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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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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.

 

[Bloom Worm Cross Field]

Kemi Badenoch won to be the leader of the Conservatives.

The parting of the ways of the right wing in western countries continues. In the next few years I think we will see a formal recognition of the two emerging camps - the internationalist, pro-(legal) immigration, highly socially conservative "based PoCs" camp, and the nationalist, strictly anti-immigration camp. What remains to be seen, to my mind, is whether the latter ends up triangulating in response to this split to become more socially liberal and fiscally left wing in other areas, in the same way that TERFs are fairly leftie aside from the trans issue. We're seeing the same thing in the US - Trump's polling since 2016 has only risen amongst non-white populations as his nationalist messages have softened significantly.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I am as racist as anyone, but I unironically like Kemi Badenoch. Maybe there is some hope.

She's probably fine as a person.

I think their brand is too damaged now. They're basically blue labour at this point. Jenrick should switch to reform and take his supporters with him to ensure the death of the party.

That'd be pretty funny.

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

She's probably fine as a person.

The alternative is to fight a new civil war and get a new English government. As a descendant of Canute the Great, I propose that I should be made king. I will be a mercifull ruler unless you are a paki.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

The alternative is to fight a new civil war and get a new English government. As a descendant of Canute the Great, I propose that I should be made king. I will be a mercifull ruler unless you are a paki.

Nah. Just have cornwall seceded and we can all live there. Nice place.

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

Nah. Just have cornwall seceded and we can all live there. Nice place.

And when cornwal is full of hipster faggots and paki child molesters, then where will you run?

 

[Chunky Salsa]

And when cornwal is full of hipster faggots and paki child molesters, then where will you run?

Gloustershire...maybe Hull.

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

Gloustershire...maybe Hull.

Running away is the cowards solution. England needs a new Queen Elizabeth.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

It's bad enough that Kami is another brownoid, but even worse, she's another fucking yank like Rishi.

We're being invaded across the channel and the Atlantic. Total Brownoid Death and Total Turncoat Death can't come soon enough.

And when cornwal is full of hipster faggots and paki child molesters, then where will you run?

Straight at the pakis as I boot them off the top of St Michaels Mount, onto the rocks below.

Not to P/L, but they will if the worker makes the others look bad. Especially when said "average bear" is the boss and finds fellow bears now go to that worker rather than him.

There are heavily unionised environments where absolutely the egos of the many, outweigh the value of the few.

Aye but that goes without saying. Robert Greene's '48 Laws of Power', Rule 1 :"Never outshine the master".
Pretend to be a little more retarded than your boss, while having his arse covered with a plan B. He will take the credit but keep you around as a safety net, then, if you want to, when the time is right you can stick the knife in and take his job.

I've never done that, I prefer autistic david vs down-syndrome goliath because I hate office politics but love fucking with people's minds.

Autism aside, union places are lefty. Lefties are all about the strength of the group, not the individual. To survive in a union workplace, just be the NPC and do what others do. Become a lemming to survive and stay away from the edge of the pack when the HR wolves descend.

 

[Bloom Worm Cross Field]

Exhibit A for what I was talking about when I said that the "right" wing will happily embrace whatever socially conservative or reactionary values are necessary to preserve their progressive stance in the one area that will never be compromised on - the ethnic replacement of natives.

[link, A]

 

[FedPostalService]

Lefties are all about the strength of the group, not the individual. To survive in a union workplace, just be the NPC and do what others do. Become a lemming to survive and stay away from the edge of the pack when the HR wolves descend.

Or nail your colours to the mast, work Franco quotes into conversations with the weird rep who is obsessed with the Spanish civil war, and outshine them all with ease.

I’ve got the foreman’s job at last, the working class can kiss my ass.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Exhibit A for what I was talking about when I said that the "right" wing will happily embrace whatever socially conservative or reactionary values are necessary to preserve their progressive stance in the one area that will never be compromised on - the ethnic replacement of natives.
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"Lol dae hate white men" says the third place runner up in the leadership contest of the Conservative party.

God I hate these people

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

I’ve got the foreman’s job at last, the working class can kiss my ass.

Congrats. I used to have a soft-spot for the working class, being an ex-poor myself. Nowadays, the working class are rich-but-retarded and have no values I recognise from those once, hard-working, rough-around-the-edges people.

 

[Spunt]

All of you kvetching about Badenoch being brown are much, much, bigger niggers than she will ever be.

 

[FedPostalService]

Congrats. I used to have a soft-spot for the working class, being an ex-poor myself. Nowadays, the working class are rich-but-retarded and have no values I recognise from those once, hard-working, rough-around-the-edges people.

I have to deal with preachy working class heroes who will be able to retire when they inherit their parents house and live in catchment areas were the local comp is almost as good as a private school.

Me and my family have worked hard to get to the middle class and I hate these fuckers who are trying to pull the ladder up.

The blood and soil LARPers in the thread will hate me for saying this, but I’d rather have one Nigerian over ten white Guardian readers any day of the week.

 

[Null]

SLAY TROONS KWEEN

 

[i440BX]

Because all the White people in government haven't been woefully incompetent right.

@Geoff Capes Vapes Apes jog on new fag.

Many traitors of European countries are rich white people.

 

[Oger Magi]

Excellent, hopefully now the tories can completely disintegrate.

 

[Spunt]

The left will have a real problem dealing with her because of their obsession with identity. They can't smear her as racist because they think only white people can be racist. That means she can be as racist as she wants, and having met a few Nigerians they're all racist as all fuck. That means they have to either fight her on policy, where they have nothing, or call her an Uncle Tom, which will cause them to turn on each other and have a massive Struggle Session.

The problem with most of our immigrants isn't that they have brown skin, it's that they're not British and aren't interested in being British, or even adopting a culture that can at least work alongside Britishness. That and we let in far too many, such that our infrastructure can't cope with the massive population rise (aggravated by the fact that 99% of immigrants don't have the skills required to work in health, education or any of our other strained infrastructure sectors and aren't interested in acquiring them). Kemi Badenoch is British as fuck. She's more British than any Conservative leader since Thatcher. The fact that we had to import someone like her is a bit embarrassing, but otherwise not harmful, and as I said above, her skin colour gives her a massive tactical and rhetorical advantage over the left.

If we had like 10% of the immigration we have now, and the ones we did import were like Kemi Badenoch, this country wouldn't be anywhere near as much of a shithole and might actually have some kind of future.

 

[keke]

All I want is for someone to start putting rapists and pedos in jail again. If it’s an immigrant that does it, fine. I don’t get why people care. Plenty old whiteys have had their go as Prime Minister in a Conservative Government with huge majorities and the country is a complete fucking embarrassment that’s only had record-high levels of migration year after year.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

Many traitors of European countries are rich white people.

Exactly! Most if not all the issues the west and even the world has faced since the end of WW2 has been because of rich white people and some jews and people's response to someone who has consistently called out the issues we face and wants to fix them is to whine and cry that said person isn't paler than fucking casper.

It's tiring listen to these people sometimes.