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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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This is an incredibly good move on Gregg's part as the market for vegan/vegetarian food in the UK has grown massively in recent years - not to mention that there's actually a lot of good stuff out there now.

It only costs £1 as well, which is an absolute bargain compared to some of the other stuff out there.
 
What a non-issue. If this is going to benefit businesses and doesn't remove any other items from the menu who fucking cares?

The most important question is does it taste good? While I'm not vegan, I'm also not opposed to eating their food. Some of it is okay.
 
CWCissey said:
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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There is the chance that this may be a PR stunt, but Morgan's reeing does seem to be for real though. He made a huge deal out of ordering a "meat" sausage roll to his luxury hotel room as if it was an act of resistance, and moaned about McDonald's introducing vegetarian Happy Meals.
 
Meat eaters don't care that Vegan food exists despite what they say.

Oddly enough, vegetarian and vegan food is easy to ignore because its more expensive. Even vegetarian food is more expensive for literally no reason.
 
You always get the people who say shit like "if you love meat so much why did you become a vegan". Well people don't just become vegans cause they don't like meat, it's usually for ethical reasons duh.

Anyways, Piers Morgan is a southern snowflake trying to appropriate northern culture. That man has never ate a Gregg's in his life.
 
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Funnily enough a lot of the people complaining about a vegan sausage roll are those that'll moan about Easter eggs being halal in a few months time.

This roll is also halal (even water is halal) as it doesn't contain pork. As long as something doesn't contain pork (or pork gelatine) it's halal.
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not true, for meat they have to kill the animal in a different and more cruel and painful way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhabihah
 
Douglas Reynholm said:
It's a pastry based economy. Consider how nuts people went over the sausage roll themed Xmas number 1, add vegans to the mix and it's a week long narrative.
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Their obsession with which pop hit gets memed to the top of the charts during Christmas is equally baffling.
 
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The first time Lord Kitchener’s mug was used for British Army recruitment, it was 1914 and the world was fighting the Great War.

Kitchener, serving at the time as British war minister, stared out from the cover of London Opinion magazine with a pointed finger and simple message: “Your Country Needs You.” The magazine cover was turned into a poster, with slightly different wording under the senior military commander’s stern face. Then, countries across the globe mimicked the format, with the United States replacing Kitchener with the fictional Uncle Sam.

Now, the British Army is reviving the historic slogan — with new faces and messaging targeting millennials and Gen Z.

Dear “snowflakes,” the army needs you “and your compassion.” All the “selfie addicts” out there? The military values you “and your confidence,” too. And it’s asking “phone zombies” to bring their “focus” to war zones.

“Big gamers” are wanted for their “drive” and “Me Me Me Millennials” for their “self-belief.”

The posters are accompanied by promotional videos that show young people in mundane jobs or acting out the stereotypes that older generations hold about those in their late teens and 20s. The videos then cut to scenes of those same young people using their focus or compassion to benefit the Army. On social media, the purpose behind this recruitment strategy was put simply: “The Army spots potential. Even if others don’t.”

“The Army sees people differently and we are proud to look beyond the stereotypes and spot the potential in young people, from compassion to self-belief,” Maj. Gen. Paul Nanson said in a statement. “We understand the drive they have to succeed and recognise their need for a bigger sense of purpose in a job where they can do something meaningful.”

In a news release announcing the new recruiting campaign, which launched on Thursday, the British Army said the “Your Army Needs You” message is the third installment of the “This is Belonging” series — an effort to paint to the Army as inclusive and welcoming. The first campaign, in 2017, focused on “the emotional benefit of the strong bonds experienced in the Army,” according to the release. In 2018, the Army emphasized the importance of diversity in the military.

The targeted campaign has led to an increase in Army job applications for regular soldier duties, which are at a five-year high, the release said.

The Army has recently struggled to reach its recruiting target. The Guardian reported that the Army “underestimated the complexity of what it was trying to achieve” when it contracted recruitment work to Capita in 2012, according to a National Audit Office report in December. Since the contract began, the Army has missed all recruiting targets, the Guardian reported.

The length of the process may have contributed to a pattern of people voluntarily dropping out of the application process, the Army and Capita said in the report.

“People are fundamental to the Army,” said U.K. Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson. “The ‘Your Army needs you’ campaign is a powerful call to action that appeals to those seeking to make a difference as part of an innovative and inclusive team. It shows that time spent in the Army equips people with skills for life and provides comradeship, adventure and opportunity like no other job does.”

“Now all jobs in the Army are open to men and women,” Williamson continued. “The best just got better.”

Past iterations of the “This is Belonging” recruitment campaign had drawn criticism. One retired commander said the 2018 installment, which focused on recruiting people from a diversity of genders, sexualities, faiths and ethnicities, was bowing to political correctness.

“The army, like the rest of government, is being forced down a route of political correctness,” retired colonel Richard Kemp, who commanded British troops in Afghanistan, told BBC Breakfast, the Guardian reporter. “What is most important is that the army is full of soldiers. It is of secondary importance that they reflect the composition of society.”

Other leaders denied that the campaign meant the Army had “gone soft.”

“We are getting new types of applicant; that’s why we need to adjust the approach we are using to how we nurture them into the army,” Gen. Nick Carter, who was at the time chief of the general staff, told BBC Radio 4′s Today program. “This campaign is a recognition that we don’t have a fully manned army at the moment, that the demography of our country has changed, and that we need to reach out to a broader community in order to man that army with the right talent."

The most recent campaign has received criticism, too, both for insulting millennials and for insulting the integrity of the armed forces.

A reporter for The News in Portsmouth spoke with Army veterans who weren’t fond of the warm, fuzzy recruiting technique. One said it was “unbelievable and embarrassing.” Another said it was “political correctness gone bonkers.”

Stephen James, a former primate in the Army, asked simply: “What fresh hell is this?”
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There's a video compliment too, showing a lady who can't even be a cart pusher at Tesco becoming a part of the army:
And a gamer rising up:
 
Meanwhile the german army wants to recruit non-germans. I guess I just start learning russian now.
 
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