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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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Doctor Love said:
This is the mindset - your entire opinion is based off of social approval. It's why so many "far right" activists seem keen to turn to groups like Hope not Hate - they're just unpleasant, immoral individuals who form their opinions by consensus. You spent too much time online, and are completely isolated from reality. The truth is that there is good information to find. You just chose not to. For some reason, you're edgy enough to make offensive statements in secret, but too scared to find out how certain chemicals are actually made.
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You babble like a fucking loon mate, take a walk and have a word with yourself.
 
whogoesthere said:
You babble like a fucking loon mate, take a walk and have a word with yourself.
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Are you accentuating an English accent, in the British News thread? Why?

There's no way I can make it simpler. Hinging your entire worldview on dogma - which necessarily excludes useful shit - is a bad idea. It's like the Chinese who believed that martial arts would make them bulletproof. The Holocaust was an industrial genocide - if you really deny the Holocaust, you have to therefor deny industrial processes and their efficiency.

And thereby, you do more damage to British society than any Jew - you find disillusioned young men and project your own failings onto them. You have convinced yourself that you're smarter than average, and unfortunately, some poor mong might actually believe you.
 
Clem Fandango said:
I have just recently, as promised earlier in the year, now fucked off abroad. I won't say which country as that only ever leads to "hurr durr but your new country is worse" type comments, but honestly I no longer feel like the UK is what it was when I was growing up, and I don't really want my son growing up there now.
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I envy you. I know I have an out because I've got dual nationality and passports if things get too dangerous for my family to keep living here but I know my heart is going to be destroyed if I have to leave. It hits different when you live in more friendly rural communities that are slowly being urbanized because city folk are moving out in droves, and are bringing all of their problems with them. No doubt once the migrants have exhausted everything cities have to offer them they will turn to us, and then it will truly all be over unless the farmers here improvise their combine harvesters a la Killdozer.

As of now I'm doing what I can to make sure my family and I have everything we need to GTFO should it get to that.

The only thing that I am 100% terrified of is having to leave some of my animals behind because they might not be allowed into the country. :heart-empty:
 
Idiot Doom Spiral said:
One of life’s great mysteries.

Why do so many working class/shit class morons think owning a fucking XL is such a good idea?

I wouldn’t wish a mauling on anyone, but owning these dogs really is an apt demonstration of ‘play stupid games’.
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Maybe they use them as guard dogs. Like they think since they're pit bulls by default would protective their home and owner. But they forgot that real guard dogs are both bred and trained to guard a home and business. They also don't play or walk their dogs, so the dogs are cooped up in a home 24/7. Then have all this energy waiting to burst out!
 
Tootsie Bear said:
Maybe they use them as guard dogs. Like they think since they're pit bulls by default would protective their home and owner. But they forgot that real guard dogs are both bred and trained to guard a home and business. They also don't play or walk their dogs, so the dogs are cooped up in a home 24/7. Then have all this energy waiting to burst out!
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Yeah, this, and quite frankly I reckon it’s a misguided form of intimidation. You’ll usually find the tattoo’d up scum who ape the Geordie Shore ideal own these fucking abominations.

It’s a good point about the lazy bastards not walking the things, too. Ties in further with them seeing XL’s as an accessory rather than a fucking thing that needs serious attention.
 
Tragon Dirtle said:
I do support no fault divorce, but I would argue that it's a natural development for them in terms of protecting the property of both parties rather than distributing on the basis of fault, because marriage isn't a moral or religious covenant any more.
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England and Wales (and Scotland, but Tories aren't in charge there) hasn't had 'fault' as a relevant consideration when making financial provision on divorce since before I was born.
The only thing that legislation changed was the requirement to either: wait a certain period, and have both parties consent; or wait a longer period without both parties' consent; or prove a 'fault ground' i.e. adultery, unreasonable behaviour and similar.
Proving adultery was practically impossible due to the evidence required. Proving unreasonable behaviour directly incentivised parties to make accusations of domestic abuse and sexual abuse and mistreatment of children against each other, so it was completely harmful.
Since the 'fault' proven couldn't be taken into account in the financial settlement, and wasn't taken into account in any proceedings about the kids of the marriage, it actually achieved nothing apart from make divorces longer and more expensive for the parties.
'No-fault' divorce simply removed the requirement to prove fault or go through a waiting period, so marriages can now be ended quickly and cheaply if both parties consent to the ending of the marriage.
No-fault divorce was a long overdue reform in England.
 
Idiot Doom Spiral said:
Why do so many working class/shit class morons think owning a fucking XL is such a good idea?
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There’s an XLB breeder in South Manchester who, before the ban came in, had 1,000 pups in various locations (mostly in Scotland) and could sell them each for around £3,000.

There’s a sizeable XLB “community” around the Cheadle Hulme area, and lampposts have stickers sating something like “it’s not the dog; it’s the owner”.

I never see news stories about a Labrador mauling a nipper. These shit machines need to be destroyed.
 
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Idiot Doom Spiral said:
Yeah, this, and quite frankly I reckon it’s a misguided form of intimidation. You’ll usually find the tattoo’d up scum who ape the Geordie Shore ideal own these fucking abominations.

It’s a good point about the lazy bastards not walking the things, too. Ties in further with them seeing XL’s as an accessory rather than a fucking thing that needs serious attention.
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From that LBC article:

"Gardai said they encountered "a number of aggressive dogs" at the scene, one of which has since been put down".
 
Amin Yasister said:
From that LBC article:

"Gardai said they encountered "a number of aggressive dogs" at the scene, one of which has since been put down".
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I'd be pretty aggressive too, if a bunch of cops burst in while I sitting down to a succulent meal.
 
Rishi Sunak is having a headache at the moment for leaving the 80th D-Day commemorations early to go do an election interview, and apparently had planned to skip it completely

He's claiming that he made a "mistake" but is trying to downplay it, while also apparently claiming the plan had been to leave early even before the election had been called.

I think this whole cluster fuck is the result of him calling the shots on his own campaign and having a complete cultural disconnect. Brits can see the sacrifices our ancestors and countrymen made during the war, but Rishi's ancestors were colonial administrators in Kenya and Tanganyika. These countries saw fighting and were used in the war effort, but D-Day was largely something distant to them (the black population may have been in the King's African Rifles, but the Indian middle classes weren't). Then they moved to the UK in the 60s.

Rishi simply feels no connection to the UK or the British servicemen who died in WWII, and is too arrogant to listen to advisors, so he didn't see how badly this would be received.
 
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Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
That list also has one person killed a by a corgi, which makes you wonder how that can happen...
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Someone crossed the Queen.

AssignedEva said:
Rishi simply feels no connection to the UK or the British servicemen who died in WWII, and is too arrogant to listen to advisors, so he didn't see how badly this would be received.
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"Rishi doesn't care about this country; we do" would be a great campaign for Labour, but they can never use it, because they'll immediately be branded as racist.
 
teriyakiburns said:
"Rishi doesn't care about this country; we do" would be a great campaign for Labour, but they can never use it, because they'll immediately be branded as racist.
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They should go whole hog then. "Rishi doesn't care about this country; we do, because we're white and he's a stinking Johnny Foreigner who wipes his arse with his hand".
 
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