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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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FedPostalService said:
I was young, dumb, and drifted right with age.

I was brought up completely surrounded by Tory derangement syndrome by people who despised Thatcher for making them affluent.

Sad. Many such cases.
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Is this your first time paying attention to the election cycle?
AssignedEva said:
You're a constant ray of sunshine in this thread.
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It's the mole isn't it?

I'm British and I've seen the decline of this country. I'm not going to be cheerful when things keep getting worse and every year I lose another part of my home to nignogs. I don't have any sympathy for people who have helped destroy this nation and no one else should.
 
Shiverpeaks said:
Any one who says "I trained in the UK and now I'm moving abroad" is a spiritual Jew. You can't fix the problems by running to some where else. Either you invest in your country and your people or you STFU about all the problems because you're more interested in your bank account than improving the situation. Other systems are just as fucked as ours but in slightly different ways. Any where you run will be as bad and will get worse because everyone runs and never invests in alternatives.
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I hear you, but the thing that really guts your will to stay and fight is not when the government is oppressing you, but when your fellow citizens turn on you. The govt. saying "you must let men in women's changing rooms" or "you must spend two weeks indoors" can inspire you to fight to defend your country against it. But when your tutting neighbours are telling you what a bad person you are if you don't believe such things, it makes you feel like there is no country to defend and you're not wanted anymore. You start to wonder if there's somewhere out there you still would belong.

FedPostalService said:
Old enough to have voted for Tony Blair 😂
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Don't feel too bad. He was slick as an oil well and took in a lot of people. You can blame George Soros if you like as his Black Wednesday is one of the things that deeply undermined the Major govt. and paved part of the way for Tony Blair's triumphant rise.
 
Overly Serious said:
I hear you, but the thing that really guts your will to stay and fight is not when the government is oppressing you, but when your fellow citizens turn on you. The govt. saying "you must let men in women's changing rooms" or "you must spend two weeks indoors" can inspire you to fight to defend your country against it. But when your tutting neighbours are telling you what a bad person you are if you don't believe such things, it makes you feel like there is no country to defend and you're not wanted anymore. You start to wonder if there's somewhere out there you still would belong.
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I understand wanting some where to belong but we have no where at this point. Every where is so bad that the only home is the one we decide to make. My neighbours aren't like that though. The other day one was telling me how David Ike was making a lot of sense and how young white men are being fucked over. My area is pretty based if you will excuse the terminology.
 
Shiverpeaks said:
Is this your first time paying attention to the election cycle?
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No, the first election cycle after coming to my senses that Labour are going to win.

As a reformed lefty I know how fucking crazy Labour are and it fucking frightening.

Everything bad that’s creeped in over the past 14 years is about to get cranked up to eleven.

Imagine Blairism but without the economic growth and a boot stamping on a Kiwis face forever.
 
It's a sad day when you think back fondly to Paddy fucking Ashdown. Fuck the Blairites and fuck the Starmerists and fuck Momentum. Bring back the spirit of Foot!
 
Shiverpeaks said:
Have you ever known someone who wants to talk to a clipboard holder in the street? I haven't.
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Power level, but funny.

A family member was once stopped on the street by the BBC filming a vox pop segment about how bad it was to be living on benefits. Said family member gave a troll answer about it being fantastic as they get free money. Oddly enough, his answer didn't make it onto the segment. A similar case happened to another family member that was interviewed about something that happened with the local school, and his answer was edited to remove the important bits. That last one was a surprise because he's more media savvy than most normies, so why he talked to journo scum at all is a bit confusing.

Point is, journo surveys can't be trusted because if they don't like your answer, it won't be included in the results.
 
Judge Dredd said:
Point is, journo surveys can't be trusted because if they don't like your answer, it won't be included in the results.
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Best evidence of that being that they no longer interview the 102 year old miners who when asked what's behind their advanced age opened with "steak pie and chips most nights with a few pints before I moved onto the cigs."
 
Judge Dredd said:
Power level, but funny.

A family member was once stopped on the street by the BBC filming a vox pop segment about how bad it was to be living on benefits. Said family member gave a troll answer about it being fantastic as they get free money. Oddly enough, his answer didn't make it onto the segment. A similar case happened to another family member that was interviewed about something that happened with the local school, and his answer was edited to remove the important bits. That last one was a surprise because he's more media savvy than most normies, so why he talked to journo scum at all is a bit confusing.

Point is, journo surveys can't be trusted because if they don't like your answer, it won't be included in the results.
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Slight power level but I went to university with a few people who became journalists and one time one needed a vox pop quote.
He was super lazy and needed a recording last minute for some radio work.

A guy who had been a good friend for years became a completely different person when he switched into journalist mode. I told him to chill the fuck out at one stage or if start making up conspiracy theories with my answers and he wouldn’t get the quote he needed.

I don’t speak to any of them anymore. The whole journalist culture rots their souls. Even the few “good” ones carry water for the rest of the filth in their profession.

I can’t think of one group of people I hate more.
 
FedPostalService said:
No, the first election cycle after coming to my senses that Labour are going to win.

As a reformed lefty I know how fucking crazy Labour are and it fucking frightening.

Everything bad that’s creeped in over the past 14 years is about to get cranked up to eleven.

Imagine Blairism but without the economic growth and a boot stamping on a Kiwis face forever.
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If it offers you any comfort you're over reacting while being completely right. Labour and the Conservatives do the exact same thing and share all the same policies. labour getting in is bad, but conservatives staying in is equally bad. You're picking between white bread or wholemeal but you're still eating a shit sandwich. Nothing labour do is going to be any worse than the Tories already do. Look at the little boats thing and you'll see what the difference is.
 
teriyakiburns said:
It's a sad day when you think back fondly to Paddy fucking Ashdown. Fuck the Blairites and fuck the Starmerists and fuck Momentum. Bring back the spirit of Foot!
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I remember watching the whole election on Channel 4's "Election Night Armistice". They had a 30' inflatable Paddy-O-Meter which they inflated or deflated according to how well the LibDems were doing. And a tiny Tony Blair in a remote controlled car. It was far more fun than Jonathon Snow on the BBC. But the best Paddy Ashdown thing I recall was when the BBC had the three party leader interviews all recorded in secret and separately with the exact same questions in each. They made such a big deal out of that. Anyway, one of the questions was something like "Have you ever taken an illegal drug?"

Tony Blair immediately said: "No, never," and you didn't believe him.
John Major said "No, never," and you did!

Paddy Ashdown just did a double-take, laughed and said "You can't possibly expect me to answer that on national television."

He was unarguably the most likeable of the three.
 
Walks at sunset are unrivaled in the UK. The sun setting over our rape fields really make you glad to be alive. It's not often you get to really appreciate rape, but our fair land and the sun are a great combination.
 
Overly Serious said:
I hear you, but the thing that really guts your will to stay and fight is not when the government is oppressing you, but when your fellow citizens turn on you.
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That's my biggest concern.

I wasn't joking when I said I had a secret project - there's no secret anymore. AdBlue is urea solution - it can be fermented in a continuous process, much like alcohol. You can moonshine high-explosives, now - afaik, up until like, two days ago, you would end up on a watchlist. You no longer will - I found a way to circumvent all of the legislation.

I'm not concerned about it, I can safely handle shit and I designed it in such a way that it doesn't cross the threshold for explosives.

But you know what does concern me? I developed it, in the mindset that if I die because of the shit in our country, I can leave that behind to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else. I've done my part, without technically breaking the law (sodium nitrate is not illegal to produce, but it would be as soon as I added battery acid), but I can't tell anyone.

That's how the average citizen treats it. I genuinely developed something novel, and extremely useful - but because of how Pakis behave, now, all it takes is an accusation for me to get in trouble. Despite, obviously, caring about my country, a significant chunk of the country wouldn't give it a second thought.
 
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Random piss-off: why do buskers need an amplifier? I shouldn't have to listen to your unsolicited garbage at all, I especially shouldn't be able to hear it from 300 yards away in a busy street. Fuck these people; get a job.
 
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