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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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Necrosan said:
It all boils down to who becomes President of the US, for better or worse.

Both outcomes of the elections also mean huge changes one way or the other, I do believe Trump when he says that there will be wars if Kamala wins, the neocons who control the DNC can't get enough of it. If they got Biden to tell Zelensky to reject peace agreements with Russia, they can make Kamala do pretty much anything they want.

Interesting times ahead, that's for sure.
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Clinton, 2016 - "If I win there will be wars with Russia and Iran"
2024, 4 years after Biden wins - War with Russia and Israel are pushing for a war with Iran.

Kamala doesn't have the tact and the dems don't have the ability to negotiate on the world stage. I think the international community need Trump back, though they'll never admit it, because they've become kids who wished they had no parents - eating ice cream and cereal for tea, but now they've vomited all over the carpet, they've realised they need someone to clean it up and set boundaries.
 
That triple dipped cunt Starmer has decided that pretending to like animals will help him.


Sir Keir Starmer's Downing Street operation has gained a new addition as the PM's family welcomed a Siberian kitten on Monday.
The prime minister disclosed that he had negotiated the purchase of a kitten - they had originally requested a German Shepherd dog when they moved into Downing Street.
Siberian cats are known for their long and fluffy coats. They are also hypoallergenic, which works well for any staffers with a cat allergy.
Speaking to Matt Chorley on BBC Radio 5 Live, Sir Keir admitted that installing a cat flap in the bomb-proof door of his family's Downing Street flat is "proving a little bit difficult".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gvwxk75xno
But there had been "a long summer of negotiations" with a "back and forth" over different options since his landslide win in July, the PM said.
"We are now getting a kitten instead of a dog," he said.
"And this is an agreement after long negotiations - I said we'd get in the room and sort it out."
The new kitten, which takes up residence on Monday, becomes the third cat living in Downing Street - joining Jojo the Starmer family cat and Larry, who has been Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street since 2011.
"The problem we've got, which is the same for JoJo the cat, is that the only door out of our new flat is bomb proof," Sir Keir added.
"And therefore, getting a cat flap it is proving a little bit difficult.
"But our daughter's persuaded us that the problem isn't any bigger for two cats than one - and therefore, we're now getting this kitten."
Downing Street has been home to many pets over the years.
Rishi Sunak and family were joined by Nova, a Fox Red Labrador, during the former PM's tenure.
Nova took over as Britain’s top dog from Dilyn, Boris and Carrie Johnson's adopted Jack Russell.
During the war years, Sir Winston Churchill kept two cats, Nelson and Munich Mouser, and a poodle named Rufus at Downing Street.
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Expect Kier to murder a pet next time he needs a popularity boost. My money is on a "car" being the killer.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
Anyone else feel a little 'calm before the storm' in regards to a big event, possibly global?
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Well, the new series of Great British Bake-off starts at the end of the month, it could be that.

Bog-standard Poster said:
Clinton, 2016 - "If I win there will be wars with Russia and Iran"
2024, 4 years after Biden wins - War with Russia and Israel are pushing for a war with Iran.

Kamala doesn't have the tact and the dems don't have the ability to negotiate on the world stage. I think the international community need Trump back, though they'll never admit it, because they've become kids who wished they had no parents - eating ice cream and cereal for tea, but now they've vomited all over the carpet, they've realised they need someone to clean it up and set boundaries.
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“There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.” - Niccolò Machiavelli

Trump turning down the proxy wars will impress retards like Joe Rogan but the more conflicts Russia, China, and/or Iran win the closer they get to a border that will start an actual hot war with us.

I hope people are telling Trump that only homosexuals want to stop US proxy wars.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
That triple dipped cunt Starmer has decided that pretending to like animals will help him.
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I hope it gives him cat scratch fever and shits all over number ten
Be a good swap though. Uk gets a cute Siberian kitty and starmer goes to Siberia.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Sounds good. Did not know much about their mosquito population but a quick internet search has answered that.
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The size of dogs. It’s a funny thing about the north, the further north you go to a point the worse they are. Once you hit the arctic circle even in Western Europe, the mosquitoes are incredible.
In the gulags they used to tie prisoners naked to trees and let the mosquitoes have them.
Starmer might want to read the gulag archipelago and consider if communism really is a path he wants to go down. It’s not one I think anyone sane would, but we live in interesting times.
 
Otterly said:
Starmer might want to read the gulag archipelago and consider if communism really is a path he wants to go down. It’s not one I think anyone sane would, but we live in interesting times.
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Unfortunately he would read it like he has 1984. With an erection.
 
I've noticed the sudden uptake of none political British YouTube Channels making videos commentating on the state of the UK at the moment. What's surprising to me is quite a few aren't politically slanted as much as you'd think to one side or another, almost as if the normie right/left containment bubble has began to rupture and they're realised that the rein of Tony Blair never really ended.

The big issue for most of them seems to just be the cost of living going through the roof and a lot seem to shy away from the subject of immigration, the issue of the police state and the decline of the quality of the "local stock" but I guess any where's a good start.

As an example here's a video of a zoomer talking about the UK that popped up in my thead over the last week. Don't agree with a lot but it's fascinating to see the normies "notice" there's an issue:

 
A-Logato said:
The big issue for most of them seems to just be the cost of living going through the roof
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The vast majority of people just want to grill. They want to live their lives, and be able to afford the basics - a job. A roof over their heads, car, presents for the kids, weekly shop, holiday in summer, few pints. By and large over the decades 1980-2010 they had that. Stuff was affordable. Cheap holiday in the sun, consumer goods, bit left over. town relatively safe. Can afford to fill the car up. That’s literally all most people want. I don’t think most people even think about global warming, trannies, or freedom very much. They just want to live.

Successive governments have undone a huge amount of the postwar increase in quality of life. Housing is unaffordable and often terrible quality when post war we had the Parker Morris standards and very good quality council housing. Food is expensive. Consumer goods like clothing is expensive. Petrol and a car is ridiculously expensive. Taxes are expensive. The NHS doesn’t work well. Your town is flooded with rapey immigrants. Everything is worse.

The powers that be could actually have stripped every single freedom we had without a peep as long as people had a decent standard of living. Their hatred for us proles has meant they had to put the boot in in every level as well.
I hope, that eventually, when the average Brit is properly poor, and hungry, and on their second blackout of the week, minds will be sharpened and action will be taken.

Zoomers dont remember what it was like before. If they did, we’d see that action sooner
 
Otterly said:
The vast majority of people just want to grill. They want to live their lives, and be able to afford the basics - a job. A roof over their heads, car, presents for the kids, weekly shop, holiday in summer, few pints. By and large over the decades 1980-2010 they had that. Stuff was affordable. Cheap holiday in the sun, consumer goods, bit left over. town relatively safe. Can afford to fill the car up. That’s literally all most people want. I don’t think most people even think about global warming, trannies, or freedom very much. They just want to live.

Successive governments have undone a huge amount of the postwar increase in quality of life. Housing is unaffordable and often terrible quality when post war we had the Parker Morris standards and very good quality council housing. Food is expensive. Consumer goods like clothing is expensive. Petrol and a car is ridiculously expensive. Taxes are expensive. The NHS doesn’t work well. Your town is flooded with rapey immigrants. Everything is worse.

The powers that be could actually have stripped every single freedom we had without a peep as long as people had a decent standard of living. Their hatred for us proles has meant they had to put the boot in in every level as well.
I hope, that eventually, when the average Brit is properly poor, and hungry, and on their second blackout of the week, minds will be sharpened and action will be taken.

Zoomers dont remember what it was like before. If they did, we’d see that action sooner
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I’m earning a really good wage but I’m squeezed from all side at the moment. I’m not able to out like I used to and a visit to the pub to watch the footy is hitting me more in the pocket that a three course meal for two at a decent restaurant would.

If I’m feeling the pinch hid only knows what it’s like for the less fortunate.

It’s a really strange world out there
 
FedPostalService said:
Well, the new series of Great British Bake-off starts at the end of the month, it could be that.
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Somewhere in a London flat, Paul Hollywood stares bleakly into a mirror and contemplates trying to find new ways to say "it's under-baked" to a bunch of self-taught cooks for the 15th year running. Remembering a young head chef he no longer recognises as himself, he tries to recall what it was like to enjoy baking.

Otterly said:
The size of dogs. It’s a funny thing about the north, the further north you go to a point the worse they are. Once you hit the arctic circle even in Western Europe, the mosquitoes are incredible.
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Mosquitoes in Africa: "The humans are, like, way over there. I'mma just gonna wait till they walk this way. This heat is crazy."
Mosquitoes in Russia: "TOVARISHCH, I AM SO FUCKING HUNGRY!!"
 
I feel you all when you say its challenging, it is food prices are obscene currently.

So we may have our first 2 casualties of Labour fast approaching Yas Atwell and Reeves aren't looking to long for this world. Atwell is being urged to quit by Labour backbenchers for his hypocrisy. Reeves is being nuked from orbit on multiple fronts, backbenchers are challenging her and industry boards are saying she is inept. Starmer is going to throw her under the bus to save his skin like Corbyn. At this rate she won't even reach the budget in 9 weeks. We are at this bad in 59 days :D
 
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