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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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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 ran attack ads calling him pro-rapist, if people weren't going to call them racists for that one after the grooming gang denial efforts by Labour then nothing else will be called racist. Also it's never deemed racist when they do it to minority Tories.
 
teriyakiburns said:
I'd be pretty aggressive too, if a bunch of cops burst in while I sitting down to a succulent meal.
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I'm normally as opposed to the Feds shooting dogs as any other dog owner (or even anyone with a heart and basic empathy), but for pitbulls, I'm willing to make an exception.
 
In a campaign full of howlers, Sunak has really ballsed this one up by bailing on D-Day to go do telly. I think this is the howler that has real cut through. Worst of all for him, it will land the worst with the parts of his base who are most likely to fuck off and vote Reform.
 
Didn't watch the Starmer vs Sunak debate but I'm going to tune into the 7-way pileup in 10 minutes, hoping it'll be enough of a shitshow to be entertaining. I'm wondering if the other 6 have the brains and restraint to realise that all ganging up on Farage will only help him. Hopefully we'll get to see Angela Rayner use the word "fragrantly" to mean "flagrantly" again.
 
Bloom Worm Cross Field said:
Didn't watch the Starmer vs Sunak debate but I'm going to tune into the 7-way pileup in 10 minutes, hoping it'll be enough of a shitshow to be entertaining. I'm wondering if the other 6 have the brains and restraint to realise that all ganging up on Farage will only help him. Hopefully we'll get to see Angela Rayner use the word "fragrantly" to mean "flagrantly" again.
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You guessed it. I like the part where the whole panel (minus Farage) goes full mask off on immigration. They aren't even pretending to answer the questions anymore. Every party is 100% on the side of completely open borders and why shouldn't they be? I mean they don't have to deal with the hoards of shitskins in their neighborhoods and it only lowers wages and raises housing prices/rent. You know the shit that made our "elites" rich in the first place.

I also like when the camera pans to the audience and you can see that only 10% are clapping even though you can hear thunderous applause.
 
Bloom Worm Cross Field said:
Hopefully we'll get to see Angela Rayner use the word "fragrantly" to mean "flagrantly" again.
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She is almost certainly going to be Labour's first female Prime Minister while they are in power, likely in the forlorn hope it will see them through an upcoming election.
 
If I watch the rest of these fucking 'leaders' debates', I'll start calling for Germany to invade. Christ almighty, the nick of these cunts.
 
Watched that debate
Nigel Farage outside of immigration and NHS, really couldn't say what his party would do for anything, he instead just bitched about the others. Came across as a protest party or just a grifter rather than a real party, if he gets that seat Clacton how he will deal with issues like unemployment where 50% of the people don't currently work? However, he was the best speaker of the night even if what he was really saying didn't have a lot of substance.

Penny Mordaunt, can't stop lying, even when the host called the £2000 tax lie out, she kept repeating it. It's like her party doesn't understand the public is sick of the lies, yeah labour could put taxes up but they have no idea what that number would be. Really just summed up why people hate Tories right now. The Tories are going to lose to Labour, it's a done deal, just a question by how much by, so really doesn't make sense why she didn't got after Farage who is their biggest threat right now.

Angela Rayner did better than her boss, but still will avoid answering questions like him but not nearly to his level, I get they don't want to say what they will fully do until they can cost it but it's not what voters want to hear. Also Tories are going to lose, don't need to keep kicking them down rather than answering the question.

Stephen Flynn, he did better than I thought he would, mainly because no one took hits of the shitshow SNP has had in the past year which let him get off easy,

Carla Denyer, looked like a child. Did awful in the first question about defence, but after that was able to say what the public wanted to hear on most of the ones after even if not realistic. Wish someone would question the Greens about their backwards policies on GMOs or nuclear power.

Rhun ap Iorwerth, no one really cares about Wales so didn't get much of a push back from anyone outside the NHS fuck up in Wales which he weasel out of.

Daisy Cooper, did fine I guess, but tuition fees fuck up from Lib Dems coalition with the Conservatives she really had no response to. When her party is finally starting to get movement again, you want a good response when it comes to the event that nearly killed your party.

Much better than the ITV debate, as they were given time to answer the questions and didn't waste time on that retarded football question, but still a shitshow and too many of them were left off not answering the questions.
 
Elwood P. Dowd said:
Not really a big deal, especially given the parties involved, but as an Amerifat this did kind of surprise me.

Rebel Wilson book published in the UK with blacked out text
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English libel law is, as I'm sure you're aware, rather overbroad in its scope and allows people to bring suits that most countries would reject out of hand. It's not uncommon for publishers to distribute edited versions of books for the UK, to avoid opening themselves up to that liability.

They knew he would successfully sue the publisher if they left this passage in, so rather than just publish an edited version, they've decided to make a point (and get some launch publicity) by showing what they had to remove. I think it's quite clever.
 
teriyakiburns said:
. I think it's quite clever.
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Good point. The Streisand Effect here is the only reason I kinda went "huh?"

Two B list celebrities sperging at each other? Ho hum. (I personally couldn't give a shit. I'm certainly not going to actually read the book.)

Publishing something that looks like an FBI document related to the Kennedy Assassination? Now you've got my attention, even if I could otherwise care less.
 
Reform deselects incredibly based old man with killer car because of election interference by parasitic NGO Hope Not Hate. Channel 4 interviews him about his Facebook posts:
>Buuubbbbuubbuu you posted this on your facebook!
> haha yeah :)
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