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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.

 

[User names must be unique]

https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1800481450476908805

They've moved on from throwing milkshakes to throwing bricks [I'm stupid, it was coffee cups] at Farage now.

I don't think I've ever seen a more autistic run, legitimately weirder than if he had just done the Naruto sprint.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1800481450476908805

They've moved on from throwing milkshakes to throwing bricks [I'm stupid, it was coffee cups] at Farage now.

Those are coffee cups, not bricks. You shouldn't be throwing anything at a campaign bus but they're very clearly not bricks.

News articles say it was a coffee cup and wet cement. A few claimed bricks or rocks first.

Mail seems to have caught the second throw clearly from, the video, looks pretty unquestionably a coffee cup there.


However looking at the video it looks like he filled it from the cement nearby before throwing it. So the same sort of moves as the people throwing frozen water bottles then whining "it was just water."

Gave us another great Farage face.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Surprised this happened in Barnsley, an old mining town let by down by Tories for decades, who were left to rot by new labour, who are working-class, vastly white majority demographic, who are the classic stereotypes of white man van.
I thought this would have been Farage county through and through.

That said, the red hoodie fella looks like a fucking spastic. Glad the rozzers chased him down, it's a shame some chavs didn't give him a kicking,

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

King Charles’ first official portrait vandalized by activists

https://archive.ph/rWE7F

 

[Coolio55]

Surprised this happened in Barnsley, an old mining town let by down by Tories for decades, who were left to rot by new labour, who are working-class, vastly white majority demographic, who are the classic stereotypes of white man van.
I thought this would have been Farage county through and through.

That said, the red hoodie fella looks like a fucking spastic. Glad the rozzers chased him down, it's a shame some chavs didn't give him a kicking,

Idk. Maybe they can smell a big fucking fanny when they see one?
He's a joke.

King Charles’ first official portrait vandalized by activists

https://archive.ph/rWE7F

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They had one chance to make it say something funny and they "royally" (lol) cocked it up.
Nice job, stupid cunts.

 

[Otterly]

Gentle Parenting is supposed to be based on acknowledging the child's needs and feelings, without using bribery or punishment.

Bribery and punishment should be used selectively, certainly not all the time but they have a place.

the gentle parenting approach is to say something like "You don't want to leave the playground right now, but I have said we need to leave the playground now because I have to go pick up your brother from school. I know you feel upset, but your brother will also be upset if we don't go pick him up, and we don't want anyone to be upset" and reflect the child's feelings back at them, in the hopes that feeling seen and heard.

The idea of some of this is ok, but again it’s situation dependent. ‘I want ice cream for dinner’ for example. You’d be better off saying ‘oh that’d be fun wouldn’t it? You know you might get sick of it, and you’d be pretty unhealthy, so we need to have healthy dinners . but tell you what, let’s get ice cream next time it’s warm out and we are at the park ok?’ Rather than just ‘no.’
The problem is that some situations just need a no. A refusal to potty train (without a medical reason) needs to be met with gentle but persistent persuasion to do it. Some of the craziest people I’ve met as a mother are the ones who take these parenting philosophies as absolutes. I’ve met women who literally never say no to kids. Met ones who never punish OR praise (yes that’s a thing.) imagine never praising a child at all.
They are universally insane and their kids are universally terribly behaved and miserable. When mine started nursery years back we had several who weren’t potty trained. All insane crunchy parents.

 

[Snekposter]

Gave us another great Farage face.

He deserves to be PM by virtue of his dentition alone. I can't think of any other English politician to have the same teeth as the people they claim to represent.

 

[Bloom Worm Cross Field]

Gave us another great Farage face.

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[COMMI3 MARK]

For the first time in my life, I'm not voting. Fuck em all.

I'm voting Stalin.

 

[isalaide]

the full article [snip]

People ask why I put my bairns to bed and then pull a second shift running a business until the early hours.

The answer is, so I can easily pay all their private school fees so that they don't have to go somewhere like this with kids like this.

 

[Tragon Dirtle]

(a) completely foreign to elites like Rishi, who view it as an administrative region of economic zone N km^2 in size instead of a nation with a people, history, culture and heritage;

I know someone already brought up 1984, but this is literally why Britain is called Airstrip One in the book, because Britain has literally come to be defined by its point of usefulness to the US. But with Rishi it's about the UK's usefulness to the US and India.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

People ask why I put my bairns to bed and then pull a second shift running a business until the early hours.

The answer is, so I can easily pay all their private school fees so that they don't have to go somewhere like this with kids like this.

Good on you.

I thought this would have been Farage county through and through.

He seemed reasonably popular with some of the crowd but there were protestors too.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Gave us another great Farage face.

It had to be done.



Everyone will make a better meme than me because you're all actually intelligent and witty.

 

[Kel1 shi1]

This might be a better template.

 

[Product Placement]

Watching the Sky News debate, really is a race between a man who won't answer any question and a man who can't stop lying.

https://news.sky.com/story/election-latest-green-party-to-unveil-manifesto-with-dramatic-tax-changes-as-rishi-sunak-and-sir-keir-starmer-face-sky-leaders-event-12593360

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Watching the Sky News debate, really is a race between a man who won't answer any question and a man who can't stop lying.

With that and their height differences maybe they should run the country together. Rishi could sit on Kier's knee and whenever a question is asked Kier could pretend he's a ventriloquist.

 

[St.Davis]

We're still in 14 years of a conservative government and you think the establishment isn't conservative?

When did we start having a conservative government? That's the first I've heard of it.

Unrelated, but I'm still waiting to hear why that Susan woman was worse than Sadiq fucking Khan.

 

[AssignedEva]

When did we start having a conservative government? That's the first I've heard of it.

Unrelated, but I'm still waiting to hear why that Susan woman was worse than Sadiq fucking Khan.

She was a gobshite, but if you think the last 14 years of Tory rule was insufficiently Conservative I'm not going to waste my energy going into it.

 

[Otterly]

She was a gobshite, but if you think the last 14 years of Tory rule was insufficiently Conservative I'm not going to waste my energy going into it.

They’ve not conserved much have they though? I wish they had, but they’ve kept asset stripping everything off for their chums and pumping sewage into the water. Not a lot has been conserved

 

[St.Davis]

She was a gobshite, but if you think the last 14 years of Tory rule was insufficiently Conservative I'm not going to waste my energy going into it.

A gobshite how? Which of her policies did you think were worse than The Paki's? I don't think Im the only person absolutely mystified here.

As Otterly has indicated: the Tories are only nominally "conservative", we have still dealt with massive immigration, insane diversity garbage, very high taxation, and other such maladies. The Tories are simply labour going at the speed limit.