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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.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

I always thought lunch was an amerilard invention, so that they could 'portmanteau' breakfast and lunch into brunch, getting in an extra meal because they're fat.

 

[Snekposter]

I always thought lunch was an amerilard invention, so that they could 'portmanteau' breakfast and lunch into brunch, getting in an extra meal because they're fat.

Na, only two meals when we eat a brunch (okay, maybe a light breakfast of some toast and coffee earlier), but we do eat enough at brunch that it counts as two. Has to tide us over until the evening, after all. Nobody is eating a lunch when you show up for a brunch at ten and waddle out of there an hour and a half later.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I always thought lunch was an amerilard invention, so that they could 'portmanteau' breakfast and lunch into brunch, getting in an extra meal because they're fat.

Nah, it's actually an old english word for a thick piece of meat or bread. Kind of surprising that norf uses the french-derived dinner and pansy poofters use the english-originated lunch, but there we are, I suppose.

 

[>IMPLYING]

* Greggs Wallace 'seeking £10k' from BBC for 'distress and harassment' following MasterChef axe

I don't know why, but I feel myself inexplicably rooting for him.

Off work with a cold today. Mainlining lemsip and soup. Hit me with your best home remedies.

Hot bath, or if you only have a shower, imitate a movie character with depression and sit foetal position under the hot rain. Considering the price of gas nowdays, this is the most upper class i.e. expensive remedy, but it's also the one I find works best. Work with your body inside and out to cook the fucker out of you.

 

[Scientifically Inaccurate]

I thought you guys had three meals and then tea was like a culturally engrained daily drink break this whole time.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I thought you guys had three meals and then tea was like a culturally engrained daily drink break this whole time.

We do and it is. Tea is also the evening meal in the civilised parts of the country (and Yorkshire).

 

[Otterly]

I thought you guys had three meals and then tea was like a culturally engrained daily drink break this whole time.

Breakfast is the morning. Lunch is posh, dinner is not posh, both are words for the midday meal. Tea is your evening meal, dinner is a posher version eaten later. Of you asked someone out for a meal in the evening you’d ask them out for dinner, not tea, meal at home is tea.
Afternoon tea is cakes/scone and a cuppa, betwixt midday and evening meal. The sort of thing you’d do if you were out for the day.
Tea the drink is acceptable at any point of the day from waking to sleeping.
Of course if you really want to get people’s feathers ruffled you speak of supper

 

[the rat]

Breakfast is the morning. Lunch is posh, dinner is not posh, both are words for the midday meal. Tea is your evening meal, dinner is a posher version eaten later. Of you asked someone out for a meal in the evening you’d ask them out for dinner, not tea, meal at home is tea.
Afternoon tea is cakes/scone and a cuppa, betwixt midday and evening meal. The sort of thing you’d do if you were out for the day.
Tea the drink is acceptable at any point of the day from waking to sleeping.
Of course if you really want to get people’s feathers ruffled you speak of supper

Yeah but breakfast and dinner is still posh, you think I'm made of money? The real way is something out the fridge around the afternoon (big maybe) then tea at 5-6pm.

Or maybe I'm just that broke.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

And of course, a chippy tea is pie, chips, mushy peas and gravy.

For me, one of the things that divides an evening dinner from having your tea would be if it is eaten at a table and involves courses.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Why Labour's deputy leadership race could be a verdict on Starmer

I'm not quoting the whole thing, because it's a fuck-long BBC opinion piece. tl;dr if Lucy Powell wins the deputy party leader position, right after Starmer sacked her, then it's a clear, negative verdict from the wider party about his performance. A Powell win is another step on the road to Starmer's exit.

 

[Clem Fandango]

And of course, a chippy tea is pie, chips, mushy peas and gravy. For me, one of the things that divides an evening dinner from having your tea would be if it is eaten at a table and involves courses.

Many moons ago I moved to south Wales for work, and I was amused to hear that down there they have the term "sit down meal". I am not sure what meals you can eat not sat down. Maybe a kebab? A pasty? Do those really count as "meals"?

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Made In Wales can you confirm/deny?

 

[ApeBass]

So where does supper fit in with all this discussion regarding breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner?

 

[Made In Wales]

Many moons ago I moved to south Wales for work, and I was amused to hear that down there they have the term "sit down meal". I am not sure what meals you can eat not sat down. Maybe a kebab? A pasty? Do those really count as "meals"?

Edit:

Made In Wales can you confirm/deny?

A 'Sit Down Meal' basically means a meal that you order in a cafe or restaurant when sat at a table.

A 'Buffet Meal' means a meal that is ordered at the counter or is 'self service'.

Note that some cafes and restaurants don't offer 'Sit Down Meals' and you have to order at the counter, most of them will let you know whether to order at the counter or at the table (sometimes it depends on staff availability as well).

 

[Snekposter]

A 'Sit Down Meal' basically means a meal that you order in a cafe or restaurant when sat at a table.

A 'Buffet Meal' means a meal that is ordered at the counter or is 'self service'.

Note that some cafes and restaurants don't offer 'Sit Down Meals' and you have to order at the counter, most of them will let you know whether to order at the counter or at the table (sometimes it depends on staff availability as well).

I should probably apologize on behalf of us Americans for creating that term as a result of our fast-food habits and then spreading it to you guys. But I won't.

 

[Clem Fandango]

A 'Sit Down Meal' basically means a meal that you order in a cafe or restaurant when sat at a table.

A 'Buffet Meal' means a meal that is ordered at the counter or is 'self service'.

Note that some cafes and restaurants don't offer 'Sit Down Meals' and you have to order at the counter, most of them will let you know whether to order at the counter or at the table (sometimes it depends on staff availability as well).

Ahh, I don't think I ever got this explanation. I think my parents were coming to visit and some taffy asked me "Are you taking them for a sit down meal boyo?", and I just said "Erm.... yes?" and never really questioned it. But logged it somewhere in my brain under "Welsh are odd".

 

[Made In Wales]

Ahh, I don't think I ever got this explanation. I think my parents were coming to visit and some taffy asked me "Are you taking them for a sit down meal boyo?", and I just said "Erm.... yes?" and never really questioned it. But logged it somewhere in my brain under "Welsh are odd".

We are odd, agreed, but that's what makes us unique.

You should try out a Welsh Sat-Nav as a Christmas present:

'Down there, round past there, up over there, left by there, along there, right there, down there, right again there, left past there and you're there.'

 

[Clem Fandango]

We are odd, agreed, but that's what makes us unique.

You should try out a Welsh Sat-Nav as a Christmas present:

'Down there, round past there, up over there, left by there, along there, right there, down there, right again there, left past there and you're there.'

Still better than the Irish sat nav.

"Now if you were to go down there, turn left there and take the next right there.... then you'd be in the completely wrong place. What you actually want to do is...."

The Welsh are alright. Although I find it a bit baffling that you've managed to claim cheese on toast as your thing. As if you came up with that.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

Feeling pissed off because I had to go and spend $100 on an umbrella for my upcoming visit to your depressing island. I'm spoiled by Americans allowing everyone to just carry guns around, and since the UK offers no such privilege yet is no less filled with septic people I have to settle for this inferior means of self-defense.

If this Davek brand is actually any good I'll recommend it and you lot might have a new, feasible means to not get gutted by kebab salesmen.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

tory conference had an AI chatbot version of Thatcher

Government mandated mommy maggie goonbot. Now this is the future I want.

 

[Elysian]

Feeling pissed off because I had to go and spend $100 on an umbrella for my upcoming visit to your depressing island. I'm spoiled by Americans allowing everyone to just carry guns around, and since the UK offers no such privilege yet is no less filled with septic people I have to settle for this inferior means of self-defense.
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If this Davek brand is actually any good I'll recommend it and you lot might have a new, feasible means to not get gutted by kebab salesmen.

I feel like trying to stab someone with an opened umbrella is gonna be really awkward. A well timed gust of wind would sweep you off like Mary Poppins.