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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]

having sex with a female mare,

As opposed to a male mare? The absolute state of current year journalism. The person writing this doesn’t know what a mare is, yet thinks they are qualified for a job using the English language to describe events

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

As opposed to a male mare?

You don't know if that mare's gender identity matches the one it was assigned at birth.

 

[Otterly]

You don't know if that mare's gender identity matches the one it was assigned at birth.

As it gallops, honking, over the event horizon.
Am I just ‘old woman yells at cloud’ or is the whole general background knowledge people have gone these days? I feel like the people we have coming in new to work don’t know anything past a very superficial pop culture. Maybe every generation feels like this.
Bring back hanging, anyway.

 

[FedPostalService]

As opposed to a male mare? The absolute state of current year journalism. The person writing this doesn’t know what a mare is, yet thinks they are qualified for a job using the English language to describe events

I can’t wait for some bearded closeted homosexual conservative Burger to release his YouTube documentary called “What is a mare?”

 

[-Jack-]

As it gallops, honking, over the event horizon.
Am I just ‘old woman yells at cloud’ or is the whole general background knowledge people have gone these days? I feel like the people we have coming in new to work don’t know anything past a very superficial pop culture. Maybe every generation feels like this.
Bring back hanging, anyway.

It depends on the age range I guess? That, or they don't have much substance to their personality besides work.

 

[isalaide]

Great, four free lynx for the zoo https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-scottish-woods-after-capture-of-another-pair

 

[FedPostalService]

If only we regulated the release of non native humans into this country with the care and severity that we treated the release of non native species.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Am I just ‘old woman yells at cloud’ or is the whole general background knowledge people have gone these days? I feel like the people we have coming in new to work don’t know anything past a very superficial pop culture. Maybe every generation feels like this.

I'm a millenial nearing thirty now, and honestly, it's a bizarre thing to talk to younger people coming in as grads. A lot of them - not all mind you - seem to have been beamed down from some spaceship for all the understanding of things they have. I hate to sound like an old person, but none of them read, none of them have any cultural grounding, and none of them seem to have any real world knowledge. One of the new grads was musing at lunch recently that he didn't 'get' what the difference between pork and pig was.

I have no idea that even means? Like, what are you trying to say you madman?

 

[Just a boring name]

"How's your year been, Damion?"

"Not gonna lie, mate - I had a bit of a Mare"

 

[isalaide]

If only we regulated the release of non native humans into this country with the care and severity that we treated the release of non native species.

The rich elite of the UK are substantially more interested in the safety of farmed grouse than they are in the safety of girls in care. This is a statement of fact.

 

[Midwit]

One of the new grads was musing at lunch recently that he didn't 'get' what the difference between pork and pig was.

This person clearly hasn't had to walk through a cow field to get to the local train station, I bet they'd get confused and call it a beef field though.

 

[f4t2h7gc]

The rich elite of the UK are substantially more interested in the safety of farmed grouse

Certain members of this group do have a recreational interest in pigs.

 

[-Jack-]

I'm a millenial nearing thirty now, and honestly, it's a bizarre thing to talk to younger people coming in as grads. A lot of them - not all mind you - seem to have been beamed down from some spaceship for all the understanding of things they have. I hate to sound like an old person, but none of them read, none of them have any cultural grounding, and none of them seem to have any real world knowledge. One of the new grads was musing at lunch recently that he didn't 'get' what the difference between pork and pig was.

I have no idea that even means? Like, what are you trying to say you madman?

If you're nearing thirty wouldn't that make you an older gen-z? I assumed Millenials were in there mid 30s-40s, though I can never really understand the official timeline.

 

[anklyscr]

If only we regulated the release of non native humans into this country with the care and severity that we treated the release of non native species.

Do you not know about the magic soil that makes any 70iq mongoloid from shittystan into a right proper Brit once they land at Dover.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

If you're nearing thirty wouldn't that make you an older gen-z? I assumed Millenials were in there mid 30s-40s, though I can never really understand the official timeline.

Don't do this to me. Don't paint me with that brush. I'm a millenial, I don't have brainrot.

 

[BrownPawsTypedThis]

If you're nearing thirty wouldn't that make you an older gen-z? I assumed Millenials were in there mid 30s-40s, though I can never really understand the official timeline.

I think 1995 -96 is the cut off for millennials, so just about.

 

[BrightonAndHoveAlbion]

I feel like if you're on the border between millenial/gen-z it matters more what generation your parents are. Boomer parents raise millenials, gen-x raise zoomers.

 

[-Jack-]

I feel like if you're on the border between millenial/gen-z it matters more what generation your parents are. Boomer parents raise millenials, gen-x raise zoomers.

What if you're at the cut-off and so are your parents? ((( Should I just install tiktok and start an onlyfans?

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

What if you're at the cut-off and so are your parents? ((( Should I just install tiktok and start an onlyfans?

It doesn't matter.
Common sense comes from your choice of associates in life.

 

[AssignedEva]

I hate to sound like an old person, but none of them read, none of them have any cultural grounding, and none of them seem to have any real world knowledge.

It's compound interest on the social changes we've seen as a result of the internet, mostly. I did a double take when I remembered that 2015 was a decade ago.

2015 was the year "it's [current year]" started being a meme. For those graduates it was Year 6 or Year 7. Thanks to Netflix (launched here in 2011), YouTube Kids (launched 2015) and TikTok (Musical.ly launched 2014, TikTok 2016) for many of them the majority of their cultural touchpoints were international rather than specific to the UK (vs when everyone used to watch the same TV shows). Smartphones went from 17% of market share in 2008 to 78% of market share in 2018 (when they were in Year 10) so they were immersed in constant distractions - around the time the then-Education Secretary was starting to tell parents needed to limit both their and their children's screentime, and people were already declaring that dating apps had ruined dating - but again, they never knew anything different. Then their A-Levels or university was disrupted by covid and they had to stay indoors, playing on computers. They were still at uni when LLMs began being a problem.

For them, there's little to no differentiation between the "real world" and the internet. We're seeing the children articles like this were written about

“Students, now, seem to find it particularly exhausting to read complex or long text without regular breaks. In the past, students seemed to be accustomed to attending to a text for a longer period of time,” says Erica Swift, sixth-grade teacher at Herman Leimbach Elementary in Sacramento, California, not far from Silicon Valley. “You see their lack of stamina in them asking for breaks, talking to others instead of working, and even some just giving up on longer reading tasks.”

entering the workforce. I suspect these issues will be getting even more pronounced in the coming years as kids who were exposed to internet oversaturation at ever younger ages hit the workplace.