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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.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Ooooh you're so racist that you say nigger, wow, you must literally be HITLER

Anyway I'll not shit up the thread anymore with this pointless natter, you've outed yourself as a LARPer anyway.

What, exactly, am I Live Action Roleplaying as? Genuinely confused by that statement. I'm not even the most racist semi-regular poster in this thread, I've never so much as been called mildly xenophobic in Greggs.

 

[Made In Wales]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzJuSiAJUVU&ab_channel=DannyRockett-Topic

My anthem.

 

[lamppost]

What, exactly, am I Live Action Roleplaying as? Genuinely confused by that statement. I'm not even the most racist semi-regular poster in this thread, I've never so much as been called mildly xenophobic in Greggs.

Most of the 'racist' posters on here have black friends. I wouldn't consider them racist but I'm guessing you would?

I guess our definition of racism just differs. Yours appears to be someone who says 'nigger'? Going off your previous post?

 

[Clem Fandango]

You think the Civil Service is bad for that? Wait until I explain the shitstorm that is the Ministry of Justice.

You see, the Ministry of Justice (prisons, courts and probation) all used to be joined to the Civil Service years ago and everything was hunky dory. If public sector money went up you'd see the Ministry of Justice's money going up just like the Department for Work and Pensions or the Ministry of Defence or HMRC etc.

Then some government (can't remember which) decided it'd be cheaper to offload the prisons and probation to the private sector so created NOMS (idek what the fuck it stands for) which ran on people being paid fuck all for the some of the most dangerous work in the UK.

Then it was assimilated back into the civil service. The years of public sector pay rises? Not a thing. No catch up wages either. So now the MoJ is the department which pays some of the lowest wages in the UK for some of the most ridiculously stressful and outright dangerous work despite being apart of the Civil Service network which on paper means they should be adhering to workplace stress management etc.

Can't find any starting prison officer wages because I think they only do the training program twice a year, but a PSO (starter probation officer who can only see low and medium risk folks) is starting on £26k after 18 months of training. A prison officer working at Strangeways dealing with catagory A and B prisoners is on £33k per year. Imagine getting stabbed to death by a Muslim child sex offender on something like 25p per hour more than the minimum wage?

That's ridiculous. The UK has a veneer of first world country, but we get paid like we live in Bulgaria (and everything is ten times as expensive).

 

[Coolio55]

That's ridiculous. The UK has a veneer of first world country, but we get paid like we live in Bulgaria (and everything is ten times as expensive).

And in Bulgaria they have real shops and not just a bunch of shitty chains. Even the supermarkets are forced to sell quality goods.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Most of the 'racist' posters on here have black friends. I wouldn't consider them racist but I'm guessing you would?

I guess our definition of racism just differs. Yours appears to be someone who says 'nigger'? Going off your previous post?

"I assume that some of the other people on here who are racist and say nigger a lot have black friends so there are no actual racists here" is quite the statement, have you been drinking?

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Imagine thinking farmers have friends.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Imagine thinking farmers have friends.

I have lots of friends. The other people at the day centre. The staff at the day centre. The man who drives the bus that takes me to the day centre.

 

[lamppost]

"I assume that some of the other people on here who are racist and say nigger a lot have black friends so there are no actual racists here" is quite the statement, have you been drinking?

Mate this is really gay. There will be racists on here, yes. You aren't one of them though.

Goodbye, friend.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Mate this is really gay. There will be racists on here, yes. You aren't one of them though.

Goodbye, friend.

You claim to not be homophobic but use gay as a perjorative, curious.

 

[Crunkle]

Mate this is really gay. There will be racists on here, yes. You aren't one of them though.

Goodbye, friend.

I keep reading your name as "I am ppost". Why are you here?

Hilariously after the news that 16 years will be able to vote, there's been massive response today that sixteen year olds don't want the vote because they "are too young" and "don't know what to vote for". This has to be some kind of diversionary tactic to get people talking about something else.

 

[A-Logato]

Most of the 'racist' posters on here have black friends. I wouldn't consider them racist but I'm guessing you would?

I guess our definition of racism just differs. Yours appears to be someone who says 'nigger'? Going off your previous post?

"I'm not racist, I have a black friend"

What do you take us for here? Last time I checked, Nigel wasn't posting on the farms.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

This has to be some kind of diversionary tactic to get people talking about something else.

Bank cards are now going to be allowed for voter ID.

A card which doesn't have any photographic evidence that you are you is now allowed to be used while voting. Lose a bank card the week before the election? You might get there and find that your vote has already been counted. This is also going to be great for asylum seekers who can claim they live here because they have a bank card so they can vote.

That's why they announced it with the 16 year olds thing, barely anyone under the age of 20 votes anyway so it was a major diversion.

 

[chilli burn]

I hope Margoyles is absolutely torn to shreds by the troons. Let her see- really see - and experience how absolutely unfuckinghinged the whole lot of

I hope Margoyles is absolutely torn to shreds by the troons. Let her see- really see - and experience how absolutely unfuckinghinged the whole lot of them are.

Imagine if she bought a bicyle. Then she'd be a kike dyke on a bike lol.

 

[emptypacketofmethadone]

"Here's X money to quit work and give Harvey Price a reasonable life" would cost the taxpayer so much less than sticking them through school (with specialist wheelchair transports). Like what sort of life can someone who doesn't grasp how peekaboo works really achieve? They're just going to watch Peppa Pig and occasionally leave the house for hospital visits."

Inclusive education is an abomination.

I was reading on Reddit of a woman complaining that a handicapped child was in her kids year 3 maths class watching Paw Patrol on full blast while the rest of them were trying to learn, thankfully most respondents were in agreement that this is unacceptable. This is why I will never believe in 'inclusive education', he should just stay home. What's the point of paying the Mum all these benefits if he's pawned off onto overpressured and underresourced schools only to learn shit all and infect all the other kids, who are serious students, with the same sort of misery that usually plagues his household?

If the parents are in receipt of disability benefits they should damn well care for him, it's not the responsibility of a TA to change his nappy and such.

Children who can have their SEND catered to should and those who can't shouldn't be in a school: a simple pedagogical philosophy that seems to elude whoever is insisting that this performative 'education' of children who literally can't learn (because on a neurological level it's just not possible) must continue and making the lives of teachers and other children a living Hell, while also acting as a cruel conversion-like 'therapy' (torture) for the afflicted children. They should be playing with other disabled kids rather than being shoe-horned into a role they will never fulfil.

Inclusive education is one of the biggest disasters that the UK education system has ever seen.

This doesn't apply to all 'SEND' students. Often times the parents of so-called SEND students will snidely tell you how they had a teacher disciplined by the school for asking her little Jane to stop destroying class materials for 'discriminating against her disability'. Many 'SEND/disability' is in actual fact, the cumulative effects of neglect, lack of discipline, zero boundaries/socialisation, a parent-instilled victim complex and poor nutrition --and nothing else extraordinary neurologically, more or less amounting to parental munchausens-by-proxy. MbP is a condition that has become a social contagion incentivised by parents being rewarded by the welfare state for claiming to have SEN children.

 

[teriyakiburns]

@Geoff Capes Vapes Apes @lamppost what the fuck are you even arguing about? A website can't be racist any more than a car can be racist.

That said, my jeep is pretty racist.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I know a lot of disabled people (wheel chair, missing body parts or painful conditions) on PIP. They struggle to get on it. It's not as easy as saying you're disabled and you get £200 a month. People who do deserve it have to go through hell and the court system to get it. I think a lot of the people claiming depression are ethnics judging each other. They insert a paki into the system then the paki agrees the other pakis are depressed and need PIP while they work at their dad's shop.

Disabled benefits need a reform so it's easier for actual disabled people to get them and harder for fakers. Depression should not get you disability. Only a medical condition that severely limits your ability to work. And working at a super market checking people out is not an acceptable job to judge people on. A guy with no legs could technically run a till but it's only getting in the way of the functional people making them less effective.

Stop hiring retards and cripples for jobs they're not suitable for. Get a proper industry and place for them to live where they can self sustain. Like prisoners can cook their own food, so can the retards.

 

[BongoMongo]

I know a lot of disabled people (wheel chair, missing body parts or painful conditions) on PIP. They struggle to get on it. It's not as easy as saying you're disabled and you get £200 a month. People who do deserve it have to go through hell and the court system to get it. I think a lot of the people claiming depression are ethnics judging each other. They insert a paki into the system then the paki agrees the other pakis are depressed and need PIP while they work at their dad's shop.

Disabled benefits need a reform so it's easier for actual disabled people to get them and harder for fakers. Depression should not get you disability. Only a medical condition that severely limits your ability to work. And working at a super market checking people out is not an acceptable job to judge people on. A guy with no legs could technically run a till but it's only getting in the way of the functional people making them less effective.

Stop hiring retards and cripples for jobs they're not suitable for. Get a proper industry and place for them to live where they can self sustain. Like prisoners can cook their own food, so can the retards.

I have a male who once worked in hospitality,and they had a guy with really bad special needs who worked there 3 hours a week. In the kitchen. Was so special he wasn't allowed to handle knives.

Some people are so below capable that they're not fit to be working at all. I'm not advocating for them to be gassed, however if they're so badly off they can't work or live independently then we need to, at a societal level, have a serious discussion about what to do with them. We expend far too much effort, and far too many resources letting them live a pretence of a normal life in order to preserve their, or more frequently, their families, feelings.

 

[Crunkle]

For anyone wanting a good laugh, the dailymail.co.uk comments are gold sometimes before the moderators get their hands on them:



Article is:

BBC sacked MasterChef host John Torode after 'using N-word twice while singing along to Kanye West song during after work drinks'​

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Not exactly the crime of the bloody century, is it.

 

[Coolio55]

dailymail.co.uk comments are gold sometimes before the moderators get their hands on them:

It used to be way better when you still had custom avatars, my mother says...