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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.

 

[thefreshmaker]

London's eminence is not inevitable and is not unassailable. It is artificial, and thus only maintained by direct intervention.

And only one international financial crisis away from oblivion.

Last night, someone not in the UK was asking me why Burnham is (allegedly) about to become the next PM, and I honestly couldn't answer. Why is this guy seen as the next great hope? What is he likely to do that TTK didn't/couldn't?

It isn't a grass roots thing, it's a party-politicking thing.

Starmer isn't as radical as the backbench would like and is ruling with a combination of civil servant rules/blocking and ideologically stupid cabinet members. You can't do anything except more of the same, so the radicals are uppity, but what you can do is introduce another 0.1% tax increase, or 0.1% productivity spending, so actual people hate you as well.

Burnham is at least "different" and in that respect is a final attempt by a party which agrees with how the system operates to attempt to "fix" or lash out against that same system to make it "work".

Imagine a society built entirely to operate a Death Star, where everyone is annoyed that blowing up planets isn't working, but we are all agreed the Death Star being built and firing is the one goal of society. What do you do when the emperor can only fire once a month? You replace him with the guy who will promise to fire every 1.1 months.

A thing where Eastern Europe definitely is better is the higher trust in the society, which is a pity, because UK, till 2000s, used to be so much better, but now its much more unsafe than countries like Ukraine or Romania.

I'd say Britain is probably better, but both societies are in transition, Britain on the backslide and Eastern Europe on the up and up. It feels like Britain is worse in this regard because it is absolutely worse every year.

In a boiling pot, Britain is maybe 80 going up to 100, but Poland is 85 tracking to be on 50 after another decade. The Poles are going to feel much more energized and happy about it, the same way you'd feel poorer going from $100/year to $85K rather than just sitting on $50K your whole life.

 

[Clem Fandango]

I'm really looking forward to the hot weather resulting in more niggers and spastics drowning. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

When did we stop teaching kids about THE SPIRIT OF DARK AND LONELY WATER?

 

[ApeBass]

Oh fuck off. Cunts like you don't care because politics is London centric and you're spared the worst of it.

I want you as your ilk to suffer so you get what rest of us have to put up with.

What have ordinary working-class Londoners been spared? What do you put up with that they don't?

 

[BongoMongo]

When did we stop teaching kids about THE SPIRIT OF DARK AND LONELY WATER?

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

Good Lord I remember this.

Why can we talk about pissing in your tena lady or shitting during childbirth or "playing" on gambling sites but we can't talk sense into kids??

 

[Otterly]

London always seems interesting as there’s always something to do and somewhere to go. But it’s filthy.

It really is. It’s the only city I’ve ever visited in Europe where I can feel my lungs hurting. The air in London is really bad. That awful smell on the tube like burning something permeates everywhere

 

[PandaChai]

When did we stop teaching kids about THE SPIRIT OF DARK AND LONELY WATER?

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

Probably around the time the kids themselves were even darker

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

Speaking of a high trust society, was watching these two guys travel to Japan, constantly praising how everyone is polite, how clean the country is, how everything is just so much better than the UK. They're both Green party (paying) members. These retards will just never understand that mass immigration, especially from shit hole countries like the middle east and Africa is ONE of the main reasons why the UK is no longer a high trust society. Why are they like this, what needs to happen for them to finally "get it"?

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

It really is. It’s the only city I’ve ever visited in Europe where I can feel my lungs hurting. The air in London is really bad. That awful smell on the tube like burning something permeates everywhere

And every single time I’ve been to London I have black snot afterwards. How is the air so bad?

 

[A-Logato]

Why are they like this, what needs to happen for them to finally "get it"?

Sheltered with a hippy dippy world view and no they will never "get it". They've grown up far too disconnected from the issues their policy has caused and even if it finally happens to them then their mental barriers will kick in and they'll blame everything but the Elephant in the room.

 

[BongoMongo]

Speaking of a high trust society, was watching these two guys travel to Japan, constantly praising how everyone is polite, how clean the country is, how everything is just so much better than the UK. They're both Green party (paying) members. These retards will just never understand that mass immigration, especially from shit hole countries like the middle east and Africa is ONE of the main reasons why the UK is no longer a high trust society. Why are they like this, what needs to happen for them to finally "get it"?

Nothing. They'll never understand it. Even if their sisters are raped to death,they'll refuse to admit it. Because in order to do this, they would have to admit they're wrong, and for people whose opinions = their personality= the only thing that matters about them, the idea is unconscionable.

This is what identity politics does and this is how leftists work.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Does anyone feel like Keir Starmer is doing a good job? He's honestly done a fantastic job of uniting the nation despite threats from the lunatic right and the lunatic left and I'm genuinely disgusted at the BBC for doing their best to hide his biggest accomplishments.

Wait, sorry lads. I've got a notification about a firmware update.

What do you think Burnham should do first to clean up Starmer's mess?

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Weather scheduled to be 38Cnear me on Wednesday. This is hell.

 

[BongoMongo]

*Laughs in I'm currently on the north coast of Scotland, it's 19C and we've recently had aircon installed at home*

This said I would run for parliament on a platform of making air con affordable for all native Brits. The niggers don't need it, they're used to the heat

 

[A-Logato]

Well he's out lads.

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

Leadership contest 9th July, new PM by September.

 

[the printer is outo fink]

And every single time I’ve been to London I have black snot afterwards. How is the air so bad?

The snots thing is mainly caused by the tube but it's quite funny because when people move to London they have black snots for the first six weeks or so, but after that they go back to normal. Like something has changed in your body or maybe it just gives up trying to filter it. But if you leave London and come back, your snots go black again.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Well now I gotta make the thread. Fucks sakes.

 

[i440BX]

The snots thing is mainly caused by the tube but it's quite funny because when people move to London they have black snots for the first six weeks or so, but after that they go back to normal. Like something has changed in your body or maybe it just gives up trying to filter it. But if you leave London and come back, your snots go black again.

Why? Aren't the Londoners draconian about car emissions and polluants? I never heard of black snot where I live.

 

[Walter Jackson Freeman II]

Well he's out lads.

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO!!!!

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Why? Aren't the Londoners draconian about car emissions and polluants? I never heard of black snit where I live.

I got it on the tube when I used to have to go in for work. Not like 'black black' but discoloured for sure. The tubes old, it's amazing it's even still open.