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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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Anyone who whines about fireworks set off the month leading up to and the month after November 5th are fun sucking faggots.

Fireworks are fun. Good fireworks displays look really damn good and bad fireworks displays will see Ashid becoming a perma-PIP recipient after blowing his fucking fingers off.

If your pets are terrified then think long and hard about why you got pets while living within earshot of council estates, better yet, you can mitigate against this by exposing your pets to gradually louder and louder noises so they don't have a seizure when the hoover is on.

My only objection is anyone who sets them off after midnight on a day that's not the weekend, but that's literally it.
 
<3 norafawn said:
What would you homos do if you were to restart your twenties?
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As in I'm 20 from now or I'm 20 back then?

Because I'd essentially use my knowledge of the stock market to get ahead of the game and then use my knowledge of bitcoin to become unfathomably rich.

Then I'd buy twitter and rename it Nigger.
 
Man ratios are retarded, I don't want to go full queen lucas. But like. Fucking hell. That's rough. That's just embarrassing. 2000 people agree with your message, 7500 vocally disagree, 11000 agree with the message of someone who hates you. I know this is just basically an opinion poll but twitterised but man I cannot imagine being this hated. My guy's probably going to fucking kill himself before a general election happens.
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Did they really not have some bbc propagandist spare to make the posts for him? Or is this the best they can do?

Literally every single one of his tweets is like this. None of them have more likes than comments, most have someone with more likes on their reply than his post.
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Especially this absolute cracker of a tweet. I know what my community needs. Funding. It needs money from the government so the fucking schools can employ teachers and the council can afford to fix the roads. Amongst a million other things. It also needs no more fucking brown leeches. We both know what communities need. One of us pretends not to though. One of us knows that shoving endless leeches into already poor communities is not what the community needs, the other pretends not to know that. One of us is in the group of most hated people in this country alongside fucking jimmy saville, the other gets little heart icons on the autism awareness forum.
 
Mate of mine has been made redundant, he's got a few grand in his bank account and about 20k in his LISA for putting down a deposit on a house.

He went to the job centre to discover that he's eligible for NOTHING. So either he guts his LISA (losing money on it) to pay his rent OR he's going to have to start doing off the grid shit like dealing drugs.

So goodbye house deposit, hello entering a perpetual state of bennies.
 
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Mate of mine has been made redundant, he's got a few grand in his bank account and about 20k in his LISA for putting down a deposit on a house.

He went to the job centre to discover that he's eligible for NOTHING. So either he guts his LISA (losing money on it) to pay his rent OR he's going to have to start doing off the grid shit like dealing drugs.

So goodbye house deposit, hello entering a perpetual state of bennies.
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Tell the lazy bastard to get a job.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Mate of mine has been made redundant, he's got a few grand in his bank account and about 20k in his LISA for putting down a deposit on a house.

He went to the job centre to discover that he's eligible for NOTHING. So either he guts his LISA (losing money on it) to pay his rent OR he's going to have to start doing off the grid shit like dealing drugs.

So goodbye house deposit, hello entering a perpetual state of bennies.
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Or he finds a new job before he has to lose his LISA?
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
As in I'm 20 from now or I'm 20 back then?

Because I'd essentially use my knowledge of the stock market to get ahead of the game and then use my knowledge of bitcoin to become unfathomably rich.

Then I'd buy twitter and rename it Nigger.
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That is what you sound like. Wrong film....Rather than go the Office Space route.....
You would be better off doing the Back to the Future way and betting on Sports. It would be faster too. If it's exactly 20 years, it's a shame because you just missed the chance to get on Liverpool at half time against Milan in the Champions League final.
Do you know what I'd do ? Two chicks at the same time.....
 
FedPostalService said:
You mean I can’t have £25-30k in the bank and get gibbs? Welcome to Broken Britain.
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Funny, in 2008 ( financial crisis ) I was in a similar situation. Had considerable illiquid assets and about half that cash in the bank ( around 10k, so in a sense worse off than the example ). After 2 months of job searching I would have done any work, to me a job is a job - I'd have swept the streets or done a shift on the bins. There were no jobs ( especially if you had qualifications ). The dole office paid me basically fuck all throughtout the entire year ( they paid enough to cover about half my mortgage a month ) until the job market picked up again and I got another job temping.

How much tax had I paid at that point in my life ? It would have been hundreds of thousands. So fuck the government. It only measures everything on a "needs" measure. It completely ignores how much you have contributed. That is why I resent every penny I pay in tax. None of it benefits me. None of it offers me any insurance against unexpected events happening to me. I use virtually none of the "services" the government provides. All my tax money goes to people I don't think deserve it 90% of the time ( and at least 50% of the time to people who actively despise me as a white hetrosexual englishman ). The system seems to be designed to punish sensible people that work, earn money and save - it rewards those who don't work, don't save and ponce.

I sympathise with the guy out of work and I think he should get help from the state - because it sounds to me that he wants a short term aid whilst he finds another job, not a lifestyle choice to ponce off others. That is where Britain is broken, our government helps the wrong people.
 
This is so funny it's hard to believe that it's real. I didnt care about the illegal immigrant issue until a migrant hotel opened near my home. He talks about brown men following around teenage girls.

If british people had any balls then he wouldn't have prefaced this video by saying not all migrants, only illegal ones.
 
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