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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.

 

[FedPostalService]

In fairness to him, I am also completely insane, but that's unrelated.

Not going to Greggs today, but I will be going to Pret, since I'm down souf. Might be racist in there as well.

We still all love you just the same.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Send me somewhere warm with cheap wine and loose women.

India. The wine is made from cow piss (cheap) and you can rape all of the women you want.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Send me somewhere warm with cheap wine and loose women.

India. The wine is made from cow piss (cheap) and you can rape all of the women you want.

Bulgaria is pretty good unironically. My family considered buying a holiday house in Varna; but then realised that A) They would need to live in Bulgaria for an extended period of time, and B) Bulgaria is so cheap that it was essentially worthless as an investment. But the booze is good, Bulgarian women like relatively middle class money, and the beaches are great.

 

[Brahma]

Non- whites should not be allowed to hold public office of any kind. Just look at what they're actively doing to the native population and ask yourselves: would we consider this acceptable in a other country? Of course we wouldn't.

The West colluded in the destruction of Rhodesia on the grounds that they were testing their blacks badly, but in real terms, they were treating them better than native Europeans are in their own countries

 

[BongoMongo]

Same. I don’t understand how the Tories are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. All Kemi has to do is stand up and start chanting “ausländer raus!”

Maybe she's got some Scottish heritage in there, specifically someone who played on the football team?

I've never seen anything like it.

On the plus side I listen at work to conversations (not in a snoopy eavesdropping way, I just have good hearing). I hear the stuff out under 18 apprentices say and to be honest I'm floored with how far right they all are.

I know they wouldn't be representative of their whole demographic but I wonder if, on hearing these young people talk, Labour would still be frothing at the gash to allow 16 and 17 year olds to vote?


@Chunky Salsa : they make the works last as long as possible to use up as much budget as they can lest they use it next financial year, it's not just a southern thing.

Hell, Andy Burnham manipulated the "need" for a ULEZ by chucking in stop-start temp lights all over Manchester and then reeeing about "butbutbut MUH EMMIISSSSSHHHOOOONNNNNSSSSS!!!!!!" because he put up temporary air quality sensors near said works. Doubtless helped by fact one of his relatives owns some company wanting in on ULEZ.

Incompetence, stupidity and waste are a UK wide issue.

If you're near London I take it you're not affected by the cancelling of local elections because of the whole mayor fuckshow? That's absolutely disgraceful. I've family who live in that region and they're furious.


The issue of government who at all levels wasteful lazy pig ignorant and solely put to gain for themselves and their own isn't going to be solved by more government. But hey, I wonder how the spastics who voted for this shit because they're too retarded and blinded by the two party system actually thought this would be any different?

Anyone who voted Labour who didn't see this coming is so stupid beyond redemption they and their descendants should be banned from voting.

 

[FedPostalService]

If you're near London I take it you're not affected by the cancelling of local elections because of the whole mayor fuckshow? That's absolutely disgraceful. I've family who live in that region and they're furious.

It’s clear they've only stopped them to prevent Reform doing well and how the media isn’t saying this out loud when it’s clearly the case is insane.

Maybe the press might stop being so faggy now that USAID money isn‘t coming in any more.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Maybe the press might stop being so faggy now that USAID money isn‘t coming in any more.

Doubt it, that rot is in deep.

 

[BongoMongo]

Totally unrelated but it's really heartening on here how people disagree but are still civil and polite. It's wonderful.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Blog post over share warning:

My wife and I have spent a year on sabbatical travelling the world, and I was hoping to secure employment overseas. But that all fell through and I now have to return, not just to the UK, but to fucking London, for my job.

Ngl, as the date gets closer I'm getting pretty down about it. The only reason I'm not absolutely despairing is because I can tell myself it's just for the next 15 years until my son is grown, then I can pack up and fuck off again.

I was just getting used to shorts and sandals everyday too. Now I have to return to a rainy shit hole. At least there's pies, sausages, beer and good cheese.

 

[FedPostalService]

Blog post over share warning:

My wife and I have spent a year on sabbatical travelling the world, and I was hoping to secure employment overseas. But that all fell through and I now have to return, not just to the UK, but to fucking London, for my job.

Ngl, as the date gets closer I'm getting pretty down about it. The only reason I'm not absolutely despairing is because I can tell myself it's just for the next 15 years until my son is grown, then I can pack up and fuck off again.

I was just getting used to shorts and sandals everyday too. Now I have to return to a rainy shit hole. At least there's pies, sausages, beer and good cheese.

See if your firm has a regional office with a decent village in commenting distance and try to get moved there.

You’ll get paid less but will get a house that’s practically a mansion for the price of a shoebox in London and your money will go a lot further.

 

[Quintex96]

I don’t know how many times I have to explain that this blood and soil shit is gay and makes anyone you speak to think you are a crank and makes it easy to disregard anything else you say.

You could be right about 99% of things but when you talk about sending Ian Wright back to Bongobongoland no one will listen to you,

You‘ve got a purity level so high that the only people who will speak to you will be undercover policemen.

Post hands, right now

 

[Clem Fandango]

See if your firm has a regional office with a decent village in commenting distance and try to get moved there.

You’ll get paid less but will get a house that’s practically a mansion for the price of a shoebox in London and your money will go a lot further.

I already have a house in "non-London", that we've been renting out this year for an amount so obscene that it's practically funded the whole endeavour (plus some savings and gig work).

Since it's a little money factory right now, there's no reason to move back into it and commute, but to either rent somewhere in London or buy a second house (although looking into this the stamp duty etc is pretty punitive for the second house: aside - trying to get my head round this, did my missus and I miss a trick? Could we have bought one house entirely in one of our names, and then a second "first house" in the other?).

Anyway, no there are no "regional offices" , it's got to be London, and yes, in office three days a week. Can't get into much more than that just to keep it vague and avoid doxing.

 

[Special spoonie]

Sadly the furries have banded together to brigade the Community Notes.
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Naturally, they cite Wikipedia, which is about as reliable as the Discord admins when it comes to being truthful about furries.

And the BBC are now banging on about them.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqlpw2zv4wo.amp


Hahaha of course they are just misunderstood!

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Blog post over share warning:

My wife and I have spent a year on sabbatical travelling the world, and I was hoping to secure employment overseas. But that all fell through and I now have to return, not just to the UK, but to fucking London, for my job.

Ngl, as the date gets closer I'm getting pretty down about it. The only reason I'm not absolutely despairing is because I can tell myself it's just for the next 15 years until my son is grown, then I can pack up and fuck off again.

I was just getting used to shorts and sandals everyday too. Now I have to return to a rainy shit hole. At least there's pies, sausages, beer and good cheese.

Any chance of reskilling/retrading/getting a different job? If rent is a good portion of your passive income, are there bits you could both do to top up that income at home, in a nicer area?

Have you considered contract work within your field? It pays twice as much as PAYE and if you're willing to float about with a second income it could be just what you're looking for.

I may be the wrong guy/xhir to ask though, as I would prefer starvation and destitution to going within 100miles of London.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Any chance of reskilling/retrading/getting a different job? If rent is a good portion of your passive income, are there bits you could both do to top up that income at home, in a nicer area?

Have you considered contract work within your field? It pays twice as much as PAYE and if you're willing to float about with a second income it could be just what you're looking for.

I may be the wrong guy/xhir to ask though, as I would prefer starvation and destitution to going within 100miles of London.

Just want to preface this by saying: appreciate everyone's advice. I do love this forum, and that even shitlords who like to say nigger will still turn up and try to help a guy out who you don't even know. Kiwis are good people.

But to answer the specifics: bruv, I'm like 40 years old and I've spent a lot of time and money getting qualified in a pretty specific laptop caste field of employment. Reskilling at this stage would be a huge knock back (I'm on a six figure salary for the upcoming London job, plus bonus).

I know exactly where you're coming from, but for me it makes way more sense to hold my nose, try and send miladdo to a nice school, and just get on with it rather than reskilling for the last twenty years of my working life. Although believe me, not a day of tedious Teams messages go by where I don't wish I'd become a fabricator/welder or some shit.

Talking of "nicer areas", I know London pretty well, and I looked up Google news for one of the "nicer areas" we were looking at a few months ago. Top result? A fucking stabbing.

I don't think that narrows it down too much, considering we're talking about London here.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

I know exactly where you're coming from, but for me it makes way more sense to hold my nose, try and send miladdo to a nice school, and just get on with it rather than reskilling for the last twenty years of my working life. Although believe me, not a day of tedious Teams messages go by where I don't wish I'd become a fabricator/welder or some shit.

Would it be possible to reskill sideways? Swap to an adjacent field?

You sound like you've got a good plan though and the farms will keep you sane for the next twenty, thirty, forty and fifty years.

and that even shitlords who like to say nigger will still turn up and try to help a guy out who you don't even know.

Nigger.

 

[Unyielding Stupidity]

Reparations" could only ever be theoretically based and not utter pish if instead of socializing the losses of private action (the state has already paid it's collective dues in the form of the original buyout + West Africa Squadron) you take the market approach and go after the entities who actually did the wrongdoing, you know, slaveship owners/plantation proprietors and the like.

Oy vey, please cool it with the antisemitic remarks...

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

So on Friday, there was an emergency cabinet meeting up t'North. This is probably due to Reform being in the lead of polls for successive weeks now and scrambling to cancel all local elections. One thing that this means historically is a cabinet reshuffle as these meetings tend to follow with reshuffles. Cooper and Reeves are out but one thing I have heard journos mention is Cooper replacing Reeves as Chancellor which I don't believe. I think Lammy is gone because the media is trying to bury this Caribbean Reparations meeting. So we know from accounts too that Raynor and Starmer hate each other but with her being widely disliked I think she is out as deputy.

He will do what Thatcher did in her second term and surround himself with sycophants of the highest level but not realize that the fox is in the hen house. Labour at the moment is juggling hot potatoes; NHS, recession, foreign policy, Reform, and a public against migration. Any of these issues can implode rather soon and there will be calls for a General Election due to the previous government. I suspect that foreign parties are waiting for this to exert pressure and force a General Election. My prediction is Trump knows the score and will convince the European powers to publicly urge for one along with Japan etc.

 

[Otterly]

So on Friday, there was an emergency cabinet meeting up t'North.

It’s a shame that contracting dysentery on the road and dying while your baggage train is consumed by sands is out of fashion.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Anyway, no there are no "regional offices" , it's got to be London, and yes, in office three days a week. Can't get into much more than that just to keep it vague and avoid doxing.

What you're saying and scenario is incredibly familiar. You're looking at 2 nights a week in London (work out the value of your commute time/stab risk) and live elsewhere.
Live elsewhere.