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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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isalaide said:
I would propose that Skye is more defensible as a fallback of last resort. Just fedpost the Bridge.
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I think the locals would be quite happy to send the thing down into the briny.
You used to be able to leave your doors unlocked on Skye, and as soon as the bridge opened, you couldn’t.
 
Coelacanth said:
Hold up! Me an' the family are passing up from the south seeking safety. It's a hellscape down there. Since Starmergeddon took place every white British person mutated into either an Indian or a Paki. Me and my dad are still safe thanks to having American DNA, but we had to put down my mom when she started talking about benefits in a pajeet accent.
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You’re in a Greggs walking towards the counter when all of the sudden you look down at your phone, and you see its after 11am, but you haven't eaten breakfast.
 
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You’re in a Greggs walking towards the counter when all of the sudden you look down at your phone, and you see its after 11am, but you haven't eaten breakfast.
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Give me a bacon bap and make it extra crispy. Seriously I'm hungry and we haven't eaten since we fought off the rape gang hivemind spreading out from Rochdale. :(
 
isalaide said:
I would propose that Skye is more defensible as a fallback of last resort. Just fedpost the Bridge.
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It also has the Talisker distillery.

Coelacanth said:
Hold up! Me an' the family are passing up from the south seeking safety. It's a hellscape down there. Since Starmergeddon took place every white British person mutated into either an Indian or a Paki. Me and my dad are still safe thanks to having American DNA, but we had to put down my mom when she started talking about benefits in a pajeet accent.
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You should be aware of earlier signs. Head-bobbing, an aversion to porcelain, an inexplicable urge to walk on railway tracik, and an inability to correctly use bloody fuck... you bloody! bloody fuck you! OH god they got me, run sar! I shall be of to doing the needful and buy you time to redeem!
 
Can you imagine how much money the country could save if every council wasn't bowing to the fags and hosting multiple events this month? It's disgusting how much money is burned on faggots showing their bondage gear and arse holes to children.
 
https://archive.is/hMdqq (article is otherwise hard paywalled)
‘White-centricity’ of folk music investigated in £1.5m academic study
University of Sheffield researchers handed taxpayer cash to ‘decolonise’ folk singing
Charlotte Gill
22 June 2024 • 5:57pm
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Taking place at the University of Sheffield, researchers “will take an unflinching look at the white-centricity of folk music repertory, performers and audience by conducting fieldwork to shed light on long-standing vernacular singing practices of ethnic minority cultures in England”.
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Almighty Space Duck said:
Please be patient I have autism I'm from Birmingham.
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>Angela Rayner
>Birmingham
You what? You've erd er talk lahhk that and you think shis a brummeh?
Coelacanth said:
Hold up! Me an' the family are passing up from the south seeking safety. It's a hellscape down there. Since Starmergeddon took place every white British person mutated into either an Indian or a Paki.
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Hang on, I've seen this one
 
Elwood P. Dowd said:
conducting fieldwork to shed light on long-standing vernacular singing practices of ethnic minority cultures in England
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This isn't America. Besides maybe the Jews, there aren't any long standing vernacular singing practices of ethnic minority cultures in England because there aren't really any long standing ethnic minority cultures in England - the majority arrived post-1950. Did the small Chinese population in the old London Chinatown in the Victorian times have unique vernacular singing practices? Maybe, and it might be pretty interesting, but there's very little connection between those people and the Chinese people who've arrived since and set up a new Chinatown.

I guess you could maybe point to something like Two Tone emerging from the syncretisation of punk and ska, or Bhangra being a blending of traditional Pubjabi music with western instruments, as being things that uniquely emerged in England - but I don't think anyone at a folk festival wants to hear The Specials (nor do I think The Specials want to perform at a folk festival). Doubly so with more recent genres like Grime - Stormzy isn't going to be performing at Between The Trees anytime soon.
I've found the original grant
Defining ethnomusicological Action Research through the regeneration of English folk clubs
The English folk club scene, established in the 1960s, is under significant threat of extinction. The participant demographic age has risen with the passing years as in many cases, the people who started the movement remain its core participants. There is, however, a growing interest within younger demographics in exploring their cultural heritage and non-Nationalist forms of Englishness. Coupled with a growth in community choir membership and a broad audience who listen to professional folk music this suggests that there may be culturally-aware non-attenders who would benefit from participating in folk clubs, but are put off by the complex social and musical conventions that have been shown to intimidate newcomers. A dedicated strand of this project will take an unflinching look at the white-centricity of folk music repertory, performers and audience by conducting fieldwork to shed light on long-standing vernacular singing practices of ethnic minority cultures in England. These two initiatives will increase accessibility to the folk club scene, and take the first step in a process of decolonisation within the folk music canon. Interventions will be documented and analysed through rigorous new approaches to holistic Action Research, drawing on a wealth of experience in ethnomusicology and music management, as well as a professional performance career, this project embarks on an ambitious programmes of activity to transform the field of ethnomusicology and ensure the folk club scene stays relevant in the 21st Century.
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The lead academic is Fay Hield, professor of music at the University of Sheffield and also a traditional folk singer;
and the involved organisations are Drake Music (an arts charity that specialises in helping disabled people make music), English Folk Dance and Song Society (they're the ones who organise National Youth Folk Orchestra) and The Audience Agency (a DEI consultancy that specialises in targeted growth of audiences).
EFDSS has seemingly already done some work on this front, designed for teachers to use in Secondary schools;
Black British History and Folk Songs - featuring the work of Angeline Morrison (who wrote an album in the style of traditional folk music, imagining what it would have been like if black people had written folk music while living in England at the time). It basically argues that there's been black people here since the Roman times then there's probably allusions to them in folk music. For example the song The Brown Girl, which goes "I am brown as brown can be and my eyes as black as sloe" and involves a woman being spurned by her lover, is likely about a ruddy complexioned girl tanned from working in the fields "but what if actually it's because she's black or mixed race?" (In fairness it does also ask "but do you think being a tanned white girl is more likely".) Likewise the song Gathering Rushes In The Month of May is referenced, which goes "Was it by a black man got, or was it by a brown, or was it by a ploughing lad a-ploughing up and down" - which is a man asking his daughter who got her pregnant. Black man and brown man are terms used to talk about hair colour and general complexion but the resource poses the question "do you think this was actually her dad asking if the father was black or another person of colour". There's also a bit where they set an Abolitionist song to the tune of a composition by Ignatius Sancho (an 18th century freedman).

Black Sailors and Sea Shanties - an exploration of sea shanties, often of African American/Carribean origin. The point that is observed is that the British merchant fleet was frequently crewed by a variety of nationalities and races and there are observations of various sea shanties being sung by black people like "The Sailor Likes His Bottle 'O" and some Calypso music like "Pay Me My Money Down".

Black Singers and Folk Ballads - folklorists went to America to see if "extinct" English folk songs had survived in regions like Appalachia. This resource basically looks at various African American traditions like field hollers and shows how it's the result of English folk songs interacting with traditional African music, and how there's a lot of similarities between the slaves singing those folk songs in America and the farmers singing them in rural England.
If I was being exceptionally generous I might say that this is an attempt to try and increase participation in folk music from a diverse younger crowd rather than just middle aged farmers because if they don't make it popular with the youth it'll fizzle and die out. Reading someone argue that "Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor" might have actually been about two racists taking advantage of a wealthy black aristocrat in 1600s England means I'm not inclined to feel generous.
 
Tragon Dirtle said:
This forum likes to make fun of communists who talk about the revolution like its any day now. Isn't this is the same thing, people saying the game needs to change so don't try and play by the rules?
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I mean, my explicit suggestion in the very part you quoted was that if there are no good candidates one should get involved onself. I don't feel that's quite Guy Fawkes, level. Though if you meet with any measure of success you're as likely to be hung drawn and quartered as he was just the same. Still, I don't quite feel I deserve to be lumped in with the Bolsheviks etc.
 
Bloom Worm Cross Field said:
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I have to admit I admire the sheer shitposting quality of a billionaire private-estate-with-its-own-wikipedia-page owner endorsing the Communist Party. Would be even funnier if the party accepts it.
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The reason she's posting about it is because and the Communist Party have gone on record saying that only biological females should have access to female single sex spaces, and the Socialist Democrats have said "a woman is an adult human female and 100% of women do not have a penis". She's not saying people should be Communists, more to use it as a protest vote.

Neither the Communists nor the Socialists are getting elected (and I doubt any candidates will even get their deposit back) but the idea that there's no far left party affirming trans people, when a lot of terminally online trans people see communism as their thing, has generated a lot of seething.
 
SDP aren't even standing in my ward as far as I know, which is incredibly annoying. Looks like the commies aren't either.
 
If anyone is wondering who is standing in their constituency, you can find out at:


Not only does it say who is standing, it also says where they have stood previously and for what party. For example, I found out that the "independent" candidate in my constituency has stood as a Conservative in the last 3 Council elections - he does not mention this anywhere in his election material or on his online presence. Sneaky fucker.
 
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