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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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Cloaca Rimjob said:
I switched from chocolate digestives to normal ones and there's been some teething issues.


I'm too tight for that. I'm the type of person who reuses my teabags. cheap shite lidl own make ones too :story:
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Practice makes perfect, I guess. You’ll just have to invest in more biscuits until you get it right.

Although your choice of tea has me worried. Can we have a whip-round and send you a big box of Yorkshire Gold once a month? I feel like no Kiwi should suffer the indignity of a poor standard of tea. Mind you, back when I used to be an aficionado of questionable nose powdering substances, Tesco Value tea was my only drink. I could go through a box of 80 in a few days cos I drank the stuff constantly. Pissed like a racehorse as well as ran like one. You’re not beholden to the nose candy fairy, are you?

Changing the subject, that Bob Vylan bloke’s a bit of a tit, isn’t he? Getting rich off his “protests” and the saplings think he’s being Stunning and Brave. Dear me.

Also, I can’t help but pronounce that made-up name as ‘vye-lan’. I’ll bet he looks like he needs a good bath and a shave, too.
 
pot of sneed said:
Bourbons are rather nice
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Chocolate covered bourbons from marks n sparks, give it a try.
teriyakiburns said:
Two students die in university meningitis outbreak

Kent university is suffering a fairly big meningitis outbreak.

For the digestion, Kent has about 35% (as of last figures I could find) BAME students - Black and Minority Ethnic - which in real terms means probably a quarter of the student body are likely to be some form of Indian, Pakistani, or Chinese. Now, I'm not saying they're all filthy buggers who wallow in their own filth and generate endless novel forms of disease that they pass on to everyone around them. I'm writing it. There's a difference.
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Isn't Meningitis one of the 'kissing diseases'? I still find it unbelievable that despite all the fuss about chink flu, the government and leftwing let TB and measles back into the country via unvaccinated filthy goat fuckers.

Kemi and Candice really are cut from the same sassy black women cloth, aren't they?
 
UselessRubberKeyboard said:
which should be from the freezer, neat, and downed in one shot.
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Who the fuck is doing shots and going ahhh yes this tastes good? If I'm doing shots it's to get pissed as quick as possible. If I'm drinking something I want it to taste nice and be able to enjoy it. If I want to get pissed then I'm buying the cheapest £15 for a litre coop tesco shit and knocking it back as fast as possible. If you're doing shots the entire point is to not taste it, so why bother buying better quality shit?
Heinrich Maneuver said:
Chocolate covered bourbons from marks n sparks
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And their dutch shortcake. That shit's great. And also the entire thing is just a solid block of food. 0 packaging, just a protective sleeve and something to keep it fresh. No air or empty space just solid biscuits.
 
Activist groups are now stealing from shops outright and filming themselves doing it
Left-wing activists have started a shoplifting spree across Britain in protest against “billionaires hoarding wealth”.
Members of Take Back Power, which is viewed as the successor to Just Stop Oil, stole food from supermarkets in four cities on Saturday morning and donated it to food banks.
The activists claimed “liberating” produce from the branches of Sainsbury’s, Morrisons and Tesco was “non-violent action to resist the super-rich”.
Police have made no arrests in response to the shoplifting, a spokesman for the activists said.
At 8.30am, activists walked into supermarkets in Exeter in Devon, Truro in Cornwall, Didsbury in Manchester and Lewisham, south-east London, and stole items.

Video footage showed members of the group taking tinned tomatoes, jars of pasta sauce, pasta, stock cubes, rice, baked beans, tea bags and nappies from the shelves.
They placed the items in cardboard boxes with signs which read: “These things are going to those who need them.”
Activists then walked out of the shops without paying for the items and placed them in food bank collection baskets or gave them away to members of the public.
Ruth Cook, 74, said she stole items from Morrisons on Prince Charles Road in Exeter because “we have a terrible situation in this country”.
“Families are struggling and children are going hungry, while the profits some companies make are obscene,” the company director said.
“The answer is to tax the super-rich. I’m taking this food and delivering it to a food bank collection point because we need to do something about this.”

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Eve Middleton, 25, shoplifted from Tesco on Parrs Wood Lane in Didsbury and claimed her actions were justified because “billionaires hoard wealth”.
None of those involved have been arrested, as of Saturday afternoon.
A spokesman for the group said: “Until the Government makes a meaningful statement in response to our demand, we will undertake non-violent action to resist the super-rich, who are driving us towards social collapse.”
Earlier this month, 15 activists from Take Back Power were arrested at the Quaker Meeting House in Westminster on suspicion of conspiracy to commit theft.
Last December, activists vandalised the case containing the Crown Jewels with fruit crumble and custard at the Tower of London on Saturday.
Members of Take Back Power staged the attack, filming their unfurling of a sign reading: “Democracy has crumbled – tax the rich”. Police arrested four people.
The same month, Left-wing activists emptied bags of horse manure under a Christmas tree at the Ritz hotel in London before being escorted away by security guards.
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Daily Mail has the photos I know we all want
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Guarantee me no convictions for my actions and the price of petrol and I'll have this lot wrapped up in a fortnight.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Activist groups are now stealing from shops outright and filming themselves doing it
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Well the public loved just stop oil so I'm sure taking the same route will also make the public love you and end the existence of rich people? Can't wait until they start supergluing themselves to a trolley or some dumb shit.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
Well the public loved just stop oil so I'm sure taking the same route will also make the public love you and end the existence of rich people?
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There's a reason I was willing to make the fortnight prediction. If people were told for a single hour in the middle of a JSO protest they'd not be prosecuted for what they did to the protestors that group would not have lasted as long as they did.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
Who the fuck is doing shots and going ahhh yes this tastes good?
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Me, every time I get my hands on a nice single malt.

Alternatively if you're a bit more adventurous, are stuck in London, and wish to forget that you're stuck in London, head over to Soho and pop into Garlic & Shots. They have many shots that taste good: Also many that taste of regret, liver failure, and death. Good luck.
 
Cloaca Rimjob said:
I switched from chocolate digestives to normal ones and there's been some teething issues.


I'm too tight for that. I'm the type of person who reuses my teabags. cheap shite lidl own make ones too :story:
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OMG you're a dirty double dipper!!

Frendo,reusing teabags is like scratching about in your ashtray to make a serviceable rollie from your tab ends.
 
Echoing what @Vesperus said about Penguins/TimTams, I think it is called a TimTam explosion?

Bite both ends off, use it as a straw and all the biscuity goodness turns to a mush but is still kept in place by the chocolate. Pop it all in your mouth and let it melt.

This can be done with kitkats, too.

Scientific Tea and Biccy experiments...I have found that ¾ of a pack of custard creams is the limit to where all tea is absorbed, except for the unholy bit right at the bottom that is excess crumb-age and in my opinion, undrinkable.

Vessel type obviously need to be taken into account.
As we are all Brits, I would posit that we all somehow have a Sports Direct mug, even if we have never even shopped there, if so please be careful carrying out your experiments, if you knock it over you're gonna flood your house.

On the other end of the scale are those deceptive bastard mugs that used to be given with a Cadburys Easter Egg, kind of fluted at the top. Gave the impression of being able to hold a reasonably sized brew but in reality only about 2 gobfuls.
 
BongoMongo said:
Frendo,reusing teabags is like scratching about in your ashtray to make a serviceable rollie from your tab ends.
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I've been divorced, unemployed, and living in a Land Rover trying to survive off "Job seeker's allowance" which is apparently all they'll give a native Brit with a STEM degree.
About £86/week at the time. Kek.

It wasn't just my ashtray I was ferreting around in.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
"How could we possibly identify these people posing for photoshoots and plastering what they are doing all over the internet without increasing the power of the state to monitor you?"
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Clearly, we need everyone to scan their passport before shit posting. How else can we Protect The Children™?
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
Isn't Meningitis one of the 'kissing diseases'?
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Yeah, and it’s always been a concern on campuses (I actually had a classmate die from it in a very unpleasant way back last century.) the rates had been dropping with rhe various vaccines, but with unlimited migration, ALL those diseases are coming back. Of course that’s not used as a case against just letting anyone in, but to bash the middle classes for not vaccinating. But we’d functionally eradicated most of these diseases and conditions.
TB, and not just TB but multi drug resistant TB is now more common in parts of London than some third world war zones. Measles, diphtheria, scabies - these are all diseases of poverty and poor hygiene and overcrowding. Ditto pests like bedbugs and fleas. Even rickets is back in fashion, due to dark skinned people living at out latitude and being covered up and indoors.
If you invite the third world, you will become the third world
Morethanabitfoolish said:
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A reminder that most British pensions are heavily invested in supermarkets at some point
Just a boring name said:
Bite both ends off, use it as a straw and all the biscuity goodness turns to a mush but is still kept in place by the chocolate. Pop it all in your mouth and let it melt.
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I can’t fit a whole Tim tam in my mouth. Do you have jaws like a snake you can unhinge or something?
 
Otterly said:
(I actually had a classmate die from it in a very unpleasant way back last century.)
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It's kind of horrifying to realise you mean the 20th century.
Otterly said:
I can’t fit a whole Tim tam in my mouth. Do you have jaws like a snake you can unhinge or something?
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It's not supposed to go sideways or vertically.
I bet JK Rowling can deepthroat an 8cm biccy
 
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