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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.

 

[Nopenopenope]

Starmer getting buck broken by his own party again


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What do? Trump is on his way to the UK and without that trade deal Labour are fucked, everyone already thinks they are fiscally incompetent. Recognising Palestine is a guaranteed way to start the whole negotiation on a sour note, is it worth the risk sinking it to appease gay lefties?

I'm sure the answer in Labour is yes, it is. As usual it is benefits for everyone, infinity brown people, and take a big economic shit on the floor on the way out of Downing street.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Palestine will be recognised because we are a muslim state. The jew messenger from across the pond can come and attempt to offer appeasement and to push support for israel, but it will fall on deaf ears.

OTOH, Macron only recognised the palestinian state if gaza is rebuilt and both jews and muslims accept one anothers' shitty strip of land. So who knows what could happen

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Personally I want it repealed not because I'd be missing out on anything (if anything, I love the idea that technologically inept niggers around me are suffering) but because it's 100% clear that a free internet overwhelms the police.

To be honest, as much as I fucking hate the law and tor is a nigger. I hope it doesn't get repealed. I hope that ofcom try to prosecute what is not their jurisdiction and get met with the same level of lawyer that null had aside from in court instead of a letter. I sincerely hope that they fuck around otherwise they will not find out. As much as I would love to see the rats scurry back to the holes from whence they came I would love to see them do so under overwhelming legal and general political force instead even more. I do not want this to be repealed to make the average retard happy. I want them to fucking suffer so they know exactly what the government thinks of them and I do not want the government to be seen as caring or listening, I want them to be seen as the pathetic faggots they are. I want to have something more recent than 1916 or 1773 to demonstrate, not just that our government are shit and inept, but the absolute fucking laughing stock of the world. I want them to get their shit pushed in so hard by a foreign power it humbles every last one of them for the foreseeable future.

 

[Crunkle]

VPN uptake has no doubt skyrocketed

Correct

 

[A-Logato]

I actually really hope every site just geo blocks the UK. Make everyone furious that they can't access anything on the internet and parliament actually sees major pressure to reverse all of this.

 

[Made In Wales]

Starmer getting buck broken by his own party again

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What do? Trump is on his way to the UK and without that trade deal Labour are fucked, everyone already thinks they are fiscally incompetent. Recognising Palestine is a guaranteed way to start the whole negotiation on a sour note, is it worth the risk sinking it to appease gay lefties?

I'm sure the answer in Labour is yes, it is. As usual it is benefits for everyone, infinity brown people, and take a big economic shit on the floor on the way out of Downing street.

If Starmer says 'No, I won't and I'll withdraw the whip from any Labour MP who tries to tell me what to do' that would make my whole year!

 

[BongoMongo]

Honestly fuck Palestine.

If you care about there and protest about them but aren't protesting about the absolute botched abortion this country is then you're an irredeemable cunt.

 

[A-Logato]

One of my little hobbies is to approach pro Israel or Pro Palestine groups and ask them really uncomfortable questions, or if I'm just lazy be really racist at them. My last escapade was going up to a pro Israel group and asking them why Christians should support Israel when Israel is bombing and then burning then land of Christians on the west bank.

Admittedly my last experience with the Palestine lot was calling them towel heads but you can't be dishing out bangers every time.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Honestly fuck Palestine.

If you care about there and protest about them but aren't protesting about the absolute botched abortion this country is then you're an irredeemable cunt.

At this juncture my problem with the Palestine supporters in this country is simple.

Not a single one of them has a word of criticism for Hamas.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

It feels like that house of cards meme where Hamas paragliding a bunch of sandniggers into an Israeli music festival, killing, raping and kidnapping hundreds of people leads to *after skipping a few things* Reform winning by a landslide as the left is fragmented by how much they care about Palestine.

Which would sound bizarre on its own, without acknowledging that by switching a few things around you've got how Trump won by a landslide.

 

[East_Clintwood]

There was an article up on the BBC earlier about a couple of kids who murdered another kid, and there were a couple things I found interesting in it. One is a statement from the victim's mother after the sentencing:

Outside the court, a statement read on behalf of Ms Bokassa said: "To the young people who carry knives, I beg you to stop before you raise that blade.

"Don't let a moment of anger steal your future. Don't let the streets raise you in a way your mother never would. There is no power in death, only loss."

That's a good sentiment, maybe parents should raise their kids not to be violent little shits, except what's that at the beginning of the article:

Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC said Kelyan had boarded the 472 bus just after 14:00 GMT to attend an appointment at the Youth Justice Centre in Woolwich.

CCTV footage showed he went to sit on the back seat on the top deck, with a small kitchen knife in the waistband of his trousers.
Ms Heer said the teenager looked around and out of the windows before taking his seat "giving every impression that he was concerned for his safety".

The defendants, who cannot be named for legal reasons, boarded the bus 20 minutes later, each armed with identical machetes hidden in their clothes.

The pair walked towards Kelyan "with purpose" and without speaking a word to their victim, thrust their machetes at him 27 times while smiling. The attack lasted 14 seconds.

Hmmmm.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

At this juncture my problem with the Palestine supporters in this country is simple.

Not a single one of them has a word of criticism for Hamas.

I fully support Hamas and Israel. I hope both of them are successful in their goals to genocide the other. If the last member of each killed each other and then died I would consider it a huge win for everyone I care about.

The name they give to their factions is meaningless. It's a blood feud going back as far as any one can remember. Why condemn any of them when they're killing our enemies? Full approval for any one who wants to remove the enemies of our native population.

 

[BongoMongo]

There was an article up on the BBC earlier about a couple of kids who murdered another kid, and there were a couple things I found interesting in it. One is a statement from the victim's mother after the sentencing:

That's a good sentiment, maybe parents should raise their kids not to be violent little shits, except what's that at the beginning of the article:

Hmmmm.

It's a shame she didn't raise her own child better. Where's the father in this? Kid is known to youth offending and carried a knife.

Top notch parenting there. Absolutely stunning is she a nigger or a coal burner?

 

[The Ugly One]

Trump is on his way to the UK and without that trade deal Labour are fucked, everyone already thinks they are fiscally incompetent.

We shouldn't trade with totalitarian countries as it is.

 

[Mound Dweller]

We shouldn't trade with totalitarian countries as it is.

We didn't get to rule the world by not selling a bit of sniff to uncle chang that we traded off of abdul for some shit we nicked from sundiata m8.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Unpopular opinion:

I don't want the OSA repealled, I don't want it modified and I don't want my vpn speeds to suffer because some dumb, illilterate, normalfags have just discovered a way to circumvent a rule that their dumb, normalfaggotry helped introduce.

I want as many niggercattle to suffer as possible and I laugh and pray that there's a time when normies are wiped off of the fucking internet. They've been a negative impact since 2004. I feel for the real oldfags who thought '98 was eternal september.

 

[Karognis]

From what I've read, every time a country has legalised hardcore pornography or made it easy/possible to access: crimes against women drop.

(Softcore porn usually too widespread from decades/centuries earlier to test if this is the case for that too, but I wouldn't bet against it.)

I don't know if this is because the otherwise-would-be-rapists are all at home jacking off and then don't go out to attack people, or whether some (probably quite few) of them are desperately trying to keep a lid on it and that helps.....but, this is borne out by research that didn't seem to be shit when I read it. Will try to find a link in a bit.

This makes me think that the OSA will, in fact, make women and children (and vulnerable men) less safe. Even forgetting the current suboptimal circumstances.

 

[isalaide]

A lot of that time is just getting stuck on spin anyway, it will genuinely spend sometimes up to an hour where it just sits there, does nothing for maybe 30 seconds, then spins at full speed for 10 seconds, then stops, waits another 30, repeat that cycle for a fucking hour.

I wonder if you are accidentally overloading it. My old one used to throw this very tanty when it felt I had put too much stuff in it. Some kind of defensive fucking programming or something to stop it doing a full spin and takeoff when the drum was too heavy, or suchlike. So it would try to do a proper full spin cycle in like 15 second increments.

Try cutting your 'normal' load in half for a week and see if that solves the problem. I would always recommend two pairs of jeans max only as a load, if you're doing jeans. Machines fucking hate jeans since they take in a shitload of water and weigh a bloody ton wet. I know this means double the number of loads for a week, but you're one person, so that shouldn't be too over the top.


I am sorry for my washing machine autism

 

[BongoMongo]

I wonder if you are accidentally overloading it. My old one used to throw this very tanty when it felt I had put too much stuff in it. Some kind of defensive fucking programming or something to stop it doing a full spin and takeoff when the drum was too heavy, or suchlike. So it would try to do a proper full spin cycle in like 15 second increments.

Try cutting your 'normal' load in half for a week and see if that solves the problem. I would always recommend two pairs of jeans max only as a load, if you're doing jeans. Machines fucking hate jeans since they take in a shitload of water and weigh a bloody ton wet. I know this means double the number of loads for a week, but you're one person, so that shouldn't be too over the top.


I am sorry for my washing machine autism

Tbh I kinda missed your household tips and stuff. Glad you're back.

And I agree on jeans. I never knew how much I hated them until I had to wash them in a twin tub.

 

[aenmesh]

it finally happened, what is the best way to bypass this ID shite without VPN?.