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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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I'm convinced that the Scampi Fries are just Dreamies for Humans.

Crisps from my childhood:-
Salt and shake crisps (they did a special edition with different flavours one time)
Fish & Chips
Hedgehog Crisps
Beef Hula Hoops
Beef Monster Munch
Beef Space Raiders
TangyToms
Ready Salted Ringos
Transform A Snacks - they came in two shapes and they made little cars
Ready Salted Chipsticks that would melt in your mouth
 
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I don't get why Quavers are so hit or miss, sometimes the packet is the stalest thing imaginable, and then sometimes its the sexiest pack of crisps known to man.

The Tories have removed the whip from Senedd Member James Evans over rumours he will defect to Reform UK, so now he's likely off to Reform.
The mystery Labour member has not yet revealed him/herself (people keep saying 'oh shes hardly Labour anymore' when referring to this mystery unknown MP, who the fuck is that?) and Farage hints this is totally because of Greenland and tariffs taking up the newscycle.
I'm still absolutely fascinated by the idea that the UK 'rightwing' is both fringe lunatics and most people want more migrants and 'diversity' and cultural enrichment, and that the local elections MUST be suspended because the current governments will be voted out of power in a FPTP election where the majority vote wins.

If you want real Worcestershire Sauce get Lea n Perrins and as close to Worcs as you can. I used to walk past the factory daily and the wind would taste of anchovies, I swear.
 
Overly Serious said:
If you had absolute state power the first sign of it would be Warwick Davis being bundled into the back of a van...
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sorry, a bit out of the loop here. whats the deal with all the warick davis hate lately? i have no real opinion on the guy, but i see it everywhere now lol
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
The mystery Labour member has not yet revealed him/herself (people keep saying 'oh shes hardly Labour anymore' when referring to this mystery unknown MP, who the fuck is that?)
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Maybe Rosie Duffield? Though she quit the whip in 2024 and is currently an independent, and I doubt she'd be caught dead anywhere near Farage anyway, so maybe not
 
3DS MAXIMUS said:
sorry, a bit out of the loop here. whats the deal with all the warick davis hate lately? i have no real opinion on the guy, but i see it everywhere now lol
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@Chunky Salsa has a phobia of dwarves. The few I've known have been perfectly nice, though I'll admit that both Warwick Davis and Peter Dinklage seem a bit annoying. I think they'd be annoying if they were larger too, though.
 
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UK is attempting to use AI to arrest people before any crime is made or before any "anti-social behaviour" is made. They also want to create “virtual prisons” which basically is just letting criminals go with an ankle monitor. The Police will also need to get permission from ChatGPT before arresting anyone. The AI will be doing all the detective work too.
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Someone really needs to walk around Whitehall and put up big signs explaining to them: "AI is not God."
 
Useful_Mistake said:
UK is attempting to use AI to arrest people before any crime is made or before any "anti-social behaviour" is made. They also want to create “virtual prisons” which basically is just letting criminals go with an ankle monitor. The Police will also need to get permission from ChatGPT before arresting anyone. The AI will be doing all the detective work too.
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So it'll be arresting people for nothing after hallucinating crimes, and letting criminals off because they tell it to imagine a world where they're not actually criminals. The police will be hobbled by insane and contradictory arrest rules and will spend all their time chasing phantoms.

Remind me again, what's changing?

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Someone really needs to walk around Whitehall and put up big signs explaining to them: "AI is not God."
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Of course not. It doesn't have a KCMG.
 
You can tell the civil service is infested with thirdies, because they see AI and go "OMG IT'S GOING TO MAKE WORK SO MUCH EASIER!!!" Whereas most white people go "Huh, this thing is fucking retarded."
 
Chunky Salsa said:
You can tell the civil service is infested with thirdies, because they see AI and go "OMG IT'S GOING TO MAKE WORK SO MUCH EASIER!!!" Whereas most white people go "Huh, this thing is fucking retarded."
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I honestly like to imagine that they're just opening up chatgpt on chrome and dumping a bunch of images with: "thoughts? who to arrest mr chatgpt?" as the prompt.
 
the rat said:
I honestly like to imagine that they're just opening up chatgpt on chrome and dumping a bunch of images with: "thoughts? who to arrest mr chatgpt?" as the prompt.
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It'll just be whatever cheap commercially available/open source LLM frameworks they can find and feed criminal data to. It won't even be ChatGPT.
 
Overly Serious said:
Someone really needs to walk around Whitehall and put up big signs explaining to them: "AI is not God."
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I'm not convinced it's good, let alone God.

That might be unfair. Possibly AI is good, but it has the capacity to be used for very bad things by disingenious politicians.
The difference between this and most of the other things the political class try to impose on the rest of us is scalability and hence its overwhelming reach. By and large, it is possible at the moment to ignore the government and live your own life. How much longer will that exist if they want, through AI and technology, for the eyes of the State to be on us at all times ?

The only way to be human, the only way to be free, is to rebel. They will try and crush you, they'll use every tactic they have to make you obedient, docile, subservient. But you can't let them, you have to be your own master, whatever that takes. Better to die a human being than to live as a purposeless cog in their machine.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.

Possibly politicians want it to be God in the omnipresent sense, enabling their supposed omnipotence.
In modern society, all that's required is obedience......but where does that leave those of us who break before we bend ?
 
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I remember when they got rid of that one a couple years back. I was so pissed cause they almost never had it in the shops near mine despite it being my favourite flavour. Tried it again recently since they came back and it's just as good as I remember (apparently some people think they taste different/weaker but I don't notice it, maybe I'm just remembering wrong or my tastebuds are too shit to notice?).
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They removed it because the colouring contained a chemical that caused autism or uncontrollable growth of your wang or something. The flavours changed slightly too.
 
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1. Smoky bacon Walkers
2. Pickled onion Monster Munch
3. Bacon frazzles
4. Onion rings
5. Scampi fries
6. Nice n spicy Nik Naks
7. Salt n vinegar Squares
8. Roast chicken Walkers
9 Smiths ready salted (more salt. MORE)
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This is an acceptable list. I presume you finished puberty recently because you're missing bovril crisps, but I'll give you a pass.
I forgot about salt and vinegar chipsticks, which if they are still around deserve a spot at number 11.
 
I’m sorry, Mahmoud thinks the Panipticon is a good thing and should be the ideal goal - not just for a prison but the whole of society? What the everloving fuck?

Could they be any more mask-off about wanting a complete police state with absolute dictatorship? Holy fuck.

Not sure whether it’s lucky or a nightmare that AI is so unreliable at the moment. There could be a lot of lives ruined over false positives. AI is built on input and that input has every chance of being biased, too. Plus, who’s sifting through all this stuff? Is it all completely AI and it just issues a list of people to arrest? Do we even have enough police to make the inevitable long list of arrests?

They’re just going to cut the internet, banking and benefits of anyone AI suspects of a crime, aren’t they? Talk about a modern day version of the Soviet regime.

Wild how you always become what you (apparently) hate.

CaptainAutism69 said:
This is an acceptable list. I presume you finished puberty recently because you're missing bovril crisps, but I'll give you a pass.
I forgot about salt and vinegar chipsticks, which if they are still around deserve a spot at number 11.
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I assumed Bovril crisps were a given. And chipsticks are an excellent call, though I hate how they get all stuck in your teeth (bacon frazzles do the same).

I can’t do Skips. It reminds me too much of the texture of communion wafers. Horribly confusing for a Catholic kid.
 
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