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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.

 

[Spaz-12]

In other news,





Great looking lass though,

https://www.lep.co.uk/news/cruel-lancashire-carer-spent-nearly-ps10000-of-frail-dementia-patients-cash-on-netflix-kfc-and-tanning-5301662

 

[Otterly]

Why do you think he got so angry about having Happy Birthday being sung to him?
STARMER wasn't born, he was created, and there is no foreseeable reason to celebrate the manufacturing date of a product as it grows closer to expiry.

Like Saruman pulling urukai from birthing pits. Only complying completely with all food labelling regulations, laws and EU guidelines, in a sterile clean room.
The man has no soul. He has admitted he doesn’t dream. He probably sits and reads the tax codes to his children at night.

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

Like Saruman pulling urukai from birthing pits. Only complying completely with all food labelling regulations, laws and EU guidelines, in a sterile clean room.
The man has no soul. He has admitted he doesn’t dream. He probably sits and reads the tax codes to his children at night.

"Do you know how the Blairites first came into being? They were humans once, taken by the leftist powers, tortured and mutilated. A ruined and terrible form of life. Now... perfected. My fighting Uman-raites"

 

[Made In Wales]

Looks like the press have got the call about Rayner. I'll give her until Monday.

I'll give them all until the week after the Conference (week commencing Monday 13th October).

Something in my gut (not Biffidus Digestivum) tells me that week is going to be crucial for changes.

 

[Mound Dweller]

Congratulations chums we've officially Made It

Should continue to pick up if 'are 'ange gets old yellered I hope

 

[Muad'Dick]

I'll give them all until the week after the Conference (week commencing Monday 13th October).

You might be right, but the salvo against Rayner today is very reminiscent of previous political seppuku (Damian Green comes to mind).

Just do a name search on them within a 24hr window and you can usually tell if this is organic or the press getting a tap on the shoulder. I think we'll see more dirt come out on her in the next couple of days.

Get on the mat Angela. Have some honour.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Congress - at least from what I've seen of it - lives and dies on decorum and collegiality, which makes them completely unprepared for someone boiled on the floor of the Commons.

Yanks have lost their way. In the 1800s congressmen would come to Congress armed and beat each other's ass with clubs and challenge each other to duels and shit. Ask any true American if they'd prefer to return to that system and I can guess what the answer would be.

Sadly we're stuck with the least popular kids in sixth form debate club crying their eyes out because someone asked if they paid enough stamp duty on their third house.

 

[Muad'Dick]

Sadly we're stuck with the least popular kids in sixth form debate club crying their eyes out because someone asked if they paid enough stamp duty on their third house.

We rebooted Gladiators. We should have a political version to replace Newsnight. It went into the shitter after Paxman anyway.

Embrace the grug.

 

[The Gene Genie]

You might be right, but the salvo against Rayner today is very reminiscent of previous political seppuku (Damian Green comes to mind).

Just do a name search on them within a 24hr window and you can usually tell if this is organic or the press getting a tap on the shoulder. I think we'll see more dirt come out on her in the next couple of days.

Get on the mat Angela. Have some honour.

I think all this is enough to say that it's unlikely that Rayner will succeed Starmer. If the knives dug into the back already, she won't make it to a leadership contest. My money would be on Streeting, if Starmer is pushed out.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Yanks have lost their way. In the 1800s congressmen would come to Congress armed and beat each other's ass with clubs and challenge each other to duels and shit. Ask any true American if they'd prefer to return to that system and I can guess what the answer would be.

Sadly we're stuck with the least popular kids in sixth form debate club crying their eyes out because someone asked if they paid enough stamp duty on their third house.

It wouldn't have been our Ange in sixth form debate club, the thick bitch has more kids than GCSEs (I still would)

 

[ilovejews]

Stop telling us to abandon our homeland because things are getting rough. It's very tiring and condescending.

I never unserstood that attitude, especially when things are starting to turn around.
I was born here, and I will die here. Are the gibs worth dying alongside me?

 

[Clem Fandango]

We rebooted Gladiators. We should have a political version to replace Newsnight. It went into the shitter after Paxman anyway.

Embrace the grug.

Nu-Gladiators is awesome. My son (again, 28 years old) can do all the poses from the intro. Legend is hilarious. The only downside is insufferable nepo-baby Barney Walsh
What's he even doing there?

My top three are:
Sabre
Diamond
Fury (she would need to take the hearing aid out but I can give rudimentary sign language as to what I'm after)

 

[teriyakiburns]

I never unserstood that attitude, especially when things are starting to turn around.

American culture has had about 200 years of "I don't like what you're doing, so I'm going west" as a solution to most of its political problems. That frontier spirit is still deeply embedded in the American psyche and forms the core of their national myth. They still have enough unsettled land, with enough political diversity between states, to make leaving for new pastures seem like a viable thing in their minds - even though many of them will never actually take advantage of it. The problem is, they blindly apply American social structures to the rest of the world (this is a universal failing of all cultures) and think that everyone else should use the same solution. To them, it's not running away, it's finding freedom.

What they haven't noticed is that their own freedoms have been eroded over time as well, making the whole plan of escaping innawoods or hopping over the horizon var less viable than it was even 15 years ago. They have their guns and the ability to say nigger (not too loud in public though, because you might get shot), but they can be socially ostracised just as effectively as anyone here. Their freedoms are heavily proscribed, but the mechanism of proscription is the machinations of private enterprise, rather than overt impositions by the state.

 

[The Gene Genie]

(I still would)

Which way, British Man?

 

[Kofi Drinka]

This is one of the huge differences between Parliament and the US Congress. Parliament is basically a PVP shit-posting arena, where people spend their lives learning how to insult one another in the most veiled and sneaky ways possible. It's an extension of the public school debate clubs, with a little less alcohol and a fewer rules. Congress - at least from what I've seen of it - lives and dies on decorum and collegiality, which makes them completely unprepared for someone boiled on the floor of the Commons. When George Galloway went up in front of congress, oh so many years ago, for what should have been a soul-crushing pillorying of his support for Saddam Hussain, he ran circles around everyone present and made them look like complete fools.

I want to go ask the Americans why their political debates are Reddit threads. The democrats did nothing but try to slander Trump and Farage as a proxy for Trump. The topic was European laws being used to censor American companies and every time a democrat got time to talk they did nothing but attack Trump. Not discuss the issue or how it's relevant but complete derangement. One even had 5 minutes to talk and spent 3 of them trying to get Farage to tell them his schedule when he needed to leave the hearing a little early. "It's free speech if you tell us where you will be after this and why you need to leave". One nigger tried the nigger debate tactic where you talk non-stop for your entire time and never let your opponent speak. And Farage asked if someone could bring him a coffee while he waited to speak. This isn't political debate. It's literally niggers niggering to filibuster a debate so no one but them get to speak. And this is acceptable in American politics.

I was shocked how real Reddit is in terms of American politics. I thought they were outlying weird people but no. The democratic officials were carbon copies of Reddit and Reddit's Trump insanity.

I watched most of it and I only had 2 points I disagreed with on Farage. The first was him calling a nigger British born. Fuck off. The second was when he was asked why he disagreed with a Gaza protest in London on a day we were holding a memorial. The American said Farage doesn't support free speech every day of the year and Farage didn't have a proper answer. The answer is "our culture is different to yours and respect for our traditions overrides current political events. There were ways for them to express themselves without disrupting others free speech. Do you think they should be allowed to protest on the pitch during the super bowl too?". But he didn't come back and just sort of took it.

It did seem like a win and hopefully the American right/MAGA can continue to be an aid to Europe. As much as I hate the fat fucks in this thread. America and Europe are brothers and we need to work together to overcome the mind virus destroying our nations. It goes both ways and if we can reverse a lot of the damage we can do our best Scott Steiner impressions every time we meet a fellow white from that side of the Atlantic.

Nu-Gladiators is awesome. My son (again, 28 years old) can do all the poses from the intro. Legend is hilarious. The only downside is insufferable nepo-baby Barney Walsh

It seemed acceptable but none of the charisma of the original.

 

[Made In Wales]

Nu-Gladiators is awesome. My son (again, 28 years old) can do all the poses from the intro. Legend is hilarious. The only downside is insufferable nepo-baby Barney Walsh
What's he even doing there?

My top three are:
Sabre
Diamond
Fury (she would need to take the hearing aid out but I can give rudimentary sign language as to what I'm after)

Compared with Roman Kemp, IMO Barney's not too bad, but he is still an insufferable twonk living off his Dad's name and fame.

There's something really unsettling about Martin Kemp's boy...

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

I always said that the best way to deal with the illegal immigration problem would be to decommission the Eurostar and then fill the Channel Tunnel with death traps that every day's group of migrants need to get past in order to get to Britain. I'm talking massive crushers, giant spinning helicopter blades, that trap that cut people in half from Indiana Jones 3, and a giant boulder that trundles after them when they get within 200 meters of the finish.
We could film the whole thing and put it on Pay Per View.
Maybe even livestream it 24/7.

Also torpedo any boats attempting to cheat us out of participants.

 

[ilovejews]

That frontier spirit is still deeply embedded in the American psyche and forms the core of their national myth

When you put it like this it becomes blindingly obvious.
A solution that doesn't take into account modern transportation allowing even a literal retard to get across the globe in less than a day.
It's like shitting your bed, rolling over and leaving the shit there, then waking up and complaining about how the whole room reeks of shit and then finally shitting the other side of the bed the next night anyway.

 

[Made In Wales]

I always said that the best way to deal with the illegal immigration problem would be to decommission the Eurostar and then fill the Channel Tunnel with death traps that every day's group of migrants need to get past in order to get to Britain. I'm talking massive crushers, giant spinning helicopter blades, that trap that cut people in half from Indiana Jones 3, and a giant boulder that trundles after them when they get within 200 meters of the finish.
We could film the whole thing and put it on Pay Per View.
Maybe even livestream it 24/7.

Also torpedo any boats attempting to cheat us out of participants.

A Krypton Factor Assault Course of Death?

I like it!

Or, a version of 'Interceptor' where the migrants have to outrun the Interceptor and his real life laser of instant death... we could flog this to GB News as a programme as well!

 

[Just a boring name]

A Krypton Factor Assault Course of Death?

I like it!

Or, a version of 'Interceptor' where the migrants have to outrun the Interceptor and his real life laser of instant death... we could flog this to GB News as a programme as well!

I'd like the Laser Corridor from the Resident Evil Film to be added, Please.