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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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A-Logato said:
Funny, Thatcher said something similar and it irreparably destroyed half the country. I guess Nigel wants to be like his idol and destroy the other half/make the dead half even worse.
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My parents will cry about Thatcher all day long. They own their own house. They have a nice car. They are both retired and have two all inclusive holidays a year.

If anyone who is below forty is still crying about Thatcher in [insert current year] then they need to be used as fertiliser.
 
Chunky Salsa said:
I have seen an upswing in people saying that what we need is modern day Thatcherism. The only thing that let Thatcherism work was that the government had a glut of assets that they could release to the public of a country that wat still a relatively significant world power to spur on growth, industry and economy. We don't have that now. If you tried Thatcherism now the entire fucking country would collapse, like a rotten floor.

You know what's underneath that floor? It's a pit with no bottom, meaning if we start falling, we're not going to stop.
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I wouldn't even say Thatcherism even worked, if it did then it only benefited a small, select group of the country (London) for only so long because now the policy's she pushed has been disastrous in the long run. My father told me stories of how bad it was to not only have your whole industry taken away from you over night but then have your benefit safety net snatched from you whilst they did so, even though you'd paid taxes for years.

I might be a tad biased on Thatcher particularly but anyone who unironically wants Thatcher back is a retard who clearly didn't live in the areas or speak to people that were effected by her policy.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
But if the can has any dent in it or any signs of visible rusting around the lid, bin it. Eating emergency gruel is one thing, puking your guts out in a house with no electricity or heat is another.
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Thanks for reminding me that I need to go over my stash. I've let it dwindle a little in the last couple of years. There's some cans of condensed milk that have got rust on the seams. Straight in the bin.
Miriam Margoyles said:
Is it worth paying some shitskin illegal £18 for a packet of Twinkies?
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The only time I went in an american sweet shop, it was on an industrial estate and run by English people. It was also 20 years ago. Twinkies are worth the experience once and never again.
 
Miriam Margoyles said:
The number of vape shops in Britain has risen by 1,200% in a decade, so you'd think this would be a booming industry doing a roaring trade, yet, for some bizarre reason, they always seem to be completely empty... 🤔
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In America the scam is the government giving immigrants great preference in taxpayer-backed small business loans. They're not importing "cheap labor" but debtors (and immiseration for the natives).

Doesn't matter what kind of store it is, but vape shops are a popular choice, maybe because they look so garish and repellent. To the extent they do any business, it's only with co-ethnics (maybe selling them drugs or documents or scam lotteries or who knows). Nobody else goes in. They don't live off retail proceeds anyway, but off welfare/etc.

I've heard Brits say that your fake shops are for "money laundering," but I don't know what that signifies.
 
OK, I just walked in from getting my Pepsi and saw Nigel's post. What the utter fuck, Nigel? You have scored the biggest own goal possible. Jesus, even your MPs would disagree with this. I have seen pictures of Tice lately, and he looks terrible. Imagine carving the only "right wing" party and your leader is chimping the same talking points as fucking Kemi and Johnson.

The issue with Nigel is that there can be a Reform without him, and I don't think it has sunk in yet that this is the case. He has a very frayed voter base; they are voting for an alternative, not for Nigel.

If this circulates, holy crap, this will go down like a bowl of Nettle, potato, and onion soup. (no offence)
 
No-Eyed Square Guy said:
I've heard Brits say that your fake shops are for "money laundering," but I don't know what that signifies.
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We have a lot of organised crime and pretend we don’t. Anything that is a cash business with shelf stable goods or a service that requires little skill or a skill that can be learned in prison is probably laundering drug money.

It can make it difficult finding a good barbers as if it’s not “Turkish barbers” washing money for browns then it’s a bunch of spotty uninterested excons laundering money for white drug dealers.

Vape shops and American candy stores are another and they do weird complex frauds were the businesses and goods change hands and the money keeps floating about when one person gets in trouble.

Hand car washes is a big one for Eastern European criminals.

Tanning salons is the obvious ones. They’re always empty but somehow keep in business by the three or four women who use it.

Another one that surprises people is florists as the high wastage lets them launder money.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
Tbf I have fuck all clue how money laundering works. But I thought shit like those car washes were just people doing work for cash because fuck the government taking 50% of everything you make.
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The simple way is they say they have a lot more customers than exist, say the drug money is what they received, and the profits now look like legal money they can use.

They lose a good chunk of money in tax and wages but it’s better than burying large bricks of money in a forest and never being able to spend it.

Those suspiciously empty businesses you see are doing an amazing amount of trade as far as HMRC are concerned.

Fun fact: they don’t use tanning salons as much as they used to for money laundering as the police could spot them easily by the businesses having really low energy bills.
 
I have a shop, it looks nice, but not as nice as I would like it.
I make all the products myself, and the money I spend on the safety testing, insurance etc doesn't leave much scope for fancy shop decorations at the moment, although people do love my products and I'd rather have good products and a middle rate but spotlessly clean shop.

No illuminated front for me, or posh shelving, or gridwall or slatwall inside.
Just signage banners by good old vistaprint, shelving brand new and matching but those metal boltless ones. Because I can't afford anything else.

On the same high street are a carribean food shop with beauty products upstairs - they've been open less than a month and they have a fancy colour co ordinated roller shutters, an illuminated front sign and one sticking out sideways above ground (we are a predominantly white area, doesn't seem to be enough Carribean people living near here to warrant a shop).
Also two barbers, also with illuminated front, LED imitation barber pole full height in window. Modern wooden interior in one shop, a more metallic look in the other shop. New chairs, counter, mirrors etc. Always a group of blokes outside though.
Sunbed shop, 2 nail bars, 5 takeaways and a dessert shop. All done up to the nines.

These are all young lads, seem to be in their 20's, 30's at most.

I wish I could get hold of even a quarter of the amount it looks like they've spent on their shops.

I've done it all myself with no loans or grants from anyone, but, where is everyone else getting their money from?!
 
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femboy fart huffer said:
Tbf I have fuck all clue how money laundering works. But I thought shit like those car washes were just people doing work for cash because fuck the government taking 50% of everything you make.
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That might be how it works for the employees, but not the employer. The employer gets to "spend money on the business" and then rakes in wads of cash ( or at least pretends to, in reality they will be getting the cash via "alternative means" ) that is then clean and bankable.
Placement introduces dirty money into the financial system, layering obscures the source through complex transactions, and integration returns the "clean" funds to the criminal. It's great, I work in Finance and I have to pass a test ( seemingly on how to do it ) every year.



It is nigh on impossible to find a car wash that isn't a money laundering front in my area. On one side of town it's an Albanian hand wash, on the other side it's ( I think Romanian ) machine wash. I drive to Tesco out of town, which is the lesser of three evils.
 
Just a boring name said:
I have a shop, it looks nice, but not as nice as I would like it.
I make all the products myself, and the money I spend on the safety testing, insurance etc doesn't leave much scope for fancy shop decorations at the moment, although people do love my products and I'd rather have good products and a middle rate but spotlessly clean shop.

No illuminated front for me, or posh shelving, or gridwall or slatwall inside.
Just signage banners by good old vistaprint, shelving brand new and matching but those metal boltless ones. Because I can't afford anything else.

On the same high street are a carribean food shop with beauty products upstairs - they've been open less than a month and they have a fancy colour co ordinated roller shutters, an illuminated front sign and one sticking out sideways above ground (we are a predominantly white area, doesn't seem to be enough Carribean people living near here to warrant a shop).
Also two barbers, also with illuminated front, LED imitation barber pole full height in window. Modern wooden interior in one shop, a more metallic look in the other shop. New chairs, counter, mirrors etc. Always a group of blokes outside though.
Sunbed shop, 2 nail bars, 5 takeaways and a dessert shop. All done up to the nines.

These are all young lads, seem to be in their 20's, 30's at most.

I wish I could get hold of even a quarter of the amount it looks like they've spent on their shops.

I've done it all myself with no loans or grants from anyone, but, where is everyone else getting their money from?!
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Shit like this pisses me off. British people trying to go legit struggle. Non-brit criminals operate in plain sight with the rozzers doing nothing about it.
 
Swerf'n'Terf said:
John Cleese's noticing is reaching unprecedented levels. It's fun there's a National Treasure out there posting like this.
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Wonderful, another reason to keep him on as my satnav's voice.

Edit: And for barber shop chat, I'm lucky in that my one is run by a local who bought it from the previous owner who cut hair into his late 70's. Fun fact about the old guy, he knew I was into re enactment and asked if I could get him an SS uniform for the sole reason being to freak out normies.
 
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EddyRooney said:
That might be how it works for the employees, but not the employer. The employer gets to "spend money on the business" and then rakes in wads of cash ( or at least pretends to, in reality they will be getting the cash via "alternative means" ) that is then clean and bankable.
Placement introduces dirty money into the financial system, layering obscures the source through complex transactions, and integration returns the "clean" funds to the criminal. It's great, I work in Finance and I have to pass a test ( seemingly on how to do it ) every year.

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It is nigh on impossible to find a car wash that isn't a money laundering front in my area. On one side of town it's an Albanian hand wash, on the other side it's ( I think Romanian ) machine wash. I drive to Tesco out of town, which is the lesser of three evils.
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Another AML training enjoyer I see. Almost as fun as fraud/KYC and ethics training.
 
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