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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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spread happiness@p4leandp1nk
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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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10:07 AM - Jan 3, 2019

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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.

 

[ThrobbingWalloper]

Ok, so I know it's hot, but what the fuck is going on in Glasgow? I saw more women's arse cheeks today than I've seen in the last 10 years. Beautiful city, but the women (mostly) seem to dress like slappers. It was truly remarkable.

TRNSMT festival.

 

[FedPostalService]

The Orkneys are our Outer Heaven.

I was visiting friends and went walking in the Trossachs over the weekend. You don’t need to go that far north to get a bit of paradise.

Ok, so I know it's hot, but what the fuck is going on in Glasgow? I saw more women's arse cheeks today than I've seen in the last 10 years. Beautiful city, but the women (mostly) seem to dress like slappers. It was truly remarkable.

I love visiting Glasgow. It’s gentrified a lot over the last few decades but unfortunately the council are trying to destroy the progress by importing more Deliveroo bike delivery monkeys.

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

TRNSMT festival.

That was the theory put to me by a local, but I was out in West Glasgow for dinner and it was the same there. I'm not complaining, it was just unexpected.

 

[FedPostalService]

That was the theory put to me by a local, but I was out in West Glasgow for dinner and it was the same there. I'm not complaining, it was just unexpected.

Usually the west end is a bit more civilised. Could be they were out in the park all day.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I had to make a twitter account unrelated to anything political. I haven't and won't engage with anything outside of a niche hobby I needed to contact someone about on there. All of my recommendations are anti-migrant or about the football. I don't ever look up things like that unless I'm using a VPN and I wasn't using a device I use a VPN on. There is no way to tie my politics to that PC or device.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I had to make a twitter account unrelated to anything political. I haven't and won't engage with anything outside of a niche hobby I needed to contact someone about on there. All of my recommendations are anti-migrant or about the football. I don't ever look up things like that unless I'm using a VPN and I wasn't using a device I use a VPN on. There is no way to tie my politics to that PC or device.

I tried an experiment a little while back. I've made a dozen posts on twitter in the last year, all some variation of anti-immigrant or pro-GC stuff, and now my feed is nothing but pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-palestinian... basically everything the system calculates might make me angry enough to post more. As far as I can tell, a new user is put into a broad demographic category, based on location and whatever else it can glean about them from public datasets, and then fed what the system thinks will be the most rage-inducing content possible, in an attempt to force interaction. Pro or anti doesn't matter, as long as it gets the user angry enough to post. It'll then tailor content based on their posts and who they interact with in order to refine the rage-bait loop. It's insidious.

 

[>IMPLYING]

I had to make a twitter account unrelated to anything political. I haven't and won't engage with anything outside of a niche hobby I needed to contact someone about on there. All of my recommendations are anti-migrant or about the football. I don't ever look up things like that unless I'm using a VPN and I wasn't using a device I use a VPN on. There is no way to tie my politics to that PC or device.

I made mine to find stuff to laugh at and my feed is the same. I think if you follow a select few people who put out anti-immigration content, merely scrolling by it is enough for Twitter to go, "well, he's looking at this content, so we should give him more of it."

It's good Twitter is uncensored enough to allow for such discourse nowadays but I would probably take it's application to the broader population with a pinch of salt. I've seen Gen X and older use TikTok more than Twitter, bizarrely; I think the ease of putting the former on your phone and easier account creation is probably why they prefer it, but it's based on a sample size of like 7 people. People my own generation use instagram more I've noticed.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

I had to make a twitter account unrelated to anything political. I haven't and won't engage with anything outside of a niche hobby I needed to contact someone about on there. All of my recommendations are anti-migrant or about the football. I don't ever look up things like that unless I'm using a VPN and I wasn't using a device I use a VPN on. There is no way to tie my politics to that PC or device.

The information is saved on all devices and on your router. It doesn't depend on how you connect to the internet.

If you want to be horrified, take one of your tablets (if you have one) and jailbreak it. I did this with an amazon Fire tablet and in there, there's a specific file on me and my house hold which is tied to advertising, data, etc etc. The file is a unique identifier for the advertising and data-scraping algorithms.
The jailbreak software allowed me to delete this file and stop amazon from creating a new one. My recommendations after the deletion were just random algo-driven slop that you'd expect to be at the top by views; pop songs, gossip, craft shite.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I tried an experiment a little while back. I've made a dozen posts on twitter in the last year, all some variation of anti-immigrant or pro-GC stuff, and now my feed is nothing but pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-palestinian... basically everything the system calculates might make me angry enough to post more. As far as I can tell, a new user is put into a broad demographic category, based on location and whatever else it can glean about them from public datasets, and then fed what the system thinks will be the most rage-inducing content possible, in an attempt to force interaction. Pro or anti doesn't matter, as long as it gets the user angry enough to post. It'll then tailor content based on their posts and who they interact with in order to refine the rage-bait loop. It's insidious.

I'm in a very anti immigrant area. They're showing me what I would like to see.

It's good Twitter is uncensored enough to allow for such discourse nowadays but I would probably take it's application to the broader population with a pinch of salt. I've seen Gen X and older use TikTok more than Twitter, bizarrely; I think the ease of putting the former on your phone and easier account creation is probably why they prefer it, but it's based on a sample size of like 7 people. People my own generation use instagram more I've noticed.

Middle age women love tiktok. Going to the doctors and seeing all the women staring at their phones. Barely conscious as some slapper dances in a public place. I don't understand the dancing, I suppose it's to make it a video and to get lonely men to watch you say stuff they don't read.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I'm in a very anti immigrant area. They're showing me what I would like to see.

Bet it makes you good and angry though, right? Like I said, pro or anti doesn't matter.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

fed what the system thinks will be the most rage-inducing content possible, in an attempt to force interaction. Pro or anti doesn't matter, as long as it gets the user angry enough to post. It'll then tailor content based on their posts and who they interact with in order to refine the rage-bait loop. It's insidious.

How did you deduce my A&N posting style? Lol

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Bet it makes you good and angry though, right? Like I said, pro or anti doesn't matter.

No. I'm not dumb enough to fall for twitters bullshit. I want to discuss mexican basket weaving and I won't fall for their tricks.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

No. I'm not dumb enough to fall for twitters bullshit. I want to discuss mexican basket weaving and I won't fall for their tricks.

As long as you dont get the guardian recommended to you, all's gonna be good

 

[QE65]

Didn't realize the BBC had started using AI to write their articles.

This is becoming increasingly common across a range of industries now, not just journalism. You'll see LinkedIn profiles start to include words to the effect of: 'received training in machine learning and helped train an in-house LLM on proven data...' which translates to: 'I am currently in the process of automating my own job for [insert company here]'.

When people start to realise that their cosy writing job or mundane white collar office job can be quite easily replaced by the AI technology that Starmer and the UK government are encouraging at every turn, it'll be interesting what happens next.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

When people start to realise that their cosy writing job or mundane white collar office job can be quite easily replaced by the AI technology that Starmer and the UK government are encouraging at every turn, it'll be interesting what happens next.

Coming soon to 10 Downing Street

 

[Kofi Drinka]

This is becoming increasingly common across a range of industries now, not just journalism. You'll see LinkedIn profiles start to include words to the effect of: 'received training in machine learning and helped train an in-house LLM on proven data...' which translates to: 'I am currently in the process of automating my own job for [insert company here]'.

AI has been writing the boring articles on websites since the 2000s. Local sports team wins game articles can use a template and need posting every week. Most articles are now AI generated based on other AI generated articles. I wonder how they coordinate it in the journo groups. someone write a base copy the rest use or so they insert the same stuff and post the results independently?

 

[teriyakiburns]

Coming soon to 10 Downing Street
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Keir's looking unusually emotional there.

 

[BongoMongo]

Coming soon to 10 Downing Street
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Probably got more humanity than 2tier batty boy Kier.

Also all these ads for AI show happy productive workers using it and midwit spastics are buying into it. The retards don't realise, it will replace them, as it is intended. It is not intended as a tool to make their lives easier. It is for the company, to replace them.

 

[FedPostalService]

This is becoming increasingly common across a range of industries now, not just journalism. You'll see LinkedIn profiles start to include words to the effect of: 'received training in machine learning and helped train an in-house LLM on proven data...' which translates to: 'I am currently in the process of automating my own job for [insert company here]'.

When people start to realise that their cosy writing job or mundane white collar office job can be quite easily replaced by the AI technology that Starmer and the UK government are encouraging at every turn, it'll be interesting what happens next.

Avoiding power leveing but LLM models aren't that impressive. If you could be replaced by AI you're not actually working and are no better than the other lazy union niggers.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I will say this, I do enjoy how the spackers who pushed for 100% WFH have seen their jobs get cut out completely, as naturally if you don't need to be in the office at all, why not just offshore the work to Kuwait or some run down shithole?