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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.

 

[A-Logato]

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

She's got the arms of a sailor. I wonder how they got so big?

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Every time Burnham speaks it's like nails on a chalkboard, like it's not even because he's scouse but because it's this weird combo of scouse mixed with mancurian combined with him always speaking in some sort of false positive tone. Having every second fucking sentence be a HR approved punchline is just killing me.

Gonna be weird to see what happens to this accent if he ever has to make a very important speech. "Hey guys, yeah I know we suffered a major terrorist attack but man speaking of bombs have you ever heard Be Here Now by Oasis?"

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

When are the Scots going to give up on another independence referendum? I’ve been hearing talks that Northern Ireland wants to look more closely at uniting with the Republic of Ireland too. I can’t see that going well for them, unless they want more Pakistanis, although I suppose it wouldn’t make much difference.
Since Iran and America are fighting, it’s nice not to see so many Scottish independence social media accounts.

 

[Ly Erg]

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?

I would say lobbying should be stopped but the minute someone who says this and has a chance of doing so, they will be found dead in a ditch a week later.

When are the Scots going to give up on another independence referendum? I’ve been hearing talks that Northern Ireland wants to look more closely at uniting with the Republic of Ireland too. I can’t see that going well for them, unless they want more Pakistanis, although I suppose it wouldn’t make much difference.
Since Iran and America are fighting, it’s nice not to see so many Scottish independence social media accounts.

SNP will go on about another referendum for pretty much forever as a way to keep the naive voting them. It's their fault that they decided to have other than Scots vote for in it as polls suggest that a majority of non Scots voted to stay. Should of been more ethnic nationalist. Only way nationalists will get independence is the old fashion way and that's not happening with the SNP or any drive for it by a majority of the public.

 

[Clem Fandango]

It's their fault that they decided to have other than Scots vote for in it as polls suggest that a majority of non Scots voted to stay. Should of been more ethnic nationalist. Only way nationalists will get independence is the old fashion way and that's not happening with the SNP or any drive for it by a majority of the public.

Well, kinda. But how else were they going to do it than by address? I don't think there's a database of ethnic Scots anywhere, so the SNP would have to make one before having the referendum, and I don't think most people would trust them to do it properly or well.

Also never going to happen when you have actual Pakis leading the SNP.

 

[Hannibalistique]

I would say lobbying should be stopped but the minute someone who says this and has a chance of doing so, they will be found dead in a ditch a week later.

People are just blind to how much "lobbying"/political corruption is going on everywhere.

Most recent and blatant example is the EU replaceable battery rules (since EU tends to be held up as some shining example of anti-corruption), and who is exempt and who is not, and which of those companies pay a significant amount to people in Brussels.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

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

In fairness - not really - is there anyone they could pick? Like, genuinely, what else is there? The government is filled with scum, you can't make a cabinet without including scum, purely because that's all there seems to be.

 

[Oxyjen]

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

It’s a good question, seeing as a mosque is basically just a prayer floor with a roof over it, used for a short time each day. Mosques I’ve visited in turkey and malaysia have a few lights and a digital prayer clock and that’s it, it’s hardly energy intensive. So it’s probably bullshit greenwashing for PR reasons.

If it is carbon intensive then it implies there’s permanently occupied offices or people living there, which aught to be looked into if that is the case.

 

[A-Logato]

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

All the 8 year old girls they get are ethically sourced and bio degradable.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It’s a good question, seeing as a mosque is basically just a prayer floor with a roof over it, used for a short time each day. Mosques I’ve visited in turkey and malaysia have a few lights and a digital prayer clock and that’s it, it’s hardly energy intensive. So it’s probably bullshit greenwashing for PR reasons.

If it is carbon intensive then it implies there’s permanently occupied offices or people living there, which aught to be looked into if that is the case.

According to Google, they don't run AC unlike other Mosques. Do Churches in England have AC?

 

[Hannibalistique]

All the 8 year old girls they get are ethically sourced and bio degradable.

I'm not sure kidnapping and rape is ethical, but it's at least organic.

 

[teriyakiburns]

According to Google, they don't run AC unlike other Mosques. Do Churches in England have AC?

Rarely.

Insert the usual memes here.

 

[Oxyjen]

According to Google, they don't run AC unlike other Mosques. Do Churches in England have AC?

Very much not. On a proper church the walls are 10ft thick stone and the windows are tiny, so they just don’t get hot inside. Most have some sort of heating, usually electric patio heater style things directed down at the pews. Regardless, in winter you’re keeping your coat on.

I'm not sure kidnapping and rape is ethical, but it's at least organic.

The Prince of Wales is famously devoted to organic stuff. It’s only his brother who was into the rape and kidnapping. Allegedly.

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

Do Churches in England have AC?

Churches within England do not need AC, as the true god protects it's believers from humidity and uncomfortable heat. The true god I preach of is one giant piece of bacon rasher.

Mosques I’ve visited

You need to be disinfected.
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Has anyone ever received a hosepipe ban via text? Do you even/ever get in trouble if you continue to use it? Everyone around me is using one to water their gardens still.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Has anyone ever received a hosepipe ban via text? Do you even/ever get in trouble if you continue to use it? Everyone around me is using one to water their gardens still.

Never received one like that. It’s usually just on the news, and I don’t watch it so I have no idea and thusly use my hosepipe anyway. I’d only use the hosepipe to fill watering cans and water the garden that way otherwise. May as well cut out the middle man can. It’s not like I water anything other than fruit and veg anyway (flower beds make do or they die, likewise the grass).

I think you get £1000 fine if you’re caught using a hose when there’s a ban, but fuck knows how they’d have proof enough for that. Mind you, the way the police and legal system is now, they don’t need proof anyway.

Just don’t wave your hosepipe around anywhere the neighbours can see. Probably good advice for everywhere else in life, really.

 

[Quintex96]

Do Churches in England have AC?

No, they have BC and AD

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

No, they have BC and AD

 

[Clem Fandango]

Has anyone ever received a hosepipe ban via text? Do you even/ever get in trouble if you continue to use it? Everyone around me is using one to water their gardens still.

Yeah, you may think that they have no way of policing it, but they've actually got these hosepipe detector vans. Don't risk it.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

All my grass is FUCKING dead!

 

[BongoMongo]

She's got the arms of a sailor. I wonder how they got so big?

It's easy to overeat and get fat on the public purse. All those sibsisozed meals in the Commons restaurant, and alcohol is rammed with calories.

I can't fully articulate how much I despise Rayner. Her entire life is a demonstration of how getting involved in a union,being useless and getting promoted cos she presses the right flesh. She's deeply incompetent and a fraudster.