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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.

 

[Sensitive Young Man]

https://x.com/royalfamily/status/2023838542489583943?s=46

 

[teriyakiburns]

Cromwell was a hypocrite and a charlatan, who betrayed the people he claimed to represent (he started out fighting against the draining of the Fens, but then once he was in power he drained them anyway, because he stood to profit from the deal), and who made himself an absolutist king in all but name. He deliberately destroyed vast swathes of the country's heritage, welcomed in unwanted foreigners, and did his best to turn the country into a theocratic regime to rival any islamic shithole.

I don't fault Lowe for not necessarily understanding this. The popular image of Cromwell rather ironically glosses over the warts, to the point that all people remember is "he chopped off the king's head" and "keep your powder dry". The mythical figure isn't the man.

 

[Clem Fandango]

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https://x.com/royalfamily/status/2023838542489583943?s=46

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'member all those miserable bastards who would always complain about people saying "Merry Christmas"? Don't go around shoving your religion down my throat. Those guys?

Not got anything to say about the increasingly prevalent "Ramadan Mubarak", my guys? This week I've seen that on adverts on the tube, at the supermarket, and now tweeted out by the fucking King.

Where are those guys?

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

"WHAT AVE YEW BECOME YOU PARASITE?!" [. . .] I doubt they'd disown him over politics.

I'd disagree, given the genuinely hateful look in his (apparently step?)father's eyes. Notably, this is the first time I've seen an example of "right wing child disowned by left wing parents" and not something like "liberal son cut off his right wing parents" like all of those legacy media opinion pieces which have been written the past decade.

NPCs tend to talk like they're in movies to begin with, so it checks out in that regard.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Cromwell was a hypocrite and a charlatan,

Yeah but he was great in that film with Obi-Wan.

 

[The Big A]

Cromwell was a hypocrite and a charlatan, who betrayed the people he claimed to represent (he started out fighting against the draining of the Fens, but then once he was in power he drained them anyway, because he stood to profit from the deal), and who made himself an absolutist king in all but name. He deliberately destroyed vast swathes of the country's heritage, welcomed in unwanted foreigners, and did his best to turn the country into a theocratic regime to rival any islamic shithole.

I don't fault Lowe for not necessarily understanding this. The popular image of Cromwell rather ironically glosses over the warts, to the point that all people remember is "he chopped off the king's head" and "keep your powder dry". The mythical figure isn't the man.

 

[Wonderland foster child]

Acceptable toppings are sugar, syrup, honey and the squeezy lemon.

And Nutella.

Pretty much no sympathy for the non-UK passport havers. Brexit and the pandemic taught us that rules and access can change on a whim, and if you aren't willing to make it a priority to get your personal admin in place, you have no right to whine when you're forced to deal with it immediately and expensively on the government's terms.

 

[Snekposter]

I'm not sure which is funnier: "fanny pack", as you call it, or "bum bag" (yes really), as we call it.

"Bum bag" sounds like something a homo would carry around to store all his sex shit for getting bummed.

I choose to interpret this in the funniest way possible.

"Oi m8, yer not quoite racist enough to be in Restore."

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

"Bum bag" sounds like something a homo would carry around to store all his sex shit for getting bummed.

You're confusing it with the little cross body bags urban yute carry their drugs around in, colloquially known as a fag bag.

 

[They were once men]

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I think the Cromwell era flag looks pretty good

 

[femboy fart huffer]

fanny pack

Fanny pack isn't an item of clothing that's an activity. That's mormon 'soaking' tier. Tell me 'I'm just packing my fanny with a penis for a soak night' isn't mormon coded.

 

[Quintex96]

I choose to interpret this in the funniest way possible.

Leaked picture of Lowe's Racism test

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Lowe's test is going to be, "How would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast this morning?", isn't it?

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Lowe's test is going to be, "How would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast this morning?", isn't it?

But I had breakfast this morning?

 

[teriyakiburns]

But I had breakfast this morning?

Here's your reform membership card and rosette.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Four Chagossians have sailed and landed on Diego Garcia on Monday to reclaim their homeland. Trump, an hour ago, has backtracked on the Chagos Deal. ETA: One of the Chagossians who landed is the Minister Misley Mandarin, based.

Lowe's test is going to be, "How would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast this morning?", isn't it?

If I had a greggs bacon roll for breakfast, I'd feel pretty racist

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Four Chagossians have sailed and landed on Diego Garcia on Monday to reclaim their homeland. Trump, an hour ago, has backtracked on the Chagos Deal.

That explains a lot.
We will be bombing Iran before the end of March.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

That explains a lot.
We will be bombing Iran before the end of March.

Honestly?

Keir deserves that. While I have no desire to see the UK dragged into a war Trump throwing Keir around like he has his arm shoulder deep in the Labour leader's ass while around him every last "left" leaning voter shrieks about what is happening is the legacy he should have.

That said given the rewriting of history attempted around Tony Blair I would be unsurprised if a year after the last corpse hits the sand in that middle Eastern conflict to see people nominating Keir for a Nobel peace prize.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Lowe's test is going to be, "How would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast this morning?", isn't it?

I would be very full and happy after having my nice thick pancakes just like Christ intended.

I would love if kier is so fucking retarded it triggers another 1776.