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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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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.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

I’ve never understood the hysteria about paying for political parties to do stuff. Surely that’s how politics works? Not how it should work, but we all know that’s how everything works in practice.

How much did the windmill companies pay Mad Ed to shill their shit?

 

[weegrumpy]

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We are fucked, of all posts to give him, we’re already the laughingstock of the world, now we’re going on tour ffs

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

I was going to laugh at Reeves getting the boot but then I see Angela Reyner walking back into number 10 with her old job. You can't hate these people enough.

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

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NEW: Andy Burnham has appointed Kanishka Narayan as the UK's first ever Minister for AI

 

[THE DREADED CONE]

NEW: Andy Burnham has appointed Kanishka Narayan as the UK's first ever Minister for AI

As always, "AI" continues to stand for "Actually Indian"

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

The hunting ban's an interesting one because they had to invoke the Acts of Parliament to pass it, essentially making it so the Commons were legislating without the consent of the Lords. It's only one of 7 times that's happened, although another 2 of those were also under Blair - the others were the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999 (making it so EU elections were closed list - you voted for a party, not a candidate) and the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000 (changing the age of consent for gay sex from 18 to 16 to match heterosexual sex, in light of an ECHR ruling).

The ban is in excellent company then. Of course given the changes made to the Lords under Keir it might not have the same problem in the future.

I was going to laugh at Reeves getting the boot but then I see Angela Reyner walking back into number 10 with her old job. You can't hate these people enough.

Good grief, she actually is housing secretary again. Absolute effortlessly terrible choice by Burnham

 

[Dr J]

Absolute effortlessly terrible choice by Burnham

Off to a flying start

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Good grief, she actually is housing secretary again. Absolute effortlessly terrible choice by Burnham

Look, she can't build houses, therefore we can't get an extra million Indians in them, truly a masterplan. She is Our Girl.

 

[AssignedEva]

NEW: Andy Burnham has appointed Kanishka Narayan as the UK's first ever Minister for AI

He was the Online Safety Minister. Here he is a couple months ago on Newsround, struggling to explain to children why he was banning them from social media.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Minister for AI

What I don't get is how it's so hard for us to build reservoirs, power plants, and or even tear down old buildings for housing, but AI datacentres and warehouses can spring up in Devon overnight (i mean i get it, they hate us). AI is a hugely contentious issue for the left, even if there is, potentially, a ton of money in it, so Andy is going to piss off the eco types if he greenlights an "AI Revolution" or whatever.

 

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How does it work? Do they harvest the methane from the fat Muslims for electricity like they do with the pigs in Beyond Thunderdome.

 

[Clem Fandango]

He was the Online Safety Minister. Here he is a couple months ago on Newsround, struggling to explain to children why he was banning them from social media.

Wait a minute, was this the guy who announced they weren't banning VPNs because of "minority groups" and "whistleblowers"? Great to see him failing upwards (or sideways, I can't really tell).

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

What I don't get is how it's so hard for us to build reservoirs, power plants, and or even tear down old buildings for housing, but AI datacentres and warehouses can spring up in Devon overnight (i mean i get it, they hate us). AI is a hugely contentious issue for the left, even if there is, potentially, a ton of money in it, so Andy is going to piss off the eco types if he greenlights an "AI Revolution" or whatever.

I found it quite interesting that, at least in America, communities and towns from both the left and the right are coming together to either get rid of existing data centres or stop new ones from being built.

I think we can all agree that AI is the future, in whatever capacity you see it. But it does make me wonder whether it's more important to get energy prices under control first before constructing buildings that consume huge amounts of water, create noise pollution, and put even more strain on an already overstretched energy grid.

He was the Online Safety Minister. Here he is a couple months ago on Newsround, struggling to explain to children why he was banning them from social media.

Newsround is still a thing? I'm sure the BBC can look around to find extra cash if they axed crap like that.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

I found it quite interesting that, at least in America, communities and towns from both the left and the right are coming together to either get rid of existing data centres or stop new ones from being built.

I think we can all agree that AI is the future, in whatever capacity you see it. But it does make me wonder whether it's more important to get energy prices under control first before constructing buildings that consume huge amounts of water, create noise pollution, and put even more strain on an already overstretched energy grid.

They are hugely unpopular with the general public due to noise pollution, light pollution, and issues with the water and electricity supply. They are also just vicious eyesores, there's a reason places like Mongolia and Colorado usually have them and not towns. I'll admit to being rather sceptical/anti AI but I'm even more sceptical due to how fucking suddenly these things pop up, with no local input, no quango/ngo/unelected eco wankers spaffing all over the place about fish, the councils just ram it through (see also, Astley Warehouse)
Artificial Intelligence and Actual Indians, foisted upon us. No one wants it, so why is it here?

Keir Starmer seen in the pub after resigning. Pint looks flat, hope it's piss.


Russians live firing off coast of Plymouth, shadowed by (what's left of) the Royal Navy (X)

 

[AssignedEva]

Keir Starmer seen in the pub after resigning. Pint looks flat, hope it's piss.

Not his local (The Pineapple), then. Looks like he went to The Assembly House by Kentish Town station.

It's a nice pub. Greene King.

 

[TJT]

Andy Burnham is seriously a Keir Starmer clone. Do they just have a conveyor belt of effeminate, clerk archetype, career politicos?

Oh wait, of course they do. Just roll into Burnham, reset the media cycle, and hope for the best I guess right? Never actually address or change anything.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Alright Andy, I'm ready to go. Just explain stamp duty one more time, I think I get it now but just explain it again just in case.

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

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Alright Andy, I'm ready to go. Just explain stamp duty one more time, I think I get it now but just explain it again just in case.

Spare us a few quid Andeh' for a new vape pen? Cheers pal, aye'up.

 

[EddyRooney]

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Alright Andy, I'm ready to go. Just explain stamp duty one more time, I think I get it now but just explain it again just in case.

I think you're generous. I think she knew exactly what she was doing, but got caught out.

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Angela Rayner MP, appointed Housing Secretary despite dodging tax on a property.

Louise Haigh, convicted fraudster, appointed First Secretary of State.

Matthew McGregor, Hope Not Hate far-left extremist, appointed Director of Political Strategy.

Lucy Powell MP, who dismissed grooming gang survivors as “dog whistling”, promoted to Education Secretary.

This is who Labour picks to run the country: tax dodgers in housing, fraudsters at the top table, far-left activists steering strategy, and grooming gang downplayers in charge of our children’s education.

A total betrayal of British standards, safety and common sense.

 

[quaawaa]

NEW: Andy Burnham has appointed Kanishka Narayan as the UK's first ever Minister for AI

By the way, Google Deepmind (one of the original AI labs) was founded in the UK and still has a large office in London. Burnham could have appointed one of them to lead AI strategy but they're too White and too qualified for him.