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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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Ponderous Pillock said:
So Jo Swinson (Lib Dem Leader) and Nicola Sturgeon (SNP Leader) tried dragging ITV to court over the ITV election leaders debate between BoJo and Tragic Grandpa.

The end result? Lol fuck off, it's ITV's decision.
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They've done this every election for ages now. It's getting rather annoying. Makes the SNP look like your controlling partner who insists on being in charge of everything.
 
Today's Loltakular Election News:

Alex Salmond has now been indicted for multiple charges of sexual assault and attempted rape

Jo Swinson, a woman who looks like she never took any illegal substances in her life claims she inhaled and liked it, as the Lib Dems poll ratings continue to plummet into irrelevance their ancient policy of "legalise dope" is wheeled out.

Labour's Launch Manifesto today in Brum. On the 45th aniversarry of the Birmingham Bombings. Launched by a stroke victim man who's long supported the IRA.
 
Ponderous Pillock said:
Jo Swinson, a woman who looks like she never took any illegal substances in her life claims she inhaled and liked it, as the Lib Dems poll ratings continue to plummet into irrelevance their ancient policy of "legalise dope" is wheeled out.
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Legalizing weed is one of the things I'm torn on, it's about the same level of alcohol so sure why not (Then again if alcohol appeared now we probably wouldn't legalize it.) but then I think of the smell becoming much more common and more people saying "dude 420 blaze it" unironically and suddenly I want the death sentence for possession.
 
Lily Allen cries over the Labor Manifesto

For those of you wondering, she's a singer who had a few catchy hits and then faded into irrelevency.

To combat this, every now and again she inserts herself into political issues where she can play saviour to the less fortunate while neatly dressed with sharpened acrylic nails and tearducts on full faucet. I remember when she did this:

 
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Lily Allen cries over the Labor Manifesto

For those of you wondering, she's a singer who had a few catchy hits and then faded into irrelevency.

To combat this, every now and again she inserts herself into political issues where she can play saviour to the less fortunate while neatly dressed with sharpened acrylic nails and tearducts on full faucet. I remember when she did this:

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It's funny that she wrote a song about how her brother is a lazy arse, then he went on to play Theon Greyjoy.

Also the best thing she ever did was be the inspiration for a series of Harry Enfield sketches.
 
CWCissey said:
It's funny that she wrote a song about how her brother is a lazy arse, then he went on to play Theon Greyjoy.
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Seems like Alfie is the one who's laughing about his lazy ass failure stoner sibling now.
 
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