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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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Chaos Theorist said:
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...tions-2023-results-live-local-council-england
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The tories are projecting to lose a thousand council seats, so anything less than that is a "win" in a sense.

I'm assuming we'll mostly see a consolidation of existing labour majorities, with relatively few actually switching, but a lot of tory majorities weakening or switching to no overall control as minor parties take seats in protest votes. Still, no matter what happens, everyone will declare it to be a sign that Labour are going to win a landslide in the next election, whilst ignoring all the times one party or the other had massive swings in local elections that weren't remotely reflected in the subsequent general.
 
So, when it all falls apart, are we wearing the metal hats or the floppy ones with feathers?

I like floppy hats, but I don't want to get this wrong.
 
Tory voters staying at home but no real increase in the number of Labour voters. The Tories are doing their best to hand the next election to Labour on a plate, but Labour are the Tottenham Hotspur of political parties, there's no situation too promising for them that they can't somehow fuck it up and lose.

I'm almost starting to miss David Cameron. He was a bit of a wet blanket but look at what we've had inflicted on us since. Starmer doesn't look anything like Prime Ministerial material either. We really do get the leaders we deserve.
 
Spunt said:
Tory voters staying at home but no real increase in the number of Labour voters. The Tories are doing their best to hand the next election to Labour on a plate, but Labour are the Tottenham Hotspur of political parties, there's no situation too promising for them that they can't somehow fuck it up and lose.

I'm almost starting to miss David Cameron. He was a bit of a wet blanket but look at what we've had inflicted on us since. Starmer doesn't look anything like Prime Ministerial material either. We really do get the leaders we deserve.
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So, straight talk, who do you prefer at the No 10? Keir "Spineless" Starmer and his band of lefty misfits, or Rishi "Goldman Sachs" Sunak and his band of Tory misfits?
 
Kane Lives said:
So, straight talk, who do you prefer at the No 10? Keir "Spineless" Starmer and his band of lefty misfits, or Rishi "Goldman Sachs" Sunak and his band of Tory misfits?
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I'd prefer to send the whole lot to the guillotine, along with all the inbreeds from buck-house.
 
Kane Lives said:
So, straight talk, who do you prefer at the No 10? Keir "Spineless" Starmer and his band of lefty misfits, or Rishi "Goldman Sachs" Sunak and his band of Tory misfits?
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Putin. And the given the absolute state of our military, I'll see you in The Mall next Mayday parade.
 
Kane Lives said:
So, straight talk, who do you prefer at the No 10? Keir "Spineless" Starmer and his band of lefty misfits, or Rishi "Goldman Sachs" Sunak and his band of Tory misfits?
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I prefer walking into the sea.
 
The price of stuff - and by stuff I mean groceries and basic services - is getting to be absolutely no fucking joke, fellow britfags. £1.40 for a tin of beans in the Co-op the other day. One pound fucking forty. It used to be that toast and beans was the tea for the absolutely fucking skint and now you'd struggle to get it on the tea for the whole family for under a fiver. And certainly you'd not be able to afford the seven fucking quid for Lurpak on the toast.

Btw the prediction is that we'll have widespread tomato shortages next week and this week's egg shortage will continue.
 
Kane Lives said:
So, straight talk, who do you prefer at the No 10? Keir "Spineless" Starmer and his band of lefty misfits, or Rishi "Goldman Sachs" Sunak and his band of Tory misfits?
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Neither. Rishi is Mr. WEF amd seems to have gone anti-tranny becasue his missus told him in no uncertain terms that women don’t have cocks. Starmer is an invertebrate weasel whose party is full of mad trots and progs. Both are rich men telling us increasingly poor plebs that inflation is fine and we just need to tighten our belts.
Option c please. Drop the entire ruling class naked on Rockall for the seagulls and find someone who loves their country. Fucks sake, I could do a better job.
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£1.40 for a tin of beans in the Co-op the other day.
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I saw three quid cucumbers a few weeks back. I grow them in the summer, maybe I should start selling them. Had hundreds last year, was giving them away on the front wall
 
Fareal said:
The price of stuff - and by stuff I mean groceries and basic services - is getting to be absolutely no fucking joke, fellow britfags. £1.40 for a tin of beans in the Co-op the other day. One pound fucking forty. It used to be that toast and beans was the tea for the absolutely fucking skint and now you'd struggle to get it on the tea for the whole family for under a fiver. And certainly you'd not be able to afford the seven fucking quid for Lurpak on the toast.

Btw the prediction is that we'll have widespread tomato shortages next week and this week's egg shortage will continue.
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It's getting to the point where even shopping at Lidl, the beef mince is approaching £1/100g; and fruit and veg? What fucking fruit and veg lol. The stuff we are getting is starting to rot within days.
 
Otterly said:
I saw three quid cucumbers a few weeks back. I grow them in the summer, maybe I should start selling them. Had hundreds last year, was giving them away on the front wall
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Johan Schmidt said:
It's getting to the point where even shopping at Lidl, the beef mince is approaching £1/100g; and fruit and veg? What fucking fruit and veg lol. The stuff we are getting is starting to rot within days.
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I shop around because I'm cheap - well, I have a fairly strict budget and I have more time than budgetary slack. And the lower priced places have crept up and up to the level of the dear places to shop. I used to buy all tinned and dried goods from Aldi/Lidl as they were drastically cheaper but they aren't drastically cheaper any more. I saw something in the papers pricing up cooking a bloody spaghetti bolognese at more than ten quid for four people and I can readily believe it.

I agree that the quality of such fruit and veg as is available on any given day (how quickly it's become normal that not just one place you go to, but more than one, just doesn't have some pretty basic shit) has dropped like a stone. I always tried to buy UK grown as far as possible (support our farmers) but finding UK grown stuff is increasingly hard. Honestly, Ott, if you've got a decent salad garden going, your friends and family will absolutely be glad to take the stuff off your hands. My uncle cut down a couple of pear trees a few years back and I could be doing with those this year. Three quid for a cucumber is a bloody joke. I know we've had a bad domestic season for cold-frame stuff, but it really is obvious to everyone now how much prices were kept down by cheap imports from nice warm countries.

I went to buy tomatoes to make the big pot of soup this week and there were basically either none, or none worth making into soup. It was bloody lentil and vegetable again in our house this week and the kids are fairly sick of that now we are into May. My kids definitely eat a lot more pasta dishes now than they did three or four years back. Luckily they are not yet adept at spotting how the leftovers from Sunday's roast meat reappear in Monday's pasta dish/pie.

We're getting into striking range of when I'd normally start up the jam-making for the summer, but I'm iffy about the cost/availability of berries. Hoping we get some nice enough weather to go pick-your-own'ing since that usually works out quite cheap if you can get in quite a bit. There was a downpour of cherries last year sold off cheaply, but we've been eating cherry bakewell jam for a year now and there's a general domestic rebellion against another year's worth. Joke will be on them if this year's glut turns out to be gooseberries....

Not price related, but I'm absolutely fucking hating the new vacuum packed mince at Sainsbury's. Fuck all point in mincing it to then vacuum pack it back into a brick of flesh. Defrosting it from frozen must be a serious pain in the arse.
 
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