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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.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

Who else likes the polish section at the supermarket?
They've got a chilled one at my local place and it's lovely. Plenty of delicious yoghurts and cooked meats.

The bread and sausage game is on a whole other level in the Polish shops, also cheap wines that are actually good. There's this Montenegrin Georgian red wine that comes in really nice decorated clay bottles for 15 or 20 pound. I've been collecting them, they're lovely as shelf ornaments.

 

[EddyRooney]

Funny halloween thing actually.

So I mentioned a while back that I had relatives who had a bunch of Bomalians move in next door either through subletting illegally or the council basically buying the house to house the worst people known to man. So as a response, she got a ring doorbell so she could monitor anything weird.

So tonight obviously it's halloween and a bunch of kids came knocking down the street and they knocked at the Bomalian house, my family member caught the whole interaction where a bunch of children in witch outfits and white sheets went "boo", a 45 year old Kuwaiti or whatever the fuck guy fucking SCREAMED in panic and shut the door on them. Like it's genuinely the funniest video I've ever seen and I can't show a single person it because it'd dox them hard and probably get them a visit from Prevent.

I keep forgetting just how weird arabs and muslims are about evil nasty Djinns.

 

[PandaChai]

SHORTBREAD

I know this is a practically ancient post, but the key is using ¼ cornflour

 

[Jason_Cruiser]

>be bong
>get raped

Don't act like your people aren't importing the bumfuckistan horde too.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

I know this is a practically ancient post, but the key is using ¼ cornflour

I use a little rice flour instead. Keeps it crisp. Also, handle the dough as little as possible. Use the absolute best butter you can find.

Fuck football, and especially fuck wanky American Hollywood dipshit owners and their “fans”.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Americans shouldn't be allowed to own British sports in any form. At least the Russians make it interesting with their wealth. The yanks just sap the funds from every club they touch.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Americans shouldn't be allowed to own British sports in any form. At least the Russians make it interesting with their wealth. The yanks just sap the funds from every club they touch.

And ruin the sport with their egotistical belief that they should win everything and be able to tell everyone how to run the sport.

Some American owners have been reasonably quiet. Then there s the knobs at Birmingham who want a ground for concerts that the football club can use (if they really have to, not like they’ll ever fill it), and want their ‘sports quarter’ to make bank off the land and infrastructure. One of their top brass was busy telling the Premier League how it should be run t’other day.

Then there’s Chrysler in F1 who are already talking like they have a divine right to win everything.

Can they not just leave us to be poor and bad-tempered (without trying to make a buck from it)? Weirdos. Why are so many Americans buying British sports clubs lately?

 

[Duane Dibbley]

And ruin the sport with their egotistical belief that they should win everything and be able to tell everyone how to run the sport.

Some American owners have been reasonably quiet. Then there s the knobs at Birmingham who want a ground for concerts that the football club can use (if they really have to, not like they’ll ever fill it), and want their ‘sports quarter’ to make bank off the land and infrastructure. One of their top brass was busy telling the Premier League how it should be run t’other day.

Then there’s Chrysler in F1 who are already talking like they have a divine right to win everything.

Can they not just leave us to be poor and bad-tempered (without trying to make a buck from it)? Weirdos. Why are so many Americans buying British sports clubs lately?

One of the premier league teams is owned by yanks and they're staying out of it bar cutting big cheques (Bournemouth I think it is) while others are draining clubs and putting no money in while ruining the heritage (Leeds IIRC).

They're a net negative on British football. The saudis understand "put in money, let experts do the rest" and the russians pump money in and run the place. The yanks philosophy is "minimum spend, maximum resale value and if they club go bankrupt in the meantime, who cares?"

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

One of the premier league teams is owned by yanks and they're staying out of it bar cutting big cheques (Bournemouth I think it is) while others are draining clubs and putting no money in while ruining the heritage (Leeds IIRC).

They're a net negative on British football. The saudis understand "put in money, let experts do the rest" and the russians pump money in and run the place. The yanks philosophy is "minimum spend, maximum resale value and if they club go bankrupt in the meantime, who cares?"

Yeah, Leeds are going to get absolutely fucking shafted by the yanks. It’ll be RB Leeds before you know it. These clubs have incredible histories and community meaning, but American owners don’t even understand the game never mind the way it’s intertwined with local identity. All about the tv money and sponsorship cash. They’ll have it run like the NFL if we’re not careful (costs over £100 per ticket, clubs are just franchised names etc etc).

English clubs should be run by English owners and fans, for the benefit of English people and fans. Not for the benefit of Jonny foreigner in Saudi or China or Chicago or some African country. Premier League teams moan about too many fixtures then go play games in China and the US. Some idiot even suggested playing the last game of the season in a foreign country, so the foreign fans could experience the fun. Foreign fans can support their own teams or fuck off, frankly.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Yeah, Leeds are going to get absolutely fucking shafted by the yanks. It’ll be RB Leeds before you know it.

I hope they have a lot of new supporters waiting in the wings because Leeds fans will not be called RB Leeds without serious pushback. Of all the hardcase, nutjob fans in english football, few come close to the ferocity of pissed off Leeds fans.

The debacle around the schedule of games because of the super league has meant 1 game on boxing day. One football game on a day when people are usually down the pub watching myriad matches.

It's almost like another example of ruining British bread and circuses.

Double murderer jailed for stabbing pregnant girlfriend

A man who murdered his pregnant girlfriend while on licence for a previous murder conviction has been sentenced to life with a minimum term of 42 years.

March was 21 when he fatally stabbed Andre Drummond, 17, through the neck and was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in July 2000.

He was released in early 2013 and recalled to jail later that year after he was convicted of assaulting his then-pregnant girlfriend and was released again in February 2018.

Ms Odysseos confided in a friend that she was frightened after March had smashed a glass in her face, the court heard.

Wasn't sent back to prison.

"I want him to die in prison with no hope of doing this to anybody else."

Sorry, love, he will be out in 10 years, max.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

I hope they have a lot of new supporters waiting in the wings because Leeds fans will not be called RB Leeds without serious pushback. Of all the hardcase, nutjob fans in english football, few come close to the ferocity of pissed off Leeds fans.

The debacle around the schedule of games because of the super league has meant 1 game on boxing day. One football game on a day when people are usually down the pub watching myriad matches.

It's almost like another example of ruining British bread and circuses.

They couldn’t give a fuck about season ticket holders - people who give clubs hundreds of quid a year and create the atmosphere at games, and who afford this shit mostly through jobs, all while having families and other obligations. Trying to actually use a season ticket to get to games when they’re every day and time BUT 3pm on Saturdays now is almost impossible. But I’m sure the lovely tv money makes up for it, and fuck the actual supporters who want to go to games.

One game on Boxing Day is a travesty. Are there any Premier League games on New Year’s Day now? Another British tradition, I know it’s kept to in the lower leagues but up with the big boys it’s only the tv that counts.

Can’t afford bread or circuses, and both are probably causing allergies and cancer while being bad for the environment anyway. Guess we’d better be good boys and girls.

Double murderer jailed for stabbing pregnant girlfriend




Wasn't sent back to prison.


Sorry, love, he will be out in 10 years, max.

Nice ‘life imprisonment’ that was.

The way things are going 10 years will be a long time. We need room in those prisons, you know. I’m sure he’ll be a good boy if he promises.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

They couldn’t give a fuck about season ticket holders

Ckubs have openly admitted that 'tourists' - those who go to one game a year, generate more money because they go to the gift shop or some such bollocks, pushing the ST holders to the back of the queue for seats at home games, which is why most crowds are quiet as fuck at home games, they have no passion or connection to the club.

The guy who has lived and breathed for the club for 30 years, buying pints and pies every match, is now a second class citizen at his own club because Cecil Willingsworth the finance Accountant has heard it's a good lark visiting Old Trafford for the day.

The stats like xG and all of the other bollocks analytical data, is to rope in the laptop caste to put more money into the coffers because line must go up. And seems as the laptop caste have more disposable income than big dave the factory worker, the clubs, FIFA and Sky are chasing that money.

Exactly like what happened with gaming.

 

[anklyscr]

Double murderer jailed for stabbing pregnant girlfriend

oooooohhh a bad bad boy , who I can change.
said the girlfriend probably

no sympathy

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Of all the hardcase, nutjob fans in english football, few come close to the ferocity of pissed off Leeds fans

Maybe in the 90s.

 

[Rival]

Not sure where else to post this, so sorry that it's a bit off topic, but I saw that Hugh Anthony, some niche e-grifter nationalist Fuentes expy (being shilled by the ex-Homeland clique), was exposed for being a faggot in DMs and made some weird apology video.

He's just been kicked out of his parents' house and is now fighting with them on Twitter. Also he uploaded a video of the fight.

Spoiler: Media

 

[BongoMongo]

oooooohhh a bad bad boy , who I can change.
said the girlfriend probably

no sympathy

hE'lL cHaNgE wHeN tHe BaBy CoMeS!!111!!!!!

The refrain of the absolutely terminally retarded.

 

[Snekposter]

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We already had "Jihadi from Syria", so as far as I'm concerned Clown World can't get any worse.

 

[Gian-Luca Caluga]

He's just been kicked out of his parents' house and is now fighting with them on Twitter. Also he uploaded a video of the fight.

Spoiler: Media

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This is beautiful. The petulance, the accusations of drama, the furious Dad slowly rumbling up the stairs like a red-eyed hurricane. Hugh mumbling 'you don't scare me' as quietly as possible, the 'DO I NOT?' response.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU PARASITE."

Does this lad have a thread or anything? How old is he?

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Maybe in the 60s,70s,80s and 90s.

FTFY

Can't that be said of all football fans? The sport has been neutered to stop meany words and meany hooligans.

 

[Overly Serious]

We need room in those prisons, you know.

There's another way.