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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.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I’d roll out free vitamin D drops for babies and children.

It's called going outside and eating eggs. If you want better vitamin d levels stop letting women skip the yolk in eggs. It's the best bit and so many women are retarded and don't want it or serve it.

More green spaces in cities

To go after dark to get raped? I've never seen an urban green area be anything but a dog toilet and a place women have to avoid once it's dark. We should just get rid of cities instead.

Tax breaks if you have secure bike parking and showers at the office.

No. Cyclists are evil. They have man buns and hemorrhoids.

Cleaner water to swim in

It's called a swimming pool. Swimming in natural water is quite dangerous if you don't know the area and have experience in it. It would just lead to a bunch of townies drowning.. No wait I agree with you on this. Throw them all in a pond as soon as possible.

How common are British incest babies? It obviously does happen Up Norf because they only have 20 people living in a village. But outside of the bog creatures how common is it?

 

[Anomalous Coward]

outside of the bog creatures how common is it?

Its been illegal for centuries, inbreeding is the domain of south asia

 

[Clem Fandango]

My new proposal: number of votes per person based on income tax rates.
Additional rate = 10,000 votes
Higher rate = 100 votes
Basic rate = 1 vote
Personal allowance = no vote.

Let's just try it for a bit and see what happens.

 

[Spud]

To go after dark to get raped? I've never seen an urban green area be anything but a dog toilet and a place women have to avoid once it's dark. We should just get rid of cities instead.

We can make the cities lovely places if we just kill low trust people. Anyone who commits a serious crime is killed, minor stuff results in canning but their second offense results in death.

 

[Otterly]

It's called going outside and eating eggs. If you want better vitamin d levels stop letting women skip the yolk in eggs.

The sunlight in the UK is not strong enough from around September to around April to create the reaction in your skin that turns precursors into actual useable vitamin D. Almost everyone in the Uk is deficient to a degree unless they supplement. You need to take it with k2 as well but you can go outside all you like in the uk and still be deficient. It’s just latitude
I’ve never heard anything about women refusing the yolks of eggs, that’s just stupid.

It's called a swimming pool. Swimming in natural water is quite dangerous if you don't know the area and have experience in it.

Swimming pools yes, but only city people are scared of open water. Get in the sea, it’s 6 degrees and bracing. Are you nesh, lad?

How common are British incest babies? It obviously does happen Up Norf because they only have 20 people living in a village. But outside of the bog creatures how common is it

Very uncommon. Almost all abuse cases. Pakistani type communities? Very, very common to the point almost default.

To go after dark to get raped?

Hence me saying safety. When I was young I could run or walk to work along the river path in total safety. You eliminate the criminals and society becomes safer.

What kind of world has women refusing egg yolks? I swear I live in some kind of parallel reality.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

We can make the cities lovely places if we just kill low trust people. Anyone who commits a serious crime is killed, minor stuff results in canning but their second offense results in death.

As long as they have existed cities have been low trust hives of scum. You cannot shove that many people into one place and have any sort of trust for each other. It overloads the human brain and you get liberal brain rot.

Giving the elites all the voting power sounds a great idea! They will never decide the lesser people can be replaced with cheaper third world populations so they can profit more..

Benefits aren't just to stop people starving. There's a real benefit to having a proper tax system that pools resources to reduce the societal floor. You can feed people on soup and bread and it will keep them alive, but children raised that way don't fully develop. They need good quality food and lots of it for their brains to properly mature and to avoid serious health problems. The benefits system is currently being abused, but the idea that taking some income from those who wouldn't miss it, to pre-emptively solve problems they would other wise have to deal with isn't a bad one. I'm sorry you can't have your 5th pension, but I'd rather we used some of that money to help the lower classes solve easily solvable problems that impact us all when they get out of hand. Some of it will be abused, but that's the case for everything. Feeding kids properly, giving them the tools to succeed in the work place, giving them the chance to engage with life outside their block of flats are invaluable assets to building a better tomorrow. And that means you have to actually care about your fellow man and make sacrifices to help your own people, not just be a selfish twat.

What kind of world has women refusing egg yolks? I swear I live in some kind of parallel reality.

Multiple women I've been involved with and many I've known didn't want to eat egg yolks unless forced to. And if they did they wanted them cremated so they were a block of cement. I have never understood it and it drives me up the wall. The entire point of the egg is the yolk. I'd have all yolks and no white if I could.

I've never been short of Vitamin D. Just go outside more, Eat more eggs.

Every park I've known in a town even in the 90s was "Don't go here after dark". They've never been well lit and always where fags met up to fuck or drug dealers met. You always went round them.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Are you guys ready to see yourself in the annual People of Hate report? Everyone in this thread is a certified terrorist. Reading the Social Cohesion proposal was just insanity.

 

[Otterly]

I've never been short of Vitamin D. Just go outside more, Eat more eggs.

I swear you know some weird people. Who doesn’t eat egg yolks??
As for vitamin D. The sun is not strong enough between September and April. It has to be a certain intensity or it does nothing. You can sit outside naked 18 hours a day from April to September and you’ll still be overall deficient. You’d need 6 eggs a day to meet even the minimum requirement (which is about 10-20x too low anyway depending on what you read, and I’m doubtful most supermarket eggs even contain that level these days the way hens are treated.)
I love eggs, I’m probably going to have some for lunch, but I can’t eat dozens a day.

Are you guys ready to see yourself in the annual People of Hate report? Everyone in this thread is a certified terrorist. Reading the Social Cohesion proposal was just insanity.

Oh I do hope so!

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Are you guys ready to see yourself in the annual People of Hate report? Everyone in this thread is a certified terrorist. Reading the Social Cohesion proposal was just insanity.

I hope we get our own page and they point out our specific hatred for Warwick Davis.

I love eggs, I’m probably going to have some for lunch, but I can’t eat dozens a day.

I don't get it either, but it's something I've picked up on. I always figured it was women wanting lighter foods so they just wanted the egg white. I remember 3 specific girlfriends who were like that. It confused me so much and I always tried to talk them into a proper fried egg sandwich.

You will eat the boiled eggs Otterly. All of the boiled eggs.

None of my blood tests have come back with low vitamin D results ever. So I don't know.

 

[Otterly]

None of my blood tests have come back with low vitamin D results ever. So I don't know.

Well that is good. There’s quite a bit of variation in the pathways that metabolise the precursors and some people are worse at it that others. Anyone overweight is likely deficient, as well as veggies/vegans and anyone with darker skin or who doesn’t get enough outdoor time. You need about 15 mins of a decent bit of skin exposed to the sun - face and arms will do it, just don’t burn. I am extremely pale and have to be careful with the sun, so I take drops all year round.
I’ve never heard anyone refuse an egg yolk but I believe you, some people are insane.
During Covid, one thing we could have done was put out a reccommendation for people to take enough vitamin D with k2. We could have supplied drops to people (the scandi countries do.) we didn’t do that simple thing.
Who would refuse a fried egg sandwich?? What is wrong with people??

 

[Kofi Drinka]

There’s quite a bit of variation in the pathways that metabolise the precursors and some people are worse at it that others. Anyone overweight is likely deficient, as well as veggies/vegans and anyone with darker skin or who doesn’t get enough outdoor time

I have been overweight and been on a vegetarian diet at the same time and still didn't have a problem with the blood test. And I don't take vitamin supplements. I don't get it. But I spend a lot of time out doors enjoying nature, so maybe that's why.

Who would refuse a fried egg sandwich?? What is wrong with people??

They're women! If I knew what was wrong with them I would fix them, but you cannot. Fried egg sandwiches are so simple but delicious. A perfect comfort food any time of day or night. With Tomato sauce or Salad cream! Brown bread, white bread, butter or none. It doesn't matter, it's all delicious.

 

[Jimmy Dean Bowl]

Well that is good. There’s quite a bit of variation in the pathways that metabolise the precursors and some people are worse at it that others. Anyone overweight is likely deficient, as well as veggies/vegans and anyone with darker skin or who doesn’t get enough outdoor time. You need about 15 mins of a decent bit of skin exposed to the sun - face and arms will do it, just don’t burn. I am extremely pale and have to be careful with the sun, so I take drops all year round.
I’ve never heard anyone refuse an egg yolk but I believe you, some people are insane.
During Covid, one thing we could have done was put out a reccommendation for people to take enough vitamin D with k2. We could have supplied drops to people (the scandi countries do.) we didn’t do that simple thing.
Who would refuse a fried egg sandwich?? What is wrong with people??

Egg white omelettes became a thing a while back, some California fad because the calories and fat are in the yolk. Buffoons.

 

[the rat]

You can sit outside naked 18 hours a day from April to September and you’ll still be overall deficient.

So.... I should listen to my neighbours and stop doing this?

 

[Clem Fandango]

Just go to Malaga for two weeks in Jan. The flight is like £40 return on Easyjet.

 

[ConsentAccidentVictimNo98]

The people at the absolute bottom rung of society have access to tons of resources, and if they're genuinely dirt poor and have literally nothing at all to their name then there's a whole host of government benefits that can be given to them. Hell, at an absolute worst case scenario they can run an electric heater and declare bankruptcy at the end of it, if they have genuinely nothing to their name then it's not going to affect them.

It's actually surprising at how easy budgeting food is, and not having to pay an extortionate amount. Which first, cooking for yourself is always going to be cheaper, healthier and easier. I can't even remember the last time I've had a takeaway.

If you don't have the time as well, there are a lot of cheaper alternatives to getting branded shit down at Tescos. Iceland and Farmfoods are really good for this type of thing.

And if you want a treat on the side? I don't know, get something from "too good to go".

Then again, the Carling and Stella down at the local...

(Which yeah, paying like £4 for a pint of stella does add up. And basically explains a lot. But, it is necessary to keep the local pubs alive)

As an auditor/controller in a previous life. I think there should be a financial OSINT linked to benefit claims. So, for example, the British visually impaired/autistic/wheelchair etc. These numbers are actually negligible. The benefits system was put in place to support people like this. It's a very low percentage of the population.

And even then, if you have stuff like autism you aren't actually guaranteed to get benefits because of it. I know I was refused PIP money despite having a diagnosis. But then again, I know I am white and British. - It probably explains why I actually can't get any other benefits (even whilst out of work). But someone straight off of the boat can go get a hotel.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley come to mind.

The Clangers, Ivor the Engine, Mr Ben and Rhubarb and Custard come to mind as well from that era.

The sunlight in the UK is not strong enough from around September to around April to create the reaction in your skin that turns precursors into actual useable vitamin D.

Are you telling me that the country itself hates brown people? If we're deficient imagine what it's like for them lot.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I am SICK OF IT! I am going to commit a hate crime right here on the farms. Do not click the spoiler unless you're willing to spend 10 years in the slammer for your hard drive contents.

Spoiler: PURE HATE

 

[Otterly]

So.... I should listen to my neighbours and stop doing this?

Well you shouldn’t stand facing their windows, but it’s your garden…

Are you telling me that the country itself hates brown people? If we're deficient imagine what it's like for them lot.

You jest, but yes. We are actually seeing rickets come back. Women and girls with dark skin covered up and kept inside = critically low vitamin D . Little girls swathed in burkas makes me mad. Little kids should be out climbing trees not wearing bin bags.

 

[Sheep King]

The Clangers, Ivor the Engine, Mr Ben and Rhubarb and Custard come to mind as well from that era.

Are you telling me that the country itself hates brown people? If we're deficient imagine what it's like for them lot.

It's a serious issue for nogs, something like only 15% of them get sufficient vitamin D because of how much their skin blocks sunlight. Now imagine they were doing something silly like dressing like ninjas so you could only their eyes.

 

[the rat]

Well you shouldn’t stand facing their windows, but it’s your garden…

Garden? I thought we were talking about the front yard?