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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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Ginger Piglet said:
FTFY.

Unfortunately the number of reports for people breaching the lockdown is spiralling out of control. Almost every local area Faceache group has posts by people denouncing each other for not social distancing enough, and with nothing else to do, curtain-twitching is on the increase. Also people who are feuding with their neighbours are using reports like this to get one over on each other.
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Doris at number 13 only came out for 3 minutes of the mandatory 5 Minutes Clap, I'm outing that bitch on FaceTelescreen for not loving Big NHS. I'm doing my bit. I'm a good person.
 
CWCissey said:
I'm saying it here and now, if the lockdown is not eased after this current phase lasts, you'll just get people breaking stuff. Everyone's fucking bored and asking questions now.
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Who gives a fuck if they're bored? Which part of "There is a literal fucking plague sweeping across the planet" did they not get?

It wasn't that many decades ago Colonel Tom was forced into a literal war, and people are now upset that they're getting paid to stay at home and watch television?

This is a generation of snowflakes, I hate all of them.
 
Fagatron said:
Who gives a fuck if they're bored? Which part of "There is a literal fucking plague sweeping across the planet" did they not get?

It wasn't that many decades ago Colonel Tom was forced into a literal war, and people are now upset that they're getting paid to stay at home and watch television?

This is a generation of snowflakes, I hate all of them and I will continue to report anyone I see and know for certain is doing non-essential stuff.
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It's not a fucking plague though is it? And no I'm not saying it's just the flu before you try playing that card.

If anyone is a snowflake it's the likes of you who are demanding we shut down the entire country and run the economy into the ground purely to eliminate any possible risk of catching the XiCoof.

It might be OK for bootlicking shut-in NEETs to be placed under house arrest by daddy government, those of us who have lives to get on with aren't going to tolerate indefinite confinement for the sake of senile 85 year olds and GRIDS infested degenerates getting an extra 6 months of life.
 
The moral grandstanding about "this is about *lives* misses that man is mortal, and really the coof just makes lives shorter and worse, same as jackbooted governments and economic devastation. It's not apples and oranges, but a balancing decision.
 
Champion The Wonder Horse said:
It's not a fucking plague though is it? And no I'm not saying it's just the flu before you try playing that card.
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It's a worldwide pandemic featuring a disease which has already led to 26,097 deaths in the UK. And before you say "More people die of X", let's not forget this is only the people who were tested prior to their deaths for COVID19. The overwhealming majority of hospital admissions and deaths from patients with COVI19 symptoms have not been tested.

This is before we even start counting the deaths of non-hospital based cases like the care homes etc. There are fucking mega-morgues being built outside places like major airports. I think plague is actually fairly apt considering it matches behaviour and responses to sweeping plagues across European history.

Champion The Wonder Horse said:
If anyone is a snowflake it's the likes of you who are demanding we shut down the entire country and run the economy into the ground purely to eliminate any possible risk of catching the XiCoof.
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Human lives are worth more than your stock shares. Fuck anyone who says otherwise.

Considering most of the world is also in lockdown, we're all going to be in the same boat come the end of it. If everyone else is in recession, we will be too regardless of if we opened up now or not.

Champion The Wonder Horse said:
It might be OK for bootlicking shut-in NEETs to be placed under house arrest by daddy government, those of us who have lives to get on with aren't going to tolerate indefinite confinement for the sake of senile 85 year olds and GRIDS infested degenerates getting an extra 6 months of life.
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It's not just them though is it, have you missed the news circulating of the after affects that are actually more likely to target children and that many of the patients do not have underlying health conditions?

Again, human lives are worth more than your stock shares, need for a haircut or hurt fee fees. Fuck you, you greedy selfish cunt.

There is no room to debate this one, it's inexcusable to breach the lockdown and put other people at risk. Ruin your own life by all means, but "getting on with your own life" will have a direct impact on us all when you get it or give it to someone else while you're not showing symptoms during the carrier stage.
 
Fagatron said:
Reeeeeeeee stock shares reeeeee stock shares reeee
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Fine, stay and rot in your pod you hysterical little mincer, you're clearly a mental health basket case already. Just stop typing "stock shares" for Christ's sake, unless you are implying I have OXO in my portfolio that's not even a thing.

Other than the odd outlier most of the people dieing of it are deathfats, smokers, the elderly etc who were all due to pop off in the next couple of years at most anyway. One of the outcomes of this whole thing is we will see lower levels of death over the next few years from heart disease, various cancers and geriatric diseases. The idea that it is decimating young healthy people just doesn't hold up.

So stay indoors, weeping into your stockpile of pasta and making lists of people to report to the corona police. Meanwhile I will keep on doing what I have been doing and going out to work.
 
Champion The Wonder Horse said:
Doris at number 13 only came out for 3 minutes of the mandatory 5 Minutes Clap, I'm outing that bitch on FaceTelescreen for not loving Big NHS. I'm doing my bit. I'm a good person.
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I don't applaud the NHS on my doorstep. How in the name of sanity is clattering away like a rétarded seal going to help OUR HEROIC NHS solve the WuFlu.

You know, it's meant to be this evening a 8.00 pm. I might go for a socially distanced walk then and see just how many people are actually doing said seal impressions.
 
Ginger Piglet said:
I don't applaud the NHS on my doorstep. How in the name of sanity is clattering away like a rétarded seal going to help OUR HEROIC NHS solve the WuFlu.

You know, it's meant to be this evening a 8.00 pm. I might go for a socially distanced walk then and see just how many people are actually doing said seal impressions.
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I've noticed that less and less people are clapping around my area. It's almost as if people know when a spontaneous gesture has been corrupted by media types.
 
Ginger Piglet said:
I don't applaud the NHS on my doorstep. How in the name of sanity is clattering away like a rétarded seal going to help OUR HEROIC NHS solve the WuFlu.

You know, it's meant to be this evening a 8.00 pm. I might go for a socially distanced walk then and see just how many people are actually doing said seal impressions.
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Noisy as hell here, but we've actually had NHS staff members die from it who lived in Pillockville.

So, y'know.
 
Hoplixe said:
>No Mad Minute Shooting the Horde of Chinese Infectees.
They took our guns, our jobs and our booze, is there nothing sacred in this world?
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I've still got my job, and enough guns I'm contemplating a new safe, but right now more than anything else in the world I want to go to the pub for a pint. Home drinking just isn't the same.
 
6MillionBicycles said:
That’s exactly why I never did it. It always seemed forced and in no way genuine.
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The NHS staff I've spoken to have had various responses. The nurses were grateful the first time but never mentioned it again, as I said in another post they care about their patients, not the praise. I guess after the first time it started to sound patronising. The reception staff didn't give a shit, basically saying "I work for the NHS but I'm working from home and helping like the nurses and doctors, I don't want applause" and one of the higher-ups hasn't even talked about it.

Absolutely none of them has asked anybody to go and applaud them, unlike that fucking "you applaud for me now" video.
 
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