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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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isalaide said:
The application of the law to the facts established is a completely indivisible part of establishing guilt. To establish whether you have done something that the say Anti-Pants-Shitting Act of 2025 prohibits, the court has to be satisfied that what the statute actually prohibits covers what you actually did. It has to be satisfied that although the statute explicitly criminalises a shart, since all the court has found evidence for was a skidmark, that the statute intended to also criminalise skidmarks as well as sharts by the wording 'allowing matter from the rectum to discharge upon the underwear or clothing'. It is not fucking possible to apply law to IRL facts without some kind of interpretation of the law happening.
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This is all entirely within the remit of a "judge" yes because it's going off of prior established facts and all that, what causes tension and dismay is when novel nonsense that breaks the clear and obvious spirit of the law (gazans LARPing as Ukrainians for example) is waved through just because muh sillywigs says so, there is no remedy for this.
This is the sort of behaviour that in fantasy universes lead to slogans like "kill all the lawyers" and "guilty until proven innocent" because the purpose of a system is what it does; in our case stupid shit and I don't like it.
isalaide said:
I see this thing about 'the courts shouldn't interpret the law' flung around but it's mostly by retards who would also argue that water shouldn't be wet.
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Yeah you're not wrong (very right in fact) just it's not so much that water shouldn't be wet it's that we should be drinking lemonade instead, like I said it's a whole other topic.
 
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Mr Bunny said:
Good evening, Bongs!
Your government picked the worse time to go full retard with an American company. With the news of Apple giving up security features due to the threat of fines and penalties just fresh off the presses, consider this an ultimatum to your retarded government.
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Lol at mentioning Canada in a text with the paragraph
"(a) taxes imposed on United States companies by foreign governments, including those that may discriminate against United States companies;"

Still. I'm more interested in how this is going to affect Brazil. Their heavy protectionism fostered national computing industries and buckbroke Microsoft into developing tons of local infrastructure.
 
Starmer is in a mega bind now;
  1. The memo from the treasury is issued directly at him and the wording seems to be if neither of the foreign powers comply they are all affected including Canada. This is very much a big and rare threat from Trump. He tends to be more grey but this one is very stern.
  2. America is throwing us a bone and saying if you disagree with our freedom of speech laws and put them on your populace then it's a no-go.
  3. He has an audience with Vance now because Trump refuses to talk with him and his tweets about acting like a dictator whilst acting like a dictator.
  4. This meeting is a crossing of a Rubicon and Starmer will side with Europe because he is a blind retarded idealogue, we are going to get tarriffed through the ass but this will probably be the kill shot for discention.
The saving grace is the Americans seem to be very sympathetic to the native white British. Vance will brutalize him.
 
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EddyRooney said:
BBC attempts to cram as many of its favourite topics into one story as it can

A teenager obsessed by murder wanted to carry out a mass shooting at his own school in Edinburgh.
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Jesus Christ, true crime content and its consequences have been a disaster for the female sex. All these sad foids worshipping school shooters, because someone made fun of their pronoun pins once and they think they've found a kindred fucking spirit in some dead incel faggot.

If you want to kill kids, luv, just have an abortion - I'm sure there are plenty of chasers on Grindr who'd be happy to call it a 'bussy' for ten minutes while they get their end away. You're about as empty as Eric Harris' fucking head after he shot himself like the bitch that he was because he knew he hadn't got the bollocks to stand off against a SWAT team.

Thank goodness the Great British counterterrorism units are there to protect us from this ridiculous LARPing fucking pooner and her Airsoft gun in the literal poshest bit of Scotland, taking selfies for her heckin' social medias just like a real manly man would do, and absolutely nothing about all the Axel Rudakabanas of the world, Cardiff's favourite son, who dindu nuffin wrong, even though they had al-Qaeda terrorism manuals and were making ricin in their bedroom.
 
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BongoMongo said:
Apparently that pork faced cunt in number ten is planning on conscription for the armed forces. Well that's good, we've a slew of young, fighting age, single men in the country now. We can use them. Just make sure we have solely nog batallions becase round blacks, never relax.
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It won’t happen. The Religion of Peace will refuse on some bullshit religious grounds, they will be excused, it it won’t take Russian bots on Facebook to kick off riots, they’ll come pretty naturally.
 
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FedPostalService said:
It won’t happen. The Religion of Peace will refuse on some bullshit religious grounds, they will be excused, it it won’t take Russian bots on Facebook to kick off riots, they’ll come pretty naturally.
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Follow their examples, conscientious objector, claim to be part of an excluded religion, claim you're jabbed (they're barred currently), malicious compliance, the lot.
 
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Bog-standard Poster said:
Good. We need a war and an economic collapse to get our society back on track.
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You need an economic collapse for sure, the whole world does.

You don't need a war. A war now will sentence you to irrelevancy for living memory with how bad you'll lose it. It won't even be an amusing loss like what you've done to the French so many times, it'll just be sad, like a paraplegic dog shitting its last.
 
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BongoMongo said:
Apparently that pork faced cunt in number ten is planning on conscription for the armed forces. Well that's good, we've a slew of young, fighting age, single men in the country now. We can use them. Just make sure we have solely nog batallions becase round blacks, never relax.
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You don't need a war. A war now will sentence you to irrelevancy for living memory with how bad you'll lose it.
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Which war did the Brits last lose? Our society is set up to be the best at war; angry , violent, chavs fill the infantry ranks and the Eton-class, raised on Chess and literary classics command the strategies on the battlefield.
The rest build weapons and tanks.

isalaide said:
We could do for a large variety of social and also economic reasons to shoot a few million of the poor. May as well get the Russians to do it for us. Conscript the girls too obviously.
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Do you share your account or are you schizophrenic? One moment your lauding it over people as an accomplished millionaire, the next you're a poor, working class gal from the rough parts of glasgae.
 
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Poors used to just fucking die and that was the natural state of things, REnAyChess keeping them above optimal levels has been a disaster, we should really consider it again if only for "fact finding" even if it is morally wrong and all that.
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Which war did the Brits last lose?
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We got trounced at Suez but that was a polifail issue more than a milifail one, I'd say the last proper balls to the walls bust up we got rekt in of actual consequence that we didn't come ontop at the end of was probably... sometime around Cromwell/Charles II? A lot of the Dutch/Spanish wars of the time were technically defeats because we gained fuck all from them, the last true loss was Calais.
 
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