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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.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

The entire left-wing American establishment runs on whinging and self-flagellation. Did you start drinking early or something?

We complain because we love our country and remember when it was great, your lefties complain because they hate your country and wish it was worse. We are not the same

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

We complain because we love our country and remember when it was great, your lefties complain because they hate your country and wish it was worse. We are not the same

I would never insult you or anyone in this thread by drawing such a comparison. My point was that the above generalization makes no sense given the fact I presented.

 

[Snekposter]

I don't think you appreciate quite how rare guns are in Britain.

Outlawing guns in America would lead to an increase in gun crime, because only criminals would have guns.
Legalizing guns in Britain would also lead to an increase in gun crime, because criminals can much more easily get guns.

Different places, different cultures.

Exactly. Instead of Ahmed and the local chavs knifing each other and unfortunately most likely surviving you get Ahmed and the local chavs blasting away and hopefully not hitting any bystanders as they proceed to kill each other.

Now, since I consider self-defense laws to be just as mandatory as actual ownership, hopefully you get those as a package deal so when Ahmed causes everyone else trouble he gets some buckshot to the gut and the taxpayers are spared the expense of arresting one of their own over some criminal's hurt fee-fees.

And before you bring up what goes down in NYC and the big cities: if you lot are allowed to disavow London and your other shitholes as part of the UK, I'm allowed to do the same with those shitholes over here, okay?

 

[Oxyjen]

Happy new year to you all. I’m hiding in the kitchen before bringing the dessert out…
2024 was somewhat of an anus horribilis for me, so I’m hoping 2025 is better. I wish you all a 2025 filled with happiness, peace and good health.
(And crushing your enemies, driving them before you and seeing the lamentations of the (trans)women.)

Happy New Year Otterly, and I hope your annus is better in the morning.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Tried to watch the fireworks. Drowned.

 

[-Jack-]

Tried to watch the fireworks. Drowned.

They’ve been the same for pretty much a few years now, same track list besides a couple top hits from the year. Though I thought 2023 was good.

 

[teriyakiburns]

They’ve been the same for pretty much a few years now, same track list besides a couple top hits from the year. Though I thought 2023 was good.

Aye, but I like to watch things go bang. Maybe it's the bog in me.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Exactly. Instead of Ahmed and the local chavs knifing each other and unfortunately most likely surviving you get Ahmed and the local chavs blasting away and hopefully not hitting any bystanders as they proceed to kill each other.

Now, since I consider self-defense laws to be just as mandatory as actual ownership, hopefully you get those as a package deal so when Ahmed causes everyone else trouble he gets some buckshot to the gut and the taxpayers are spared the expense of arresting one of their own over some criminal's hurt fee-fees.

And before you bring up what goes down in NYC and the big cities: if you lot are allowed to disavow London and your other shitholes as part of the UK, I'm allowed to do the same with those shitholes over here, okay?

I don't think you appreciate quite how alien firearms are to the average Briton these days. The man in the street will have absolutely no familiarity with firearms because they've been treated as occult objects since before he was born.

I'm an absolute oddity because I'm familiar with the operation of AR, AK, various German tat and any number of historical bolt actions and pistols, but to Joe UK Public that knowledge is as esoteric and distant as manual gearboxes and food without HFCS is to Joe Yank

 

[Trig.Point]

I don't think you appreciate quite how alien firearms are to the average Briton these days. The man in the street will have absolutely no familiarity with firearms because they've been treated as occult objects since before he was born.

I'm an absolute oddity because I'm familiar with the operation of AR, AK, various German tat and any number of historical bolt actions and pistols, but to Joe UK Public that knowledge is as esoteric and distant as manual gearboxes and food without HFCS is to Joe Yank

Guns were easily banned in the UK because gun clubs were so cliquey and hostile to new membership that when the government turned on them they had little public support. In the US various guns rights organisations will go out and actively try to recruit new members, in a way that's completely alien to the British psyche. Even now British gun clubs will turn their nose up at you particularly if you're ex army and try to join without knowing the right people.

You can read the same into how the farmers are getting fucked, or rather have fucked themselves or how people that send their kids to private schools have made little effort to promote the social benefits of private schools.

All British people care about ,and all that gets them motivated is that nobody builds anything near them and that their house prices keep increasing.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Happy New Year all, hope everyone had a good evening and the year goes well for you all.

Regretfully Mike Amesbury got his court date pushed back to 16/01 so I cannot start the year off by saying how he's pled. I suspect Not Guilty but was hoping to confirm it today so we could all laugh.

 

[Wonderland foster child]

I don't think you appreciate quite how alien firearms are to the average Briton these days. The man in the street will have absolutely no familiarity with firearms because they've been treated as occult objects since before he was born.

During the pandemic I ended up in a Zoom birthday gathering with both Brits and Yanks. At some point, for reasons I forget, a guy in rural Washington state started showing his gun collection. The Americans were all "cool bro" and chatting about specifics, and the British were all gaping, incapable of speech. (I exaggerate for comic effect, but not by much.)

 

[Florence]

and arrest less in general than these countries.

And therein lies the problem; police aren’t arresting fewer people because we have less crime, they’re making fewer arrests because they’re a bunch of lazy fuckwits who’ve given up on doing anything when it comes to virtually all minor crimes.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Happy New Year fellow Brit Bongs here is looking forward to a year where we are all bent over a barrel and fucked by our own government. It's the friends we met along the way that matters though so this thread will be an exciting Dear Diary of how we all get destroyed.

My personal prediction is that the NHS will collapse actually but I think this year there will be a ton of civil unrest.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

My personal prediction is that the NHS will collapse actually but I think this year there will be a ton of civil unrest.

Nah, it's the year of "protect the nhs, assisted suicide yourself"

 

[northstar747]

Most of the cosgrove-hall output; count duckula, dangermouse. Bagpuss, postman pat, Wallace and grommit- all

So when I was a kid in the 1980s we had the nickelodeon channel and they collected every scrap of kids programing they could.

including those cartoons along with french and japanese stuff. I rememebr the would often show "box of delights" never could get that one out of my heads for how strange it was.

 

[BongoMongo]

Last night was great. It was windy and pissing it down.

We had curry for tea, watched some Sopranos, and were in bed by 11pm.

Because of the weather all the absolute, bastard cunts who would have otherwise been setting off their poxy fireworks, couldn't. It was fucking magnificent.

How peaceful it was really highlighted and made apparent how much of a blight fireworks are.

 

[-Jack-]

Last night was great. It was windy and pissing it down.

We had curry for tea, watched some Sopranos, and were in bed by 11pm.

Because of the weather all the absolute, bastard cunts who would have otherwise been setting off their poxy fireworks, couldn't. It was fucking magnificent.

How peaceful it was really highlighted and made apparent how much of a blight fireworks are.

Your poor wife, having to share a bed with you after a curry!

 

[isalaide]

You can read the same into how the farmers are getting fucked, or rather have fucked themselves or how people that send their kids to private schools have made little effort to promote the social benefits of private schools.

We went to private schools and we send our kids to one. The social benefit is that our kids don't have to associate with poor folks or anyone with learning needs. This is not a benefit to society, just to our kids. It is a completely selfish decision. I have no shame or regret about it, but I can't pretend that I believe I am acting in the best interest of 'society'. I am buying my kids a significant privilege and advantage in life, quite deliberately. No one is coming out to bat for the 'social benefits' of what we are doing because we are all well aware of what we are doing. We have fucking bailed on the state education system because our little Jemimas and Tristans are too precious to associate with the Olivia-Maes and the Jacksons.

 

[FedPostalService]

We went to private schools and we send our kids to one. The social benefit is that our kids don't have to associate with poor folks or anyone with learning needs. This is not a benefit to society, just to our kids. It is a completely selfish decision. I have no shame or regret about it, but I can't pretend that I believe I am acting in the best interest of 'society'. I am buying my kids a significant privilege and advantage in life, quite deliberately. No one is coming out to bat for the 'social benefits' of what we are doing because we are all well aware of what we are doing. We have fucking bailed on the state education system because our little Jemimas and Tristans are too precious to associate with the Olivia-Maes and the Jacksons.

You’ve made the right decision. Sadly in Englandshire you have pretend to be religious to get you kids into a decent state school.

 

[isalaide]

You’ve made the right decision. Sadly in Englandshire you have pretend to be religious to get you kids into a decent state school.

That does no fucking good in Scotland whatsoever since the Catholic schools remain sited in the poor areas.

Like I say, I have no regrets over it whatsoever, but I also fully understand the effect of the most engaged, and the most time-rich and resource-rich parents completely fucking bailing on the state system. Yes, via taxation I remain a net contributor to the system and all that, but whatever energy and drive for change I could bring, either personally or as a professional Karen mummy, is quite simply not there. It is the antithesis of the aim of the comprehensive system. I'm going to do it anyway for as long as it is legally allowed, because parenting is inherently a selfish activity. I am however not going to be a fucking hypocrite and pretend that's not why I'm doing it. I am giving wild side eye to anyone at this point trying to argue there is a social good in sending Matilda and Nicholas to Dotheboys Hall or St Hockeysticks.