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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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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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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.
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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.
 
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CWCissey said:
Gays are higher on the oppression ladder than Kebabs in the UK.

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Police probe 'homophobic abuse' at Pride event

A video posted on social media appears to show a woman shouting abuse at people on a Pride march.
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Hahah just watched the video.
But, Allah forbids you even think of making graffiti of Muhammad sucking dick, eh?
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CWCissey said:
Gays are higher on the oppression ladder than Kebabs in the UK.

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Police probe 'homophobic abuse' at Pride event

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Wtf is this, homophobic abuse from your grandfather? I can't even remember the last time I heard the fucking Adam and Steve line. This is enough to get the cops on you on Cuckbong Island?
 
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AnOminous said:
Wtf is this, homophobic abuse from your grandfather? I can't even remember the last time I heard the fucking Adam and Steve line. This is enough to get the cops on you on Cuckbong Island?
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Baby steps, the police are actually telling a Kebab off for being a twat.
 
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Remember a while back there was a victorian book series found about a Baron Trump who "discovers weird underground civilizations, offends the natives, flees from his entanglements with local women, and repeats this pattern until arriving back home at Castle Trump"?

Well now a sci-fi book from 1960s have been rediscovered called Agent of Chaos that features the protagonist Boris Johnson!:
First published in the 1960s, Spinrad was one of the first writers to perceive the totalitarian implications of the cradle-to-grave welfare state. But at the same time he was too organically a radical ever to be confused with a conservative. Result: "Agent of Chaos!"
Boris Johnson thinks he wants democracy. But in the course of his adventures he discovers that democracy to him means freedom. It's a banned concept from the Millennium of Religion. Like God.

He finds himself dealing with a byzantine political situation worthy of anything from the banned past. The dictatorship is the Hegemony. Opposition is provided by the aptly named agents of C.H.A.O.S. Meanwhile, the Brotherhood of Assassins plays a game that no one can fathom. Whose side are they on? Whose fool are you?

Spinrad explores his philosophical theme in a manner all too rare in contemporary science fiction. The problem is that Order will always try to eliminate any random factors. By its very nature, it encourages opposition and that feeds the forces of chaos. But chaos has built in problems as well. Its victories cannot help but feed the forces of reaction, of order. The heroes in this novel ultimately opt for personal freedom. The villains try to establish a dictatorship over the very nature of reality itself.

And then Spinrad throws in the discovery of aliens. A starship sets forth to meet them, the Prometheus. The Hegemony doesn't like that.
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From Private Eye:
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Pickle Inspector said:
Remember a while back there was a victorian book series found about a Baron Trump who "discovers weird underground civilizations, offends the natives, flees from his entanglements with local women, and repeats this pattern until arriving back home at Castle Trump"?

Well now a sci-fi book from 1960s have been rediscovered called Agent of Chaos that features the protagonist Boris Johnson!:


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Time travel is perfected in the future, confirmed!
 
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Remember a while back there was a victorian book series found about a Baron Trump who "discovers weird underground civilizations, offends the natives, flees from his entanglements with local women, and repeats this pattern until arriving back home at Castle Trump"?

Well now a sci-fi book from 1960s have been rediscovered called Agent of Chaos that features the protagonist Boris Johnson!:


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Spinrad also did an alternate history novel called The Iron Dream, which purported to be a novel written by Adolf Hitler, who in the alternate universe, had fled Germany and become a science fiction writer whose novel, Lord of the Swastika, became popular.

Here's the cover of the edition I had.

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#pound is trending today as it’s has declined against both the euro and the dollar. While most people are talking about the markets or exchange for holidays cue the one clueless twat talking about his crappy drink

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And yes I checked to see if this was a joke profile and no unfortunately it wasn’t.
 
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#pound is trending today as it’s has declined against both the euro and the dollar. While most people are talking about the markets or exchange for holidays cue the one clueless twat talking about his crappy drink

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And yes I checked to see if this was a joke profile and no unfortunately it wasn’t.
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lol. It's cos he lives in london. The stupid cunt.

He can enjoy the shit prices and shit streets.
 
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Inquisitor_BadAss said:
#pound is trending today as it’s has declined against both the euro and the dollar. While most people are talking about the markets or exchange for holidays cue the one clueless twat talking about his crappy drink

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And yes I checked to see if this was a joke profile and no unfortunately it wasn’t.
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The remainer food meme is weird. It's based on truth but you'd think they'd jump at the chance to encourage people to buy locally. It's stupid that so much food is shipped around the EU and grown, processed, packaged, etc in different countries like specialist car parts.
 
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