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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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Overdrive said:
Impressive rant, I enjoyed it. The only one thing I disagree with is that the pace of innovation has slowed down. I think it's going just as fast if not faster than ever, but just in ways that aren't seen openly for the vast majority of people (whereas previously it all has been). In my own field for example where we were in 2021 feels like a completely different era to where we are now and the things we're making just wouldn't have been possible outside of a supercomputer even just 5 years ago and were basically sci-fi ideas back in 2016. However for anyone to see this stuff you have to hold all sorts of permissions and clearances which I doubt will change any time soon.
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Yeah, just chatting shit. For entertainment value only.

Now, how the fuck do I get a fucking cheese and onion slice around here...

EDIT: Fuck it, just gonna steal some chocolate instead:

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K-Hole said:
Yeah, just chatting shit. For entertainment value only.

Now, how the fuck do I get a fucking cheese and onion slice around here...

EDIT: Fuck it, just gonna steal some chocolate instead:

Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order​


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In my area they put cheese in lock boxes... cheese!
 
Kofi Drinka said:
In my area they put cheese in lock boxes... cheese!
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There’s an irony in progress getting us so much crime that we regress to having to ask the shopkeeper for each individual item we want from behind the counter again, like pre-WWII days. Though the buggers will probably make it all vending machines in the end. Or robot-picked.

I remember the first time I walked into an offie that was just a thick Perspex corridor to a small hatch at the end and you had to ask for anything you wanted. 1990s Newcastle. What a trip. Sounds like this experience is coming to every brick and mortar store at this rate.

What will be in towns and city centres if there are no shops (due to fear of robberies and cost-cutting)? Just coffee shops and bars? How long until they start going the Perspex corridor robot server route due to ug criminals, too?
 
The Ghost of Sergei Witte said:
The real question is when can we actually (re)learn to fill the FUCKING POTHOLES
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Oh God this reminds me of something. Several years back a colleague took a nasty fall on a pothole and buggered her knee right up. She needed surgery to fix it. She reported it to the council and was told,with absolutely no irony at all,we can't be expected to take responsibility for all of the roads.

Like you fucking can,that's one of the reasons you extort money from us.
 
BongoMongo said:
Oh God this reminds me of something. Several years back a colleague took a nasty fall on a pothole and buggered her knee right up. She needed surgery to fix it. She reported it to the council and was told,with absolutely no irony at all,we can't be expected to take responsibility for all of the roads.
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What happened to the authorities’ “health and safety” obsession? Only applies when they can ruin someone’s fun and revoke God-given freedoms, I guess.
 
John Andrews Stan said:
What happened to the authorities’ “health and safety” obsession? Only applies when they can ruin someone’s fun and revoke God-given freedoms, I guess.
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She wasn't even suing, she just wanted to let them know. They couldn't have cared less.

I pay over £100 a month to have my bin emptied. I don't use council services or have any exposure to the police (who,in my neck of the woods,have been proven time and time again to not give a damn about white women) and I periodically use the roads. That's all I get for it and they demand that with the threat of putting me in jail if I don't pay.

It's a fucking disgrace.
 
Councils over regulation only exists to control and tax you for dumb stuff. I've spent years at a time emailing the local council over even collecting junk that's been fly tipped or pot holes.
 
The Ghost of Sergei Witte said:
The real question is when can we actually (re)learn to fill the FUCKING POTHOLES
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They are filling the potholes. The problem isn't that none are being filled. It's that what they're filling them with doesn't work. We had one filled down our road like 2 weeks ago and it's already back. They're pulling some chink shit where the material is so bad it reopens almost immediately.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
They are filling the potholes. The problem isn't that none are being filled. It's that what they're filling them with doesn't work. We had one filled down our road like 2 weeks ago and it's already back. They're pulling some chink shit where the material is so bad it reopens almost immediately.
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Even the Chinese can build roads, seemingly it's just the Perfidious Island Anglo where this is seemingly a technology lost to time.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
They are filling the potholes. The problem isn't that none are being filled. It's that what they're filling them with doesn't work. We had one filled down our road like 2 weeks ago and it's already back. They're pulling some chink shit where the material is so bad it reopens almost immediately.
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I wonder if its some obscure regulation that says they must use Y because "muh gaia" instead of X which works but technically more polluting.

Or it could just be good old corruption.
 
Kane Lives said:
I wonder if its some obscure regulation that says they must use Y because "muh gaia" instead of X which works but technically more polluting.

Or it could just be good old corruption.
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I hear they're spending a fortune on some new machines to fill the pot holes but if the material is lacking it won't matter. It's weird how bad it got out of no where and it has to be either getting stuff cheap from China / India or new regulations fucking it over. Where would you need to look to see what changes were made?
 
The Ghost of Sergei Witte said:
seemingly it's just the Perfidious Island Anglo where this is seemingly a technology lost to time.
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America has forgotten how to fill holes in the road too.

There are more dudes (Mexican) out doing it than ever, though. My neighborhood streets are closed for construction for about two months a year.

Then the holes come back, and more holes.
 
Otterly said:
It used to be that the brand was usually better. But now you often find the white label is.
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Coca Cola is goated, as the youth once said, for just tanking the sugar tax and maintaining market share.
 
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