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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.

 

[Mound Dweller]

you have lost the Keith Vaz game

Poppers and washing machines, or was it coke in the curry I forget.
Diane Abbott/Keith V/George Galloway would be good fodder for an actual bri'ish politcow thread I reckon they're still doing stupid shit to this day despite being public menaces to polite society since before I was born.

 

[-Jack-]

Starmer attacks spread of 'lies' on grooming gangs
Thoughts?

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[FedPostalService]

Starmer attacks spread of 'lies' on grooming gangs
Thoughts?

He’s stupidly made this a resigning issue if people can find enough dirt. lol

 

[Free the Pedos]

The guys of American Thinker posted a interesting rant about the Paki gangs.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/01/sex_and_islam_and_the_decline_of_the_west.html

https://archive.ph/CA0YS

“Nor will pressure from the people change that. The people are helpless, having willingly (and often smugly) given up their arms. They pose no threat to the government, so their rage is ineffectual in changing the status quo.

And lastly, I can assure you that King Charles will not touch this whole thing with a ten-foot pole. He is a leftist, and there’s no indication that he is a morally courageous man. The demand that he dissolve the government will fall on deaf ears.

At the end of the day, Muslims fight for sex, and the British government fights for the Muslim right to rape British teenage girls. A country that once believed in itself and practiced muscular Christianity is now nothing more than a sleazy pimp for Islam.”


Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...nd_the_decline_of_the_west.html#ixzz8wYfsUl69
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[BrightonAndHoveAlbion]

Thoughts?

Still using soft language so people don't feel like throwing up their lunch when they have to read about this.

A 'grooming gang' sounds like a gang of pet lovers.

 

[A-Logato]

Starmer attacks spread of 'lies' on grooming gangs
Thoughts?

This idea of people spreading lies is awfully vague and doesn't really describe what people are really lying about. Are we referring to that 1 girl who did lie (she's getting her own channel 4 show btw) or is this about some random literal who on facebook?

Going to call it now since I've had a good track record as of late but I think if 1 more shocking this comes out of this then his own party is going to force him to resign.

 

[ApeBass]

"Once we lose the anchor that truth matters, in the robust debate that we must have, then we're on a very slippery slope," he said.

Bit rich coming from a man who thinks some women have penises.

 

[FedPostalService]

This idea of people spreading lies is awfully vague and doesn't really describe what people are really lying about. Are we referring to that 1 girl who did lie (she's getting her own channel 4 show btw) or is this about some random literal who on facebook?

Going to call it now since I've had a good track record as of late but I think if 1 more shocking this comes out of this then his own party is going to force him to resign.

We’re going to see a lot of Snope’s style hyper technical definition of words style debunking from the establishment press in the coming weeks. We just need The Telegraph to keep digging to the point even The Guardian feel stupid lying about it.

 

[DreinMeinVein]

Also, I may be wrong on this (so call me a retard if so) but I think the kebab story is an urban legend. It originates from a very poor joke that was used as evidence by the prosecution of a man who was later acquited. The case collapsed due to the police force messing up the evidence and other cases of malpractice. The trial collapsed without any hard evidence of the 'meat in the kebab' story other than the 'joke'. But that's all I remember.

Who knows for absolute certain?

Here's an article from the Wikipedos, referencing the kebab shop and "jokes" about how to dispose of her body:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Charlene_Downes

Here's a recent article from Sky News, stating that her body is still missing as of 2023:

https://news.sky.com/story/charlene-downes-parents-of-14-year-old-girl-who-went-missing-20-years-ago-want-end-to-nightmare-12997702

Two decades and her body hasn't been found...

And here's one from LBC, referencing the kebab meat theory:

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/charlene-downes-missing-girl-blackpool-case-reopened/

Occam's razor suggests that
A) an abused and murdered child's body was disposed of amongst other rotting meat.
B) she was fed to local people, with the rest of her remains dumped with old meat.

B is significantly worse than A, but A is absolutely fucking horrific too. Read the stories and draw a conclusion. This is might be the thickest end if the the stick, but it's the sort of thing that has been happening for two whole decades.

Now the government is asking opposition parties not to politicise this, when their own failure to act is clearly political.

(BTW, I'm not calling anyone retarded. It's perfectly natural to feel optimistic when faced with this level of horror. If souls are a thing, I hope the poor girl's soul is at peace.)

 

[The Gene Genie]

Thoughts?

Further convinced that the depth and spread of the problem is far worse than even we know if this is the kind of limp-wristed “no…u!” response. He has nothing to say except vague and desperate appeals against the mythical Far Right.

 

[EddyRooney]

Still using soft language so people don't feel like throwing up their lunch when they have to read about this.

A 'grooming gang' sounds like a gang of pet lovers.

With thanks to Derka Derka from the "Pictures on the internet" thread.

link

 

[teriyakiburns]

This idea of people spreading lies is awfully vague and doesn't really describe what people are really lying about. Are we referring to that 1 girl who did lie (she's getting her own channel 4 show btw) or is this about some random literal who on facebook?

The "lies" he's concerned about are the things people are saying about him. His tenure as head of the crown prosecution service was marked by a distinct inability to prosecute known paedophiles, despite everything he is now claiming he did at the time. Mountains of evidence, and yet whenever those cases came due, his office refused them. He's a conceited egotist, suffering profound narcissistic injury due to people having the temerity to criticise his actions and behaviour. People are calling him out and he cannot stand it, to the point that he might actually be willing to burn down his entire government just to get back at them.

 

[BongoMongo]

I had the misfortune to have to travel by public transit today from one part of West Yorkshire to another. The trains were on time but the platforms had not been cleared of snow at all. Nor was any grit placed down, and the snow, having been trampled down, was compacted and icy. At Bradford Interchange I saw a large (not hugely fat, I guess I would call her stout, and extremely tall) African woman giving platform staff at the station a bollocking for "standing around doing nothing" instead of "making the platforms safe for passengers". She really gave them what for, and it was great to see.

I am inherently racist but I respected the fact she called the workshy bastards to account and was telling them all off. I will also admit to being a bit of a fan of an African accent being used to tell someone off, and she sounded hilarious. The Northern Rail Staff were visibly shocked and cowed by this woman, and it goes without saying that most of them were clearly Muslim men.

As for Starmer, the truth is easy to find. The man supports pedophiles and actively encouraged lenient sentences against them. Even if a nonce only "looks at" child porn images, there is still harm done as those images are the direct result of abuse against children. There is no such thing as a victimless crime when it comes to the crimes pedos commit.

I know someone who has had access to the majority of the findings of Operation Yewtree, and the way in which child rape is part of the fundamental fabric of public bodies and institutions in this country is truly sickening. Yes, child grooming and rape will still exist if we punt all the Muslims into yonder briny depths, because child fucking is part of life fof certain "echelons" of society. But it's a start, and we have to start somewhere. Why not start with people whose tendency towards sexual offences is over 3x more than that of native-born Brits?

 

[bort420]

The "lies" he's concerned about are the things people are saying about him. His tenure as head of the crown prosecution service was marked by a distinct inability to prosecute known paedophiles, despite everything he is now claiming he did at the time. Mountains of evidence, and yet whenever those cases came due, his office refused them. He's a conceited egotist, suffering profound narcissistic injury due to people having the temerity to criticise his actions and behaviour. People are calling him out and he cannot stand it, to the point that he might actually be willing to burn down his entire government just to get back at them.

His relation to Lord Alli is also very unusual. I have never heard of a gay man gifting a straight couple clothing. Both alli and lord ahmed of rotherham were ennobled by Blair.

 

[High-Fructose Corn Syrup]

Fuck the UK

 

[Otterly]

am inherently racist but I respected the fact she called the workshy bastards to account and was telling them all off.

See this is the thing. This lady is part of ‘a community.’ She’s used to senior members of that community enforcing certain standards among the rest. You go to any kind of respectable African church event and there’s always a few matriarchs with a gimlet eye on things and happy to dole out a few whacks for anyone misbehaving. And yes different cujture shouldn’t be here but my point is that we used to do that too. You dropped litter? You’d get your ear clipped by a passing adult. You swore or pointed, you’d be told off by a non related adult if your own parents weren’t around. Behavioural standards were enforced and it worked. You’d have had a half dozen lads with salt and grit on a train platform /walkways making sure it was safe, and you’d have their supervisor watch then. We got rid of any form of shaming or negative social feedback for poor behaviour and replaced it with negative social feedback for opinions, and this has been disastrous

Fuck the UK

there’s really no need, we’ve been getting shafted for a long time now

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Just another one of Kier's cronies being bunged off to the watchdog.

This is foreign interference and where did that £5 billion go?

Thoughts?

Everyone involved in this story should die in a fire.
Kier is a feckless, almost certainly noncey, incompetent, gulag-loving socialist.
Musk is a baiting, foreign-interfering autist who cares not for the country which he destroys and is just the centrist version of Soros.

There are no winners in this story, only 65 million losers; the British public.

 

[BongoMongo]

See this is the thing. This lady is part of ‘a community.’ She’s used to senior members of that community enforcing certain standards among the rest. You go to any kind of respectable African church event and there’s always a few matriarchs with a gimlet eye on things and happy to dole out a few whacks for anyone misbehaving. And yes different cujture shouldn’t be here but my point is that we used to do that too. You dropped litter? You’d get your ear clipped by a passing adult. You swore or pointed, you’d be told off by a non related adult if your own parents weren’t around. Behavioural standards were enforced and it worked. You’d have had a half dozen lads with salt and grit on a train platform /walkways making sure it was safe, and you’d have their supervisor watch then. We got rid of any form of shaming or negative social feedback for poor behaviour and replaced it with negative social feedback for opinions, and this has been disastrous

Absolutely yes. The decline of the authority of matriarchs such as her is only to the net loss of us all. She was truly ferocious but not in an agressive manner. She had her beef and she aired it and asked her questions and she put her point across and best of all the Mudslime lazy bastards at Bradford Interchange couldn't even pull the race card cos she was black as ace of spades.

As I say, I am a huge racist but I have nothing but time for African Christians of an older generation because those people have standards and they expect people to listen when they point out those standards are not being met. She was fecking glorious and to cap it off, she got on eventually, onto the train, and we got chatting, and she was just pissed that she nearly slipped and broke her neck because apparently clearing train platforms of compacted snow and making it safe for passengers is now, seemingly, beyond the goddamn scope of train staff who earn a metric shit ton for a job which requires little to no brain capacity. (I am biased, she and I had a lovely wee natter, and she left me smiling, and I wished her a happy new year, and I really do believe, more people like her, the world might be a tiny bit nicer).

Edited to say: Yes, she's of a different culture, maybe she shouldn't be here, but she was mouthing off for decency and common sense and I think that's something we can all get behind. Likewise. I have a wee "paki" shop near me. It's run by a hindu family, so not pakistani. They sell a limited range of fruit and veg. Called in last week looking for an onion. No onions on shelf, I asked if they've any. Yonder lady went out back, came back with an onion.Asked her how much, she said no charge. She had just gone to flat over the shop and got me one from their kitchen. They make curry there and give to the local foodbank, they pick up litter along the street. Lovely people. I might be a gigantic gigabigot but I can't find fault with them and their mindset. Lovely people.

 

[BrightonAndHoveAlbion]

she's of a different culture, maybe she shouldn't be here

Rather have 10 older generation African Christians than one workshy muslim. I agree with you, women like her are some of what we are sorely missing in society.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

There is no plausible series of events since 2016 that would have resulted in Farage becoming PM.

Well yeah, every chance he had to get closer to that goal he made sure to not do whatever would help his rise and instead follow the opposite route. I wasn't saying that he could have been PM if he only took one shot at it in one of those times, I meant that every time one of those opportunities presented themselves for him to get closer to it and expand his party he made sure to NOT take it.