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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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teriyakiburns said:
Starmer is forced into yet another humiliating u-turn.
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Has he actually done anything? Like other than the shit that no one likes has he done literally anything of note? I can't think of anything positive, it's just tyranny, rape and retardation. Admittedly, I cannot think of anything positive that any of the people before him did but I wasn't exactly paying attention.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Welshy's ghost is lurking again. "We have to be professional and we need experience" wasn't his opinion. It's the party line for why every single new hire is a paki. There's 8 pakis and 1 black announced today. And the response is sparmy shit like this. White people just can't be as professional as this literally brown ghoul. This comes from a black conservative they dropped into the seat after the last popular conservative (white man) retired. So it's Reform and Conservatives parroting the same narrative on why you need more brown people.


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What the fuck is wrong with those people?
 
Kofi Drinka said:
There's 8 pakis and 1 black announced today.
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Even for the Isle of Wight. I didn't know they even had PoC there, but somehow Nige found a Mujeet to run.
Some of the candidates might be good for their constituency but it screams of either Reform caring more about avoiding racism smears or an entire tribe of immigrants voting en masse for their co-ethnic in the selection process.

I don't get those vibes from that Black woman, but hope it is just a terrible photo.
 
I don't get Reform what so ever. It almost seems like this is an intentional sabotage. How fucking dumb do you need to be to see the rise of a nationalist identity and getting support from it and decide you need more browns. Who thinks DEI hires have experience you need?
 
Kofi Drinka said:
I don't get Reform what so ever. It almost seems like this is an intentional sabotage. How fucking dumb do you need to be to see the rise of a nationalist identity and getting support from it and decide you need more browns. Who thinks DEI hires have experience you need?
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They probably hired a bunch of focus group consultancy types, and as a result they got told civ nat kikery propaganda. So they drilled down on it.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
I don't get Reform what so ever. It almost seems like this is an intentional sabotage. How fucking dumb do you need to be to see the rise of a nationalist identity and getting support from it and decide you need more browns. Who thinks DEI hires have experience you need?
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Not escaping the "controlled opposition" allegations at this point.
 
diroama said:
The shit chagos islands deal appears to be off

BBC News - Chagos Islands: UK shelves Diego Garcia deal after Trump opposition - BBC News

This is great news for once.
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Agreed, good news. But it's the right answer with the wrong working. It's not like Starmer understands or even agrees with this, he's fluked the right outcome via a third party. In other words, Piggy Four Eyes has learnt nothing, he's just copied a bigger kid's answer, he's still the dunce of the class.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
The only exception was that disgustingly neon yellow medication that tasted so heavily of chemicals that it overpowered the banana flavour it was meant to taste of.
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Antibiotics. You had a choice of pink or yellow. Nowadays they make kids take it unflavoured and it’s utterly vile.
teriyakiburns said:
I guess the Chagossians winning their court case put the kibosh on it at last
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Good.
 
Otterly said:
You had a choice of pink or yellow. Nowadays they make kids take it unflavoured and it’s utterly vile.
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I remember taking the yellow fake banana flavoured antibiotics when I got gastritis as a kid. I remember it being chalky as well, probably because it had actual chalk added to it since it was a stomach medicine.
 
Fucking middle easterners almost burnt down my flat tonight, left the oven on and walked off. Were completely unfazed when neighbours told them both they'd left the oven or stove on. Not even a sorry or any spark of recognition they'd done something wrong. Firemen came out with axes as they just wandered back inside like retarded cattle. NPC behaviour.... any kiwis got a good firesafe they'd recommend? I was looking online a while ago but all the websites/manufacturers are yank
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Not escaping the "controlled opposition" allegations at this point.
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I was certain Farage was controlled opposition when he came back to lead a new party despite his cameo shenanigans. He said wagwarn for battyman for a fiver. Absolute charlatan

Rumours are of hauliers and farmers in the UK going on fuel strike Tuesday 14th. The aim will be to force the government to cut fuel tax for the duration, and to presumably start opening up the North Sea.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
I don't get Reform what so ever. It almost seems like this is an intentional sabotage. How fucking dumb do you need to be to see the rise of a nationalist identity and getting support from it and decide you need more browns. Who thinks DEI hires have experience you need?
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Farage like most boomers is utterly obsessed with not looking racist and will self sabotage his entire political party in order to do so. No doubt in private he's also making comments like "Labour are run by a straight white man, they're the real racists!"

TheVoodooThatJewDo said:
Anyone post about Connor McGregor threatening to take over Ireland yet?
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That paddy won't do shit, they're all bluster
 
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In Cork, Ireland the police are currently dragging blockading farmers out of their tractors, so the army can move their vehicles off the road. Support for the protests started increasing as soon as the army was threatened, so it will be interesting to see what happens in the coming days now that the guards are getting physical.
 
SIMIΔN said:
Some of the candidates might be good for their constituency but it screams of either Reform caring more about avoiding racism smears or an entire tribe of immigrants voting en masse for their co-ethnic in the selection process.
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That might be the motivation for some of them, but I've noticed even brown people get brown fatigue. Especially among 1st/2nd gens who have never seen their shithole of origin. This is a similar phenomenon to how the minority of actually functional American blacks with careers always move to white neighborhoods to get away from niggers. It goes something like this:

1. White country opens borders to brown people.
2. Brown people move en masse for the gibs in a safe, affluent white country.
3. Brown people cry about muhh racism to get more gibs.
4. Decades pass, eventually there's so many browns, country is no longer so white, safe, or affluent.
5. This upsets the OG browns.

Its hilarious to me how so many of them inevitably end up as Uncle Ruckus, thinking to themselves "man, this used to be such a nice white neighborhood/country until it got filled with them new niggas over there."
 
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