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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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From what I can see, my energy bill has went up to about £100 a month (was 125 in the winter) if the rises occur as we think they will the average bill should probably be about 175. It stings but it's not life destroying, the main people this will effect are the benefit scrounging wankers anyway who's bills are paid by the government for the most part, also seeing that bald cunt Martin Lewis evangelise how this is the end of days was really fucking funny,
 
Theres been a shooting on the isle of Skye, perp hasnt been identified yet. Probably a disgruntled sheep shagger but if it turns out to be a paki or a nog I'm gonna be depressed as fuck. Not even the furthest most rural areas are safe now.
 
Cloaca Rimjob said:
Theres been a shooting on the isle of Skye, perp hasnt been identified yet. Probably a disgruntled sheep shagger but if it turns out to be a paki or a nog I'm gonna be depressed as fuck. Not even the furthest most rural areas are safe now.
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Given the area my bet is on a disagreement between farmers on who can shag the prettiest sheep on the island.
 
Fish Fudge said:
Do Americans think "Limey" is insulting? I've always wondered, genuinely curious.
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Term of endearment. Kind of like calling us Americans "Yanks" or calling a Frenchman "Frog(gy)." Just some well-meaning ball-busting on our little shitposting New Zealand horticulture bird board.
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it's just teasing, it means they like you ;)
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More or less ya.
 
So this originally happened a fortnight ago, but kinda slipped under my radar. However the tards involved were recently interviewed by a couple of news shows which got it trending on Twitter which is how I came across it.

You guys remember the Animal Rebellion mongs a while back who disrupted a bunch of McDonalds distribution centers and shit in a spastic effort to force the company to go to an entirely plant based menu? Well they're back and bigger and better dumber than ever. Now they don't just want to force McDonalds to go plant based, they want the Government to force the entire fucking country to go plant based.

Now I know what you're thinking, that is an impressively retarded large proposition, surely they must have some sort of equally big actions to match their ambitions right? Did they maybe go after one of the 5, count em 5, DEFRA ministers that could actually do something about the policy change they want to enforce?

Did they go straight for the source and maybe attack the problems directly by targeting some of the enormous farms and shit that they're bitching about?

Of course not, instead they had a little sit down protest in a Waitrose cheese room, and poured a couple of bottles of milk on the floor of a Harrods, because nothing says sticking it to the man, and causing societal change, like forcing some poor wagie to clean up after you:


Honestly if not for the fact they talk about this proudly I'd assume this story was a shitpost. A bunch of people regularly lambasted as champagne socialists really couldn't find a more effective protest than going to fucking Harrods and Waitrose? I will say though, the Waitrose repsonse was hilariously based, apparently they just walled the fuckers in with a bunch of roll cages, thus denying them the spectacle they fucking thrive off:
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As a final note while I was googling these mongs for some background stuff I ended up on their wiki page. Apparently someone had corrected vandalized it, and it had been that way for quite a while
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Jerry Sadowitz had his second night cancelled at the Edinburgh Festival (archive). The theatre that cancelled the second night, issuing a refund to everyone with a ticket, refuses to explain why:
However, on Saturday the Pleasance Theatre Trust said the second performance was cancelled "with immediate effect".
It said in a statement: "Opinions such as those displayed on stage by Sadowitz are not acceptable and The Pleasance are not prepared to be associated with such material."
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Its director, Anthony Alderson, added: "The Pleasance is a venue that champions freedom of speech and we do not censor comedians' material.
"While we acknowledge that Jerry Sadowitz has often been controversial, the material presented at his first show is not acceptable and does not align with our values.
"This type of material has no place on the festival and the Pleasance will not be presenting his second and final show"
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I wonder what it could be. "Trans women are not women"? "Saying nigger doesn't actually harm anyone"? "We shouldn't let Pakistanis rape our daughters"?
 
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