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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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Kier Starmer said:
Yep, what happened with Kent, especially and others, they did not realise that the money was mandated from the central government. They had no say over it. It was a really amateur mistake; Farage either knew about it or lied knowingly. At least Restore from the go, they have been moving forward in laws changing and how money is distributed.

As for me personally, the local councils I know of and a few people on the staff on account have said their councillors are deluded. The one guy whom I know by proxy through a guy who works for the conservatives. Said he is utterly useless. The one council near me has gone through 3 finance managers in a year.
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Some of the changes are crazy. The garden bins have gone up £20 in like a year. No one involved seems to know how to manage a budget at any level. But they have a computer they can add a zero to and some how build a new football stadium.
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
Like is it a fairly safe vax to get or are there chances of a reaction? I've never had a reaction to any of the usual jabs but after seeing my housemates get incredibly sick from the covid jab i've refused to get anything since.
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It’s not one I know much about, I think if I was a student in shared accommodation I would. It’s certainly safer than the Covid one
teriyakiburns said:
The briefing against Starmer has stepped up a notch.
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Ooooof. Brutal
 
The UK in many ways reminds me of Pro wrestling. It's still alive but it's just a shadow of what it was. All the stars, the men with passion and real heroes are dead or retired. The spotty geeks left in charge have no character, no personality and no value. They're weak, pen pusher types. Only in those positions because everyone worth a damn left. Even our men now feel that way. As our grandparents die we're left with "men" raised on the Amiga. The closest they will ever get to a jungle is pit fall and taking a trip to Thailand to smoke weed for a week in a tourist trap. They're flashy, effeminate and the death of any society that spawns them.

Even if you replace Starmer, a spotty nerd will just replace him as well. And he'll do the exact same thing Starmer is but with slightly more Charisma.
 
teriyakiburns said:
The briefing against Starmer has stepped up a notch.

'Keir Starmer has no views': the inside story of an absent PM

Key quote:
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That was less an article and more a beating in written form. Very interesting account. I bet there's some real arguing going on in the top ranks of the Labour party right now over who will be the next leader:

"You be it!"
"No way! You be leader!"
"You can't make me."

You'd have to be a complete idiot to want to inherit that mess. (So that probably means Lammy)
 
Overly Serious said:
That was less an article and more a beating in written form. Very interesting account. I bet there's some real arguing going on in the top ranks of the Labour party right now over who will be the next leader:

"You be it!"
"No way! You be leader!"
"You can't make me."

You'd have to be a complete idiot to want to inherit that mess. (So that probably means Lammy)
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Labour Lettuce incoming. She will be used to push through all the stuff they 180ed on then kicked out in 6 months for how unpopular she is. Labour didn't do 180s because they didn't want the policies. They did them because they didn't have to guts to get their hands dirty on them. Find a Patsy and that all changes.
 
They would be very stupid to put Mahmood in charge. It would be like pouring gasoline on fading kindling. It would put a shit ton of support to Lowe too. They want to put in Milliband but it will be like Truss; the banks hate him, and they will trigger an event to oust him.
 
Just looked at some TimTams in the supermarket and I was appalled.
Don't be fooled - they too are doing the "chocolate flavoured" nonsense with more palm oil than actual cocoa products.
Even more confusing considering that Australia doesn't have all the stupid food laws that cause this shit.
 
teriyakiburns said:
The briefing against Starmer has stepped up a notch.

'Keir Starmer has no views': the inside story of an absent PM
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There's something about this article I don't like. I can't tell if it's conflating Keir's strategy with pro-Brexit arguments, the nostalgic whiff for Blair and Brown, trying to blame Lindsay for Reeves crying (after he shopped Mandelson recently), the utter avoidance of some of the major things turning voters off Labour or something else but it feels slimy. It's coming from within but the people it's coming from I suspect I would hate too.
 
Drinking a Hot Chocolate by using a Cadburys Spira as a straw was the greatest thing ever.
 
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The Ghost of Sergei Witte said:
I'm currently in Germany, and whilst I like a lot of things here over here more than the UK... Why is the maximum amount of milk in the EU seemingly a single solitary litre of UHT? No wonder they had to do the Berlin airlift when there's only a day or two's worth of milk.
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Germans only drink beer, not anything non-alcoholic. I thought was just common knowledge.
 
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