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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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Symbol of the Chud said:
I know that the French are supposedly our Evrvpean brothers or something, but I must admit that a thousand years of conflict with them has given me quite the distaste for them.
So watching them collapse is both kinda humorous and terrifying.

That being said I do like the French accent when it's a French woman speaking English. It's like a constant reminder that English won over them.
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I am forced to like the French because it's one of the few places left on this fucking earth where people can still make art.
 
The relieving factor about the Digital ID conundrum is that Starmer is paralyzed by economic limits and the Lords. Blair said it would cost 1 billion, which is horse shit, it will be more around 5, and he simply does not have that kind of money. He is now entrenched in a civil war with his own party, and already there is mounting pressure to remove Mahmood due to 5i's concerns. I have the feeling she has a trove of skeletons because she is just too polished. She gives off that vibe.

The surprising factor in this is too is the media is not buying this reshuffle. Various outlets have joked about phase 2 and the intellectual integrity of his ministers. They were like this from the jump.

Kemi is trying to bait him into a welfare reform to oust him because she knows the left of the party will move in for the kill. Rayner was an excellent whip with calming opposition, but now that is gone. He appointed Reynolds as chief whip, and he has never whipped before.

At the moment, my prediction is that Reeves will deliver her budger and it will be catastrophic. Reeves, as we know, will be sacrificed. Cooper will then resign, and I expect Mahmood to hold her Birmingham seat. This will create a chain leading to a call for GE. He will never resign out of pure ego; he'd rather spite the party out of petty revenge.
 
Geoff Capes Vapes Apes said:
A return to the days of individual price stickers on things in shops, buying sweets in a paper bag by the quarter, and old women wearing headscarves rather than young women wearing headscarves.
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The days where you could buy a stamp, some Haribo eggs and a few pig trotters treats for the dog all in the same place.
 
May I wish a happy "Don't Kill Yourself Day" to all my fellow Britcuck Kiwis.

If you were thinking of killing yourself (understandable), could I just ask that you not do it today, and instead consider doing it tomorrow, or maybe not at all. It's just that it would kind of ruin the vibe if you did do it today.
 
K-Hole said:
Yup, not only did our little blue eyed nigger just dox his age range. He's doxing everyone's age who's responding to him. Oopsie.
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I'll make it even easier, I remember white dog shit.

Anyway...

Its France's turn. They usually put on a good show when its riot time. This is probably the largest gathering of White Frenchman I've seen for a long time. Big Flag is going to be making bank again.


In the meantime, rain has stopped play over here and the football season has started, so after the Tommy Robinson Facial Recognition Extravaganza this weekend it'll be business as usual. Sorry if you invested heavily into David Betz coin, its gonna be a rough year.
 
FedPostalService said:
Have you tried to buy a book of stamps recently? You need to sell a kidney to cover the costs.
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Have you tried to buy a single stamp in the last twenty years? Long gone are the days when the nice lady behind the counter would rip you one out from the sheet they keep back there.

Muad'Dick said:
In the meantime, rain has stopped play over here and the football season has started, so after the Tommy Robinson Facial Recognition Extravaganza this weekend it'll be business as usual.
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I don't think it will. They'll try and make it happen, but this has enough momentum that it will rumble on through all of that. We're at winter of discontent levels of anger at the government already. It took a decade to get to that point last time.
 
Kier Starmer said:
Blair said it would cost 1 billion, which is horse shit, it will be more around 5, and he simply does not have that kind of money
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Since when did not having the money stop the government doing something? Money printer go brrrr. We're how deep in debt, so broke we can't afford winter fuel payments but have how many new government projects going?
Clem Fandango said:
May I wish a happy "Don't Kill Yourself Day" to all my fellow Britcuck Kiwis.

If you were thinking of killing yourself (understandable), could I just ask that you not do it today, and instead consider doing it tomorrow, or maybe not at all. It's just that it would kind of ruin the vibe if you did do it today.
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There go my plans for the day. I had it all ready to go and now I've got nothing to do. What should I do with my day instead?
 
teriyakiburns said:
I don't think it will. They'll try and make it happen, but this has enough momentum that it will rumble on through all of that. We're at winter of discontent levels of anger at the government already. It took a decade to get to that point last time.
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I don't know mate. I don't have much faith if I'm being honest. We had the same rhetoric surrounding the events of last year and they soon fizzled into nothing (and we didn't have a literal advisor to GCHQ stoking the flames last time either).

I still don't think we're at the tipping point. The English are great at just getting by and getting on with life. What you're seeing here is the flipside of the "Keep Calm & Carry On" mentality. It works great during times of war, but it also works great when you're under the boot of a state that has gone beyond apathy towards it's people to open hostility. The vast majority of people will be content to wallow in their managed decline.

At least these protests have been a good exercise in community building. Thats something that has been sorely needed. I'd argue that has the greater potential for the future rather than the stated aims of the protests. Its fucking sad that it takes the destruction of the country to learn your neighbour's name, but this is where we are.
 
Muad'Dick said:
We had the same rhetoric surrounding the events of last year and they soon fizzled into nothing
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That's where I disagree. They didn't fizzle to nothing; they went quiet as people waited to see what the government response would be. The response was "you're all racist and we're bringing in more", which led directly to the hotel protests.

We look back at historical events and think they progressed rapidly, because we're given an arbitrary starting date for them and the instigating events as a potted list. That trains us to believe that anything other than immediate, constant escalation is "failure" in some way. Look at something like the Jarrow March and we're told it started in march of 1936, when the entire town just suddenly set off to deliver its petition to Parliament. In reality, it was preceded by two years of growing anger and protest in and around Jarrow over lack of employment and other resentments. Or look at the first civil war. We're told it started in early 1642, with the King's attempt to arrest Cromwell and co. It's an arbitrary date, picked to make an easily-grasped narrative of the King vs Cromwell. There was already sporadic conflict happening the previous year, after a decade of building resentment, with riots and protests, before that date. One of the instigating events of the war, the draining of the fens (which propelled Cromwell into the leadership of the rebels to begin with), started in the 1630s. Arguably, the first Civil War began in 1640, when the Long Parliament declared itself indissoluble, directly challenging the authority of the King.

We've had a decade of constantly growing anger over immigration in the aftermath of the rape gangs scandal blowing open. That's how much momentum is behind it. Even if things appear to settle down now, they'll just flare up again with even more ferocity if nothing changes. People will argue whether next year or the year after is when the revolution began, but the reality is that it's already started. It's just a matter of how soon it turns to open conflict, or whether Parliament will concede to the people before that point.

You can rainbow me now. :smug:
 
The south port riots were directionless anger
The hotel protests are directed but civil anger

What happens when you merge the two? Directionless anger leading to violence meets civil anger protesting outside of a building? Directed violence against the building full of people you want removed.
 
Special spoonie said:
So is Starmer really going to die on the Mandelson hill?
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I don't think he wants to but has been told he has to.

He's not in charge anymore, the Blairites are and they are going for him big time.

After all, the dirt they have on him and Reeves must be staggering - will tidbits now start to leak out given that after tomorrow Parliament will now not sit for a calendar month?

Plenty of time for nasty headlines, maybe even some exclusives for Guido... who knows?

Starmer can't even count on McSweeney to behave after what he did to his Auntie Sue...

To sum the whole thing up in a Boz Scaggs song: 'Breakdown Dead Ahead'.
 
teriyakiburns said:
We look back at historical events and think they progressed rapidly, because we're given an arbitrary starting date for them and the instigating events as a potted list.
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I can't argue with that. Even in the span of a lifetime you get a different perspective on events. Like watching an area degrade over time. You never think it'll turn into a ghetto in the span of twenty years, but a recession here, a demographic shift there, a cut in public funding and "oops" you've got a no-go zone.

I fucking hate the word "vibe", but its the only one will suffice for how I gauge things. I don't pay too much serious attention to the internet regarding these things outside of what narratives the talking heads are trying to push. What is said on the internet rarely translates into real world action (no matter what your handler in Cheltenham would have you believe). No, I'd much rather talk to people in the flesh.

You don't even have to sperg out or reveal your power level to get a feeling for what people are about. I've canvassed a few times when I was younger and one thing I learned from that is that, even if you ignored the obvious stuff like the condition of the properties, what cars were on their drive, how well manicured their lawns were (or if they had had a mattress on there) etc, you didn't need to speak to more than a dozen or so people to get a good idea of what an area is about, what their concerns were or if you were flogging a dead horse. Its far from scientific, but your assumptions were rarely wrong.

What I will say is, after attending four protests now this year, is that the attitude has morphed from it being a protest to a social event. People are just "there". Its genuinely like a day out for them. You can interpret that how you will, but for me its not a good sign. The rent-a-mobs that turn up in opposition may have the fluoride stare and only clock in for a couple of hours before the police escort them away, but at least they're ideologically driven and (whether organic or not) can put some good numbers together. I don't even think it would be unfair to say that their heart is in it more than the locals. Whoever has engineered the counter protests has pulled a blinder though, as it has now directed the ire of the protesters towards the nebulous "left" instead of the seat of power; which has a face, a name and an address.

What energy these protests had is starting to wane and everyone is pinning their hopes on September 13th. Which I think will either be a huge nothing burger that just lines Ezra's pockets and wears away more of what is left of Tommy's septum or, more likely, will just lead to mass arrests as the Met cherry pick people from the crowd thanks to facial recognition.

Maybe we get another flashpoint event or the government makes another retarded policy choice. Whatever is going to happen is not going to happen for a good while yet. Like I say, people are still too comfortable.

SirCliveSinclairdabbing said:
Why is that statement a thing right now?
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Always has been. Its a classic.
 
A big news dump for this afternoon - a lot is happening...

(Lots of these are sadly paywalled, not much we can do about it...)


Lord Mandelson admits Epstein birthday message 'very embarrassing' as he lays bare 'regrets' over saga




'Cruel' fraudster jailed after taking £430k from pensioner with cancer and dementia




Fraudster jailed after stealing over £200k in inheritance from his own grieving relatives:




Tax increases will fail to fix public finances, Goldman Sachs warns




Watch the moment Tory MP brutally shuts down anti-Brexit heckler live on GB News:




Sledgehammer-wielding thieves run off with tills and meat products in late-night Tesco raid:




England U21 players and staff left furious after fan films them getting changed in dressing room:




Watch the moment Swedish Health Minister COLLAPSES during press conference:




Former Premier League referee David Coote charged with creating indecent video of a child:




Reeva Steenkamp's mother suffers vile abuse from online trolls 12 years after Oscar Pistorius killed daughter:




British horse racing events CANCELLED as industry strikes for first time ever in modern history over tax hikes:




Sudanese man 'snatched girl, 5, behind mother's back and sexually assaulted her in his house', court told




Reform UK 'living rent free in Keir Starmer's head' as GB News investigation exposes rapid surge in PMQs attacks on Nigel Farage:




£100 contactless card limit could be scrapped in major payments shake-up:




'We are proud to be British!' Gibraltarians celebrating National Day say they 'love flying the flag'




Scenic village 'ruined' by huge HGVs as locals fume over lorries damaging medieval streets:




Church leaders accuse Tories of spreading ‘fear’ after call for migrant hotels to close




Furious Lib Dems demand probe into BBC 'giving Nigel Farage and Reform UK too much coverage'




UK is 'throwing fuel on the fire' by trying to ban free speech, Steve Bannon warns:


 
How is it that how the government acts about a Bansky artpiece is more provocative than the Banksy itself.
A masked brown foreign man washes away the Banksy with chemicals while another brown foreign man stands guard on security, all to destroy a piece of artwork designed to criticize the courts being used to punish protestors against Israel.
Decades of protest grafitti, and only now after criticizing Israel does Banksy seem to be at proper risk of a police investigation and unmasking.


Lil bro should've figured out that you're not allowed to criticize the people of Israel, especially not when our PM is himself a Cryptojew.

I still think Banksy is a bit of a fag but it's still funny.
 
Symbol of the Chud said:
How is it that how the government acts about a Bansky artpiece is more provocative than the Banksy itself.
A masked brown foreign man washes away the Banksy with chemicals while another brown foreign man stands guard on security, all to destroy a piece of artwork designed to criticize the courts being used to punish protestors against Israel.
Decades of protest grafitti, and only now after criticizing Israel does Banksy seem to be at proper risk of a police investigation and unmasking.
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Lil bro should've figured out that you're not allowed to criticize the people of Israel, especially not when our PM is himself a Cryptojew.

I still think Banksy is a bit of a fag but it's still funny.
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One thing that was fun about the eighties and early nineties was that the creative people making good music were by and large countercultural rather than cultural enforcers. We got some good tunes out of it.
Maybe a few jackboots on them once they criticise those really in charge will spark a new golden age of angsty rock songs?
 
Otterly said:
One thing that was fun about the eighties and early nineties was that the creative people making good music were by and large countercultural rather than cultural enforcers. We got some good tunes out of it.
Maybe a few jackboots on them once they criticise those really in charge will spark a new golden age of angsty rock songs?
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When those in charge can no longer strike fear into people, then the levee will break.

Some actual good news for a change from these parts, as a Rapeystani gets 18 years for doing Rapeystani things:


 
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