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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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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.
 
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Well done to them.
Beating Mexico, in Mexico City is impressive.
Doing it with just 10 men for almost half the game is the stuff of legends.
Norway won't be so tough in comparison.
quotes around "aryan". How many of those players are actual white brits? Barely any IIRC.
They were whiter at the end of the game than the beginning.
One Mixed lad was red carded, and minutes later they then replaced Buyako with YT.
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In my heart of hearts I hope this ends up as the USA vs. England. 1776. Will. Commence. Again.
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I doubt anyone is beating France, so the final will be France v whoever.

Unless Trump makes another phonecall to FIFA headquarters again, à la mysterious suspension suspension. I hope Belgium batter the US then sue the fucking pants off them if the suspension of the red-carded yank is, well, suspended.

We’re all Belgian to(morrow)night, aren’t we?
 
I hope Belgium batter the US then sue the fucking pants off them if the suspension of the red-carded yank is, well, suspended.

We’re all Belgian to(morrow)night, aren’t we?
I'm torn between supporting our funny little waffle friends and supporting the sheer amount of international seething that will be generated if the USA win. England or the USA winning the world cup will cause multiple third world shitholes to implode under the weight of all that cope. You just gotta love the beautiful game
 
Ancient history to some, but my youtoob algo put this up on my feed, found it pretty interesting.


The comparison with Hitler is a stretch too far (you can see the bias right there in the thumbnail), but it's a tale as old as time.

The people of England wanted a foreign group gone but their King sided with that foreign group, out of economic interest. Rings a bell? 🇺🇸🇮🇱

Time is a flat circle.

Back on topic, congrats on the win! is it coming home for real this time?

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I'm torn between supporting our funny little waffle friends and supporting the sheer amount of international seething that will be generated if the USA win. England or the USA winning the world cup will cause multiple third world shitholes to implode under the weight of all that cope. You just gotta love the beautiful game
Fuck England winning, imagine the reeeeeeing from the entirety of Europe if USA win the World Cup. I almost want that to happen just to see the absolute assplosion that would occur right across our beautiful continent. They thought plastic Wrexham fans were bad…

The suspension thing still has me wanting waffle FC to win though.
 
I think Norway will be pretty difficult to beat, they have that guy Haarland? I've never seen a man look so fucking white that he almost looks like a nigger. But hey, at least there team is mostly white Norwegians.
 
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