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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.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Keir Starmer/COBRA must be sweating bullets that the guy who attacked might be a small boat migrant. That would kick off fresh riots, wouldn't it?

Not a great week for Starmer, in fact, if that poor guy were not dead (the one bleeding out), it would be funny. In the same week, he effectively calls all illegals British citizens and decries ANY detractor as a racist and "unpatriotic". There is a Muslim attacking a synagogue, not a week after declaring Palestine statehood, either. Old Mahmood Moomin must be shitting bricks as a few big countries have issued their dislike of her being Home Sec.

edit - I forgot my biggotry, I am ever so sorry.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Bomb Squad blew up the 'suspicious items' on the dead guy. Death count now at two.

 

[Otterly]

Well so long as you can still do the Joanna Lumley voice. Nobody has ever said "Gabon" so alluringly.

Gabon.
I don’t look like either Joanna (sadly) or the late great Kathy staff.

That's gotta be a mudslime, look at the well trimmed stache + buishy beard combo, maybe T*rk/Levatine? Hard to say with that level of blur but it's a muzzie 99.999%.,

Prestwich is the kosher kapital of the kountry and there's a lot of bad blood for various reasons (mostly related to the classic chestnut of rental properties), hence why the dead fellow marinating in a pool of his own heart juice shan't garner much local sympathy outside his own tribe, just how it is in some places because everyone simply fucking hates each other.

Even his own are walking past him on the floor. If you’d seen one of yours taken down like that would you not at least pass by more respectfully. It’s just so callous somehow, the whole thing.

 

[Mound Dweller]

Even his own are walking past him on the floor.

Yeah, Prestwich do indeed be like that, if you want a crash-course in counter-semitism, go to Prestwich!
If think casual callousness is bad you should see how (((they))) treat non blood-relatives, not at all an understatement to say that it's only by the grace of the vigilance of the GMP that pogroms aren't a more regular occurrence.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

It's obviously a muzzie, the hard right in the UK is mixed on Der Juden question; and if they come down on the anti jew side, it's always against the nebulous concept of international jewry; not some random synagogue.

The white right don't attack places like this because they're smart enough to realize it does nothing to help the cause. It just gets you put in a muslim prison and executed while a guard offers a pack of wet wipes to your killers.

 

[ApeBass]

How do you know this? How do you rape your own mother when you're this fucked in the head? It seems like something he would make up to justify him raping his mother.

Genspect Article regarding "Barbie Kardashian"

Answering the questions put to him in the witness box by the Prosecution, Barbie Kardashian discarded his effeminate voice and spoke like a man.

He said he had threatened to rape the prisoner Tegan McGhee with an object and thus injure her to the extent that “she would not be able to have children.” When asked what object he had in mind he explained “I wanted to use an electric rod, but that was not available to me. I remember thinking I wanted to use the handle of a sweeping brush or a mop. I wanted to torture her sexually; I wanted to sexually electrocute her genitalia.”

He told the trial he wanted to “molest” prison officer Roisin Linnane. He said he would sexually assault her by “putting my hands between her legs and grabbing her vagina.” This would be a more “realistic” threat, he said, because the opportunity to rape her while he was in prison was unlikely to arise.

 

[Allo Vera]

Gabon.
I don’t look like either Joanna (sadly) or the late great Kathy staff.

Even his own are walking past him on the floor. If you’d seen one of yours taken down like that would you not at least pass by more respectfully. It’s just so callous somehow, the whole thing.

I’m not sure what they could be expected to do in that moment. I know it might look callous, but that man was obviously beyond help, they would have been in shock even if they didn’t look it, and people were screaming about bombs and to get away.

 

[Otterly]

it's only by the grace of the vigilance of the GMP that pogroms aren't a more regular occurrence.

The GMP arrived very quickly to this particular incident as well.

I’m not sure what they could be expected to do in that moment. I know it might look callous, but that man was obviously beyond help, they would have been in shock even if they didn’t look it, and people were screaming about bombs and to get away.

Well personally if some copper was screaming about bombs I’d be running away, I wouldn’t be strolling casually past having a chat.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

The GMP arrived very quickly to this particular incident as well.

Well personally if some copper was screaming about bombs I’d be running away, I wouldn’t be strolling casually past having a chat.

Screaming about a bomb while pointing a gun at a man wearing a suicide vest laying on the ground wounded no less. And people walk by like they're passing time until the bakery opens at 10.

 

[Spud]

Screaming about a bomb while pointing a gun at a man wearing a suicide vest laying on the ground wounded no less. And people walk by like they're passing time until the bakery opens at 10.

No muzzie is going to come between me and my Greggs sausage roll, bomb or not.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

It was odd that there was a sense of calm whilst the guy had a bomb vest and there was a dead guy on the floor. Very odd, Manchester people are built different.

 

[Sensitive Young Man]

Just another day in the Yookay

 

[Made In Wales]

It’s a hobby. (Studying law, not fucking my cousins.)

Other things that are against the law in England:

• Carrying a plank along a pavement in London. (Illegal under the Metropolitan Police Act 1839. Also banned: carrying ladders, wheelbarrows, casks, or poles on the footway.)
• Handling salmon suspiciously (The Salmon Act 1986 makes it an offence to “handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.”)
• Singing obscene ballads in public (Still covered under old by-laws and police legislation. Standing in the street and belting out rude songs is technically unlawful.)
• Being drunk in charge of a cow. (Under the Licensing Act 1872, it’s an offence to be drunk in charge of a horse, cow, or steam engine.)
• Knocking on someone’s door and running away (The same Metropolitan Police Act 1839 criminalises “wilfully and wantonly disturbing” people by knocking or ringing doorbells without cause.)

Unfortunately, it is no longer legal to shoot a Welshman with a longbow in Chester after midnight. Political correctness gone mad.

You can still do this in Nottingham, providing that the Welshman can't:

a) Do an impression of Brian Clough
b) Sing 'My Coo Ca Choo' by Alvin Stardust
c) Recite the 'Nottingham' sketch from Bottom 4.

As I can do all three, I'm fine.

A very sad day all around, sadly inevitable in the current climate.

 

[Sensitive Young Man]

PICTURED: A man having himself a little mental health crisis

 

[Allo Vera]

Screaming about a bomb while pointing a gun at a man wearing a suicide vest laying on the ground wounded no less. And people walk by like they're passing time until the bakery opens at 10.

Yeah I can’t rationalise that at all. Other than to say those men looked like they hadn’t broken into a light jog since they were children.

 

[Sensitive Young Man]

LOL

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Lets be honest. A good 90% of this thread would be cheering and doing football chants if they saw a Jewish nest assaulted IRL.

This place leans heavily far right, which when it comes to the Israel vs Palestine question has the bulk of us seeing Israel/Jews as the lesser evil. We don't tend to get the absolute crackpot Jews who are some of the most irritating people you will ever meet in your life, but everyone has passed a postbox and her handler and felt incredibly uncomfortable.

The person recording this has to be one of the most stupid people I've seen all year. I can't PL but in a scenario where I believe there is a bomb present I am not standing there saying "he's got a bomb, he's got a bomb". I am the other side of town. The only scenario in which I'm pausing at all is to get a loved one over my shoulder before I start to sprint.

There's a certain subsection of the public whose biggest achievement in life was coming third in the egg and spoon race on school sports day. Seeing a terrorist attack from the comfort of their home is like three Benidorm trips in one.

Standing behind a camera has a very weird psychological effect. It disconnects you from the scenario because you're an observer. It's known to happen in war time and now we have the general public doing the same thing. Clout chasing also makes people willing to die for a good viral video.

Watching some Ukraine/Russia combat footage was probably the most uncomfortable content I've ever watched. You'd see a guy zooming in and out before the camera falls to the floor and some concerned Ukrainian/Russian comes over to check on a very clearly dead soldier. The very last thought going through someone's head before they get domed is "I wonder what my friends in the telegram/subreddit/discord would think of this"

 

[Muad'Dick]

PICTURED: A man having himself a little mental health crisis
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"Just as British as you bro"

 

[Elysian]

I want to see every major town and city in our fair land before they become no go zones. Even Birmingham other than passing through..

If you’re ever unfortunate enough to find yourself in Birmingham the art gallery is actually quite nice.

No muzzie is going to come between me and my Greggs sausage roll, bomb or not.

I’d watch a British take on Independence Day where instead of showing the White House blowing up as the big shocking “oh no” moment, the aliens blow up some guy’s local Greggs, and that’s the point where the main character joins the fight against the aliens.

 

[DairyFarmsWholeMilk]

Really love that now we have tribal conflicts between foreigners that should never have been here in the first place.

Jews have been in that area of manchester since the early 1800s