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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.

 

[Amin Yasister]

....that caused appliances to smoke.....

Refrigerators, ovens and washing machines that are for sale now are badly and cheaply made, with a life expectency of 5 years or so.

Likewise the shitily built houses and apartments they are put in.

 

[SnurgleDirge]

Everything to do with grenfell is an indictment of the state of the Uk
-full of immigrants
-full of sub letters and illegals
-dodgy electrical appliance set it alight
-nobody gave a shit about warning other residents, everyone could have got out if they had
-dodgy cladding the company who sold it knew was dodgy but still sold it to the uk
-dodgy building management
- government board allowing such materials.
-local authority not caring about fire regs
Just failure, corruption and grift the whole way down.

All the council owned properties particularly in London have unaddressed issues that will fuck them long term, Grenfell won't be the last of it's kind. I've known people try to buy flats and send their own builders to assess the properties and find legitimate structural problems and the council said they'll address it in a ridiculous time-frame. Plus when the issue is "fixed" it ain't. Never live in a London council prop they're legit death traps. If it's not structural it'll be mold related, a roof leak or some other fucking thing you won't want to deal with. Trust me the council will do their best to find the cheapest patch fix possible and squirm out of their responsibility if they can.

 

[FedPostalService]

Never live in a London

Fixed that for you. You didn’t need any of the other words.

 

["Not" Count Dankula]

New builds are essentially made of plasterboard, the only inspections they get are for electrical safety and of course energy efficiency (so they're saunas during the summer) most of them aren't going to be standing at the end of a 40 year mortgage.

AND to make sure the bats are happy

God forbid one of our diverse species' of bloodsucker go without taxpayer subsidies

Spoiler: HOWEVER

bats are fucking cute so they get a pass

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

God forbid one of our diverse species' of bloodsucker go without taxpayer subsidies

It may in fact be easier to bulldoze an entire occupied street of buildings than obtain planning permission for somewhere that might have been used by a bat. Once. 5 years ago. While drunk.

 

[GratsTheat783]

My family thinks that Kier's only warming up the seat for Tony Blair since he's suddenly started appearing in the news again. Agree or disagree?

 

["Not" Count Dankula]

My family thinks that Kier's only warming up the seat for Tony Blair since he's suddenly started appearing in the news again. Agree or disagree?

Blair can't run as a candidate in his own right, but if you're asking whether we're seeing the New Labour of the 2020's then yes, we certainly are

Unfortunately as they try to do so, they're also stuck with being the British Weimar republic, with a shitload of Islamists, so we're a bit more of a powder keg now than in 1997

If you're young enough to ask that question in earnest, you're probably young enough to move somewhere more stable. So, in your own interests, fuck off kiddo, while you can

 

[A-Logato]

My family thinks that Kier's only warming up the seat for Tony Blair since he's suddenly started appearing in the news again. Agree or disagree?

If Blair was to come and walk back into the Prime minister position then we'd very likely have another round of riots. He's universally despised by the British public (more so then any of the conservatives we've had over the last 14 years) to the point a lot want him in prison for war crimes.

So no I don't see them ever being suicidal enough to try and make him prime minister again and he'll probably just stay in his weird puppet master position he seems to occupy. We very well know already that the Prime minister isn't really InControl of the country anyways and he's run by his donor class and globalist cabal, no reason for Blair to break that tradition.

 

[Coolio55]

AND to make sure the bats are happy

God forbid one of our diverse species' of bloodsucker go without taxpayer subsidies

Spoiler: HOWEVER

bats are fucking cute so they get a pass

It may in fact be easier to bulldoze an entire occupied street of buildings than obtain planning permission for somewhere that might have been used by a bat. Once. 5 years ago. While drunk.

I've just solved the housing crisis. We have to do the ending of V for Vendetta but with Batman.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

He's universally despised by the British public (more so then any of the conservatives we've had over the last 14 years) to the point a lot want him in prison for war crimes.

The Tories brought back Cameron after the shit show that was Brexit.
I do think it's even less likely than that but impossible was tossed out of the window a while back.

 

[Trig.Point]

From what I'm hearing from sparkies online most electrical sign offs (niecir?/napit) with landlords involve brown envelopes.
They're discussing the Grenfell report and the current fluctuations that caused appliances to smoke as one example leading them to bad grounding as the cause of that factor.

I don't believe there were current fluctuations, I think there were overloaded sockets, and intefered with trip switches.

 

[teriyakiburns]

My family thinks that Kier's only warming up the seat for Tony Blair since he's suddenly started appearing in the news again. Agree or disagree?

The only conceivable way Blair could get back in No 10 is if he were installed in the Lords and then elected as party leader, which is a very unlikely set of circumstances. I doubt he'd take it. He had his eyes on the EU presidency and considers the country's scuppering of that a personal betrayal. Besides, he's much more comfortable running PR for his wife's immigration lawfare.

I don't believe there were current fluctuations, I think there were overloaded sockets, and intefered with trip switches.

They cut corners and had too many sockets on spurs. UK regs still have a limit on the sockets you can run on a spur and if the current is expected to be above that limit, you have to put in a ring main or a heavier cable. Cheap sparkies will ignore the regs, slap everything on long spurs to save on half the copper, overrate the breaker so the resistive load doesn't blow it, then fudge the acceptance tests. This means you'll have people running more appliances than the cable can handle, which leads to resistive overheating (which the breakers would prevent if they were correctly rated) and inevitably causes a fire.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

have you brit bongs enjoyed the nuclear level meltdown Tucker Carlson caused every faux rightwing boomer on twitter to have by suggesting that Churchill wasn't the greatest man to ever live?

I swear something's changing. the ideas people are discussing out in the open now are things you'd never have heard even 5 years ago. For better or worse the world as we've known it for the past 50+ years seems to be dying.

The "historian" Carlson had on is a retard so no one gives a shit.

Besides, the British Left DESPISES any Tory who every lived so no shocker that a Nazi Germany fellator is butthurt that Churchill didn't Cuck out like Chamberlain did.

 

[AnOminous]

All our houses are designed to meet certain criteria which artificially boosts the cost of the housing whilst making them unliveable like how all new builds have tiny windows to prevent falls or have EV chargers outside of them.

I hate shitty small windows. They look like they belong in a prison cell.

Never live in a London council prop they're legit death traps. If it's not structural it'll be mold related, a roof leak or some other fucking thing you won't want to deal with. Trust me the council will do their best to find the cheapest patch fix possible and squirm out of their responsibility if they can.

This isn't unique to the UK. Government provided properties and "projects" are almost uniformly shit everywhere. Some of the deadliest places in the country are ramshackle, deteriorating projects. It isn't even solely the fault of the people who live in them, although they don't exactly help matters.

I think J.G. Ballard captured this in High-Rise (even though it isn't actually about a government property).

 

[FedPostalService]

My family thinks that Kier's only warming up the seat for Tony Blair since he's suddenly started appearing in the news again. Agree or disagree?

Blair is back as Davos are fully in control now and he’s their messenger boy.

 

[GratsTheat783]

If you're young enough to ask that question in earnest, you're probably young enough to move somewhere more stable. So, in your own interests, fuck off kiddo, while you can

Where'd be best to go to where the problems wouldn't follow close behind? An EU country? A tax haven, like New Jersey or something like that? I don't have anything I really specialize in so there'd need to be a low bar for entry. Would also prefer to take older family members with me.

I have a family member who constantly praises New Jersey as they lived there. Over there, you have to pay a £5 deposit to book an appointment with the doctor and they say it would be a good implementation over here to clear up the waiting list and stop people who just want free medicine they can get over the counter. Another family member disagrees, saying that poor people wouldn't get to see the doctor with that implementation.

 

[Otterly]

Where'd be best to go to where the problems wouldn't follow close behind? An EU country? A tax haven, like New Jersey or something like that? I don't have anything I really specialize in so there'd need to be a low bar for entry. Would also prefer to take older family members with me.

I have a family member who constantly praises New Jersey as they lived there. Over there, you have to pay a £5 deposit to book an appointment with the doctor and they say it would be a good implementation over here to clear up the waiting list and stop people who just want free medicine they can get over the counter. Another family member disagrees, saying that poor people wouldn't get to see the doctor with that implementation.

Small token co pays are a good thing IMO.

 

[East_Clintwood]

Normally I'd say pleading Not Guilty when you're literally on camera committing the offense is a bold strategy, but we are dealing with Two Tier Kier here, so maybe it's worth the punt since he's on the right side of history™

 

[anklyscr]

Small token co pays are a good thing IMO.

See Costco.

 

[No. 7 cat]

Let's all pretend to be surprised together shall we.

The usual.