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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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Chaos Theorist said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/£sd
I mean you would think they just refer to how currency used to work under pre-decimalisation
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It's why I posted it. Someone losing a lawsuit isn't especially newsworthy. Trying to claim that the phrase 10 a penny or even dime a dozen for the Americas is linked to slavery is bizarre. Don't get me wrong there's a degree of classism to it but we all know that's acceptable.
 
RIP Mr. Turnbull.


Before leaving us Mr. Johnson has pledged £700 million to the construction of the Sizewell C nuke plant in Surrey which should be running by the 2030s assuming we're not all living in a rainy version of Mad Max by then.

Very, very expensive and will take ages to build but better late than never? A Green Party member whined about the expense, lengthness and risk which I find odd considring she's a member of the party that exists to push cLeAn EnErGy.
 
Roast Chicken said:
assuming we're not all living in a rainy version of Mad Max by then
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Kinda need cars and sharp objects for that. I guess you'll be using bicycle wheels and cricket bats as you beat each other to death in the Metro tunnels.
 
Chaos Theorist said:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ransport-veterans-unveil-statue-at-essex-port
>that cunty comment at the end of the article
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This one?
The family was reunited some years after the war. “I was very lucky that my family survived,” she said. “I wish that today’s refugees were welcomed with the same kindness we were shown."

“Britain is behaving rather well in regard to Ukrainian refugees, but black people are not so popular. I love this country with a passion but when I see it behaving in a short-term, little England way, I’m disappointed.”
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Fuck off do. "Black people." As though the only illegal migrants into this country are black. I must have missed all those signs saying "blacks go back but Polish, Romanian, Pakistani, Indian, Hong Kong etc. are fine" when the racists are having their rallies. Or those separate storage facilities for illegals by skin colour so they can deport them by darkest hue first.

Alright Shirley let's have a look at you. I'm not going to pop at your personal life since you've had some tragedy beyond the war and do a lot of philanthropy. However the company you founded and retired from 30 years ago was Freelance Programmers and now is Sopra Steria. The controversies Wikipedia will list for them, and you know there will be far more, include failing immigrants with
allegations that the company was charging "extortionate" rates to the vulnerable
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Maybe speaking out about that might do more to help refugees get into this country rather than telling the dirty proles that they should be more welcoming, like they were during war time.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
This one?

Fuck off do. "Black people." As though the only illegal migrants into this country are black. I must have missed all those signs saying "blacks go back but Polish, Romanian, Pakistani, Indian, Hong Kong etc. are fine" when the racists are having their rallies. Or those separate storage facilities for illegals by skin colour so they can deport them by darkest hue first.

Alright Shirley let's have a look at you. I'm not going to pop at your personal life since you've had some tragedy beyond the war and do a lot of philanthropy. However the company you founded and retired from 30 years ago was Freelance Programmers and now is Sopra Steria. The controversies Wikipedia will list for them, and you know there will be far more, include failing immigrants with

Maybe speaking out about that might do more to help refugees get into this country rather than telling the dirty proles that they should be more welcoming, like they were during war time.
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That one yes.
 
www.telegraph.co.uk

Watch: Extinction Rebellion protesters superglue themselves around Speaker’s Chair in Commons

Priti Patel criticises eco-activist ‘mob’ who evaded parliamentary security by posing as tourists
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Extinction Rebellion mongs at it again, this time they've superglued themselves to the Speaker's chair in the commons, and draped some banners on the building. Finally actually targeting the fucking politicos instead of jewing ordinary people? Oh wait no Parliament is still in recess, til Monday, making this their usual faggotry.
 
East_Clintwood said:
www.telegraph.co.uk

Watch: Extinction Rebellion protesters superglue themselves around Speaker’s Chair in Commons

Priti Patel criticises eco-activist ‘mob’ who evaded parliamentary security by posing as tourists
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Extinction Rebellion mongs at it again, this time they've superglued themselves to the Speaker's chair in the commons, and draped some banners on the building. Finally actually targeting the fucking politicos instead of jewing ordinary people? Oh wait no Parliament is still in recess, til Monday, making this their usual faggotry.
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Leave them there till then. Lindsay Hoyle can do some demonstrations of the most effective methods to break a human for the parents in Chorley.

Also they wouldn't have gotten as far as the chair if Parliament was in session. Even the feeblest MP could take this lot.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Leave them there till then. Lindsay Hoyle can do some demonstrations of the most effective methods to break a human for the parents in Chorley.

Also they wouldn't have gotten as far as the chair if Parliament was in session. Even the feeblest MP could take this lot.
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I’m genuinely in favour of just leaving these mongs wherever they glue themselves. I bet when the Autumn / Winter starts you won’t see these fair weather fruit loops glueing themselves to roads or anywhere outdoors.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Leave them there till then. Lindsay Hoyle can do some demonstrations of the most effective methods to break a human for the parents in Chorley.

Also they wouldn't have gotten as far as the chair if Parliament was in session. Even the feeblest MP could take this lot.
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MPs don't need to bother. There are bouncers of sorts near and in the commons during a session, some have weapons too.

What a bunch of tools.
 
Ly Erg said:
MPs don't need to bother. There are bouncers of sorts near and in the commons during a session, some have weapons too.

What a bunch of tools.
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Oh I know. But honestly the image of them being beaten down by MPs was funnier the security more likely to have handled them.
It'd be John Prescott all over again.
 
Unremarkable, except to note that the Tories are now onto female leader number three, while the progressive Labour Party are amusingly led by a middle aged white ex-barrister with a knighthood.
 
Clem Fandango said:
Unremarkable, except to note that the Tories are now onto female leader number three, while the progressive Labour Party are amusingly led by a middle aged white ex-barrister with a knighthood.
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As shite as the Tories are, I do find this still very mildly amusing.
 
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It's not unexpected. For all she claimed to be an outsider, she's part of the same circle in the end. The one bright side is that she's just dense enough that she might still do something right by accident.

That's my baseless fantasy and I'm holding on to it as tight as I can.
 
Two Tory MSPs seem to have resigned after Liz Truss won. Oliver Mundell resigned as Tory education spokesperson and another Tory MSP (Not sure who yet) is resigning as MSP altogether.
teriyakiburns said:
It's not unexpected. For all she claimed to be an outsider, she's part of the same circle in the end. The one bright side is that she's just dense enough that she might still do something right by accident.

That's my baseless fantasy and I'm holding on to it as tight as I can.
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Truss is more of an idiot than any PM but any accident she does is not going to fall on the button that will help people. She will press the "explode reactor" button that's sealed in a case to prevent accidents.
 
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