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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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Hyrip123876 said:
I'm honestly fascinated how the UK apparently prides itself on tradition and legacy, yet the clear anachronisms from cherry-picking the parts of legal doctrine that look appealing leads to insane outcomes.
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That was back when they were a proud nation, and not a nation of self-hating cucks.
 
East_Clintwood said:
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Covid: Brighton Pride 2021 cancelled for second year over virus 'uncertainty'

Organisers reverse a decision to hold August's 30th anniversary event, headlined by Mariah Carey.
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Faggots on suicide watch (even moreso than usual) as Brighton's Pride parade cancelled for this year as well. Really hoping Manchester and London follow suit for maximum REEEEing
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See the issue I anticipate happening is that if they don't all cancel everyone who would have been attending the cancelled ones will flock to the parades that do go ahead. Then they'll get fined and Pinknews will try to blame it on homophobia resulting in an inevitable article that's defecated into A&N around (I don't know when the parades happen) a week or two after they're done.
 
I'm honestly more surprised the perpetrator wasn't found a few feet away from the swan, disemboweled or something.

Swans are like dire geese.
 
teriyakiburns said:
That said, one of the reasons the officials and the provos split was because the IRA leadership were pushing to join NLF. Each subsequent split in the IRA can trace back to a marxist take-over attempt. Sinn Fein were thoroughly assimilated to the Liberationist cause, which caused no end of tension with the militant wing in the late 80s and the 90s, and spout nothing but marxist bollocks these days.
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I'm too young to really remember the IRA but what you and soy_king have just said is completely new to me. So the IRA were very Left Wing, is that right? I didn't really know they had a political position beyond English get out. It's fascinating to me that even a movement like the IRA had trouble with Marxists sneaking into leadership and spokesperson positions.
 
If you go to prison for saying "faggot," you need to stop bragging about your bill of rights.
 
Overly Serious said:
I'm too young to really remember the IRA but what you and soy_king have just said is completely new to me. So the IRA were very Left Wing, is that right? I didn't really know they had a political position beyond English get out. It's fascinating to me that even a movement like the IRA had trouble with Marxists sneaking into leadership and spokesperson positions.
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The IRA were broadly left-wing, but it wasn't a direct correspondence to policies. All the IRA incarnations since the Irish civil war have been left-wing in some manner, ranging from nationalists like the Old IRA (who became the legitimate armed forces of Ireland) to marxist identitarians like modern sinn féin. Ironically, the more marxist Official IRA was the less militant against the UK in the 60s. The split with the provos came because the officials wanted to concentrate on international liberation struggles and political activism, while the provos wanted to violently liberate the north from British rule.
 
teriyakiburns said:
The IRA were broadly left-wing, but it wasn't a direct correspondence to policies. All the IRA incarnations since the Irish civil war have been left-wing in some manner, ranging from nationalists like the Old IRA (who became the legitimate armed forces of Ireland) to marxist identitarians like modern sinn féin. Ironically, the more marxist Official IRA was the less militant against the UK in the 60s. The split with the provos came because the officials wanted to concentrate on international liberation struggles and political activism, while the provos wanted to violently liberate the north from British rule.
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Huh. The things you learn. Next time I have a conversation with some pro-IRA American it's going to be interesting. Thanks for the reply.
 
Overly Serious said:
Huh. The things you learn. Next time I have a conversation with some pro-IRA American it's going to be interesting. Thanks for the reply.
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Don't bother, they'll either agree and say it's a good thing, or they'll reject it as British propaganda against the noble freedom fighters.

American interference in Ireland prolonged the troubles for decades, as far as I'm concerned. Without "Irish"-American money heating everything up, the north would have retained its parliament in the 70s and might well have even gained some sort of independence by now.
 
teriyakiburns said:
Don't bother, they'll either agree and say it's a good thing, or they'll reject it as British propaganda against the noble freedom fighters.

American interference in Ireland prolonged the troubles for decades, as far as I'm concerned. Without "Irish"-American money heating everything up, the north would have retained its parliament in the 70s and might well have even gained some sort of independence by now.
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Eyy every great revolution needs a patron.
 
Overly Serious said:
Huh. The things you learn. Next time I have a conversation with some pro-IRA American it's going to be interesting. Thanks for the reply.
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Bear in mind left wing does not equal the American communist woke wing.

Sinn Fein in any normal society would be the wacky lefty party despite being fairly conservative socially at one point. However, because they are the party for Irish reunification they're generally a lot lower key about it today.

They do have things like trans rights in their agenda, but they don't usually make it a platform or talk about it often outside of specific media addresses because their main voting block of Irish Nationalists are more often fairly centre or right.

It does lead to some interesting internal conflicts; with the alphabet rainbow hair crowd getting upset that they're being hushed to the back because there is far less tolerance for wokeism there than in other English speaking countries.
 
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