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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.

 

[General Zigger]

Hello fellow English kiwis, I heard chat control 1.0 is getting rammed through next week. Is this true?

I’m noticing that the recent internet control bills always seem to start in the UK and then make there way over here to the US a short while later. Hoping for the best for you and that you all apply enough pressure to your politicians that hopefully it doesn’t become law.

 

[BongoMongo]

The government has their orders from Davos, and nothing will stop them from carrying them out.

 

[specular1]

Another two-tier video has been circulating on twitter, showing a boy being assaulted by a group before getting slammed into a shutter by a policewoman, leaving the assailants to flee the scene. The victim, drunk and likely assuming he was still being mobbed as opposed to dealing with law enforcement, throws a punch before realising.

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He is then roughly shoved into the police car, with the aggressive policeman giving the camera a guilty glance once he realised he was being recorded.

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Birmingham has responded to the video, saying the only resulting arrest from the incident was the victim, arrested and charged with assault of a police officer. They go onto say that they have no concerns, and are even satisfied with the police conduct.

We are aware of footage showing the arrest of a man after a disorder on Broad Street at 1.30am on 21 June. Officers found a group of men fighting. As the incident was dealt with, an officer was punched. One man was arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer.

The incident has been reviewed, and we have no concerns over the officer's actions and we are satisfied that they were reasonable and proportionate in the circumstances. We would ask that footage is not further shared to allow the legal process to take its course.

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[KeeKeeCooch]

Another two-tier video has been circulating on twitter, showing a boy being assaulted by a group before getting slammed into a shutter by a policewoman, leaving the assailants to flee the scene. The victim, likely assuming he was still being mobbed as opposed to dealing with law enforcement throws a punch before realising.

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He is then roughly shoved into the police car, with the aggressive policeman giving the camera a guilty glance once he realised he was being recorded.

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Birmingham has responded to the video, saying the only resulting arrest from the incident was the victim, arrested and charged with assault of a police officer. They go onto say that they have no concerns, and are even satisfied with the police conduct.

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I fucking hate pigs. Love pork tho.

 

[Gregis]

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.

support firebomb your local businesses!

 

[geckogoy]

I think the british are down bad enough that its in poor taste to make fun of them this year tbh

 

[RetardMaxxer]

Task a small group of special ops to just drop him off in Islamabad,

Don't forget his wife and children. Then after hes in Pakistan sell his remaining assets to pay for the bill. Or you know, capital punishment

 

[Gian-Luca Caluga]

I think the british are down bad enough that its in poor taste to make fun of them this year tbh

Oh no pal, crack on. In 2033, when President Mamdani is sworn in, the few remaining survivors on this Godforsaken island will shit themselves laughing. Once they hear about it of course, once someone with both arms still attached summons enough energy to operate the windup radio out of the Innovations catalogue.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

I think the british are down bad enough that its in poor taste to make fun of them this year tbh

Just take the mick outta the government then since we get jailed if we do.

 

[Oxyjen]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes…




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[Heinrich Maneuver]

ALL pubs are allowed to stay open til 5am for the Mexico match (X). The government initially said it would not relax licensing laws, but U-turned. The GDP is gonna go UP, rejoice.

At the same time, there's some kerfuffle going on with the Green councillor in Hounslow telling pubs in Chiswick they can't put chairs and tables outside for patrons. The council has now backed down after protestors gathered on the river.

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

ALL pubs are allowed to stay open til 5am for the Mexico match (X). The government initially said it would not relax licensing laws, but U-turned. The GDP is gonna go UP, rejoice.

At the same time, there's some kerfuffle going on with the Green councillor in Hounslow telling pubs in Chiswick they can't put chairs and tables outside for patrons. The council has now backed down after protestors gathered on the river.

To add more context, I wish I was joking, this is the Green Party Councillor in question.

 

[No-Eyed Square Guy]

Ask the man on the street to estimate how much of the population is black or asian,and he'll confidently tell you a figure somewhere between 20% and 50%, despite both being single digits. Officially, anyway. Most people think the TV reflects reality.

The last time I saw one of those surveys of Americans—I was writing a thing about imagined demographics and looked at a bunch of surveys—the US public believed that over a quarter of us are gay, a third of us are Jews, and half of us are black.

That was last century.

The most interesting survey I found was of Germans in 1970. They thought half of everybody was gay. I couldn't figure out which propaganda had made them think that, but it definitely worked. It almost coincides with that pedo adoption program they ran, but not quite—as if in preparation for it, they'd "normalized" faggotry to an implausible degree.

It gave me the idea that a lot of inexplicable-seeming government misbehavior results from propaganda working better than they think it does—especially on themselves. Democracy (government by media) drives itself mad (becomes "accelerationist").

 

[only shallow]

Another two-tier video has been circulating on twitter, showing a boy being assaulted by a group before getting slammed into a shutter by a policewoman, leaving the assailants to flee the scene.

How the fuck did she manage to cut through the crowd to pin him in particular?!

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

To add more context, I wish I was joking, this is the Green Party Councillor in question.
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it appears said councillor (or his staff) has sent the police around to question Alastair Hilton, (X) who initially brought the issue of pub seating being banned in Chiswick to twitter and questioned the councils decisions. Alastair did not schedule a protest outside a councilman's house, he suggested people should meet on the riverside to show how many people wanted to drink (and spend money) at the pub.

I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit on video (watch it!) that I did not break the law at all. They came to threaten me. To warn me off tweeting about councillors and the council. This is modern Britain. This is the police state. Please, please, please watch this video. It does involve me using very bad language, but this has got to be seen. Police coming out to threaten someone who hasn’t committed a crime. I’m fuming.

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[teriyakiburns]

Labour failed to prepare for power, admits PM's former top aide (live)

McSweeney all but admitting earlier speculation that Starmer was going to be a caretaker leader while Labour recovered from the absolute shellacking they got under Corbyn. They didn't plan to win and that's why Starmer's entire term has been such a shambles.

 

[Gregis]

likely assuming he was still being mobbed

I had the luxury of watching a bystander perspective and not being attacked by niggers, and I only realized that the woman who came up and shoved him into the shutters was a cop at the moment he was punching her.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Labour failed to prepare for power, admits PM's former top aide (live)

McSweeney all but admitting earlier speculation that Starmer was going to be a caretaker leader while Labour recovered from the absolute shellacking they got under Corbyn. They didn't plan to win and that's why Starmer's entire term has been such a shambles.

Labour didn’t plan to win.
Davos planned a handover between their employees.

 

[Lunatic Fringe]

Wondering if that councillor likes to cycle along that path and with the warmer weather people are outside more often. Standing with friends when there isn't enough seating and blocking the path a bit.

It's exactly the petting and personal crap that councillor do.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I had the luxury of watching a bystander perspective and not being attacked by niggers, and I only realized that the woman who came up and shoved him into the shutters was a cop at the moment he was punching her.

I hope he pleads not guilty. And I hope she trips and breaks her teeth.