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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.

 

[Beautiful Border]

No 16 year old is going to vote for Labour now...

The woke ones will back Corbyn, Greens, Libs, Nationalists or Independents and the rest will back Reform UK.

Ways to nuke your own voter base Part 9348859435898.

Labour are repeating almost note-for-note a blunder they made in the 60s: They lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, and then started an enforcement campaign to shut down pirate radio stations, something that happened to be extremely popular with the demographic they had newly-enfranchised. It was one of the factors that cost them the 1970 election.

 

[Crunkle]

Labour are repeating almost note-for-note a blunder they made in the 60s: They lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, and then started an enforcement campaign to shut down pirate radio stations, something that happened to be extremely popular with the demographic they had newly-enfranchised. It was one of the factors that cost them the 1970 election.

There's a comedy film about the pirate radio stations that's pretty good. The Boat That Rocked, I think.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

The worst thing about government censorship is that it's probably going to drive innocent children to using Linux. At that point you might as well let them be raped instead of spending hours trying to fix their display driver via the terminal.

 

[Mister Fister]

I know like yea innocent until proven guilty and all that shit but I can't help but feel the word 'allegedly' is doing some fucking heavy lifting considering there is literally video proof. Like yea ok he hasn't been convicted but at the same time is there really any difference? Also another 'hundreds' lie. I mean yea there were hundreds if you're american and say everything up to 99 hundred is in the hundreds I guess. If anyone looks at those videos and says yea that's in the hundreds then importing immigrants is probably a good idea, replace them and you'd double the iq of that company in one move.

Some of the best footage from last year was the shit out of ireland, loyalists and nationalists both marching together through Belfast. Genuinely surreal to see. One of the main reasons I went to Ireland a few months ago. Regardless, southerner or northerner we are still brothers. There's no point in wanting the emancipation of those six counties, no point in wanting to unite ireland if they're no longer fucking irish in any manner.

The youngest generation has been trending right for a long time now anyway.

I’ll keep saying this as a Wildcard, the Burgers that own firearms tend to hate the globalist Governments. I wouldn’t doubt it if there were already smuggled American firearms with the British.

 

[BongoMongo]

Just remember when the government says they're going to do x, use the "present your balls" argument. The government has run out its credit line, and whilst there is the commie piece saying "the UK can never go bankrupt." I assure you, it can.

None of this shit can be implemented for a long time. I will say a huge thank you to the Indian dentist who is seeing me on an emergency. My other half knows I am pretty racist, but most Indian dentists I have been to have been fantastic.

Ive heard the same re: Indian dentists. I know a paki taxi driver who swears by the dentist who he sees,who is Indian. I think, if a paki can be singing the praises of an Indian then he must be good at what he does. They absolutely despise one another. That's why test match cricket between them is so excellent to watch.

 

[A-Logato]

Some UK users on the YouTube subreddit are reporting that their VPNs are being detected and blocked by the platform

Has anyone encountered this to confirm? I've already got a plan B if using TOR and a VPN become not possible at the very least.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

The worst thing about government censorship is that it's probably going to drive innocent children to using Linux. At that point you might as well let them be raped instead of spending hours trying to fix their display driver via the terminal.

Hey come on don't say that. They'll be white so you can't call them innocent.

I’ll keep saying this as a Wildcard, the Burgers that own firearms tend to hate the globalist Governments. I wouldn’t doubt it if there were already smuggled American firearms with the British.

No don't be silly. Nationalists would never smuggle weapons from America into the country to fight an invading force. That is simply unprecedented made up fan fiction that would never happen in real life. I mean how would that even happen, our shores are secure and very well monitored and a ship full of rifles could never be simply landed on the shores, especially not in Kerry. That would never happen and if it did it's probably all propaganda anyway.

fr though most of the illegal guns in the country aren't american. They normally come from soviet places, if you look at most of the guns seized from organised crime it's normally soviet shit, take it from where it's still easy to find and smuggle it through europe is much easier than crossing the fucking atlantic most of the time. Just look at seziure photos, normally it's shit like makarovs and lugers, soviet or world war era. Large number of those world war guns got stashed away and forgotten because people were able to fucking predict the future apparently worried about fascism not just disappearing overnight and potentially needing them again. If a civil war does break out 1916 style then it won't be with american guns. Maybe I'll be proven wrong but I'd be willing to bet that it doesn't start with american imports at least.

 

[Amin Yasister]

Home Office launches huge new drive in effort to 'smash the gangs' with £100m funding boost:

https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-crisis-home-office-english-channel

How the Hell.do the government believe that Law Enforcement in countries like Turkey, Iran and African countries will work jointly with NCA in tracing the people smugglers?

Not unless the £100m is split up into 1000's of brown paper envelopes.

 

[Kier Starmer]

As I said prior, they can't do it; it would require BILLIONS. All the millions are nothing but gifts.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

How the Hell.do the government believe that Law Enforcement in countries like Turkey, Iran and African countries will work jointly with NCA in tracing the people smugglers?

It's England, do you really think that actually stopping crime is the point? They're not trying to stop crime they just want the optics of it. They want to be able to point to something and say they're really trying and helping all while intentionally not doing the fucking logical thing. The country that bans every type of knife known to man despite being told it will not do anything and is met with continually rising knife crime rates continues to go down that same path? Colour me surprised. They have never cared about stopping crime, just looking like they are.

At this rate believing anything the government says is delusional. There's no way you can look at the government's actions and assume they are actually even trying to try. The only part of the government that actually tries are the gaslighting and propagandist departments.

 

[Marvin]

Lol the commies are way more explicit here in Bongland. It makes me laugh.

Don't forget to batten down the wild haggis. Don't want them getting blown away. (When I lived Norf Of The Wall I had my nephew's believing for a solid 2 years that they were real wild animals, and that the Sherrifs Court is so called cos at start of session they bring out the Ceremonial Lassoo. Good times).

Bless ‘em. I think most parents do the same, hear the call of the wild ones when you’re out on the hill.

Sounds like a snipe hunt.

 

[Made In Wales]

Just remember when the government says they're going to do x, use the "present your balls" argument. The government has run out its credit line, and whilst there is the commie piece saying "the UK can never go bankrupt." I assure you, it can.

None of this shit can be implemented for a long time. I will say a huge thank you to the Indian dentist who is seeing me on an emergency. My other half knows I am pretty racist, but most Indian dentists I have been to have been fantastic.

Which is why I and others say 'well, if we can't pay, then axe the debts'

A one-off global cancellation of debt is going to be like popping a pimple on an elephant's arse - nobody will feel a thing and everybody benefits.

Besides, Gordon Brown cancelled Africa's debt back in the 2000s. There's a precedent.

I didn't agree with Nigel re: the Trans prisoners (though I get the point that until we get Tranny only jails, the issue of whether a person is 'Arthur' or 'Martha' is going to be continuous pain in the arse) but he's made up for it with this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c860py73pglo

https://archive.ph/wip/L7Jce

Let's see Labour, Tories etc. say 'this is wrong', because the whole of the country is raging about this - neighbours of mine are beyond angry that this could happen and one day soon a Muslim could knock on their door and shoot them with a gun, and then be defended by Wokeo Haram.

The red-pilling is only going to intensify.

 

[East_Clintwood]

This reminded me of Charles Veitch, the guy who wonders around Manchester and Piccadilly Gardens filming crackheads and wogs. Frequently gets himself assaulted, but he's a proper political sperg if anyone is familiar. You could start a UK Sektur with the amount of shit in that guy's history.

Probably because most, if not all, of the footage being voiced over is actually Charlie's.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Don't forget to batten down the wild haggis. Don't want them getting blown away. (When I lived Norf Of The Wall I had my nephew's believing for a solid 2 years that they were real wild animals, and that the Sherrifs Court is so called cos at start of session they bring out the Ceremonial Lassoo. Good times).

They put them on pizza if you know the right places. Don't put it on the menu though. Selfish cunts don't want to share with any one south of the border. I've heard they'll even switch your mars bar for a fucking aldi home brand one if they think you're English

 

[mold]

I’ll keep saying this as a Wildcard, the Burgers that own firearms tend to hate the globalist Governments. I wouldn’t doubt it if there were already smuggled American firearms with the British.

lol how

look at a map, if you have smuggled firearms they come over the channel not over the atlantic

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Lol the commies are way more explicit here in Bongland. It makes me laugh.

My pickle in Chris that poster is about as old as you. Looks like it was put up when the soviet union actually still existed.

I didn't agree with Nigel re: the Trans prisoners

I mean ideally there would simply be no trans prisoners, it just should not be a thing at all in wider society not just prisons. We do have 'trans only prisons' already though, it's called broadmoor.

 

[Anti Lolicon Bomb]

Why did this brain-dead faggot come back? I can only assume by now he is addicted to the attention like some BPD whore, either that or he is on the Jezbollah payroll to put people off the "far right".

That's exactly what he is for. The right start making effective protests and he pops out the woodwork to punch somebody in a suspiciously staged looking video to remind everybody we wuz thugs.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Labour are repeating almost note-for-note a blunder they made in the 60s: They lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, and then started an enforcement campaign to shut down pirate radio stations, something that happened to be extremely popular with the demographic they had newly-enfranchised. It was one of the factors that cost them the 1970 election.

You love to see it.

Some UK users on the YouTube subreddit are reporting that their VPNs are being detected and blocked by the platform

Has anyone encountered this to confirm? I've already got a plan B if using TOR and a VPN become not possible at the very least.

Just checked, my vpn (mullvad) is blocked unless I log in. I don't think this is particularly new, though; reddit has always gone out of its way to block VPNs and TOR. Interferes with their advertising metrics.

I've heard they'll even switch your mars bar for a fucking aldi home brand one if they think you're English

Joke's on them, I prefer the Titan.

 

[Gregis]

BREAKING: People cannot adjust the NVIDIA graphics cards settings on their Gaming PCs anymore because they aren't 18 thanks to the Online Safety Act.
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16 year olds: Can't look at porn, can't drink, can't drive, can't buy certain video games, can't adjust graphics on those video games, can't buy things to chop their vegetables with, can't smoke, can't vape, can't be out of school, but CAN vote. This is definitely a sensible country we live in.

This is a travesty, but I place the blame 100% on NVIDIA and 0% on UK government. Fuck Steam again while I'm thinking about shitty browser interfaces for applications that should work offline.

Anyway, retarded American here, how y'all doin? Could I trouble you island mexicans to spoonfeed me some information I should be able to figure out myself? I was thinking about the consequences of one of you guys getting doxed on here, and I was wondering whether just accessing the site would be enough for some kind of charge even if you never actually posted TPD. Obviously you have to be using a VPN or TOR, and as far as I know there's talk of criminalizing that but it hasn't happened yet; but the site is not in compliance with UK law and is supposed to be blocking UK residents. Is the onus entirely on the site operator? Could you be in trouble for having posted innocuous things here after the IP block?

 

[the rat]

Labour are repeating almost note-for-note a blunder they made in the 60s: They lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, and then started an enforcement campaign to shut down pirate radio stations, something that happened to be extremely popular with the demographic they had newly-enfranchised. It was one of the factors that cost them the 1970 election.

1970s Part 2: Electric Boogaloo