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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.

 

[Hal]

The pigs from animal farm are probably fine to eat. All though communism kinda makes them spoiled.

 

[CWCissey]

The pigs from animal farm are probably fine to eat. All though communism kinda makes them spoiled.

Pre-basted with whiskey though.

 

[Sable]

I like marmalade, so there's no problem here.

 

[not william stenchever]

George Orwell once pointed out that most of his peers had such a hate boner for Britian that they were sort of cheering on the nazis so it's unsurprising they wouldn't publish a piece called "In Defense of British Cooking" because they thought the French wouldn't like it.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

To quote Oscar Wilde some 40-50 years before Orwell, "there are 365 ways to use a potato, the british only know three of those ways". Something like that.

 

[Kunta Kinte]

Now, Brit, apologize for not publishing his tea recipe.

http://www.booksatoz.com/witsend/tea/orwell.htm

That one makes your stomach hurt just by reading it, I swear.

 

[MightyBiteySnake]

Now apologize for using 1984 as an instruction manual.

I think they're trying to thank him for providing the manual

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Now, Brit, apologize for not publishing his tea recipe.

http://www.booksatoz.com/witsend/tea/orwell.htm

That one makes your stomach hurt just by reading it, I swear.

I'm aware of that one and it's a perfectly fine recipe, just overly complicated.

 

[AnOminous]

Now, Brit, apologize for not publishing his tea recipe.

http://www.booksatoz.com/witsend/tea/orwell.htm

That one makes your stomach hurt just by reading it, I swear.

He is particularly right that the water should be actually boiling when it first contacts the tea, a point sadly missed lately by many.

 

[Kunta Kinte]

I'm aware of that one and it's a perfectly fine recipe, just overly complicated.

- "[T]he tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right."
- "Actually one can swallow tea-leaves in considerable quantities without ill effect, and if the tea is not loose in the pot it never infuses properly."
- "Lastly, tea [..] should be drunk without sugar."
- "Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter."

It's a recipe to turn your innards into handbag leather. Must have been some kind of his Commie self-hating.

God shave the Queen!

edit:
This is not against havin' a proper brew. But a good cup shouldn't smack you in the face.

 

[CWCissey]

UPDATE: Philip has given up his licence.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47186875

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

UPDATE: Philip has given up his licence.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47186875

That's an obvious sign that he's about to choose a new host body

 

[CWCissey]

That's an obvious sign that he's about to choose a new host body

Nah it means he's cooked up a really good racist remark against the last nation he hasn't offended and will die as soon as he's unleashed it on the right foreign dignitary.

 

[Stoneheart]

Nah it means he's cooked up a really good racist remark against the last nation he hasn't offended and will die as soon as he's unleashed it on the right foreign dignitary.

He is a german Prince, he doesnt have to be nice to anybody.
He should end his life in a strugle to regain greece for himself.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

He is a german Prince, he doesnt have to be nice to anybody.
He should end his life in a strugle to regain greece for himself.

Fuck that noise. Start a crusade to retake Constantinople.
Countless ranks of Range Rovers will plow into the hordes of unwashed saracens, wailing about their legs.

 

[Stoneheart]

Fuck that noise. Start a crusade to retake Constantinople.
Countless ranks of Range Rovers will plow into the hordes of unwashed saracens, wailing about their legs.

Can the english start a crusade? "Pope" cocksucker would never be on board with a crusade(and the real pope hides way in his palace waiting for his death).

 

[CWCissey]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-47198786

A body modification artist has admitted three counts of grievous bodily harm, by carrying out tongue splitting and ear and nipple removal procedures.

Brendan McCarthy, also known as Dr Evil, carried out consensual procedures without using anaesthetic.

The 50-year-old argued that consent was given in his defence, but the judge ruled the procedures could not be compared to tattoos and piercings.

He will be sentenced on 21 March at Wolverhampton Crown Court.

McCarthy, of Bushbury, Wolverhampton, ran a modification emporium in Princess Alley before he was charged with six counts of wounding in 2017.

He was arrested in December 2015 following a complaint to City of Wolverhampton Council's environmental health team.

A petition in support of McCarthy amassed more than 13,400 signatures and his lawyer challenged the conviction on the basis that his customers consented.

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Image captionMcCarthy no longer runs Dr Evil's Body Modification Emporium in Princess Alley
His supporters argued "for the right to express ourselves in whatever modified manner we wish in a safe environment".

The council said its issue was with McCarthy's lack of licence to carry out the modification procedures and the need for more regulation in the industry which delivers results "akin to cosmetic surgery".

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Dr Samantha Pegg, a law lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and expert on the legality of body modification procedures, said: "Practitioners have assumed that extreme body modifications, as forms of body adornment, were lawful when consent was given.

"Although the law has long accepted that tattooing and piercing are lawful activities there has not - until this case - been any consideration of other forms of body modification such as tongue splitting."

Image captionBrendan McCarthy said the situation was "crushing"
Passing verdict, Judge Amjad Nawaz ruled that written consent from his customers was not sufficient defence.

The tattooist has spent two years arguing his case, contending at the Court of Appeal that the procedures should be regarded as lawful to protect the "personal autonomy" of his customers.

Mr Nawaz drew the distinction between body modification and tattoos and piercings, saying there is "no proper analogy".

"What the defendant undertook for reward in this case was a series of medical procedures for no medical reason," he said.

Speaking before his conviction, McCarthy told the BBC the situation was "crushing".

"It's crushed me completely, I'm a shadow of my former self," he said.

Nick Pinch went to McCarthy to have his nipple removed after previous piercings caused a build-up of scar tissue.

Image captionNick Pinch went to McCarthy to have his nipple removed
The procedures carried out on Mr Pinch formed part of the prosecution's case.

Mr Pinch said: "[McCarthy] wanted to know why I wanted this procedure, he wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing, he took complete duty of care. I'm really happy with what I've had done."

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• Illegal tongue splitting procedures exposed
• Meet the people 'hacking' their bodies
• Bodyhackers: Bold, inspiring and terrifying

Body Art, whose full name is King of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite but who was born Matthew Whelan, has devoted his life to body modification.

He said: "Under current laws, we are classed as effectively consenting abuse victims.

Image captionBody Art said the industry needs to be regulated
"These are private procedures and agreements between me as the client and the business person.

"But I do think there needs to be regulation. There are people in the industry that aren't protected."

McCarthy was refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court and has been bailed ahead of sentencing.

It's weird, it's fucked up (no anaesthetic? No thanks!) but it is consensual.

Now let loose with your disappointment this isn't Mike Myers and your Austin Powers references!

 

[Splendid]

I doubt he didn't know it was illegal, cutters operate by word of mouth for a reason.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

This is giving me Dylan Hafertepen flashbacks. How is body modification equal to tattoos?

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

Well this is an unexpected direction for the Clerks sequel..