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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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teriyakiburns said:
Rug-pull is easy enough. Dual citizens are being fucked over without warning.
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Half-right. Dual Citizens are predominantly europeans and when they leave on their EU passport, the UK government has no idea that they have left or where they are.

Tying in the British passport means the UK can keep track on them coming in. It's only a short while later that the inquisitions start, and those deemed bad are banned from re-entry. Quite the incentive to follow the message.
teriyakiburns said:
The contradiction? Anyone with indefinite leave to remain or post-EU settled status doesn't seem to be affected by this. Nor is anyone here on an asylum claim. Only dual citizens are being put through the wringer.
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Nearly. It says that " or a new digital version of the certificate of entitlement to attach to their second nationality passport". How can you attach a digital file to a physical passport.
The contradiction is anyone can have it, as long as they have a digital passport. (hopefully it's a typo and not saying the quiet part out loud).
diroama said:
I'm surprised that a foreigner can become a "British National" without a passport being issued being part of the process.
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When applying for citizenship for another country, you can choose to be a citizen, or for extra money, receive a passport book and passport license as well.

All Europeans should have grabbed a British Passport the second somone coined the term "brexit".
Sensitive Young Man said:
No Tories.
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Or niggers.
Sensitive Young Man said:
e5Onh1mK-ESSLMJW.mp4
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1 in 25 entered the country in the last 5 years? That is an insane stat. As in, you have to be insane to think it's only 1 in 25 and not 1 in 10.
Chunky Salsa said:
Pancakes are nasty. Gross!
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One of the few things our amerilard cunts do better. Though they're nothing without maple syrup. God bless globalism.
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Greens invading assisted living site and trying to menace the inhabitants into voting Green.
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Exactly what Thatcher did. And she was caught and fuck all was done.
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Burnham now wants councils to be able to force landlords to sell their homes.
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He has had his palms greased. The manchester united consortium need to know down the housing estate next to old trafford to extent the stadium.

The land owners have offered to sell for £450 million (iirc), scum have offered £100 million and no more. So they would rather pay £200 million to forcibly remove people from their home to build a bigger stadium for a has-been, cheating club with plastic fans and media sycophants.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Burnham now wants councils to be able to force landlords to sell their homes.
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He (and other city majors) should worry less about housing landlords in the burbs and start forcing corporate landlords to lower the rent on shops and pubs so they stop fucking closing.

>IMPLYING said:
3-way left-wing split (Lib Dem, Green, Labour) is just as egregious.
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Half the 'left-wing' voting block wants to throw the other half off buildings for being fags or women. It's wild when you look at these brown Labour voters and realise they are more socially conservative than half this board (gotta get more racist lads, gotta get more Greggs)
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
He (and other city majors) should worry less about housing landlords in the burbs and start forcing corporate landlords to lower the rent on shops and pubs so they stop fucking closing.
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Those people pay their dues/bribe the politicians so will be untouched.

The housing landlords who are not part of the growing slumlords who have enough property to grease the right palms are chiefly from the filthy middle class that need to be destroyed in favour of putting what they've earned in the hands of those politicians consider more deserving.
 
Kier Starmer said:
@Tom Nook's Gloryhole, I am listening to it now, I really like it too. It's so aggressive, but I really enjoy Charli XCX's musical range. She is one of the founders of using tens of layers in music for this very guttural approach. It is similar to Phil Spectre and his Wall of Sound, but more refined.

Thank you for the new music.
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As a heads up if you like Wuthering Heights and Charli, there's a few albums that might have slipped your radar that you might love.

  • Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk (Still unsure if this is my Album of the Year last year but it's out of this world bubblegum pop with some bite to it, Cry For Me is basically like Dark Abba if that was possible)
  • Thy Slaughter - Soft Rock (Don't let the name throw you, this is AG Cook's collaberation album project that features Charli and Caroline Polachek, AG Cook being the guy who produced BRAT and has a VERY good ear for soundscapes)
  • Hannah Diamond - Perfect Picture (AG Cook produced again, Hannah has an incredible voice and the production is straight up dreamy)
  • AG Cook - Britpop (Hell, might as well just say "listen to everything that AG Cook has touched", but this was released around the same time as BRAT and is two straight hours of Charli XCX tier production but AG singing everything himself)
  • The Knife - Shaking The Habitual (It was released a while back but this was their final album before they called it a day and it's probably the most abrasive pop album I've ever heard. Filled with bangers that try their best to hurt you)
  • Black Country, New Road - Live At Bush Hall (Don't let the name throw you, it's from a concert very shortly after their lead singer quit the band and they promised never to use any of his music again so came up with an album worth of material just so they could play music live, they unintentionally created an album full of bangers despite being very raw)
A few quirky ones that you either love or hate include:

  • Geordie Greep - The New Sound (Black Midi's frontman producing a salsa rock album that's incredibly unhinged and catchy)
  • Black Midi - Hellfire (In fact if you haven't heard of Black Midi you're in for a treat)
  • Cardiacs - LSD (I'll never stop banging on about Cardiacs, they and XTC heavily inspired Blur and their entire discography is bonkers. This dropped last year nearly 5 years after their frontman died and it's the perfect bookend to their career)

In short, music is fucking great and anyone who goes "nothing good has been released since the 90s" is getting tied to a post and shot while listening to Black Country, New Road's Basketball Shoes.
 
What are you guys talking about? Thick pancakes? I should give you a thick ear.

Pancakes that you have on pancake day should be thin, like crepes, so you can eat like 20 of them. Acceptable toppings are sugar, syrup, honey and the squeezy lemon.
 
Clem Fandango said:
What are you guys talking about? Thick pancakes? I should give you a thick ear.

Pancakes that you have on pancake day should be thin, like crepes, so you can eat like 20 of them. Acceptable toppings are sugar, syrup, honey and the squeezy lemon.
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And home-made lemon curd.
 
Coolio55 said:
I regret to inform all of you:
They've found Enid Blyton.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PAUEwUhAjzg
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I thought she was cancelled for doing a racism?

Fuck’s sake. One of the few nice children’s books left. They’re going to make a genderland and a drug land and a gayparadiseland and a sexworkisempoweringforkidsland at the top of the MFT, aren’t they?

Moonface: HAES brave gay dandy

The Angry Pixie: Autigender little person whose constant meltdowns are patiently tolerated by everyone

Silky: black brave descendant of slaves who informs everyone of how they’re racist and owe her reparations

Saucepan Man: Deaf with a capital D OCD abuse survivor bravely building his armour of reused and recycled kitchenware (also espouses best Green credentials)

Who was the washerwoman who soaked everyone with her laundry water? She’ll be a brave single mother with adopted and Looked After Children of refugees (all who steal the fruit from the MFT and terrorise the residents endlessly, but get away with it because Be Nice.

Pop biscuits: what you get when you try to eat sugar instead of synthetic, factory-made chemical sweetened, gluten-free, extra virgin soy oat latte cronuts (no-one touches the fruit on the tree - it’s all stolen and chucked around by washerwoman’s forrun kids). Empty cardboard-tasting mockery of what a biscuit used to be.

The ladder to the lands at the top of the MFT: a magical wind-powered glass lift that’s fully accessible (with audio cues) and cost five times more than the budget, was installed two years later than the agreed deadline, and is out of service more often than it works)

The goblins chopping the roots of the tree: white Brits, obviously racist and hate the new multi-cultural and rainbow green MFT family.

If they discover The Wishing Chair or The Children of Cherry Tree Farm, we really are fucked.
 
UselessRubberKeyboard said:
I thought she was cancelled for doing a racism?

Fuck’s sake. One of the few nice children’s books left. They’re going to make a genderland and a drug land and a gayparadiseland and a sexworkisempoweringforkidsland at the top of the MFT, aren’t they?

Moonface: HAES brave gay dandy

The Angry Pixie: Autigender little person whose constant meltdowns are patiently tolerated by everyone

Silky: black brave descendant of slaves who informs everyone of how they’re racist and owe her reparations

Saucepan Man: Deaf with a capital D OCD abuse survivor bravely building his armour of reused and recycled kitchenware (also espouses best Green credentials)

Who was the washerwoman who soaked everyone with her laundry water? She’ll be a brave single mother with adopted and Looked After Children of refugees (all who steal the fruit from the MFT and terrorise the residents endlessly, but get away with it because Be Nice.

Pop biscuits: what you get when you try to eat sugar instead of synthetic, factory-made chemical sweetened, gluten-free, extra virgin soy oat latte cronuts (no-one touches the fruit on the tree - it’s all stolen and chucked around by washerwoman’s forrun kids). Empty cardboard-tasting mockery of what a biscuit used to be.

The ladder to the lands at the top of the MFT: a magical wind-powered glass lift that’s fully accessible (with audio cues) and cost five times more than the budget, was installed two years later than the agreed deadline, and is out of service more often than it works)

The goblins chopping the roots of the tree: white Brits, obviously racist and hate the new multi-cultural and rainbow green MFT family.

If they discover The Wishing Chair or The Children of Cherry Tree Farm, we really are fucked.
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If i remember correctly, wasn't the girl in the story named "Fanny"?

That's gonna be an interesting situation.
 
Coolio55 said:
They've found Enid Blyton.
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This is the only modern Famous Five I'd welcome. Super funny

A man goes over the cognitive dissonance with his male protective instincts when a migrant hotel opened nearby.
 
Coolio55 said:
I regret to inform all of you:
They've found Enid Blyton.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PAUEwUhAjzg
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Hrm. I have my standard long suffering sigh, especially at aging up one of the children, but since there seems to be a degree of digging at the families that park their children on tablets or VR headsets there might be something salvageable in it.

Plot is pretty blatantly predictable but it's a children's film,
 
Candlelight Desolation said:
Saw this today, didn't know where else to post this: lefty British parents react poorly to early 20's son making right wing social media posts, police called:

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Holy shit, this video is hilarious. The mother crying hysterically into the phone "MOI SON'S REELLYY RADICALOIZED" while the operator tries to calm her down as the son says "om not radicaloized mum, om a political commentaytah" then father marches in and tries to put on a tough act "WHAT AVE YEW BECOME YOU PARASITE?!" You can tell if he didn't have the camera out, his father probably would have assaulted him with him closing the door. And then as he's leaving, the mother cries "OH NO, EE'S RECAWDING AS!" There's probably some more context since I doubt they'd disown him over politics.
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
When I'm PM anyone who doesn't have pancakes on Shrove Tuesday is getting deported.
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This post made me rush some pancakes at the end of the day,

Since Restore is now a valid alternative, do you still think Nigel would still try to sink Reform knowing the voters would just turn to them?
 
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