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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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Bog-standard Poster said:
TL;DR - Those three tarts are rough as toast and I wouldn't give em a push down a slide. I hope they win though.
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These are top shelf middul-clarse bints you're passing up on here bruv, yeah they've got that Norfolk look about them, but look deep into those cold dead prep school'd eyes and tell me they're not world class in sports that'd make BoJo blush, solid smash smash and smash again and I'd even call them back afterwards.
 
Not that any of this makes any difference to me, but the one on the right looks like a teenage Phiomena Cunk

I don't mean that as an insult or a complement really. Just joining in the discussion.
 
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I want you to know that I enjoy your posts on here and, even when I'm taking the piss out of you, your possible autism and idealised unicorn-fairy view of the world, I do think you're a good person.
INB4 she(?) ain't gunna fuck you bro.

I've seen much nicer looking working class birds than those three trollops. Council estates always have a few top-draw slags knocking about on them. Unfortunately, their looks are wasted by their penchant for half-nogs, full-wogs, or drug-dealing deadheads called McKenzie or Rylan. Dem bitches luv da danger, init.

TL;DR - Those three tarts are rough as toast and I wouldn't give em a push down a slide. I hope they win though.
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Even though I hate your pro-russia autism, and you hate my gay. autism...autism(?).

See how hate can bring us together?

I'm a fucking faggot and those girls are pretty, but maybe I am not familiar with what straight guys like these days. I assumed they';d fuck anything with a pussy and big tits.
 
Overly Serious said:
Not that any of this makes any difference to me, but the one on the right looks like a teenage Phiomena Cunk
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I would marry Philomena, she's not too old. If we act fast, she and I can have like 3 kids and a white picket fence. They'll all have autism for sure though.
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People who say that 'Women aren't funny' are 99% correct, and the 1% that they are wrong is my unironic waifu Diane Morgan. I've seen her husband, Ben Caudall, I can like...I can kill Ben, it's not an issue. That's the only real roadblock.
 
Overly Serious said:
Not that any of this makes any difference to me, but the one on the right looks like a teenage Phiomena Cunk

I don't mean that as an insult or a complement really. Just joining in the discussion.
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They all look like teenagers to me. Clearly a sign I'm getting old(er).
 
Mound Dweller said:
These are top shelf middul-clarse bints you're passing up on here bruv, yeah they've got that Norfolk look about them, but look deep into those cold dead prep school'd eyes and tell me they're not world class in sports that'd make BoJo blush, solid smash smash and smash again and I'd even call them back afterwards.
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Visit Eastern Europe, walk into a random village anywhere, there's nicer lasses than this all over. The same can be said about spain, portugal, france, any slavic or nordic country, but not germany or austria.

Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
Even though I hate your pro-russia autism, and you hate my gay. autism...autism(?).

See how hate can bring us together?
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Hopefully it can bring us together physically. I'm not pro-russia, but you can call me Zelensky while i'm rattling you.
Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
I'm a fucking faggot and those girls are pretty, but maybe I am not familiar with what straight guys like these days. I assumed they';d fuck anything with a pussy and big tits.
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Those guys aren't straight, they're simps.

All joking aside, looks come second for me. Give me a woman with a personality that I enjoy spending time with, who is switched on, funny (challenge level: improbable) and driven. Big lips and fat tits are a put-off. A bird caked in make-up or with botox, lips, or fake eye lips can go fuck themselves with a fence post on OF.


Mound Dweller said:
Middlesbrough
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I'm sorry for your location. OTOH, say hello to Bob Mortimer for me.
 
lamppost said:
In 'boro? Did you have to slip it through the burka or was she allowed to take it off?
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The sharia patrols were hard to slip past but the yt ghetto gash was kinda worth it.
Bog-standard Poster said:
I'm sorry for your location. OTOH, say hello to Bob Mortimer for me.
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Never fucking going there again, makes Blackpool look quaint in comparison.
 
Labour getting in on the blowing up the Houthis fun too now.
The UK has launched air strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen for the first time since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon fighter jets, working with the US, hit a "cluster of buildings" used by the Houthis to manufacture attack drones.

Since November 2023, the Houthis - a rebel group in control of much of Yemen - have been carrying out attacks on ships in the Red Sea, which the US has responded to by leading a bombing campaign designed to weaken the group.

Houthi leaders said the UK should "anticipate the consequences of its aggression", according to a statement published by Houthi-run Al Masirah TV.
These are the first RAF air strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen approved by Sir Keir Starmer's government – and the first direct UK participation in US-led strikes since Trump was re-elected.

Defence Secretary John Healy said the strikes were successful and carried out to protect British and international shipping.

In a statement, he said all UK personnel and aircraft had returned safely to base.

"A 55% drop in shipping through the Red Sea has already cost billions, fuelling regional instability and risking economic security for families in the UK," he continued.

The MoD said the strikes were carried out after a drone production facility was identified around 15 miles (24km) south of Yemen's capital Saana.

It said the strikes were carried out using "precision guided bombs" after "very careful planning" to hit targets "with minimal risk to civilians or non-military infrastructure".

They were launched at night "when the likelihood of any civilians being in the area was reduced yet further", the MoD added.

Speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Healy said the government's "initial assessment is that the planned targets were all successfully hit and we've seen no evidence of civilian casualties".

Earlier in the Commons, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer paid tribute to the "professionalism and bravery of all our service men and service women".

The US military has launched hundreds of strikes against Houthi targets in recent weeks - claiming to have killed hundreds of fighters, including leaders of the group and commanders overseeing drone and missile production.

Houthi-run authorities have claimed the strikes have killed dozens of civilians, but have reported few casualties among the group's members.

On Monday, they reported at least 68 African migrants killed in a US air strike on a detention centre in north-western Yemen.

Casualty reports could not be immediately verified, but Al Masirah TV's videos showed first responders recovering the bodies of at least a dozen men.

Since November 2023, the Iran-backed Houthis have targeted dozens of merchant vessels with missiles, drones and small boat attacks in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. They have sunk two vessels, seized a third, and killed four crew members.

The Houthis have said they are acting in support of the Palestinians in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and have claimed - often falsely - that they are targeting ships only linked to Israel, the US or the UK.

In response to the most recent strikes, the Houthi authorities said they were in "support [of] Israel's war and genocide in Gaza".

It added that "no matter the challenges" the group will resist the "trio of evil" - the US, UK and Israel - and their allies.

In March, Trump ordered an intensification of the bombing campaign, and two US aircraft carriers have been deployed to the region.

RAF jets have participated in US-led airstrikes before, but under the last Conservative government and when President Joe Biden was in power.

Earlier this year, an RAF tanker aircraft was deployed to refuel US warplanes.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth recently criticised European countries for their contribution to efforts to weaken the Houthis.

In a leaked message from a Signal chat with other senior officials, Hegseth referred to Europe as "freeloaders" and called their response "pathetic".
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I'm fine with that but I suspect a combination of it being something Orange Man does and "Free Plaestine" means there will be outrage in some quarters. Those of you willing to step into the cesspits do bring back the findings for the rest of us.
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Never fucking going there again, makes Blackpool look quaint in comparison.
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Unless the vomit can actually talk I find that hard to believe.
 
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