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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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FedPostalService said:
You do know these things never happen and this is just a bunch of pajeets running based patriot accounts from Bangalore farming a few rupees worth of advert revenue on Twitter?

I don’t a single person will do this walk out, if they do they’d get sacked.

Even the unions can’t run an effective strike these days so a bunch of LARPers going full blood and soil won’t either,
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Well, let's see what happens - nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Breaking news from North West London: Man arrested on suspicion of murder as three children and a woman die in house fire.

 
It's not a walk out if you're not in work anyway. A walk out is where nobody goes to work on (a) Monday and I standby that this is just a chance for the Met/Government to gather information on the rowdiest of the population. Only those who have the potential to kick-off will turn up, some will kick-off.

Then the next time a paki goes stabby, rammy or bomby, the people who will have been added to the face recognition system, will be monitored and rounded up before they can cause a hassle.

This walk out is organised by the government as a preventative measure before alluha ackbar season kicks in.

What's with the spate of house fires and house explosions over the past 12-18 months? Every week someone dies or some house explodes. What's going on?
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
It's not a walk out if you're not in work anyway. A walk out is where nobody goes to work on (a) Monday and I standby that this is just a chance for the Met/Government to gather information on the rowdiest of the population. Only those who have the potential to kick-off will turn up, some will kick-off.

Then the next time a paki goes stabby, rammy or bomby, the people who will have been added to the face recognition system, will be monitored and rounded up before they can cause a hassle.

This walk out is organised by the government as a preventative measure before alluha ackbar season kicks in.

What's with the spate of house fires and house explosions over the past 12-18 months? Every week someone dies or some house explodes. What's going on?
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Can't say for certain, but if a guy has set fire to a house with a women and her children inside it then, apart from being a total scumbag thing to do, it's almost certainly a revenge killing:

'If I can't have you, nobody else can.'
 
FedPostalService said:
*Sniff, sniff* Anyone else detect a whiff of bacon?
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Only with brown or BBQ sauce, I'm not a savage.

Maybe Worcestershire Sauce at a pinch.

There is definite change in the air, and when even The Guardian is attacking Starmer (mainly through the eternal man-baby Owen Jones, but hey a broken clock can be right twice a day) then something is up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug1of1vtkFE&ab_channel=BlackBeltBarrister

I agree with BBB that there is a definite rebellion incoming and the u-turns are too much, too little, too late - to ad lib johnny Mathis.


Starmer 'hates the job' might seem a bit silly, but let's separate the power from the actual job:

Does Starmer want power - yes, unequivocally he does.
Does Starmer want or need to be PM - no, it's quite telling that he'd rather go abroad to Davos or wherever to receive his instructions than attend PMQ's or deal with any criticism from the plebs.

Starmer knows that he can be ousted as PM via democratic process, which he opposes - he wants to be unchallenged and to win every time, like a bratty kid playing Snakes and Ladders. If anybody else reaches 100 before the kid, there's going to be trouble. Therefore, if he can't have his way, he'll ensure nobody else can and don't forget who is he loyal to?

Rayner? Heck no.
Reeves? Double heck no.
Miliband? HAHAHA!
Lammy? Oh sweet Jeebus....

Unlike the 1997 elected Labour Government, there's not even the slightest hint of solidarity with the current Front Row - true, Blair thought he was the Labour Party and treated Brown et al like the useless idiots that they are/were, but at least they gave the impression that they could put up a united front and govern the country (which they did a decent enough job of from 1997-2001, with Brown copying Kenneth Clarke's budgeting).

This lot can't stand each other, Blair is stabbing Miliband in the back over 2030 climate bollocks, Reeves is only there because she must have dirt on Starmer and even a Labour Lord is openly backing Nigel Farage and Mary Glindon is splitting rank to support Rupert Lowe.

Maybe Starmer going would actually be a bad thing as well as a good thing for Labour - there's no uniters in the party, only dividers and any new PM would have to go to the country in any case, but there's also no unity under Starmer like maybe there could have been with Burnham or slightly possibly with RLB or Nandy.

That ship, alas, has sailed, whilst HMS Starmer looks more and more like The Bad Ship Venus.
 
teriyakiburns said:
The Great British National Strike, taking place this weekend, is set to see more than 500,000 people across the country walking out in protest of the state of the UK.
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I want a placard with ‘the absolute fucking state’ written in it. But yeah it’s a bank holiday weekend, I’ll be down the garden centre and chilling, call me when the pitchforks are being sharpened and I’ll come along.
Made In Wales said:
Sad news about Billy Joel - he's been diagnosed with a rare brain disorder (NPH).
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Odd coincidence, I’ve had three older people in my life diagnosed with this over the last year or so and I thought it was rare. He should be ok. They can shove a shunt in, and drain it off and I’m sure he has the money to get it done fast, unlike my acquaintances who are facing nine month waits to even see a neurologist. There are much worse things you can end up with with that set of symptoms. Still not nice though
 
Otterly said:
I want a placard with ‘the absolute fucking state’ written in it. But yeah it’s a bank holiday weekend, I’ll be down the garden centre and chilling, call me when the pitchforks are being sharpened and I’ll come along.

Odd coincidence, I’ve had three older people in my life diagnosed with this over the last year or so and I thought it was rare. He should be ok. They can shove a shunt in, and drain it off and I’m sure he has the money to get it done fast, unlike my acquaintances who are facing nine month waits to even see a neurologist. There are much worse things you can end up with with that set of symptoms. Still not nice though
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I'm really sorry to hear about this @Otterly - my very best wishes to them all.
 
Made In Wales said:
I'm really sorry to hear about this @Otterly - my very best wishes to them all.
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It’s just odd isn’t it? I’d heard of it but never known anyone with it, then three in under two years.
Mind you I’d never known anyone in their thirties have a stroke and then at work we had a few all at once post Covid shots.
The world is an odd place. Thank you for your thoughts. I think they’ll be ok, they are all older (seventies onwards.) but otherwise in ok health. Maybe it’s something common in the elderly, I don’t really know. All had the same symptoms, like being rooted to the floor, they all thought it was a TIA but have ended up with this.
 
Absolutely nowt happening in the city centre of <generic norf town>, so the "strike" seems like a bit of a damp squib, here at least. I mean literally, it's cold, windy and occasionally drizzly.

Anyone else notice that we've had shocking weather for Easter, and now both bank holidays in May? Is the govt turning on their weather control machine to keep a lid on simmering riots, or has it always been this miserable here and I just forgot?
 
Clem Fandango said:
Absolutely nowt happening in the city centre of <generic norf town>, so the "strike" seems like a bit of a damp squib, here at least. I mean literally, it's cold, windy and occasionally drizzly.

Anyone else notice that we've had shocking weather for Easter, and now both bank holidays in May? Is the govt turning on their weather control machine to keep a lid on simmering riots, or has it always been this miserable here and I just forgot?
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To the first point: Oh dear, how sad, never mind...

As for the second: We'll probably have mass downpours in July, but in Wales we call that Thursday.

I'll leave the following here:


Hmmm....
 
Listen, I like the sunshine as much as every Brit but I love having the rain to break up long stretches of it. It's why I genuinely feel like British weather might unironically be some of the best in the world at times to legitimately LIVE in, not just go on holiday for a few weeks and soak up the sunshine.

It's just pleasingly mild. No long horrible stretches of dry weather broken up with torrential downpours, I mean we still get floods and whatnot but they're fairly rare all things considered. It doesn't get too hot and it doesn't get too cold.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Listen, I like the sunshine as much as every Brit but I love having the rain to break up long stretches of it. It's why I genuinely feel like British weather might unironically be some of the best in the world at times to legitimately LIVE in, not just go on holiday for a few weeks and soak up the sunshine.
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It's illegal to be content and happy with anything as a Brit, go to jail!
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
It's just pleasingly mild. No long horrible stretches of dry weather broken up with torrential downpours, I mean we still get floods and whatnot but they're fairly rare all things considered. It doesn't get too hot and it doesn't get too cold.
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Come to the north and experience eternal grey. Hot and grey or cool and grey.
No nice summer no awesome winter just grey, with occasional piss it down.
The north is wank.
 
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