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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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East_Clintwood said:
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Asda shopper left fuming after accidentally buying tiny mince pies

"As we're all trying to reduce our plastic usage this just seems unnecessary and a waste of plastic."
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Mince pies and christmas are srs business. Also can we all take a moment to appreciate someone complaining about the size of an item being smaller than the packaging when they're in a fucking see through box. Also imagine being the kind of petty cunt who goes to the papers to complain, and then even poses for the obligatory "sad face while holding my item and the receipt" photo. Honestly Asda should tell him to got eat a bag of dicks instead and then ban him from shopping their in future so he can't whine about their shit.
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In fairness, he probably only saw them from the top. Those are some right measly pies. I'd kick up a fusstoo, and I don't even like mince pies.
 
East_Clintwood said:
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Asda shopper left fuming after accidentally buying tiny mince pies

"As we're all trying to reduce our plastic usage this just seems unnecessary and a waste of plastic."
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Mince pies and christmas are srs business. Also can we all take a moment to appreciate someone complaining about the size of an item being smaller than the packaging when they're in a fucking see through box. Also imagine being the kind of petty cunt who goes to the papers to complain, and then even poses for the obligatory "sad face while holding my item and the receipt" photo. Honestly Asda should tell him to got eat a bag of dicks instead and then ban him from shopping their in future so he can't whine about their shit.
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Look at the picture he’s already eaten three of them.
 
Vesperus said:
30 years ago we were rocking out to Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, neither of which demanded we suck their cock just because they were wearing eyeliner. So yeah, you probably were safer. Look at what you've achieved since then.

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Don't forget Rob Halford, perhaps the most open of them all given his love of performing in studded black leather.
 
whogoesthere said:
Place I live, no one cares about the masks. They didnt wear them the first time, and they continue to not car. Chip shop (my local) even has a sign on the window "fuck masks", simple and to the point. Amazing how living in an entirely white area really opens your eyes. I was born in a city, so the last decade has been so strange to me with rural isolationist lifestyles. No crime either, worst we get is people torching their barns for insurance, which I think is funny. Oh and we had some bloke growing weed, slap on the wrist, and he continues to do it now I think. Everyone is friendly as well, people just talk to you in the street. Oh and everyone hates London, and I have not seen a single BLM sign here ever.
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I'm powerlevelling a bit here, but a lot of urban, non-white communities (fine, it's South Manchester and North London, happy?) aren't really following the mask mandate either. They never really did, honestly. Oh, they'll put up signs in shops warning you to wear your mask (as is legally required), but no one ever actually does.

Enforced mask-wearing seems like more of a thing in chain supermarkets, not local shops.
 
teriyakiburns said:
Ladbaby were great when they knocked the latest X-Factor tripe off the number one spot for christmas, but now I feel they've become part of the problem.
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At that point The X Factor winner wasn't getting Christmas number one anymore. It was just generic pop shit or terrible songs fronted by popular charities if I remember rightly.

I think the last X Factor winner to get Xmas number 1 was in 2010, and even then that limped in because everyone wanted to copy the success of the RATM campaign the year before and they all argued amongst each other on what it should be.
 
CWCissey said:
At that point The X Factor winner wasn't getting Christmas number one anymore. It was just generic pop shit or terrible songs fronted by popular charities if I remember rightly.

I think the last X Factor winner to get Xmas number 1 was in 2010, and even then that limped in because everyone wanted to copy the success of the RATM campaign the year before and they all argued amongst each other on what it should be.
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Shows how much I keep up with contemporary music.
 
CWCissey said:
OH FUCK NO!

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LadBaby aim for Christmas chart record - with help from Ed Sheeran and Elton John

The YouTube stars team up with pop royalty to go for a record fourth festive number one in a row.
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That's just the BBC fudging numbers, again. We all know the actual record we'll be listening to is by Slade, as it always has been - to the point where, when our remote ancestors first hauled themselves onto the mud in the Late Devonian Epoch, the first thing their primitive ears heard was Noddy Holder screaming "IT'S CHRIIIIISTMAAAAAAASSSSS!"

East_Clintwood said:
....Also can we all take a moment to appreciate someone complaining about the size of an item being smaller than the packaging when they're in a fucking see through box....
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He's from Salford. You really expect him to have a double digit IQ? He's probably one of the fuckers who bought Ladbaby's Christmas record.
 
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CWCissey said:
At that point The X Factor winner wasn't getting Christmas number one anymore. It was just generic pop shit or terrible songs fronted by popular charities if I remember rightly

I think the last X Factor winner to get Xmas number 1 was in 2010, and even then that limped in because everyone wanted to copy the success of the RATM campaign the year before and they all argued amongst each other on what it should be.
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Not quite, X-factor managed to snag it in 2013 and 2014. But you are correct that X-factor winners had not gotten christmas number 1 for some time when Ladbaby(whoever that is) rolled around.
 
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