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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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Heinrich Maneuver said:
Government is considering calling its new towns
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It feels wrong to name a town. It's just one of those things that feels like the name should be organic and simply just come into existence naturally instead of being picked. Like surnames. Inventing new surnames feels wrong. Inventing a new name just reminds me of those kids that get called braydsdyn or some shit like that.

I think anything that starts off with a -town or -ville or something like that should be instantly disqualified. Elisabethtown implies that there was a famous Elisabeth who owned a large part of that town to me or at the very least a famous Elisabeth came from there. Which obviously cannot happen for a brand new town. I think we should have more -dons though, Croydon as a word is much nicer than as a place.
UselessRubberKeyboard said:
Pankhurst sounds like a jail. One like a prisoner Cell Block H, full of angry butch lesbians.
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You're thinking of HMP Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight.
 
I don't know how it is for the rest of you lot, but the going bananas over silly petrol prices has already begun in Dwellershire: Absolute chaos at the pumps today. If this eye-ran malarkey doesn't get sorted quick it'll only get spicier too, and more fiery as well, gonna be toilet roll madness on ket I reckon.
The current predicative programming appears to be a "limited operation" regarding Kharg Island... How long till we get dragged into it? Not long no doubt what with queer keir being bendier than a rubber dinghy and all. The merimutts sucking us into yet another pointless sand war is so predictable it'd be funny if it weren't so infuriatingly easily avoidable.
 
SirCliveSinclairdabbing said:
Does it have anything to do with that ocean colour scene album, moseley shoals or whatever it was?
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Moseley comes from Old English meaning Mouse Meadow or Mouse [sized] Clearing, nothing to do with ol oswald. Certain areas of Moseley, Bournville (Cadbury), even Stirchley (potentially meaning 'clearing by the roman road; 'lea' means meadow or clearing, so Dudley, Stirchley, Bewdley, all come from the meadows) are absolutely gorgeous and bustling with shops, things to do, pubs, artistic places and parks, even if it is full of Brummies, or god forbid browns.
Birmingham gets its name from Beormingham, meaning home of the Beomingas, the original bog dwellers. Worcester is the 'fortress of the Wigorii (the roman camp)', Kidderminster means 'church on a hill', Stourbridge and Stourport are both named for bridges on the river Stour (and stour means river, the river river). Smethwick, as mentioned above by our lord and saviour local Danny G, means 'smiths work'. A lot of place names are essentially just 'who lives there', maybe we'll get an asylumseekerton

Tax: The Iranian man and Romanian woman who tried to enter HMNB Clyde have been charged
 
Mound Dweller said:
I don't know how it is for the rest of you lot, but the going bananas over silly petrol prices has already begun in Dwellershire: Absolute chaos at the pumps today. If this eye-ran malarkey doesn't get sorted quick it'll only get spicier too, and more fiery as well, gonna be toilet roll madness on ket I reckon.
The current predicative programming appears to be a "limited operation" regarding Kharg Island... How long till we get dragged into it? Not long no doubt what with queer keir being bendier than a rubber dinghy and all. The merimutts sucking us into yet another pointless sand war is so predictable it'd be funny if it weren't so infuriatingly easily avoidable.
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Yeah family are complaining about fuel prices nearly doubling in our area. Will likely expect price spikes for services like the leccy and gas too.

Seeing as Diego Garcia got struck (along with Cyprus if I remember right) it means our territory has been struck (with missiles of far longer range than Iran ever said it had) so it's basically a given we'll get pulled in now.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
You're thinking of HMP Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight.
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Selhurst Park? Yeah, I’d want to get out if I were a Palace player, too.

Weird what your brain does with word association, innit?

Otterly said:
We have Scunthorpe at home.
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And a very lovely place it is too, although attempting to type the name in quite a few gentler places on the internet can get you censored or banned. Ditto for ‘Arsenal’ (and not because of the utterly boring football they play).

teriyakiburns said:
Now now, a lot of Birmingham is very nice. It would be perfect, if not for the presence of Brummies. It's like France in that respect; lovely scenery, ruined by the presence of the locals.
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There is nothing nice about Brum. The whole thing would be deserving of a bulldozer and some nice turfing over, if that didn’t mean rehoming the Brummies elsewhere in the U.K.

Of all the places I’ve been (and I’ve been to some pretty horrible places), Brum is the worst. Not just how it looks, or the accent or the people (or the mass of immigrants), there’s just an awful atmosphere to the place. The Midlands is pretty aggressive for the U.K. anyway, but there’s such a lack of fun and creativity in Brum that it depresses me every time I’m forced to go there. Duran Duran and Sabbath excepted, of course.
 
SirCliveSinclairdabbing said:
You can almost taste it in the driving as you’re going through the area. Tailgating, cutting in. They need to chill the fuck out.
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I’ve taken people from many other countries to the Midlands, and they’re always shocked by how people look you up and down in the street, how people talk to each other, the absolute lack of respect for anyone and anything. The judgemental and aggressive attitude makes creativity or any kind of chasing your dreams hard. Locals just love to cut anyone down if they can, especially someone from their own town. It’s just a sad, sad area.
 
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