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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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To add to the crap cuisine sperging and bring us full circle to the reason this thread exists, I've developed an addiction to the vegan festive bakes at Greggs. I'll be going into withdrawal after Hogmanay. Thank you for your understanding.
 
Absolute fucking traitor.
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Wonderland foster child said:
To add to the crap cuisine sperging and bring us full circle to the reason this thread exists, I've developed an addiction to the vegan festive bakes at Greggs. I'll be going into withdrawal after Hogmanay. Thank you for your understanding.
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I'm over Greggs at the moment, we have a Wenzel's which is similar to Greggs but they do really nice "fresh" sandwiches which are decent.
 
Chunky Salsa said:
I always found Huel so fucking weird. It seems made for people that dislike being happy.
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Holy shit it's like Bri'ish Soylent.
CryptoHermit said:
Toad In The Hole is great as well. Great some premium butcher sausages to roast with the batter and it's awesome.
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Fun fact, in burgerclapistan what we call Toad in the Hole is what you call Eggy in a Basket.
 
Chaos Theorist said:
Context?
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She's creating more "combined regional authorities" and transferring more power from local councils to those combined authorities. The end goal is presumably "devolved" regional governments based on the ITL2 administrative regions of the UK, as illustrated in this convenient map:

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These regions were originally drawn out for Blair's "devolution" plans, and were designed to slot into an EU-wide re-organisation of governance into regional authorities that were divorced from previous national and local systems of government. They would have had a partially elected unicameral governing body, headed by a governing council, and would take on all of the responsibilities currently handled by local government, as well as - at the time - having a direct descent of authority from the EU's central government, bypassing Westminster. Blair (who was then mapping out his campaign to be appointed as EU president) sold it as "power to the people", with the claim that it was bringing control over government closer to the electorate. The measures were soundly rejected by everyone at the time, much to his chagrin.

They've never gone away, though. The regions still have the unelected advisory councils lurking over them, which shape regional policy to a great extent, and the statistical regions are in general use by the government for most policy-making anyway. The combined authorities established in the last 15 years mostly fit inside the borders of these larger regions.
 
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Ange (who sounds like an absolute mong when speaking) can take those plans, roll them up and shove them up her ginger growler.

My part of Norfshire has absolutely fuck all to do with Manchester or Liverpool and I'll be damned if we're going to be run by them. Just an excuse to ship migrants out to/build shitty plasterboard new builds in places that have been spared them to date by the local council.
 
teriyakiburns said:
She's creating more "combined regional authorities" and transferring more power from local councils to those combined authorities. The end goal is presumably "devolved" regional governments based on the ITL2 administrative regions of the UK, as illustrated in this convenient map:

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These regions were originally drawn out for Blair's "devolution" plans, and were designed to slot into an EU-wide re-organisation of governance into regional authorities that were divorced from previous national and local systems of government. They would have had a partially elected unicameral governing body, headed by a governing council, and would take on all of the responsibilities currently handled by local government, as well as - at the time - having a direct descent of authority from the EU's central government, bypassing Westminster. Blair (who was then mapping out his campaign to be appointed as EU president) sold it as "power to the people", with the claim that it was bringing control over government closer to the electorate. The measures were soundly rejected by everyone at the time, much to his chagrin.

They've never gone away, though. The regions still have the unelected advisory councils lurking over them, which shape regional policy to a great extent, and the statistical regions are in general use by the government for most policy-making anyway. The combined authorities established in the last 15 years mostly fit inside the borders of these larger regions.
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They’re doing it as old people in the Norf tend to go out and vote Labour in local elections because they’re zombies.

Gawd bless the NHS, I might be paying too much council tax and they’re moving Somalis next door, but I don’t want people to think I’m a Tory.

It’s why they pushed Scottish devolution. The thought they’d be in power forever and it would be more jobs for their boys only to have it backfire spectacularly when Labour self immolated.

Personally I can’t wait wait to see a bunch of Reform Mega Councils when it backfires this time.
Geoff Capes Vapes Apes said:
Ange (who sounds like an absolute mong when speaking) can take those plans, roll them up and shove them up her ginger growler.
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I wish she’d speak in her real voice. You’re from fucking Cheadle, love. I hate it when Labour women Northern it up. I bet they speak like regular women when they’re talking to a bank manager.

Geoff Capes Vapes Apes said:
My part of Norfshire has absolutely fuck all to do with Manchester or Liverpool and I'll be damned if we're going to be run by them. Just an excuse to ship migrants out to/build shitty plasterboard new builds in places that have been spared them to date by the local council.
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Double post (because fuck it) but they tried to make a massive Merseyside council years ago and absolutely no one wanted it because of what a corrupt bunch of gangsters and communists that practically set money on fire at the corrupt hell hole that is Liverpool City Council.
 
So will this change how we vote or what share of votes are? Isn't this called gerrymandering? I know fuck all about politics.
 
Lucy Letby autism

Lucy Letby's lawyers have said they will be asking the Court of Appeal to immediately review all of her convictions because an expert witness "has now changed his mind on the cause of death of three babies".


He said: "Remarkably, Dr Evans has now changed his mind on the cause of death of three of the babies: Baby C, Baby I and Baby P."


He said Dr Evans had "revised his opinion in relation to Baby C" and had written a new report which he had given to police months ago.

But, he said "despite numerous requests" the prosecution had "yet to give this report to the defence".

"The defence will argue that Dr Evans is not a reliable expert, and all the convictions are not safe," Mr McDonald said.
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LL is a scapegoat.
 
Mound Dweller said:
Just to reassure everyone I'm not the only lunatic in your geographic area; is fidgeting a hate crime?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ewl757d2ko/https://archive.is/4UXOk
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Sounds like these afflicted individuals should gouge their eyeballs out with a spoon in order to avoid the hateful sensory input.

They should also pour lye in their ears in case they are still able to hear distressing inputs.

Honestly why the fuck are we even pretending to humour these people.
 
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