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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.

 

[Mound Dweller]

Why this particular porn? It hasn't damaged as many people as gay porn has. So what gives?

Because Mary Whitehouse always wins, it's not a moral panic until 10 years after the fact.

At least gay porn...

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Just for research purposes, does the choking have to be a hand around the neck? Let's say that someone was to choke on say a thick green gas, is that now also banned?

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Just for research purposes, does the choking have to be a hand around the neck? Let's say that someone was to choke on say a thick green gas, is that now also banned?

The arteries either side of the windpipe. As soon as they go limp, stop.
Blood clots are still likely at this stage which is why it’s banned and is no longer even considered reasonable force..

 

[Made In Wales]

It is and have you met modern women? Choking them out in bed is the better alternative to DDTing them in the kitchen when they flip out over retarded shit because they've never been told no.


Skill issue for men that are shit in bed. What's next, you want to give them instructions on how to be good lovers? Nuts to that. I'm against giving retarded men 'journo mode' difficulty levels when it comes to sex.
Natural selection and all that.

Next thing, women will be made to have fanny tattoos pointing out where the clitoris and labia are.

If they have spotty arse cheeks, they'll have the directions there but in braille.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Money. They're told [...]

So who tells the migrants about "opportunities" in developed nations?

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

So who tells the migrants about "opportunities" in developed nations?

The niggers hear it on the apevine.

 

[the printer is outo fink]

So who tells the migrants about "opportunities" in developed nations?

There are NGOs in 'developing' countries specifically to encourage migration into the west. They've been complaining a lot in recent months about losing funding due to USAID being slashed.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Why this particular porn? It hasn't damaged as many people as gay porn has. So what gives?

"Muh violence against women."
The same motive for banning face sitting porn and the like. Anything that can be perceived as sexually violent gets banned. Since the kayfabe is on "protecting young girls", they just chucked another sort of porn on the block.

 

[Long and sneaky]

"Muh violence against women."
The same motive for banning face sitting porn and the like. Anything that can be perceived as sexually violent gets banned. Since the kayfabe is on "protecting young girls", they just chucked another sort of porn on the block.

Censorship of anything they can because they want to feel powerful and porn is easier to go after.
They'll ban anything to 'protect young girls' except the grooming gangs.

 

[bort420]

So who tells the migrants about "opportunities" in developed nations?

The NHS recruits in foreign developing countries directly

 

[ToroidalBoat]

They've been complaining a lot in recent months about losing funding due to USAID being slashed.

That's good.

I wonder what kind of "sales pitch" they use?

And as @Whoopsie Daisy said, I imagine there's word of mouth: infiltrators do "sales pitch" to some potential migrants, who in turn tell others. Then word and rumors spread.

 

[FedPostalService]

Why this particular porn? It hasn't damaged as many people as gay porn has. So what gives?

A moral panic by third wave feminists in their 20’s who seem to only have one night stands with the worst type of men possible because they remind them of their dads and think all men like to choke women.

I don’t like choking porn but since two consenting adults can choke the fuck out of each other whilst they’re banging I see banning this as retarded. Plus everyone watching porn used a VPN now so this is useless.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Why this particular porn? It hasn't damaged as many people as gay porn has. So what gives?

"Straight sex bad, gay sex good!"?



(Maybe they aren't getting to outright banning all straight porn yet, but they're banning the more extreme kinds first?)

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

A moral panic by third wave feminists in their 20’s who seem to only have one night stands with the worst type of men possible because they remind them of their dads and think all men like to choke women.

These are the most damaging women for society, doubly so for other women. They make terrible choices, then rant at other women for making better choices.

I don’t like choking porn but since two consenting adults can choke the fuck out of each other whilst they’re banging I see banning this as retarded. Plus everyone watching porn used a VPN now so this is useless.

Two adults consent, isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

 

[emptypacketofmethadone]

It is

Every woman I know would flip out if a bloke tried to strangle them during sex, it's not normal

 

[emptypacketofmethadone]

Why do women have to 'choose better'? Why can't men just be better? A lot of men pretend to be upstanding people and then turn out to be felons, rapists, pedos, violent. Not all shitty men have grills, face tats and dreadlocks to warn potential victims.

The more logical solution is just for men to not be cruel rather than expecting women to be mindreaders and anticipate which men are cruel.

These are the most damaging women for society, doubly so for other women. They make terrible choices, then rant at other women for making better choices.


Two adults consent, isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

 

[teriyakiburns]

The more logical solution is just for men to not be cruel rather than expecting women to be mindreaders and anticipate which men are cruel.

Most men are not, but the unfortunate reality is that some men simply are, the same way some dogs are violent retards and some apples are half rotten. They're all usually easy to spot, though. It just requires a little discretion. No mind reading needed.

 

[Clem Fandango]

expecting women to be mindreaders

There's only one sex that expects the other to be mindreaders, and it ain't men.

 

[Overly Serious]

The more logical solution is just for men to not be cruel rather than expecting women to be mindreaders and anticipate which men are cruel.

I shouldn't wade into this as I don't really want to join the "Men Should Strangle Women" party by some sort of default, but the logical flaw in the above is that it treats men as a block. No matter how good I am, it wont make the next man also good. And given the set of Men is always going to be a mix of good and bad (mostly good, I hope), the only viable solution is to be able to distinguish between the good and bad ones. And regrettably I have known a number of women in my life who could not distinguish between strong and cruel.

Saying that actually brings to mind a personal case from my early 20's when a girl I was somewhat acquainted with fell for another guy because she saw him as strong/tough/something, I don't know. The reason it comes to mind is that he and I ended up having a little bit of a set-to and I dealt with him rather handily which I honestly pretty much expected as to me he seemed rather weak and unpleasant. But - and this is the point - she was shocked. She genuinely seemed to just fall for his loud and aggressive schtick which was bizarre to me. He was clearly just an arsehole with an inflated ego. I think a lot of women for whatever reason, genuinely cannot tell when someone is just being petty and nasty to people weaker than themselves, rather than actually strong and confident. I don't fully know why.

 

[FedPostalService]

Why do women have to 'choose better'? Why can't men just be better? A lot of men pretend to be upstanding people and then turn out to be felons, rapists, pedos, violent. Not all shitty men have grills, face tats and dreadlocks to warn potential victims.

The more logical solution is just for men to not be cruel rather than expecting women to be mindreaders and anticipate which men are cruel.

Go back to the Beauty Parlour, cat-lady.