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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.

 

[FedPostalService]

It's not Glasgow I'm worried about. It's the places further north like Dundee and Aberdeen which are getting pretty pissed off. There are more places than just Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland.

I think i heard it was kicking off in Motherwell after they opened an aslym hotel there. The small towns will be harder for them to get away with it as Police scotland are retards and spread out really thin.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

There are more places than just Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland.

Most of us don't own a boat so we can't get to those other places..

Scotland is not aware of the danger they're in. They're quite passive people and a lot of them are still on the SNP train. Any bad things the migrants do they will just blame on the English..

I love the damn country almost as much as I love England but fuck me are the Scottish a weird people. They'll glass you for saying they're shite at football, but sit on their arses doing nothing as 50 somalis appear from a bus and get the spare houses. I have many friends that side of the border and I feel sorry for them. Scotland is not prepared for a third world invasion. They're like a sloth and they're still acting like a few of them isn't a problem without realizing is 50 are there now, 50,000 are on the way shortly. RIP granny towns and tourist towns which have so few people 1,000 wogs is going to out number than 10 to 1.

 

[Ly Erg]

We're not cucked up here

We're not cucked up here

We're not cucked up here

Tell me, how many SNP MSPs are there right now? And with recent polling having them win even more seats along with the Greens getting a lot more, beating labour, lib dems and Tories. You telling me that it's not cucked?

And you still haven't answered my question of what type of person I am.

Scotland is not aware of the danger they're in. They're quite passive people and a lot of them are still on the SNP train. Any bad things the migrants do they will just blame on the English.

Here is a problem with that though. Immigration policy and control is exclusive to the UK Government. Even with the most anti-immigrant party like for example "Restore" forming government in the Scottish Parliament. They can't do anything but complain and the UK government will just tell them to fuck off.

Not that the SNP aren't guilty of being happy enough to support that notion of allowing every asylum seeker over here

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Ed Davey in Parliament saying that British tax exiles in Dubai should now be made to pay tax in the UK

"As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our Armed Forces just like the rest of us do"

Which begs the question, is one only entitled to a national service if one pays tax and isn't a net drain on the system, Mr Davey?
I could get behind that, to be fair.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Speaking of Scotland

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says he firmly disagrees with his father's tribute to the late supreme leader of Iran.

He claimed the worldwide community of Muslims had lost "a strong voice of resistance", adding: "May Allah the Exalted grant him paradise of the highest degree.
"We share equally in the sorrow of the Iranian nation."

Mohammad Sarwar, who became Britain's first Muslim MP in 1997, stepped down from Westminster in 2010, with his son later elected in his place.
Originally from Pakistan, he came to the UK in the early 1970s and became a millionaire through his cash-and-carry business.

After stepping back from UK politics he served two terms as governor of Punjab in Pakistan.

The Scottish Labour leader called for a de-escalation of the conflict and for the Iranian people to decide their own future, adding that he had not spoken to his father since he posted the tribute to Khamenei.

Sarwar, who has called for the prime minister to resign, said the UK had a "duty to make sure we are protecting our allies, protecting our infrastructure, protecting our citizens in these nations and beyond".

Bonus news story

A total of 102,000 Britons have registered their presence in the Middle East with the UK government, as Iranian strikes continue across the region.
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper told the BBC there were an estimated 300,000 British citizens in Gulf countries, where much of the airspace is closed.

Asked if the government was planning to launch an evacuation, Cooper said: "We are in close contact, for example, with the travel industry, with airline companies and airports and also with the governments in the region."

She added: "But we will need to provide updates for people as we go along... That's why we're encouraging people to register their presence so we know where they are so we can get information to them swiftly."

Cooper said that in previous similar situations the government had wanted to work with airline companies so people could fly home in the normal way.

 

[Quintex96]

Terrorism just doesn't happen on Scotland.

Sort of correct, it happens in the air above Scotland.

 

[Midwit]

Terror on the streets of Glasgow
Terror in the streets of Inverness...

 

[Otterly]

Terror on the streets of Glasgow
Terror in the streets of Inverness...

How was the gig, @Clem Fandango ?

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

My eyes on the ground view of Glasgow is that it's rapidly becoming Manchester, which alone is trying it's hardest to become Birmingham.

It's not even slow change, I've been to like 6 concerts over the past 3 years and the sheer influx of niggers and postboxes has only really happened over the past 12 months.

 

[FedPostalService]

My eyes on the ground view of Glasgow is that it's rapidly becoming Manchester, which alone is trying it's hardest to become Birmingham.

It's not even slow change, I've been to like 6 concerts over the past 3 years and the sheer influx of niggers and postboxes has only really happened over the past 12 months.

Someone who is in both Manchester and Glasgow a lot for work I can confirm.

 

[Midwit]

My eyes on the ground view of Glasgow is that it's rapidly becoming Manchester, which alone is trying it's hardest to become Birmingham.

I think that I'd they were closer together the combined shit of their holes would actually summon a great unclean one.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Enoch Powell's

At what point do you just accept that your name is eunuch power and get it changed to something that isn't a castration supremacist group name?

 

[Kofi Drinka]

My eyes on the ground view of Glasgow is that it's rapidly becoming Manchester, which alone is trying it's hardest to become Birmingham.

It's not even slow change, I've been to like 6 concerts over the past 3 years and the sheer influx of niggers and postboxes has only really happened over the past 12 months.

People don't realize how fast the change is. It's not a slow trickle. You get 1 or 2 randoms and then over night hundreds appear. Literally stage coaches turn up, a few hundred appear and are hearded into hotels and flats. Then the buses drive away and that's it. You now have a few hundred foreign men with nothing to do and no purpose. They sit at bus stops and playgrounds eyeing up women and children.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Not that the SNP aren't guilty of being happy enough to support that notion of allowing every asylum seeker over here

Just like a lot of people voting Labour yet switched to Reform, I imagine a lot of SNP voters are in a similar boat: they just don't know.
They see "Scottish Nationalist Party" the name by itself implies:
1) Scottish interests firsts (no brainer)
2) The party is proud to be Scottish (in a non-superficial way)
But how many of them are aware of what their party actually gets up to? Or what's become law without them being aware of it?

There's still people voting Green who think the party's chief concern is the environment. I imagine a lot of SNP voters mistakenly think their party is actually nationalist. This could be completely wrong though and the Scots are the most cucked people on Earth, but who's to say?

The SNPs sort of performative spite-based-nationalism does piss me off though in a uniquely infuriating way. It reminds me of Indians.

 

[Clem Fandango]

How was the gig, @Clem Fandango ?

It was good! He didn't play Panic but we got a few Smiths songs (I Know It's Over, How Soon Is Now, A Rush And A Push, and we got There Is A Light as the encore). His solo stuff was good as well, although sadly we didn't get National Front Disco.

I was comically far from the stage. I think my tickets even had something about "not suitable for people scared of heights". The distance was probably a quarter of a mile as the crow flies, but the sound quality was still really good.

I don't know if he's (still) ill at the moment, but he made some reference to being on morphine? Pretty cryptic. But it was great to see him - seasons come and seasons go, Moz never changes.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I don't know if he's (still) ill at the moment, but he made some reference to being on morphine? Pretty cryptic. But it was great to see him - seasons come and seasons go, Moz never changes.

He must be gravely ill, he's actually showed up for a concert he's sold tickets to.

 

[Otterly]

How Soon Is Now

Job done then.
The nosebleeds at the o2 are really high up. (I actually had front row seats at the gig I went to, and I was amazed at my luck.)
Glad you enjoyed it, we all need a bit of a boost now and again

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

we all need a bit of a boost now and again

Master of The Macabre, Visionary of Horrors, Garth Marenghi is doing his book tour for This Bursted Earth at the minute. At £20 a ticket it looked like decent night out. It's also quite good that its one of the few things I want to go to which is actually happening relatively close by for a change.

 

[Vesperus]

I'm of the view that MPs shouldn't be a paid and have to live within their actual constituency. Most of the local governing is done via the local council their function in the administration of the area is pretty hollow.
Though travel expenses and temporary accommodation would probably have to be paid for, and the time they take off of their actual work to attend a parliament session would also be covered, such as what happens when people do jury duty.

MPs should be paid, or we'd end up with the country being run by people with enough disposable income - which these days would be footballers, "influencers", the worst sort of landlord, and bank execs.
But, set that pay to the national average. It will encourage them to do better. And no travel expenses, beyond free public transport, which will do wonders for policing.
They can have a bedsit in Westminster if they need to stop over.

 

[Ken Barlow]

Do not fuck with Edinburgh schemies.