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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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Quintex96 said:
Because it's unfortunately common belief that once you get your license, the rules no longer apply. Had this discussion with friends and siblings numerous times. It's how I have heard such gems as 'Speeds limits only apply if there's a camera nearby' 'if you enter at 70 and leave at 30 it averages out to 50' and my personal favourite 'you can overtake whenever you want, if the other car doesn't slow down it's their fault'.

That last one I was told shortly after being in a car accident which was the result of someone overtaking me in a spectacularly retarded way.
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If you ask me, speed cameras should have been designed to detect stopping distance, not speed. They could up the motorway limits to 90 for all I care (and they should be raised up to 80 at least), if we could just get people to understand you shouldn't be doing 80mph two car lengths behind someone else.

People don't seem to understand there are two components to being a good driver. One is the technical like gears, reaction times, etc. The other is not being a tit. There are basic good practices to follow. Like if I pass a motorway exit I can be pretty confident there's an on-road coming up and situation-dependent, I'll move over into the middle lane in case someone is trying to get on. If someone else is in the left lane when we approach I'll make sure I'm not sitting on their shoulder in case they need to change lanes in a hurry. Some people just lack this capacity to plan or even expect basic stuff. Some speed controlled area due to roadworks or an accident and I have someone right up behind me in a wee little box car. The lane opens up, I move over to the left sure, but I'm also accelerating. Now she's trying to over take me and her little car is wheezing forward but I'm up to 75mph already and she doesn't want to speed so she's just next to me for like a mile. Either drop back or put your foot down but don't just sit there confused because the car in front of you sped up when it left a 40mph section. Did you think I wouldn't be accelerating too?

Urgh - pointless venting. It's not even like I think I'm the world's best driver and do much more pressing stuff in the news right now. But... some people really seem to find thinking optional.

Symbol of the Chud said:
IDK maybe has something to do with the fact that we allow the race that never invented the wheel to get behind a steering wheel. That combined with a general degradation of education and common sense in the country and you end up getting some extremely shitty drivers.
Also Indians.
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I hate to break this to you, but the cockless wonder who thinks human beings can brake in 5m, let alone that a vehicle can stop in that distance, was White, male and looked to be in his Fifties.

If it reassures you though, I did see an Indian dude reverse out into a main road the other month, into traffic and then have the gall to lean out and yell at the person who had to brake to avoid hitting him.
 
Overly Serious said:
I hate to break this to you, but the cockless wonder who thinks human beings can brake in 5m, let alone that a vehicle can stop in that distance, was White, male and looked to be in his Fifties.
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Oh no, I'm aware that there are white people who are dogshit at driving too, but of course there are. Standards all around have been lowered to accomodate Ranjeet and N'glukgluk, which means that everything across the board gets worse. See, that's the real poison of mass immigration of the third world, not just the fact that they rape, steal and crime at increased rates, but also that it opens up for things to start accomodating to them instead, be it in pursuit of fairness or profit, and as a result, the entire system and everyone in it ends up becoming more, for lack of a better word, retarded.
 
Some bits from Auntie...


Trump threatens legal action against BBC as chair apologises for 'error of judgement' on speech edit




Second migrant sent to France returns to the UK (Human Boomerang does Human Boomerang thing)




IOC moves closer to ban on transgender women




Reeves tells BBC 'difficult' Budget ahead as she again refuses to rule out tax rises




Catfish child abuser investigation delayed by police 'under-resourcing'




'Secret' underground energy could heat every home in Cardiff


 
UselessRubberKeyboard said:
This is not a Muslim country and state schools aren’t Muslim.
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lol,lmao even. 🌈
UselessRubberKeyboard said:
I wouldn’t mind a female commentator
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Suzi Perry. I wouldn't mind her either.
Made In Wales said:
Reeves tells BBC 'difficult' Budget ahead as she again refuses to rule out tax rises
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Vat going up, Council tax going up, Fuel Duty going up, Cost of a pint going up and a tax on vapes would be my guesses.

Made In Wales said:
HA! Yes, it has to be!

Also, Trump is set to sue the BBC for $1bn.


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I'm convinced this trump stuff is a smoke screen. I reckon the heads of the BBC were abouts to get caught lying to the nation about pedos, paki rape gangs, crime stats and all of the things that would make the country boil over.

Someone has told them to leak something about the american president - really, who gives a fuck what an american does in relation to the bbc lying to the population? - and that has it covered up.

Now the british left are crying it's all fascism and the british right are banging on about free speech. It makes me fucking sick.
How about, as british tax payers, getting pissed off that the institution you pay for has been caught lying, yet refuses to tell us brits what british news they were lying to us about?

Buh Trump!! Fuck I hate my countrymen.
 
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Duane Dibbley said:
lol,lmao even. 🌈

Suzi Perry. I wouldn't mind her either.

Vat going up, Council tax going up, Fuel Duty going up, Cost of a pint going up and a tax on vapes would be my guesses.
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My guesses:

VAT - frozen for now
Council Tax - up
Fuel Duty - up, especially with EV's
Inheritence Tax - up
Millionaires Tax - won't happen in this budget

Middle Class Britain will be broken by this.

I'd also not bet against a bank run or credit crunch before/after Christmas.

Reeves will have to go if she breaks the manifesto promise, but if she goes will Starmer go too or will he double down and refuse to go?

Crisis point is here.
 
"This bus terminates here"

No. No it fucking doesn't. Why are bus drivers allowed to turf everyone off halfway round their route? Is this just a London thing?? It should be illegal for buses to terminate anywhere other the terminus, i.e. where the bus said it was going when I got on.

Bleh I'm miserable today lads.
 
UselessRubberKeyboard said:
Just chucking the first woman in you can find who played at a decent level
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A decent level ? Ha ha ha.
Quintex96 said:
Because it's unfortunately common belief that once you get your license, the rules no longer apply. Had this discussion with friends and siblings numerous times. It's how I have heard such gems as 'Speeds limits only apply if there's a camera nearby' 'if you enter at 70 and leave at 30 it averages out to 50' and my personal favourite 'you can overtake whenever you want, if the other car doesn't slow down it's their fault'.
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The average IQ is definitely decreasing and this factors into driving. The ever decreasing attention span, lack of attention to detail ( and as a result awareness of everything around the car as a driver ) the ability to judge the speed of other vehicles, distance and hence timing seems unbelievably worse as attention and mental ability decreases. The number of people that seem to drive distracted is increasing too - mobile phones, chatting to passengers, paying attention to kids screaming in the back - all contribute to the lack of attention.

Is this why so much money is being invested into automated driving ? As the population becomes increasingly stupid and unable, the need for this service will be increasing, creating a market for the product. Personally I have no love of driving as it requires my concentration, but I do like the freedom it provides and I could never imagine trusting an automated car - possibly the increase in manually driven cars being involved in accidents will be the excuse technocrat Starmer needs to outlaw them and make shared, government sponsored ( and tracked ) automated cars the only option.
Symbol of the Chud said:
IDK maybe has something to do with the fact that we allow the race that never invented the wheel to get behind a steering wheel. That combined with a general degradation of education and common sense in the country and you end up getting some extremely shitty drivers.
Also Indians.
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This is also definitely a factor. Again as we increasingly become a low trust society, has anybody else noticed how many common sense parts of the highway code are being increasingly ignored by drivers of certain ethnicities ?
I would estimate that the number of times an undertaker ( a maneuver that should be classed as dangerous driving ) is carried out by one of these "shitty drivers" is at least 90%. Import the third world, get third world travel through third world culture.

Oh look, here's a nice little example.....


 
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A tax on vapes isn't a bad idea. I know people who have never smoked who vape like crazy.

A number of years back I quit smoking and my GP told me, please don't start vaping. Her argument made sense to me. We know what the risk is with smoking. We know it's a plant an we know where we stand with it. With vaping it's entirely synthetic and the risks are unknown.

She gave me a ton of useful advice about over the counter meds I could take to offset the withdrawal from tobacco like stuff to keep me regular and to help me sleep,I took three days off work, tanked myself up on meds and slept through the worst of it and it worked. And every time I wanted to smoke I took her advice and thought of someone who I despised who also smoked an it's absolutely done the trick. Over 3 years,nearly 4, without one.

It sounds mental but I also read an excellent quote on the David Icke forums which helped me,too. Something along lines of "you have in you,the innate power and capability to do anything you want, and they don't want you to know that. But you do". It really helped a lot.

Edited to say,not pooping when withdrawing from tobacco was by far my worst thing. Needing to poop and not being able to is the absolute worst. Offset that and so long as you want to do it,is half the battle won.
 
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Made In Wales said:
HA! Yes, it has to be!

Also, Trump is set to sue the BBC for $1bn.


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So this $1bn......I appreciate that figure is largely for show, claimants always start with an inflated estimate of damages, etc and that it doesn't always get paid out. BUT.....
If Trump is to win the case ( I don't know how high the bar is set in these matters in terms of proving the BBC was malicious and not negligent - is there a difference in law ? Questions for a solicitor )
then who foots the bill ? It better not be the licence fee payers ( which in effect are the tax paying public ). Does Tim Davie as director general have financial responsibility ?
Also as Davie resigned, I assume that means the ponce is still entitled to his gold plated pension rather than if he was fired as he should have been ?
 
EddyRooney said:
The ever decreasing attention span, lack of attention to detail
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I blame technology. reverse cameras with sensors and beeping so you don't have to learn the size of your car. Wing mirrors that light up so that you don't have to check your blindspot. Auto-braking, vibrating steering wheels when you're fatigued, cars that pull you back to the centre of the lane if you drift and the worst of all, sat navs. Why learn road names, road rules, and road signs when you just follow blue arrow.
The disconnect between the driver and road from 1990 to now is terrifying.
EddyRooney said:
Is this why so much money is being invested into automated driving ? As the population becomes increasingly stupid and unable
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Just like the yanks and they're thick as mince.
BongoMongo said:
A tax on vapes isn't a bad idea. I know people who have never smoked who vape like crazy.
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I'm not a smoker but the smoking ban pissed me off, with the exception of places where food was served, because at the initiation of the ban, smoking tax paid for 30% of the budget of the NHS. They never replaced that tax even though smokers dropped like a rock.

£1 tax per vape would generate a shit load of money and the broccoli haired chavs would pay it without much of a thought.
 
They won't tax vapes becoz itll piss off every Muslim shop owner who won't be able to make as much profit as possible

ETA Hahah the greens co-deputy leader is opposing migrants being settled in Crowborough. Its totally due to lacking assurances as to the safely of 'both asylum seekers and local communities'. Hahahhahahahahaha
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Duane Dibbley said:
I blame technology. reverse cameras with sensors and beeping so you don't have to learn the size of your car. Wing mirrors that light up so that you don't have to check your blindspot. Auto-braking, vibrating steering wheels when you're fatigued, cars that pull you back to the centre of the lane if you drift and the worst of all, sat navs. Why learn road names, road rules, and road signs when you just follow blue arrow.
The disconnect between the driver and road from 1990 to now is terrifying.

Just like the yanks and they're thick as mince.

I'm not a smoker but the smoking ban pissed me off, with the exception of places where food was served, because at the initiation of the ban, smoking tax paid for 30% of the budget of the NHS. They never replaced that tax even though smokers dropped like a rock.

£1 tax per vape would generate a shit load of money and the broccoli haired chavs would pay it without much of a thought.
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What bothers me is the people who have never smoked,who vape. When I looked to quit smoking I went to a vape shop seeking advice and I was pleasantly surprised. The nice young man told me,don't start vaping. Even disposables are far, far stronger than cigarettes and it's not an equal comparison. I was surprised by his candour but he was very helpful and upfront.

I didn't switch to vaping, I just took over the counter meds and, when I felt like I needed to stick something in my mouth, ate sliced gherkins. Worked a charm. They're very low calorie and the salty hit targets the little receptors in your brain that ping when you smoke. I'm very thankful for his advice and for his honesty.
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
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Rachel from sussex would absolutely get it.
BongoMongo said:
What bothers me is the people who have never smoked,who vape.
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Vapes started with just the flavoured, non-nicotine ones, which even the kids started doing because of the smoke and flavours, then they all swapped to full on nicotine ones. Nobody said a thing.
The industry was completely unregulated and people were making the liquids in their bath and flogging them on. No idea what was inside them and nobody cared, now it's worse than smoking.

The chemicals in vapes do more harm than the heavily regulated fag industry does. I say tax the shite out of them.
 
Duane Dibbley said:
Rachel from sussex would absolutely get it.
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Reeves, who is still struggling with the deficit, is now suggesting that benefits should not be limited according to family size.
"I don't think that it's right that a child is penalised because they are in a bigger family, through no fault of their own," she added.
"And so we will take action on child poverty. The last Labour government proudly reduced child poverty, and we will reduce child poverty as well."
She added there were "plenty of reasons why" parents who decided to have three or four children could see their financial circumstances change.
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For all their many faults, cigarettes are tobacco which is a plant and you absolutely know where you stand with them. They're terrible for you but we know the risks and you can make an informed choice.

Personally, I started smoking in 2016 after I was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. I'd done everything right up til that point. Slim, non smoker,non drinker. And I felt totally and utterly defeated. I quit in 2022, and the help I got was brilliant. Upfront honest real advice and I am glad and grateful every day for it.

Vapes though we know nothing about. They're toxic and deadly
 
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