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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.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Kiwifarms is feeling more like reddit by the day.

Kiwifarms was always reddit

 

[Otterly]

I've no idea if this the right thread to discuss and don't really care, but it's a strange option to offer those willing to fork over money "you can perv on people's messages". Isn't that just going to create reddit-tier drama between faggots?

Kiwifarms is feeling more like reddit by the day.

I can’t see anyone’s DMs, only the ones I’m involved with.

 

[isalaide]

Is it true that Null has allowed T+H posters to view others' DMs and private messages? If that's the case, then britposters should delete anything that's dodgy in case MI6 feds, which are on this site, decide to have a snoop about.

No, you can only see your own. Generic Anime Girl handed over Welper's DMs in return for getting T&H paid for for her. Also, drama between kiwifaggots is the site culture. Half the users are just randomly shitposting on random threads and the other half are literally giving each other STDs.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Is it true that Null has allowed T+H posters to view others' DMs and private messages?

No. I'd delete my account and dob null to his local islamic glee club if he even hinted at something like that.

 

[BrightonAndHoveAlbion]

15 users agree to attend but only 5 would be retarded enough to actually turn up.

Everyone I talk to on the internet is a 35 year old fat basement dweller LARPing until proven otherwise.

 

[FedPostalService]

Kiwifarms is feeling more like reddit by the day.

Kiwifarms was always reddit

It's been getting seriously gay. Especially over the last 12 months. Trad LARPers and autists who fancy themselves as bona fide historians who are allergic to fun and joy and are too young to remember the culture and fun of ye olde Internet forums.

It will be fun when I somehow forget the password for this account, have to create a new one, and have everyone cry about me being a newfag again though.

Everyone I talk to on the internet is a 35 year old fat basement dweller LARPing until proven otherwise.

Caught me red handed.

 

[KeyserBroze]

I can’t believe this thread is still going, I’ve got around 800 pages of what I have no doubt is pure cancer to catch up on.

Im tempted to skip the second half of the Boriswave and jump straight to the riots for giggles.

RIP CWCissey

 

[FedPostalService]

I can’t believe this thread is still going, I’ve got around 800 pages of what I have no doubt is pure cancer to catch up on.

Im tempted to skip the second half of the Boriswave and jump straight to the riots for giggles.

RIP CWCissey

Riots are in a different thread. https://kiwifarms.st/threads/the-british-summer-of-discontent.197235/

This is a local thread for local people. We'll have no trouble here.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Everyone I talk to on the internet is a 35 year old fat basement dweller LARPing until proven otherwise.

How dare you! I'm 40(ish)

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Well, it looks like the Teachers are going to strike along with the nurses. Both are in voting, but we can see where it is going. Hood job Kier!

We might have a scenario where it shadows the Winter of discontent.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Well, it looks like the Teachers are going to strike along with the nurses. Both are in voting, but we can see where it is going. Hood job Kier!

We might have a scenario where it shadows the Winter of discontent.

Nationalising industry, streets full of rubbish, nationwide strikes.... at least the music will be good again if we're doing a 70s rerun

 

[FedPostalService]

Well, it looks like the Teachers are going to strike along with the nurses. Both are in voting, but we can see where it is going. Hood job Kier!

We might have a scenario where it shadows the Winter of discontent.

Every time the retards in my place strike I get another promotion. I hope all the unions start being mongs. My penis can only get so erect.

 

[Otterly]

I can’t believe this thread is still going, I’ve got around 800 pages of what I have no doubt is pure cancer to catch up on

It’s just a slow then increasingly fast hurtle downhill to a combination of clown world and 1984. Usual stuff.

 

[anklyscr]

Everyone I talk to on the internet is a 35 year old fat basement dweller LARPing until proven otherwise.

Bollocks. We don’t have basements in the UK.

Riots are in a different thread. https://kiwifarms.st/threads/the-british-summer-of-discontent.197235/

This is a local thread for local people. We'll have no trouble here.

I didn’t burn them.

Well, it looks like the Teachers are going to strike along with the nurses. Both are in voting, but we can see where it is going. Hood job Kier!

We might have a scenario where it shadows the Winter of discontent.

If only we had a maggie waiting in the wings to drive another boom. I’ve got a few quid waiting for a massive boom

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

If only we had a maggie waiting in the wings to drive another boom. I’ve got a few quid waiting for a massive boom

Truss the plan.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

I do think Truss will make a comeback. I think if she explains it in a layman's way, she will get a lot more support. Hell, even Kwarteng was not that bad; he had ideas. We need a PM and a cabinet that are not ideologized but also qualified, this cabinet are retarded.

 

[EddyRooney]

Man in court accused of threats to kill Farage

An Afghan man accused of threatening to kill Nigel Farage while he travelled to the UK has appeared in court.

Fayaz Khan, 25, is alleged to have posted a video on TikTok in October, where he made a gun gesture and told the Reform party leader he was going to "pop pop", Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.

Mr Khan, of no fixed address, is also charged with persistently making use of public communication networks to cause annoyance, inconvenience and anxiety.

The accused did not enter a plea when the charges were listed and was remanded into custody to appear at Southwark Crown Court on 13 May.
The court heard Mr Khan also faces a separate charge of entering the country illegally. He was arrested last year on his arrival to the UK.

He is currently detained at HMP Elmley in Kent.

David Burns, prosecuting, said Mr Khan posted a video and confirmed he would come to England, where he "states he will find Mr Farage to make him stop talking about him".

Mr Burns alleged that Mr Khan used his fingers to imitate a gun and went "pop pop" in this video.

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So Khan makes a threat to one of our nationals when outside the UK on social media. The government does nothing to prevent him illegally migrating to the UK and only arrests him on entry. So now the tax payer has to pick up the tab whilst this person stays in prison, has a trial ( doubtless with legal aid, again at the tax payers' expense ) and is sentenced to either a nice cushy stay in jail with the rest of his gang of the Religion of Peace or is released whereby he'll doubtless disappear into the ether before he can be removed.
Our system of "justice" is just greared towards everyone but the people it should be protecting ( and coincidentally, also paying for it ).
I am so sick of this. I don't care about Khan's rights. Fuck him. I am at the stage now where I perceive anyone concerned about the welfare of these invaders ( over the rights of the indigenous people ) as traitors ( and in my mind treated as such ).

 

[Smyrna]

I make no judgement on whether Truss' ideas are sensible, but even if they are she didn't and doesn't have the political nous to put them into practice. The sort of things she wanted to do you can only do, from a political standpoint, when you are bulletproof.

If you want to compare Truss to Thatcher, Maggie had the political instinct to know that if she tried implementing her more radical ideas in '79 she would have been knocked over by the wets, who still controlled most of the party at that point. She didn't action her plan to take on the miners until after she won a landslide in 1983, because she understood that only then did she have the political capital necessary to wait out the strike.

Truss, on the other hand, barely won her leadership contest but then immediately starting acting like the result had been 80/20 and that all but a handful of MPs had supported her. If QEII hadn't keeled over on day 2 she would have been lucky to last a fortnight.

 

[Adolf Kitler]

My fellow Britbongs, first of all, stop infesting our beaches and coastal towns during the summer. You leave them in a state of disrepair and treat them like an amusement park or something.

Secondly, and the reason I'm here, is Margaret Thatcher really hated by almost "everyone" and was she truly a terrible prime minister? Because many of the complaints I hear about her seem like exaggerations made by the Commies and Champagne Socialists, things like she oppressed the poor, was incredibly racist, etc...

 

[anklyscr]

Fayaz Khan, 25, is alleged to have posted a video on TikTok in October, where he made a gun gesture and told the Reform party leader he was going to "pop pop", Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.

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