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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.

 

[AnOminous]

I don't like Abbott and even I think she is being treated massively unfairly. It's a political purge of actual socialists from the so called Labour Party.

It hasn't really been the "Labour" Party since Tony bLIAR. If not before then.

 

[Snekposter]

It hasn't really been the "Labour" Party since Tony bLIAR. If not before then.

It still have to do a mental double-take whenever Blair is brought up because its hard for me to think of the Bong version of Dubya as anything but a Tory... yet he was Labour.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

I don't like Abbott and even I think she is being treated massively unfairly. It's a political purge of actual socialists from the so called Labour Party.

I'm on the fence. I agree she is being treated unfairly for a minor bit of stupidity but were it a white person talking about black people she'd be screaming about them not having been ousted from the party yet. Also she has a long record of saying similar stuff about white people in general.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

I don't like Abbott and even I think she is being treated massively unfairly. It's a political purge of actual socialists from the so called Labour Party.

I mean, when they lead you to most crushing defeat ever, you purge all of them.

Problem is what they are replacing them with is far, far worse. And everyone can see it.

Even their ideal voters are like ‘yeah, the only reason they’ll win is the Conservatives fucked up that badly and the win isn’t even certain’

 

[frap]

I’m not sure how socialist Abbott can properly be called given she was sending her kids to private school when her own party were in government. Way to confirm all the state schools her party were responsible for were rape-addled knife sheds.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

I’m not sure how socialist Abbott can properly be called given she was sending her kids to private school when her own party were in government.

Seems rather standard for socialists in power.

 

[Snekposter]

I mean, when they lead you to most crushing defeat ever, you purge all of them.

Problem is what they are replacing them with is far, far worse. And everyone can see it.

Even their ideal voters are like ‘yeah, the only reason they’ll win is the Conservatives fucked up that badly and the win isn’t even certain’

All they had to do was be less retarded than the Tories and they can't even manage that. Leaving aside their obvious idiotic polices that's immediately disqualify on their ability to properly lead the country into anything but abject disaster.

 

[East_Clintwood]

I don't like Abbott and even I think she is being treated massively unfairly.

On the one hand you're right, and it's a blatant stitch up. On the other hand, fuck that fat grifting, lying nigger cunt on principle, and on the other other hand fuck Labour. Maybe if the actual unironic commies and the asshole Blairites continue their retarded slapfight it'll kill the current abomination that is Modern Labour and we can get an actual party that gives a shit about the working class (yeah yeah I know gimme rainbows and all that)

Also in other news Jon Venables is apparently up for parole again in November:

https://news.sky.com/story/james-bulger-killer-john-venables-to-be-given-parole-hearing-12965568

 

[AnOminous]

It still have to do a mental double-take whenever Blair is brought up because its hard for me to think of the Bong version of Dubya as anything but a Tory... yet he was Labour.

He more just knelt and sucked the cock of whoever was in the White House. So first he blew Clinton. Then he blew Dubya.

I was honestly embarrassed for a once-proud empire to have sunk so low.

If General Zod invaded, he wouldn't even have to have said "kneel before Zod" before Blair would have been on his knees eagerly gobbling his shlong.

Also in other news Jon Venables is apparently up for parole again in November:
https://news.sky.com/story/james-bulger-killer-john-venables-to-be-given-parole-hearing-12965568

It is emblematic of how utterly fucking cucked the UK is that they're even considering releasing this fucking fiend AGAIN.

What is this, his third, fourth, fifth chance? Should have dumped him in an oubliette the first time.

 

[Coolio55]

He more just knelt and sucked the cock of whoever was in the White House. So first he blew Clinton. Then he blew Dubya.

I was honestly embarrassed for a once-proud empire to have sunk so low.

If General Zod invaded, he wouldn't even have to have said "kneel before Zod" before Blair would have been on his knees eagerly gobbling his shlong.

Oh no. It was far more than that. Just look at all the laws he passed and you'll realize that he's directly responsible for most of the issues in modern Britain.

 

[AnOminous]

Oh no. It was far more than that.

I'm speaking as a mutt there, because his laws didn't really affect me directly. Still, he indeed did install the Stasi state the UK currently has, walking in lockstep with Dubya.

 

[Overly Serious]

Seems rather standard for socialists in power.

It was even a plot point in the frankly brilliant TV show The Thick of It. The MP is told that she has to remove her child from the private school and send her to a state school.

(Highly recommend the series as an insight into British politics. But recommend that people skip the film 'In the Loop' which preceded it not because it's bad but because it kind of conflicts with the show)

 

[kcbbq]

All they had to do was be less retarded than the Tories and they can't even manage that. Leaving aside their obvious idiotic polices that's immediately disqualify on their ability to properly lead the country into anything but abject disaster.

It's funny because they're like LibDems with even less of a spine yet they get a lot of council seats and stuff from the sheer momentum of once being a political party.

 

[AssignedEva]

Either Rishi is completely fabricating laws to block because he can't think of anything good to say, or his government were seriously considering introducing a meat tax, a plane tax and a plan to force you to share your car?

 

[teriyakiburns]

Either Rishi is completely fabricating laws to block because he can't think of anything good to say, or his government were seriously considering introducing a meat tax, a plane tax and a plan to force you to share your car?

At least some of them are serious proposals that have been circulating as white papers for some time, while others are just things that various quangos and campaign groups have been demanding. The insulation upgrades one is a perennial favourite of governments wanting to look like they're doing something, and I'm pretty sure the flying tax has been worming its way through environment or transport for a while. What they all have in common is that they will likely be the first things Labour will attempt to enact during its first year in office. Even if Rishi doesn't want them, the civil service certainly does (especially the taxes), because they are completely ideologically captured by the green fad. The Labour front bench will support them reflexively, simply because the Tories oppose them.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

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Either Rishi is completely fabricating laws to block because he can't think of anything good to say, or his government were seriously considering introducing a meat tax, a plane tax and a plan to force you to share your car?

It looks the Nudge Unit wanted a meat tax: https://www.bi.team/blogs/would-you...urage-environmentally-sustainable-behaviours/, https://archive.ph/2mB4Q

But no one outside of wonkland is going to know that. "We're not going to do something stupid that we were secretly considering" is not an election-winning slogan.

 

[teriyakiburns]

But no one outside of wonkland is going to know that. "We're not going to do something stupid that we were secretly considering" is not an election-winning slogan.

It's worth considering whether it's a counter-nudge, by someone who wants people to get mad about a possibility that they hadn't even considered. Government says "we're not going to do this stupid thing you never heard of". Your reaction is either going to be "hooray!" or "WHAT THE FUCK‽ WHAT ELSE ARE THEY HIDING?"

It doesn't do much for the Tories chances come the election, but it primes people to be hostile to similar proposals.

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[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

It's worth considering whether it's a counter-nudge, by someone who wants people to get mad about a possibility that they hadn't even considered. Government says "we're not going to do this stupid thing you never heard of". Your reaction is either going to be "hooray!" or "WHAT THE FUCK‽ WHAT ELSE ARE THEY HIDING?"

It doesn't do much for the Tories chances come the election, but it primes people to be hostile to similar proposals.

This schizo moment is brought to you by wine. Wine! It's full of toxins!

"Taxes on eating meat" is fairly unambiguous, but I'm a bit wary of how they might deliberately misconstrue the others...

>New taxes to discourage flying
Because we're going to increase the old ones

>Sorting your rubbish into seven different bins
It's only going to be six

>Compulsory car sharing
It's optional, there's just punitive taxes if you don't

>Expensive insulation upgrades
It's going to be subsidized by the taxpayer instead

 

[Coolio55]

I'm a really big fan of cavity insulation. I mean, the builders of the past were really stupid.
Why leave a giant hole there when you could instead fill it with mold?

"Taxes on eating meat" is fairly unambiguous, but I'm a bit wary of how they might deliberately misconstrue the others...

They never said that they wouldn't tax SELLING meat.

 

[AssignedEva]

What they all have in common is that they will likely be the first things Labour will attempt to enact during its first year in office. Even if Rishi doesn't want them, the civil service certainly does (especially the taxes), because they are completely ideologically captured by the green fad. The Labour front bench will support them reflexively, simply because the Tories oppose them.

That doesn't really ring true, though. The Civil Service ultimately can't do anything the ministers don't want. Labour's not proposed any of these, and they've not voiced support of them in light of this statement (plus Starmer is aiming for middle ground, which is pissing off the lefties). The only person who's brought up "blocking" them is Rishi, and you can't block something your own government that's in charge hasn't considered. Which surely suggests the Conservative party have at least been considering these options, and didn't bother telling us about it despite all that blather about "consent of the British people".

Sooner this shower are out, the better, imo.