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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.

 

[Monopolywheel]

Rory Stewart appears to be having a sulk about people calling him Gollum on social media
Just remember guys every time you insult one of these spineless politicians online, not only do they read it but you crush their self confidence a little every time

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Rory Stewart appears to be having a sulk about people calling him Gollum on social media
Just remember guys every time you insult one of these spineless politicians online, not only do they read it but you crush their self confidence a little every time
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I would never describe Rory as looking like Gollum. A fire damaged ventriloquists dummy, or a decomposing Jimmy Carr, possibly

 

[Coolio55]

The police mugshot

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But The Guardian told me he was a happy smiling schoolboy who did what he did because racism or some shit.

Things are not going well for our shonen protagonist

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

That is one ugly nigger imagine destroying your country over this evil little fucker. At least he is going to get brutally murdered in prison

 

[Mound Dweller]

Rory Stewart appears to be having a sulk about people calling him Gollum on social media
Just remember guys every time you insult one of these spineless politicians online, not only do they read it but you crush their self confidence a little every time
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Lanky little landless lost-lieutenant (what's the story there did he just wash out) lordlet loser thinks people making fun of his fuck ugly face means they must be literal nyatzees who want deport muh mudlsimes?
I mean yeah that goes without saying but they're unrelated topics, he really is just twisted and deformed physically and that's wholly secular in relation to his politardation.

 

[f4t2h7gc]

Call me a cynic, but both the silence and the guilty plea serve to keep information out of the public domain so I think these are handler's orders

Sometimes criminals don't say anything. He could just be mentally defective.

the media are running interference for the government

It was the media that released all of this information the second they were allowed to. The media zone at the hearing was so full that they had to move to a larger venue - this doesn't exactly speak to a widespread coverup. Up until now wasn't there a block on information that might prejudice a jury? Isn't that standard practice?

Journalists releasing the information people have been asking about for months is somehow a bad thing now I guess.

 

[FedPostalService]

Thoughts and prayers for me today. I’m going to have to put up with the union mongs performatively about Trump. I’m training some new temps so I can‘t even put my earphones in and ignore the conversations like I’d usually do.

I’m avoiding Greggs as lunch, just in case.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Once people in the UK start to see America throwing out illegals and slapping troons down and binning off DEI nonsense I hope they'll realise this is all just common sense and that we can and should be doing it too.

Who do you think started this DEI woke nonsense? It was America.

Kier has many, many faults, but he's our leader in our country. Keep the bloody yanks as far as possible away from this country.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Don't I feel you yesterday we had some DEII shit and there was this cringe part about trannies. Guy and I were visibly rolling our eyes. I fucking hate this country.

Well it was trickle down socialist shit that seeped in through diversity hires on mass. Yes, America housed it but honestly, it took off in Europe more so due to all the governments and the EU being hyper left.

 

[AssignedEva]

Who do you think started this DEI woke nonsense? It was America.

Kier has many, many faults, but he's our leader in our country. Keep the bloody yanks as far as possible away from this country.

I'm interested to see how Ryan Castellucci is doing. His appeal is today - he's been trying to force the High Court to recognise non-binary as his legal gender, because California let him change all his documents from "M" to "X"... but Trump's just made all of those documents invalid as of last night, which rug pulls him.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

The disgust I had yesterday was insurmountable to be in the medical field and hear a doctor of 25 years say there is no such thing as gender was insane.

 

[Otterly]

Journalists releasing the information people have been asking about for months is somehow a bad thing now I guess.

Fair point. Will they now dig into WHY the family are here?

The disgust I had yesterday was insurmountable to be in the medical field and hear a doctor of 25 years say there is no such thing as gender was insane.

There is no such things as gender. There is sex.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8xykr5v95o

Far-right group exposed in undercover BBC investigation

So this is where the license-payers money is going to?

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Who do you think started this DEI woke nonsense? It was America.

Kier has many, many faults, but he's our leader in our country. Keep the bloody yanks as far as possible away from this country.

It wasn't America's fault, it was the American Left's fault.

I'm interested to see how Ryan Castellucci is doing. His appeal is today - he's been trying to force the High Court to recognise non-binary as his legal gender, because California let him change all his documents from "M" to "X"... but Trump's just made all of those documents invalid as of last night, which rug pulls him.

Trump's only got authority over federal issues, like passports. Ryan's argument has always been based on his (officially falsified) birth certificate, which seems to be a states issue.

 

[Amin Yasister]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8xykr5v95o

So this is where the license-payers money is going to?

So it took the BBC reporters (even the BBC does not call them journalists) a year to record a "far right" group and found some members saying racist slurs. Wow, really?



Yep, really hateful.

 

[Otterly]

So it took the BBC reporters (even the BBC does not call them journalists) a year to record a "far right" group and found some members saying racist slurs. Wow, really?

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Yep, really hateful.

Well they are far away on that bridge, and they are right, so I guess that’s what the Beeb
‘Reporter’ meant.
Still not a single peep in the media about why the stabber’s family were allowed here. All emphasis is on PREVENT, with nothing about why they were here in the first place.
Suggest we will see PREVENT’s mission ‘expanded’ or some new body created to deal with ‘non terrorist hate’ while the crickets continue to chirp over exactly why daddy rudakubano (who was allegedly a spy, according to local gossip) was allowed in.
Do your fucking jobs if you want to be called journalists. There have to be some of you out there with a conscience surely?
Why were the family allowed here?

 

[isalaide]

The Rwandan stabber sounds legitimately insane. Of course now he has pled guilty, the fact CAMHS has 100% known about this kid for years and done fuck all about him will not be embarrassingly brought to light. There are violent nutters at liberty in the UK and some of them are kids. They need to be sectioned. The fact there is effectively no CAMHS and certainly no paediatric psych beds is Not Fucking Good Enough. This shit was trumpeted as a promise to do better under fucking Cameron, for god's sake. PREVENT did shit all about this child because being a fucking mentalist is apparently not enough for coppers to take an interest. Well some cunt should have the duty to take an interest.

 

[Amin Yasister]

Do your fucking jobs if you want to be called journalists. There have to be some of you out there with a conscience surely?

A journalist with a moral conscience is a rare and dying breed.

There are way, way more Farmers asking the questions that reporters for the BBC (and media in general) should be asking. But don't.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Well they are far away on that bridge, and they are right, so I guess that’s what the Beeb
‘Reporter’ meant.

Which means they can just barely out-think father Dougal. That said, I'm sure the journo had to take a long moment to stop himself writing "small".

 

[Overly Serious]

Thoughts and prayers for me today. I’m going to have to put up with the union mongs performatively about Trump. I’m training some new temps so I can‘t even put my earphones in and ignore the conversations like I’d usually do.

I’m avoiding Greggs as lunch, just in case.

I'd like to say I remember a time when the unions would have celebrated someone whose policies promoted the working class and manufacturing. But I don't - they've been like that for decades. I don't know how far back you'd have to go to find unions that actually represent the people.

Fair point. Will they now dig into WHY the family are here?

There is no such things as gender. There is sex.

I've remarked that there are three genders: Masculine, Feminine and Neuter (he, she and it). And two sexes.

Seems to be effective. Need to return gender to it's normal meaning as a language tool rather than this "socially constructed identity" stuff that crept in from Academia.

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Which means they can just barely out-think father Dougal. That said, I'm sure the journo had to take a long moment to stop himself writing "small".

"I hear you're a racist now, father!"