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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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whothefuck said:
Does NI still have a white first minister?
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Occupied Taigland until very recently didn't have a functional government never mind any office holders.
They're finally in the process of sorting that particular kerfuffle out (something about electrical heater graft usual backwater pork-barreling) and now it is all said an done the new queen of potato province is this stunning and brave Sinn Feiner
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So yes as far as I'm concerned the heads of all 3 nations (plus Wales, which as a mere principality doesn't count) are indeed a bunch of foreign swarthoids.
 
The Government starts an inquiry into banning crossbows and now all of a sudden journos are starting to report quite a bit more on crossbow attacks... I wonder if there's a connection?


Get into the archery hobby while you still can, Bongers.
 
Coelacanth said:
The Government starts an inquiry into banning crossbows and now all of a sudden journos are starting to report quite a bit more on crossbow attacks... I wonder if there's a connection?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lHLvPvbtpTI
Get into the archery hobby while you still can, Bongers.
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Why waste time with arrows when you can just spray people with acid? Honestly.
 
Surprised this hasn't been reported here (I couldn't see it but maybe I missed it amidst all the Royal stuff).

I haven't been able to work out exactly what is going on but it seems like a chain of funeral directors in and around Hull have been keeping the bodies for themselves. 35 bodies discovered so far. Some people appear to have been fobbed off with fake ashes.



Don't know if there's any pattern to the bodies they kept - e.g. all women or what they were kept for. Two people have been arrested on "suspicion of prevention of a lawful, decent burial, fraud by false representation and fraud by abuse of position".

'It's never dull in Hull', as the locals like to say.
 
Coelacanth said:
The Government starts an inquiry into banning crossbows and now all of a sudden journos are starting to report quite a bit more on crossbow attacks... I wonder if there's a connection?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lHLvPvbtpTI
Get into the archery hobby while you still can, Bongers.
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That's an odd one, crossbow cannibal was 20 years ago nearly. Every so often some schizo on day release from the loony bin gets nabbed for waving one around but it is nothing compared to the spoon-slashing epidemic.
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Surprised this hasn't been reported here (I couldn't see it but maybe I missed it amidst all the Royal stuff).

I haven't been able to work out exactly what is going on but it seems like a chain of funeral directors in and around Hull have been keeping the bodies for themselves. 35 bodies discovered so far. Some people appear to have been fobbed off with fake ashes.



Don't know if there's any pattern to the bodies they kept - e.g. all women or what they were kept for. Two people have been arrested on "suspicion of prevention of a lawful, decent burial, fraud by false representation and fraud by abuse of position".

'It's never dull in Hull', as the locals like to say.
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If it is like every other funeral scam the cheap bastards were trying to save on cremation fees, can be surprisingly expensive apparently. Would help explain why you do find bundles of suspiciously human (male) looking "livestock" remains in the moors sometimes.
 
Teghern said:
If it is like every other funeral scam the cheap bastards were trying to save on cremation fees, can be surprisingly expensive apparently. Would help explain why you do find bundles of suspiciously human (male) looking "livestock" remains in the moors sometimes.
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I see. Well that's better than some possible explanations. I hadn't realised this was a thing.
 
Overly Serious said:
Surprised this hasn't been reported here (I couldn't see it but maybe I missed it amidst all the Royal stuff).

I haven't been able to work out exactly what is going on but it seems like a chain of funeral directors in and around Hull have been keeping the bodies for themselves. 35 bodies discovered so far. Some people appear to have been fobbed off with fake ashes.



Don't know if there's any pattern to the bodies they kept - e.g. all women or what they were kept for. Two people have been arrested on "suspicion of prevention of a lawful, decent burial, fraud by false representation and fraud by abuse of position".

'It's never dull in Hull', as the locals like to say.
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What about the jewellery and clothing that the deceased were dressed in?
I imagine the business owners had a side line flogging jewellery and clothing on the Internet or via a pawn shop. I hope the police are looking at this angle too.
 
Having spent the last week flailing at a tory donor who hates Diane Abbott, and succeeding in reminding everyone that they hate Diane Abbott too, Grauniad breathlessly starts a new week-long windmill tilt:

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An article about a men's only club, written by...


A. Gentleman.

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Overly Serious said:
chain of funeral directors in and around Hull have been keeping the bodies for themselves.
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I saw that - couldn’t really work out what was going on but seems like they are accused of taking money for funerals and not actually cremating. Having said that - what’s the plan here? Keeping dozens of human bodies in a freezer isn’t cheap either. How were they going to dump the bodies? It being hull you suspect a van to the coast at night.
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It's never dull in Hull', as the locals like to say.
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Hull: one road in, one road out.
(Hull is the Florida of England, for non Brits. A strange place, connected by a bridge , that’s a marshy weird inbred nightmare.)
 
Otterly said:
How were they going to dump the bodies?
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Well, there's always the hydrolysis method - "water cremation"

Afaik, it's not legal for human bodies, since it's pretty disrespectful - it's how they get rid of infected livestock, and it's usually a source for fertiliser. The ultimate recycle.

So, the implication is that they've taken these human corpses, dissolved them in a pressurised container full of caustic solution, then sold the human remains as a precursor for fertiliser.
 
Otterly said:
I saw that - couldn’t really work out what was going on but seems like they are accused of taking money for funerals and not actually cremating. Having said that - what’s the plan here? Keeping dozens of human bodies in a freezer isn’t cheap either. How were they going to dump the bodies? It being hull you suspect a van to the coast at night.
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Individual cremation done properly = relatively expensive
Dumping in river/chopping into bits and feeding to animals/en masse burnings/just leaving them in the fridge = very cheap and very tempting, the profession is regulated for good reason.
This sort of thing happens so often there's a law and order episode about it (Criminal Intent S2 E1), only reason this made the news is because they were sitting on a few dozen at once which will have set off the organized crime alarms.
 
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Food and eating out costs drive fall in inflation (archive)

Inflation fell to 3.4% in February, down from 4% in January and edging closer to the Bank's target of 2%.

The drop means the cost of living is rising at its slowest pace since September 2021, when it stood at 3.1%.

Inflation, the rate at which prices rise over time, has been gradually falling since it hit 11.1% in October 2022, its highest rate for 40 years.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said slowing price inflation was the main reason for the drop.

However, prices are not yet falling they are just rising less quickly than they were previously.

Most economists had predicted the drop and said it would further expectations that the Bank will cut interest rates later in the year.

The figure comes ahead of its latest interest rate decision on Thursday, which is expected to see rates held at 5.25%.

While the drop in inflation was welcomed by the government it follows official data last month which confirmed that the UK fell into recession at the end of last year.

Grant Fitzner, chief economist at the ONS, said one of the reasons for the bigger than expected drop in last month's figure was the fall in food price inflation which had come down "quite a bit" from 6.9% to 5%.

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"That's 11 consecutive monthly falls... in fact we haven't really seen much change in food prices for the last nine months, they've been almost flat," he said.

"These falls were only partially offset by price rises at the pump and a further increase in rental costs.

"But the general trend continues to be lower," Mr Fitzner said.

Overall prices were "still higher than they were a year or two years ago, [but] the rate of inflation has come down markedly," Mr Fitzner added.

However, speculation about an impact on prices as a result of disruption in the Red Sea had not materialised, mostly because the rate of sterling had increased and the UK's ability to pay for imports had improved, he said.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said people would "heave a sigh of relief" at the figures but insisted it was "far too early to know" whether the government would be in a position to cut taxes before the general election.

However, he added: "As inflation gets closer to its target that opens the door for the Bank of England to consider bringing down interest rates, that brings down mortgage rates, that makes a very big difference," he added.

But Labour said after 14 years under the Conservatives "working people are worse off".

"Prices are still high, the tax burden is the highest it has been in 70 years and mortgage payments are going up," shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said.
 
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However, prices are not yet falling they are just rising less quickly than they were previously.
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LOL at the BBC's "yet" in that statement.

Inflation is still high, people are still struggling. It's just getting worse more slowly. The idea that prices are likely to fall any time soon is wildly optimistic. And if they did the BBC would be rushing out articles about deflation and "Why falling food prices are actually bad."
 
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Great, some made up number is lower on a graph. Shopping is still high though.

I've noticed they don't take shrinkflation in to account. Sure, your shopping is a little more expensive, but that 1ltr is now 850ml, the 250g is now 220g, the 140g is now 118g. Everything is smaller, with ingredients replaced for cheap alternatives - reducing the quality, while the price goes up or rises.
 
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Great, some made up number is lower on a graph. Shopping is still high though.
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It's always good to gather as much real data as you can.

I did a big post about this shit, where the UK is so fucked by a combination of "top-heavy" wages, extortionate rents and costs, that we are genuinely below most of Eastern Europe.

Not "Poland" Eastern Europe - we're roughly on the level of Bulgaria or Romania.
 
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