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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.

 

[Otterly]

Invoke eminent domain and move the developments over a little. This happens all the time around the world and even in other UK projects so why should these developments specifically get special treatment? By saying 'reserved' it sounds like nothing has been built or even permitted so it's even less of a problem.

I know people whose homes were purchased for hs2. They got under the value of their houses, it was done really badly, and now their family homes rot because not a thing has, or ever will, be built.
@femboy fart huffer rather like @UselessRubberKeyboard this also went on in the northern town I grew up in. Cars would pull up outside the local newsagents type shop everyone hung out at by lunch and girls would get in. Always a bottle of something in the car and cigarettes. They all bragged about older boyfriends (at first anyway) and I was a naive little thing who saw said shop as the source of a 10p mix, and had nothing to do with it but yeah, they were being groomed and goodness knows what else. That was a few decades ago, it’s been going on for a very long time everywhere that had a Pakistani population. I’ve just remembered that the school tried to stop us leaving the grounds at lunch as well - it was clearly they knew what was going on.
And yes it’s covered up isn’t it with ‘chavs being chavs.’ Just like that girl up in Scotland with the axe, the children are demonised and the adult men somehow get way with it. I look back now and see a lot of stuff in a very different light.
Mexico City is also at high altitude - England did pretty well here

 

[BongoMongo]

I hope the "English" (lol. No. It's nearly all niggers and niggers will never be English) football team loses.

A win will placate the plebs. I don't want people placated. I want them fucking furious and rioting. I want Muslims scared and I want politicians shitting themselves.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Your team overcame the most blatant rigging since Turkey v USA. You've earned it, lad. You've earned it.

Honestly the three biggest decisions were completely correct. The follow through was unlucky because his foot bounced off the ball but it's still studs up into the knee so pretty much a cut and dry dangerous play red card, and Kane kicking that guys boot was still a foul that was incredibly unlucky.

If England's penalty wasn't given then I'd have agreed with you, but that was honestly an incredible reffing performance. I was convinced it was going to turn into the most violent match since Portugal vs Holland but he basically snuffed everything out and got everyone to calm down. If VAR had checked that shoulder check just before the water break we could have been REALLY fucked.

But what matters is WE FUCKING WON. It was INTENSE. It was drama filled. It PUT HAIRS ON YOUR FUCKING CHEST.

FUCK YEAH ENGLAND.

 

[Oxyjen]

If the videos and outrage on Twitter hadn’t happened, that poor bastard would have been beaten up and robbed by the pack of , and then falsely arrested and abused by the cops, and he’d have probably been imprisoned and have a life long criminal record for it too. Cops really are scum.

As it is I bet the don’t drop the charges, even though he’s just blindly trying to defend himself during a beating, and clearly immediately stops once he realises a female cop seems to be the one assaulting him. Fucks sake.

I’m still seething about this. They want to ban X and censor YouTube so this shit can be covered up more effectively, and require everyone’s ID to use the Internet so that you can be vanned for sharing it.
It’s fucking over.

 

[RetardMaxxer]

"I am saying to you, do not report this to the press, as you will be charged for disturbing the peace."

Do it anyways and name the cop

 

[teriyakiburns]

I’m still seething about this. They want to ban X and censor YouTube so this shit can be covered up more effectively, and require everyone’s ID to use the Internet so that you can be vanned for sharing it.
It’s fucking over.

It's not over until the right-sized differently-abled bonus-hole having person of gender sings.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

I’m still seething about this. They want to ban X and censor YouTube so this shit can be covered up more effectively, and require everyone’s ID to use the Internet so that you can be vanned for sharing it.
It’s fucking over.

I'll likely lose my job if the social media/VPN ban goes through because I am a stubborn autistic retard who refuses to bend for the state, it's like the fucking jab all over again. And to think, this ban, scrapping FPTP, importing endless migrants are just the actions of well-off politicians desperate to stay vooted in and keep their jobs.

 

[Mound Dweller]

I'll likely lose my job if the social media/VPN ban goes through because I am a stubborn autistic retard who refuses to bend for the state, it's like the fucking jab all over again. And to think, this ban, scrapping FPTP, importing endless migrants are just the actions of well-off politicians desperate to stay vooted in and keep their jobs.

Honest to God I don't think they have the administrative apparatus to do anything more than pretend to ban it TV loicense style, but I've already got my onions in a row regardless (as should we all). So soon as anything of that nature gets tabled for a reading I'm Hamradiomaxxxxing like it's Yugoslavia circa 1944.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

It is NOT coming home. We have had enough things coming here. Has the trophy gotten immigration clearance and proved it deserves residency? Thought not. It cannot fit in a small boat it is too heavy it would sink the boat.

 

[Zaryiu2]

TOTAL ARYAN VICTORY.
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The horror... They unleashed upon the world the nightmare of BRITISH FANS ARROGANCE! DOOM!

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Farage to make a public statement about his public life in 1 hour (2pm). It's so over. What is more alarming is that a Sri Lankan is being more based than Lowe.

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

What is more alarming is that a Sri Lankan is being more based than Lowe.

Come again? Zia the faggot, got it.
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There is speculation that Boris is returning to politics, funny that Reform are now full of old Boriswave MPs..

 

[Anti Lolicon Bomb]

If Farage steps down that is a HUGE opportunity for Restore to just gobble them up, also perfect timing for Labour to have recently declined the calls for a GE if true.

I don't think Reform survive without Farage, Tice is deeply unlikeable.

 

[Pat Mustard]

If Farage steps down that is a HUGE opportunity for Restore to just gobble them up, also perfect timing for Labour to have recently declined the calls for a GE if true.

I don't think Reform survive without Farage, Tice is deeply unlikeable.

I'm so beyond done with Restore Reform bickering at this point, I've made my dislike for Farage clear but I don't think the party will collapse without him, it was gaining traction with Tice before he came back. There isn't a single likeable Reform candidate, I don't like Zia but he's competent during shit like question time at least.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

I am somewhat bored with Restore too. Lowe purposefully aimed to be for the natives but is clearly not. If you found Islam so barbaric, why did you let your son marry an "ex" muslim? The rape gang enquiry has done nothing at all, except get some nice little plugs from HECKING BASED Azmagold.

I cannot say what should happen because it would be viewed as a fedpost.

 

[Hitman One]

Hopefully Farage does a Budd Dwyer.

 

[Monopolywheel]

FARAGE RESIGNING

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

I don't understand why he's resigning as MP but running for a new Clacton by-election? This is extremely risky, especially since Restore will most likely push for a candidate there.

 

[Anti Lolicon Bomb]

I don't understand why he's resigning as MP but running for a new Clacton by-election? This is extremely risky, especially since Restore will most likely push for a candidate there.

It destroys the media narrative if he wins again, it is basically a way to let the public declare they don't believe the media over him. Clever.

 

[Monopolywheel]

I don't understand why he's resigning as MP but running for a new Clacton by-election? This is extremely risky, especially since Restore will most likely push for a candidate there.

I'm guessing it's because of not declaring money, if he resigns and then wins the by election then that whole point against him becomes irrelevant