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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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A-Logato said:
The art of "hiding your power level" is lost among kids these days. They just have to tell everyone about what they are thinking with little to no filter, edgelord or not. Though I'll admit I got asked to attend a debate club years ago and got banned after one session because I took my "political filter" off for an hour.
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I always thought debate clubs were merely supposed to teach and refine rhetoric technique. You know, stuff like "This House believes the UK should get rid of all nuclear weapons" or "This House believes that we should ban meat" and then one side argues for, and one side argues against, even if it's at odds with what the people on each team personally believe... and the "winner" is the one who was the most persuasive even though they won't have changed anyone's mind in the audience. I don't know what you'd say in that context to get you banned!
 
AssignedEva said:
I don't know what you'd say in that context to get you banned!
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Debate is about winning, nothing more. Its why gish works because you slam so many questions that the other side cannot respond to all of them, thus they lose points. Like so many things, its boiled down into a sport and then its just stupid little games.

Nothing will be as absurd to me as being in Sheffield, and seeing people compete over who can hit a snare drum the most times in 60 seconds. People gathered around, some shocked to see just how fast the rolls were. Hallam was of course represented by a small pasty boy looking man, he could really hit it fast for 60 seconds. Not to be over dramatic, but I nearly vomited.

I keep meaning to go back to Sheffield and see if getting of the train is still greeted with a giant shit tower block of flats in reenforced concrete.

Thank you for reading my short story on tales from the north. Next post will be about how Bradford has a genuine feeling of evil as you trapse round its darkened streets looking for a a shop to sell you some window wipers.
 
FedPostalService said:
I tried to get one before. I got kicked out of Greggs.
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Were you being racist?
@ParasiteSteve park hill? yes it’s still there, I think it got protected status or something which is odd because I’d have given it some of that nice dynamite that folds it in on itself and set it to the 1812 overture.
The one way system as you get near the station is designed by Satan himself, possibly the flats were too.
 
Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Heathrow airports have cancelled flights due to high winds. Ferries, trains and road disruptions are occurring because of warnings of wind and/or snow.

Keep an eye on how long this goes on for. They don't want you travelling over Xmas.

Anyone notice how light it still is? I know today is the last of the short days, apparently, but it's usually pitch black by now.
 
AssignedEva said:
I always thought debate clubs were merely supposed to teach and refine rhetoric technique. You know, stuff like "This House believes the UK should get rid of all nuclear weapons" or "This House believes that we should ban meat" and then one side argues for, and one side argues against, even if it's at odds with what the people on each team personally believe... and the "winner" is the one who was the most persuasive even though they won't have changed anyone's mind in the audience. I don't know what you'd say in that context to get you banned!
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See I was under that impression too but at the time I was attending a very liberal university and I'm not a very liberal person so I think you know how that went. We were expected to debate politics, I presented my politics and I wasn't willing to bend the knee in their struggle session so naturally I must be pushed out to the out group.

Fun times.
 
Otterly said:
Were you being racist?
@ParasiteSteve park hill? yes it’s still there, I think it got protected status or something which is odd because I’d have given it some of that nice dynamite that folds it in on itself and set it to the 1812 overture.
The one way system as you get near the station is designed by Satan himself, possibly the flats were too.
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A graded, listed social housing tower block. I guess it really is "grim up norf".
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
You must be some kind of suvvun shandy drinking poofta. It's still light-ish in the glorious norff. Big fireball in sky go away quick, me and norvan monkey friends no like darky.
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I thought it was unusually bright as well, but then I realised it was an hour earlier than I thought it was. Made sense then.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Heathrow airports have cancelled flights due to high winds. Ferries, trains and road disruptions are occurring because of warnings of wind and/or snow.
Keep an eye on how long this goes on for. They don't want you travelling over Xmas.
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Why would "they" specifically not want people travelling over Christmas? It is really gusty out.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Heathrow airports have cancelled flights due to high winds. Ferries, trains and road disruptions are occurring because of warnings of wind and/or snow.

Keep an eye on how long this goes on for. They don't want you travelling over Xmas.

Anyone notice how light it still is? I know today is the last of the short days, apparently, but it's usually pitch black by now.
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Lol when I get a full refund on my cross country train tickets as the train is an hour late but I’ve jumped an earlier one as they don’t check tickets when there’s travel chaos.
 
AssignedEva said:
Why would "they" specifically not want people travelling over Christmas? It is really gusty out.
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It is bloody windy out, some of the worst I've ever seen yesterday. Cancelling flights is fine, the timing couldn't be worse/better as there have been disruptions every year and every christmas going back to before COVID.

'They' don't want anyone travelling and what bit of misery they can inflict is a bonus and all part of the long term goal.
SirCliveSinclairdabbing said:
Now you've got me puddled. Hard for me to be further west today.
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ad occidentem, in ore mundi, which is Welsh for "Bryn, get the sheep near the edge of the cliff, they push back harder that way".
 
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