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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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Snekposter said:
So, on a scale that goes from Italy to Japan, where do English train schedules lie?
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There have been multiple times where trains simply do not show up. They are routinely overbooked to the point where reserved seating is a fucking meme and unless you are at one of the first few stops you will be sitting in the hallways instead. There is almost never a time where there is not some major delay that impacts half the country. They're always late by long enough that if you have connecting shit you either have to run for it or you just miss it entirely. And half the train stations in this country feel more like dogging spots than public infrastructure. They're also just fucking expensive to the point where getting a fucking coach is a better option, not only do you know you will get a seat but it's normally cheaper and half the time it's fucking faster somehow. I have been on trains where it would be genuinely quicker to cycle to the destination.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
There have been multiple times where trains simply do not show up. They are routinely overbooked to the point where reserved seating is a fucking meme and unless you are at one of the first few stops you will be sitting in the hallways instead. There is almost never a time where there is not some major delay that impacts half the country. They're always late by long enough that if you have connecting shit you either have to run for it or you just miss it entirely. And half the train stations in this country feel more like dogging spots than public infrastructure. They're also just fucking expensive to the point where getting a fucking coach is a better option, not only do you know you will get a seat but it's normally cheaper and half the time it's fucking faster somehow. I have been on trains where it would be genuinely quicker to cycle to the destination.
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Oh great, they're Africa-tier. I sure hope you guys can turn that around before they fully descend to India-tier transit.

Sooner or later though, the Pajeet's natural predator will migrate in search of fresh prey...
 
Snekposter said:
Oh great, they're Africa-tier. I sure hope you guys can turn that around before they fully descend to India-tier transit.
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Oh they're getting there.

I remember getting the London->Glasgow or vice versa train about 20 years ago and it'd be 'full' but not absolutely packed like sardines. Now if I do the same trip it feels like those videos where Indians are clinging onto the side of the train as it sets off.

Although granted a lot of that is due to the previous train getting cancelled because of a body on the tracks leading to two trains worth of people getting onto one train, all reservations discarded and the conductor straight up not bothering with checking anything because everyone is pissed off and ready to kick off at the first opportunity they can.
 
SirCliveSinclairdabbing said:
Which is the reality half the time with rail replacement coaches.
Yes, we actually pay buses to turn up and take people when trains don’t turn up.
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For the same ticket price as the train (for passengers), no less. I’ve been on rail replacement buses that are simple city transport buses, not coaches.

The inter-city coach (National Express & others) is way cheaper than the train, and always has a seat if you’ve managed to book a ticket. That’s the good part. The bad part is that coaches are the choice of the immigrant and all their numerous bags (despite you only being allowed one per ticket). The toilets, if there are any, are often vomitously foul, and the stops likewise. Drivers are insane, fellow passengers may well be. Last time I got a coach to Glasgow a drunk Scotsman fell asleep on my shoulder and there was a fight further back.

Never make the mistake of getting coaches from the U.K. to Europe. No matter how cheap. You’ll end up locked in a glass and upholstery tube with 50 Turkish families and all their screaming, totally out of control children. You thought you’d sleep on the overnight coach, too.

Then the government wonders why the first thing any adult wants is their own car.
 
UselessRubberKeyboard said:
For the same ticket price as the train (for passengers), no less. I’ve been on rail replacement buses that are simple city transport buses, not coaches.

The inter-city coach (National Express & others) is way cheaper than the train, and always has a seat if you’ve managed to book a ticket. That’s the good part. The bad part is that coaches are the choice of the immigrant and all their numerous bags (despite you only being allowed one per ticket). The toilets, if there are any, are often vomitously foul, and the stops likewise. Drivers are insane, fellow passengers may well be. Last time I got a coach to Glasgow a drunk Scotsman fell asleep on my shoulder and there was a fight further back.

Never make the mistake of getting coaches from the U.K. to Europe. No matter how cheap. You’ll end up locked in a glass and upholstery tube with 50 Turkish families and all their screaming, totally out of control children. You thought you’d sleep on the overnight coach, too.

Then the government wonders why the first thing any adult wants is their own car.
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I remember taking the coach across country when I was a student.It was a human zoo but at least every weirdo was British. Last time I took one was because the rail network wasn’t running for some retarded commie reason and nearly everyone was some sort of brown.

As shit as our rail service is in never stepping on a coach again.

It’s also insane I can fly to cities in Europe cheaper than I can travel across country by rail.
 
FedPostalService said:
I remember taking the coach across country when I was a student.It was a human zoo but at least every weirdo was British. Last time I took one was because the rail network wasn’t running for some retarded commie reason and nearly everyone was some sort of brown.

As shit as our rail service is in never stepping on a coach again.

It’s also insane I can fly to cities in Europe cheaper than I can travel across country by rail.
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Once had to travel to Manchester on one of these due to 'stock unavailability':

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About four hours on one of these, hard seat and cramped as fuck...

NEVER AGAIN!
 
Made In Wales said:
Once had to travel to Manchester on one of these due to 'stock unavailability':
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Is this meant to be a bad thing? That just looks like the average train I get on? Although normally they have an engine on the front that was made after the discovery of aerodynamics. Do the trains in Wales have comfortable seats and leg room? Is Wales secretly a utopia?
 
femboy fart huffer said:
Is this meant to be a bad thing? That just looks like the average train I get on? Although normally they have an engine on the front that was made after the discovery of aerodynamics. Do the trains in Wales have comfortable seats and leg room? Is Wales secretly a utopia?
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Not as bad as the now retired Pacer unit, but very uncomfortable.

80mph on one of those things will feel like a prostate exam.

Between South Wales and Manchester, it's usually (thankfully) the 197 or the express which is a diesel locomotive and four coaches with a DVT (driving van trailer) on the rear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnD9WgAt2RU - this is a great service though,
 
Snekposter said:
So, on a scale that goes from Italy to Japan, where do English train schedules lie?
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We need to publicly execute the CEO of Cross Country. who the FUCK thinks its acceptable to have a two carriage train for the Cardiff to Nottingham line (via Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, and Darby). Always overbooked, crowded, and miserable. And they love to cancel trains. I also don't get why its so hard for them to ever clear the line of a fallen branch or smth.
 
Made In Wales said:
Once had to travel to Manchester on one of these due to 'stock unavailability':

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About four hours on one of these, hard seat and cramped as fuck...

NEVER AGAIN!
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Soft Southern pansy hands typed this. No doubt while sat on a cushion for their delicate posterior.

Next you're going to claim there was no air conditioning as though the windows don't open.
 
Chunky Salsa said:
Wily Pete also doesn't need to be destroyed by controlled demolition lmao, put it in a jar of water and you're good to move it around safely.
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Yeah but that rests on the assumption that the literal heroin addict retard making it did it properly, and is actually telling the truth about what it is. If I was one of those cops I'd just fucking blow that shit up instead of twatting around with it as well, especially since there's no real downside to doing so in this case.
 
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