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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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frap said:
He's so teeny!
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5 foot 6 inches. An inch taller than Churchill. Rama there is 6 foot 7 inches.

Apparently this is a topic of sufficient interest that the Independent did an article on it. So no functional human cares.

www.independent.co.uk

Why are people so obsessed with Rishi Sunak’s height?

New PM’s relatively short stature a subject of intense fascination online
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Rishi Sunak is the first British Asian to take up residence at 10 Downing Street, the country’s first Hindu leader, its youngest since 1812 and one of its wealthiest ever statesmen.

At 170cm (or 5 foot 7 inches), he is also one of the UK’s shortest premiers on record, a matter of increasing obsession online, with Google searches into the matter spiking over the course of the week.


For the record, this is how our new PM compares with his predecessors:

  • Liz Truss (2022-22) – 5 foot 5¼ inches
  • Boris Johnson (2019-22) – 5 foot 9 inches
  • Theresa May (2016-19) – 5 foot 6 inches
  • David Cameron (2010-16) – 6 foot ½ inch
  • Gordon Brown (2007-10) – 5 foot 11 inches
  • Tony Blair (1997-2007) – 6 foot
  • John Major (1990-97) – 5 foot 11 inches
  • Margaret Thatcher (1979-90) – 5 foot 5 inches
  • James Callaghan (1976-79) – 6 foot 1 inch
  • Harold Wilson (1964-70) – 5 foot 8 inches
  • Alec Douglas-Home (1963-64) – 6 foot 1inch
  • Harold Macmillan (1957-63) – 6 foot
  • Winston Churchill (1940-45, then 1951-55) – 5 foot 6 inches
Mr Sunak’s stature has attracted attention before, notably when, as chancellor in March 2021, he rather artfully positioned himself at the top of the stairs of No 11 brandishing that famous red box in time for the Budget, forcing his fellow Treasury ministers to line the steps below him, looking far smaller than their boss.

The issue returned to the spotlight when Mr Sunak met King Charles III at Buckingham Palace and the men were photographed together shaking hands and appeared to be the same height, despite His Majesty supposedly towering 8cm above his latest PM, adding a further layer of mystery to the ever-more-baffling Wonderland world of Westminster.

Mr Sunak’s height makes him 5cm shorter than the height of the average adult man in Britain, according to the Office for National Statistics, which appears to be of greater concern when it comes to politicians than for the rest of us mere mortals.

But France, for one, has remained consistently unflustered about the prospect of short statesmen, from Napoleon Bonaparte to Emmanuel Macron by way of Nicolas Sarkozy and both Russia and Ukraine are currently led by men of 5ft 7in.

And no one looks down on Spider-Man star Tom Holland over his relationship with the much-taller Zendaya other than Zendaya herself, who can hardly help it.


Perhaps the real “issue” with Rishi Sunak’s height, as suggested by GQ’s Imogen West-Knights, is that he has failed to “own” it, preferring trick photography and boxes discreetly concealed behind lecterns to mask the truth.

“Sunak has betrayed short men,” Ms West-Knights writes, adamantly.

“The reason Rishi has killed the era of the short king isn’t because he’s short and awful – although he is both. It’s because he has refused to own it.


“Short men should be outraged at Sunak, who has spent his whole time in the political limelight trying desperately to distance himself from their ranks.”
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frap said:
He's so teeny!
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Everyone keeps harping on him being a pajeet, but his family lived in Africa for ages, which makes him a curry in name only. The far bigger issue (so to speak) is that we're governed by a manlet. The opposition is also led by a manlet (Keir is 5'8 ). All of our prospective rulers are manlets. We used to be governed by big, burly men who could tank a whole keg and still stand up straight. Now it's manlets as far as the eye can see.
 
I think it's pretty cool I can slap all of their heads like I'm on a tv quiz show with the big buttons.
I wanna do it!
 
teriyakiburns said:
Everyone keeps harping on him being a pajeet, but his family lived in Africa for ages, which makes him a curry in name only. The far bigger issue (so to speak) is that we're governed by a manlet. The opposition is also led by a manlet (Keir is 5'8 ). All of our prospective rulers are manlets. We used to be governed by big, burly men who could tank a whole keg and still stand up straight. Now it's manlets as far as the eye can see.
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Churchill was 5'5" tall and about that wide, so more like governed by a whole keg.
 
Coolio55 said:
I remember when this started I thought some neds had stolen a car and were having the ned equivalent of a chimpout.
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I remember getting irrationally angry at the whole thing. Locked in our homes except for a small number of permitted activities, while our betters flaunted their freedom to come and o (and come) as they pleased, and then we were supposed to clap like fucking seals on command? Even with the revelations of entire hospital wards being all but closed down because of a lack of demand? It felt like the perfect way to show whose spirit had been broken by the ordeal. Far too many, as it turned out.
 
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I remember getting irrationally angry at the whole thing. Locked in our homes except for a small number of permitted activities, while our betters flaunted their freedom to come and o (and come) as they pleased, and then we were supposed to clap like fucking seals on command? Even with the revelations of entire hospital wards being all but closed down because of a lack of demand? It felt like the perfect way to show whose spirit had been broken by the ordeal. Far too many, as it turned out.
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Morethanabitfoolish said:
And yet they plan to keep the strikes going.
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Listen, we don't have time to see you but we do have time to put up all these bitchy posters everywhere.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
5 foot 6 inches. An inch taller than Churchill. Rama there is 6 foot 7 inches.

Apparently this is a topic of sufficient interest that the Independent did an article on it. So no functional human cares.
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Waaaiiiit, that isn't a photoshop? WHAT? No way. I got to check this...

Oh my sides, this is ace. My new favourite photo - how did I miss this! :D
teriyakiburns said:
We used to be governed by big, burly men who could tank a whole keg and still stand up straight
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I miss Thatcher, too.
 
Overly Serious said:
Waaaiiiit, that isn't a photoshop? WHAT? No way. I got to check this...

Oh my sides, this is ace. My new favourite photo - how did I miss this! :biggrin:
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It's the Mail. In almost every article they do they manage capture shots of people at their absolute most hysterical. Most of us scroll past them since we're after the article but that one stood out enough that it had to be shared.
Overly Serious said:
I miss Thatcher, too.
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5 foot 5. Same height as Churchill and an inch shorter than Rishi.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
5 foot 5. Same height as Churchill and an inch shorter than Rishi.
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Bigger balls, though.

There was a skit in the original Spitting Image series where she came into the urinals and stood between Hesseltine and, maybe Gummer, I don't recall. It's all shot with them facing the camera, above the urinals. At the end of the skit, one of the cabinet ministers leans over to the other and whispers, "I never seem to be able to go when she's standing next to me."
 
Overly Serious said:
Bigger balls, though.

There was a skit in the original Spitting Image series where she came into the urinals and stood between Hesseltine and, maybe Gummer, I don't recall. It's all shot with them facing the camera, above the urinals. At the end of the skit, one of the cabinet ministers leans over to the other and whispers, "I never seem to be able to go when she's standing next to me."
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Can't find the clip alas but know the one you mean.
Shame the new series has wrapped up, I suspect they could have had some fun with Rishi as PM. And if they wanted to mock Biden they could have gotten the old Kinnock puppet out and had Biden steal his speech again.
 
Overly Serious said:
Bigger balls, though.

There was a skit in the original Spitting Image series where she came into the urinals and stood between Hesseltine and, maybe Gummer, I don't recall. It's all shot with them facing the camera, above the urinals. At the end of the skit, one of the cabinet ministers leans over to the other and whispers, "I never seem to be able to go when she's standing next to me."
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She was so hard it was the Russians of all people who originally called her the "Iron Lady". Not a lot of men were capable of intimidating the Russians, but god damn were they scared of her.
 
Snekposter said:
I mean, yeah. @teriyakiburns isn't wrong that their leaders used to be able to down entire kegs and still stay upright. In Churchill's case it was a full keg of gin instead of beer. Rare man, he was.
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Churchill actually woke up and had whiskey and seltzer water for breakfast. He called it "mouthwash." He amped up his alcoholism as the day went on.
 
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