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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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K!w!Fartz said:
Think Trump will be able to finish that wall in the next 4 years?
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Not a chance in hell. I think you'd struggle to get a project that size done in 4 years just because of the usual government inefficiency/incompetence. However with the wall you're looking at the usual shitshow, combined with people who'll actively be attempting to sabotage it.
 
Hazel Motes said:
England's greatest minds have in ways been common sense types and sentimentalists, a mindset that does not appeal to intellectuals. Our philosophers, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Mill, Spencer
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As much as I always enjoy your posts, I cannot let you claim David Hume for the English. We might be a small nation, but we remain very proud of the Scottish Enlightenment.
 
isalaide said:
As much as I always enjoy your posts, I cannot let you claim David Hume for the English. We might be a small nation, but we remain very proud of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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I don't think I've ever before in my life heard the term "The Scottish Enlightenment".

It gives me a mental image of a Scotsman realising you can eat something that isn't fried with a look of wonder on his face.
 
Overly Serious said:
I don't think I've ever before in my life heard the term "The Scottish Enlightenment".

It gives me a mental image of a Scotsman realising you can eat something that isn't fried with a look of wonder on his face.
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You’ll hear it in Scotland and only Scotland. It completely ignores Newton and other English thinkers whist completely disregarding France too. They need something though, bless them.
 
K!w!Fartz said:
Even immigrants don't always want more immigration. Many want to bring their families, friends, and "clans" here, but some have a different mindset.
Some of them realize the differences in races and would prefer to live among white people.
Immigrants mostly work low-skill/low-wage jobs and do not want other immigrants stealing them.
Immigrants are aware of the fact that if too many of them come here to live on benefits, there is a higher chance that the native whites will rise up and kick them out.
Being the only black in a community must have advantages, some women will view you as exotic and different and want to sleep with you, you can also get jobs like acting in adverts easily because your the only nigger in the area. people will want to be friends with you in order to prove they're not racist because they've been misled into thinking that makes them morally superior to those who are.
Niggers generally lower the quality of life of other niggers, which is why there isn't a single pleasant African country. they drive up crime rates in all categories and even attack each other while giving each other a bad reputation.
I'm sure you could continue identifying more reasons why some blacks don't want more immigration, but you get the point, and the fact of the matter is, is that most aren't intelligent enough/self-aware enough to have those views.
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It's similar in Hiberian land. Just compare the labour force census reports from 2006 to 2016. It's even worse now of course with no sign of stopping. Alt-media article seething about this.
Incentivisation of low-skilled immigration tends to lower wages across the low-skilled sector. From 2005-2019 64% of net new jobs went to non-nationals according to the Central Statistics Office (CSO), which partly explains why 23% of workers are currently in low-paying jobs. As it stands, the non-national population represents close to 20% of the overall population in the Republic.
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There's another guy who is now documenting a migrant hotel, this time up in Newcastle
https://x.com/gb_national/status/1860293118727196757 [A]
He drops some indictable facts near the end as well. These men are the heroes of Great Britain.

In his twitter bio he also links what is apparently a map of all known migrant hotels in the country (can't vouch for accuracy) https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...90&ll=53.9017282104501,-2.870309433285831&z=7
 
Overly Serious said:
I don't think I've ever before in my life heard the term "The Scottish Enlightenment".

It gives me a mental image of a Scotsman realising you can eat something that isn't fried with a look of wonder on his face.
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My man Hume ruined his health by refusing to give up eating shit and drinking even when his bro Adam Smith tried to give him an intervention. The national character runs deep.

Meanwhile Adam Smith's old house in Kirkcaldy in which he wrote most of The Wealth of Nations now has a Greggs on the bottom floor. I feel he would approve.
 
FedPostalService said:
You’ll hear it in Scotland and only Scotland. It completely ignores Newton and other English thinkers whist completely disregarding France too. They need something though, bless them.
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I feel I have to defend the Scottish in this. They were late to the party, but they took to it with the sort of enthusiasm they'd normally reserve for deep-fried haggis pakora. The Scots became the backbone of British engineering and manufacturing, philosophy, science, and just about everything else for a good couple of centuries.

It's all in the oats, you see. As Boswell put it, "Doctor Johnson proposed to define the word ‘oats’ thus: ‘A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.’ And I replied: ‘Aye, and that’s why England has such fine horses, and Scotland such fine people.’"
 
You can't argue with the contribution of James Watt. The Scots may have been a pain in the arse on and off but let's give credit where it's due.
 
Dr J said:
Doesn't it cost the taxpayer money to run a general election? And for what? The result is not going to be substantially different from what it was in July
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A more charitable interpretation is that it might actually force a Labour civil war to come to fore and bottleneck the government for a few months as they scramble.

Also Reform might pick up a few more seats if they aren't fielding retards and literally whos.
 
Dr J said:
Why? Tories are just going to get routed again. Starmer's terrible but Tories are worse
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Labour is guaranteed to lose seats if an election is called today. The Tories were bad, but Labour with its multiple, growing scandals is already more unpopular after just a couple of months, while most of the recognisable problem figures for the Tories are no longer sitting MPs.
 
They're not going to call an election. The Labour backbench barks loud, but it never bites. These lads and lasses have just got their feet under the table at the great trough of MP economic opportunities and they aren't fucking letting that go even if the schools have to serve deep-frozen pensioner and turnips for lunches to make the public finance ends meet.

Meanwhile the opposition parties just don't have the numbers. The Labour margin of safety is big enough to endure a little bit of virtue signalling grandstanding from those MPs whose eyes are on their media career in four or five years' time (see: Jess Phillips), but there's no real rebellion.

There never is. Even in this country turkeys don't vote for Christmas.
 
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