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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.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

north west

It’s 13c and raining here and I’ve got thick woolly socks on.
What summer?

You retards need to work on your operational security, it's not hard to work out roughly where you're from when you're exposing yourself. We need more people like you to vote and keep the fight against pakis and trannies going.

Does anyone know of good linen/cotton PJs? That's teh best material to transfer air.

When in doubt, Marks and Spencers. Relatively good quality and you know they're not made by Indonesian sweat shops.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I'm calling it now; we might not get that GE before Christmas, but we're surely getting another PM, there's blood in the water now.

I am all in on nothing happening. We've got that pedo teacher looking tool for the full ride.

 

[Mound Dweller]

You retards need to work on your operational security, it's not hard to work out roughly where you're from when you're exposing yourself. We need more people like you to vote and keep the fight against pakis and trannies going.

It's good to be mindful but don't be too paranoid either even if it is a proper thing.
I'm an oversharing county doxxxing retard myself but I consider 1 mil+ to be a nice safe number, just don't get into red-lineable verifiable info like twitter blocklists/your age/marital status and number of kids, basically anything too specific that "the shaggy defence" wouldn't work for;

"wasn't me" won't work for glowies, but they already have you via the backdoors in the CPU anyway.

I am all in on nothing happening. We've got that pedo teacher looking tool for the full ride.

They said the same thing in 2016 brother, we had to leave Real Brexit behind in the wreckage, but this time the fire will rise

 

[Stupor Mundi]

we pay so much tax. Taxed in everything, taxed in income, taxed on savings from income, taxed if you give it to someone, taxed when you die, when you drive.
I could cope with that if I lived in 1970s Sweden and got a pristine country for it, heck I’m happy to have my council tax pay for prettifying the parks and the floral displays, the care of the elderly, fire service etc.
I just don’t want it spent in foreign wars, rapey foreign dinghy men and blatant fucking grift

I'm sorry sir but you need to pay for the privilege of having your children raped by Pakistani taxi drivers and being financially fleeced by Indian grocers.

 

[Clem Fandango]

You retards need to work on your operational security, it's not hard to work out roughly where you're from when you're exposing yourself. We need more people like you to vote and keep the fight against pakis and trannies going.

Look, I know better than to "set someone the challenge" , especially on this site. But I've been around online long enough to be fairly sensible. As in, I'll just change details like place names randomly every now and then, and be generally inconsistent about my age and other personal details. Change my language and spelling and so on. Hopefully it wouldn't be as easy as you think.

Like "north west England" doesn't tell you much in the first place, and there's every chance im in Yorkshire anyway and just changed it (plus I don't live here anyway, I'm just visiting). I'm not going to say that every post because I want to have what looks like a normal conversation, without always going "or am I?", or "but of course I've changed that detail to protect the innocent"? It's nice to just have a chat sometimes.

But in any case, thanks for the warning. I'll keep it in mind.

Edit:

Just spent the evening drinking zero percent Leffe and watching women's football. It was the perfect analogy - that zero percent Leffe was to proper beer what women's football is to proper football.

 

[God's Own Sling]

I feel like Cartman in Scott Tenorman Must Die.

And it feels good.

 

[EddyRooney]

I feel like Cartman in Scott Tenorman Must Die.

And it feels good.

You fed her parents to her disguised as chili and got Radiohead to call her a cry baby ?
Dude, I think it might be best that we never piss Cartman off again.

 

[Mound Dweller]

Just spent the evening drinking zero percent Leffe and watching women's football. It was the perfect analogy - that zero percent Leffe was to proper beer what women's football is to proper football.

Indeed, can I just please remind whoever is reading this NOBODY GIVES A TOSS ABOUT WAHMENS FOOTBALL.
Every so often we get a fatass shipment of wahmen's football magazines, a few weeks later they all get binned and it happens every time, because of course NOBODY CARES ABOUT WAHMENS FOOTBALL, it is not a thing please stop trying to make it a thing.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Indeed, can I just please remind whoever is reading this NOBODY GIVES A TOSS ABOUT WAHMENS FOOTBALL.
Every so often we get a fatass shipment of wahmen's football magazines, a few weeks later they all get binned and it happens every time, because of course NOBODY CARES ABOUT WAHMENS FOOTBALL, it is not a thing please stop trying to make it a thing.

Not even used as cheeky wank fodder?

He looks tired.
She's crying and looks weak.

The media has signed the P45s

 

[the rat]

You retards need to work on your operational security, it's not hard to work out roughly where you're from when you're exposing yourself. We need more people like you to vote and keep the fight against pakis and trannies going.

I use this one trick that the police hate, it's called I don't use my real name.

 

[Coolio55]

I use this one trick that the police hate, it's called I don't use my real name.

I don't but it's OK. I was last seen on my Adam and Joe show cameo with BadDad (Fuck, is he dead now?)

 

[EddyRooney]

Indeed, can I just please remind whoever is reading this NOBODY GIVES A TOSS ABOUT WAHMENS FOOTBALL.
Every so often we get a fatass shipment of wahmen's football magazines, a few weeks later they all get binned and it happens every time, because of course NOBODY CARES ABOUT WAHMENS FOOTBALL, it is not a thing please stop trying to make it a thing.

Switzerland women 1 Luzern u15 Boys 7. EQUAL PAY NOW ( for the boys ).

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

I think you'll find very few "British lefties" who have anything nice to say about this government, especially since it's made it's priorities clear by punching down on the old and the disabled, aping Reform's rhetoric on immigration, and refusing to budge from a self-imposed set of "fiscal rules" which basically ensure that nothing is going to substantially change.

The truth is, this isn't a Labour government in anything other than name. In reality, it's a government comprised of careerists who rose to prominence entirely thanks to a purge orchestrated by those who saw Jeremy Corbyn as a threat to their bottom line (basically a mixture of party donors and the careerists who serve them, operating primarily under the direction of the think tank Labour Together). This lot were biding their time for years until Corbyn stepped down, and following their successful campaign to get their candidate (Starmer) to succeed him, the neoliberal cuckoo egg was then laid firmly in the nest.

What subsequently resulted was exactly what you'd expect: party purges, stacking influential positions with loyalists, reneging on leadership pledges, and promises of deregulation for big business. Essentially, the careerists and the donors got what they wanted; the membership and the party's traditional base did not.

Well considering the only time they could win was aping off the Tories in the Blair years, that's standard operation procedure eh?

 

[Made In Wales]

Please God let me see Reeves sacked by tomorrow morning.

She's on the verge, and hopefully she'll be gone by the start of the summer recess.

This would mean Streeting becomes Chancellor - not much of an improvement.

Tick tock.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I use this one trick that the police hate, it's called I don't use my real name.

You mean your name isn't The Rat? Well now I've got literally nothing to go on!

 

[the rat]

You mean your name isn't The Rat? Well now I've got literally nothing to go on!

Am a super hacker i hide my identity using dangerous right wing hacker tools like tor and kali linux (dangerous russian weapons). I always harass my local mp by spamming him with emails calling him a fairy faggot every tuesday using 50 billion emails i stole from a dark web hacker network and on fridays i send hitman squads to all the mosques closest to me and order them to place bacon on the gates.

George the fat £2 an hour police cuntstable will never catch me.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

It's really fucking funny how Rachel Reeves having a woman moment is probably going to result in her keeping her job. Sure she was probably part of the rebellion there to oust Starmer so she could be PM but she cried so Starmer is going to look like a monster for getting rid of her. Such a bizarre strategy that's going to pay off because she tried it against such a spineless faggot, even though it makes her look like a shameless piece of shit incapable of doing anything at a higher level.

She went from being sacked in the morning to now probably staying in charge until Starmer is gone. So a whole extra month in charge

 

[Made In Wales]

It's really fucking funny how Rachel Reeves having a woman moment is probably going to result in her keeping her job. Sure she was probably part of the rebellion there to oust Starmer so she could be PM but she cried so Starmer is going to look like a monster for getting rid of her. Such a bizarre strategy that's going to pay off because she tried it against such a spineless faggot, even though it makes her look like a shameless piece of shit incapable of doing anything at a higher level.

She went from being sacked in the morning to now probably staying in charge until Starmer is gone. So a whole extra month in charge

The recess cannot come quickly enough for Starmer.

Then we have Conference Season (if it's not cancelled) and then the budget which every decent financial expert who's actually at least read the Financial Times at least once in their lives says will be the death knell of us.

It's a toss up (ooeerr) as to which of the odious scroats gets potted first.

 

[>IMPLYING]

It's really fucking funny how Rachel Reeves having a woman moment is probably going to result in her keeping her job. Sure she was probably part of the rebellion there to oust Starmer so she could be PM but she cried so Starmer is going to look like a monster for getting rid of her. Such a bizarre strategy that's going to pay off because she tried it against such a spineless faggot, even though it makes her look like a shameless piece of shit incapable of doing anything at a higher level.

She went from being sacked in the morning to now probably staying in charge until Starmer is gone. So a whole extra month in charge

Rupert Lowe ought to start crying in Parliament. Maybe we'll see a sudden drop in immigration numbers like we saw a drop in the pound.

 

[Patrick Not-Star]

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.

It didn't stop the creation of the Federal Reserve or the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment.