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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.

 

[Mussolini’s Merkin]

People don't realise how good that is. Thats presumably polls of random people on the street and I'd argue many would be hesitant to openly say they're for Restore.

Even 4% is good for a party which is barely six months old and is actively opposed by the media and all other parties, including other "right wing" ones.

Part of me does wonder how much of that 4% is people that got Restore and Reform mixed up though. Those names really are far too similar.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

You can get roast dinners delivered via such services. Not that I would having made a solemn vow never to use any of them again. 11 months clean. Feel like a new man.

This country can be overrun by immigrants as long as i get a proper carvery on deliveroo.

 

[FallingUpwards]

Will these libtards ever just fucking see the core problem? I watched some of the interviews by people attending the parade and they still blame the far-right and AfD
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Happy Sunday everyone, if you don't have a Sunday roast then you're a nigger.

Fuck. I already had my dinner and didn't have a Sunday roast. I'll take my honorary nigger card with shame.

Also, I am really hoping someday they will see that Islam doesn't care about gay people. The problem is they see it and know. They just refuse to listen to the truth. It's hard to get them to understand if they refuse to believe.

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

We are quite honestly going to end up with parts of the UK becoming ""Muslim only", political parties just for muslims and if you disagree you are a white nazi council estate gammon cunt!!!111

 

[Clem Fandango]

This country can be overrun by immigrants as long as i get a proper carvery on deliveroo.

Who the fuck orders a roast dinner delivered to their house? What happened to this country? Just go to Toby Carvery if you don't want to cook.

Full disclosure: I went to Toby C today and upgraded to king-size. I was so full I had to have a little nap this afternoon.

 

[Oxyjen]

Better

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

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Better

Correct way of death penalty, but I imagine they wanted him dead so he wouldn't give further information/evidence that Germany (Europe) has problem with muzzies.

 

[Clem Fandango]

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Better

Well now we'll never know why he did it!

 

[Oxyjen]

Correct way of death penalty, but I imagine they wanted him dead so he wouldn't give further information/evidence that Germany (Europe) has problem with muzzies.

They have said that he was an Islamist named Abdul and member of ISIS which is more than the UK cops would have let slip.

 

[Goose the Redeemer]

If someone knows how to do a local archive stashing and the Cleese version would not hurt.

2:31

 

[Otterly]

They have said that he was an Islamist and member of ISIS which is more than the UK cops would have let slip.

At what point will the alphabet mafia realise that the Islamists want them dead and stop supporting the kind of Omnicause stuff they constantly push? I find it so bizarre the way the left tries to moosh all these mutually exclusive groups together. They hate the gays. They’ll be chucking them off Brighton pavilion when they’re in power. Wake up, you idiots

Roast dinner cooked today, after eight solid hours of housework and DIY as well. I’m absolutely knackered and everything is still in the utter chaos stage before the clean up.

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

At what point will the alphabet mafia realise that the Islamists want them dead and stop supporting the kind of Omnicause stuff they constantly push? I find it so bizarre the way the left tries to moosh all these mutually exclusive groups together. They hate the gays. They’ll be chucking them off Brighton pavilion when they’re in power. Wake up, you idiots

Roast dinner cooked today, after eight solid hours of housework and DIY as well. I’m absolutely knackered and everything is still in the utter chaos stage before the clean up.

A friend of mine works and teaches STEM at Imperial College London. The majority are Chinks (money), the rest are browns due to DEI, and the whites are there due to actual merit.

She talks about how utterly useless some departments are due to "diversity", even when it comes to things like processing lab results, etc., etc.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

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Cheers.
Compared to the other one that is exceptionally better.

 

[AssignedEva]

Who the fuck orders a roast dinner delivered to their house? What happened to this country? Just go to Toby Carvery if you don't want to cook.

I can't imagine it travels well, sounds like a recipe for grey veg and soggy spuds.

 

[Ly Erg]

At what point will the alphabet mafia realise that the Islamists want them dead and stop supporting the kind of Omnicause stuff they constantly push? I find it so bizarre the way the left tries to moosh all these mutually exclusive groups together. They hate the gays. They’ll be chucking them off Brighton pavilion when they’re in power. Wake up, you idiots

Because they hate the American people and it's politics along with the government sucking israeli dick more. The right dosen't like Islam so therefor as a result they have to fight and protect Islamists to keep the agenda afloat. God forbid they agree with the right on some things but that would mean agreeing with people that they hate more than the people that want them dead.

If you were to replace Muslim refugees/immigrants with Evangelical Christians. The left would be the ones telling them to leave and stop the boats. And the fact that they consider Christains more of a threat than Islamists, especially in Western Europe is fucking laughable when Christianity is losing more and more followers each year and that it's also been "globeohomo'd" down to the ground compared to what it was like decades ago.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

So Andy Burnham has suggested melting stamp duty and council tax into a 0.48% annual tax on a homes current value.

Will be VERY interesting to see how this is implemented and moreso, how it can be abused.

If I were to buy up all the houses on my street and then 'sell' them to my family for £20k, they'd be paying £100 in council tax a year. As every house on the street has been sold at that value, they can only be compared with each other.

Unless they're going to melt it down based on a national average, in which case a £70k two bedroom house in Plymouth is somehow now valued at £280k

 

[specular1]

Not news as such but some gammon created a boriswave surfing game: boriswave.com

Actually pretty informative and sobering, gets difficult and can feel unfair but would recommend playing.
Seems to be linked to yet another rightwing political party: Progress for Britain. Hasn't yet officially launched.

 

[EddyRooney]

So Andy Burnham has suggested melting stamp duty and council tax into a 0.48% annual tax on a homes current value.

Will be VERY interesting to see how this is implemented and moreso, how it can be abused.

If I were to buy up all the houses on my street and then 'sell' them to my family for £20k, they'd be paying £100 in council tax a year. As every house on the street has been sold at that value, they can only be compared with each other.

Unless they're going to melt it down based on a national average, in which case a £70k two bedroom house in Plymouth is somehow now valued at £280k

My bet is ( and call me Nostradamus ) that whatever is done, it will wind up with the vast majority of people having to pay more tax.

 

[Long and sneaky]

My bet is ( and call me Nostradamus ) that whatever is done, it will wind up with the vast majority of people having to pay more tax.

That's an easy bet to make.
Whitehall? Reducing taxes? Hah!

 

[Clem Fandango]

My bet is ( and call me Nostradamus ) that whatever is done, it will wind up with the vast majority of people having to pay more tax.

How can this new tax replace stamp duty when I already paid stamp duty (twice)?

That just sounds like I'm being taxed again for the same thing.