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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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Chaos Theorist said:
Alongside endless antidepressants and gabapentin as well!
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They will routinely fail to cross check whether someone is on SSRIs or worse, SNRIs before they give them tramadol. Tramadol's main mechanism of action is as an SNRI, not an opioid. Giving it to people who are already taking SNRIs or SSRIs completely fucks them up, in a "possible serotonin syndrome" kind of way.
Gabapentin on top of opioids and benzos - commonly prescribed together in the UK - is a really fucking excellent way to die; the respiratory depressive effect of the gabapentin adds on top of the effects of the other two.
 
FedPostalService said:
You get incredibly high rates of mental health problems and other health issues in isolated northern Scottish towns and it’s publicly attributed to “socioeconomic factors” but boomer medical professionals when no journalists are around to destroy them and still believe in honest conversations will tell you it’s down to inbreeding.
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Yeah, I had a small town doc in Scotland tell me this, a while back.
It's people fucking around, no protection, but not really a relationship together except for the ooops baby.
Then, rinse and repeat, you've got tons of half-siblings, half cousins, running around unaware of their relationship. Then they start having kids with each other, splitting up, more kids etc.
It's low class, low IQ, trashy behaviour.
 
FuckedOffToff said:
Yeah, I had a small town doc in Scotland tell me this, a while back.
It's people fucking around, no protection, but not really a relationship together except for the ooops baby.
Then, rinse and repeat, you've got tons of half-siblings, half cousins, running around unaware of their relationship. Then they start having kids, splitting up, more kids etc.
It's low class, low IQ, trashy behaviour.
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Kilsyth. The cops complained to the social work in Kilsyth that the rates of domestics had gone through the roof after FirstBus cancelled the bus service to Camelon.
The reason was simple - now they couldn't get a bus to date people in Camelon, the rates of people dating their own cousins in Kilsyth had gone through the fucking roof. Since they were all fucking related, they kept getting back together and having more domestics.
It was surprisingly common for people in Kilsyth to be cousins both on the maternal and paternal side. The weans were very odd.
Source: a current Scottish Government minister
 
Chaos Theorist said:
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The NHS literally prescribes codeine pills to people alongside tramadol and dihydrocodeine
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That's 3 weak opiods together that have the same mechanism of action on the same opiod receptors.
It particularly confusing to prescribe dihydrocodeine, which is around 3x stronger than codeine, alongside its weaker form.

teriyakiburns said:
Each Codeine pill contains a 500mg dose of paracetamol,
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I'm being a pedant here, but the pills with paracetamol included are co-codamol. They come in strengths of 8/500, which is 8mg codeine/500mg paracetamol, and 30/500.
If you score the 30/500 you're going to have some happy days on the couch off work.
Codeine can be prescribed separately but you don't see it all that much as it's much more effective when combined with paracetamol.
 
Jimmy Dean Bowl said:
If you score the 30/500 you're going to have some happy days on the couch off work.
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I was completely stoned for the first few weeks of the twins' lives (c section recovery). There was a lot of sitting stoned on the couch just generally holding them for about 19 hours a day. Thank god for my mother in law basically taking care of all of us.
 
Jimmy Dean Bowl said:
If you score the 30/500 you're going to have some happy days on the couch off work.
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I have a bunch of that in my medicine cabinet. It's what I was prescribed in lieu of actually getting a proper consultation. Mentioned a couple of pages back before getting myself tangled in a tard argument.
 
On the drugs think. My anecdote is yes, lads in there 20s are on codeine and tramadol and treat it as a normal way to deal with pain/injury/depression.

Rant I had a knee problem which turned out to be a back thing, basically fat putting pressure on one part of the lower spine that nerve being squeezed was the one that received signals from my knee so I thought it was my knee. If I'd gone to a doctor (I tried, lol) I'd be on painkillers. I paid a chiropractor £60. He studied how I moved, where the pain was, listened to my history, proved before and after working on me the difference, explained why (fat) and showed what stretching to do to minimise the pain while I lost weight and built muscle to support that area.


Fuck the nhs. They only treat friends and family of nhs employees.
 
SirCliveSinclairdabbing said:
On the drugs think. My anecdote is yes, lads in there 20s are on codeine and tramadol and treat it as a normal way to deal with pain/injury/depression.

Rant I had a knee problem which turned out to be a back thing, basically fat putting pressure on one part of the lower spine that nerve being squeezed was the one that received signals from my knee so I thought it was my knee. If I'd gone to a doctor (I tried, lol) I'd be on painkillers. I paid a chiropractor £60. He studied how I moved, where the pain was, listened to my history, proved before and after working on me the difference, explained why (fat) and showed what stretching to do to minimise the pain while I lost weight and built muscle to support that area.


Fuck the nhs. They only treat friends and family of nhs employees.
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So much pain problems would be sorted by telling people to lose weight. Our bodies aren’t meant to be that big and it fucks up a ton of shit carrying around that weight.

I felt terrible after bloating during Covid. I got back into weight lifting (which I should never have stopped) and feel amazing again.

I’m glad you got sorted, bong bro. I’ve got a bunch of stories about otherwise perfectly healthy people who get a injury, go the doctors, get pills, and months later are begging family members for any left over cocodemol they have it’s frightening. They’re acting like junkies and everyone ignores it because they get their fix from the NHS.

Chaos Theorist said:
t. Alcoholic
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I’m one of those alcoholics that is up early on a Saturday morning to eat breakfast and hydrate, pack his gym bag, and didn’t touch alcohol.

I’m going to be acting like a full blown alchie over Christmas though. I won’t be touching painkillers for my hangover either.
 
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New age faggots dropping painkillers like smarties, while old school hippies kill pain with the devils lettuce and acid. Even the wreck-heads are gayer in current year.
 
Otterly said:
And the ibuprofen type painkillers fry your kidneys with longer term use. The irony is that as long as you’re not addicted, opiates are actually safer in terms of organ damage. Of course they’re massively addictive for many so they add paracetamol so you dont take too many.
We badly need whole new classes of painkillers - there’s very little promising in the pipeline that has good funding. Some interesting components of marine and other venoms (spider, etc) but the funding isn’t there. Same as antibiotics. We spend billions on marginally just-as-shit SSRI studies and nothing in new antibiotics and painkillers.
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Well, Vioxx and those other new NSAIDs looked that, and then it turns out they gave you a nasty heart attack.

Shame too, since my old man who was in otherwise excellent health save for a herniated disk was willing to risk it. As to the painkillers in general, considering how in-demand they are compared to SSRI's there's always going to be much more scrutiny of bad side effects. No covering up cases of gynecomastia in teenage boys like J&J did with risperidone.
 
FedPostalService said:
I’m one of those alcoholics that is up early on a Saturday morning to eat breakfast and hydrate, pack his gym bag, and didn’t touch alcohol.

I’m going to be acting like a full blown alchie over Christmas though. I won’t be touching painkillers for my hangover either.
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So you admit you are a binge drinker then?
Did I touch a raw nerve?
 
"Binge drinker" is a made-up category of behaviour promoted by muslims who despise the kuffar, lightweights salty they can't hold their beer, angry birds who hate that men go to the pub to get away from nagging women, and the sort of soy-golems who sneer at spoons while sipping halves of quadruple hopped east coast imperial pale I P fucking A and chatting about beard wax. CMV (you can't).
 
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