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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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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.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Triple stabbing in Uxbridge (archive.is is down for me)

The 49-year-old was treated by paramedics for stab wounds but died at the scene, while the second man, 45, was taken to hospital with life-changing injuries. A 14-year-old boy was also taken to hospital with knife wounds, police said.
A 22-year-old man was tasered and arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. He was taken to hospital as a precaution but has since been taken into police custody.

Suspect is reportedly Afghani, videos are on twitter of the incident.

 

[ChefKiss]

I was wondering what Dublin was up to. Apparently not much.

RTE or any media site isnt going to tell you what's actually happening in Ireland because they are TERRIFIED of people seeing what's happening, seeing it work and copying it

 

[Made In Wales]

Triple stabbing in Uxbridge (archive.is is down for me)

Suspect is reportedly Afghani, videos are on twitter of the incident.

How long until 'all part and parcel...'

Seriously, Khan-age needs removing.

 

[Clem Fandango]

How long until 'all part and parcel...'

Seriously, Khan-age needs removing.

He'll be on the news soon telling us how no actually crime has gone down seriously you guys.

Walking around London is a horrible experience now. You've got to be constantly on guard against being robbed or stabbed or pushed in front of a tube train.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

I’ve noticed that all the “hello fellow Anglo-Saxon extremists” posters have been quiet for a while. Are the police on an overtime freeze?

No they're all off trying to find that epping rapist so that they can help him recross the channel and enter under a new name. That or budget cuts meant they had to sell off all the dildos and they no longer get their routine pegging so they just quit.

If I was a state censor

I'd just do wack shit. I'd ban how to train your dragon because it contains a real working guide on how to make explosives and postman pat books because it contains child rape. Just see how much you could get away with before you got fired. Dora the explorer incentivises children to walk around on their own banned. Peppa pig haram. Hunger games, mocking starving africans, banned. Kier starmer's autobiography? Doxxing a public figure, banned. Jamie oliver book? Classism and culinary colonialism, banned. Mlk biography? Talks of sensitive subjects and depiction of slavery, banned.

They stopped wearing masks

I stopped wearing a mask because the court told me I had gimpped too far and was banned from gimping or writhing around on the floor.

There’s more pussy on mumsnet so an easy choice I guess.

There's plenty here too, you're just not drunk enough.

RTE or any media site isnt going to tell you what's actually happening in Ireland because they are TERRIFIED of people seeing what's happening, seeing it work and copying it

Oh yea I know that full well. Even then they're still showing the people firebombing the guards and bricking migrant hmos. If that's a fraction of what's actually happening then the government can scrap the winter fuel payment and just buy every oap a ticket to Ireland, that'll keep them warm enough.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Everyone on bennies gets £150 off their energy bill (workers will pay their bills in full, and I'm sure will have to pay more in tax this november)


Can Labour drop the fucking 'we inherited' bullshit; they love to 'inherit' problems but took the credit for the renters bill which was introduced by those dastardly tories. We inherited a broken system. If I buy a house with a leaky roof it's still my damn job to fix it, i can't just constantly blame the previous owner while it drips all over my floor otherwise I look like a lazy retard who refuses to nail the shingles back on.
This response on twitter got a chuckle out of me. We should start screaming put the foreigners in the van at WorldofBrownshirts while he crashes out.

 

[Made In Wales]

Everyone on bennies gets £150 off their energy bill (workers will pay their bills in full, and I'm sure will have to pay more in tax this november)
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Can Labour drop the fucking 'we inherited' bullshit; they love to 'inherit' problems but took the credit for the renters bill which was introduced by those dastardly tories. We inherited a broken system. If I buy a house with a leaky roof it's still my damn job to fix it, i can't just constantly blame the previous owner while it drips all over my floor otherwise I look like a lazy retard who refuses to nail the shingles back on.
This response on twitter got a chuckle out of me. We should start screaming put the foreigners in the van at WorldofBrownshirts while he crashes out.
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They actually didn't inherit anything like the debt they say they have.

Richard Harris (not the actor, but the Sheffield University Economics chap) has said that Covid was paid off via Gilts. We therefore have no Covid debt.

The debt Reeves is putting on is backloaded new debt meant to pay for the 'Green Revolution' among other crazy policies. It's a bit like when the Glaizer's bought Manchester United and put the club into debt in the process.

The debt the Tories had was not even £12bn. they had managed to bring the level down and Hunt (though a shithead) was managing to bring the debt down - not quite 'sunlit uplands' but a lot better than we were during Covid.

The question is why is an economic idiot still our Chancellor?

 

[sheepworldvizor]

Nice of them to give him two female officers.

 

[A-Logato]

Can Labour drop the fucking 'we inherited' bullshit; they love to 'inherit' problems but took the credit for the renters bill which was introduced by those dastardly tories.

They'll never stop using that excuse until the heat death of the universe. Every single Labour government throughout it's history has used this excuse and they won't be stopping any time soon.

 

[Made In Wales]

Today's weird Welsh take:

Tour operator told to 'toughen up' after Snowdon Mountain Railway rant

Andy Lamb, who runs Wales Outdoors, has vowed to stop sending clients on the iconic Snowdon Mountain Railway after a 'disappointing' trip

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/tour-operator-told-toughen-up-32755160

Oh, and more rapey scum uncovered:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cousins-staged-sex-parties-abused-32763125

(archive.ph isn't working here at the moment)

We also have another escapee...

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/hunt-man-accused-escaping-custody-32742645

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Oh, and more rapey scum uncovered:

Honestly I read fucking imtiaz and manzorr and thought the cousin sex was between them.

Andy Lamb, who runs Wales Outdoors, has vowed to stop sending clients on the iconic Snowdon Mountain Railway after a 'disappointing' trip

No my guy you need the trains constantly patrolling the borders, how else will you keep the indians out?

Also found some alleged footage of that stabbing.

Spoiler: literally a video of a man being stabbed to death

0:20

Guy is clearly brown. The guy he stabbed seems already wary of him, considering someone pulled a phone out to record it there might have been some shouting or something beforehand especially as the murderer is walking at the guy. Also this is just one guy, so it's not a southport mass stabbing, it's several individual stabbings. Peaceful little suburban area. Crazed madman foreigner. How long until people start buying full plate armour and carrying a sword and buckler like we did the last time they tried violent invasion? I'm not saying anything, I'm just saying that a grouping of less than a foot wide at about 30m with a bow is pretty standard. I mean I don't even know what you would do in this situation. If we lived in a sensible country the person recording (who is probably an unemployed brown based on circumstances) would just pull out a gun and shoot this guy. But can't do that. Ok yea maybe you go stab him with a sword but in the time it'd take for you to get to him the guy is already dead and now you're in danger too, doubly if you only have a knife. Do you just hit them with a car and hope that you put the old guy out of his misery quicker and take the brown out at the same time? Idk.

I look forward to another 5 pages of debate on the death penalty. I take back my previous statement about it should be quick and ethical. I instead suggest those dunk tanks from school faires and shit aside from sulphuric acid.

 

[>IMPLYING]

I’ve noticed that all the “hello fellow Anglo-Saxon extremists” posters have been quiet for a while. Are the police on an overtime freeze?

It takes effort to be actively pissed off for no payoff.
Except glorious, glorious stickers.

 

[Drihten]

I’ve noticed that all the “hello fellow Anglo-Saxon extremists” posters have been quiet for a while.

Hello fellow Anglo-Saxon extremists
I hope you're having a good time extreming today.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Hello fellow Anglo-Saxon extremists
I hope you're having a good time extreming today.

Glad mi5 is going to overlook me then. Spend all their time looking for anglosaxon extremists but never the nordic gaelic extremists

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Looks like our boy has been sent down

RIP train autist addblue man (possibly)

 

[A-Logato]

there might have been some shouting or something beforehand especially as the murderer is walking at the guy

Going to guess he said "allahu akbar"

 

[Mound Dweller]

I’ve noticed that all the “hello fellow Anglo-Saxon extremists” posters have been quiet for a while. Are the police on an overtime freeze?

I feel personally targeted by this, you Black Bastard.

I look forward to another 5 pages of debate on the death penalty.

Just kill them (legally), people like to ummmmm and ahhhhh about the sanctity of human life and all that because it makes them feel more valuable I think, but the simple truth is that everybody knows how to make more humans; we ain't a finite resource.
Especially when it comes to non productive non natives, just make it law and it will sort itself out, after you kill all the lawyers of course.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Going to guess he said "allahu akbar"

If someone starts shouting allahu akbar at you then you don't wait until they are in stabbing range before you start running.

Looks like our boy has been sent down

Man what a fucking article. Some proper fucking old fashioned comedy sketch shit.

Spoiler

They included: black powder; blank and a round of live ammunition; chemicals; lethal poisons; and suspected improvised explosive devices.

For the two women here: that's why men need such large pockets. Got to keep my pipebomb and my cyanide on me at all times when going to mcdonalds, never know what might happen there these days.

Police also uncovered radioactive materials and white phosphorus, a substance which can spontaneously ignite in air and is so dangerous that it had to be destroyed by controlled explosion by the military, the court was told.

They can't blow up white phosphorus? Interesting. I mean it's not like they use it in bombs or anything like that. Just too dangerous. Just fucking expose it to air anyway if that burns it or better yet throw it on the nearest muslim like we have for the past 50 years.

Following his arrest, police uncovered a stream of racist chat on WhatsApp in which Whittaker directed hate towards a mosque in Luton.
In one message, he wrote: “We need a tank covered in machine guns and flame throwers, drive it into that mosque on Friday afternoon and turn them into mincemeat.”

My guy is fucking retarded. But.

He also complained about the Government banning “anything remotely right wing while still allowing actual terrorists to operate freely”.

One, based. Two, why the fuck did the independent feel the need to link to their .co.uk/government page? What in case I forgot what a government is and need a quick refresher halfway in this article?

When he was detained by police, Whittaker was found in possession of a wrap of heroin, the court was told.

My guy almost died of an allergic reaction but heroin that shits fine.

He told officers that he “liked to have fun with pyrotechnics” and was “astounded to be arrested for having an educational interest in science”.

Based

“I’m just a nerdy kid who likes doing science.”

Article starts out with 'Harry Whittaker, 33' lol.

Asked if he was ever reckless in his experiments he replied: “No, definitely not”.

I would have loved if he just said like yea I just blow shit up never take any precautions or anything like that I throw all the waste materials over the fence and just hope no one's there.

He said that he marked bottles with a skull and crossbones because it looked cool.

I want to know what was in the bottles. I really hope it was like water or some shit that he drew shit on because it looked cool.

The defendant, who has autism spectrum disorder, also told police that he used heroin in the evenings but it did not affect him.

Based autist. But also holy fuck. Yea do a bit of heroin in the evening don't feel much though.

Whittaker said he had inherited mercury and a live bullet from his grandfather’s home and had bought some chemicals online.

Don't we all. I got a load of old plates from one side, bucket of mercury from another, house and some money from another and the last just gave me a working and fully loaded tank. Standard will writing really.

He said he was given a bucket of potassium cyanide by an “old guy” he met while working at an engineering firm.

We all have that one guy. Every site has one. Comes in just fucking gives out buckets of cyanide like it's christmas. At least he's not getting rats in his shed.

It can now be reported that Whittaker had been on bail ahead of his trial but that was revoked after he failed to attend court and was found in a distressed state on two London bridges.

This one is just kinda sad. I mean for one fuck the courts in general. But like come on, we know what 'distressed' means when you follow it up with bridges.

 

[FedPostalService]

Looks like our boy has been sent down

RIP train autist addblue man (possibly)

I'd put money on that being the Wallace & Gromit guy who posted here.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Man what a fucking article. Some proper fucking old fashioned comedy sketch shit.

Reminds me of that crackhead-looking bloke who did dangerous things with electricity on Youtube, PhotonicInduction. Absolutely no intention to cause harm but meddling with powers they clearly don't comprehend.