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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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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.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Couple protestors in Parliament square.

Bangor.

 

[SneedYstwyth]

Don’t do anything. Just let migrants kill you and your children!

And rioting is going to change that? The only thing you do through violent disorder is make the average person think you're a lunatic. It's not political activism it's having a hissy fit on a large scale. You have the same thought process as the Pali's with their weekly marches through Whitehall, doing nothing and changing nothing.

 

[mingo mongo]

If they were serious, two snipers could shut down a large city. This happened in Katrina in New Orleans in 2005 and it happened in Washington DC in 2002 with the Beltway sniper attacks.

Thank you for letting us know, officer.

Why are a bunch of old low-message accounts suddenly posting weird shit?

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

Not gonna lie I'm kinda disappointed in how poor these people are rioting right now. A couple bins on fire and a broken window on a bus. Sad really.

 

[SneedYstwyth]

Thank you for letting us know, officer.

Why are a bunch of old low-message accounts suddenly posting weird shit?

Yeah it's all a psyop to stop you showing up to an ineffectual protest man. Don't show up, I'm sure you'll be the one to save Britain

 

[Luty]

And rioting is going to change that? The only thing you do through violent disorder is make the average person think you're a lunatic.

Yes. Labour is currently the most anti-immigration government we've had in decades and the one of the main things driving that is the threat of mass civil unrest. It doesn't matter what the average person thinks, what matters is that mps are starting to realise that flags aren't the only things the British public want to hang from lampposts.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

White House tells Starmer to not go ahead with social media ban as it will place burdens on US companies they should not have to deal with.

The US companies should just do what they did with Spain when they had their stupid link tax law and block the UK. That what I would do if I was a US CEO.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

Looks like the riots aren't just contained in the city centre and they're burning vehicles on a housing estate just over the river. Police are already in the area but people are already moving on.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Sky News showing a bus being set alight in Belfast. We also have total wheelie bin nationalism.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

Orange smoke flares are being thrown onto roads. Looks like it's only Ulster out on the streets right now.

 

[Betonhaus]

Thank you for letting us know, officer.

Why are a bunch of old low-message accounts suddenly posting weird shit?

More importantly I don’t know what they think they will accomplish. There’s maybe a dozen odd actual Brits here and most of them are either staying home or are claiming to stay home while making plans independently. There’s no organizing here, and nobody is going to go “whelp chaps some rando on the website you know as the tranny hate site says rioting is a bad idea so let’s go home”.

 

[Frofo Baggis]

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.

The majority of migrants in the Republic (80-90%) came through the border from the UK, so why are you faggots pretending this is a one way street when the inverse is a lot more common? Also the Irish didn't make your government give him a Visa.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

This could get seriously ugly

We get to see if Belfast is going to do a Saggart. Because hey it is Belfast after all. They're close enough to doing that just for fun on a Friday night. Let's hope all those weapons from the troubles that were totally surrendered and destroyed were not ever hidden away or anything like that.

Posting the uncensored video

Looks like a relatively nice part of Belfast. Explains why they came in with a stick. It's fucking Belfast the average rate of someone being armed is way higher than 1/3. If this was Shankhill or fucking anywhere near there we would have seen the first brown person killed in these riots 100%.

Sky News showing a bus being set alight in Belfast.

Can't even fucking post a reply and we've already got on with the national passtime. Going to be an interesting night to say the least. Guess we can't deny that summer's here already.

 

[Unregistered HyperCam]

The fact that these protestors are almost always borderline geriatrics should be very, very concerning to you. Gen Z are inherent niggerlovers (and have recently been groomed into rampant muzzie fellatio), and Gen Alpha are majority mud. You should weep for your future.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

They're using vans to force rioters of the road.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Small protest in Edinburgh on Princess street and around St Andrews square. Epping also showing out. Wolverhampton and Manchester apparently have small demos going on. Edit: Birmingham too

Jenrick made this statement in 2023 regarding Sudanese nationals

 

[femboy fart huffer]

They're using vans to force rioters of the road.

Actually pedestrians have right of way and so this would be illegal and I hope they get arrested and their licenses suspended.

 

[mingo mongo]

Couple hundred Belfast youths broke away from the main protest. Hopefully they’re up to no good.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Couple hundred Belfast youths broke away from the main protest. Hopefully they’re up to no good.
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[The Silent Perjority]

I grew up in London through all the Rah shit so I can't believe I'm saying this but if it takes the Paramilitaries to start the pushback and get people on the streets then I'm behind them.

There's a lot of soy commie shit involved there now as there is with everything but those fuckers will fight and die if they believe in it.