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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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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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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.
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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.
 
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Otterly said:
Problem is there’s no such thing as soft choking. If you apply pressure to the arteries around the windpipe, you are dicing with death. It’s very easy to go too far, and even if you don’t, you’ve no idea if there’s a bit of plaque just ready to break off and lodge in their brain.
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That's a tad bit over-reactionary from you, Otterly, but I appreciate the sentiment. Maybe I haven't watched enough porn (anyone who does is a cuck) but choking is like putting on a tie a little too tight. The presence of the hand is enough. Force of any kind is not required.
Do some fucking spastics throttle the shit out their lass like they're trying to asphyxiate a chicken? I don't doubt it. Those people are just doing darwins natural selection though.
Besides, being choked is Scarlet's smallest problem when big tyrone jackhammers her inside to mine meat.
 
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Force of any kind is not required.
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Minimal to no force required to knock a bit of plaque off either (especially as everyone’s so fat these days.)
There was a fat Anna video of her using one of those massage guns on her neck ‘for inflammation’ and everyone was rightly pointing out that this is about the best way she could have induced a stroke.
Honestly, hands around the neck is a no no. it’s not ever safe
 
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Whoopsie Daisy said:
Gasping for breath?
Has anyone ITT even had sex? I know I haven't. If I had though, I would know that choking isn't strangulation. It's no different than pinning wrists to the bed.

Or do you all get it on like the family guy sketch?
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Yes, and I was dying for a pint of Brains Dark afterwards.

Also, no, she wasn't called 'Dolly', 'Maaaary' or 'Baaaarbara'.
 
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Otterly said:
I also know that the OSA is nothing whatsoever to do with keeping children safe.
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Anyone who believes any government or company or whatever is being truthful when they say they are 'protecting kids' should be dragged out into the street and shot. You are at the absolute best a fucking blind retard if you think the excuse that has been used to push orwellian surveillence and totalitarianism for the past 500 times it's been used will magically actually be good on the 501th time. Governments do not give a shit about you or your kids. They give a shit about their own wellbeing and nothing else.

The government cares about kids, that's why they banned this site which documents and exposes paedophiles and groomers. They care about kids, that's why public funding and education are being cut to flood the county with child rapists. They care about kids that's why they are importing the entire third world so they can decimate your kid's future life and career all so they can pay less wages and increase their own income. Believing the government cares about kids is a level of delusion worse than transgenderism and you should kill yourself just like they do.
 
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emptypacketofmethadone said:
A woman can have a ton of indisputable evidence of a bloke abusing her and the UK police won't prosecute even if the victims wish is to prosecute.

(Source: my cousin had messages on her phone of her ex blackmailing her for sex and threatening to break her belongings and stab her if she didn't comply. Police did not prosecute even though the suspect had a prior conviction of woman abuse)
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British police when child rape, murder or sexual abuse: 😴
British police when a boomer posts on Facebook that maybe Abdul shouldn't get a free house and welfare: 😡
 
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emptypacketofmethadone said:
That comment that I made in complete jest had now been misappropriated so severely that it now became a super serious threat worthy of interview under caution, even though the accuser was telling them in knowing bad faith.
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Yea sure women can be cunts with false allegations and they should 100% face legal consequences for obviously maliciously making them to the police. But like I don't see what's wrong here. The police could not possibly know it was bullshit without talking to you and even if they did I would rather have them be sure instead of half arse it like they do with everything else. From the police's perspective I don't see how they did anything wrong. I mean what else were they meant to do? Assume every woman is a liar and ignore them all? The police waste their time investigating nothingburgers all the time, their entire job is to investigate nothingburgers to make sure they actually are and that there was no crime. A large amount of police reports end in them showing up and just leaving. I had a policeman sat in my room for almost 4 hours just to collect a statement when I reported a family member dead of expected natural causes when it would have taken maybe 20 minutes to fully explain everything.

I just wish they actually held pakis and indians to the same standards.
 
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Yea sure women can be cunts with false allegations and they should 100% face legal consequences for obviously maliciously making them to the police. But like I don't see what's wrong here. The police could not possibly know it was bullshit without talking to you and even if they did I would rather have them be sure instead of half arse it like they do with everything else. From the police's perspective I don't see how they did anything wrong. I mean what else were they meant to do? Assume every woman is a liar and ignore them all? The police waste their time investigating nothingburgers all the time, their entire job is to investigate nothingburgers to make sure they actually are and that there was no crime. A large amount of police reports end in them showing up and just leaving. I had a policeman sat in my room for almost 4 hours just to collect a statement when I reported a family member dead of expected natural causes when it would have taken maybe 20 minutes to fully explain everything.

I just wish they actually held pakis and indians to the same standards.
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The problem was that I asked the police to take my ex to seek medical treatment for a wound that almost killed them about 10 hours later, but they wasted time investigating 'DV' even though my ex was absolutely adamant that they 1) did not want to give a formal statement 2) did not want to press charges and 3) had no interest in escalating it any further.

They nearly died of sepsis because the police wrongly informed them they had to give an interview about the alleged abuse and a fair portion of this 'interview' they had been told was 'mandatory' was just the police insulting me, flirting with my partner, and my partner slurring their words and slowly fading from earth but the cop was too horny to notice. Completely disregarding my request to get them to a hospital. The police was fully aware there was no DV and fully aware my ex didn't want to pursue this.

Police outright refused to tell me if they had gotten help or where they last saw them. If I hadn't driven around for hours, my ex would be dead. Ain't no song called Fuck the Firefighters, Fuck the Nurses, Fuck the Teachers is alls I'm saying.
 
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emptypacketofmethadone said:
Am I crazy for thinking the whole covid thing was complete bollocks and that it was just regular flu?
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Nobody has ever thought this, congratulations on being the first.

Covid just replaced the flu really, plus everyone vulnerable gets vaxxed for influenza every year. Covid being more transmissable edges out influenza, occasionally the Reach papers like to shout about Covid variant 3X7-8 to get some clicks but it's all the same thing really.
 
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