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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.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Inbreeding is so bad in Birmingham that NHS staff are advised to teach them about how cousin fucking is bad. There are even leaflets about it, there are multiple internal PDFs from councils too.

 

[FedPostalService]

Inbreeding is so bad in Birmingham that NHS staff are advised to teach them about how cousin fucking is bad. There are even leaflets about it, there are multiple internal PDFs from councils too.

Didn't they get called racist for aiming it at Mohammed enjoyers so they had to pretend it was white people doing it in the literature, so it went completely disregarded? I mean, maybe white people are doing that regularly in Devon but not in the rest of the UK.

 

[Overly Serious]

Didn't they get called racist for aiming it at Mohammed enjoyers so they had to pretend it was white people doing it in the literature, so it went completely disregarded? I mean, maybe white people are doing that regularly in Devon but not in the rest of the UK.

I mean, it really is fine if it's just a thing that happens sometimes at a normal low rate. Seriously, if two people happen to fall in love and happen to be cousins that's not really a big deal in a healthy society. I don't even mean that in a "low enough not to be harmful way" because it can actually be good for a population's genetics (see Founder's Effect above). What causes the problems are when it's encouraged by parents because it keeps wealth in the family and counters are removed (i.e. the daughter's choice). Then suddenly you get the major genetic problems. It's kind of like salt - a little bit is not only fine, it can actually be a good thing in helping establish better immunities, etc. But keep adding it and things go bad.

 

[winderson_silva]

You know, I remember how Birmingham being considered a shithole is pretty old, with warhammer making fun of it in the 80's, but seem like the reason of that changed drastically in these 40 years.

 

[Overly Serious]

You know, I remember how Birmingham being considered a shithole is pretty old, with warhammer making fun of it in the 80's, but seem like the reason of that changed drastically in these 40 years.

In WH40K setting, Birmingham is a planet that is called "The Black Planet" because it receives almost no light. Its inhabitants are primitive and speak with a funny accent, iirc.

I also recall some graffiti once that read: "If God were to give the world an enema, He'd stick the tube in Birmingham".

(Apologies to our Brummie thread-members)

 

[isalaide]

Give the binmen their money because I cannot abide the thought of more fucking rats. Also, just put fucking rat poison everywhere.

 

[Snekposter]

In WH40K setting, Birmingham is a planet that is called "The Black Planet" because it receives almost no light. Its inhabitants are primitive and speak with a funny accent, iirc.

I also recall some graffiti once that read: "If God were to give the world an enema, He'd stick the tube in Birmingham".

(Apologies to our Brummie thread-members)

Why would they be mad? Or rather, I doubt they could get any madder considering merely waking up sends them into a furious rage once they realize they're living in Birmingham.

 

[Smyrna]

Bangladesh has issued an arrest warrant for the former (anti-)corruption minister Tulip Siddiq.

 

[FedPostalService]

I will stick up for Birmingham a bit and say I like the Jewellery Quarter. I’ve never seen a city so utterly fuck itself though.

 

[Otterly]

The child of two first cousins marrying the child of two other first cousins? A sequence like that? I could take a crack at it if clarified.

Yeah basically everyone marries a first cousin, no fresh blood coming in at all. I did it by wondering how many unique grandparents each person could have and what would be the minimal number of unique grandparents in such a situation .
I didn’t have an envelope I was trying to visualise it to escape watching the Minecraft movie. Sometimes I go places in my head.
I may well be wrong, but it seemed to me that with three successive generations you could get to four unique grandparents which is what full siblings would have. Two unrelated people would have eight. Three successive generations of first cousins still have four, I think. It’s a full pedigree collapse, Hapsburg style

 

[The Gene Genie]

Atheist says "what, I have to abide by the rules of the chapel I am sheltering in that says weekly services are mandatory or I could lose my free housing?"

I almost want to say she knew exactly what she was doing, and has been angling for this quasi-hit piece/potential suit the whole time. But that might be giving too much credit to the intelligence of a near-70 year old retard who managed to fuck their life up so bad they're in an almshouse in their twilight years.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

@FedPostalService Correct, from what I recall, the NHS was called racist and backed off doing it. This was about 6 years ago, so god knows how bad it is now.

As for Birmingham, it is truly a marvel of poor management. Soon it will be governed by Muslim independents which will truly fuck the place beyond repair. It could not be repaired in the first place, but soon the bigger cities will have affluent people leave and the whole thing will go to shit.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Bangladesh has issued an arrest warrant for the former (anti-)corruption minister Tulip Siddiq.

What lovely news. Now let's see if our government is going to protect another international criminal.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Arrest warrant, or get out of jail free card? Considering who she knows in Bangladesh...

 

[winderson_silva]

In WH40K setting, Birmingham is a planet that is called "The Black Planet" because it receives almost no light. Its inhabitants are primitive and speak with a funny accent, iirc.

Just like modern Birmingham, but t would be a surprise to the guys who wrote that the weird tongue is because its now all imigrants

 

[Molag Bal]

For any /pol/-aligned middle easterners, Bangladeshis or Pakis who live in the UK and have to witness all the Islam shit happening (yes I know you're there and exist let's not pretend otherwise).

If you are annoyed with your relatives and neighbors swinging their dicks around and pushing Islam everywhere while engaging in murderhobo antics against the infidels at the same time, here's a massive golden tip. If you really want to troll their efforts, here is what you do: Your 'friends' are already at the stage where they are calling for nationwide bans on stuff that's Haram and they're already getting in position on an institutional level to enforce those bans. I can see them trying with stuff like pork. But if you want to see some funny shit, there's something you can do that will cause the normalfags to sperg out and get off their ass to fight back.

Circulate the idea among the Muhammedeens that they need to call for a ban on alcohol. To my knowledge, by decree of none less than Allah himself, all alcoholic beverages and other intoxicants are haram. Do you have any idea how cripplingly addicted to alcohol the normalfags are? Just read up on the 'prohibition' in the US if you don't believe me. And the English are no different, all White normalfags are addicted to alcohol. If they suddenly can't go to the pub and have a beer while watching football, they will revolt. And all those single post-wall wine ladies who work in administration and side with the immigrants on every issue will very quickly switch sides if they suddenly can't drown their loneliness in wine. If the Muhammedeens in the UK actively impose an alcohol ban, you will see a lot of really funny shit happening.

 

[FedPostalService]

Just like modern Birmingham, but t would be a surprise to the guys who wrote that the weird tongue is because its now all imigrants

Are you actually retarded or just American?

 

[winderson_silva]

In V For Vendetta, the UK is a dystophic nightmare where religious extremists took over

Looks like this may become real, but with the inverse of the ditactors.

Also, I really find funny the idea of a >gay atheist< protecting a copy of the koran, real chickens for kfc moment

 

[6MillionCoofs]

but 40k a year is surviving, not living

It’s only surviving if you are absolutely retarded with money. Simple fact is they get paid very well and want more because, due to the job, they are in an issue to demand more. Because the alternative is, well you are seeing what that is.

They want more money and to keep the third person that everywhere else has long gotten rid of.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

It’s only surviving if you are absolutely retarded with money. Simple fact is they get paid very well and want more because, due to the job, they are in an issue to demand more. Because the alternative is, well you are seeing what that is.

They want more money and to keep the third person that everywhere else has long gotten rid of.

They don't want more, they don't want to lose £8k. and who would?

I agree that surviving on £40k is for people who can't budget, I was just being kind.