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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.

 

[Otterly]

Double post but I’ve never heard a bad word about Lord Robertson.

I know very little about him. Will take your word on that one! Have also heard Rees-Mogg is decent.

Alan Simpson

Yes, that’s a familiar name and I’d agree.
And kemi I’m pleasantly pleased with too. I hope she carries on

 

[Snekposter]

And kemi I’m pleasantly pleased with too. I hope she carries on

She looks almost stereotypically like an American sheboon but her behavior couldn't be any more different. She'd make a great PM IMO.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Kemi Badenoch seems sincere and is competent to boot. Hopefully I don't find out anything that will disillusion me

She's a nigger.

I always thought Prescott seemed like a decent bloke to get a pint with. Like you could take the piss out of the fat fuck and he would give you it right back.

 

[isalaide]

Double post but I’ve never heard a bad word about Lord Robertson.

No, you won't, since the Dunblane inquiry still isn't unsealed.

 

[f4t2h7gc]

You get what you see with Rees-Mogg. Gentleman or not, he's certainly only a representative of the upper echelons of British society and not much else. How many of you rely on a nanny to raise your children? His views on policy have also aligned perfectly with the investment portfolio of his soon-to-be defunct Somerset Capital Management LLP. Especially on subjects relating to environmental policy — he's similar to Farage in that aspect. His comments on education and people from comprehensive schools aren't great either. He was also one of the cheerleaders for Truss' mini budget.

He's quite clearly not above self aggrandizing behavior and I doubt he had the best interests of the wider public at heart. It was quite telling that he spent his post-election column in the Spectator waffling about his lost seat and an upcoming self starring documentary, reserving the last line to mention his now redundant staff as an afterthought.

"I’m so lucky to have a platform and a job: sadly, I will have to make my parliamentary team redundant. They’re all brilliant, so if anyone needs hardworking, capable people, let me know. It is the one thing about losing my seat that I really mind."

Now, he's happily spending his days explaining to GB News viewers why and how the Tories failed. Despite clearly being part of decision making that led to their destruction.

I respect him for committing to his moral positions, even if I personally disagree with them. But that's about it. It's a good thing he's no longer an MP in my view.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I have absolutely zero respect for any currently sitting politician, they are all subhuman vermin. The house of commons could be hit with a meteor, and turned into a smouldering, sulfur blasted ruin; and the only thing of value to be lost would the be the seating.

 

[Overly Serious]

Yeah, he's very patrician in what is currently a very archaic way, which ironically means that unlike so many others in the UK's upper classes he believes that his status has obligations he needs to follow and not just unearned privileges. He's very much a gentleman, complete with all the baggage that goes along with that title.

I did enjoy when "Ali G" (Sascha Baron-Cohen) did one of his spoof interviews and none of his send-up stuff really worked because Rees-Mogg just took it all in his stride and was entirely comfortable being himself. When Baron-Cohen expressed some mirth about Mogg owning a top-hat, Mogg was just "I can get it for you if you like" in an entirely affable way. 'This person is interested in my top hat? I'll go get it for him'.

He's quite self-aware, also. I recall when he tweeted this picture of himself and his son:

How many of you rely on a nanny to raise your children?

If I had five kids and could afford it, I would 100% hire a professional nanny to help out my wife with everything.

 

[FedPostalService]

I did enjoy when "Ali G" (Sascha Baron-Cohen) did one of his spoof interviews and none of his send-up stuff really worked because Rees-Mogg just took it all in his stride and was entirely comfortable being himself. When Baron-Cohen expressed some mirth about Mogg owning a top-hat, Mogg was just "I can get it for you if you like" in an entirely affable way. 'This person is interested in my top hat? I'll go get it for him'.

He's quite self-aware, also. I recall when he tweeted this picture of himself and his son:
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If I had five kids and could afford it, I would 100% hire a professional nanny to help out my wife with everything.

He did a talk at a university and the dickhead anarchists dropped in to disrupt it. When one of his staff (a, and may allah for me for saying this, woman) tried to speak to them some guy got aggressive in her face.

Rees-Mogg walked over and put himself between the woman and the weird smelly looking angry lefty guy. Say what you want but he’s put himself in immediate psychical danger to defend one of his staff and that is a sign of character. No matter what I think of his views I think of that and I think he’s alright.

 

[Hazel Motes]

Are there any good politicians?

 

[Judge Dredd]

Got a leaflet through the door from the Liberal Democrats today. With everything going on, the riots, the heating allowance, mass immigration, the local lib dems are promising to increase the number of fines for dog poo.

 

[teriyakiburns]

the local lib dems are promising to increase the number of fines for dog poo.

That's the fun thing about the lib dems. Unlike the other parties, their local campaign organisations are actually local, rather than merely appendages of the national party headquarters. It's why they always seem so schizophrenic about everything. For instances, local liberal democrat party campaigns tend to oppose things like the erection of wind farms because of the amount of damage they do, but at the same time they campaign for candidates who support wind power. This dithering and two-mindedness is a rep the Liberal party has had for decades, even prior to the merger with the SDP, to the point the Goon Show made fun of it. (The whole sketch is worth a listen. Try and spot what's changed between then and now.)

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

I stepped foot inside HMV for the first time in 15+ years today. The experience can be summed up with; lol, lmao even. What even is that shop and how is it still in business?

 

[FedPostalService]

I stepped foot inside HMV for the first time in 15+ years today. The experience can be summed up with; lol, lmao even. What even is that shop and how is it still in business?

You get to browse at what you could order on Amazon?

It’s sad what’s happened to HMV. The amount I spent on albums in there as a teenager is insane.

 

[Coolio55]

Got a leaflet through the door from the Liberal Democrats today. With everything going on, the riots, the heating allowance, mass immigration, the local lib dems are promising to increase the number of fines for dog poo.

They're cunts but that's not actually a bad idea.
If it'll be enforced is an entirely different issue though.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

HMV is the lead examples why a lot of these businesses fail. They refuse to modernize until its too late and have no unique lines. I go into Warhammer because its got GW stuff all in one place or a card shop. Christ even boomers don't even buy DVDs they use streaming.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

The target customer is 50 year old normie hipsters who are too scared to enter a back-street record shop or too confused by Game. They have more non-music shelves than music shelves. Topkeks that they have hipster vinyl players laid out like Currys. It's a strange place.

£5 for music CDs is an odd one, considering they used to be £15-£20 twenty years ago. With inflation I expected them to be £30 a throw.

Columbus likely Jewish, Study suggests

Famed explorer Christopher Columbus was likely Spanish and Jewish, according to a new genetic study conducted by Spanish scientists that aimed to shed light on a centuries-old mystery.
Scientists believe the explorer, whose expedition across the Atlantic in 1492 changed the course of world history, was probably born in western Europe, possibly in the city of Valencia.
They think he concealed his Jewish identity, or converted to Catholicism, to escape religious persecution.
The study of DNA contradicts the traditional theory, which many historians had questioned, that the explorer was an Italian from Genoa.
Columbus led an expedition backed by Spain's Catholic Monarchs seeking to establish a new route to Asia - but instead he reached the Caribbean.
His arrival there was the beginning of a period of European contact with the Americas, which would lead to conquest and settlement - and the deaths of many millions of indigenous people to diseases and war.
Countries have argued for years over the explorer's origin, with many claiming him as one of their own.
There have been an estimated 25 conflicting theories of his birthplace, including Poland, Great Britain, Greece, Portugal, Hungary and Scandinavia.
These new findings are based on more than two decades of research.
The study began in 2003, when José Antonio Lorente, professor of forensic medicine at Granada University, and the historian Marcial Castro, exhumed what were believed to be the remains of Columbus from Seville Cathedral.
Columbus died in the Spanish city of Vallodalid in 1506 but wished to be buried on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. His remains were taken there in 1542 but centuries later were transferred to Cuba before being finally laid to rest in Seville.
The researchers also took DNA samples from the tomb, and from the bones of Columbus' son, Hernando, and brother, Diego.
Since then scientists have compared that genetic information with that of historical figures and the explorer's relatives in order to try and solve the mystery.
The previously widely accepted theory was that Columbus was born in Genoa in 1451, to a family of wool weavers.
But they now believe he lived in Spain - likely in Valencia - and was Jewish. They think he hid his background to avoid persecution.
Around 300,000 practicing Jews lived in Spain, before they along with Muslims were ordered to either convert to Catholicism or leave the country in 1492, the year Columbus landed in the Americas.
Announcing the study's results on the television documentary Columbus DNA: His True Origin, Professor Lorente said they were "almost absolutely reliable".
The programme - which aired on Spain's national broadcaster RTVE on Saturday night - coincided with Spain's National Day.
The day celebrates the explorer's arrival in the Americas.

Americans are jewish. That explains a whole lot.

 

[FedPostalService]

The target customer is 50 year old normie hipsters who are too scared to enter a back-street record shop or too confused by Game. They have more non-music shelves than music shelves. Topkeks that they have hipster vinyl players laid out like Currys. It's a strange place.

£5 for music CDs is an odd one, considering they used to be £15-£20 twenty years ago. With inflation I expected them to be £30 a throw.

I remember paying £30 for an import album occasionally when I was a teen. What was I thinking and where did I get the money?


I keep meaning to start buying blu rays again. We know how gay streaming services are and how they’ll memoryhole anything doubleplus ungood wrongthink but I never set foot in them now unless I’m back visiting family, even then it’s not much of a trip down memory lane when it’s now tiny and in a different part of the city.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

I was scouting out the bluray section thinking which films would be best to grab. 4K blurays look miles better than streaming but it's all slop anyway. Other than grabbing unedited, uncut 80s action films for the occasional "fag" and "nigger" dropped in, the rest can rot.

 

[missnaptime]

hmv is alright if you're into physical copies of things. i prefer dvds because a lot of the films i like aren't available on streaming services anyway - but honestly, i either torrent and burn onto a disk to keep or i get most of them from ebay. same for cds and mp3 playlists. its more time consuming than using spotify, sure, but its unique to my tastes and it gives me a cute nostalgia hit from when i was a kid.

i think the last time i went into hmv and bought something was when i was.... 15?? i bought linkin park's meteora album.

 

[Judge Dredd]

HMV is the lead examples why a lot of these businesses fail. They refuse to modernize until its too late and have no unique lines. I go into Warhammer because its got GW stuff all in one place or a card shop. Christ even boomers don't even buy DVDs they use streaming.

It's worse than that because they rarely sell what I want. I was in there not long ago, got some Batman animated films, but that's not the standard. It's fun to browse the movies, but the selection is way down. They once had an entire floor of a much larger building of DVDs, now the selection fits on one wall of a smaller building.

You how in modern Netflix you have thousands of movies and TV shows, but none of the 90s action movies you actually want to watch? HMV is like that with DVDs. You want to buy old Jeremy Clarkson specials like Motorworld, or buy The Mandalorian for your uncle who doesn't know how to internet? Fuck you. Here's 13 seasons of The Big Bang Theory and the latest M-She-U bomb. I know this isn't completely their fault, but ffs, if you're going to sell physical media, at least sell the stuff people actually want.