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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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God that's how many heads of government in a row now? This is going to lead to some serious crisis if this keeps happening lmfao
 
Weeb_Killer said:
For TLDR, he lied, lied about lying, pretended to be a conservative while parroting mainstream woke talking points, has been weak on immigration, weak on the institutional corrosion of our traditions, and has fallen in lock step to every WEF initiative going.
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Okay, so why would Tory leadership have a problem with him?
 
BibiLivesMatter said:
Can someone provid a tldr for non bongs on why Boris is getting Caesar right now? I know about them trying to vote him out for partying during covid lockdown, but what else is causing this huge exodus of people from his party?
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Boris was only ever a single serving PM. Someone needed to get into the big seat, eat the dog shit that is Brexit, then leave. It was always going to be a massive ball ache, and they needed someone to sacrifice a role in order to clear the plate, so to speak.

This is just him getting put down. You can expect him in the next decade or so to roll up to some very comfy, high paying job which requires him to visit Russian sex yachts and stay in only the most exquisite hotels around the world, for his massive speaking fees.
 
Clem Fandango said:
I just hate the names of these fuckwit groups. I didn't think it could get any dumber than "Insulate Britain" (...seriously?), But fuck me, Just Stop Oil?? As if it were genuinely that simple. Sounds like something a petulant primary school child would say.
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These people can only hold a thought of 280 characters a time. It's not surprising their slogans are infantile.
 
Boris seems absolutely determined to keep his post even if he has to be dragged out kicking and screaming, he got tore apart by nearly every MP in PMQs and the liaison commitee (which is really saying something cause they normally aren't this pushy or aggresive) and he still just isn't having any of it.

I feel like this scene from Courage the Cowardly Dog is an apt metaphor for this shit show right now.
 
KokoroKoroki said:
Boris seems absolutely determined to keep his post even if he has to be dragged out kicking and screaming, he got tore apart by nearly every MP in PMQs and the liaison commitee (which is really saying something cause they normally aren't this pushy or aggresive) and he still just isn't having any of it.
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I guess he's daring them to trigger a vote of no confidence. The tories can't risk the possibility of an election right now.
 
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