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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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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.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

It's really funny how Starmer is begging for calm while the police are literally transporting water cannons preemptively.

It took three fucking days of the Axel R riots for talks about the police and water cannons but here's Norm Iron getting them ready for a fight before the first fucking protest.

 

[Smyrna]

Water cannon are already legal in Norn Iron, whereas they are not legal in Britain, so it is much easier for the authorities to reach for that particular lever from the outset. The fact that they are doing so is, in my belief, a sign of how nervous the authorities are. Recall what happened in Ballymena last year.

 

[Swerf'n'Terf]

Posting the uncensored video for archival purposes (double spoilered in case of accidental clicks). Don't like posting gore but think it needs preserving in case of future memoryholing.

Three guys attempted to intervene, armed with a hurling stick. It's telling that when the police approach, the woman filming warns them and they disengage - Brits are not confident they won't be arrested for saving a man's life.

Spoiler: Warning: grim

Spoiler: You have been warned

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[BongoMongo]

The Daily Mail is reporting the Sudanese beheader arrived here as an "asylum seeker". Quite why he couldn't "seek asylum" in any one of the multiple safe countries he passed through to get here is another question, but there we go.

 

[Polska krowa]

The attacker likely entered the UK via the Republic of Ireland. (X) As of 2:29pm;

Quelle surprise. The Irish love to send their most undesirable boat people across the border so they can wash their hands of them, given they know we have no legal recourse to send them back.

 

[mingo mongo]

Quelle surprise. The Irish love to send their most undesirable boat people across the border so they can wash their hands of them, given they know we have no legal recourse to send them back.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

It's so fucking funny to me, I have family in England that have literally been replaced by temporary foreigners on work visa's, the previous management made the place so unbearable and hostile to the native whites, that they essentially quit and moved else where. The thing being so funny, is that my family can't put 2 + 2 together, or just flat out refuse to accept it.

Similar things happen to me.

I've managed to show with evidence all the shit the UK is doing with surveillance and all the ways it has been abused after I was told I was a "conspiracy theorist". You can talk them through it, and they will agree. Several weeks later, the whole discussion will be forgotten. The man on TV has said things, so whatever you said, even if you bring receipts, doesn't exist.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Not to disrupt this very important convo but people are also mentioning the SHEER amount of AI generated 'Farage beating up someone on Question Time' X ads. Anyone else getting these?

 

[man bun rapist]

Google tells me Australia is 70% white, the UK 85%.

I don't fully intend to be an arsehole about this but it really annoys me that whenever there is a moment of extreme cultural enrichment anywhere in the world, people from other supposedly white countries jump all over it. This is a problem for the west. For the Anglosphere. Like you said we're in the same boat and we need a unified response.

Like I said, i'm not giving up on England at all, I would gladly fight for it. I love coming back and seeing the family, and the cultural heritage of my ancestors, i'm well aware of the enshitification of the west and white countries in general, and if England ever has an uprising to kill, and or remove the shitskins, you can bet your bottom pound. I will be there to help out in that case, i'm white english first, and australian second.

Similar things happen to me.

I've managed to show with evidence all the shit the UK is doing with surveillance and all the ways it has been abused after I was told I was a "conspiracy theorist". You can talk them through it, and they will agree. Several weeks later, the whole discussion will be forgotten. The man on TV has said things, so whatever you said, even if you bring receipts, doesn't exist.

It saddens me that I know the feeling, I made a joke about "where will I get my uberjeets and curryslop" earlier from personal experience of a family member asking that, that they think the rape of little girls and murder of their countrymen is worth it, because they can't be fucked to travel and pickup their goyslop.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

australian

Only Aussie I evet met was in camp America, and would lovingly explain that he'd shoot kangaroos on his farm to horrified american girls. Good shit, good shit.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

It’s time to dig out the Norm meme

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"The real problem is that the wrong people might be right about something."

The whole reason why there are people being pushed towards the far-right is that nothing is ever done after one of these incidents.

 

[A-Logato]

Brits are not confident they won't be arrested for saving a man's life.

Because you 100% will be and everyone knows it. They did this with the London bridge stabbings.

 

[man bun rapist]

Only Aussie I evet met was in camp America, and would lovingly explain that he'd shoot kangaroos on his farm to horrified american girls. Good shit, good shit.

I've never been kangaroo hunting, mostly because it's heavily regulated and highly illegal if you don't have the correct loicense and permits... They maybe 'different' but they sure love overreach like us brits.
You can shoot a feral pig or fox no questions asked though.

 

[Swerf'n'Terf]

Sorry to go back to the stabby savage when the thread's having a moment of levity but multiple sources are now reporting he was granted refuge in 2023, when Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman were in Cabinet. That's 2/5 of Reform's proposed future leadership in the firing line for this, it's not looking good for them.

 

[Overly Serious]

I can see at a glance 1 location that’s a trap but I’m not doxing my home town.

Someone on the Twitter where it was posted pointed out a couple of places that had either been closed down for years or otherwise made no sense. They suggested it was misinfo from Hope Not Hate. Honestly, if the guy isn't smart enough to vet things like this before re-tweeting them, he should be kept well away from organising anything.

 

[mingo mongo]

Someone on the Twitter where it was posted pointed out a couple of places that had either been closed down for years or otherwise made no sense. They suggested it was misinfo from Hope Not Hate. Honestly, if the guy isn't smart enough to vet things like this before re-tweeting them, he should be kept well away from organising anything.

Could just be an AI hallucination.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Someone on the Twitter where it was posted pointed out a couple of places that had either been closed down for years or otherwise made no sense. They suggested it was misinfo from Hope Not Hate. Honestly, if the guy isn't smart enough to vet things like this before re-tweeting them, he should be kept well away from organising anything.

It’s well known as a Muslim defence league training location. That’s all I’ll say.

 

[i440BX]

Sorry to go back to the stabby savage when the thread's having a moment of levity but multiple sources are now reporting he was granted refuge in 2023, when Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman were in Cabinet. That's 2/5 of Reform's proposed future leadership in the firing line for this, it's not looking good for them.

Hmm, another proof Reform might be another controlled opposition?

 

[SchizoDaemon]

It saddens me that I know the feeling, I made a joke about "where will I get my uberjeets and curryslop" earlier from personal experience of a family member asking that, that they think the rape of little girls and murder of their countrymen is worth it, because they can't be fucked to travel and pickup their goyslop.

The problem often is, in some places, that they don't understand what it is like in other parts of the country. I was lucky enough to come from the more well-off areas in the UK.
Until I started travelling for work to different areas of the country, I didn't realise how it was in other parts of the country. So often in more well-off areas their only experience of immigration has been positive, because most of the people are university-educated, own a business or are otherwise law-abiding and productive.

I had to explain to a relative, "In Manchester there are racial tensions between the Irish and Pakistanis."

 

[SaltyFanta]

Sorry to go back to the stabby savage when the thread's having a moment of levity but multiple sources are now reporting he was granted refuge in 2023, when Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman were in Cabinet. That's 2/5 of Reform's proposed future leadership in the firing line for this, it's not looking good for them.

People talk about a possible Reform-wave of immigration. But we're seeing the Reform-wave, they're already in the country and they're already killing and raping. In an attempt to out-do the tories, Reform have betrayed the people before getting into office.