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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.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Britain will bend the knee because of course it will

 

[BongoMongo]

Apparently that pork faced cunt in number ten is planning on conscription for the armed forces. Well that's good, we've a slew of young, fighting age, single men in the country now. We can use them. Just make sure we have solely nog batallions becase round blacks, never relax.

 

[Irrational Exuberance]

Beeb Bullshit Bingo.

I mean, honestly...

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

BBC attempts to cram as many of its favourite topics into one story as it can

A teenager obsessed by murder wanted to carry out a mass shooting at his own school in Edinburgh.

Jesus Christ, true crime content and its consequences have been a disaster for the female sex. All these sad foids worshipping school shooters, because someone made fun of their pronoun pins once and they think they've found a kindred fucking spirit in some dead incel faggot.

If you want to kill kids, luv, just have an abortion - I'm sure there are plenty of chasers on Grindr who'd be happy to call it a 'bussy' for ten minutes while they get their end away. You're about as empty as Eric Harris' fucking head after he shot himself like the bitch that he was because he knew he hadn't got the bollocks to stand off against a SWAT team.

Thank goodness the Great British counterterrorism units are there to protect us from this ridiculous LARPing fucking pooner and her Airsoft gun in the literal poshest bit of Scotland, taking selfies for her heckin' social medias just like a real manly man would do, and absolutely nothing about all the Axel Rudakabanas of the world, Cardiff's favourite son, who dindu nuffin wrong, even though they had al-Qaeda terrorism manuals and were making ricin in their bedroom.

 

[FedPostalService]

Apparently that pork faced cunt in number ten is planning on conscription for the armed forces. Well that's good, we've a slew of young, fighting age, single men in the country now. We can use them. Just make sure we have solely nog batallions becase round blacks, never relax.

It won’t happen. The Religion of Peace will refuse on some bullshit religious grounds, they will be excused, it it won’t take Russian bots on Facebook to kick off riots, they’ll come pretty naturally.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Apparently that pork faced cunt in number ten is planning on conscription for the armed forces

Good. We need a war and an economic collapse to get our society back on track.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

It won’t happen. The Religion of Peace will refuse on some bullshit religious grounds, they will be excused, it it won’t take Russian bots on Facebook to kick off riots, they’ll come pretty naturally.

Follow their examples, conscientious objector, claim to be part of an excluded religion, claim you're jabbed (they're barred currently), malicious compliance, the lot.

 

[close]

Good. We need a war and an economic collapse to get our society back on track.

You need an economic collapse for sure, the whole world does.

You don't need a war. A war now will sentence you to irrelevancy for living memory with how bad you'll lose it. It won't even be an amusing loss like what you've done to the French so many times, it'll just be sad, like a paraplegic dog shitting its last.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Apparently that pork faced cunt in number ten is planning on conscription for the armed forces. Well that's good, we've a slew of young, fighting age, single men in the country now. We can use them. Just make sure we have solely nog batallions becase round blacks, never relax.

https://apnews.com/article/uk-election-national-service-rishi-sunak-fdaf7e38793434e4f060c11735fef71e

https://web.archive.org/web/20240126191546/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13010871/BORIS-JOHNSON-fight-King-country.html

 

[isalaide]

We could do for a large variety of social and also economic reasons to shoot a few million of the poor. May as well get the Russians to do it for us. Conscript the girls too obviously.

 

[teriyakiburns]

We could do for a large variety of social and also economic reasons to shoot a few million of the poor. May as well get the Russians to do it for us. Conscript the girls too obviously.

 

[isalaide]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=s_4J4uor3JE

My absolute favourite of their sketches.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

You don't need a war. A war now will sentence you to irrelevancy for living memory with how bad you'll lose it.

Which war did the Brits last lose? Our society is set up to be the best at war; angry , violent, chavs fill the infantry ranks and the Eton-class, raised on Chess and literary classics command the strategies on the battlefield.
The rest build weapons and tanks.

We could do for a large variety of social and also economic reasons to shoot a few million of the poor. May as well get the Russians to do it for us. Conscript the girls too obviously.

Do you share your account or are you schizophrenic? One moment your lauding it over people as an accomplished millionaire, the next you're a poor, working class gal from the rough parts of glasgae.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Do you share your account or are you schizophrenic? One moment your lauding it over people as an accomplished millionaire, the next you're a poor, working class gal from the rough parts of glasgae.

(S)He is some sort of weird larper, I've noticed this before.

 

[Mound Dweller]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=s_4J4uor3JE

Poors used to just fucking die and that was the natural state of things, REnAyChess keeping them above optimal levels has been a disaster, we should really consider it again if only for "fact finding" even if it is morally wrong and all that.

Which war did the Brits last lose?

We got trounced at Suez but that was a polifail issue more than a milifail one, I'd say the last proper balls to the walls bust up we got rekt in of actual consequence that we didn't come ontop at the end of was probably... sometime around Cromwell/Charles II? A lot of the Dutch/Spanish wars of the time were technically defeats because we gained fuck all from them, the last true loss was Calais.

 

[-Jack-]

I know Scotland, specifically Glasgow had a huge drug issue but didn’t know it was that bad.

Might aswell get the russ-..nevermind!

The Russian people can be lovely (like any country), but it’s government and current presence is vile and putrid-Greggs should kick the Russians out of Ukraine in my intellectual opinion.

 

[Coolio55]

Good evening, Bongs!
Your government picked the worse time to go full retard with an American company. With the news of Apple giving up security features due to the threat of fines and penalties just fresh off the presses, consider this an ultimatum to your retarded government.

OK. At risk of talking about American politics in the UK thread, I just want to bring this one up again.
This policy has only been posted twice on the forum and the other one was in the US politics thread where people continued talking about something else.

This is actually really bad. This is just globalism with a chud coat of paint.
I am in no way defending that diseased parasite Starmer but this is just the continued hollowing out of everything into a single consolidated bloc.
Irony of ironies, it's the vice president of the US complaining about people not respecting the US's sovereignty while at the same time denying them theirs.
(I understand that the recent tariffs are officially for drug related reasons but the ones against Canada and especially China are suspect although this isn't to imply that they're entirely innocent.)

Schizo "it came to me in a dream" theory time: The UK govt has wanted to do something like this for a long time but I'd bet a disposable amount on a whim that somebody egged them on into doing this.
It's all too convenient that there's perfect red meat to focus on when the US announces their future foreign policy.
Of course, this could all just be the tail wagging the dog. The UK Govt could've easily been doing this for an extended period and it only "leaking" after the change of regime for a quick win.
Still, this whole "five eyes" thing is extremely rotten. After the PRISM leaks, it's public knowledge that GCHQ's meddling in the US has been consensual. This just feels like an ex-post-facto declaration of rape.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

We got trounced at Suez but that was a polifail issue more than a milifail one, I'd say the last proper balls to the walls bust up we got rekt in of actual consequence that we didn't come ontop at the end of was probably... sometime around Cromwell/Charles II? A lot of the Dutch/Spanish wars of the time were technically defeats because we gained fuck all from them, the last true loss was Calais.

Not a bad record for a little island. I'll say this for our brownoid invaders, if the Americans or Jews ever tried to start a war with Britain, they would lose in record time. The muzzies hate, with burning passion, both the Americans (who they class as Jews) and the Jews.

There's nary a paki I've spoken to who didn't quickly segway into killing the jews.

 

[Otterly]

consider this an ultimatum to your retarded government.

They won’t listen. They’re ideologues. They really believe they’re right. Maybe we need some sort of reverse war of independence.

The saving grace is the Americans seem to be very sympathetic to the native white British. Vance will brutalize him.

I hope we see him cry.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Schizo "it came to me in a dream" theory time: The UK govt has wanted to do something like this for a long time but I'd bet a disposable amount on a whim that somebody egged them on into doing this.

I agree with your theory and have held the opinion that Sunak was dropped into the position by one faction, but refused to finish the job, hence the snap GE which decimated the Tories.
The only other useful twonk willing to do the dirty work of globohomo was queer starmer.
I sperg more in the conspiracy thread about this topic but business and politics are at war. Truss tried helping business and was punted. Sunak was an opportunist useful idiot and Starmer is Stalin in the modern day, willing to do what needs to be done for the 'party', even though he has a hand up his arse.