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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.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

The smell revolts me. You can smell a subway half a mile off, they smell disgusting. I think it’s the bread, but the smell is something I cannot tolerate. Even lush and nail bars don’t project odiferous assault that far. Subway smells vile.

It could be the bread that smells, yeah.

I dunno, though, I feel like maybe there's another factor involved.

One of life's many mysteries...

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Which is therefore more likely to go on some extra people walking around and shaking hands than funding investigative work.

It is but I'm also reminded of the unit whose name escapes me now who descend upon families mourning the loss of loved ones and ensure they do not say anything about, for example, the murderer lying about racism to avoid conviction.

I'm wondering if the funding has gone to a similar group along with those willing to "investigate" and in the absence of a carefully written sign saying, "take that you damn Jews" write it off as an "accident." So a PR team combined with "experts."

I've also used up my quotation mark allowance.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

The phrase "it takes a village" has been massively misinterpreted to mean it takes a shit load of random people to raise a child.

No, it hasn't. Some of us are actually informed on the term and where it comes from. Hillary Clinton. She wrote a book to support her husband using that title when he was in office.

Clinton observes in the book many institutions responsible in some way for raising children, including: direct family, grandparents, neighbors, teachers, ministers, doctors, employers, politicians, nonprofits, faith communities, businesses, and international governmental groups. Some of the goals and institutions that Clinton advocates for in the book include: the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, Community Policing, the Brady Bill, Amber alerts, immunizations, State Children's Health Insurance Program, financial regulation, expanded Child Tax Credits, Minimum Wage increases, Universal health care, personal responsibility, uniforms in schools, Goals 2000 academic framework, music warning labels, sexual abstinence, Plan B contraception, family planning, and marriage.

Abortion clinics and international aid programs are responsible for raising YOUR child properly. And my take on "fuck off, it's a family thing" was the same response the republicans had in response to her book.

It gets tiresome arguing with people who don't know what they're talking about. We have the wife of one of Epstein's best friends using an African term and people who don't know what it means says "That's propa british values that is." when it's the polar opposite. Take the vax, have an abortion, let international government groups raise your child.

 

[Vesperus]

Some of us are actually informed on the term and where it comes from.

@LXXVII Brigade: It's from 1989

 

[Kofi Drinka]

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@LXXVII Brigade: It's from 1989

They aren't the same quotes for starters. And there's no sources or information backing that up in the post. It's a random blog post.


You can buy this on Amazon right now. Promoted by one of the most famous people in the world and brought to modern mainstream attention again when she ran for president in the US.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

Glad I'm not the only one. I can tell there's a Subway in the area before I even see it. There's some foul concoction that goes into those things that I'm surprised others don't have the same reaction. It's absolutely vile.

Is your Subway an independent store or is it inside another? My local Subway is inside what used to be a Spar but is now a generic supermarket and I can't say I have noticed any bad smells.

 

[teriyakiburns]

hey aren't the same quotes for starters. And there's no sources or information backing that up in the post. It's a random blog post.

Hillary stealing a well-known phrase for her book title is exactly the sort of thing she'd do. And it was a well-known phrase back then. I remember hearing it all the time during the transition from thatcher to major.

 

[Overly Serious]

Is your Subway an independent store or is it inside another? My local Subway is inside what used to be a Spar but is now a generic supermarket and I can't say I have noticed any bad smells.

It's all Subways. Regardless of in the USA or in Bongland, whatever town or city. I can literally smell them before I see them. Way I figure it is maybe it's some receptor not everybody has like the way some people find Acesulfame K revolting but others it just takes kind of sweet to them. The reassuring thing is that I know I'm not the only one. I have met others who have the same revulsion to the smell. It is very distinctive and unpleasant.

I've tried looking up and seeing if others dislike it. I don't know but I found someone analysing the smells with chemical instruments and one of the things their food has is butanoic acid which is apparently in their cheeses. Wikipedia tells me that Bytyric acid "[The acid] does not occur widely in nature, but its esters are widespread. It is a common industrial chemical and an important component in the mammalian gut."

It also goes on to say:
"Low-molecular-weight esters of butyric acid, such as methyl butyrate, have mostly pleasant aromas or tastes.[7] As a consequence, they are used as food and perfume additives. It is an approved food flavoring in the EU FLAVIS database (number 08.005).

Due to its powerful odor, it has also been used as a fishing bait additive.[33] Many of the commercially available flavors used in carp (Cyprinus carpio) baits use butyric acid as their ester base. It is not clear whether fish are attracted by the butyric acid itself or the substances added to it. Butyric acid was one of the few organic acids shown to be palatable for both tench and bitterling.[34]

The substance has been used as a stink bomb by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to disrupt Japanese whaling crews.[35] The Dutch branch of Extinction Rebellion has used it as a chemical agent in a clothing store; several people who became unwell were treated on site by an ambulance crew."

I don't know if it's that, there's a bunch of other weird shit in their food, imo, but it's a candidate. To me, Subway is the very definition of slop.

EDIT: I looked further online. It's about 90% of people repeating each other saying "it's the smell of bread baking" but I've been in plenty of actual bakers and also bake my own bread and whilst that's in there, there's more to it. There are others like me:




It might be to do with the bread baking because there's a yeasty quality to it. But I generally am fine with bread dough proofing or baking. I just dislike Subway's stink.

EDIT EDIT: This is probably all off-topic so here is a joke:

A Corbynite, a Blairite and Brownite walk into a bar.
Barman says: "What'll it be, Mr. Burnham."

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Subways franken bread is what smells so weird. And you can smell it a couple of shops away. It doesn't smell like normal yeasty bread because it's full of shite.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

One near me has always been pakis. I went there once and thought it was worse than getting a sandwich from boots.

Think that's bad? All the decent chippys around me have been taken over by cuzzies.

I can tolerate a kebab shop being ran by pakis and turks but I cannot reasonably tolerate a fucking staple of British culture being ran by filthy, disgusting pakis.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Think that's bad? All the decent chippys around me have been taken over by cuzzies.

I can tolerate a kebab shop being ran by pakis and turks but I cannot reasonably tolerate a fucking staple of British culture being ran by filthy, disgusting pakis.

they like buying up awarded chip shops and claiming they won it. I've noticed it a lot.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

It could be the bread that smells, yeah.

I dunno, though, I feel like maybe there's another factor involved.

One of life's many mysteries...

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You aren't wrong, I popped into my local Subway bare in mind I live in the middle of nowhere. One black and 2 jeets... My town has like a 99% white population until the nearest city started importing them by the boat load. The contempt people have for these "people" is subterranean. The elderly don't even interact with them. Even the local business owners hate them.

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

Like 10 years ago Subway used to use a chemical used in the production of plastic and yoga mats in their bread dough. Yummers.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Like 10 years ago Subway used to use a chemical used in the production of plastic and yoga mats in their bread dough. Yummers.

This sounds like the sort of midwit talking points that terminally online worrywarts and 'diet coke gives you cancer' type neurotic women spew.

So fuck it, I'll go and research it.

Ten seconds later, I find out that azodicarbonamide is literally just a chemical used to bleach bread and that the big scare is that when baked it can cause female mice to have significantly higher chances of getting cancer. So just as expected "ingredient used in plastic" is correct, but in a complete misinformation way to make you assume that there's something disgusting and toxic in the bread.

So I'm guessing that the reason Subways smell isn't because of this chemical, but because they're staffed by fucking pakis.

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

This sounds like the sort of midwit talking points that terminally online worrywarts and 'diet coke gives you cancer' type neurotic women spew.

So fuck it, I'll go and research it.

Ten seconds later, I find out that azodicarbonamide is literally just a chemical used to bleach bread and that the big scare is that when baked it can cause female mice to have significantly higher chances of getting cancer. So just as expected "ingredient used in plastic" is correct, but in a complete misinformation way to make you assume that there's something disgusting and toxic in the bread.

So I'm guessing that the reason Subways smell isn't because of this chemical, but because they're staffed by fucking pakis.

Look, I like my funny little myths and I'd rather they weren't ruined. They also stopped using it back in 2014.
Besides, there is something disgusting and toxic in the bread.
The subway fillings.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

This sounds like the sort of midwit talking points that terminally online worrywarts and 'diet coke gives you cancer' type neurotic women spew.

So fuck it, I'll go and research it.

Ten seconds later, I find out that azodicarbonamide is literally just a chemical used to bleach bread and that the big scare is that when baked it can cause female mice to have significantly higher chances of getting cancer. So just as expected "ingredient used in plastic" is correct, but in a complete misinformation way to make you assume that there's something disgusting and toxic in the bread.

So I'm guessing that the reason Subways smell isn't because of this chemical, but because they're staffed by fucking pakis.

It's not a curry smell. It's something with their bread for sure. It's in the same smell as when you buy cheap American style bread and it's like eating poundland marshmallows. It's overly sugary and sweet in a chemical way. Sort of like sugared bleach.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Believe it or not, they actually manufacture the bread smell, which is caused by heating the bread from frozen. They are then told by management to "cook" bread at increments, like at lunch time, etc.

Source - friend's kid used to work there (white)

 

[The Green Man]

The obvious troon who denied their a troon just casually calling someone paying tribute to a victim of a hate crime a dirty old fuck. I hate these absolute deviants.n

 

[F40PH]

Anyone else seen how those muslims who battered those coppers at manchester airport have more or less gotten off with it and will walk free? Honestly, I was sorta miffed about it at first, but after a bit of a thought, know what? Good. Fuck them. The British police don't give a fuck when your daughter gets raped by pakis, they put you in handcuffs when a brownoid stabs you multiple times so you can bleed to death in the street like a dog, they spy on us like we're all fucking criminals, so a broken nose and a bit of a kicking is a small price to pay for the wonders of diversity, in my humble opinion. I'm sure the police and government will agree. You get what you deserve, you pig fucks.

Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0px74kznxo

 

[Duane Dibbley]

I can garan fucking tee that if we broke down the races of the unemployed youths, they are blacks and pakis or Arabs.

Data suggests that the pakis and blacks have the jobs, and the whites have been pushed aside.

You can scream at whitey all you want, but when the whites pay most of the bill, and then their offspring cannot pay the bill, then we got a problem.

Whitey who can pay the bill have left and/or are leaving at historically high rates. The ones left behind are jobless, soon to be homeless, freezing and hungry.

RE:Subway because why not.
15 years ago the subway where I lived at the time was staffed by so many pakis that pork products were removed from the menu. You couldn't get a sausage sarnie for 3 miles around.