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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.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

So Labour hiring Sue Gray does absolutely not make me think Labour screwed with that investigation into the Cons and Labour Leaders breaking the law…

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Oh it begins

The Illegal Migration Bill is set to prevent those arriving illegally from claiming asylum, and will block them from returning or seeking citizenship. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said it was "fair for those at home and those who have a legitimate claim to asylum".

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

It would be better to just block all future asylum claims and reject anyone is who currently awaiting asylum. The country was full 20 years ago, now people are crushed up against the walls, nationals and non-natives alike.

Pull up the draw bridge, gun down the boats and lets get our house in order before we invite anymore guests in.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Related

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak travelled to Paris to attend a summit with French President Emmanuel Macron. The two leaders are expected to flesh out agreements on migrant crossings, energy security and protecting people from the threat of Russia.

 

[DagothUr]

Is this the universe playing some kind of sick joke?
The literal paki PM is the one to start pushing some anti-migrant stuff.

ideally they start removing N'wah wholesale.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

The literal paki PM is the one to start pushing some anti-migrant stuff.

No one hates illegals more than people born from legal migrants. They view them as disrespecting what their familes went through.

It also shuts down the racist counterpoint.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

It is remarkable how the usual lefties can't wait to blame the Tories for everything happening to the country, such as increasing crime, poverty and homelessness, a failing NHS, wage stagnation, etc.

But the moment that the Tories try to do something that would alleviate those issues they start crying and comparing them to Nazies.

Is it really Naziesque to suggest that limiting immigration, especially illegal immigration, might help with the social and economic issues the country is facing? We can't take care of the people already here and haven't been able to for at least 20 years but hey let's just bring in more people because not doing so is literally worse than Nazi Germany.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

It is remarkable how the usual lefties can't wait to blame the Tories for everything happening to the country, such as increasing crime, poverty and homelessness, a failing NHS, wage stagnation, etc.

But the moment that the Tories try to do something that would alleviate those issues they start crying and comparing them to Nazies.

Is it really Naziesque to suggest that limiting immigration, especially illegal immigration, might help with the social and economic issues the country is facing? We can't take care of the people already here and haven't been able to for at least 20 years but hey let's just bring in more people because not doing so is literally worse than Nazi Germany.

Its funny how their stance literally puts them at odds with the working class.

 

[AnOminous]

Is this the universe playing some kind of sick joke?
The literal paki PM is the one to start pushing some anti-migrant stuff.

He's actually politically in a good position to do that because if you're white and do that they can just scream waycism. I mean they still will, but they look like fucking idiots doing it.

Is it really Naziesque to suggest that limiting immigration, especially illegal immigration, might help with the social and economic issues the country is facing?

It's literally in the definition of a nation under international law that being able to maintain your own borders is a necessary condition for recognition as a nation. Enforcing immigration laws is part of that. And when they're as liberal as they are in the UK (and the US for that matter), what kind of people have to do it illegally? Pretty much the dregs of any society.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

I hope the football gets more viewers this weekend on the BBC than it has ever gotten.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

The Lineker thing is a bit of a piss-take.

Only a few month ago, an MP lost his job and his lively hood because he tweeted something along the lines of "A friend who is a Dr told me that the covid jab is the biggest medical experiment since the holocaust" - which is true.

Lineker says that the immigration policies are the same as "germany in the 30s", implying that Rishi is voting to send migrants to death camps, and all of these cock-sucking celebrities, not only applaud and agree with him, but call for the sacking of the BBC boss who took Lineker off air?

I dislike the BBC as much as the next brit, but they were 100% in the right here. They told Lineker he was bang out of order, and just like the spoiled child he is said "I will keep tweeting how I feel", which goes against the BBC's impartiality rules.

Funny, isn't it, that those who were called for Lineker to have his wage cut due to the 'gender pay-gap' are now suddenly silent and are not calling for him to be rightfully taken to task.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

The Lineker thing is a bit of a piss-take.

Only a few month ago, an MP lost his job and his lively hood because he tweeted something along the lines of "A friend who is a Dr told me that the covid jab is the biggest medical experiment since the holocaust" - which is true.

Lineker says that the immigration policies are the same as "germany in the 30s", implying that Rishi is voting to send migrants to death camps, and all of these cock-sucking celebrities, not only applaud and agree with him, but call for the sacking of the BBC boss who took Lineker off air?

I dislike the BBC as much as the next brit, but they were 100% in the right here. They told Lineker he was bang out of order, and just like the spoiled child he is said "I will keep tweeting how I feel", which goes against the BBC's impartiality rules.

Funny, isn't it, that those who were called for Lineker to have his wage cut due to the 'gender pay-gap' are now suddenly silent and are not calling for him to be rightfully taken to task.

Just fire him. Its only bloody football for Christ sakes. Even if you remove the impartiality rules (which is bullshit and many others in the BBC break daily such as Ian Hislop and Russell T Davies) the fact is that he compared the illegal immigration crisis caused by foreign criminals trying to abuse our high trust welfare state to the murder of at least 6 million Jews and whoever else the Nazis deemed unworthy to live.
Lineker is a thick as pigshit footballer who only claim to fame is Walkers Crisps. When the immigrants start ramping up their criminal ways when the warmer weather comes around and allows them to be on the streets for longer terrorising the ordinary men and women of small towns across the country people like Gary will be safe in the gated houses with 24/7 security.
Hell how doe we even know if these noble immigrants arent just sleeper agents for Islamic Terrorism?

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

the fact is that he compared the illegal immigration crisis caused by foreign criminals trying to abuse our high trust welfare state to the murder of at least 6 million Jews and whoever else the Nazis deemed unworthy to live.

Anyone who stands by Lineker after saying the above is nuts. He should be fired and bonus would be calling Ian Wright out on his dare that if Lineker goes, he goes. I believe he would go 100% because Wright has become more and more pissed off with the woke, anti-racism shit. You can see him cringe whenever the pundits talk jovially about the struggle of the blacks.

When the immigrants start ramping up their criminal ways when the warmer weather comes around and allows them to be on the streets for longer terrorising the ordinary men and women of small towns across the country people like Gary will be safe in the gated houses with 24/7 security.
Hell how doe we even know if these noble immigrants arent just sleeper agents for Islamic Terrorism?

It's not the islamic terrorism we have to worry about. It's the gangs of fighting-aged men from ex-communist countries who will terrorise parts of the country through gang warfare and out and out violence. A bomb every now and then is nothing new to Britain, but rampaging hordes of invaders will catch the attention of nobody because the media won't cover it and the police won't resond to it everybody.

 

[AnOminous]

Hell how doe we even know if these noble immigrants arent just sleeper agents for Islamic Terrorism?

If they're so bored and unhappy, why don't they go back where they came from? Oh, they claim they'll be killed if they do? Maybe they should be counting their fucking blessings instead that things aren't even worse. Seeking asylum isn't supposed to be a fucking amusement park.

 

[Fungible penis]

I hope the football gets more viewers this weekend on the BBC than it has ever gotten.

No commentators and crowd noise is my dream scenario for TV football.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

It really is annoying that the only people who are allowed to call the government nazis are the left wing.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

It really is annoying that the only people who are allowed to call the government nazis are the left wing.

That’s what I find so odd about all of this. The BBC under new management could take off most of it’s staff for bias on Twitter, as this is not the first time a left winger that works for them has said this kind of shit. Don’t even get me started on what some have gotten away with on air. But they haven’t.

So what caused the hammer to go down?

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

So what caused the hammer to go down?

Lineker said he wouldn't back down. I think the rest of the journos who were caught for impartiality all apologised soon after. When lineker was told to stop he just said "lol, no".

 

[AnOminous]

So what caused the hammer to go down?

Possibly the BBC still likes whatever remains of the tattered remnants of their reputation as an objective news source, which used to make them a worldwide source of record, and as much bullshit as they now tolerate, hysterical "NAWTSEEEE NAWTSEEEEE!" shit is still beyond what they can endure without looking like complete clowns.

Lineker said he wouldn't back down. I think the rest of the journos who were caught for impartiality all apologised soon after. When lineker was told to stop he just said "lol, no".

That too. They want obedient minions, not retarded loose cannons. Also maybe they just didn't care terribly for him in the first place.

 

[St.Davis]

I vaguely recall an event surrounding Lineker when people told him to put his money where is mouth was regarding letting infinity wogs into the country.

This manifested in him taking in some migrant, who then mysteriously was evicted after a few days, and Lineker subsequently dropped the subject entirely.

This is a hazily remembered anecdote that may have come to me in a dream.