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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.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Perhaps I'm naïve but I feel that there's a lot of schaudenfreude coming from the US when really what's happening here should be a canary for them that'd prompt solidarity. Obviously there are tons of fucking cucks in the UK but certainly no more than the US, yet the perspective seems to be that we're all uniquely meek soyboys showing our bellies to the paki menace.

The Americans are staunch believers in their own exceptionalism, and many of them believe that only Americans are capable of resisting government authority because of how they got their independence. Any European response that is more intense than anything they've demonstrated in the past hundred years or so kind of throws a spanner into the mental image they hold of themselves, and if the Euros actually pushback against tyranny and government action, then what's the excuse of armed Americans doing nothing? It's the same region of their thought process that posits their version of English is more true to Shakespeare, they're not actually Anglos themselves - they need to hate the old world to more or less justify the status quo and their own relative inaction, I think.

Though, I must say: the American-left fellates European healthcare and welfare, so the natural response of the American-right is to shit on those things because any overlap with the opposition on viewpoints is anathema. Many on the American-right still think they need to bend over backwards for corporations simply because the left hates them.

I'm sure, universally, they're not all of the same mindset (I've spoken with a few in the US politics thread and people online that don't), but it does get tiresome when they buy into their own semi-fictional narrative of the UK - Null complying with Ofcom initially was, IMO, the indirect result of hating and aggrandising the UK's tyranny and its people's weakness to the point of believing Ofcom was more than capable of carrying out their threat. We saw, in real time, as Null's compliance was somehow spun into rebellion. The UK has shit laws, little in the way of free speech, and several incredibly embarrassing facets that should be acknowledged, but they've construed lack of action as meekness rather than indifference, and believe said meekness comes from the government's capabilities regarding tyranny - we're seeing in real time that indifference bleed away.

Unfortunately even the ostensibly hard-left factions of Labour are more preoccupied with Jews vs Desert Niggers and troons to actually bother implementing genuine leftist policy, with brief recesses to wash the feet of bulbheaded/pyjama-wearing scrounging future doctors (foreigners).

Many of them, I imagine, are still subscribed to the mindset that Left-wing = whatever students are most vocal about. Or maybe they are largely made up of students.

I also imagine many of them have the mindset that prioritising your country and its people is a fundamentally right-wing attitude so they can't even humour it on principle. Labour have a micro-faction in it called "Blue Labour" that gets called such because only the synonymous right-wing (Conservative party) can stand behind policies that wish to limit immigration and prioritise domestic businesses and workers over foreign ones instead. Ironically, Keir getting lambasted for "chasing Reform voters" is dissuading him from the most effectiveness means of holding onto power IMO, since the overlap between Reform voters and Labour voters is rather large, especially in the North.

I don't hate the left-wing reactively, but I do just "left-wing" and "lefties" as a colloquial pejorative for the current tide of homebound activists and self-hating natives. As I've gotten older and read more, I've grown less hateful of left-wing positions, I tend to more or less just hate their representatives rather than the ideas themselves. For example: Hasan Piker, Destiny, Owen Jones, etcetera. Leftist intellectuals also annoy me some times, for example: Noam Chomsky's cognitive dissonance with regards to how organic populist movements on the right are less legitimate and sincere than those on the left infuriates the shit out of me.

I have extremely left political leanings but the co-option of "the left" by faggots, troons, and brown importing neolibs is genuinely pushing me towards voting reform, as much as I'd leap at the opportunity to glass Farage for being a grifting cunt.

If you're left-wing and consider voting Reform, my only consolation I can offer is that they're unlikely to touch social spending (universal credit, PIP, pensions, etcetera) and the NHS despite their rhetoric regarding those things since, as I just mentioned, the Labour-Reform overlap is large so I imagine they get kneecapped by MPs a la Labour's recent kerfuffle. They're more likely to slash foreign aid, grants, and green subsidies if they're going to reduce spending.

Maybe concessions or privileges to the rich/corporations is another potential worry that makes supporting them unpalatable, but considering every party has been bending over backwards for international finance since the 70s at least, it's more of the status quo rather than pivoting to something worse - arguably, slashing and curtailing immigration, which Reform are campaigning on, spits in the eye of corporations and mega-rich by depriving them of cheap labour, subsidised consumers (immigrants on benefits buy shit) and increasing the value of their real estate holdings, so in a roundabout way (maybe a cope), voting for Reform is actually the most optimal and left-wing way to fight back against corporate interests.

 

[Overly Serious]

Only if they start putting women under anaesthetic or giving them strong painkillers for IUD insertion. Anything touching your cervix is painful as hell but for some reason women's reproductive health specifically is the one field where doctors are like "painkillers? anaesthesia? lol nah I'll just go in raw". My sister knows a woman whose IUD got wedged in at a funny angle and was causing her problems but whenever the doctors attempt to remove it they don't bother using any painkillers or anaesthetic and its excruciating so at this point she's just given up on ever having it removed and is just gonna leave it there forever.

She needs to make a fuss and get it removed with proper pain relief.
@Overly Serious coils are very unpleasant things to have installed. I’ve got a decent pain threshold and I found it agonising. Google tentaculum, and then imagine that being used to stabilise (lol) whatever sensitive bit of your anatomy you’re most find of while a biro is shoved up it and you might get close. The attach your vagus nerve to whatever bit it was and jostle it during sex with the biro still in place.
Coils are barbaric. We just don’t have any good contraceptive options imo. Hormones have bad side effects and everything thing else is painful or harmful. We need better low-impact fully reversible options. The shots give you brittle vibes and are now linked yo brain tumours as well.

A woman I dated had one and was very happy with it. Which is partly where I've got the positive impression from. But I have no cervix so I will defer to those that do. I'm just wary of hormone based methods like the pill (am aware that IUDs can also use this but not all do and I believe it's much less regardless). Anyway, my general point is that trying to enact Margaret Attwood's repressed fantasies is not a good idea.

Now this is a fantastic advertisement.

Wow! That's next level. Spot on accurate right down to the way many Brits just accept things. Surprised the video has no comments. Reform should just buy it off them and use it as their next election ad. They'd barely even have to change the slogan at the end.

 

[Crunkle]

Corbyn's new party has its first councillor! Meet Grace Lewis, ex-Labour councillor in Coventry City Council.



It's Your Party and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to...

Article (Daily Mail): Link / Archive
Coventry Council website: Link / Archive

She's marked on the council website as an Independent, which is hilarious to think that this idiot resigned from a party with the intent to join "Your Party" whenever they've decided on a name and actually registered with the Electoral Commission (if they're approved).

 

[>IMPLYING]

Corbyn's new party has its first councillor! Meet Grace Lewis, ex-Labour councillor in Coventry City Council.

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It's Your Party and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to...

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Coventry Council website: Link / Archive

She's marked on the council website as an Independent, which is hilarious to think that this idiot resigned from a party with the intent to join "Your Party" whenever they've decided on a name and actually registered with the Electoral Commission (if they're approved).

 

[FedPostalService]

Corbyn's new party has its first councillor! Meet Grace Lewis, ex-Labour councillor in Coventry City Council.

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It's Your Party and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to...

Article (Daily Mail): Link / Archive
Coventry Council website: Link / Archive

She's marked on the council website as an Independent, which is hilarious to think that this idiot resigned from a party with the intent to join "Your Party" whenever they've decided on a name and actually registered with the Electoral Commission (if they're approved).

Are we sure that’s a she?

 

[Crunkle]

Are we sure that’s a she?

I think it's a woman but it could easily be an obese autistic man troon. The Joker grin makes me think that's an autistic woman since they can sometimes struggle to smile properly.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

You can't talk about a uniparty and then act like there are separate sides and only one side is to blame, it literally means you either don't know what uniparty means or don't actually believe it.

The Uniparty has two alternative options. One is lying to you but telling you to vote for what you want by picking them. The other is outright hostile to you and shows it every chance they get. If you vote the first (Tory) you got tricked. If you vote Labour you were told what you were voting for and you agreed to it.

You can believe in a Uniparty and understand the way the system works. Voting for the side that's honest makes you worse than the side that tricked you.

Lefties still thinking left wing politics isn't responsible for the problems we have is pathetic. It's another "Real communism has never been tried" argument as the entire world collapses from left wing politics. Next time we try communism liberalism it won't turn into this same mess again. It will stop pushing for more power and more grievances for lawyers to push through the courts the second workers are empowered. Gays totally won't use the same ethicless lawyers to push their agenda.. right fellow lefties?

A woman I dated had one and was very happy with it. Which is partly where I've got the positive impression from.

Most women have issues with them. They're nasty things at the best of times.

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I think it's a woman but it could easily be an obese autistic man troon. The Joker grin makes me think that's an autistic woman since they can sometimes struggle to smile properly.

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Looks like an ugly woman. Possibly with down syndrome in a minor way?

 

[>IMPLYING]

Corbyn's new party has its first councillor! Meet Grace Lewis, ex-Labour councillor in Coventry City Council.

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It's Your Party and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to...

Article (Daily Mail): Link / Archive
Coventry Council website: Link / Archive

She's marked on the council website as an Independent, which is hilarious to think that this idiot resigned from a party with the intent to join "Your Party" whenever they've decided on a name and actually registered with the Electoral Commission (if they're approved).

She resides in a seat that was Labour safe, flipped Tory in 2023, then back to Labour in '24.
Demographics of Coventry over the years (where her seat is located)

She might've defected because the general sentiment might be pro-Reform but she's left-wing and in a heavily Muslim area, so by joining the de facto Muslim party, she might be of the mindset that'll secure her seat come the next election. That's just a theory though. She's 21 and is probably a True believer(tm) which might be enough.

 

[ParasiteSteve]

Gays totally won't use the same ethicless lawyers to push their agenda.. right fellow lefties?

And the right allows all of this because money is god, and we must always worship the markets. Praise be the overseas money saving back handers. It was the right who were happy to import over domestic because the market demanded it, because the market is all and everything.

Face facts Jack, the left and the right lead to the exact same place.

 

[Overly Serious]

Most women have issues with them. They're nasty things at the best of times.

I am for picking methods of birth control that are safe and comfortable. You are against birth control for White people.

We are not the same.

And the right allows all of this because money is god, and we must always worship the markets

The last thing those in power in the West do is worship the markets. An actual Free Market would terrify their donor class. The amount of money the NHS alone would save if its supplies and IT services were actually open tender instead of "open tender" is eye-watering.

 

[ZeCommissar]

Perhaps I'm naïve but I feel that there's a lot of schaudenfreude coming from the US when really what's happening here should be a canary for them that'd prompt solidarity. Obviously there are tons of fucking cucks in the UK but certainly no more than the US, yet the perspective seems to be that we're all uniquely meek soyboys showing our bellies to the paki menace.

Honestly as an American I don't feel pleasure at truly talking shit about the current state of the UK or the rest of Europe besides banter. Yeah I talk shit about Euros, but that's mainly just me being a dick for bants, or just getting frustrated at the faggy way a lot of Euros constantly talk shit about Americans in a pretentious manner like we're barbarians who don't know any better. "If only they could become like us!" the gay Frenchman says as Paris is a rapidly decaying shithole on par with our rapidly decaying shitholes. Honestly at the end of the day, regardless of racial descent our culture is not your culture, and we both could learn from each other. Good luck with that though.

I actually feel something that's probably arguably worse than disdain or schaudenfreude which is pity. Not pity like "oh those retarded Euros just don't know any better", but pity in the sense that compared to the US you might not have a fucking country within our lifetimes if things don't get better and that just fucking sucks. Trust me the US has ALOT of problems, but we do have the potential to actually bounce back...maybe. I don't see how you guys will without extreme measures that were unthinkable 10 years ago. With that being said....

I'm just particularly sick of amerifats living in an unbelievably cucked country, the healthcare-industrial complex, Israel shadoe government, and lobby-rape being major fucking stains. I obviously envy the free speech they have weighed against ours, but on the other hand I can simply choose not to say nigger or TTD in a publicly identifiable way, I can't choose if I tumble on the stairs and break my fucking leg costing me thousands or get drafted to die for Jews in the desert.

We could play the game of "who's more cucked" all day long, and it would be pretty gay. The common issues we both face are a class of parasites, both poor and elite who are either too stupid to see past next week, or even worse actually hate us while thinking they "know what's best". Don't even get me started on the fucking state of corpo scum especially pharamcheticual, healthcare, insurance, and food companies. However I am somewhat confused by your "dying for Israel" comment because its not like Euros, especially the British are exactly immune from dying for globalhomo, they just do it at a lesser rate whenever Uncle Sam decides to drag the NATO bitches into yet another retard war.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I am for picking methods of birth control that are safe and comfortable. You are against birth control for White people.

We are not the same.

I oppose my people going extinct and any and all methods to prevent that are valid and the correct choice.

And the right allows all of this because money is god, and we must always worship the markets. Praise be the overseas money saving back handers. It was the right who were happy to import over domestic because the market demanded it, because the market is all and everything.

Face facts Jack, the left and the right lead to the exact same place.

The right puts people before money. And Neo Liberalism can never grow out of a right wing nationalist ideology because it's opposed to foreigners. Neo liberal globalism doesn't care about money. It's foundation is the stock market and manipulating fake money to cover up how costly all of this is. If it worshiped money why is the NHS funding gay workshops? Why would they constantly close surgeries and remove staff from working and earning a prophet if money was their goal?

Yeah I talk shit about Euros, but that's mainly just me being a dick for bants, or just getting frustrated at the faggy way a lot of Euros constantly talk shit about Americans in a pretentious manner like we're barbarians who don't know any better

It's all bants until Americans can't take the bants and get angry over them. The stereotype that Americans can't banter holds with good reason. After 2 school shooting and a McDonalds joke you're seething. If you insulted our McDonalds we wouldn't even care!

 

[ZeCommissar]

It's all bants until Americans can't take the bants and get angry over them. The stereotype that Americans can't banter holds with good reason. After 2 school shooting and a McDonalds joke you're seething. If you insulted our McDonalds we wouldn't even care!

I mean you're not wrong that most of my countrymen take things too seriously. But the bants of school shootings and McSlop isn't what I'm talking about, since I would just reply with some shit about TV loiscence or Trucks of Peace. The thing I'm talking about is soy redditor euros, and especially redditor Americans who think turning the US into Europe 2.0 is what we need. Don't get me wrong, we could definitely have better healthcare, and workers rights. But you lot should at least be allowed to say Nigger Nigger Nigger 100 times online without having to jump through VPNs and anonymous websites like this one without risking some cop knocking on your door.

Like I said, we both could learn from each other. Far more than we could ever learn from China, Russia, or anywhere else on Earth for that matter.....good luck with that though.

 

[ChefKiss]

The Americans are staunch believers in their own exceptionalism, and many of them believe that only Americans are capable of resisting government authority because of how they got their independence. Any European response that is more intense than anything they've demonstrated in the past hundred years or so kind of throws a spanner into the mental image they hold of themselves, and if the Euros actually pushback against tyranny and government action, then what's the excuse of armed Americans doing nothing? It's the same region of their thought process that posits their version of English is more true to Shakespeare, they're not actually Anglos themselves - they need to hate the old world to more or less justify the status quo and their own relative inaction, I think.

Pretty much everyone is guilty of this, the Americans laugh at Europeans, the Irish laugh at the UK, the UK laughs at Ireland, France and Germany
We were ALL laughing at sweden and norway when this shit started with them, nobody knew this would be a massive push across the whole western world to force this on us
We're at the point where we all need to come together to fight this now though

 

[Kofi Drinka]

The thing I'm talking about is soy redditor euros, and especially redditor Americans who think turning the US into Europe 2.0 is what we need.

America is more like Europe 0.573 Beta. Before it was patched to remove all the black characters.

The biggest problem with Americans is they only want to talk about America or things in relation to America. They come to the British news thread to rant about Britain compared to American or the British compared to Americans. It's never any insight into Britain or worth reading because every single fat fuck says the exact same thing until they get angry and then say the same insults.

America has all the same problems Europe has. A passive population with no border security and an anarchy tyranno government siding with degenerates and illegals over their own people. There's not a lot to learn from each other when we all fell for the same trap and it's manifested slightly differently in each section.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

The biggest problem with Americans is they only want to talk about America or things in relation to America. They come to the British news thread to rant about Britain compared to American or the British compared to Americans. It's never any insight into Britain or worth reading because every single fat fuck says the exact same thing until they get angry and then say the same insults.

Hey

I'm American and I don't do that

 

[ZeCommissar]

America has all the same problems Europe has. A passive population with no border security and an anarchy tyranno government siding with degenerates and illegals over their own people. There's not a lot to learn from each other when we all fell for the same trap and it's manifested slightly differently in each section.

Well of course we can't "learn from each other" when it comes to our shared weaknesses, considering most of the solutions while similar will have to be implemented in very different ways due to different cultural, political, and legal structures.

What I mean is learning from each others current strengths, regardless of the fact that our respective strengths are rapidly being diminished. (Americans are having their speech being slowly eroded away, even with our strong foundation when it comes to free speech, and I doubt you guys can continue the NHS charade forever if you keep importing all of India and Pakistan. Oh and I know the NHS isn't exactly a "strength" but it IS better than being charged $80k for ass cancer.)

As for the other Americans? Lol idk bro. I just occasionally lurk this thread when I get tired of sperging about American politics.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

As for the other Americans? Lol idk bro. I just occasionally lurk this thread when I get tired of sperging about American politics.

You're still sperging about American politics. You just throw in a token line about the NHS or Pakis.

More Migrants in Canary Wharf over the night. Will this be the actual breaking point for the London lovies? Finally having to deal with these people on their door step

https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-crisis-london-hotel-britannia-canary-wharf

Even the Nigerians don't feel safe in London any more

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/kemi-badenoch-crime-wave-children-uk-london

 

[teriyakiburns]

I think it's a woman but it could easily be an obese autistic man troon. The Joker grin makes me think that's an autistic woman since they can sometimes struggle to smile properly.

Yeah, she's piggy-faced and fat, but the shallow brow never lies. She's very short as well. If she were a man, she'd be an absolute manlet.

 

[ZeCommissar]

You're still sperging about American politics. You just throw in a token line about the NHS or Pakis.

More Migrants in Canary Wharf over the night. Will this be the actual breaking point for the London lovies? Finally having to deal with these people on their door step

https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-crisis-london-hotel-britannia-canary-wharf

Even the Nigerians don't feel safe in London any more

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/kemi-badenoch-crime-wave-children-uk-london

I mean, tbf the only reason I started talking about Americans in the British thread was because...you guys were already talking about Americans. Granted I admit that DOES somewhat prove your point considering I just lurk here and only really jumped in when 'Merica was mentioned.

Oh well. We can agree to disagree. The political situation for you guys is improving, and hopefully you can even do better than what we did because Trump while a good thing, I fear just won't be enough.....so remember the war is far from over, regardless of which political party you guys elect next time.