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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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FedPostalService said:
Guys, avoiding power levelling, but we need to Minecraft everyone who works for a train company and automate the entire service.

Currently trying not to commit murder. In Minecraft.

Fuck Kier Starmer and the RMT.
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No. Some of them wanted in cab footage of upcoming signals which would have made more difference than HS2.
The union staff? They can waterboard 20/50 Castrol.

Edit, on the subject of driving lessons, knew of a lad that used to learn by nicking police cars. They left the keys in while they were in the shops. That lad was playing GTA VII.
 
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Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
You guys make public transport sound like entering into the pits of hell. I have definitely witnessed and had to acknowledge the usual schizophrenics, drunks, druggies, and roadman nigger. But 99% of the time it’s easily ignorable (headphones), and sometimes a free show… maybe I’m just desensitised to it.
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It's absolute luck of the draw depending on the flavour of diversity of your locale, my bit ain't too bad because we still get BNP councillors but if you try and hop on just a few miles closer to Bradistan it's a whole lot more flavourful in terms of what kind of council dosser you get lumped with.
That's not to say the utter scum near me aren't any better just that it's a universal thing, public transport = the public = the average person there has below average IQ by default and the average is too damn low.
 
K!w!Fartz said:
I have a dashcam, but I don't snitch, it's only there in case I need to prove I'm innocent in court.
View attachment 6793962Bought this second hand on facebook for £10.
I don't give a fuck about people's poor driving habits unless they're outright dangerous or my enemy.

Does anyone here know of a good dash cam to buy that delivers to isle of man? i need to upgrade
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I can't have one of those because they record audio and thus all my racial slurs.
 
Starmer asks UK regulators for ideas to boost growth

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has written to the UK's main watchdogs, asking them to come up with ideas for reform that could boost economic growth.

He contacted the companies - including energy regulator Ofgem and water regulator Ofwat - on Christmas Eve. They were told to submit their proposals by the middle of January, as first reported by Sky News.

Figures published earlier this week indicated the UK economy had flatlined between July and September.

Earlier this month, Sir Keir warned MPs that it "will take some time" for people to feel their living standards improve.


Despite appearances, this is not a shitpost. This is the actual story on the BBC. Starmer is so bereft of ideas, now that he's lost Sue Gray, that he's begging anyone he can think of to come up with something.
 
teriyakiburns said:
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has written to the UK's main watchdogs, asking them to come up with ideas for reform that could boost economic growth.
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He’s going to ignore any answer that isn’t “raise taxes and import more illegals.”

Also, why ask regulators and not actual industry?
 
teriyakiburns said:
Earlier this month, Sir Keir warned MPs that it "will take some time" for people to feel their living standards improve.
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During the election season, didn't he say we would feel an improvement by now?

Heres some ideas, Kier:

  • Cancel all foreign aid
  • Deny asylum to anyone on the list
  • Deport all foreigners who have committed a crime
  • legalise weed
  • Copy Liz Truss.
 
FedPostalService said:
He’s going to ignore any answer that isn’t “raise taxes and import more illegals.”

Also, why ask regulators and not actual industry?
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Because he knows what the answer will be if he asks industry.

More to the point, however, is that this is a good example of his mindset. He can only think in terms of the prosecution of wrongdoing and the imposition of punishment, so he's asking the regulators to come up with ways to punish industry until they start making the economy grow.
 
I thought Labour was the party for the working man. For the industry? Not regulators?

Maybe a head of lettuce would be better at leading this country at this point.
 
isalaide said:
Mine never crisp up properly :(
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How do you make them? Metal tin, preferably with thirty years of grease on it, but if you need a new one the high heat ceramic works well. Lard, beef dripping or duck fat wiped around each well in the tin then a bit more in each one. Let the batter sit in the fridge for a few hours. NUKE the tin and the fat. 240c until it’s smoking. Ideally the smoke alarm should be begging for mercy and all the windows open. Batter in a jug, and try to do the ‘open oven, pour batter into smoking fat’ movement in a few seconds. Close door of oven gently, if you whack it they collapse. Ten mins at 230c,down to 220 for the rest. But sometimes they just don’t work, it’s one of those fickle things.
isalaide said:
The last time I was on a train in this country some elderly thing clinging to life soiled itself and everyone had to smell next man's shit all the way to the destination.

Fuck all forms of public transport.
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I used to love getting the train up the east coast. Nowadays, no.
 
teriyakiburns said:
Starmer asks UK regulators for ideas to boost growth
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Every single one of them should tell him to resign out of the highest window. As an actual, genuine suggestion for how to boost growth.

Other news. Police thwarted by the sophisticated criminal tactic of lying about your name.

Police have pledged to "review" why officers failed to prosecute a fraudster who betrayed the Royal British Legion (RBL) charity and helped himself to more than £20,000 in poppy appeal donations.
Sean Pullen, 50, was the chairman of the Liverpool branch of the RBL when he stole the cash - before burning the empty collection boxes at his homes.
The branch took its evidence to Merseyside Police in 2019 only to be told the force could not help, meaning the charity had to use £200,000 of its own money to bring a private prosecution.
The decision was criticised in court and has raised questions from an MP and a judge.
Pullen pleaded guilty to fraud and was sentenced to a suspended prison term of two years at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday.

The court had heard how the current Liverpool branch chairwoman Elaine Overend had gone to police and outlined the charity's own internal investigation, which began when suspicions were raised in 2018.
In her official statement to the force in 2019, Ms Overend described how she visited Pullen's former home in Scarisbrick, Lancashire and going into the garden to find the remnants of a fire.
"There were actually coins melted into the debris," she wrote.
"I couldn't understand why he would do this and I actually broke down and cried on discovering the fire and seeing what was the [collection] tins melted into a plastic red puddle."


However, police told Ms Overend that there were difficulties with the case, including some relating to the fact that Pullen had changed his name several times.
In a letter, a sergeant told her: "As it stands, there are too many gaps we're unable to fill, the main one being who the suspect truly is."
But in court, James Rae, prosecuting on behalf of the RBL, said the charity's solicitors had in the end simply asked the magistrates' court for an arrest warrant in the name Sean Kevan Pullen, which they knew him as.
When media reports were published about the warrant, Pullen turned up at Liverpool Magistrates' Court of his own accord and surrendered.
Mr Rae noted how in previous hearings a judge had questioned why the police had not been involved in the case.
Ashley Dalton, MP for West Lancashire where Pullen was living at the time, described the situation as "bizarre".
"Lots of people go by different names, but that doesn't mean you can't identify them," she said.
"If there is something preventing [the police] from identifying a person - some sort of legislation that is limiting their ability to do that - then that needs to be tackled."


Ms Overend told the BBC that members of the Liverpool branch were also disappointed with the central Royal British Legion organisation.
"The legion wanted to brush it under the carpet, we as the city of Liverpool branch refused to do so," Ms Overend said.
"We have been fighting, not just the Merseyside Police to get this court, but the British Legion didn't want the publicity because they didn't want people to stop donating to the cause."
The RBL said the investigation process had been a "difficult time for our volunteers and collectors" in Liverpool but a spokesperson said it had nothing to add in response to Ms Overend's comments.
Merseyside Police said the force would review how the case was handled in 2019 "to identify any possible learnings".
It added: "Fraud can have a devastating impact on any victim, but to target a charity is particularly callous and we acknowledge that Sean Pullen has now been sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court."
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Mike Amesbury's meant to be in court Monday by the by for those following Labour MPs who assault their constituents.
 
Coolio55 said:
Countrywide manhunt for "Pepe Sneed" and "Eric Cartman" still ongoing.
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Those people are viciously posting hate memes online. Unlike this criminal who just stole £20,00 from donations intended to support veterans. He basically did nothing wrong.

Unironically the police involved should be shoved into a blender.
 
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