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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.

 

[BongoMongo]

Will be interesting to see how the arrests are handled,given they didn't arrest single one of the dirty paki cunts from Rotherham who set fire to the police station.

 

[Anomalous Coward]

Remember, rioting is the language of the unheard

 

[Nameless One]

Remember, rioting is the language of the unheard

Especially among us Whites.

 

[Turquoise]

Not that the police were totally blameless but the Indian scumbags took extra long to call the police because they needed to hide the kids phone and his knife, the whole family should be deported, have their property seized by the state, and the killer needs publicly executed.

A more cynical observer might argue that they needed to let him die so he couldn't tell anyone what actually happened.

 

[James X Maxwell]

It's not a boogaloo, it never is. Sorry for taking the blackpill but this is just going to be another Southport where they chimp for a day and then go back to voting CON/LAB.

Things need to get worse before they get better like to the point where deano cant just ignore it all and watch footie and play ps5 and pretend it isnt happening

 

[Tom Peters]

Remember, rioting is the language of the unheard

Violence is the supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived. Naked force has resolved more issues throughout history than any other factor. The contrary opinion, that violence never solves anything, is wishful thinking at its worst. People who forget that always pay.

Are you doing your part?

 

[tehpope]

Remember, rioting is the language of the unheard

https://x.com/AOC/status/1334184644707758080

 

[Jose Beaner Luna]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=C8wEFRyhmKclooks to be a right stream for the protest
timestamps in local time
~6:10 PM, minute of silence
~6:21 PM, Christian prayer, followed up by CHRIST IS KING!
there's been several more group prayers
~6:49 PM, Tommy Robinson speaking and going hard
~6:54 PM,

POLICE ARE VISIBLY PUSHING THE PEOPLE​

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~6:56 PM, people are slowly going away from the police station, proceeding to a march
~7:56 PM, batons and helmets are coming out on the side of police

Listen Britniggers you better leave london worse than paris right now and i want Keith turned into a full english before the end of the week.

 

[whoishomermynameis]

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2061968822215627020

1:24

 

[Betonhaus]

If you are ever injured and want the cops to give you first aid instead of arresting you and aggravating your injuries, should you claim to be an off duty cop for a different city? Or do they not give special attention to cops, something that might prove significant in the near future?

 

[BongoMongo]

If you are ever injured and want the cops to give you first aid instead of arresting you and aggravating your injuries, should you claim to be an off duty cop for a different city? Or do they not give special attention to cops, something that might prove significant in the near future?

If you're caught they will absolutely do you for impersonating a police officer. They will check and they will find out.

The one thing pigs hate more than being caught doing wrong is catching someone pretending to be one of them.

You should claim you're a civvy worker for another police force. Impersonating one of them isn't an offence AFAIK

Edited to say: I can't say how I know this specifically, but the levels of cover up and police closing ranks to hide dodgy shit is so,so much worse than people think. It is so much worse than you know.

They get away with murder,and now we can say that literally.

 

[Slimy Time]

Good thing this thread seems to be archiving the riot. Bunch of monkeys in the Sikh man stabs would rather argue than do that.

 

[Gay Sex Enjoyer]

So how's it going in Bongistan.

 

[Snekposter]

Adding a bit more context here. Very technically, it wasn't a Kirpan but a Pesh-Kabz. They are not always curved (this is from "Sikh Bazaar"):
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These are worn outwardly by the Nihang sect, as mentioned in the sentencing remarks. The Nihang sect are not pro-Khalistan (Sikh separatist) like most Sikhs, so do not be surprised if the wider Sikh community turns that around ("The issue isn't Sikhs with Kirpans, it's those bloody bastard Nihangs") That there's now additional charges being brought under the Offensive Weapons Act is probably a sign that some of their blades could not in any way be argued to fall under the definition of a Kirpan. I am certain this sort of hair splitting legal argument would satisfy Starmer that he has a good excuse to put discussion of changing this exemption to bed.

The problem is that because of the existing rules around Kirpans, it was fully possible for this man to swagger about with a Pesh-Kabz on his hip - he wasn't being challenged at any point because police were just viewing it as a Kirpan and not wanting to be accused of racial harassment.

The pesh-kabz is a nasty blade, meant explicitly for torso stabbing, especially against armored foes. Its the Eastern version of the stiletto war dagger.

The only reason you'd carry one around you is to try and stick a dude in his vitals. While the heavier, slightly curved blade does make it easier to slash with, there's a reason it tapers down to that extremely narrow point, and the heavier blade also makes it better for popping rivets or weld seams on chain mail.

That being said, how Polish is he? The dad doesn't have the accent, did he grow up here?

The UK has had a few Poles ever since they took in a bunch of the WW2 vets who very understandably didn't want to go home to a Soviet-occupied Poland. You're some of the few people in Europe who haven't completely shat on them, only mostly shat on them.

Or it's just more fucking mindless tribal violence imported over here

Nobody loves tribal violence like Slavs.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

Yes, https://nitter.poast.org/
I just find xcancel is less typing.

Edit:
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I'm sure all of those kicks to the head were totally required when he was already dog piled by at least six other officers.

 

[Gamer Dan]

The British Empire still triggers leftists and minorities.

 

[Turquoise]

If you're caught they will absolutely do you for impersonating a police officer. They will check and they will find out.

The one thing pigs hate more than being caught doing wrong is catching someone pretending to be one of them.

You should claim you're a civvy worker for another police force. Impersonating one of them isn't an offence AFAIK

Edited to say: I can't say how I know this specifically, but the levels of cover up and police closing ranks to hide dodgy shit is so,so much worse than people think. It is so much worse than you know.

They get away with murder,and now we can say that literally.

He said he's a copper from another city.

I said Roy Cropper"s brother's pretty.

 

[Vesperus]

You should claim you're a civvy worker for another police force.

Police officers are also civilians. It's always fun to remind them of that because they put a lot of effort into larping as something else.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Mahmood has said "Violence bad!!" At the protestors and the shadow Mahmood has has said "aaaahhhhhh oh gawd nothing justifies disorder! The protests are so disorderly!"

Really? Nothing?

 

[James X Maxwell]

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