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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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Free the Pedos said:
I wouldn't go around calling people multicultural wastelands when you're famous for your Muslim rape gangs that focus on disadvantaged white girls.
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Let's face it, we're all fucked. This is just "Your mom's fatter than mine" playground arguing.
 
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I'm guessing RAF airshows are gonna be a thing of the past, don't fancy having a nigger or a woman flying above my head.

Probably all the sub IQ diversity hires will go to the RAF regiment who's only job is to guard airbases, still a sad sad state of affairs though.
 
Cloaca Rimjob said:
Probably all the sub IQ diversity hires will go to the RAF regiment who's only job is to guard airbases, still a sad sad state of affairs though.
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Ah the Rock Apes. Legends in their own lifetime. Glorified security guards with rifles. Anyone with any sense and ability volunteers for the SAS or 29 Commando Regiment. The rest, as you intimate are low level squaddies.
 
Sunak and Truss ventured up to Northern Bongland, where the Jocks have not voted for a tory government for nigh on 70 years. More protestors than attendees at the hustings.
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The RAF tends to be the armed forces of choice for posh boys, of course they're susceptable to wokery.

The Army's ads may have an ambiguously brown girl while stating 'This is the future' in their ads but at least it has a cool robot and a greater point. But it does say a lot when the Navy are the least woke branch (Don't care where you're from, get on a tub, sail the world, meet interesting people then kill them)
 
frap said:
Amerimutts wank on about being the land of the free and have all the guns they could want, yet they still failed to topple the government last year.
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And yet despite that little weaponless unguided tour having zero intent of any overthrow every single Congressman was caught on camera cowering on the floor. Deep down, our Congressmen fear us, even if they don't want to admit it. Who in Parliament fears the people?
Johan Schmidt said:
Why haven't you mailed bombs to your government? Or shot your politicians. We lack guns and we still ditched half the PM's we have had in the last decade, a member of a literal right wing death squad executed an MP on national television with a handgun.

The UK lacks the means, the amerimutt lacks the will. They just clutch their guns, mutter about 'muh 2A' and then the IRS comes and shoots their dog.
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See above.
 
Moosebonker said:
Sunak and Truss ventured up to Northern Bongland, where the Jocks have not voted for a tory government for nigh on 70 years. More protestors than attendees at the hustings.
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Interesting to note the Socialist Workers’ Party - or middle class rent-a-gobs were out in force.


teriyakiburns said:
Evacuate Faslane and wall off the entire country. I'll make my own whisky in the bath.
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Unfortunately, the only way we would be able to get rid of the inbred, grasping, ginger Picts was if England were to have a vote in the independence referendum.
 
Snekposter said:
Who in Parliament fears the people?
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In 2004, five pro-hunting protestors walked into the commons chamber and so scared the sitting members that they ended the sitting and fucked off home for the rest of the day. They keep a lot of police around these days, even though both chambers are nominally open to the public, so I'd say just about everyone in Westminster is afraid of the people.
 
whothefuck said:
i thought that said "Lis Truss is a tranny" for a second lol.
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That would be too funny. Tranny Fanny
RealMuthaForYa said:
Unfortunately, the only way we would be able to get rid of the inbred, grasping, ginger Picts was if England were to have a vote in the independence referendum.
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I always hear this and yet polling on the subject in England is either at the minimum indifference or at max keeping the union.
 

According to Truss we're lazy and should be putting more "graft" in like the Chinese who work themselves to death, have non-existent workplace rights and are currently in the midst of a demographic and economic crisis of their own.

Tell that to the nurses and doctors who are on their feet for 12-14 hours a day you smug Toff.
 
Roast Chicken said:
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According to Truss we're lazy and should be putting more "graft" in like the Chinese who work themselves to death, have non-existent workplace rights and are currently in the midst of a demographic and economic crisis of their own.

Tell that to the nurses and doctors who are on their feet for 12-14 hours a day you smug Toff.
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Both choices are shit! The alternative is associated with street shitters.
 
Roast Chicken said:
Tell that to the nurses and doctors who are on their feet for 12-14 hours a day you smug Toff.
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GPs have had a very good Covid crisis and a lot of them now can scrape by working part time and still taking in 100k+.
NHS junior doctors now work less hours than in the past. 14 hour shifts are common, it’s usually something like 2*14 and 2*8 hours. Never get sick on the weekend. And those hilarious NHS Tiktoc videos didn’t make themselves you know.
In one respect Truss is right: productivity in the UK is bad, but it’s hard to measure. Book a holiday in a travel agent and that’s productivity, book online in your lunch hour and it’s not.
Pay for your groceries at a till with an assistant: productivity; scan the shopping yourself and it’s not.
She’s picking on the wrong targets though. The agricultural sector should have invested its “rewilding” money in mechanisation instead of relying on cheap European migrants.
Truss is hardly a toff.
 
Ly Erg said:
That would be too funny. Tranny Fanny

I always hear this and yet polling on the subject in England is either at the minimum indifference or at max keeping the union.
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Unironically, if Scotland left the union, the UK is just kinda fucked. There isn't really a UK anymore, Wales is just Little England extended; NI is this weird little tumour. The UK, is really just England and Scotland. Neither side would be benefited by the breaking of the union and it's weird how apathetic or outright hostile everyone is over it.
 
Johan Schmidt said:
Unironically, if Scotland left the union, the UK is just kinda fucked. There isn't really a UK anymore, Wales is just Little England extended; NI is this weird little tumour. The UK, is really just England and Scotland. Neither side would be benefited by the breaking of the union and it's weird how apathetic or outright hostile everyone is over it.
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Jokes aside, Scotland isn't likely to leave and I don't think anyone really wants her to. Scots certainly don't. I'm not sure they want to change anything. They've been consistent in voting to maintain the status quo in just about every recent vote and referendum they've had over the last twenty or so years.
 
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