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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.

 

[whogoesthere]

Yes, this was the special Question Time leaders' edition. He did say this. He is a fucking clown. The Jeremy Kyle class don't have driving licences or any bank account beyond the one they get their universal credit into. He has absolutely no fucking understanding of the people he is trying to "do something about".

Good to see the political class have done a great job of getting the zogbots talking about chavs on the dole. Forget the hordes of rape niggers and pakishit that swarms the nation and eats massive amounts of money, ignore the blatant pillaging of the nation by an increasingly sociopathic elite.

Yes, its the dole scum (the white ones, not the precious fucking niggers and pakis, they are golden)

 

[adam_moche]

Does anyone know what Labour plan to do about trade deals? Are they going to sign with the EEA or with the US if at all?

Also, why are these parties discussing popular ideas like invading Ireland? It's right there. You can send in the troops. Nobody will notice.

 

[whothefuck]

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.

I mean the Socialist Worker's Party is pretty pro-tranny but I dont think they run candidates.

 

[FedPostalService]

Does anyone know what Labour plan to do about trade deals? Are they going to sign with the EEA or with the US if at all?

Also, why are these parties discussing popular ideas like invading Ireland? It's right there. You can send in the troops. Nobody will notice.

Starmer kept saying he’d negotiate a better deal with the EU then the EU told him to fuck off and the media quickly memoryholed it.

 

[Amin Yasister]

Seeing someone mentioned Chavs, I see that Jay Slater is still "missing" in Tenerife.

The posts on X and Facebook are incredible, giving a back story to this. Somehow the posts are both funny and, in part, believable.

 

[3deadniggers]

Good to see the political class have done a great job of getting the zogbots talking about chavs on the dole. Forget the hordes of rape niggers and pakishit that swarms the nation and eats massive amounts of money, ignore the blatant pillaging of the nation by an increasingly sociopathic elite.

Yes, its the dole scum (the white ones, not the precious fucking niggers and pakis, they are golden)

Remember how they blamed chavs for the increase in violence and crime when it was obviously the 'youths' doing it? Same bullshit every time.

Seeing someone mentioned Chavs, I see that Jay Slater is still "missing" in Tenerife.

The posts on X and Facebook are incredible, giving a back story to this. Somehow the posts are both funny and, in part, believable.

What's the story there?

 

[Otterly]

Seeing someone mentioned Chavs, I see that Jay Slater is still "missing" in Tenerife.

The posts on X and Facebook are incredible, giving a back story to this. Somehow the posts are both funny and, in part, believable.

What’s the story? The between the lines from the press seems to be that he’s on a gay drugs and sex bender somewhere.

 

[AssignedEva]

What’s the story? The between the lines from the press seems to be that he’s on a gay drugs and sex bender somewhere.

He was previously sentenced for nearly murdering a kid with a machete as part of a gang, also facing charges for witness intimidation, attempted robbery and conspiracy to supply class A drugs, and he laughed and joked and took the piss inside the court room. The rumour is that Lucy Mae (the girl who started the fundraiser) is actually a drug mule for a Moroccan crime gang and recruited Jay at a festival to sell £6k worth of drugs... but Jay took a bunch of the drugs himself at a rave (the one the "last footage" of him is from, where he's stumbling around high off his face) and then lost the bag of drugs. The Moroccans then tell Lucy that they want £30k to cover the cost of the drugs and the disrespect, and they'll be keeping Jay as collateral until they have their money, and if they don't get their money then Jay will be sleeping with the fishes and they might be bumping off a couple of the other mules (including her, too) because they don't fuck around.

This is obviously entirely unsubstantiated (the claims supposedly come from one of the other mules) but I think it's very believable that a little shit who thought he was a hardman got into drug dealing, and then fucked up without realising that he was dealing with hardened organised crime instead of the soft touch British court system. It certainly makes more sense than "Jay missed his bus so decided to hike up the mountain and maybe got his leg stuck on a cactus". But like with Archie Battersby, this has spawned a bunch of facebook groups filled with a glorious mix of shitposting and actual idiocy

 

[Overly Serious]

@AssignedEva British people are like the trolls in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. They're adapted to colder weather and one or two hot days like have just occurred, the brains all overheat.

Thank you for a veritable chocolate box of stupidity.

 

[teriyakiburns]

@AssignedEva British people are like the trolls in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. They're adapted to colder weather and one or two hot days like have just occurred, the brains all overheat.

Why do you think the Romans reported that ancient britons used to sit up to their noses in swamps? The Roman invasions of Britain were at the height of the Roman warm period (which is how they could cultivate vinyards as far north as York). Trotting the bogs was the only way to keep cool enough to think.

 

[3deadniggers]

Why do you think the Romans reported that ancient britons used to sit up to their noses in swamps? The Roman invasions of Britain were at the height of the Roman warm period (which is how they could cultivate vinyards as far north as York). Trotting the bogs was the only way to keep cool enough to think.

We might be Boglims, but we're still better than the French!

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Why do you think the Romans reported that ancient britons used to sit up to their noses in swamps? The Roman invasions of Britain were at the height of the Roman warm period (which is how they could cultivate vinyards as far north as York). Trotting the bogs was the only way to keep cool enough to think.

Nowt wrong with a bit of bog snorkeling.

 

[FedPostalService]

Hate to tell you this, lads, those big trotters got pushed to Wales, Ireland, and Cornwall, and we are the descendants of Germanic tribes and a bit of Viking rape DNA.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Hate to tell you this, lads, those big trotters got pushed to Wales, Ireland, and Cornwall, and we are the descendants of Germanic tribes and a bit of Viking rape DNA.

Most Anglos still have a very high percentage of pre-germanic DNA. Usually around 80% or even higher, though it varies by region, with the lowest being in the south and east. There are even significant populations with direct descent from the pre-celtic indigenous people of great Britain. The primary spread of Anglo Saxon influence in the British isles is cultural rather than genetic.

 

[Otterly]

The Moroccans then tell Lucy that they want £30k to cover the cost of the drugs and the disrespect, and they'll be keeping Jay as collateral until they have their money, and if they don't get their money then Jay will be sleeping with the fishes and they might be bumping off a couple of the other mules (including her, too) because they don't fuck around.

Ahhhh….that’s why she wasn’t showing her face on the telly.
Actually the ‘let’s get our drug dealing scum to cut a deal’ isnt a bad idea. Very amusing set of screenshots, thanks.
There was a funny bit on one of the family interviews where the mum was saying she’d had a screaming match with the Spanish cops and ‘they don’t speak English, which is terrible.’
I do apologise for the British abroad everywhere
Also isn’t their go fund me at 30k? Problem solved!

 

[AssignedEva]

Also isn’t their go fund me at 30k? Problem solved!

There may be trouble afoot there. To withdraw money on GoFundMe you need to have a verified bank account in the country the GoFundMe is being used - but it appears they don't have accounts with any Spanish banks, just British bank accounts they're using abroad.
Consequently there's now a JustGiving and a GiveALittle set up


There's also something weird going on with the GoFundMe, as Debbie Duncan (Jay's mother) keeps getting added and removed as a beneficiary. She's also been sounding off on Facebook -

There's also a weird video doing the rounds from a woman going by "Justified.Hooker69"/Sandra Ntonya who has previously been in the news as a "£140/hour hooker" that the Man City footballer Yaya Touré was cheating on his wife with, and there are glimpses of a man who does look very much like Jay and has the right accent. Although I don't think it's very relevant for his disappearance, more that he was just hiring a working girl while he was over there.
Anyway, a couple more amusing Jay posts

Sadly the admins shut down the shitposting a couple of days ago

 

[Amin Yasister]

The GoFundMe had a target of £10k, which was quickly reached, so Lucy raised to £30k.

Someone posted up what was alleged to be Lucy's FB check-ins (which I know I should have screenshot or archieved) which showed she had been to Ibiza, Amsterdam and Jamaica (and I think Morocco).

 

[3deadniggers]

First time I've seen this guys face and you can tell he's scummy. He has a dodgy look to him like the kids in school without a Dad who always smash up the local playground.

 

[East_Clintwood]

he's also been sounding off on Facebook -

The absolute fucking brass neck on that bitch. Show me where it's any of our responsibility to give you money so you can go and find your retarded scrote of a son.

 

[Amin Yasister]

Brilliant!

I really cannot believe how utterly stupid some people can be.