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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.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

He’s trying to be British (badly) be patient.

If you keep being mean to me I WILL post a 10,000 word essay calling you mean and it would be really annoying and it'd make you take like 30 seconds to scroll by it and you'll be sad. This is a direct and personal threat.

read all their posts or something

It's your website? Your job is to read everyone's posts? That's literally the only reason you get a janny wage?

Randy Andy getting his comeuppance is great. As with all this stuff though, I wonder why NOW?

Because people were paying a little too much attention to the fact that kier starmer knowingly appointed a child rapist who leaked sensitive information to another child rapist.

I’d be surprised if the mean age was in the 20s. People seem to skew older here.

They definitely skew older here ie this thread, but there's some threads that are like fucking hell have you guys even done your sats yet?

I've seen you post some slightly outré stuff on here before but this really is beyond the pale. Coconut ruins everything, dessicated coconut is the devil's dandruff, why would you make a delicious biscuit and and something that tastes like suncream smells?

Rupert Holmes was paid off by Big Coconut™ to push dogshit gross drinks that do nothing but waste rum and pineapples by adulterating them with fucking sawdust. The only thing that coconut is good for is soil and even then only when it needs to be specifically low nutrient soil. That and being eaten by coconut crabs those guys are cool and only grow to less than half their max size in areas without coconuts for them to eat.

I hate that the leaders of this country have put me in this position tbh.

Yea we had the same. Either live in this shithole and deal with the policial and crime issues, or I move in with her and take a 50% pay cut from inflation and have to work 50% more hours just to get that wage. At least it's rural enough here that the majority of browns are just old women that slipped and fell in the mud.

 

[FedPostalService]

but if course josh isn't an utter cretin.

The interview with the BPD girls says otherwise.

 

[>IMPLYING]

I've had and if I'm honest still am having a long hard look at leaving the country. Without power levelling too much, my Mrs had the unfortunate luck of not being born in England and for us it comes down to where do we want our children to be brought up. If I could be sure I could give them a childhood like that I had growing up, there'd be no question about staying here.

However like I've mentioned myself and others recently in this thread, the possibility of violence becoming (even more) widespread in the future here really makes me question if it's better that we raise our family in her home country. I don't like the idea of leaving my homeland at all, but I also don't like the idea of placing my family in danger. There's a biological time pressure to make a decision soon plus the cost differences between our two countries too, but they're not as pressing as the future stability here in the UK on our final choice.

I hate that the leaders of this country have put me in this position tbh.

Believe me I didn't go out looking for a foreign woman, life just happened.

I consider the idea we'll see widespread, normalised violence unlikely. However, when replying to Kofi Drinka about my views of people who leave the country, I cut out an incredibly homosexual aside about love being one of the few, if only, justified instances where it's permissible to leave your country, especially if you're a nationalist, since both feelings originate from the same place. I take issue with the application of applying logic/rationality in justifying your leave — "muh (hypothetical) safety", "muh money", "muh government" — versus the simpler and infinitesimally stronger motive of your love for this woman compelling you to maximise your possible happiness together.

Don't mire this shit with politics it's arguably gayer than the stuff I just posted.

 

[GotFriedBy]

I like these. No heat or Asian spices. It's basically a well seasoned chicken noodle soup.

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>no heat or Asian spices
>Ko-Lee is a brand of Malaysian-produced instant noodles, marketed in the UK by the Kohlico Group
surely they have at least ONE asian spice

 

[Johnny Dipp]

A good Ko-LEE product?

All the ones I tried were crap.

Their Chicken and Mushroom flavor can fuck off. Curry and Hot 'n' Spicy are both mid. The Roast chicken sells out immediately where I buy them and the shopkeeper is a retard so it will be months before a restock. Me finding that thumbnail was also me finding out I can order in bulk online so I'm glad I brought this up.

He was literally boasting that he has asked lord farage to look into the kf situation and trying to set up something with him and josh... but if course josh isn't an utter cretin.

I can imagine Farage looking into the KF situation and realising what a PR disaster it would be for him to associate with this website. We can all at least agree that Welshy is retarded.

 

[Otterly]

Both Iraq and Afghan were justified

Neither war was justified.
David Kelley was murdered, and he’s not the only scientist who was over the years either

Yes but have you seen the state of British women?

Ahem. I think I need to defend our honour here. Bong women are great. We make good tea, we have a great sense of humour and we can hide in bogs with you if needed

Dating an Irish or Welsh woman is very different to dating an English woman.

I dated a Scot for a while and he was very nice. Honestly within Northern Europe is fine, as long as you share a similar outlook on life.
I don’t think dating someone from across the Pennines or Offa’s dyke is quite the same as someone from Somalia or the Amazon or darkest Congoin terms if cultural difference personally, although I’ll admit that I find Glaswegians a bit difficult to understand sometimes and foreign colleagues have confessed they’ve gone years smiling and nodding at the ones with stronger accents while being unable to understand a word they said.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

I dated a Scot for a while and he was very nice. Honestly within Northern Europe is fine, as long as you share a similar outlook on life.
I don’t think dating someone from across the Pennines or Offa’s dyke is quite the same as someone from Somalia or the Amazon or darkest Congoin terms if cultural difference personally, although I’ll admit that I find Glaswegians a bit difficult to understand sometimes and foreign colleagues have confessed they’ve gone years smiling and nodding at the ones with stronger accents while being unable to understand a word they said.

I think we can all agree as long as you aren't dating a Londoner, you're in the clear

 

[femboy fart huffer]

ONE asian spice

Well chicken is Asian. Not a spice but still. I checked and they have tumeric which is indian, I guess if you're a politician that's an Asian spice?

Ahem. I think I need to defend our honour here. Bong women are great. We make good tea, we have a great sense of humour and we can hide in bogs with you if needed

I like British women because my mother is one and I like her and she is nice.

 

[Otterly]

I think we can all agree as long as you aren't dating a Londoner, you're in the clear

Well exactly. I don’t consider the M62 an insurmountable barrier but Estuary English is a step too far.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

The most exotic I'm willing to go is Yorkshire, and even then I'm dubious about the East Riding.

 

[GotFriedBy]

All Ko-Lee products taste of nothing

 

[the rat]

I like British women because my mother is one and I like her and she is nice.

British women slander has gone on too long. A vote for me is a vote for British women haters hanged in public. That and a (single) free fresh sausage roll on Tuesdays.

 

[GotFriedBy]

i like british women because the only non british woman I ever dated was an evil wench and no british woman ever did me wrong

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

The idea of dating an English woman scares me.

There's something just not right with you lot down there.

 

[A-Logato]

The idea of dating an English woman scares me.

There's something just not right with you lot down there.

Not even the most staunch, English ethnic nationalist want's to sleep with English women.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

The idea of dating an English woman scares me.

There's something just not right with you lot down there.

Most English women are nice. Maybe not the most attractive but if you're dating someone for transitory vain bullshit then the relationship would never last anyway. If you actually love someone they'll be attractive to you no matter what.

 

[Johnny Dipp]

All Ko-Lee products taste of nothing

How dare you besmirch my Malaysian instant noodle slop.

This minor disagreement is the final straw.

Peace out and peace off.

@ Josh Delete the account please, thanks.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Honestly super noodles were goated, no idea if they're still good but might go and get a packet for hangover scran tomorrow.

Also I'm sick of retards not understanding the fucking instructions. You don't put the packet in with the boiling noodles, you drain the noodles and put them in a bowl and THEN pour the sachet in before mixing it. That way you actually taste the flavour instead of watery gloop.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

Most English women are nice. Maybe not the most attractive but if you're dating someone for transitory vain bullshit then the relationship would never last anyway. If you actually love someone they'll be attractive to you no matter what.

If they pronounce scone as scone I just can't bring myself to sleep with them.

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

Honestly super noodles were goated, no idea if they're still good but might go and get a packet for hangover scran tomorrow.

Also I'm sick of retards not understanding the fucking instructions. You don't put the packet in with the boiling noodles, you drain the noodles and put them in a bowl and THEN pour the sachet in before mixing it. That way you actually taste the flavour instead of watery gloop.

I knew somebody who thought that you cooked them by just putting them in a bowl of boiling water and that's it.

They were ASTONISHED how much better they tasted when you actually FUCKING COOK THEM.