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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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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.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Lmao only in Britain. In the U.S. if you just shot people looking like this on sight, the grand jury would just look at the pictures and return "no bill." At least in Texas.

How's Daniel Perry doing? Still in jail for shooting someone pointing a gun at him?

 

[Vesperus]

Stabby little bastards.

The parents named their kid "Cartel"?
We're reaching levels of chav beyond human comprehension.

 

[whogoesthere]

How's Daniel Perry doing? Still in jail for shooting someone pointing a gun at him?

Come on dude, Americans can only cope about their shit existance by pretending everyone else is far worse off. Let them have their endless cry sessions, its all they have left.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

The parents named their kid "Cartel"?
We're reaching levels of chav beyond human comprehension.

There comes a point where I agree with the recent American case where the parents got sentenced too.

Come on dude, Americans can only cope about their shit existance by pretending everyone else is far worse off. Let them have their endless cry sessions, its all they have left.

I'm with them on that example, I saw the footage on the Farms. Perry should not have been charged and I'm pissed he was.

 

[Thomas Talus]

Lmao only in Britain. In the U.S. if you just shot people looking like this on sight, the grand jury would just look at the pictures and return "no bill." At least in Texas.

Depends on context. If they were in your house, absolutely. If you were in their house, no.

 

[AssignedEva]

Any news on the London mayoral election? Hearing murmurs that Khan may actually have lost.

Khan won. I voted for him. The alternative was brain damaged.

 

[Snekposter]

Khan won. I voted for him. The alternative was brain damaged.

Congrats, you chose a Brit-hating inbred Paki over brain damage.

When things get worse in London, just remember... you literally voted for this.

 

[AssignedEva]

Congrats, you chose a Brit-hating inbred Paki over brain damage.

When things get worse in London, just remember... you literally voted for this.

Give me literally any reason why Susan would have been better than Sadiq other than "she's white"

 

[Snekposter]

Give me literally any reason why Susan would have been better than Sadiq other than "she's white"

ULEZ and the associated surveillance state. Enjoy your 15 minute city lockdown in the name of saving the climate.

I fully expect you to take whatever Khan dishes your way with a grin. You better be boasting about how great your life is under him instead whenever the topic comes up.

No refunds!

 

[AssignedEva]

ULEZ and the associated surveillance state. Enjoy your 15 minute city lockdown in the name of saving the climate.

My car isn't old enough to be impacted by ULEZ. In fact, I only know a single person who was impacted by ULEZ, and he needed to get a new car anyway.

I fully expect you to take whatever Khan dishes your way with a grin. You better be boasting about how great your life is under him instead whenever the topic comes up.

I'm not boasting about "how great" life is under Sadiq. I think he's shit. I just think Susan would be significantly more shit. You've not really explained how Susan would be better in any way.

 

[Clem Fandango]

I think he's shit.

THEN STOP VOTING FOR HIM YOU CUNT

 

[AssignedEva]

THEN STOP VOTING FOR HIM YOU CUNT

And who do I vote for, then? The worse person? Or do I just not vote, and let the worse person get in? Or do I do something extra retarded, and vote Lib Dem or Green and watch as the worse person get in?
The reason there's been such a Sadiq swing is because the Conservative government overruled Londoners and forced us to switch our mayoral elections from runoff voting to First Past The Post. The same cunts who introduced ULEZ in the first place and (basically) forced Sadiq to expand it?

 

[Clem Fandango]

And who do I vote for, then? The worse person? Or do I just not vote, and let the worse person get in? Or do I do something extra retarded, and vote Lib Dem or Green and watch as the worse person get in?
The reason there's been such a Sadiq swing is because the Conservative government overruled Londoners and forced us to switch our mayoral elections from runoff voting to First Past The Post. The same cunts who introduced ULEZ in the first place and (basically) forced Sadiq to expand it?

Don't vote, you retard. Don't actively vote for anyone you don't want to win.

Jesus fuck, am I the first person to explain "voting" to you? Do you know what a fucking "vote" is?

 

[AssignedEva]

Don't vote, you retard. Don't actively vote for anyone you don't want to win.

Jesus fuck, am I the first person to explain "voting" to you? Do you know what a fucking "vote" is?

Are you too thick to understand "anyone other than Susan"?

 

[Vesperus]

Don't vote, you retard. Don't actively vote for anyone you don't want to win.

It's that Douglas Adams bit about Lizards.

“On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”

“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”

“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”

“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?”

“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”

“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”

“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”

“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”

“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in.”

Eva's too fucking stupid to not vote for a lizard.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Are you too thick to understand "anyone other than Susan"?

I'm going to generously assume this was the first election in which you could vote. The alternative is too depressing.

 

[Marvin]

Thanks for the information on what I shouldn't do, and definitely won't, with the murder-bangsticks.

Maybe I missed this, but are 22s not an option available to you? Or is the loisencing just such a bitch you don't want to bother? Also are air rifles totally unregulated in the UK?

Actually, is it even legal to defend one's self with a firearm in Bongland? Even a legally owned one?

“Those who carry knives are themselves the most likely to be killed with a knife.”

They try to feed us this nonsense in the US too.

If you live in a shit neighborhood and you're scared enough that you consider buying a gun/knife to protect yourself, you're already at higher chance of getting shot or stabbed whether or not you actually get that gun/knife. The relationship isn't causal.

Don't vote, you retard.

That itself is retarded. Voting for the option that will screw your life up less is absolutely a legitimate motivation for voting.

The argument against this is that, if no one gets good numbers, it'll be embarrassing or something?

But that's a pointless consolation. It won't change anything long term and in the meanwhile you're still left with the shittier candidates.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Voting for someone is an indication that you are in favour of that person and that person's policies. That's it. There is no "tactical voting" or anything else. That is all the information you are putting out into the world.

Not voting is better. Voter turnout is recorded. It is taken into account.

Fuck you idiot retards voting for Khan. You're literal subhuman scum and this is my last reply to you idiots.

 

[Snekposter]

You've not really explained how Susan would be better in any way.

Because we have a granddaughter-molesting, pants-shitting, child-sniffing, dementia-addled head of state over here in the USA and the general consensus is that he's less dangerous to the country than anyone else in the Democrat Party of a high status simply because he's too confused to try and actively fuck things up for everyone else. I'd rather have him over Nancy Pelosi. Yeah, Biden may decide its time to teach that bastard Brezhnev a lesson and nuke the USSR but he's not going to be able to remember the nuclear authorization codes or where he put them.

 

[Marvin]

Voting for someone is an indication that you are in favour of that person and that person's policies. That's it.

Well no, that's just factually untrue. You're also specifically choosing someone's butt to be in a seat.

Voting for a shitty candidate might falsely indicate to the powers that be that your vote supports their policies but it (to you, the voter) has the secondary value that it keeps someone with worse policies out of that seat.

You can argue this tradeoff is shitty or immoral or short sighted, but what you can't deny is that it certainly exists.