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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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Overly Serious said:
Maths is easier with pre-decimilised currency.
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The units are also more humanly relatable. I sew in inches. Standard hem widths are things like a quarter inch, or a half inch, and these things seem much more ‘visualisation friendly.’ An inch is about the width of a man’s thumb. Easy to measure out.
A yard was about the distance from a man’s nose to the tip of his finger as he held his arm out. All the measurements are based in reality. A fathom is roughly the amount of rope you can hold between two outstretched arms, so as you reel a rope in it’s easy to measure. An ell of cloth was about six foot. So about the amount a man could reel off a bolt on the floor and hold up above his head.
They only fall down when you start to use them for scales at which they were never intended to be used at, but they persist in daily life because they’re human in scale
 
RA-5C Vigilante said:
It’s always funny when British lefties say how good things will be when Labors in power again. The only times they’ve ever won in the last half century were because people were pissed off at the Tories, only to do an even worse job and then get voted out of power just as quickly.
Glad to know the cycles continuing.
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The common understanding was "The Tories are bad, Labour is worse." The slow boil against being thrown into the flames.

10s are just easier to work with than 12s. Having things always end on the same number and shift left is better than any even number being a rounding point. It wasn't a bad change.
 
Otterly said:
The units are also more humanly relatable. I sew in inches. Standard hem widths are things like a quarter inch, or a half inch, and these things seem much more ‘visualisation friendly.’ An inch is about the width of a man’s thumb. Easy to measure out.
A yard was about the distance from a man’s nose to the tip of his finger as he held his arm out. All the measurements are based in reality. A fathom is roughly the amount of rope you can hold between two outstretched arms, so as you reel a rope in it’s easy to measure. An ell of cloth was about six foot. So about the amount a man could reel off a bolt on the floor and hold up above his head.
They only fall down when you start to use them for scales at which they were never intended to be used at, but they persist in daily life because they’re human in scale
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You really are the Renaissance Woman. I can somehow imagine you knitting a bonnet for your ween whilst chatting away about Original Antigenic Sin and DNA.

And funnily enough, in computers I used binary (powers of 2) and hexadecimal (base 16 number system) and on rare occasions Octal (base 8). It's base 10 that is weird and clunky. Somewhere in another timeline there's a version of humanity that has six digits on each hand and they've already got permanent moon bases just because nobody ever thought "we have ten fingers so we should base our number system around counting to ten". The solution to the Fermi Paradox is probably that the aliens are hiding because they don't want to catch our stupid.

Kofi Drinka said:
10s are just easier to work with than 12s
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I thought so too when it was all I knew as a kid. But I've grown past the point where being able to put a zero on the end of something is a time saver for me. Like many things, something quick to learn is often a false saving. Once interfacing with real world things, the convenience of having many additional factors outweighs that.

I will concede however, that this is a battle I may have lost, for now.
 
Overly Serious said:
And funnily enough, in computers I used binary (powers of 2) and hexadecimal (base 16 number system) and on rare occasions Octal (base 8). It's base 10 that is weird and clunky. Somewhere in another timeline
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I’ve always wondered about the version of us that used 4 state logic (tristate fuzzy logic plus absence of output)
 
Crunkle said:
She lied about her past and her abilities, and now she's sat there in tears in front of millions of people in a video that will never be erased. I've done a year in a job I've hated before and I'm very glad she is suffering the consequences of her own actions. Especially when her and her job especially affects whether my grandmother can afford to heat her home this winter.
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Isn't lying to the government considered actual fraud?
 
Made In Wales said:
Loony Solar Farm plans upset Conservationists - why aren't the Green Party standing up for the countryside anymore?

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/RI2M8
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All Green Parties everywhere were taken over by parasitic pedos and other sexual deviants at least a decade ago.
It's not a difficult question to someone who retained the pattern recognition skills they learned as a six year old.
Small parties, susceptible to nutters taking over - see Aimee Challenor.
 
@>IMPLYING If Reeves does go (long overdue) then I think she'll drag Starmer down with her.

She has to have dirt on him, having been put in a position she should never have been given.

Nick Leeson with tits.

Also, Starmer looks a bit wobbly:

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/37U24

'Pride comes before a fall'.

Chunky Salsa said:
Re: Decimalisation. I work in physics/chemistry. Mathematics is just easy for me, plebs.
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Ah, therefore you know your ΔKE from your J = FΔt

Impressive.
 
BongoMongo said:
and for temporary relief,run your wrists under the cold tap and get them good and chilly
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That's practically been a lifesaver for me here at times over in the USA. I get nasty migraines in the heat at times and that, an ice pack, and some cold water really help.
Overly Serious said:
and then keep the windows closed for as long as it remains cooler indoors than out.
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I'd add to keep the blinds drawn a bit too if you can. A little sun goes a long way in summer, and a lot of sun goes a really long way.
Chunky Salsa said:
And again, and again, and again, and again. I hate taxes.
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Have you considered throwing a bunch of tea into London harbor in protest at this unjust taxation? Its what we Americans did and I'd say it worked out great for us in the end since we traded horribly unjust rule for only somewhat unjust rule.
Kofi Drinka said:
Americans can't resist coming into the thread and making an arse of themselves can they?
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I resent that remark. I make an ass of myself just fine without this thread.
Overly Serious said:
Decimalisation was a mistake and a concession to the less intelligent.
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As opposed to the nonsense I encounter whenever I re-read the Hornblower novels? You guys are so weird you thought having a currency named "guinea" wasn't horribly degrading.
Kofi Drinka said:
Clocks and Calendars always end in 12. There isn't 12, 24, 36, 48 to deal with. Calendars are a mess too. They need to share the days evenly instead of this crazy format we have now.
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Well, you see, there was this guy named Gaius Julius who really wanted to make his mark on the world and so he decided to add a day to the month named after his family. This made a great many people upset but unfortunately after they killed him they were too lazy to undo the change.
 
Snekposter said:
Have you considered throwing a bunch of tea into London harbor in protest at this unjust taxation? Its what we Americans did and I'd say it worked out great for us in the end since we traded horribly unjust rule for only somewhat unjust rule.
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My favourite thing about the American War for Independence, was that it was just unreasonable total retard war. Shit is hilarious.
"WE WANT MORE RIGHTS THAN ANY OTHER PEOPLE!"
'Okay'
"WE WANT NO TAXES!"
'I mean...less maybe, will you stop being dicks now?'
"NO, DIE!"

Founding Fathers literally just mashed their balls into the Kings face over and over again. An entire country built on 'haha get fucked' from a bunch of over educated frat bros.
 
Made In Wales said:
Loony Solar Farm plans upset Conservationists - why aren't the Green Party standing up for the countryside anymore?

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/RI2M8
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Since the greens have never had a success, and politicians nowadays lack creativity, they just mimic the successful green parties in other countries (as opposed to just copying the past successes of your party a la Reagan worship in America and Thatcher worship in the UK respective right-wings) For instance, the anti-nuclear UK green party is just copying the German green party.
 
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Since the greens have never had a success, and politicians nowadays lack creativity, they just mimic the successful green parties in other countries (as opposed to just copying the past successes of your party a la Reagan worship in America and Thatcher worship in the UK respective right-wings) For instance, the anti-nuclear UK green party is just copying the German green party.
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Good point.

I was very pro-environment as a kid (idealistic, 'get green') and I still believe in protecting the countryside and conserving it for the next generation.

Somewhere along the line, we went from WWF type 'Winnie The Pooh' (cuddly) environmentalism to angry 'Cocaine Bear' woke bollocks.

I half expect Carla Denayer to one day shout out in Parliament:

'Build a wind farm on Stonehenge, and make it lame and gay!'

Captain Planet would be spinning in his grave today... or banging the two chicks whilst the boys virtue signal and cry over mean tweets and hurty words from 'Loot & Plunder',
 
Snekposter said:
Have you considered throwing a bunch of tea into London harbor in protest at this unjust taxation? Its what we Americans did and I'd say it worked out great for us in the end since we traded horribly unjust rule for only somewhat unjust rule.
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I don't understand why you keep coming into the British thread? Is this the case of that thing where a guy is so homophobic that he loves getting fisted and fucked in the ass and is actually a huge faggot..? So, Snek.. are you a huge Anglo -lover? You're in a safe place to come out, don't be ashamed.
 
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