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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.

 

[byuu]

Age Verification isn't something that is out of ordinary in countries like South Korea. They've had SIN verification since forever...

Don't they have a big problem with spy cameras in girls' bathrooms because porn is so hard to access there?

 

[Youthanasia]

Have they learnt nothing from Prohibition in the US? I mean, the parallels are just astounding.

 

[cecograph]

I'm more worried about kids man in the middleing themselves with cheap VPNs.

You can't MitM an HTTPs connection, and you shouldn't browse porn on non HTTPs sites.

Supposed to be 18 to look at porn so what's the problem here.
I mean I don't think children should be looking at some of the weird ass pornography that's on the internet but that's just my humble opinion.

I agree. You should be 18 to look at porn, just like you should be 18 to drink alcohol, or vote, or have a credit card. We expect these things to be enforced.

The problem here isn't the motivation for the law or stupid cries about our freedom to wank, but the fact that this stuff is very difficult to enforce on the internet without the government turning itself into a giant Orwellian cunt inside Hadrian's Firewall. At the very least, it requires technical computer competence, and a deep understanding of how the internet works, and I've no evidence that anyone in our legislature has said competence.

If a law is unenforceable, it should be thrown in the bin, which is exactly where this law belongs.

 

[ObsoleteMediaFormat]

Still think it won't happen or will get delayed again, UK government is just too incompetent see Brexit, Muslim rape gangs or the whole knife crime to name a few

 

[Yellow Yam Scam]

Stop Watching Porn.

 

[ICametoLurk]

It's good that they have joined Anti-Journalist Gang.

 

[CWCissey]

Fans' anger at £7 'rip-off' Easter egg

The Bristol City club shop is selling sports-branded Cadbury's eggs which can be bought for just £1.

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A football club shop has been criticised for rebranding a £1 Easter egg and selling it for £7.

Bristol Sport, based at the Ashton Gate football stadium, is selling Cadbury eggs with Bristol City, Bristol Bears or Bristol Flyers cardboard covers on.

The same egg, without the printed sleeve, can be bought from many supermarkets for between £1 and £3.

Bristol Sport has declined to comment and the eggs are now no longer available from the online shop.

The company, which was founded by Bristol City Football Club owner Stephen Lansdown, sells merchandise on behalf of Bristol City, Bristol Bears rugby club, and Bristol Flyers basketball team.

'Embarrassing'
The cardboard sleeve on the £7 egg slides off to reveal a standard Cadbury egg underneath.

Also available in the shop is a Bristol City-branded Toblerone bar for £12 which, without the cardboard sleeve, appears to be identical to one bought in a nearby supermarket for £3.50.

Fans expressed their anger on social media, labelling the eggs "embarrassing" and a "rip-off".

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Bristol City supporter Michael McGuinness said it was embarrassing and he "had to bring the matter up".

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Wayne Spirrell described the packaging as a "poor effort".

Image captionThe cardboard sleeve on the Bristol City-branded Toblerone slides off to reveal a similar product available in a nearby supermarket

Good Lord, they couldn't even be bothered to scam their fans properly by taking the egg out the original box.

Happy Easter A+H

 

[TheRedRanger]

Damnit, this made me realise I won't be able to get an Easter egg this year, and that the only place to get any Cadbury chocolate over here is in the over-priced 'exotic foreign food shops'.

 

[thismanlies]

Damnit, this made me realise I won't be able to get an Easter egg this year, and that the only place to get any Cadbury chocolate over here is in the over-priced 'exotic foreign food shops'.

At least you have a reason for buying an overpriced Easter Egg. Those poor bastards got screwed because (((someone))) wanted to take advantage of a few sports fans.

 

[ObsoleteMediaFormat]

Yeah they fucked up, not only for ripping fan offs but also breaking the trade descriptions act, also looks like it is missing food labeling which is also another law broken

 

[Slimy Time]

Had a nuclear level discussion with some Cambridge grads (because of course they are from there). Eco socialist is the exact term to describe these people. They want they capitalist system to end and Corbyn to come into power. They really believe this guy will bring forth a communist state.

When I asked why they were not protesting outside cargo ship companies, which because of the unrefined fuel used to power those massive boats, end up spewing more pollution into both the air and the ocean than most cars on the planet do...nothing.

It is feel good politics to the extreme. Accomplishes nothing and turns people who would support this idea into critics. Most people who turned up yesterday were there to drink

 

[Zersetzung]

When I asked why they were not protesting outside cargo ship companies, which because of the unrefined fuel used to power those massive boats, end up spewing more pollution into both the air and the ocean than most cars on the planet do...nothing.

Cool but that's fucking stupid.
Whatever random fucknuts you were talking to aren't making strategic decisions for the entire organisation. Yeah, you can always say "why aren't you tackling X which under paradigm Y is a bigger fish than Z instead" but that's not the masterstroke you think it is.

 

[Slimy Time]

Cool but that's fucking stupid.
Whatever random fucknuts you were talking to aren't making strategic decisions for the entire organisation. Yeah, you can always say "why aren't you tackling X which under paradigm Y is a bigger fish than Z instead" but that's not the masterstroke you think it is.

Had more to do with the complete lack of knowledge regarding that, especially given that they were esteemed Cambridge graduates, you would think they would do research. Perhaps that was not clear.

Still not as much of a master stroke as "we need to institute a complete collapse of Capitalism in order to survive". This was especially amusing given that one of the graduates worked in finance and proudly told me so.

 

[Zersetzung]

Had more to do with the complete lack of knowledge regarding that, especially given that they were esteemed Cambridge graduates, you would think they would do research.

No it didn't and that's still stupid.

Bringing up some random subject that they weren't even talking about and then going "aha! you aren't an expert in this topic I dropped on you out of the blue!" doesn't make someone's ideology suddenly collapse and tells us nothing about its merits.

 

[DragoonSierra]

Yeah they fucked up, not only for ripping fan offs but also breaking the trade descriptions act, also looks like it is missing food labeling which is also another law broken

Im actually curious where they printed the stuff. Surely a printing shop would have gotten suspicious of a large order of these?

 

[Puddleduck]

Lol soccerfags

 

[TowinKarz]

Had more to do with the complete lack of knowledge regarding that, especially given that they were esteemed Cambridge graduates, you would think they would do research. Per

The clueless ignorance of these people is amazing.

The idled traffic and mobilized extra police presence probably directly led to there being more emissions in the air that day than had they stayed home.... and communists are provably poor stewards of the environment, no better and arguably worse than capitalists.

Capitalists at least realize you can charge admission to a nice beach or park, or that reclaiming things for scrap value can be better than leaving the hulls of cars and trains to rot in the woods.

And Mao deciding to kill all the sparrows because they were "enemies of the people"? or Lysenko's program of "Good Communist plants will not compete with their fellow plants, so triple the seed density of that field, that won't hurt the final harvest" ? Anyone?

Oh, silly, me that wasn't REAL communism

 

[whatever I feel like]

Who wants to bet that everything else in the shop is also at a 700 percent mark up?

 

[CWCchange]

The same football club that changed its classic crest logo to something of a generic third rate baseball team.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

and communists are provably poor stewards of the environment, no better and arguably worse than capitalists.

In Poland towards the end of the Soviet era, their view was that the environmentalist movement was a secret Western plot to make the socialist world hamstring itself.

Most energy in Soviet era Poland was produced from brown coal. This is quite possibly the filthiest form of energy generation imaginable because it is only about 60 percent carbon, the rest of it is literal crap such as sulphur, ammonia, nitrogen, etc. Burning it not only gives off CO2 but also other unspeakable atmospheric pollutants. It is also what Germany is having to go back to to keep the lights on now that their green lobby has gone all "muh Fukushima."