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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.
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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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Otterly said:
Have you ever had them made fresh with duck fat or beef dripping, or is this heretical opinion of your based on (allah forgive me for uttering the words) auntie Bessie’s frozen?
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In this crazy world, Otterly, kids these days won't eat duck fat as it's not vegan, don't know where the freezer is, let alone the oven, and if it can't be air-fried or ordered on a phone, it isn't food.

Long gone are the days when people knew what cooking was, but couldn't do it. We're now at a place where cooking is something that's done on Bake-Off and read about in history books.

I would be shocked if this toad-in-the-hole hater can even make decent mash (the secret is cream and chopped chives), let alone a meal.
 
Chaos Theorist said:
Yorkshire puddings are cheap tasty filler to go with Sunday Roasts
Toad in the Hole is just cheap filler food that tastes good because of sausages and gravy
Imagine waking up and being angry at Toad in the Hole
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More like stick in the shit IMO, gravy is also overrated but it's nice situationally unlike YPs which are always garbage.
Otterly said:
Have you ever had them made fresh with duck fat or beef dripping, or is this heretical opinion of your based on (allah forgive me for uttering the words) auntie Bessie’s frozen?
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Frozen food? I'm a heretic I'm not poor.
I have always hated Sunday roasts, parsnips stink of dirt, Yorkshire puddings have the texture of manure, the meat braised to oblivion.
My grandma and dad used to make them from scratch every Sunday or whenever else they felt like torturing us, took them hours which is why we were all starving by the time the "food" was ready and the hunger left us no choice but to consume the manmade horrors.
You know how in Sardinia it's high cuisine to consume maggot loaded cheese and how for Nordics they really love stinky fermented fish? The Anglo version is disgusting in flavour or origin it's just sinfully bleh.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
kids these days won't eat duck fat as it's not vegan
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Dearie me. This poor misguided child has been fed some sort of upper class overcooked boarding school food. A good Yorkshire pudding is thing from heaven. Fluffy in the middle, crispy on the outside. Bliss.
It’s no wonder everyone’s got colon cancer, they eat slop.
Mound Dweller said:
stinky fermented fish
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They don’t, but they sure love telling foreigners it’s a delicacy. Surströmming isn’t something they actually eat with any frequency.
 
Mound Dweller said:
More like stick in the shit IMO, gravy is also overrated but it's nice situationally unlike YPs which are always garbage.

Frozen food? I'm a heretic I'm not poor.
I have always hated Sunday roasts, parsnips stink of dirt, Yorkshire puddings have the texture of manure, the meat braised to oblivion.
My grandma and dad used to make them from scratch every Sunday or whenever else they felt like torturing us, took them hours which is why we were all starving by the time the "food" was ready and the hunger left us no choice but to consume the manmade horrors.
You know how in Sardinia it's high cuisine to consume maggot loaded cheese and how for Nordics they really love stinky fermented fish? The Anglo version is disgusting in flavour or origin it's just sinfully bleh.
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With all due respect, you sound like a right miserable twat. Though I’m curious, what do you like to eat, day-to-day?
 
There's something awfully funny about Brits arguing about which of their food is better. WW2 and it's consequences have been disastrous for British cuisine.
 
Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
With all due respect, you sound like a right miserable twat. Though I’m curious, what do you like to eat, day-to-day?
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Odds on "huel, soy latte and whatever the Johnny Foreigner Ubereats man delivers".

Otterly said:
Dearie me. This poor misguided child has been fed some sort of upper class overcooked boarding school food. A good Yorkshire pudding is thing from heaven. Fluffy in the middle, crispy on the outside. Bliss.
It’s no wonder everyone’s got colon cancer, they eat slop.
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Preach it, sister. Home made duckfat roasties, yorkshire puds, a smorgasboard of mashed/cheesed cabbage, carrot, suede and parsnips, squeezed on the plate next to a fresh joint of beef, lamb, pork or a crispy-skinned cut of chicken, all blathered in a selection of gravy, mint sauce or apple sauce, is a meal fit for a king. And they say the British have no good dishes, ha!

Cooking that with fresh veg from the garden is what life is all about. It wasn't called "The Good Life" for nothing.
 
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Mound Dweller said:
My grandma and dad used to make them from scratch every Sunday or whenever else they felt like torturing us, took them hours which is why we were all starving by the time the "food" was ready and the hunger left us no choice but to consume the manmade horrors.
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I am so sorry that you had shitty family cooks growing up, denying you the joys of an actually decent Yorkshire pudding and other stuff.
Chunky Salsa said:
I always found Huel so fucking weird. It seems made for people that dislike being happy.
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The name always sounds like the noise I'd make after drinking it, just a retching 'huel' sound.
 
Chunky Salsa said:
I always found Huel so fucking weird. It seems made for people that dislike being happy.
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To understand Huel, you have be able to answer yes to the following:

Are you:

  • Too busy to cook?
  • Too lazy to exercise?
  • Living in a bug hive?
  • Only a fan of The Matrix films because of the gruel they ate?
  • Longing to beg your master for "more" like Oliver Twist?
  • Incapable of thinking and just consume product, waiting for next product?
Then we have the perfect, disgusting, grainy, possibly-carcinogenic slop for you!
Huel; when human food is a chore to cook and animal food is too flavourful, try Huel! Huel! - looks like gruel, tastes like stool!
 
A-Logato said:
There's something awfully funny about Brits arguing about which of their food is better. WW2 and it's consequences have been disastrous for British cuisine.
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Rationing ended in the 1950s. Americans denigrating British food is hilarious given the slop you serve at Thanksgiving like Mac and Cheese out of box topped with marshmallows and crushed up Cheetos. Give me British beef wellington any day.
 
Snekposter said:
Food, probably, unlike everyone else on your island that indulges in man-made horrors beyond comprehension.
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It is not enough to catch the fish, one must punish it for daring to exist. True British cuisine is a statement of derision towards nature; a fist held up in the face of the demiurge. Same reason we turn sheep into meat sacks, and blend up pigs into meatballs then with a straight face call them faggots.

EDIT: People are being srs, so....

British food is fine, it's just a mix of French and German with a few twists tossed in there. The bad examples of it are largely from poor people being unable to cook anything. It is however, very calorie dense. You work an office job and eat an English Breakfast with black pudding, then some ham and cheese sandwiches for lunch; and then for dinner some Shepherds Pie, you're going to balloon. Those foods are meant for builders Steve, not you, you're an accountant. Have a salad, and a boiled egg.

EDIT2: Also I legit think that the obesity problem in the UK is massively being downplayed and needs to really have work put in to addressing it. Especially among the poors. You see teens enter sixth form, get a job and seemingly overnight blow up to chubsters. It's insane.
 
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Must be a slow news day when we’re discussing the joys and horrors (for some) of British food.

Fuck immigrants, fuck Keir, fuck trannies, and fuck me, please.
 
Mao Hao Hao said:
I am so sorry that you had shitty family cooks growing up, denying you the joys of an actually decent Yorkshire pudding and other stuff.

The name always sounds like the noise I'd make after drinking it, just a retching 'huel' sound.
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It's funny, despite having yorkshire pudding quite regularily growing up, I only just tried it with beef on it in my later years. Before that it was just gravy on it, served as a side.

Whoever thought to put meat on it made it a game changer.
 
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