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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.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Ideally, the President tells the UK to suck a dick with regards to Trident, and we have to actually put money into roxel or Qinetic and finally make our own ICBM system. It'd boost the economy, give our STEM graduates something to actually fucking do, and modernise our missile platform.

 

[GratsTheat783]

I agree that we really shouldn't let an Islamic nation have control over much of the world's trade, but I think going in the way Trump did with the Iran war was just a bad idea. Older members of my family I've spoke to seem to think we should've gotten involved however. For our sake and that of the Americans', I hope he's able to turn it all around in time for the mid-terms and that the King is able to repair relations. Seeing as Israel literally sabotaged the negotiations between the US and Iran by sending in a bomb, it'd be funny if Trump went full Jew-hate mode after this.

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.

You're usually a decent poster from what I've seen, why couldn't you reserve your sperging out for a different A&N thread?

 

[Clem Fandango]

fucking having a go at Prince Harry

I agree with pretty much everything else in your post. But I can't hate on Trump for clowning on Harry and "most trolled person in the world" (her words) Meghan.

 

[Coolio55]

Ideally, the President tells the UK to suck a dick with regards to Trident, and we have to actually put money into roxel or Qinetic and finally make our own ICBM system. It'd boost the economy, give our STEM graduates something to actually fucking do, and modernise our missile platform.

You see that would be an easy win with quantifiable benefits for British people so it needs to be actively refused at all costs.
Guaranteed that Tony Blair number whatever starts phoning up India afterwards.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

It'd boost the economy, give our STEM graduates something to actually fucking do, and modernise our missile platform.

I was going to say we could use all the muslims and just tape them to a missile as an ICSB (intercontinental suicide bomber) but then I realised that maybe just putting them on there without a suicide vest and just airdropping muslims would be worse than bombs.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

You see that would be an easy win with quantifiable benefits for British people so it needs to be actively refused at all costs.
Guaranteed that Tony Blair number whatever starts phoning up India afterwards.

In fairness they could also do what they did to Vickers and whip both companies to death in the process of making the ICBMs.

 

[Snekposter]

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.

If femboy fart huffer wasn't referencing the French supplying us with arms so we could kill Englishmen on their behalf I'll be happy to apologize for the misunderstanding.

You're usually a decent poster from what I've seen, why couldn't you reserve your sperging out for a different A&N thread?

Because as much as I like to bitch about the UK its because I have a deep and endless respect for our shared history and cultural heritage and desperately wish they were more equal partners in our relationship instead of letting their entire nation fall into the abyss of managed decline and native replacement. I'm an autistic history nerd. I've read endless stories and accounts of when the UK did awesome shit like hold half the world's balls in a vice grip and apply testicular torsion whenever and however they desired for over a century. There is nothing I want so much as the British Empire and all its might to return so our two countries can split the world between us, because God knows the rest of the place struggles to rule themselves, bereft as they are of the wisdom of Adam Smith and John Locke.

Seriously, we can start the world tour with France and then move on to Germany. Just think how much better off the whole place would be without those two around.

 

[Mound Dweller]

I've read endless stories and accounts of when the UK did awesome shit

That's nice, we prefer not to think about you at all though.

 

[Brumbletroons]

no bro they were literally SECONDS off of getting nukes we simply HAD to bomb them out of nowhere

I don't believe Iran's lies about their capacity for uranium enrichment but also think it would it would be deleterious if there's even the slightest chance they could succeed on that front. The country has been run for 47 years by crackpot dictators fully invested in a suicidal cult who would happily glass every country within range of their missiles if given the opportunity. Look at what happened when they got airstruck at the start of this war, they shot missiles at a bunch of neighboring countries to try and hit US military bases (and failed spectacularly if I remember right).

As pointed out by other posters in the thread Iran has been doing this saber-rattling bullshit with western countries for ages. Them getting obliterated by the US and having their supreme leaders picked off one after another after being told "hey if you fucking kill these protesters and if you don't knock off your nuclear development we will fuck you up" and blowing raspberries in response just goes to show in my mind how retarded they are.

If we can't corral Iran into not acting like barbarous retards, and their only recourse to getting some comeuppance is to close off the strait, maybe we remove their ability to control global shipping traffic by seizing control of the area (pipedream, I know).

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Carl Ennis, 'Scully', was murdered inside a Liverpool chippy by Jahfari Moore. Scully was well known in Stockbridge, also known as Canny Farm. It's unknown if the murder was drug/gang related. Various Liverpool 'Street Guardians' and other Scouse characters have been sharing around a post that vows revenge for Scully.

PL but i used to work along the same bus route and every single journey was like an episode of jeremy kyle. i got offered cans of beer multiple times at 8 in the morning

 

[femboy fart huffer]

If femboy fart huffer wasn't referencing the French supplying us with arms so we could kill Englishmen on their behalf I'll be happy to apologize for the misunderstanding.

No I was referring to literally the entire past century where america has funded and given arms to countless paramilitary groups or countries. You know like how iran did to iraq. America is currently providing military aid to Ukraine and Taiwan. By your own logic that gives both China and Russia the green light to bomb you. The amount of Russians killed by american weapons vastly exceeds the number of americans killed by iranian ones so that's fair game to start nuking america is it? Not to mention the countless other times america has done the exact same shit in recent history. You know like Cambodia and Afghanistan and Cuba and Columbia and so on. You agree that they should bomb you right? America has directly funded military opposition to their governments and provided weapons to enact that. So they should declare war on you for that. That's your logic.

Or are you just another retarded american that doesn't understand there are two sides to every story? Because it makes you look like a hypocritical retard when you say america should be allowed to do one thing but for some bullshit reason expect other countries to not do the same back.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Carl Ennis, 'Scully', was murdered inside a Liverpool chippy by Jahfari Moore. Scully was well known in Stockbridge, also known as Canny Farm. It's unknown if the murder was drug/gang related. Various Liverpool 'Street Guardians' and other Scouse characters have been sharing around a post that vows revenge for Scully.
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PL but i used to work along the same bus route and every single journey was like an episode of jeremy kyle. i got offered cans of beer multiple times at 8 in the morning

Well, it sounds like someone’s made someone a bit cross, doesn’t it?

I usually find the whole grudges thing really childish and self-defeating, but in this case it sounds justified. Too many little twats on the streets thinking they can kill whoever they want because everyone’s a gangsta in their own head. Fuckers need a good slap and a few months’ hard physical graft.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

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.

I do suspect there's likely a lot of stuff we are not seeing. I'd be unsurprised if various European countries including us have been back and forth with the US about Iran and as such trust is lacking at the moment.

Given how precarious Keir's position is I could easily see him changing his mind daily and not even bothering to inform anyone about it till he did a press release.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

but in this case it sounds justified

I miss when the ra did people's knees in for that sort of shit. Now the only ones left are the people that would do this sort of shit in the first place. I mean even if someone in jail does kill the guy what difference does it make to me? I'm already paying taxes for a life sentence worth of jail, might as well pay that to someone who's actually from this country.

 

[Snekposter]

No I was referring to literally the entire past century where america has funded and given arms to countless paramilitary groups or countries. You know like how iran did to iraq. America is currently providing military aid to Ukraine and Taiwan. By your own logic that gives both China and Russia the green light to bomb you. The amount of Russians killed by american weapons vastly exceeds the number of americans killed by iranian ones so that's fair game to start nuking america is it? Not to mention the countless other times america has done the exact same shit in recent history. You know like Cambodia and Afghanistan and Cuba and Columbia and so on. You agree that they should bomb you right? America has directly funded military opposition to their governments and provided weapons to enact that. So they should declare war on you for that. That's your logic.

Or are you just another retarded american that doesn't understand there are two sides to every story? Because it makes you look like a hypocritical retard when you say america should be allowed to do one thing but for some bullshit reason expect other countries to not do the same back.

And how many Americans were killed by Russian weapons in Vietnam or English weapons on our own soil during the Civil War? Enfields were pretty fucking popular guns on both sides, if I recall, not to mention all of the blockade runners you guys built and then supplied cannon to. There was also a bit of a small kerfuffle over you guys providing transport to a couple of Confederate envoys.

There's a reason these things are called great power games, and its in part because only a great power can engage in them without risking the other side doing something about it.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Americans

The country has been run for 47 years by crackpot dictators fully invested in a suicidal cult who would happily glass every country within range of their missiles if given the opportunity.

As pointed out by other posters in the thread Iran has been doing this saber-rattling bullshit with western countries for ages

Also Americans:

Prior to the Iranian Revolution, the U.S. was the largest seller of arms to Iran under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the vast majority of the weapons that the Islamic Republic of Iran inherited in January 1979 were U.S.-made.

Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that centered on arms trafficking to Iran between 1981 and 1986, facilitated by senior officials of the Reagan administration.

Secret Israeli arms sales and shipments to Iran began in that year, even as, in public, the Reagan administration presented a different face, and "aggressively promoted a public campaign [...] to stop worldwide transfers of military goods to Iran".

America want Britain to get involved in toppling a government that Israel and America created and armed, while telling the international community not to arm them because they were dangerous?
lol, lmao even.
Go whistle Dixie, you yankee cunts.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

And how many Americans were killed by Russian weapons in Vietnam or English weapons on our own soil during the Civil War?

So you agree declaring war on a country because of past non military involvement is pretty fucking retarded then?

If so many americans were killed by russian weapons why are you not actively bombing russia this second? It's justification enough to bomb iran so either nuke Moscow this instant or fuck off.

 

[Snekposter]

Me: Great powers indirectly fuck with other great powers because its the safest way to fuck around with other great powers, and lesser nations play those games at their peril.

You:

So you agree declaring war on a country because of past non military involvement is pretty fucking retarded then?

If so many americans were killed by russian weapons why are you not actively bombing russia this second? It's justification enough to bomb iran so either nuke Moscow this instant or fuck off.

Is there some part of this you are willfully and knowingly struggling to understand out of spite or something?

 

[femboy fart huffer]

lesser nations play those games at their peril.

Like Russia and China? Those two very small nations that have no military or nuclear capabilities. Give me one reason to bomb iran that doesn't also justify either Russia or China bombing america.

I know exactly what you're saying. I just think you're a hypocritical retard for saying that it's perfectly fine for america to bomb people for vaguely supporting an old ex enemy of theirs but when they dare to retaliate then it's a problem. Especially saying that a completely uninvolved third party should be dragged into that war.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

In fairness, America is hardly the first nation to attack another nation, then cry about it when they get hit back. Like, being fully realistic, I'd rather every Iranian get incinerated by napalm than an American (white) die. I just don't think we should be involved because why the fuck would we be? Just from a practical lens, we are a decaying shitbox nation that needs to invest in itself. Not go vaporise browns with some guided missiles like a real life COD killstreak.