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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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#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.

 

[the printer is outo fink]

You what time that makes it then? No sharing the footage o'clock.

https://archive.ph/eAYtz

Wonder if the police also demanded that not be done for the shoplifter?

As I said, the videos were gone when I looked as I posted. When I saw it yesterday I didn't archive, as I'd found it upsetting. There's a whole social media trend this morning of asking people to stop sharing it in case it prejudices the case against the attackers, which is funny when the one of the shoplifter is still everywhere. Though as the post-mortem showed no injuries on his body, I doubt anyone will be arrested or charged.

 

[LongDayAgain]

What's the general consensus on kneecap? I tried listening to their new album and it's dreadful

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aCm7t0Ekpk4
This sounds like if horrible histories made a rap song about the troubles

I mean they're popular among lefties but that's about it. I think the average Joe recognise them as the champagne socialists they are.
Their name is based off of kneecapping, which was an IRA punishment for supposed rats and criminals in IRA-controlled territories during the Troubles in the North. It's glorifying blowing someone's knee apart with a shotgun or pistol.

The IRA are rightfully considered scumbag terrorists by most Irish people.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Single yellow line means limited short-term parking or unloading only. Double yellow means no parking.

Which in the civilized world is a sign with either / or X on it, primarily in areas where you'd imagine you could park or unload, not bloody downtown fokn' London. I swear the curb lines are there every time I look on this bloke's stream.

Pelicans are controlled, so the lights make it obvious where they are.

I mean, you'd stop for red but I'd sure as shit notice that sooner than a crossing of people in front of me. Add in the bike-area between where the car stops and the pelican crossing, that's a few tens of feet with barely any markings on the ground other than the pelican lines, which is ironic given prior comment that you paint the roads way too much.

We also have variants called Toucan, Puffin, Pegasus, and the brand new Pedex, which replaces the flashing man with a countdown.

I watched a video by that one new Tom Scott wannabe about the crossings but I don't remember it being -that- complex.

Either way: A lot of us yuros are scared of driving over there, but being in the wrong side isn't half the issue; it's understanding why you're going cross-eyed looking onto the 'tarmac'. Smh.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I am fucking dying from this heat. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

 

[Monopolywheel]

What's the general consensus on kneecap? I tried listening to their new album and it's dreadful

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aCm7t0Ekpk4
This sounds like if horrible histories made a rap song about the troubles

Untalented Irish scum

 

[DreinMeinVein]

I've had neg rates before for saying that Sikhs aren't the UK's worst baddies. And that's okay. They're not my buddies. I don't expect anyone to kneel before them. The following example is the bare minimum of integration.

Here's something posted by John Cleese:




Even the turbans will call out other browns' violence against the British. Good for them.


For context, some lefty Whites will beg forgiveness from ancient slaves for something that happened hundreds of years ago, even though slavery isn't the sin of any living Englishman.

My point here is not to suck sweaty Sikh dick...

Why won't moderate Muslims ever distance themselves from all the shit they cause? Where are all the voices saying how awful it is to support violent islamism?
Or do most quietly support the destruction of the West? I think I know the answer.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I've had neg rates before for saying that Sikhs aren't the UK's worst baddies. And that's okay. They're not my buddies. I don't expect anyone to kneel before them. The following example is the bare minimum of integration.

Here's something posted by John Cleese:

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Even the turbans will call out other browns' violence against the British. Good for them.


For context, some lefty Whites will beg forgiveness from ancient slaves for something that happened hundreds of years ago, even though slavery isn't the sin of any living Englishman.

My point here is not to suck sweaty Sikh dick...

Why won't moderate Muslims ever distance themselves from all the shit they cause? Where are all the voices saying how awful it is to support violent islamism?
Or do most quietly support the destruction of the West? I think I know the answer.

Might want to read the room before you suck Sikh cock. You know the room full of blood when an innocent man got stabbed by a sikh who was then supported by the police in having him bleed out because he might have said a naughty word.

They all have to go. Every single one.

 

[BongoMongo]

Got home from work and slept a bit. Got upto find his nibs horribly sunburnt on his back because he was out doing something with creosote on midday sun. Every. Fucking. Year we go through this.

His head looks like a Belisha beacon.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Why won't moderate Muslims ever distance themselves from all the shit they cause? Where are all the voices saying how awful it is to support violent islamism?
Or do most quietly support the destruction of the West? I think I know the answer.

Of course we know the answer. They're not here to integrate; they're here to conquer. It's how they've always spread everywhere they went, first by trade, then by settlement, and then by the sword. They are the colonisers we're always accused of being.

His head looks like a Belisha beacon.

This is why men used to wear hats all the time.

Stand him next to a zebra crossing until it's faded out.

 

[James X Maxwell]

What's the general consensus on kneecap? I tried listening to their new album and it's dreadful

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aCm7t0Ekpk4
This sounds like if horrible histories made a rap song about the troubles

Pretty sure one of them sexually assaulted a woman in Ireland and managed to get it covered up

 

[femboy fart huffer]

This sounds like if horrible histories made a rap song about the troubles

We already have enough songs about the troubles to the point that you cannot make a better one. You're not going to make a more poignant song about the troubles than the people who fucking fought in it. And you're never going to one up The Rubberbandits' songs either.

I am fucking dying from this heat. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

People say dogs are like their owners. I have to agree. Both me and her are made to sit in a nice cold wet bog and all that shit. I am not designed to deal with temperatures over 10c. I should be in the highlands or some peat bog surrounded by heather honing my psychic abilities or whatever.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

People say dogs are like their owners. I have to agree. Both me and her are made to sit in a nice cold wet bog and all that shit. I am not designed to deal with temperatures over 10c. I should be in the highlands or some peat bog surrounded by heather honing my psychic abilities or whatever.

I can't even eat. It's too hot! Too fucking hot! I'm eating oranges from the fridge instead of cooking dinner. It's inhuman!