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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.

 

[mingo mongo]

Spend all my life laying the fuckers and then these cunts just pick them up to throw at the police. Yea sure use all the fucking bricks and even then the cop's backs won't hurt as much as mine does.

Go and put out some pallets for the rioters then.

 

[Betonhaus]

I wish the protesters would at least just duct tape the police to power poles and ensure they stay there overnight

 

[femboy fart huffer]

You're a gay bricklayer? I think I've heard this joke before....

No. You're misunderstanding. I'm gay and built like a brick. I only lay twinks.

 

[mingo mongo]

Failed bin toss

 

[diroama]

Good initiative to get a large commercial wheeled bin, but they passed it straight to the defence and the attack fizzled out.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Police have won this, they've baited the protesters enough for a little scuffle and now everyone is just 'observing' bar a few yobs because they figure if they get too close they'll be nicked.

You can see the crowd slowly thinning out as people fuck off, normally you'd have a few coked up lads on the frontlines but they've all disappeared.

Once it's out of their system and the final crackheads fuck off the protest is over.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

If you hate to wait…

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

It's a very known tactic used against protests durring Communist regimes in Eastern Bloc.

It's a known tactic because the UK police have recently had legal action brought against them after at least five officers got into relationships with members of the groups they were observing, some of them siring children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_undercover_policing_scandal

Unfortunately the average Labour voter when this will be pointed out will believe it completely right up to the point you suggest the police would do the same to right wing groups. At which stage they will scoff at the insane conspiracy theory.

You're a gay bricklayer? I think I've heard this joke before....

It's usually a plumber.

 

[Overly Serious]

There definitely is a whole cottage industry of riot watchers/protest attenders which makes these events have a weird air about them.
Sploosh says the police are protecting the Digwa household; I thought he lived on Belmont where Henry died, but apparently the police are guarding the house. Where is the family?

No protestors outside the police station now after Tommy dispersed everyone.

I don't think the protestors have any clear agenda now, they just want to make their point. They were all seeking a different way to the house an hour back but then when the police started withdrawing they just followed them. Unless the police try some serious provocation (which they could) I don't think anything is going to kick off. People are just milling about and sporadic missiles mostly but not all light. People aren't really seeking violence here - it would be easy with these numbers to do some reverse crowd surf and be up and over the shield wall, or just mass and push it back. They're not even close to how dangerous they could be in terms of weapons. I mean I ask you: Does this look like the face of terror?




(Case in point, someone just found a big wheeled dumpster bin and rolled it at the police line. It was empty and probably weighed all of 10kg. They could have had a few people in it and others pushing and it would have broken the police line. Note, I'm not saying they should at all, I'm just pointing out that this crowd aren't looking for a fight.)

Anyway, I'm knackered - I expect Southport to still be there when I wake up, even if that poor person's fence isn't.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Anyway, I'm knackered - I expect Southport to still be there when I wake up, even if that poor person's fence isn't.

You definitely are knackered.

 

[mingo mongo]

Flaming bin on the way

 

[diroama]

Reports on the livestream of a "flaming bin" i think?

 

[Swerf'n'Terf]

I wish the protesters would at least just duct tape the police to power poles and ensure they stay there overnight

That's a traditional celebration of marriage in the UK (not joking, a stag party traditionally ends with the groom taped to a pole in ladies' clothing).

thought he lived on Belmont where Henry died, but apparently the police are guarding the house. Where is the family?

They live on St Denys. Police are blocking their section of the street.

Edit - the flaming bin hit the police but is now extinguished, and a protester has a 2mm deep gash in his head.

 

[Wigger Rights Advocate]

Unfortunately I just think this situation is gonna die off soon and poor Henry will be forgotten. Soon enough another brown will kill the next white person. Rinse and repeat.

 

[Neodymium-60]

You know those lazy eyed retarded pigs want to get any excuse to shoot at the protestors.

 

[diroama]

The flaming bin had the incendiary potential of a birthday cake.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Unfortunately I just think this situation is gonna die off soon and poor Henry will be forgotten. Soon enough another brown will kill the next white person. Rinse and repeat.

Every time this shit happens the response gets better/worse (pick your own answer there). Maybe he will be forgotten but the feeling won't be and the feeling won't go back down to zero.

 

[Hannibalistique]

I agree with whomever said it isn't a riot crowd. There's no energy to follow through on any of the bins.

 

[Justsomecicada]

Unfortunately I just think this situation is gonna die off soon and poor Henry will be forgotten. Soon enough another brown will kill the next white person. Rinse and repeat.

why do you think it will die down soon?

 

[Enigmatic Gale]

Guy got hit in the back of the head, some of the blokes physically take him to the ones in the corner where they try to tell the police and they refuse to see to his injury.