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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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spread happiness@p4leandp1nk
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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.

 

[Light blue notebook]

They are removing peoples Circuses, while it gets more and more expensive to get the bread?

Either they have a plan, or the elite have forgotten why "Bread and circuses" is important to keep the mob in check.

 

[FedPostalService]

They are removing peoples Circuses, while it gets more and more expensive to get the bread?

Either they have a plan, or the elite have forgotten why "Bread and circuses" is important to keep the mob in check.

How can you think about eating food or having a cheeky wank when there’s a genocide in Gaza, chud?

 

[BongoMongo]

How can you think about eating food or having a cheeky wank when there’s a genocide in Gaza, chud?

If I had a penis, the thought of dead and dying Muslims would get me rock hard, not gonna lie.

 

[BrightonAndHoveAlbion]

Either they have a plan, or the elite have forgotten why "Bread and circuses" is important to keep the mob in check.

We will all be invited to join the Anti Sex League instead while the chemicals in our Stella/Diet Coke/Posh Water remove all our desires.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Forgive my ignorance but I don't know the difference, is charged before convicted? It happened in Norfolk but I don't remember the town.

Charged is when it's reported to the police and things follow an investigation process to the point that it actually goes to court.

Convicted is when it goes to court and they are either found or plead guilty.

 

[prayforpills]

The nigger is in the wrong but if you think the police will do shit then you're obviously mental.

He was convicted. He also sprinkled some 'dyke' and 'lesbo' in there which is the magic trigger for police do actually do something, because then it's considered a homophobic hate crime. The only reason it was investigated is likely because of that, so in a way she's lucky the ape was so uninhibited to even extend his meltdown to wrongthink anti alphabet people langauge, kek.

 

[Otterly]

They are removing peoples Circuses, while it gets more and more expensive to get the bread?

Either they have a plan, or the elite have forgotten why "Bread and circuses" is important to keep the mob in check.

Let them. People have been unhappy a long time, and angry a while. They are starting to be able to express it but everyone’s still too fat and comfy.
But the infestation has spread so far that everyone’s affected. Only the telly and cheap comforts and inertia and fear are stopping a major chimp out. Let them take the cheap comforts, and see other people protest, and then maybe we will see something.
Hosepipe bans are a stressor. Expensive food is. Hot weather is. Country’s a tinderbox.
Tick tock, kier!

 

[Kofi Drinka]

If I had a penis, the thought of dead and dying Muslims would get me rock hard, not gonna lie.

Would you like to borrow one? It's not as selective about it being Muslims, it's happy for any browns to die.

We will all be invited to join the Anti Sex League instead while the chemicals in our Stella/Diet Coke/Posh Water remove all our desires.

And cities will be renamed to just numbers. That way you won't have to remember they used to be white places named by the evil oppressors.

Hosepipe bans are a stressor.

How middle class do you have to be to be stressed by a hose pipe ban? Watering cans do more than enough for most people. Unless your garden is growing food there's not much need for a hose pipe.

 

[Otterly]

How middle class do you have to be to be stressed by a hose pipe ban?

Middle class? No, just not urban yuppie flat dwellers. Gardens need water.
Kids can’t easily have a little cheap paddling pool. Bored hot stressed kids. Can’t hose the dog off outside after it’s rolled in something. Older people can’t carry endles cans of water, their lovely little garden that’s kept them going starts dying because we’ve had months of drought. The ground down south is like concrete. Your veg patch dries up and the one bright spot of nice healthy food in the summer is gone. I know people who live in London flats don’t care, but even a small suburban back yard needs more water than old people can carry in cans. A cubic metre of water weighs a ton. Veg needs an inch a week in season. Allotments run on hoses and rainwater butts. Hosepipe bans are a stressor for anyone with anything growing.
I do t care about people unable to wash their cars but veg needs water, rural and growers need it. Food has to be grown somewhere. The cities hate the countryside, and frankly I hope the countryside starves them one day

 

[Kofi Drinka]

The cities hate the countryside, and frankly I hope the countryside starves them one day

This we can agree on.

I've never watered my garden and the grass has always grown well. This summer it wouldn't stop growing and needed to be mowed constant. Was thinking of buying a goat to keep it in check, but I might have lost the goat in the grass with how fast it grew.

 

[A-Logato]

How middle class do you have to be to be stressed by a hose pipe ban? Watering cans do more than enough for most people. Unless your garden is growing food there's not much need for a hose pipe.

How does a country in which it does nothing but rain all year round, need to have a hose ban?

 

[Overly Serious]

Look who got a puff piece in tha toimes, top tier PR, some illuminati social engineering bollocks this is.
Extremely quotable and absolutely disgusting; reader discretion is advised, bleh.
Normally I don't bother inserting the images, but this toime (heh) it's important to get across just how fucking busted she is.

tl;dr the bitch is barren, which is what drove her cock-crazy to try and make up for it, very sad many such cases.
https://www.thetimes.com/life-style...terview-1000-men-normalisation-porn-dd6rcq8gq/https://archive.is/5FAg6

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I thought that was Vanessa Kirby from the new Fantastic Four movie. They look very alike. Shows what I know!

 

[Kofi Drinka]

How does a country in which it does nothing but rain all year round, need to have a hose ban?

Our water storage is poorly designed and millions of foreigners tax the system.

 

[Crunkle]

Our water storage is poorly designed and millions of foreigners tax the system.

Not to mention water companies "accidentally" letting loose sewerage all over the country. Water companies should be forced to have to announce a spillage themselves on their own social media the moment it happens.

 

[Otterly]

I've never watered my garden and the grass has always grown well.

The grass can be let go - it’ll almost always bounce back, I don’t water it at all. It’s the trees and the veg that need consistent couple of times a week deep watering, or things dont do well.

How does a country in which it does nothing but rain all year round, need to have a hose ban?

Nobody has built new reservoirs for a few decades, during which time we’ve added thirty million plus to the population, with no new infrastructure. And during who h time the water companies have made out like bandits, paying themselves huge bonuses while we lose more in leaks and they discharge raw sewage into previously swim able waterways

Not to mention water companies "accidentally" letting loose sewerage all over the country. Water companies should be forced to have to announce a spillage themselves on their own social media the moment it happens.

They should be chained at the base of the outfalls and made to drink and wallow in it, total polluter death,

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

This we can agree on.

I've never watered my garden and the grass has always grown well. This summer it wouldn't stop growing and needed to be mowed constant. Was thinking of buying a goat to keep it in check, but I might have lost the goat in the grass with how fast it grew.

Wait till you see the paperwork and regulations to keep a goat.
Can’t be having free milk you know…

 

[Otterly]

Wait till you see the paperwork and regulations to keep a goat.
Can’t be having free milk you know…

There is a massive war on anyone who likes to grow things or keep a small holding. Imagine going back a few hundred years and telling regular peasants that this would happen. You can’t even feed chickens kitchen scraps unless your household is vegan. They regularly run ‘gardening is muh right wing’ articles and ‘allotments are worse than supermarket for co2’ articles and they put plastic turf in new builds.
I’ve just nipped out and picked a cucumber and some fresh tomatoes which will do me a nice side salad for lunch. The cherry tomatoes are growing in old buckets that I drilled holes in the bottom of. Homedone compost. Seeds from last years tomatoes. Pretty much zero cost.
Aren’t we all supposed to be being green? How much greener is it to grow your own than buy from mega greenhouses?? And yet there’s huge discouragement for growing. Tiny shitty new builds with gardens that have no access except through the house. So all waste and soil needs to go through the house. Gardens with no topsoil just building rubble and a deck.
Endless fucking regulations about chickens way beyond sensible ones (fine to not keep then past a certain urban density but if you live in the sticks you should be able to and feed them scraps from healthy home made food.) I dread to think what having a goat entails in paperwork.
Oh and you couldn’t buy seeds during Covid, which was the point a few people I knew became pitchfork wielding radicals,

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Wait till you see the paperwork and regulations to keep a goat.
Can’t be having free milk you know…

I'm going to be an illegal goat keeper and there's nothing Starmer can do to stop me! I'll even have unlicensed chickens!

Fuck you Labour. I am a rebel!

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

There is a massive war on anyone who likes to grow things or keep a small holding

Same with energy.
Any sign of a microgrid on your house (off grid solar or turbines) and the energy company will disconnect you and refuse inspecting it so you can prove it’s not connected to the grid

 

[Chunky Salsa]

‘allotments are worse than supermarket for co2’ articles and they put plastic turf in new builds.

My sister got a new build, put down some nice turf and was setting up little wooden plots, and it was all dead. Nothing took, so me and her boyfriend dug up the garden. Down about half a foot was rubble, plastic bags, random bits of rubbish, just dumped. We had to dig four feet down to get it all out, and then buy a load of new soil to put in. Actually fucking insane.