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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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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.

 

[F40PH]

the Uk is becoming similar to China

China is ran by competent people and they actually have dececent infrastructure (corncrete aside, of course). We're nothing like the chinks, we're all of the worst parts of an authoritarian regime with none of the upsides like high speed rail and ethno-nationalism. We're just gay, cringe, and can't even build a fucking railway without it taking 50 years and billions of pounds before getting cancelled in the planning phase.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

the Uk is becoming similar to China.

china gets rid of its muslims

 

[gernig]

1:15

 

[femboy fart huffer]

China is ran by competent people and they actually have dececent infrastructure

Other than the massive corruption in the food industry that makes all of their food basically inedible to anyone with standards. Retarded laws about housing that caused thousands of people to be literally scammed out of a house while countless other houses were built for no buyer and now sit unused and rotting. The countless shitty roads and such that are falling apart too.

So you know. Just like England.

 

[Dr J]

China is ran by competent people

 

[anklyscr]

Well this is all very dark and depressing. Let's have something more light hearted.

https://x.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/2066874660965261460

0:08

 

[SchizoDaemon]

DIYing your own VPN by renting out a VPS might be the way to go, so again, do some research and you should be okay. It's less of a debate about "can we evade a ban" and more of a debate about "how much time/energy are we willing to spend evading it?"

I am working on this at the moment to make it as easy as possible to setup.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

I said it in the other thread but I think Lowe's report is without exaggeration the worst thing I have ever read. Jesus fucking Christ. Spent the past month or so seriously considering fatherhood. It's a hard enough question to answer on it's own let alone what it might mean in 9 months to 18+ years from now. I only hope for a fast incoming crusade, not even the wrath of God Himself is enough for what every last one of these people and their enablers deserve. Never thought it was possible to hate the 70% inbred pakis and their serial child rape but fucking learn something new every day unfortunately. The second the call comes from the military for machine gunners to sit on the southern coast I'm off like a Russian on a yacht around africa even if it is with an L86.

Fucking hell and stay safe.

 

[Long and sneaky]

I said it in the other thread but I think Lowe's report is without exaggeration the worst thing I have ever read. Jesus fucking Christ. Spent the past month or so seriously considering fatherhood. It's a hard enough question to answer on it's own let alone what it might mean in 9 months to 18+ years from now. I only hope for a fast incoming crusade, not even the wrath of God Himself is enough for what every last one of these people and their enablers deserve. Never thought it was possible to hate the 70% inbred pakis and their serial child rape but fucking learn something new every day unfortunately. The second the call comes from the military for machine gunners to sit on the southern coast I'm off like a Russian on a yacht around africa even if it is with an L86.

Fucking hell and stay safe.

There really isn't any vocabulary that can express the depths of the rage.
I can't even comprehend how angry I am.

 

[Maori Kiwifruit Growers]

So brits is the two tier policing a national thing or something that is found in the cities/lefty areas?

 

[Chunky Salsa]

So brits is the two tier policing a national thing or something that is found in the cities/lefty areas?

National. Police training is centralised, so you have to go and get ass raped by gay sauron to even become a police officer man.

 

[Mister Fister]

Have some freedom, what Americans can own.

 

[Maori Kiwifruit Growers]

National. Police training is centralised, so you have to go and get ass raped by gay sauron to even become a police officer man.

That's really fucking scary. Sorry you have that.

 

[Mound Dweller]

So brits is the two tier policing a national thing or something that is found in the cities/lefty areas?

Our police forces services don't work anything at all like the US version do, it's all top-down and there's 0 accountability from below, a while back the gov even admitted this and introduced commissioners as a "democratic" move, which sounds nice theoretically, but it's just another apparatchik appointee in practice and has become so much of a joke (they often run de facto unopposed) that the office is in the process of being abolished.
The forces services used to be based on counties and had a strong local bent to them which was good for cohesion and great for relations (local polcie for local people, by consent etc, very Peelian) but bad at being modern (aka at doing what they were told without question), everybody misses them. They "fixed" it by amalgamating them into arbitrarily defined areas, which has the dual consequence of ensuring centralised control (Chief Constable does what's he's told by the Home Secretary/what the HS tells the Commissioner to tell him) whilst also propagating interservice rivalry; certain forces services really hate each other (West Yorks vs GMP for instance, GMP vs Lancs, Lancs vs Met, Met vs West Yorks etc) which the Home office loves because whenever anything goes wrong they can just blame it on that.

So to answer you question: it is the same everywhere because it is the very same bureaucrats making all the very same decisions, there is no true division between area because they all get the same directives, you might get lucky on an individual level with the occasional good egg who helps instead of doing their job (which is to screw you over), the whole system is rotted.

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

I'm gonna be honest lads, I realised that 99% of any sort of respect I had for the UK police stemmed entirely from Hot Fuzz.

 

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National. Police training is centralised, so you have to go and get ass raped by gay sauron to even become a police officer man.

The big revelation to me is when one of the commentators, think Connor or one of the Lotus Eaters, pointed out that the cops let the grooming gangs go not because they were afraid of being called racist by the public, or the media, but rather by the HR lady Police Chief boss that has their career in a noose and can end it at any moment.

Basically, the police in the Yookay is a Longhouse controlled by Fabian society true believers. They targeted it much like how they targeted Academia in the US. This is why there's no "defund the police" or "ACAB" movements in the Yookay, why would they target their own catspaw for destruction?

You can do a lot of things and still be a cop in the Yookay, but you can't go against gay race communism, so being a gay race communist is what it means to be a cop in the Yookay.

 

[James X Maxwell]

 

[Moosebonker]

A shame, I bet a few people during that heat wave wish they saw this one https://youtube.com/watch?v=xZWD2sDRESk

Absolutely yes. Ongoing spat with my sister in law at the moment? She's pissed because her kids school isn't teaching them stuff like how to cross the road safely and one of them got bumped by a car recently after shooting out into oncoming traffic. She wasn't seriously injured, but sister in law is bigmad because she thinks schools should be teaching this.

It was Tufty the Safety Squirrel and the Green Cross Code when I was a bairn.
It was drilled into us every assembly in primary.

Taught us a song ' ... first look right, look left, then look right again...'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JgaId8o9Jo

Edit: Found it.

 

[JosephStalin]

Got this today.



UKtards, I pray every day that this evil man is removed from office. But it is you who must vote him out. If he is retained in office see terrible times coming for what used to be a great country.

 

[Anomalous Coward]

Why couldn't he just have been home for the firebombing