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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.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Do they still do that weird pixellated porn thing

No that's just how they look irl.

 

[Oxyjen]

And then it ends with the Daleks befriending Doctor W'Homogwegnogwngwe because even the evil Daleks realise targeting minorities is bad and they all have a big piss orgy to celebrate.

Now you’ve gone and done it

 

[JosephStalin]

Got this one today.

 

[I'm a Silly]

Talking about IT service companies:

Node 4 CEO found dead at home (link) / (archive)

55 y-o woman, or "woman?"

 

[Pat Mustard]

A serious country funds its defence to meet the threat it actually faces, not the threat it wishes it faced.

https://wheredoesitallgo.org/2025-26

Very helpful website if you fancy getting angry

The UK spends around £62 billion on defence, that's everything Army, Navy, RAF. It spends £162 billion on pensions alone, that's not counting the other £22 billion that goes to funding public sector pension schemes and the £11 billion that goes to the DWP. That's nearly £200 billion to old people who are demographically 25% made up of millionaires, mostly own their own homes and live forever.



I used to be very pro-welfare spending, I thought it was necessary for the world's 5th largest economy to spend on it's most vulnerable members of society. Key word being used to.

 

[Betonhaus]

 

[GratsTheat783]

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That white stag thing was years ago, but it's certainly foreboding of what was to come. Here's a British Folklore YouTuber covering the white stag.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

@SchizoDaemon : that's because a lot of people believed, rightly that coof was a nothing and Cummings has form for histrionics and completely overreacting. That weapons grade spastic cranks one out to the thought of "The Big One" and was tossing himself into a frenzy over foot and mouth. He destroyed lives with that and thought he would be vindicated with coof, he was fucking gagging for it to be more serious than it was.

He's a liar, who lies and people have stopped believing him.

I don't believe he was a liar from what I listened to, and unless he is extremely well rehearsed over a year's worth of interviews, there are several key details that lined up with news reports and other information I saw at the time.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

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Frightening to think what it was intended to be.

Oh thank fuck Alex Kingston is free from this series.

 

[BongoMongo]

That white stag thing was years ago, but it's certainly foreboding of what was to come. Here's a British Folklore YouTuber covering the white stag.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VdrV1UtrR9I

I love this so thank you very much for sharing this. How lovely.

 

[Fun Factory]

Do they still do that weird pixellated porn thing

This, if you can credit it, is downstream of Japan's own Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial. Sadly this doesn't result in the hilarity of Lady Chatterley's Lover having to have certain words pixelated out, rather it's the porn companies being deliberately cautious to try not to fall foul of Japan's fairly broad obscenity laws.

 

[Otterly]

Green's want to ban circumcision (without a medical reason X). I'm all for it, it's barbaric

This is hilarious. They’re doing this why? To try to drive out the militant islamists?
I’m all for banning non medical circumcision, it is barbaric.

 

[ConsentAccidentVictimNo98]

The only plus of circumcision is that it makes it harder to pee everywhere, but then again you can just sit on the toilet seat or pull the skin back. So really, there's no need.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Brits, your response?

Assuming good faith on his part: He gets his information from the media, who lie, and from propaganda twitter accounts that push themselves to the front of the algorithm with ragebait. The conversation here is not about being too far right, but about when exactly the war we all know is coming will kick off and if we can avoid it by fixing things first.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

Assuming good faith on his part: He gets his information from the media, who lie, and from propaganda twitter accounts that push themselves to the front of the algorithm with ragebait. The conversation here is not about being too far right, but about when exactly the war we all know is coming will kick off and if we can avoid it by fixing things first.

I don't know who said it, but "the longer these problems aren't fixed, the uglier the solutions get."

 

[James X Maxwell]

https://wheredoesitallgo.org/2025-26

Very helpful website if you fancy getting angry

The UK spends around £62 billion on defence, that's everything Army, Navy, RAF. It spends £162 billion on pensions alone, that's not counting the other £22 billion that goes to funding public sector pension schemes and the £11 billion that goes to the DWP. That's nearly £200 billion to old people who are demographically 25% made up of millionaires, mostly own their own homes and live forever.

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I used to be very pro-welfare spending, I thought it was necessary for the world's 5th largest economy to spend on it's most vulnerable members of society. Key word being used to.

Pensioners being a drain on society?

 

[Pat Mustard]

Pensioners being a drain on society?

The amount of seething in that post about pakistan kek that was clearly made by an indian still mad about partition. Also what point are you trying to make, Britain changed allegiances due to changing geo-political circumstances nearly 200 years ago and have had a retarded immigration policy after ww2 so pensioners should get over 10% of all British government spending?

I legitimately don't know what point that word salad is trying to make, what the fuck does that have to do with pension spending? Are you indian perchance?

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

It looks like Cooper is resigning, too. The number of leakers in this cabinet is insane. I have a theory that they know Burnham will not win Makerfield and are trying to oust him. You can surround yourself with yes men all you want, but it will achieve the same result.

The policies he wants to set up are not in his manifesto, but he also just fucking says them and carries out no research. For example, his policy on screening all images is insane because all the groups have to end their end-to-end encryption, and they will not do that. Apple, for example, has already put an AI in place to shield nudity. It's pretty good at detecting; they do not need to make adjustments, as they have already made it. WhatsApp has already told them to fuck off. Companies and Diplomats etc need e2e encryption for security as the UK is barraged by dozens of cyber attacks daily.

 

[Pat Mustard]

I have a theory that they know Burnham will not win Makerfield

Eh he is very popular in greater Manchester and this by election is more of a local referendum on starmer's leadership than anything else. I think he might win but the polls are very close at the moment so who knows.

 

[Polska krowa]

I have a theory that they know Burnham will not win Makerfield

It's going to be tight, but I doubt he loses it in the by-election (I expect him to lose it in a GE, though... not that it matters, given Labour don't really stand a chance of winning that election anyway). I think it would take Restore standing down and directing their voters to Reform for Burnham to lose it - which seems an impossibility at this stage.

I'm interested to know what would happen if he loses the by-election, though; would he go back to being mayor, or would he face significant pressure to stand down?