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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.

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.

 

[Oxyjen]

It's the impacts of Thatcherism, Blairism and overall Neoliberal Globalism that skyrocketed our immigration to insane levels to undermine our rights as workers.

Yeah I used to be tolerant too. And frankly, why shouldn’t you be tolerant of a few foreigners or the odd colored people who you wouldn’t be able to tell apart from a native to hear them speak. But those days are long gone, the floodgates are open, every small business they take over is employing more of their own people to facilitate them to come and displace yet more of your friends and countrymen and bring 3rd world ways with them. So fuck ‘em.

 

[BongoMongo]

Wind rush was intended to ship in cheap labour and to flood the market with workers.

It was never innocent and was intended to destabilize wages and society.

@Assigned Eva, whether you agree or not is a moot point. The reality is we are where we are (unstable job market, rock bottom wages,exploding benefits bill, stabbings, 250,000 girls at least raped traffic raped and groomed,Bradford NHS employing special maternity nurses because Muslims keep doing incest, honour killings, female genital mutilation, sectarian bullshit, police who handcuff a stabbed dying man rather than get medical attention because he was alleged to have done a naughty racism, kids being told racism by blacks is impossible, to name a few) because soft headed bleeding heart spastics think being kind and nice and tolerant to poojeeta and nbugu, because they promise, really hard to adopt our values is the most important thing ever.

The country is a wreck. Mass immigration has not worked. It has always been done with nefarious intentions. And if they don't all fuck off it will get worse and worse and the UK will become a Muslim state. If you're white, in your lifetime you will become the minority and if you think that you'll get the same protections we bend over to give the non whites then you're irredeemably stupid.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

With fresh fruit it can be an issue, but I have a sainsbury's down the road for that. With Ocado and Tesco's at least they seem to have been careful with their drivers, they've all been english, two have been women. Always eager to make the unloading easier. I think it's the way forward

This is incorrect. Sainsburys and especially Ocado will often drop a black man on your door step with your shopping. It's regional and they don't discriminate.

 

[EddyRooney]

I moved recently and for the first time I started using online delivery. With Ocado and Tesco's and it's been a joy. The cost of my weekly shop is down just because it's easier to do price comparisons in front of a keyboard, also with Ocado it's easier to find some more obscure products.
With fresh fruit it can be an issue, but I have a sainsbury's down the road for that. With Ocado and Tesco's at least they seem to have been careful with their drivers, they've all been english, two have been women. Always eager to make the unloading easier. I think it's the way forward

No. They employ minorities and ex-cons in these roles. Do it to boost their diversity / care in the community ratings. There are multiple reasons, but one is so the board can present to the shareholders how well they score on DEI ratings. I know this for a fact as it's one of the criteria investment analysts are required to examine. I see them in their vans when I'm out and the vast majority are not what I would define as British. As somebody else quipped, more fingers than teeth most of them ( normal for Norfolk ).

People put their convenience above their morals. It's the same with the hordes that order Deliveroo and Just Eat. They don't care that they are effectively employing and encouraging the invading scum, so long as they don't have to get off their arses for a meal. Most of the morons probably don't even think about it that deeply, they just think they're hungry and can't be bothered to leave the house, don't know how to cook a meal, too lazy to put in the effort and are prepared to be ripped off. What do they say about fools and their money ? I see it everywhere I go nowadays, people put convenience in front of what is right. It's the negative groupthink of "oh, everybody else is doing it, what difference does it make if I do it too". Unfortunately, I like to be able to look myself in the mirror.

Now if the supermarkets employed young British people to be their delivery drivers ( a first rung on the job ladder ) I might feel more supportive of it. Trouble is most of our youth are too anxious about driving to do the fucking job and wouldn't be able to manage with talking to a customer face to face.

jamaicans (who built the tube and the NHS)

And fucking Jamaicans didn't build either of these things. DO NOT REVISE OUR HISTORY.

The London Underground was originally built in the 19th century by Victorian engineers and thousands of British laborers.

Working on something in another country is not the same as building it nor running it. Made a contribution, quite possibly, but we owe them nothing.

 

[AssignedEva]

Same reason that we have "kyiv" and "kolkata" now.

I maintain I'll stop calling it Turkey when they stop calling us Birleşik Krallık. Kyiv is a virtue signalling thing to show support for Ukraine over Russia, I can't necessarily be mad at it but I do roll my eyes (and I view "Chicken Kyivs" in the same vein as "Freedom Fries").

Kolkata? Maybe they could work out within their own country if they're called, rather than India/Bharat/Hindustan/Paratham/Jambuvipa/20 other names. If they can't settle on an endonym, they certainly can't settle on an exonym.

You know you're got a middle class bint when you literally speak of your personal experience of "tolerating even one" and she says you're too American. So she's opposed to Americans taking over our culture, but has no problem with darkies doing it. Next it will be "Well they rape kids, that's just BBC culture so they're part and parcel of our society"

And no, British racism was not "oh don't mind him, he's one of the good ones". We had an active violent reaction to them. Where it was a sport to go "paki bashing". Where they kicked the shit out of any foreigner they saw on the street. Which started in the 60s before mass migration started and ended in the 80s when there became too many pakis to safely attack since they took over areas and would all come out to defend each other. But our racism is nice racism where we make exceptions...

If these daft cows even had a hint of what they say about you behind closed doors you would turn whiter than your MnS knickers.

Ha! Pull the other one, it's got bells on. I didn't come from a middle class background.

Your personal experience is your personal experience, mine is mine. We grew up with kids from a few different backgrounds, they certainly didn't behave like you're describing. When we were young and my Mum got sick, other mothers looked after us and made sure we were fed. Some were English, some were something else (and they varied about making us "English food" or whatever they had for dinner). But making sure kids were looked after - it takes a village etc - is what community means to me.

And yeah, we knew the National Front "Keep Britain White" cunts back then. Decent people scorned them.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Your personal experience is your personal experience, mine is mine. We grew up with kids from a few different backgrounds, they certainly didn't behave like you're describing. When we were young and my Mum got sick, other mothers looked after us and made sure we were fed. Some were English, some were something else (and they varied about making us "English food" or whatever they had for dinner). But making sure kids were looked after - it takes a village etc - is what community means to me.

Unless you're underage there is zero chance this is true. These muti-racial villages did not exist in the 1980s.

And yeah, we knew the National Front "Keep Britain White" cunts back then. Decent people scorned them.

The more you talk the more you confess. Better be careful you don't do a racism dear, wouldn't want any of them decent people knowing you don't like pakis.

 

[AssignedEva]

Unless you're underage there is zero chance this is true. These muti-racial villages did not exist in the 1980s.

I'm not from a village, I'm from London. "It takes a village" is a pretty well established metaphor.

The more you talk the more you confess. Better be careful you don't do a racism dear, wouldn't want any of them decent people knowing you don't like pakis.

Michael Winner? Is that you?

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I'm not from a village, I'm from London. "It takes a village" is a pretty well established metaphor.

Sorry to hear that. Still not a village. Just a toilet where all the shit goblins live because no one else wants them.

 

[AssignedEva]

Sorry to hear that. Still not a village. Just a toilet where all the shit goblins live because no one else wants them.

There's a reason you have a pink triangle.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

There's a reason you have a pink triangle.

Nice argument. Doesn't stop you telling people to support the rape gangs, mass stabbings and human traffickers does it? Decent people support muslim rapists, they're so much nicer than those racists.

 

[BongoMongo]

Just because your pet niggers dindu nuffink doesn't mean they're not collectively a fucking pestilence.

Some people deserve a dose of cultural enrichment because it's the only thing that will teach them.

 

[diroama]

When we were young and my Mum got sick, other mothers looked after us and made sure we were fed. Some were English, some were something else (and they varied about making us "English food" or whatever they had for dinner). But making sure kids were looked after - it takes a village etc - is what community means to me.

That's a heartwarming tale of how multiculturalism brings out the best in everyone. Here's mine:

I recently made it my business to ensure the relevant authorities were made fully aware of the publicly-parked SORN registered vehicle belonging to one of the two brown families my street is unfortunate enough to be burdoned with, and even more recently my efforts were rewarded by this car being towed away - presumably to be crushed.

I did this not because the car was a nuisance, or I have strong feelings about SORN registered vehicles. I did this because he is a Muslim.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

And yeah, we knew the National Front "Keep Britain White" cunts back then. Decent people scorned them.

"Haha yeah we shamed racists back then! Man I hate how my favourite shop is filled with pakis now."

Are you...like, fucking retarded? Genuine question, actual monkeys (not blacks, actual monkeys!) could have drawn the straight line from 1 to 2. Everything you write is slime, it's mould on the wall. You should be fenced into your zoo of a city and left to be eaten alive by the retarded masses that you adore. You are exactly the sort of person that should come to mind whenever someone says "Better to kill a traitor than an enemy." You're not here to actually sincerely engage with the idea that the British deserve their own land. You don't believe it, you're a globalist liberal trying to skinwalk patriotism and nationalism by tossing out a few buzzwords. Arguing with you or engaging with you is like trying to nail rancid fat to a wall, because nothing you say has any substance to it. It's just the last 40 years of out-group worship distilled down into a package you think will hide the fact that you're a traitor to your race, and your nation.

I sincerely hope you die, and that it's a foreigner that kills you. Luckily, since you live in London, that grows more and more likely with each day.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Just because your pet niggers dindu nuffink doesn't mean they're not collectively a fucking pestilence.

Some people deserve a dose of cultural enrichment because it's the only thing that will teach them.

You have to ask yourself what kind of people live in London because there's only 2 types.

Those rich enough to live in gated communities away from the foreigners and foreigners living in council houses.

Not a lot of inbetweens with the house prices there.

"Haha yeah we shamed racists back then! Man I hate how my favourite shop is filled with pakis now."

And what makes it all the funnier is Turks have terrible hygiene just like the pakis do. Her little pet shop was feeding her feces from their unwashed hands every time they went to the bathroom. But it's only a problem now because she's actually racist against Indians, since it's become the popular fad in the upper classes. They're getting bought out by oil barons and starting to leak into the rich areas. So like with Canada, racism is bad except for all the Indians now taking over liberal spaces. Those are the worst people ever and I'm very upset they're in my backyard.

 

[BongoMongo]

My heartwarming tale of multiculti ftw is I was repeatedly sexually assaulted as a child by a family members foster kid. When I finally told a trusted adult (my GP who I was taken to because I was 9 and had a UTI) and the social services responsible for placing the child failed to report it to the police because the kid who did this was black and had been taken off his parents. He was 15.

But it's ALL OKAY because some people had good experiences with jigaboos, right guys?

 

[AssignedEva]

You're not here to actually sincerely engage with the idea that the British deserve their own land. You don't believe it, you're a globalist liberal trying to skinwalk patriotism and nationalism by tossing out a few buzzwords.

Do I think the British deserve their own land? Yes. Am I necessarily going to agree with what that looks like, to the point of calling for a RETVRN to pure ethnonationalism? No. Maybe I'm on one of the last remaining free discussion forums and we're not all going to have the same opinions? If you want Orthodoxy, head to /pol/. One of the reasons I like KF and came back to it is specifically because it has a diversity of opinions.

I sincerely hope you die, and that it's a foreigner that kills you. Luckily, since you live in London, that grows more and more likely with each day

Have fun playing Minecraft!

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Do I think the British deserve their own land? Yes. Am I necessarily going to agree with what that looks like, to the point of calling for a RETVRN to pure ethnonationalism? No. Maybe I'm on one of the last remaining free discussion forums and we're not all going to have the same opinions? If you want Orthodoxy, head to /pol/. One of the reasons I like KF and came back to it is specifically because it has a diversity of opinions.

Your opinion is that of a fucking snake. So again. I hope you are murdered by the foreigners you gargle the balls of. Genuinely. You're not trying to discuss or hold an opinion, you're trying to slide in poison through the backdoor, same as any other liberal faggot. "Oh we're not actually racist tehehehe we just hate the bad ones. My wog nanny and mammy are so nice and I love the street food and diversity of it all!"

 

[the printer is outo fink]

Where it was a sport to go "paki bashing". Where they kicked the shit out of any foreigner they saw on the street. Which started in the 60s before mass migration started and ended in the 80s when there became too many pakis to safely attack since they took over areas and would all come out to defend each other.

I'm asking this, because lately I question a lot of things we're told about the past, but are you sure this was just the type of instinctive, knee jerk reaction you're describing. Given that muslim grooming gangs were operating in London from almost the moment even small groups of those men arrived, and given that if you look for them you'll find plenty of stories from boomer women who'll describe their families warning them about the same behaviour in any area of the UK these men set up cafes and other similar business. Are you sure those attacks were random racism as they are described to us in hindsight by the establishment that wants us to feel bad about it, or do you think that they may have happened because men were angry at what was happening to vulnerable girls. (Or maybe even angry native criminals/groomers, who didn't like the competition.)

 

[AssignedEva]

Your opinion is that of a fucking snake. So again. I hope you are murdered by the foreigners you gargle the balls of. Genuinely. You're not trying to discuss or hold an opinion, you're trying to slide in poison through the backdoor, same as any other liberal faggot. "Oh we're not actually racist tehehehe we just hate the bad ones. My wog nanny and mammy are so nice and I love the street food and diversity of it all!"

You're not trying to discuss or hold an opinion, you're just repeating a mantra and cannot handle that people disagree with you or hold different opinions to your own. So like I said, if you're going to throw a strop if you see dissenting opinions and can't handle them without resorting to "I hope you get murdered", go hang out on /pol/.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

"You deserve your own land, as long as it's full of foreigners so I don't have to make my hands smell like garlic or onions to eat a curry" Liberalism in a nutshell.

If we're sharing stories.

School had 1 chink kid. We used to play our gameboys together at lunch. He was part of the nerdy kids and he would get his chink family to import those 100 in 1 carts from China. His family ran the local Chinese and didn't speak much English, never socialized outside of their own family. As soon as another Chink family moved in the kid never spoke to any of us again. He didn't even speak English any more unless it was to answer a teacher's question. As soon as they could build their own enclave they did.

Could also talk about the half-arab kids who's family constantly owed everyone money and tried to scam them. Who if you went to their house were even more anti-Semitic than I am now. The multicultural dream died the second you got in private and learned the father had brought his racial hatred with him from his homeland. I was a good lad, I wanted to play Mega Drive games with other local kids. I didn't know anything about ethnic tensions back then because I didn't need to. His dad saying all the Jews should be strung up seemed like an edgy joke for a kid who enjoyed watching edgy 80s comedy. But he wasn't joking.

I'm asking this, because lately I question a lot of things we're told about the past, but are you sure this was just the type of instinctive, knee jerk reaction you're describing. Given that muslim grooming gangs were operating in London from almost the moment even small groups of those men arrived, and given that if you look for them you'll find plenty of stories from boomer women who'll describe their families warning them about the same behaviour in any area of the UK these men set up cafes and other similar business. Are you sure those attacks were random racism as they are described to us in hindsight by the establishment that wants us to feel bad about it, or do you think that they may have happened because men were angry at what was happening to vulnerable girls. (Or maybe even angry native criminals/groomers, who didn't like the competition.)

I am 100% sure they happened. I have family members who told me the stories first or second hand. My parents were basically football hooligans until my Mum ended up pregnant and they decided traveling the country, boozing and fighting over sports teams wasn't how to raise a family. They would tell me stories of a bunch of drunk footy fans in the 60s and 70s going paki bashing. Some times with good reason like driving out a cafe like you said, other times just because hooliganism and not wanting pakis here.