dinghy men and blatant fucking grift

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

Where were you when the Chancellor of our great country was brought to fucking tears by her own job?

This is front page on the BBC, her sour face that looks like Dot Cotton licking piss off a nettle. Being brought to tears by your own job after a humiliating week of about 5 u-turns is incredible.

Of course, the Treasury put out a statement saying it was a "private matter". How on earth is this happening when they have such a huge majority of MPs? Incredible political incompetence on show here.

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Please God let me see Reeves sacked by tomorrow morning.

 

[Overly Serious]

I know the main topic is Rachel "I was just cutting onions before I entered the chamber" Reeves, but quick reply on this other stuff...

Clocks and Calendars always end in 12. There isn't 12, 24, 36, 48 to deal with. Calendars are a mess too. They need to share the days evenly instead of this crazy format we have now.

No. You can do it with weight or length because it's not tied to reality in some natural way. But there are 365 days in a year (usually). You want to make that decimal you have to have give up having days. And it doesn't work to just make hours longer so there are ten of them. You'd still end up slicing days up to make your days in a year work. And if you can't make days in a year decimal then you can't have decimal months and you can't have decimal weeks. None of it works with time.

As opposed to the nonsense I encounter whenever I re-read the Hornblower novels? You guys are so weird you thought having a currency named "guinea" wasn't horribly degrading.

Degrading to who?

 

[BongoMongo]

I know the main topic is Rachel "I was just cutting onions before I entered the chamber" Reeves, but quick reply on this other stuff...


No. You can do it with weight or length because it's not tied to reality in some natural way. But there are 365 days in a year (usually). You want to make that decimal you have to have give up having days. And it doesn't work to just make hours longer so there are ten of them. You'd still end up slicing days up to make your days in a year work. And if you can't make days in a year decimal then you can't have decimal months and you can't have decimal weeks. None of it works with time.


Degrading to who?

The wops apparently.

Funnily,they're doing that thing where they annoy get their brain round fact the name of that coin predates the USA. Typical yank, whose definition of "old" is 150 years.

 

[A-Logato]

Where were you when the Chancellor of our great country was brought to fucking tears by her own job?

This is front page on the BBC, her sour face that looks like Dot Cotton licking piss off a nettle. Being brought to tears by your own job after a humiliating week of about 5 u-turns is incredible.

Of course, the Treasury put out a statement saying it was a "private matter". How on earth is this happening when they have such a huge majority of MPs? Incredible political incompetence on show here.

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I would pay so much money for even 1 tear drop from Rachels eyes so that I can add it to a glass of gin and enjoy drinking it on a Saturday afternoon.

Cry more.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

But can you get laid?

[INBETWEENERS JAY RANT.mp4]

 

[Mound Dweller]

So she's already had "the talk" then? I give it 2 weeks before we get an official announcement that her cat got cancer or something which is why she'll be "stepping back". Might this be Angela "more kids than qualifications" Rayner's chance to stick the knoife in too? ser keith has been pretty solid in terms of the public support for HR Rachel, could well sink them both if she tries to take him down with her.

I'm calling it now; we might not get that GE before Christmas, but we're surely getting another PM, there's blood in the water now.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

north west

It’s 13c and raining here and I’ve got thick woolly socks on.
What summer?

You retards need to work on your operational security, it's not hard to work out roughly where you're from when you're exposing yourself. We need more people like you to vote and keep the fight against pakis and trannies going.

Does anyone know of good linen/cotton PJs? That's teh best material to transfer air.

When in doubt, Marks and Spencers. Relatively good quality and you know they're not made by Indonesian sweat shops.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I'm calling it now; we might not get that GE before Christmas, but we're surely getting another PM, there's blood in the water now.

I am all in on nothing happening. We've got that pedo teacher looking tool for the full ride.

 

[Mound Dweller]

You retards need to work on your operational security, it's not hard to work out roughly where you're from when you're exposing yourself. We need more people like you to vote and keep the fight against pakis and trannies going.

It's good to be mindful but don't be too paranoid either even if it is a proper thing.
I'm an oversharing county doxxxing retard myself but I consider 1 mil+ to be a nice safe number, just don't get into red-lineable verifiable info like twitter blocklists/your age/marital status and number of kids, basically anything too specific that "the shaggy defence" wouldn't work for;

"wasn't me" won't work for glowies, but they already have you via the backdoors in the CPU anyway.

I am all in on nothing happening. We've got that pedo teacher looking tool for the full ride.

They said the same thing in 2016 brother, we had to leave Real Brexit behind in the wreckage, but this time the fire will rise

 

[Stupor Mundi]

we pay so much tax. Taxed in everything, taxed in income, taxed on savings from income, taxed if you give it to someone, taxed when you die, when you drive.
I could cope with that if I lived in 1970s Sweden and got a pristine country for it, heck I’m happy to have my council tax pay for prettifying the parks and the floral displays, the care of the elderly, fire service etc.
I just don’t want it spent in foreign wars, rapey foreign dinghy men and blatant fucking grift

I'm sorry sir but you need to pay for the privilege of having your children raped by Pakistani taxi drivers and being financially fleeced by Indian grocers.

 

[Clem Fandango]

You retards need to work on your operational security, it's not hard to work out roughly where you're from when you're exposing yourself. We need more people like you to vote and keep the fight against pakis and trannies going.

Look, I know better than to "set someone the challenge" , especially on this site. But I've been around online long enough to be fairly sensible. As in, I'll just change details like place names randomly every now and then, and be generally inconsistent about my age and other personal details. Change my language and spelling and so on. Hopefully it wouldn't be as easy as you think.

Like "north west England" doesn't tell you much in the first place, and there's every chance im in Yorkshire anyway and just changed it (plus I don't live here anyway, I'm just visiting). I'm not going to say that every post because I want to have what looks like a normal conversation, without always going "or am I?", or "but of course I've changed that detail to protect the innocent"? It's nice to just have a chat sometimes.

But in any case, thanks for the warning. I'll keep it in mind.

Edit:

Just spent the evening drinking zero percent Leffe and watching women's football. It was the perfect analogy - that zero percent Leffe was to proper beer what women's football is to proper football.

 

[God's Own Sling]

I feel like Cartman in Scott Tenorman Must Die.

And it feels good.

 

[EddyRooney]

I feel like Cartman in Scott Tenorman Must Die.

And it feels good.

You fed her parents to her disguised as chili and got Radiohead to call her a cry baby ?
Dude, I think it might be best that we never piss Cartman off again.

 

[Mound Dweller]

Just spent the evening drinking zero percent Leffe and watching women's football. It was the perfect analogy - that zero percent Leffe was to proper beer what women's football is to proper football.

Indeed, can I just please remind whoever is reading this NOBODY GIVES A TOSS ABOUT WAHMENS FOOTBALL.
Every so often we get a fatass shipment of wahmen's football magazines, a few weeks later they all get binned and it happens every time, because of course NOBODY CARES ABOUT WAHMENS FOOTBALL, it is not a thing please stop trying to make it a thing.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Indeed, can I just please remind whoever is reading this NOBODY GIVES A TOSS ABOUT WAHMENS FOOTBALL.
Every so often we get a fatass shipment of wahmen's football magazines, a few weeks later they all get binned and it happens every time, because of course NOBODY CARES ABOUT WAHMENS FOOTBALL, it is not a thing please stop trying to make it a thing.

Not even used as cheeky wank fodder?

He looks tired.
She's crying and looks weak.

The media has signed the P45s

 

[the rat]

You retards need to work on your operational security, it's not hard to work out roughly where you're from when you're exposing yourself. We need more people like you to vote and keep the fight against pakis and trannies going.

I use this one trick that the police hate, it's called I don't use my real name.

 

[Coolio55]

I use this one trick that the police hate, it's called I don't use my real name.

I don't but it's OK. I was last seen on my Adam and Joe show cameo with BadDad (Fuck, is he dead now?)

 

[EddyRooney]

Indeed, can I just please remind whoever is reading this NOBODY GIVES A TOSS ABOUT WAHMENS FOOTBALL.
Every so often we get a fatass shipment of wahmen's football magazines, a few weeks later they all get binned and it happens every time, because of course NOBODY CARES ABOUT WAHMENS FOOTBALL, it is not a thing please stop trying to make it a thing.

Switzerland women 1 Luzern u15 Boys 7. EQUAL PAY NOW ( for the boys ).

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

I think you'll find very few "British lefties" who have anything nice to say about this government, especially since it's made it's priorities clear by punching down on the old and the disabled, aping Reform's rhetoric on immigration, and refusing to budge from a self-imposed set of "fiscal rules" which basically ensure that nothing is going to substantially change.

The truth is, this isn't a Labour government in anything other than name. In reality, it's a government comprised of careerists who rose to prominence entirely thanks to a purge orchestrated by those who saw Jeremy Corbyn as a threat to their bottom line (basically a mixture of party donors and the careerists who serve them, operating primarily under the direction of the think tank Labour Together). This lot were biding their time for years until Corbyn stepped down, and following their successful campaign to get their candidate (Starmer) to succeed him, the neoliberal cuckoo egg was then laid firmly in the nest.

What subsequently resulted was exactly what you'd expect: party purges, stacking influential positions with loyalists, reneging on leadership pledges, and promises of deregulation for big business. Essentially, the careerists and the donors got what they wanted; the membership and the party's traditional base did not.

Well considering the only time they could win was aping off the Tories in the Blair years, that's standard operation procedure eh?