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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.

 

[GreaterHacaryguaspear]

Doncaster passed from a Labour Stronghold to Reform UK

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Just turned the news on. Holy shit we voted a lot of football zoomers in today!
Those lads need protecting like the doge lads

 

[BongoMongo]

Labour won't take the hint on this. Their voters are coddled middle class pricks who have grown up in echo chambers or spastics who vote for them because their families do and they're terminally incapable of generating a single original thought.

They'll double down on the but muh far right arguments and stick to their Davos issued orders.

 

[Fred Herbert]

The future of the Labor party is as an entirely Muslim-interests focused minor party at this point. Don't seem to have anyone else who votes for them.

 

[Thewildpelican]

Pardon me butting in, but congrats to you bongers on the Reform win! There needs to be more pushback on everything that is going on now.

 

[Mound Dweller]

Their voters are coddled middle class pricks who have grown up in echo chambers or spastics who vote for them because their families do and they're terminally incapable of generating a single original thought.

You're missing the sizeable contingent of "always voooted laybah will always vooote laybah" which is still a thing in some places.
It's the natural antipode to tory ruralists; the council house granny, the shop steward, the "true believers" if you will.
They're not all dead yet.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

You're missing the sizeable contingent of "always voooted laybah will always vooote laybah" which is still a thing in some places.
It's the natural antipode to tory ruralists; the council house granny, the shop steward, the "true believers" if you will.
They're not all dead yet.

They're not all dead yet, but in my experience they definitely aren't onboard with Starmers globohomo shitshow

 

[Mound Dweller]

They're not all dead yet, but in my experience they definitely aren't onboard with Starmers globohomo shitshow

Still doesn't stop them from fucking voootiung gaybour every fucking time be it muzzie or bliar or pinko butt bandit though does it?

 

[Nopenopenope]

Even my wife, who is a complete normie and has pretty much never spoke of politics to me before, has said something needs to be done about the immigrants. People don't care about being accused of racism anymore.

Even forgetting about sand niggers for a moment, the local elections are for local governance. Everyone knows councils are full of incompetent people working from home, wasting/mismanaging public money and being paid well for it. If Nig-el Farage can actually follow through with some of his talking points of British doge, it might be a full map of that weird blue teal.

Seriously though they need a better colour if they want taking seriously. KF green?

 

[FedPostalService]

They're not all dead yet, but in my experience they definitely aren't onboard with Starmers globohomo shitshow

But they are onboard with the even crazier left wing of the party despite being further to the right than Nick Griffin is they express any opinions on social issues.

 

[Smyrna]

A 9th council for Reform (including Doncaster which is a metropolitan borough) - North Northamptonshire.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

The future of the Labor party

found the yank

Seriously though they need a better colour if they want taking seriously. KF green?

It's not teal or green, it's light blue. Like Tory blue, but lighter. Get it? They're Tory-lite.

 

[Crunkle]

Even forgetting about sand niggers for a moment, the local elections are for local governance.

Been hearing a lot of this today.

Immigration is a national issue which is only ever fixed, managed and handled by local authorities. It should absolutely be part of a local campaign on how a party would handle the bearded child wog floaters that find their way to our shores.

Going to leave your family behind in an active warzone so you can send them all of your earnings every week and contribute nothing to us? Fuck you, either work for your place in our country or preferably just go home.

 

[Persian Carpet Salesman]

Even the immigrants hate how many immigrants there are now, the eastern Europeans really hate all the arabs coming over, one said to me the other day "why didn't Hitler do to them what he did to the jews", I look forward to the immigrant tribes turning on each other and us Brits can just get the popcorn buckets out.

 

[GreaterHacaryguaspear]

The Labour and Tory fears the beer

 

[FedPostalService]

Even the immigrants hate how many immigrants there are now, the eastern Europeans really hate all the arabs coming over, one said to me the other day "why didn't Hitler do to them what he did to the jews", I look forward to the immigrant tribes turning on each other and us Brits can just get the popcorn buckets out.

Because Nazi's really liked Muslims. Look at the Albanian SS units. That's how retarded eastern Europeans are (although I suspect you are lying for updoots)

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

Imagine trying so desperately to prove your loyalty to the British Crown after they kicked your ass to the curb decades ago that you vote back in the same party that destroyed your country.
Now imagine seeing that same Crown you pathetically kneel to reject that very same ideology in their own elections.
That is what being Canadian is. That is the life of a leaf.

 

[GreaterHacaryguaspear]

Because Nazi's really liked Muslims. Look at the Albanian SS units. That's how retarded eastern Europeans are (although I suspect you are lying for updoots)

Make difference between Islam and Muslims. Islam Itself was liked by Nazi leaders (Himmler, Goebbels, etc) because they saw Islam and Shinto as religions evoking warriors and nationalism, but Muslims depend: Bosnians, Albanians, Azeris, Tatars and Muslim Europeans were tolerated because they were living in Europe during centuries. But Arabs were saw as "Sub humans" by Hitler and others Nazi leaders, only cared Arabs because to weak UK and France.

 

[Persian Carpet Salesman]

Because Nazi's really liked Muslims. Look at the Albanian SS units. That's how retarded eastern Europeans are (although I suspect you are lying for updoots)

No I wasn't lying, I work with a lot of eastern Europeans and a big majority of them hate blacks, gays and arabs and will very casually say Hitler should have genocided them.

 

[-Jack-]

cruncle --- you can quote me, talk to me on public forums, but why woin't you reply to my DM? are you that emotionally autistic like everyone else here, yet wants to act like you're superior to a fucking paki ???