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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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Stabmaster Arson said:
His best bit was hosting HIGNFY and coming out relatively unscathed. A minor miracle for most politicians.
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The knowledge that Boris’s journey to PM all started with Hislop of all people makes me laugh to no end.

There is undoubtedly a part of Hislop that finds this situation very comical because of that.
 
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CWCissey said:
Rugby tackling a child.

On two separate occasions.
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i remember this one, but what was the second?



Coccxys said:
I still love the time he brought tea for all the journos waiting outside his house.
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I love the fact he has the quintessential British hodepodge of random mugs, including the obligatory Cadbury's one from an easter egg that somehow never got thrown out.

As for favorite moments I'd like to throw out that time he absolutely nutted Gaudino in the balls during a friendly.
 
6MillionCoofs said:
The knowledge that Boris’s journey to PM all started with Hislop of all people makes me laugh to no end.

There is undoubtedly a part of Hislop that finds this situation very comical because of that.
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Oh yeah - I remember them on the show, talking about whether he'd ever return to host. Hislop, slightly laughing said - "Not now that his plan worked".
 
So the evil sexist, racist and fascist Tory party will now either have all the female PM's in British history OR the first non white immigrant PM in history.

While i have no doubt both will be shit at the job I will take some joy in the seething the left will bring.
 
East_Clintwood said:
i remember this one, but what was the second?
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I love the fact he has the quintessential British hodepodge of random mugs, including the obligatory Cadbury's one from an easter egg that somehow never got thrown out.

As for favorite moments I'd like to throw out that time he absolutely nutted Gaudino in the balls during a friendly.
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Neither of those was not deliberate. And both were hilarious watching.
Fish Fudge said:
Oh yeah - I remember them on the show, talking about whether he'd ever return to host. Hislop, slightly laughing said - "Not now that his plan worked".
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Slightly pained laughter I felt.

I should resume my hunt for episodes of that show, they're irksomely lacking in the usual spots.
 
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