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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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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.

 

[BongoMongo]

I can't believe I'm going to say I think the Taliban got something right but their take on murderers is allow the family of the murdered the choice to carry out the execution themselves. That's excellent. We should allow this.

 

[Overly Serious]

Not if they keep the having muslim immigrants imported. They ironically keep islam in the UK from adopting left-leaning social values because the new immigrants overwhelm and outdo any muslims who adopt this. That's why islamic extremism is worse in the UK than it is in muslim-majority countries like Morocco or the UAE (the stable muslim countries, that is).

Yep. This is very much the case. The other thing is that every a Muslim country starts to lean more secular we tend to bomb it because they're harder to control than religious fundamentalists. We invaded Iraq, we destroyed Libya. Iran itself, well we had a very big hand in the hard Islamists turn that country took. The best thing we as Western countries can do to accelerate the process of Islam going through its own reforms and apostacies is to (a) be a successful secular country that people in those countries can point at as an example that it works and (b) not keep hardening Islamic identity by getting involved in their business every time. Unfortunately we fail at the both what with troonery and other degeneracy and repeatedly replacing secular leaders with fundamentalists we imagine we can use as puppets.

 

[Amin Yasister]

'English' teams that are 90% back make me sick and should have points docked. One of the London clubs, Crystal Palace maybe? is just afcon in one team.

One of the few football facts I know is that the 1975 West Ham United team remains the last all-English team to win the FA Cup.

 

[BrightonAndHoveAlbion]

Was pondering this earlier today after my club signed yet another foreign player.

I would recommend going along to whatever the biggest football team is in your local area that isn't in any of the major leagues. Always going to be local players at that level and you can make some good mates if you hang out in the local pub/club house after. They've always been very welcoming to newcomers outside of the more trouser-twitchy ones and you get to see a bit more 'old school' football instead the autistic premier league stuff we get now. Once Brighton have Solly + Dunk retire, I don't think we will have any native Sussex players left.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Most 'Browns' I've met are not Muslim and are either agnostic or atheist, and they want nothing to do with Islam describing it as 'backwards and archaic'.

They're lying and the flavour of browns you've met aren't the vast majority.

In my experience and with talking to many pakis across the country, islam follows a pattern:

>Youth are strongly islamic due to parents' strong religious and cultural discpline.
>Muslim teenagers - late 20's reject islam, go partying, lots of sex and drugs.
>Early 30s onwards, settle down, have family, return to the religion.
>Become ultra islamic, pass on islamic faith to kids due to strong refound beliefs
>Cycle repeats.

fourth generation now and the story is the same. Some pakis I knew refused to wear the hijab when that was a big talking point in their community a few years back. Their community attacked them, ostracised them and targeted their parents until they A) wore the hijab, or B) ironically, fucked off out of the area.

The pakis are so savage that when my paki mate went back to pakistan to see family, she had to be armed escorted everywhere because she was seen as 1) too western, and 2) prime target for rape. Her and her sister were from that country and they were still rapemeat.
Lovely culture. Just lovely.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

I’m seeing the muzzies threatening suicide bombings in France if when Iran gets the Maduro treatment.

With talk of prepping for power cuts this is a second reason to prep and also be cautious around them.

 

[Godhead Heavy Industries]

I’m now convinced that only one man could have saved this country.

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M. Bison?

 

[femboy fart huffer]

I’m seeing the muzzies threatening suicide bombings in France if when Iran gets the Maduro treatment.

With talk of prepping for power cuts this is a second reason to prep and also be cautious around them.

So business as usual in good old multicultural Europe?

Muslims threatening to blow shit up because they don't get their 77 virgins given to them by the foster care system is about as surprising as saying it's raining. I'm sure that going back to the early 2010s will go great, it made people love muslims so much didn't it? We felt so empathetic and sorry for the poor little muslims when they did that shit the last time didn't we?

 

[DreinMeinVein]

On telly tonight. Mrs Riley. Based .

Cope & seeth, troons

 

[tack så mycket]

They are also deeply saddened and angered by the rape gangs and want them gone from these shores as well.

They're lying to you. They're obviously not going to say "yeah I'm fine with it actually" to your face, are they? They don't give a shit, you desperately need to open your eyes and wake up to the fact that some people actually lie to get what they want.

 

[diroama]

Sounds like they're going to experience soon what happened to Christianity in the UK from the 60s to the present day - I just wonder if Islam will go 'woke' along the way... rainbow minaret's anybody?

The Christian faith may be in decline in the UK but we are still culturally Christian. Our laws, supposed values and traditions are all a product of that.

I don't care if Muslims are less likely to go to a mosque, or decide they don't need to wear a dress or refuse bacon, they'll still be culturally islamic, alien and not welcome.

Not that I actually believe that is happening. But please, continue on this path to your eventual reversion. I wish you well on your Hajj. Pack suntan lotion.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

On telly tonight. Mrs Riley. Based .

She can dilate this fa whenever she wants

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Yep. This is very much the case. The other thing is that every a Muslim country starts to lean more secular we tend to bomb it because they're harder to control than religious fundamentalists. We invaded Iraq, we destroyed Libya.

Unfortunately in the not to distant future I fear the "we" in that will be the US and the "Muslim country" will be a long list of European countries including those making up Great Britain.

 

[Clem Fandango]

The Christian faith may be in decline in the UK but we are still culturally Christian. Our laws, supposed values and traditions are all a product of that.

I don't care if Muslims are less likely to go to a mosque, or decide they don't need to wear a dress or refuse bacon, they'll still be culturally islamic, alien and not welcome.

Not that I actually believe that is happening. But please, continue on this path to your eventual reversion. I wish you well on your Hajj. Pack suntan lotion.

Near me there's a mosque where they just bought an old church. I guess at least this country still looks like the UK if you just squint a bit. They haven't put up a minaret or one of those godawful call to prayer tannoys (yet). Parking is a bit of a nightmare on a Friday though.

 

[Made In Wales]

I would recommend going along to whatever the biggest football team is in your local area that isn't in any of the major leagues. Always going to be local players at that level and you can make some good mates if you hang out in the local pub/club house after. They've always been very welcoming to newcomers outside of the more trouser-twitchy ones and you get to see a bit more 'old school' football instead the autistic premier league stuff we get now. Once Brighton have Solly + Dunk retire, I don't think we will have any native Sussex players left.

Don't Brighton have a young lad called Charlie Tasker who's been in/around the first team - think he's from Brighton? Therefore there's some hope.

The biggest non-league team near me would be Merthyr Town, but their fans and owners are a strange bunch - very much for Plaid and Welsh Independence but refuse point blank to play in the Cymru Premier which continues to annoy the FAW no end. They're currently third in the National League North after being promoted only last season.

 

[diroama]

Near me there's a mosque where they just bought an old church. I guess at least this country still looks like the UK if you just squint a bit. They haven't put up a minaret or one of those godawful call to prayer tannoys (yet). Parking is a bit of a nightmare on a Friday though.

I once spent a few days working in Istanbul. One of my favourite memories of that time were drinking coffee at breakfast on the hotel rooftop looking across the Bosporus with the call to prayer echoing through the streets.

I don't have a problem with the islamic call to prayer, as long as it's where it belongs.

 

[Clem Fandango]

I once spent a few days working in Istanbul. One of my favourite memories of that time were drinking coffee at breakfast on the hotel rooftop looking across the Bosporus with the call to prayer echoing through the streets.

I don't have a problem with the islamic call to prayer, as long as it's where it belongs.

Yeah, and I've been on holidays from Morocco to Indonesia where it sounded like the imam was at the foot of my fucking bed at 6am.

ALLLLLLAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm not putting up with that shit over here. I think that's probably all I can say on that.

 

[Long and sneaky]

I was against the death penalty when I was in my 20s. I've had a lot of time to think about it since then.

Only reason I'm against the death penalty is would you REALLY trust Whitehall and the courts with the authority to (openly) kill Brits?

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Near me there's a mosque where they just bought an old church.

Defiling a place of God especially with such idolatry is idk man. I would rather grey plastic boxes on greenbelt sites than that. I'm sure when they get kicked out and it's returned to it's rightful owners they won't complain or anything like that.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I’m seeing the muzzies threatening suicide bombings in France if when Iran gets the Maduro treatment.

With talk of prepping for power cuts this is a second reason to prep and also be cautious around them.

My one regret is that the genny I bought runs on unleaded, while my car is a diesel. It was a very bad decsion and I hope to rectify it (haha) shortly.

Near me there's a mosque where they just bought an old church. I guess at least this country still looks like the UK if you just squint a bit. They haven't put up a minaret or one of those godawful call to prayer tannoys (yet). Parking is a bit of a nightmare on a Friday though.

There's a former church near oxford street in manchester that got turned into a mosque. One of the first things they did after buying it was to knock down the steeple. Grade 1 listed building (iirc), but they got away with it anyway.

Church near me got sold to a developer last year. I tried to buy it, only because turning that bit of land into a housing development is going to cause absolute havoc on the road. The estate agent all but told me that I didn't have a chance in hell no matter how much money I offered, because the council, church, and developer were all colluding to pass one aother brown envelopes and turn it into at least 8 shitty little shoeboxes and six flats. It's the same picture. Profit over nation.