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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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Snekposter said:
Yes, but the British landed how many divisions during D-Day and immediately after compared to the Americans? I've got no problems with the USA taking up the slack yet again for an invasion of France if it rids us of the French menace once and for all.
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Yes, and Napoleon conquered half of Europe, but that doesn't mean we're going to see another Austerlitz anytime soon.

Typical Brits waiting for us to bail you out. Don't you realize that we use France as a penal colony for our most annoying middle class white women to become even more unbearable?.... Okay, maybe you have a point.
 
I watched the debate last night, and the best way I can summarize it is that it's essentially a contest between Mr. Slick and Mrs. Thick.

While Sunak was polished and quick on his feet, Truss was comparatively wooden and doctrinaire. While Sunak's policy proposals were measured, albeit at times opaque, Truss's were more like soundbites, appealing to the prejudices of the party faithful, but ultimately half-baked and unconvincing to anyone with even a modicum of economic literacy.

If this were put to a national vote, Sunak would win handily, although since our next Prime Minister is ultimately going to be decided solely by the membership of a party which increasingly represents the lunatic fringe, I'd say we're most likely going to end up with Truss.
 
Hellbound Hellhound said:
I watched the debate last night, and the best way I can summarize it is that it's essentially a contest between Mr. Slick and Mrs. Thick.

While Sunak was polished and quick on his feet, Truss was comparatively wooden and doctrinaire. While Sunak's policy proposals were measured, albeit at times opaque, Truss's were more like soundbites, appealing to the prejudices of the party faithful, but ultimately half-baked and unconvincing to anyone with even a modicum of economic literacy.

If this were put to a national vote, Sunak would win handily, although since our next Prime Minister is ultimately going to be decided solely by the membership of a party which increasingly represents the lunatic fringe, I'd say we're most likely going to end up with Truss.
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Were we watching the same debate? Rishi came across like a slimy untrustable cunt richer than the queen and Truss came off like a likable human bring.
 
Failed Lurker said:
Did see a story saying Boris had actually changed his mind about resigning and possibly still being on the ballot but it's probably paywalled and on phone so can't see the full details.
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Nut-Nuts doesn't want to leave her swanky lodgings and doesn't want to be "wife of disgraced former prime minister boris johnson". I bet she's threatening to leave him.
 
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Nut-Nuts doesn't want to leave her swanky lodgings and doesn't want to be "wife of disgraced former prime minister boris johnson". I bet she's threatening to leave him.
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Thanks for the archive, had originally seen it on Mahyer Tousi's YT channel and wanted to wait til there was at least another source on it as his video often seem like he's an unofficial PR for part of the Conservatives, think he used to work for Patel at one point.
 
I can only see Boris being in the ballot if he was still leader of the conservatives, not after being forced to quit and than wanting to resign up again.

Also is the ballot FPTP? If so than Boris being on the ballet would do Rishi a huge world of favours since there will be more of a vote split between Boris and Truss.
 
Ly Erg said:
I can only see Boris being in the ballot if he was still leader of the conservatives, not after being forced to quit and than wanting to resign up again.

Also is the ballot FPTP? If so than Boris being on the ballet would do Rishi a huge world of favours since there will be more of a vote split between Boris and Truss.
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I think it's more Boris is admitting he wants to still be prime minister but knows it's not going to happen. A man can dream eh. I don't think he has any real plans.
 
Nobody is enthused by the two candidates who are vying for the office of British Prime Minister.

They arrive in the wake of a succession of weak leaders: The Pigfucker who orchestrated the Brexit referendum then buggered off the day after the result so that he wouldn't have to deal with the fallout; the Maybot who was keen at all times to point out that she had made it "very clear," though what she had made clear was generally unclear. Finally, the dishevelled Womble who found himself half-trapped inside a discarded suit while rifling through the litter on Wimbledon Common, and who hid his malignant psychopathy behind a veil of glib buffoonery.

Truss is what happens when different factions within a party play chicken, and a retard slips through in the midst of all the bickering.

Rishi is the kind of person who calls you out of the blue from a boiler room with some hot stock options that he wants to recommend.

It's a horrible choice, like being asked to select which one of a pair of blunt, rusting implements will be used to saw off your bollocks.

We are teetering on the brink of a global shitstorm. Our supply chains are stretched thin. Come winter, reserves of food and energy are likely to fall short of demand. Our leaders and our institutions have been captured by ideology and rendered, at best, impotent, and, at worst, openly hostile towards the people who they were meant to serve. Britain is further handicapped by its wilful departure from one of the world's largest trading blocks.

If there was a moment for King Arthur to return from Avalon and haul our arses out of the fire, then it is now. Unfortunately, the instant he set foot on English soil he would be cancelled by cunts.

And, my God if Johnson attempted a comeback I think there would have to be soldiers deployed to deal with the public response. Whatever strings his inexpert puppet-masters were using to move him around Westminster, now need to be used to securely bind him, like a fly in a spiderweb, where he can do no more harm.
 


The absolute fucking state of Starmer and Labour. Tories are shitting the bed, gonna elect a pretty unpopular leader no matter what and Labour have started #GetStarmerOut trending again.
 
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The absolute fucking state of Starmer and Labour. Tories are shitting the bed, gonna elect a pretty unpopular leader no matter what and Labour have started #GetStarmerOut trending again.
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I mean, he is pretty much everything Corbynistas hate as a snooty huwite toff. They've memorized the axiom that you get rid of traitors before you go after your enemies.
 
soy_king said:
I mean, he is pretty much everything Corbynistas hate as a snooty huwite toff. They've memorized the axiom that you get rid of traitors before you go after your enemies.
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Agreed, I think this is a good move from them, prepare for the next election now. Because Kier is a massive twat no one likes.
 
Stabmaster Arson said:
Agreed, I think this is a good move from them, prepare for the next election now. Because Kier is a massive twat no one likes.
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They don't have many candidates that could really unite the party at this point. Momentum's purges started with the liberal wing of the party, leaving just the authoritarian left of the Corbynistas, and the blairites, represented by Starmer. The problem now is, the structure of the party means it will keep see-sawing between the banker-owned Blairites and whatever stalinist Momentum props up next. The only consistent position Labour have managed to espouse over the last decade, in between all the lurching back and forth between various authoritarian stances, is support for troonery.
 
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Agreed, I think this is a good move from them, prepare for the next election now. Because Kier is a massive twat no one likes.
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The Blairites won't allow another candidate that differs from them to be voted for leader. They will no doubt try and block any attempt as such for their members to vote in someone that isn't following the code of Blair.
 
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