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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.

 

[Polska krowa]

but do kids just not get PSHE lessons anymore

No, they watch Adolescence on a loop.

 

[The Green Man]

Can they just blanket ban VPNs here? I don't even think it's possible to do that in China and Russia. But two tier Kier will definitely try. The nonce.

 

[ApeBass]

do kids just not get PSHE lessons anymore and warned in school and by parents to not take illicit photos of themselves to send to fucking strangers?

PSHE lessons have involved LGBT charities using sex games to groom children for years now. The Proud Trust is hired by schools to use a dice featuring body parts (such as penis, vulva, anus, and mouth) to have students roll and "discuss the potential dynamics and mechanics of various sexual activities."
PSHE lessons are essentially just a way to demoralise anyone who isn't gay, trans, or brown.
I miss the days when the worst bit of PSHE was the PowerPoint presentation of syphillis and gonorrhoea photos.

 

[BongoMongo]

Can they just blanket ban VPNs here? I don't even think it's possible to do that in China and Russia. But two tier Kier will definitely try. The nonce.

In theory, yes. However given MPs are expected to use VPNs on other devices,but parliament can't even sort out a standard one on all laptops and phones,they're allowed to pick whichever one they like (and then claim back on their expenses for it).

If people think NHS procurement is retarded then how bad the system is for Parliament would blow their tiny fucking minds.

Edited to say, I don't even think they have standard laptops. I know lots of MPs did some scammy shit during coof by "buying home working kit" - that is, getting overcharged massively by buying desks and shit from pals. It's beyond retarded how they've refused to adapt to modern life.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

I miss the days when the worst bit of PSHE was the PowerPoint presentation of syphillis and gonorrhoea photos.

Or the drugs talk, we had some bloke come in and tell us he couldn't stop pissing himself becoz he did too much ketamine and then they showed us the festering abscesses junkies got from shooting up. Grisly.

5 Pillars still going mask off (X) A fatwa against ladybirds books. What the fuck where the publishers thinking though?

 

[BongoMongo]

I'm genuinely conflicted. I don't know who I hate more, faggots or Muslims. Anything that annoys both is awesome.

 

[Overly Serious]

I'm genuinely conflicted. I don't know who I hate more, faggots or Muslims. Anything that annoys both is awesome.

A Muslim is someone from a particular cultural background, mostly. They might be hugely devout. They may just party at Eid instead of Christmas. Some good, some bad.

Gay sex is an actual act one chooses.

I don't know how to resolve your conflict but in most moral frameworks one would condemn the acts of volition first.

 

[The Green Man]

Faggots think Muslims like them because they're brown so they have to be progressive. Muslims think homosexuality is a sin. It'll piss off the mud skins.

 

[BongoMongo]

A Muslim is someone from a particular cultural background, mostly. They might be hugely devout. They may just party at Eid instead of Christmas. Some good, some bad.

Gay sex is an actual act one chooses.

I don't know how to resolve your conflict but in most moral frameworks one would condemn the acts of volition first.

If nothing else it's absolutely hilarious watching green voters meltdown over 5 pillars now that they realize just who they've been allying themselves with.

 

[Betonhaus]

If nothing else it's absolutely hilarious watching green voters meltdown over 5 pillars now that they realize just who they've been allying themselves with.

They were never friends, they were merely useful.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

If nothing else it's absolutely hilarious watching green voters meltdown over 5 pillars now that they realize just who they've been allying themselves with.

You're crediting them with far more intelligence than you should.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/2063900280299675847

Yes he will not stand by while children are exploited online.

He will make sure that every child rapist and paedophile gets a 2 month suspended sentence post haste.

 

[Otterly]

Scientists are "boffins",

You’ve just unlocked a very nice memory where the meeja came to my old lab and the resulting (incoherent, hilarious) article called us all boffins.
Someone wrote BOFFINS in big letters on the white board and we all cheerfully referred to each other as BOFFINS for weeks after. This was my first direct interaction with journalists and I haven’t improved my view of them much since.

However given MPs are expected to use VPNs on other devices,but parliament can't even sort out a standard one on all laptops and phones,they're allowed to pick whichever one they like (and then claim back on their expenses for it).

Really?? Fucking hell, they don’t have it like built into their systems? That’s … a choice. I’ll bet government IT is fun.

Yes he will not stand by while children are exploited online.

No it’s disgraceful! They must all be exploited by paki rape gangs in real life! What’s the world coming to??

A fatwa against ladybirds books.

Another happy childhood memory of reading the innocent 80s iteration of said books.
Frankly though, publishing has been totally pozzed. It’s now massively dominated by That Sort Of Liberal Woman we all know and detest and you get nothing published unless you get past the sensitivity readers. If I could fatwa themselves until they published more fun stuff again I would …

 

[A Proud Black Woman]

You brown!

I AM BLACK!

 

[femboy fart huffer]

No it’s disgraceful! They must all be exploited by paki rape gangs in real life! What’s the world coming to??

What? No dat ah no be a exploit it be dey culcha? Rape is like racism. It has to involve a power imbalance to be real therefore only white people can be rapists.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

They can try, but it would mean our infrastructure is a walking target more than it already is. Capita has been breached dozens of times, as has the Home Office. MPs can choose their VPNs indeed, on top of that, most corpos use VPNs. You would be cucking yourself for no particular reason. You would see a hell of a lot of foreign companies move for security reasons, and financial reasons too.

I have said this prior. If the Home Office wants to survey all phones in real time, the amount of energy would be staggering. It costs a lot of energy, and I mean A LOT. For China, on the top end its about 200 terawatts. I suspect it would be like 10 terawats, along with a massive internet rollout. To put this into comparison, London burns about 150 gigawatts ANNUALLY. The UK literally cannot do this in its wildest dreams.

All this is just a pantomime of power; they are saying this to technology bosses, thinking they have the power, but they have none. It is like a child pretending at this point.

 

[Mussolini’s Merkin]

I'm genuinely conflicted. I don't know who I hate more, faggots or Muslims. Anything that annoys both is awesome.

Build a wall around Bradford, dump both groups in there, start a 24/7 livestream.

 

[BongoMongo]

Build a wall around Bradford, dump both groups in there, start a 24/7 livestream.

As a bonus,the place is such a shithole you wouldn't notice difference if it gets destroyed. Hell,a good razing might even improve it.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Build a wall around Bradford, dump both groups in there, start a 24/7 livestream.

TTS donations would save our economy, i say we do it

 

[Oxyjen]

It costs a lot of energy, and I mean A LOT. For China, on the top end its about 200 terawatts. I suspect it would be like 10 terawats, along with a massive internet rollout

Do you mean 10 Tera Watt-hours per year?

Given the advances in AI compute I bet it’s not as bad as all that, but I agree a big waste of energy.

Where did I read that a load of AI datacenters are about to be foisted on the UK - probably in the few remaining nice rural parts to punish the huwiteys a bit more, and drive up everyones power bill.