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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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jje100010001 said:
Honestly I'm not sure if the Republic of Ireland's government much better though. At this point with the general secularization of society, Protestant vs Catholic are no longer strong identifiers, which is why ethnic nationalism will emerge as the common bonding factor.

I wonder how much of an ethnogenesis has occured in Northern Ireland so that an endogenous Northern Irish identity has formed, as compared to external identity with Ireland and the rest of the UK? I would imagine that the Protestants identify more with Northern Ireland compared to the Catholics, who probably have families across the border.
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The Troubles in Northern Ireland and the general tensions are a lot more about territory, cultural conflicts, disputes over governing the place between the two groups and less about religion.

A general trend I've noticed amongst the PUL community is that younger and more liberal Unionists/Protestants identify far more with being Northern Irish than Nationalists do. The vast majority of Nationalists, even the younger generation, still see themselves as "Irish". And yes, Catholics have families between that stretch between border counties so that's a big factor in why many northern nationalists don't really feel "Northern Irish" and they tend to partake in Irish cultural activities such as fleadh and GAA like their southern counterparts. The "Northern Irish" label is heavily associated with being British as well and Nationalists have always felt like outsiders in Northern Ireland.

Before she locked her twitter, Shay Woulahan complained about "southern right wingers" thinking that Belfast is a sectarian hole and she can prove this wrong because she has a couple of protestant friends who wear tricolours on St. Patrick's Day. I like Shay Woulahan but I strongly disagree with her on this. Yes, it's not a hot bed of violence anymore as it was decades ago, but there's not much warmth and cooperation between the Irish and British. When I lived in Northern Ireland, younger Protestants and Catholics had surface level good interactions but their relationships were pretty superficial and were friends of convenience more than anything.


I know I go on about the division in Northern Ireland on this forum, but you really need to have lived there to really understand the whole situation. You can't escape sectarianism in the north. It's an embedded part of everyday life up there, from where you live to even how you talk. I have heard horror stories from family and friends both North and South about having their cars pelted, locals subjecting them to verbal abuse like "fenian bastards", and being refused service for the simple crime of being Irish in very unionist dominated areas. Neither side has a particularly vested interested in one another and it's not uncommon for members in either community to have never met someone from the other side until they go to university or leave their villages. The loudest voices on both sides are more than happy to point fingers at each other but never call out the naked sectarianism in their own communities. Every week in the news, there's always the same story of a sectarian attack towards an individual from the nationalist or unionist community. The statistics of over 90% of social housing in Northern Ireland being segregated and the fact that there's still an enormous peace wall in Belfast separating the two communities from attacking each other backs my viewpoint and experiences. It's dishonest to deny this.


Historically loyalist neighbourhoods in Belfast have been receiving migrants from Muslim majority countries like Somalia and Syria. Crazy enough, I've seen large groups of Arab and Somali men but absolutely no natives in traditionally loyalist enclaves of Belfast where protestants used to live. While there were some Irish people protesting, the majority of the rioters were angry Loyalists who were displeased about this. Republicans are also accusing the protestors from Coolock as "UDA/UVF" men and all the people who are against mass migration in the south as "British collaborators". On the other hand, left wing Republicans live in neighbourhoods that are pretty much 100% Irish and white. Why don't all these republicans walk the talk and take in all these "refugees" and "migrants" into their enclaves and neighbourhoods then? They always boast about how tolerant and open minded republicans are but seem more than happy to keep their communities gated.
 
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Overdrive said:
I get that but you've also just been shitting on anyone who doesn't follow your views exactly, so you've gotta expect shit back
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I can have a discussion on many topics. But I have no tolerance for people wanting to carve up the country when it's quite clear what's happened to the country because of it. Shit backs fine, promoting more little girls get stabbed some more because you're brown or some rich woman jumping between countries is not shit back. It's being a traitor or a foreigner.

I got an interesting DM related to Average poster. Turns out he has people keeping track of him for the last decade and he's not British. He has a history of "My Dad works at Nintendo" with receipts showing he's not backing up his claimson his other accounts here and on other websites. He isn't from the North and he didn't grow up in a town there. He's a weeb with a playstation obsession lol. He does stuff like this often and not only on the farms.
Legoshi said:
I know I go on about the division in Northern Ireland on this forum, but you really need to have lived there to really understand the whole situation. You can't escape sectarianism in the north. It's an embedded part of everyday life up there. I have heard horror stories from family and friends both North and South about having their cars pelted, locals subjecting them to verbal abuse like "fenian fucks", and being refused service for the simple crime of being Irish in very unionist dominated areas. Neither side has a particularly vested interested in one another and it's not uncommon for members in either community to have never met someone from the other side until they go to university or leave their villages. The loudest voices on both sides are more than happy to point fingers at each other but never call out the naked sectarianism in their own communities. Every week in the news, there's always the same story of a sectarian attack towards an individual from the nationalist or unionist community. The statistics of over 90% of social housing in Northern Ireland being segregated backs my viewpoint and experiences. It's dishonest to deny this.
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Does Ireland have the sports teams like Rangers and Celtic? They're proxies for the same thing in Scotland and there's still people who won't eat off a plate of the wrong colour because of it.
 
A bit of light relief, a rancid colony of troons has established a nest in Wimborne, Dorset. The Poole area is getting quite a hotbed of tranny related activity, with newly elected Poole North MP Vikki Slade having a trooned out trans identified female child called “George”.
I know the barbers well, and it makes a change from the drug fronts known as Turkish barbers that are prevalent in Wimborne and Broadstone.
 
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FedPostalService said:
Community tends to be a codeword for “not you, whitey.”
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Especially in the context of plod. Whenever the Nubians and/or the goatshaggers kick off, there’s always a police press conference with “community representatives” (self appointed loud mouths) appealing for “calm”.
 
For the few Yanks that skulk the thread. To justify funding by local councils libraries have had to become pseudo community centres and host outreaches. A lot of them host islam Quran reading groups where they discuss scriptures. However the point of contention is a lot of groups like this are associated with radicalism and conversion. This happens a lot in prisons too.

I am waiting with baited breath to see how this goes though, I personally think Starmer is out. I had a personal altercation with a friend joining the police force through uni (yes they do that now). He said the police are performing a noble duty and should be commended. I called him a piece of shit and do some actual research, fuck I could send him Spunts thread.

As a part Irishman I would not piss on them if they were on fire.
 
Overdrive said:
I get that but you've also just been shitting on anyone who doesn't follow your views exactly, so you've gotta expect shit back
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It's part of the wonderful environment of the farms. If you haven't been called a dozen different slurs and a pedo for disagreeing with someone then you've only engaged the more serene farmers.
 
Shiverpeaks said:
This isn't about a single event though is it? Muslims blew up little girls before, they rammed vans into christmas markets. Blacks are constantly violent. The yoga place stabbing wasn't even the actual kick off point. A muslim threatening the mourners was what got this going full swing. So a black man killed white children, white people tried to mourn and got threatened for it. You simply have US and THEM. The idea that there's any sort of ethnic minority that should be welcomed is a mistake as I've said in the riot thread. Eventually any racial groups in the same territory will clash. It's how nature works and it doesn't matter how nice either group is now because tomorrow they're not the same people and they're both looking for more space and resources. Humans grow to fit the resources they have and eventually that causes conflict. Arguing Sikhs are okay denies all the problems Sikhs have caused when you look into them and it denies the reality of survival on a small island when the natives have no where else they can go but the sikhs do.
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Please debate multiculturalism in Mass Debates. This is a thread for news about UK, not about general theories of race.
 
Palestine, Lebanon, Hezbollah, on one side (Muslim). Israel, US and UK on the other. (Judeo Christian)

MOD said Britain needs to be war ready in three years and may need a draft/conscription. America has said similar.

Riots in UK have Muslims and Free palestine on one side and White, mainly fighting age men, led by a Jew (Robinson) on the other.

Months of pro-palestinian protests and violence against companies, such as a dozen Barclay bank branches being bricked and torched.

Tensions are stoked by parliament and the MSM, the police forcing muslims and protestors together to fight.

Saudi has stop trading in the petrodollar, one of the stabilising factors in the mid east.

Is this whole thing a set up? Is it to stoke anger across the UK, to spread it to Europe, to set off a false flag to 'justify' a final solution in the middle-east? A war demanded by Israel, armed by america and fought by europe to confiscate all oil before anyone else gets their hands on it?

Is the intro to Fallout 1 a prediction?
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
It wasn't meant as a slur and I thought he was? If he's not then that's good.
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Just an observation. A bunch of people got mixed up and thought he was, because he used footage from an episode of Dispatches in a video he made about mark colett. The journalist who produced the episode and interviewed colett was jewish.

MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
The returns on that rhetoric are like grains of sand slipping between the fingers of his grip. It's far too late now, three decades too late.
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I honestly would have preferred if he'd never addressed it at all. It makes him immediately partisan, regardless of intention, because he's essentially taking a side in a fight that he isn't part of. It makes me doubt his legal abilities, to be honest; a good lawyer would know better.
 
The Punished Mitch said:
"Violence is never the answer" get fucked faggot.
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He's a youtuber with his face on camera and a high ranking job. He is not going to say 'Fuck 'em up lads! Give 'em one for me!" is he? He's telling you the official party line because his job lets him clickbait useless advice during a very exciting time and he won't get in trouble for telling people to calm down while they witch hunt comment sections for wrong think.

teriyakiburns said:
I honestly would have preferred if he'd never addressed it at all. It makes him immediately partisan, regardless of intention, because he's essentially taking a side in a fight that he isn't part of. It makes me doubt his legal abilities, to be honest; a good lawyer would know better.
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A good lawyer doesn't make youtube videos. He has better ways to enjoy his leisure time.
 
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