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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.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Putting aside the issues with permitting government to tell you what information you can and cannot access, what people you can and cannot associate with...it's the labour government doing this. The uniparty, the one with the absolute vested interest in making you into niggercattle, then making you dead. The one whose goons cover up for, and help rape gangs, the one that is ethnically replacing you. Why the fuck would you trust them? I wouldn't trust them to do anything but try and hurt us. This needs to be kept on repeat because repeatedly people forget.

You - yes you - are a dissident. You are a kulak, you are a thought criminal, an anti-state enemy. You are the target of the government when they say they will attack and remove 'hate.' You specifically are under attack. Why would you give ground on anything? You are not a normal person, you are a man in a castle and outside, there are men trying to tunnel in, to get you.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Hello British megathread posters, I've been reading up on the 16- social media ban apparently being announced soon. I'd like to see how you guys feel about it. I do think it's funny Bluesky is exempt from it.

https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/2066421329859936656

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Look at this smug fucking prick. He's just like you! Wearing a cheap zip up hoodie or whatever the fuck that is. He wants to save the children TM. This is the face of a demon.

 

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‘Far-right fascist rag’ the Daily Mail today:

 

[SneedYstwyth]

The government's proscription of Palestine Action as a terror organisation is lawful, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

It's good news but doesn't change anything unfortunately. They just operate under different names and do the exact same things. They were being treated as a prescribed group pending the appeal anyway.

Unless the government properly cracks down on them as the hostile element they are, whether they're saying they're Palestine Action or whatever new retard name they're calling themselves this week, they'll still be out there being spastics every weekend.

https://news.sky.com/story/palestine-action-latest-judges-to-rule-on-home-office-appeal-over-protest-group-ban-13554254

"A crowd of around 200 applauded and shouted "shame" and "you're complicit" at police officers.

Here are some images from outside the justice courts, showing protesters being carried away by their limbs."

They get arrested for this shit but face no long term consequences. They'll fail a DBS check any day with a Terrorism Act charge, but I don't think they're planning on any gainful employment anyway.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

Horrific rumours coming out of arbroath

I'm holding my breath here, I don't know what fuckin bushes you can get raped by near that train station. If tommeh's on it it's likely bollocks.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Can I just add to the technology debate.
Get a solicitor, one that specialises in freedom of speech. Memorise the phone number for them.

Oh and don’t worry about it 24/7. At that point they’ve already won. Enjoy life.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

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Look at this smug fucking prick. He's just like you! Wearing a cheap zip up hoodie or whatever the fuck that is. He wants to save the children TM. This is the face of a demon.

He is another charismaless, interchangeable bureaucrat.

I hate this bollox they often pull where they are in casual clothes trying to be relatable. Reminds me of when Cameron tried to pass himself off as a football fan and didn't know the difference between Spurs and Rangers.

 

[Betonhaus]

‘Far-right fascist rag’ the Daily Mail today:
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of everyone is a nazi then nobody is a nazi and that word loses all its power.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

of everyone is a nazi then nobody is a nazi and that word loses all its power.

It hasn't meant anything for quite a while. I remember a BBC street reporter saying to a woman, "Some might say that is racist," and the reply was, "Everything is racist these days," and she walked off.

At the moment in the UK we are in a state of Hypernormalisation.

 

[F40PH]

‘Far-right fascist rag’ the Daily Mail today:
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Damn, calm down, I'm already going to vote for them. You don't have to try so hard to convince me!

 

[localinternetretard]

I hate this bollox they often pull where they are in casual clothes trying to be relatable.

Honestly he reminds me a lot of a skinwalker

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I hate this bollox they often pull where they are in casual clothes trying to be relatable.

It's even funnier because he looks like a faggot. So he's even less relatable in casual clothes.

 

[Dr J]

It is. But this isn’t about catching child predators.

I know that. Just pointing out the hypocrisy

It's even funnier because he looks like a faggot.

He looks like one because he is one

He is another charismaless, interchangeable bureaucrat.

Which is exactly why I roll my eyes when people say 'Oh, if only the Labour Party had a different leader. Things would be different/so much better!'

They're all the fucking same. Changing the party leader is like changing the deck chairs on the Titanic

 

[Breadbassket]

Maybe someone here might find this mildly amusing.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Without fedposting, I really hope that Keir Starmer gets a medical and they find something incurable.

 

[Mussolini’s Merkin]

He is another charismaless, interchangeable bureaucrat.

I hate this bollox they often pull where they are in casual clothes trying to be relatable. Reminds me of when Cameron tried to pass himself off as a football fan and didn't know the difference between Spurs and Rangers.

Remember when Prezza punched the bloke that threw an egg at him? That came off as relatable.

Kier just looks like a prick. I wish they just wouldn’t bother, it’s more insulting when they try to ‘fit in’.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

Remember when Prezza punched the bloke that threw an egg at him? That came off as relatable.

He just looks at the guy and bops him straight in the face.

 

[AssignedEva]

He's just like you! Wearing a cheap zip up hoodie or whatever the fuck that is.

I noticed that, he's usually in a suit when doing his little videos so it was an active decision to put him in a t-shirt and zip up jacket. One they vetted carefully, no doubt. Back in 2024 he tried to copy Rishi's hoodie and talk about how he knows what it's like to struggle with bills, only for it to be revealed his down to earth jacket was actually £500 from Sandro

 

[teriyakiburns]

Teacher guilty of sexually abusing and murdering adopted baby (archive)

Teachers could be here...

I'm holding my breath here, I don't know what fuckin bushes you can get raped by near that train station. If tommeh's on it it's likely bollocks.

It'll be down the cutting to the south if it's anywhere. Looks like there's lots of undergrowth.

 

[Mound Dweller]

Well it took NINE YEARS but they finally found the Putney Pusher (maybe).
Beeb is light on details because nothing is confirmed, but he's apparently some illuminati banker motherfucker.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9ly0gy10yo/https://archive.is/jflpP

Spoiler: Arrest over push of woman into bus's path in 2017

A man has been arrested over an incident when a woman was allegedly pushed into the path of a bus in south-west London in May 2017.

CCTV footage at the time shows a jogger running along Putney Bridge and appearing to shove the woman, then aged 33, into the road. She escaped serious injury.

On Monday, the Metropolitan Police said officers arrested a 44-year-old man on suspicion of attempted grievous bodily harm. He remains in police custody.

The force had closed its investigation into the incident in 2018 after three men had been arrested and released without charge.

The footage shows the oncoming bus is forced to swerve into the adjacent lane to avoid hitting the woman.

Sgt Mat Knowles said at the time: "It was only due to the superb quick reactions of the bus driver that she was not hit by the vehicle."

Bus driver Oliver Salbris told the Sunday Times following the incident: "If I hadn't swerved, I would have smashed her head.

"It was reflex. The consequences would have been terrible for her – and for me."

It was reported at the time that around 15 minutes after the push, the jogger came back the other way across the bridge, and ignored the victim when she tried to speak to him.

Detectives identified more than 50 people of interest in their investigation before closing the probe in 2018, saying that all lines of inquiry had been exhausted.

How'd they ID him after so long I wonder?
He actually came back 15 mins later and they still failed to nab him at the time, has to be some facial recognition flagging or something surely.