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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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The lockdown is making everyone even more stupid, I kinda like it.
 
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When, God? When will England be done paying the price for Hamburg?
 
Overly Serious said:
Oh, that one drives me bonkers. Long, dangerous sword with straight blade? Legal. Long, dangerous sword with curved blade? Restricted - because that's a katana and that's a "ninja" weapon. Keep in mind this is the country that deleted a scene from the old TMNT movie where Michaelangelo swings around a string of sausages like nunchucks because it might turn British children into ninjas. And dubbed over the cartoon's theme song to make it Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles. It's like the whole Brutish Government got their entire education from Dr. McNinja comics and believed it.

I didn't know that about the Dunblaine documents being sealed. That's very interesting.
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Fear of a Ninjified Youth that would hide in the shadows and then throwing-star old ladies to death as they walked home with their groceries before disappearing in a cloud of smoke before the cops could get there is one of the moral panics that time forgot....

You only are reminded of it when late 80's - early 90's written laws are reviewed and you see odd inclusions of things like "no numbchucks'
 
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Trig.Point said:
The UK Police are covering themselves in glory during the crisis.

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They have also have a lolcow's desire to document their stupidity on social media.
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I saw this. The stupidity has to be seen to be believed.

I also think this whose situation with WuFlu is almost certainly going to be used by those insects at XR to claim that of course we can hit net zero by 2025 because people put up with house arrest against the plague so they'll clearly put up with rationing, black box road tracking, and travel bans.

Frankly, when we get off lockdown you should find an XR meeting and fumigate it.
 
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Ginger Piglet said:
I saw this. The stupidity has to be seen to be believed.

I also think this whose situation with WuFlu is almost certainly going to be used by those insects at XR to claim that of course we can hit net zero by 2025 because people put up with house arrest against the plague so they'll clearly put up with rationing, black box road tracking, and travel bans.

Frankly, when we get off lockdown you should find an XR meeting and fumigate it.
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People are going to be so happy to get off lockdown and freely move again, that I suspect if any of these XR morons try to block a road or train, the pure fury that the mob will unleash upon them means the coppers will be finding whats left of them in dustbins (yes, plural)
 
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Trig.Point said:
The UK Police are covering themselves in glory during the crisis.

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Its a shame as Derbyshire plod (and its now infamous drone unit) managed to get themselves some kudos for their handling of Whaley Bridge. Even the drone unit's had its uses doing things like crowd observation for football matches and large scale events, often releasing the footage after the fact which is pretty neat.

This also isn't the first time they've died the Blue Lagoon Black. It's filled with lead, cobalt and god knows what else nasty, nasty elements and chemicals which will pretty much kill you long term but provide a wonderful beauty spot.

Thing is, last time they did it, it was hot as all fucking hell and people were just desperately finding anywhere cool to take a dip. This time around it's utterly meaningless.

Same as it turned out at least one of the people they harassed at Curbar's Edge.... were residents of Curbar's Edge taking their dog for a walk.

EDIT: Should also point out, after these self mastabatory orwellian backpatting exercises, Derbyshire Plod's Twitter account has now meekly gone back to just asking for witnesses for some actual incidents and crime.
 
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Archers fan event invaded by Nazis and pornography

A cautionary tale for people making group video calls, from fans of the world's longest-running drama.
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"There was all manner of pornography thrown up and Nazi swastikas and I was called the N-word repeatedly."
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Lol. I've heard about this. Zoom sessions are apparently not very secure; once you have the code to join there's no upper limit of the people who can get in. In Singapore a physics class being held over Zoom was filled with nudes recently.
 
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Ginger Piglet said:
Lol. I've heard about this. Zoom sessions are apparently not very secure; once you have the code to join there's no upper limit of the people who can get in. In Singapore a physics class being held over Zoom was filled with nudes recently.
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Some dude was exposing himself to middle school kids. Zoom sounds like it's really shit design for what it's intended for. You can bet weev is going to be hopping right on this shit.
 
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Coolio55 said:
Serious question: Has anyone even heard of zoom prior to this?
This entire situation reads "startup capitalization fuckup" all over it

Also good on whoever gate crashed the Archers meeting. The Archers is poo.
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On day 1 of the lockdown, I was working from home and trying to set up a mediation for one of my clients. One of the mediators I was recommended said he'd been using Zoom for ages and offered to give me and my client a no-obligation trial run of it.

That was the first I'd heard of it. Also on day 3 of the lockdown I was invited to a Zoom webinar on... using Zoom for mediation, by a mediator.

It seems to have sprung out of nowhere.
 
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Ginger Piglet said:
On day 1 of the lockdown, I was working from home and trying to set up a mediation for one of my clients. One of the mediators I was recommended said he'd been using Zoom for ages and offered to give me and my client a no-obligation trial run of it.

That was the first I'd heard of it. Also on day 3 of the lockdown I was invited to a Zoom webinar on... using Zoom for mediation, by a mediator.

It seems to have sprung out of nowhere.
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It's also backed by the Chinks and sends your data back to the CCP's creepy firewall servers who comb through it for useable intel. All ministers and government business tried it for a minute before GCHQ spotted it and reccomended Skype Business instead.
 
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Ponderous Pillock said:
It's also backed by the Chinks and sends your data back to the CCP's creepy firewall servers who comb through it for useable intel. All ministers and government business tried it for a minute before GCHQ spotted it and reccomended Skype Business instead.
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Does anyone know if there are security issues with BlueJeans? That's what my school uses.
 
Buster O'Keefe said:
Dude don't smack talk The Archers, it's literally the best short form regular radio drama about the fictional rural community of Ambridge.
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Ah yes, the Archers with the Grundies and their money troubles, or the bake sale and church work undertaken by Peggy Wooley, or James Archer's struggles to diversify the farm into more cash crops and food stuffs. Or Helen being brutally beaten up and eventually attempting to murder her husba-

uh.... yeah. That was a plotline when Eastenders writers were let free and sent to The Archers.

EDIT: Fun fact too, a lot of the VAs for the archers are in Everybody's Gone To The Rapture, or as I prefer to call it "The Archers Apocalypse".
 
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Ponderous Pillock said:
Ah yes, the Archers with the Grundies and their money troubles, or the bake sale and church work undertaken by Peggy Wooley, or James Archer's struggles to diversify the farm into more cash crops and food stuffs. Or Helen being brutally beaten up and eventually attempting to murder her husba-

uh.... yeah. That was a plotline when Eastenders writers were let free and sent to The Archers.
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If you think The Archers is bad you've never been exposed to Ros na Run. It's an Irish language soap set in the Gaeltacht somewhere in the west of Ireland. Last time they tried to be controversial they had one of the farmers come out as gay. He didn't do anything particularly gay, just announced his sexuality to the village then went back to m.ilkingcows and drinking pints in the local pub.

They did once have a guest appearance by Stephen Fry though, so there is that.
 
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