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https://news.sky.com/story/row-over-new-greggs-vegan-sausage-rolls-heats-up-11597679 (https://archive.ph/5Ba6o)

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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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.

 

[XYZpdq]

I don't even care if this is completely factual or not, because as an American, this thought makes my nipples hard.

The past thousand years of history gives strong evidence you don't need to give the eurpoes much incentive to be useless and fight each other over any random shit.

 

[MadDamon]

Man, if WW3 breaks out, Britain is over, which is a shame, I like Arthurian mythology.

 

[The Crow]

I'm sure Churchill is turning over in his grave right now. Nowadays, the UK really is the lolcow of first-world countries.

 

[Zaryiu]

But nobody showed up

 

[Keystone]

I saw this somewhere else and thought it was a joke. But it's ((current year)) Britain so I should've known better. The obvious bad thing is that any serious war they need to fight in the future (police actions in the desert don't count) is going to be a disaster that they won't win. The good thing is that troopers who retired before the Army finally reached 100% cuck status will be able to steamroll the PC Battalions in any civil unrest they get mobilized to quell. And that's coming sooner rather than later.

Anyone who wants to fight the British just has to bide their time and wait for the competent people to get drummed out and replaced with complete muppets who aren't even fit to push carts at a supermarket.

 

[The Crow]

I saw this somewhere else and thought it was a joke. But it's ((current year)) Britain so I should've known better. The obvious bad thing is that any serious war they need to fight in the future (police actions in the desert don't count) is going to be a disaster that they won't win. The good thing is that troopers who retired before the Army finally reached 100% cuck status will be able to steamroll the PC Battalions in any civil unrest they get mobilized to quell. And that's coming sooner rather than later.

Anyone who wants to fight the British just has to bide their time and wait for the competent people to get drummed out and replaced with complete muppets who aren't even fit to push carts at a supermarket.

If this would've been the kind of "army" to fight the nazi invasion in ww2, I'm afraid all of Britain would be speaking German and seig heil'ing Hitler today.

 

[usernames can change now!]

imagine getting shot by a british teenager in no mans land and he default dances over your dying body.

back in my day we had taunt kills and conga lines

 

[roxitp0w3rwuzdabest420]

As someone who descended from the British, can someone explain why they went mad.

They didn't look up frontier thesis if you want to figure out why Americans are so vastly different then their old world counterparts.

 

[DragoonSierra]

The guy who said that about the Mona Lisa. He knows someone literally did that in the early 1900s to protest the bourgeois right? Or is he really acting like sausage rolls are high art?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.H.O.O.Q.

 

[MasterDisaster]

Remember kids;
Vegetarians don't eat meat.
Vegans don't eat meat or anything with animal by-products.

Don't get the two mixed up.

 

[BurningPewter]

I'm a (sometimes slipping but mostly) vegetarian who eats at Greggs a lot, so I was looking forward to this. So Piers is wrong there.

She told me about a restaurant she had been to that served only vegan recreations of meat-based foods formed from soy. Literally "chicken drumsticks" and shit like that made from soy. Expensive, too. Actual adults were playing far too much for this elaborate gastronomic kabuki theater and loving it. It was one of the strangest things I had ever heard.

that's not unusual at all. Most grocery stores sell regular-price soy burgers and sausages, and have for the past couple of decades - the Linda McCartney brand, for example.

 

[UW 411]

Is there some kind of sausage roll lobby in the UK? First the song, now this. Sausage rolls are boring and generally well appreciated.

Besides, pigs in blankets are where it's at.

 

[CWCissey]

Is there some kind of sausage roll lobby in the UK? First the song, now this. Sausage rolls are boring and generally well appreciated.

Besides, pigs in blankets are where it's at.

The sausage roll is just an important part of British culture, especially from Greggs.

As for pigs in blankets are you talking about the sausages wrapped in bacon or the weird American definition?

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Found this on /r/cringeanarchy:

 

[Hux]

NATO was a mistake

 

[Absolutego]

My personal pet theory is that NATO is the reason why. The United States is willing to pick up most of the tab and provide most of the bodies. So Europeans diverted money and attention away from defense and towards social programs. The Americans helped to encourage this in order to keep World War III from breaking out. The US wanted Europeans to be docile and succeeded.

That's a pretty widely held view. NATO's unofficial motto for years was "Keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down".

 

[shartshooter]

how is this real

Typical conservative military types might provide some resistance to what Western governments have in store for their people.

 

[Stoneheart]

i would bomb brown people from my pc if the pay is good. im not a britbong, but i would pledge my loyalty to the house of saxe-coburg and gotha.

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

Well back in the early 1950's I don't think anyone would have foreseen the British Army putting out recruitment ads that basically say "Hey, lazy narcissist that LARPS as a communist revolutionary at their local college, you interested?"

The Brits want troops who will happily shoot the rioters when the government inevitably decides to abandon Brexit

 

[Stoneheart]

Remember kids;
Vegetarians don't eat meat.
Vegans don't eat meat or anything with animal by-products.

Don't get the two mixed up.

both are eating disorders leading to mental problems.
also its unnatural.

even tiny fluffy backyard critter eat each other...