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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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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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The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary

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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.

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.

 

[MadDamon]

This is giving me Dylan Hafertepen flashbacks. How is body modification equal to tattoos?

If an air conditioner can be sexist, then I think every two thing are possible to put an equal sign in between.

 

[Remove Goat]

smh he's not bald, clean shaven, or scarred

 

[break these cuffs]

Genuine question, would it be legal for a cosmetic surgeon to perform these types of surgeries in Britcuckistan?

Body Art, whose full name is King of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite but who was born Matthew Whelan

This article is full of lolcows.

 

[RG 448]

Calls himself Dr. Evil but acts more like Michael Meyers.

 

[User names must be unique]

Genuine question, would it be legal for a cosmetic surgeon to perform these types of surgeries in Britcuckistan?

Yeah I think so though a lot more money and paper work involved, Would this shit be legal in a US tattoo parlor? I would have thought performing medical procedures without a license would be just as verbotten in cuckistan as it is in clapistan.

Curious to why the dude was charged with GBH and not performing surgery/medicine without a license.

 

[Haramburger]

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Well this is an unexpected direction for the Clerks sequel..

the dissonance between the facial tats and the sweater vest is legendary

 

[BeanBidan]

Calls himself Dr. Evil but acts more like Michael Meyers.

More like Oscar Mayer weenie.

 

[break these cuffs]

Yeah I think so though a lot more money and paper work involved, Would this shit be legal in a US tattoo parlor? I would have thought performing medical procedures without a license would be just as verbotten in cuckistan as it is in clapistan.

I know virtually nothing about body mods besides Pauly Unstoppable and the nature of state law vs federal makes the US unique in a lot of ways compared to many countries. After a quick jewgle search I don't really have a clear answer. It seems like a very grey area as long as there is consent. There is a lot of talk about how different states have different laws, that there are licenses for piercing and tattooing, but not for "body modification procedures", and plastic surgeons trying to distance themselves and paint body mods as different from cosmetic surgery. It looks like there aren't laws against tattoo artists performing body mod procedures in many if not most states. As long as someone is consenting and not suffering adverse effects, the law seems like it hasn't caught up to regulating it.

 

[CWCissey]

Curious to why the dude was charged with GBH and not performing surgery/medicine without a license.

My guess is because these procedures are seen as not medically beneficial, rather it is just causing life changing injuries.

 

[The Manglement]

England: Where performing consensual, if extreme, body modification on an adult is a crime, but ironing the tits off a screaming 9 year old girl with hot rocks to appease your moon god is cultural expression.

 

[Fareal]

England: Where performing consensual, if extreme, body modification on an adult is a crime, but ironing the tits off a screaming 9 year old girl with hot rocks to appease your moon god is cultural expression.

Calm down. Breast ironing a kid, just like FGM, is super fucking illegal in England (see Children and Young Persons Act 1933). The "communities" of witchcraft-practising tongue-clicking retards who practise it cover up for each other and that's why they don't get prosecuted. Whitey cannot take knuckle dragger to whitey court if whitey does not know what knuckle dragger is up to.

"This happens in secret and is therefore very difficult to prosecute" is not the same as "This is totally allowed and everyone thinks it's great".

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

So... it's consensual? Between adults? Who fucking cares.

How can anyone give body mod weirdos shit while also saying "You should let your 3 year old decide to cut his penis off".

 

[Y2K Baby]

A whole other kind of Suicide Squad.

 

[Ahriman]

Source.

No More Skull Badges For the SAS Say the Politically Correct Col. Blimps

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AS soldiers assigned to Task Force Black, part of a Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force that has been operating in Iraq since the fall of Saddam’s regime in 2003.

U.K. Special Air Service forces have been ordered to ditch the punisher skull badges on their uniforms as the emblem “looks like a SS death head”. The soldiers adopted the “Punisher” emblem after serving alongside US Navy Seals in Iraq. The badge is a symbol of camaraderie with U.S. Special Forces. The UK Special Forces earn the badge after their first combat “kill”, Express.co.uk reported.

Some SAS troops, furious at the order, did not take the politically correct order lightly.

The SAS are professional killers – that’s the job. So what if they wear a skull on their uniform.

“Not everyone wore one but it was very popular among members of G Squadron.

“We have been told that it could be upsetting to other units, disrespectful to enemy forces and could encourage war crimes by some of the foreign troops the SAS works with, such as Afghans and Iraqis,” a military source cited by the Daily Star said.

Emblems for the Battlefield Website SAS punisher Badge

The badge is a takeoff of the comic book ex Marine character from Marvel Publishers who becomes a renegade vigilante after his family was killed. .

“To me, it’s disturbring whenever I see authority figures embracing Punisher iconography because the Punisher represents a failure of the Justice system. He’s supposed to indict the collapse of social moral authority and the reality some people can’t depend on institutions like the police or the military to act in a just and capable way,” the creator of the Punisher Jerry Conway said in a comic book.com interview

Conway went on to explain that this co-opting of the symbol, the police and military are fundamentally misunderstanding the character, what he stands for, and are aligning themselves with a criminal.

“The vigilante anti-hero is fundamentally a critique of the justice system, an example of social failure, so when cops put Punisher skulls on their cars or members of the military wear Punisher skull patches, they’re basically sides with an enemy of the system,” he said. “They are embracing an outlaw mentality. Whether you think the Punisher is justified or not, whether you admire his code of ethics, he is an outlaw. He is a criminal. Police should not be embracing a criminal as their symbol.

The Special Air Service (SAS) is the British Army’s most renowned special forces unit. From the moment several black-clad figures appeared on the balconies of the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980, the Special Air Service became ‘celebrities’ both at home and oversees. Their motto, ‘Who Dares Wins’, has become part of British popular culture, the Elite UK forces site reports.

And so, it begins. The complete pussification of the UK armed forces.

 

[not william stenchever]

Starcraft II even uses a knockoff of the Punisher skull as a faction emblem in it's Nova campaign (the one where all your units are specops as fuck). This is absolutely shameful.

I regret that we live in a timeline where Mosley and fascism would have been the preferable alternative.

 

[pwnest injun]

After the last season of the Netflix show, I'd want to distance myself from The Punisher..

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

I, for one, don't see what's bad about removing the symbol of a PTSD-driven lunatic who carries out extrajudicial executions on everyone from jaywalkers up from the armed forces. You still want to say you're a badass, use a normal skull.

 

[BoingBoingBoi]

And so, it begins. The complete pussification of the UK armed forces.

i like how you think this is just the beginning.

 

[not william stenchever]

You still want to say you're a badass, use a normal skull.

What is a normal skull after this one has been prohibited? Are we supposed to fall back on phrenetics (sp?) to determine what skull measurements are acceptable?

 

[Kamov Ka-52]

As long as they can still have a kebab remover patch, I don't see a problem here.

I wish I knew what happened to mine.