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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.

 

[BongoMongo]

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

Hahaha you're fucked. Get outside and touch grass, not your dick.


Seriously though I think unless you're willing to use a VPN then no chance.

 

[The Ugly One]

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.

honestly was a pro elite tier play, rule Britannia

 

[Mound Dweller]

I think unless you're willing to use a VPN then no chance.

There is no good reason to not want to use a VPN in the first place, unless you're the sort of person who believes the Daily Fail when they tell you about carcinogens of course.

honestly was a pro elite tier play, rule Britannia
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something something SATANIC MILLS

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

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

Why the fuck would you want to view this site without a VPN or TOR, retard?

It's a banned UK site. It'd be easy as hell for your ISP to go "Hey, aenmesh has been on a website that's under the UK watchlist" and fuck you over. They could be building a case right now against you ready to drop you in it after they can confirm you're frequently accessing the site and you haven't just leeched off someone's wifi and used it to browse KF on your phone.

In fact you know what? Keep doing it. Please keep doing it.

 

[aenmesh]

Hahaha you're fucked. Get outside and touch grass, not your dick.


Seriously though I think unless you're willing to use a VPN then no chance.

Appreciate the reply, yeah was hoping there was some workaround you could use in the meantime. This fucking country.

Why the fuck would you want to view this site without a VPN or TOR, retard?

It's a banned UK site. It'd be easy as hell for your ISP to go "Hey, aenmesh has been on a website that's under the UK watchlist" and fuck you over. They could be building a case right now against you ready to drop you in it after they can confirm you're frequently accessing the site and you haven't just leeched off someone's wifi and used it to browse KF on your phone.

In fact you know what? Keep doing it. Please keep doing it.

On Tor you dickhead, how do you think I can access Kiwi in the first place.

 

[Crunkle]

was hoping there was some workaround you could use in the meantime

The only workaround really is to get a VPN service or keep using Tor. They're pretty cheap if you pay for a year, think of it as like a condom for your Internet traffic. Try and go for Wireguard if you can, it works on most devices.

Try and avoid services like NordVPN, aka any of the ones being shilled by JewTubers. I've heard ProtonVPN are pretty good, same with Mullvad.

 

[BongoMongo]

The only workaround really is to get a VPN service or keep using Tor. They're pretty cheap if you pay for a year, think of it as like a condom for your Internet traffic. Try and go for Wireguard if you can, it works on most devices.

Try and avoid services like NordVPN, aka any of the ones being shilled by JewTubers. I've heard ProtonVPN are pretty good, same with Mullvad.

I know a 93 year old pensioner. She finally fully retired 10 years back and only 8 months ago stopped all her voluntary work. Amazing woman. As she has time to burn as she sits out her remaining years she has become very tech savvy and uses the internet for everything. She's always buying shit on Amazon (much to her sons frustration cos they want a fat inheritance).

Even she uses Proton. If a 93 year old who doesn't have her original teeth, hips,or knees can figure this shit out (and to boot the Internet didn't even exist when she was born) then there's no excuse for anyone.

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

It's either terminal laziness or adhd tiktok zoomer brain rot cannot appreciate the almost meditative act of washing the dishes because it means taking a minor break from the constant stimulation. I mean especially nowadays it's just so much easier to do it all in one go. You put the hot water tap on and let the sink fill as you're putting dinner in the oven or whatever which is normally roughly about as long as it takes for the sink to fill, then the time it takes to cook is normally about the exact time it takes to wash all the dishes.

This. I am jet-lagged AF at the moment, but just spent 30 minutes washing all the dishes I've neglected this week.
Took about as much time as loading and unloading the dishwasher, which doesn't do half as good a job.

 

[BongoMongo]

This. I am jet-lagged AF at the moment, but just spent 30 minutes washing all the dishes I've neglected this week.
Took about as much time as loading and unloading the dishwasher, which doesn't do half as good a job.

While dishwashers are crap I do really like that new fairy pre wash spray for dishwashers. It got my crusty oven dish I made cottage pie in sparkling after I left it to soak a couple of hours.

I totally get the urge to clean if it needs done rather than passing out. If I didn't have that, nothing would get done, chores wise when I'm on shift.

 

[Le b0wski]

then there's no excuse for anyone

Which is why in a few days thousands of retards will be using a random app from china that got popular on tiktok as the way to get around the ID stuff.

 

[Elysian]

I know a 93 year old pensioner. She finally fully retired 10 years back and only 8 months ago stopped all her voluntary work. Amazing woman. As she has time to burn as she sits out her remaining years she has become very tech savvy and uses the internet for everything. She's always buying shit on Amazon (much to her sons frustration cos they want a fat inheritance).

Even she uses Proton. If a 93 year old who doesn't have her original teeth, hips,or knees can figure this shit out (and to boot the Internet didn't even exist when she was born) then there's no excuse for anyone.

we should all strive to be like based linux granny

 

[Crunkle]

we should all strive to be like based linux granny

The best part about her is how you look at her past videos and she used to upload tutorials about Windows. Then she tries Linux for the first time and there's a multiple year gap in uploading, then she comes back with her hair looking all grey and matted and she's got more wrinkles than Roy Chubby Brown's ballbag.

You know that face has seen some shit. You only look like that at 7am after a whole night fixing a broken Arch install.

 

[Made In Wales]

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

If you need to 'spanky the wanky' then there are (allegedly) free chat sites out there where peeps are all too happy to show off their body bits.

Even with VPN, these sites will now not allow you service.

Porn is just going to end up exclusively on TOR and the Government will be able to do fuck all (as usual) about it.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

If you need to 'spanky the wanky' then there are (allegedly) free chat sites out there where peeps are all too happy to show off their body bits.

Even with VPN, these sites will now not allow you service.

Porn is just going to end up exclusively on TOR and the Government will be able to do fuck all (as usual) about it.

Porn doesn't care about stupid laws. There will always be access to porn with simple effort. You will always be able to search Naked Lady or Sexy Boobs and get results on search engines. Maybe not the full video stuff but basic porn is forever.

 

[Crunkle]

Porn is just going to end up exclusively on TOR

Just increasing the likelihood that people who have tame tastes finding some nasty shit.

Who'd provide photos of their face to a random website five minutes before having a wank?

 

[Made In Wales]

Just increasing the likelihood that people who have tame tastes finding some nasty shit.

Who'd provide photos of their face to a random website five minutes before having a wank?

Exactly - the Government should dish out a 'Wanker of the Week' award if people have to provide their ID to Starmer and co.

The new law is already so unpopular that over 100,000 people have already called for it to be repealed.

I'm not interested in porn, same as smoking and drugs (I'll have the odd pint if out and about, or at a restaurant) but if others want or need it and it'll stop somebody sexually assaulting another person then fine.

What is needed is common sense - sex has been pushed since the 1960s and in the liberal era topless models, cybersex, orgies etc. were glamorised or at least people were told 'these are the cool and edgy things'. Now, we're heading to an almost fake puritan pseudo-Mary Whitehouse society where porn is seen as prurient and those partaking of it are obvious sexual deviants (apart from gay or tranny paedos of course, because they NEVER harm anybody... right...right?) Yes, some porn IMO is gross and disgusting (pee, poop, blood) but who am I to say it can't be shown - the Columbine killers went bowling before committing their barbaric act... shall we ban bowling as well?

As @Kofi Drinka points out, you can't just ban something because people will still find it and see it.

Finally, the people implementing these laws... will they make their digital devices viewable to the Police and prove how morally correct and righteous they are? Just saying.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

When it comes to being on the Spectrum, nothing beats ZX.

 

[A-Logato]

Porn and drugs are purely a scapegoat for the masses to get this pushed through. It's the easy deflection of "oh your just addicted to porn" or "don't you want to protect kids" which this act is using to shield it's self from criticism.

What it is really for is online monitoring of UK citizens since this ID verification can indeed track you across multiple sites/apps and now with having your literal face and ID cards attached to your profile then they know it's 100% you. As well it is for the removal of content that might be politically inconvenient which has already started happening with protest footage from Leeds being removed under the bill.

The final reason which hasn't come into effect yet is that the government wants to end encryption or be given the tools to bypass the encryption of big companies servers, data, etc which will be the true reason a lot will decide to pull out of the UK. The UK is downright infamous for data leaks and it's OPSEC is laughable with how often it's hacked. Now could you imagine just how fast and aggressive hackers would be at trying to crack into UK systems again if it's known they have all the tools to bypass the encryption of companies like Amazon or Apple?

I personally don't see any change coming from the online ID stuff as the government has wanted this for decades but once they do start trying to enforce the no encryption thing then expect companies to drop the UK on mass.

 

[Crunkle]

with protest footage from Leeds being removed under the bill.

They didn't even wait 24 hours. The people in charge are why conspiracy theorists are almost always legitimised eventually.

Fucking hell. Not even 24 hours.

 

[Slimy Time]

Thoroughly enjoying not living in the UK. Utterly pointless if everyone just gets a VPN until they no doubt try and ban that (and which I imagine is going to go down poorly). Or just find a site that isn’t compliant and isn’t on anyone’s radar/doesn’t care about fines. If SEA people who live in countries like Singapore and Malaysia who’s ISPs automatically restrict access to these sites can find non VPN workarounds, Bongs can as well.

Very insidious that politicians use “the children” to try and crawl up everyone’s arse but won’t lift a finger for those raped by browns.

In the light of the Tea leaks I’m hoping these sites get some kind of data leak for all the morons who willingly attach their name and face to a porn account - be an utter disaster for the government to mop up. Of course, it’s currently “porn and for the safety of the children” but soon will be extended to “extremist sites and news sources”.