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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]

Footballs dogshit

 

[Clem Fandango]

Footballs dogshit

I disagree, I think football is a good sport and fun to watch. It's definitely less boring than a lot of other sports.

But even if it is dogshit, it's at the very least our dogshit. Or our... dog? I'm not sure how the metaphor should go.

What I'm saying is it's definitely English, and so we should definitely be the best at it. Or try to be. We're pretty good at inventing sports the rest of world wants to play, and I think that's pretty great.

 

[geckogoy]

I used to see dudes online say repulsive things like 'once the demographics change recruitment will pick up again' but i guess given the long term commitment to drone warships they have finally accepted that is never going to happen

 

[Changed later]

but i guess given the long term commitment to drone warships they have finally accepted that is never going to happen

I would be genuinely surprised if even a single one of those droneships gets made, this is just more looting of the public's coinpurse.

 

[geckogoy]

I would be genuinely surprised if even a single one of those droneships gets made, this is just more looting of the public's coinpurse.

You know it kindof slipped my mind they were out of money, yea they are doomed

Hmm today I will invent the first fully unmanned destroyer (I have catastrophic crew shortages)

Hmm today I will save billions because of my catastrophic budget shortfall (automated things are cheaper o algo)

e: I mean notably the type 45 is basically already pointless anyways, out of 6 they appear to be able to field between 0 and 1 at any given time, I believe that is both huge shipyard personnel shortfalls in addition to not being able to crew them

 

[Mussolini’s Merkin]

You know it kindof slipped my mind they were out of money, yea they are doomed

Hmm today I will invent the first fully unmanned destroyer (I have catastrophic crew shortages)

Hmm today I will save billions because of my catastrophic budget shortfall (automated things are cheaper o algo)

e: I mean notably the type 45 is basically already pointless anyways, out of 6 they appear to be able to field between 0 and 1 at any given time, I believe that is both huge shipyard personnel shortfalls in addition to not being able to crew them

There was a time that the Royal Navy had so many ships it was no problem at all to outfit one as a test bed, that’s one of the reasons they were always near the forefront of naval technology if not the leaders. Now I don’t think they have a single ship to spare.
It’s not like there’s any real shipyards left either, there was a time when the entire world would buy British warships for their fleet.
I’ll go old man grumble somewhere else for a while.

 

[penava]

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

There was a time that the Royal Navy had so many ships it was no problem at all to outfit one as a test bed, that’s one of the reasons they were always near the forefront of naval technology if not the leaders. Now I don’t think they have a single ship to spare.
It’s not like there’s any real shipyards left either, there was a time when the entire world would buy British warships for their fleet.
I’ll go old man grumble somewhere else for a while.

Now we provide the world with an endless supply of Pat Butcher Type Dot-Cotton (hand picked by niggers) destroyers.

 

[teriyakiburns]

BBC is going hard against people smugglers and fake asylum seekers at the moment. I expect they're feeling the pressure from the right, because a year or so ago they wouldn't have run a story like this (live) without waxing lyrical about the entrepreneurial spirit of the smuggler in question.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

I expect they're feeling the pressure from the right

And having orcs invade their nice middle class areas now. Their pret-a-manger is served by some babbling Indian who fucks up the order. They had a near miss with some somali on an e-scooter. Selfishness all the way down

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

Pret-a-manger is dogshite

luv me costa, luv me coffeh, luv me bacon sarnie

 

[Lime]

0:33

Does Britain have open air slave markets like a true Islamic nation yet? I haven't been following too closely.

 

[Oxyjen]

Pret-a-manger is dogshit

It is now. 10 years ago it was kind of primo and had fancy food, expensive but worth it, nice staff.

 

[EddyRooney]

Does Britain have open air slave markets like a true Islamic nation yet? I haven't been following too closely.

I should be positively astounded to hear of anything that could be said FOR it. Why, the whole bloody place is the most unspeakable matriarchy in the whole history of civilization! Look at yourself, and the way your wife and her strumpet of a mother push you through the hoop! As far as I can see, American men have been totally emasculated. They're like slaves! They die like flies from coronary thrombosis, while their women sit under hairdryers, eating chocolates and arranging for every second Tuesday to be some sort of Mother's Day! And this positively infantile preoccupation with bosoms. In all my time in this wretched, godforsaken country, the one thing that has appalled me most of all is this preposterous preoccupation with bosoms. Don't you realize they have become the dominant theme in American culture: in literature, advertising and all fields of entertainment and everything. I'll wager you anything you like: if American women stopped wearing brassieres, your whole national economy would collapse overnight.

 

[Lime]

your whole national economy would collapse overnight.

I hear the great American collapse is coming soon with the Chinese and Jews planning a nation wide French style protest. Very sad innit I'll drink my sweet iced tea to ease the pain. I'll only use 4 cups of sugar to match the dire situation.

 

[Otterly]

luv me costa

Costa is owned by Coca Cola now I think and all their food and drinks are now inedible/in drinkable shite PLUS they had some awful advert with some pooner with ‘top surgery’ scars.
Support your local independent cafe

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

Costa is owned by Coca Cola now I think and all their food and drinks are now inedible/in drinkable shite PLUS they had some awful advert with some pooner with ‘top surgery’ scars.
Support your local independent cafe

One of the independent cafes/coffee houses around my area is specifically run by only troons/pooners or faggots, they have special pronoun badges, I'll just make my drinks at home.

 

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Feeling particularly demoralised today seeing news of that disgusting paki being released from prison and the civil service/courts wringing their hands and claiming to be unable to deport.

Who the fuck runs the UK? Who is actually in charge?

Even the opposition can only give mealy mouthed: ‘We’ll look to see if we can close the loophole’ - why is there any ‘look’, why is there any ‘if’!? If you’re not going to shoot the piece of shit right now then do whatever needs to be done to get rid of this subhuman and do it before close of business today.

I saw: ‘Pakistan don’t want him’ - who gives a fuck, the UK never fucking wanted any of them! Task a small group of special ops to just drop him off in Islamabad, have it done within twenty four hours, let them deal with him how they deal with any other illegal that ends up in their country (insert ‘they send them to Britain’ joke). Never let him back in the UK again, this shouldn’t even be a conversation, the fact that taxpayers paid for his food and safety and everything else should be a source of deep national shame already.

The UK is deeply unwell, this is genuinely the worst chapter of its modern history. Civil servants and petty bureaucrats, backed up by globalist judges and lawyers run the UK, they are a malignant cancer and must be extirpated. The media needs a scythe taking to it as they sweep and narrativise for them. This is not a difficult thing to achieve if the will was there.

What are they actually afraid of, why are they so delicately dancing around the idea of changing the law? Is it because it would - shock horror - make deportations a lot easier if a more nationalist government were to get in? It’s an absolute disgrace and makes me truly sick.

‘Look though, the footy team won, lots of darkies in there, everything’s alright after all! Look at eyelashes man, isn’t he cool! All better now eh!’ Wretched.

 

[RGK5H]

Task a small group of special ops to just drop him off in Islamabad, have it done within twenty four hours, let them deal with him how they deal with any other illegal that ends up in their country

Or pull a JFG and drop him off in the most emptiest part of the country

 

[Lime]

Feeling particularly demoralised today seeing news of that disgusting paki being released from prison and the civil service/courts wringing their hands and claiming to be unable to deport.

Who the fuck runs the UK? Who is actually in charge?

Even the opposition can only give mealy mouthed: ‘We’ll look to see if we can close the loophole’ - why is there any ‘look’, why is there any ‘if’!? If you’re not going to shoot the piece of shit right now then do whatever needs to be done to get rid of this subhuman and do it before close of business today.

I saw: ‘Pakistan don’t want him’ - who gives a fuck, the UK never fucking wanted any of them! Task a small group of special ops to just drop him off in Islamabad, have it done within twenty four hours, let them deal with him how they deal with any other illegal that ends up in their country (insert ‘they send them to Britain’ joke). Never let him back in the UK again, this shouldn’t even be a conversation, the fact that taxpayers paid for his food and safety and everything else should be a source of deep national shame already.

The UK is deeply unwell, this is genuinely the worst chapter of its modern history. Civil servants and petty bureaucrats, backed up by globalist judges and lawyers run the UK, they are a malignant cancer and must be extirpated. The media needs a scythe taking to it as they sweep and narrativise for them. This is not a difficult thing to achieve if the will was there.

What are they actually afraid of, why are they so delicately dancing around the idea of changing the law? Is it because it would - shock horror - make deportations a lot easier if a more nationalist government were to get in? It’s an absolute disgrace and makes me truly sick.

‘Look though, the footy team won, lots of darkies in there, everything’s alright after all! Look at eyelashes man, isn’t he cool! All better now eh!’ Wretched.

Hey if enough people get involved you can break your fragile prison system. The point of a Justice system is to stop mob justice. But when the system doesn't provide a good intermediary then it fails in its function.