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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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Snekposter said:
If a buddy of yours is in a fight, shouldn't you help him out if he asks, no matter how handily he's winning?
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Well trump was nice to us one time so we should send all our children off to die for israel I guess?

Why should we fight in a non defensive war for an ally of an ally? If a mate got in a fight yea I'm helping. If that mate got in a knife fight because he's a schizophrenic and was hallucinating shit then I'm not pulling out my knife to join in.
 
Snekposter said:
If a buddy of yours is in a fight, shouldn't you help him out if he asks, no matter how handily he's winning?
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If my buddy started a fight with a mutual enemy but had also mouthed off to another buddy I'd probably tell my buddy he is on his own. In this case it would be my buddy 40 years ago telling me to stop fighting back and let someone continuously punch me in the face.
 
Eekum Bokum said:
If your doing so well against Iran then you don't need our help, so why are you whining at us?
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I said it in the other thread but it got buried in the sperging. But right now the USA is like a man at the zoo throwing stones at a bear. The bear can look up, it can growl but it can't do anything back at him. But at the same time, stones aren't going to kill a bear. Not any time soon. Unless the man is willing to climb down into the enclosure with the bear, neither can really change anything. Sure, the bear is in more pain, but that's all.

It was idiotic of Trump to do as he has done. Iran cannot hurt the USA militarily. Iran can't defend itself against missiles or fast bombers. It has one and only one button it can press which is to inflict economic pain. So of course they're going to press it. It's the only response they have other then abject surrender. And Trump lowing on about wiping their culture off the face of the planet and ending their nation makes it pretty clear to them what happens if they do that.

Anyone but a fool could see this would happen if the magic uprising didn't happen. And it didn't. At that point, Trump should have said whatever face saving bullshit he could manage and pull back. But he can't lose even that much face so he keeps on, trying to find something he can pretend was the USA's objective that is achievable so that he can claim he "won" and exit this mess. But there isn't anything achievable. The only and only thing positive goal that is, is the re-opening of the strait and to do that he has to... back off. That he can't achieve what's best for his own country because it would look bad for him politically now, shows what a mixed up mess he has gotten himself into.

Why am I sperging about the US and Iran in the British thread? Not much reason other than in his impotent rage he has managed to offend me on behalf of my country. I was broadly supportive of him domestically - sure, deal with your illegal immigration problem, bring in proper electoral reform and roll back DEI in government. Great. But this morning, what do I see? Him insulting us, trying to threaten to hand over the Falklands to Argentina (wasn't even a country when we settled it) and fucking having a go at Prince Harry and saying he, Trump, speaks for England.

Anyone with an ounce of pride in our nation, and yes, many of us still possess that, think maybe they should drop Trump himself on Iran if he's that for it. Prices are rising here and things haven't really hit yet. Later in the year I'm told is when the effects really start to come home. And I wont take people saying "oh, you love Muslims" as a counter-fucking-point. People should take a look at who is on our side in this war.

Sorry, rant over. But Trump talking about our "Imperial colonies" or whatever is a bit rich coming from the country that tries to make every other country in the world (bar one) its vassal state. Talking about the Falklands like that has oddly turned me against Trump more so than I think anything else he's ever said. And I don't see myself forgiving him for that. Just the comments alone reignite Argentinian ideas about taking them.
 
The USA ostracising one of the few nations to meet NATO spending targets and with an quasi-obligation from its politicians to be friendly to the USA—and who also actually allowed for military strikes from its airbases against targets in the strait of Hormuz—and who is apart of AUKUS makes legitimately no sense.

Maybe I'm too optimistic but I'd give some benefit of the doubt here. Every "leak" from out the US government in the past 10 years has been to the tacit detriment of Republicans if/when possible, so I'd basically err on the side of this being intentional shit stirring from someone at the Pentagon.
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femboy fart huffer said:
a non defensive war for an ally of an ally
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Did you miss the part of Trump's press conference announcing the start of the bombing campaign where he listed how the Iranians have been fucking with us for over 40 years and now the chickens have come home to roost for them? I guess a few hundred US soldiers in Iraq who were blown to bits by Iran-supplied and Iran-trained militias is no big deal to you guys or something.

Or one of their top generals organizing and overseeing an attempted assault on our embassy. You know, Salamislice or Soleimani or something like that.
Liechtenstein said:
wish we could temporarily drop the whole "special relationship" thing. i appreciate the US but no side is obliged to help each other.
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With the UK the economic and socio-political state its in right now there's certainly something "special" about it.
 
Snekposter said:
the chickens have come home to roost for them
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no bro they were literally SECONDS off of getting nukes we simply HAD to bomb them out of nowhere
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blown to bits by Iran-supplied and Iran-trained militias
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Yea cool. Call me again when you bomb china and russia as well. A fucking american bitching about a foreign country supplying their enemy and using that as a justification for a war is maybe the most ironic shit going. Nigger do you know anything about the history of your country? The entire world should declare war on you by that logic.
 
SirCliveSinclairdabbing said:
Or even worse a child of mine in his rebellious phase?
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Awww, its sweet that you think of us like that. Right now we view you almost like a retarded little brother we're doing our best to keep safe despite his best attempts to accidentally kill himself fucking around with things he shouldn't no matter how many times he's warned otherwise.
femboy fart huffer said:
Yea cool. Call me again when you bomb china and russia as well. A fucking american bitching about a foreign country supplying their enemy and using that as a justification for a war is maybe the most ironic shit going. Nigger do you know anything about the history of your country? The entire world should declare war on you by that logic.
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Yeah, and even the fucking Dutch decided to get involved in the whole "beat up the English" thing that was going on, even if they were more than a little retarded about it. Thirteen rebellious colonies kickstarted a conflict that you guys needed to sign four separate peace treaties to get out of. The UK has no place to complain about antagonistic foreign policy.
 
There we go, was wondering when the American Revolution would be mentioned, that's all these arguments come down to eventually "yea well we beat you 250 years ago!" nevermind that it took help from two great powers, being on the other side of the world and our best troops being in India at the time. The peak of the USA's military honour is beating our reserves 250 years ago.
 
Coolio55 said:
I fought the retarded kid because my molester doesn't like him and he broke my glasses - an epic winning story.
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In this metaphor...the jews are the molester?
EDIT: Whole argument is gay. America is our ally and we should help them when reasonable, Trump is a retard that tried to mobilise the UKs RAF (Remaining Air Force ahahahaha) with a single phone call to the most unpopular, spineless retard imaginable. In a surprise turn of events, the pig faced gay sex robot needed to consult his military because he's a fucking incompetent and hasn't been keeping up with world affairs, so Trump - man child that he is - threw a tantrum about it. This then precluded pretty much anyone from helping him, because you can't kowtow to a twitter spergout as a national leader; even if you are an incompetent pig faced retard of a national leader. The whole Iran war has been a complete waste of time.

America has not had its international relationship particularly worsened though IMO. Every other nation already knows the two cornerstones of dealing with America are 1) Wait for the next guy to win and 2) Trust what the president says until the moment his mouth closes, then assume it was a lie. You can't make deals, or agreements with America, never have been able to. All this amounts to is America burning cash, a supply chain fuck around coming down the pipe, and everything getting worse. Yay.

As to the special relationship, it's there for your government (America and the UK) to spy on their citizens. America cannot legally go surveillance state, and - despite memes - neither can the UK without cause. What they can do though, is spy on each others citizens then give the data to the respective states. Oh and Trident, but that's also a symptom of pig faced laziness and de-industrialisation.
 
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