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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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Bog-standard Poster said:
Put it in the bin, it's a scam.

No letter that threatens to send bailiffs over four quid is real, or worth reading.

If you're really unsure, phone your local council and/or report it as SPAM. Don't fall for fraud.
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I’ve had mine send it to bailiffs over tiny amount after I ignored it thinking they wouldn’t chase me. I paid the council straight away and told the bailiffs to fuck off and sent them the receipt as there was no debt but it was less than 100 quid.

You can fuck around with HMRC and most private companies for various small amounts but not councils. They will go after you and if you keep telling bailiffs to fuck off it goes to court, more fees get added on and they will bankrupt you for shits and giggles.

Don’t ever fuck around with council tax. Pay the minimum payment per month and then a few pound more for the lulz.

I‘m deadly serious about this and it’s no worth the trouble. Most normal humans will think the council is being unreasonable for overreacting over such a tiny amount but normal humans don’t work for councils, bailiffs, or magistrates courts.

The public service announcement ends here and I can go back to being a shitposting wanker.
 
FedPostalService said:
I’ve had mine send it to bailiffs over tiny amount after I ignored it thinking they wouldn’t chase me. I paid the council straight away and told the bailiffs to fuck off and sent them the receipt as there was no debt but it was less than 100 quid.

You can fuck around with HMRC and most private companies for various small amounts but not councils. They will go after you and if you keep telling bailiffs to fuck off it goes to court, more fees get added on and they will bankrupt you for shits and giggles.

Don’t ever fuck around with council tax. Pay the minimum payment per month and then a few pound more for the lulz.

I‘m deadly serious about this and it’s no worth the trouble. Most normal humans will think the council is being unreasonable for overreacting over such a tiny amount but normal humans don’t work for councils, bailiffs, or magistrates courts.

The public service announcement ends here and I can go back to being a shitposting wanker.
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YMMV. Every letter I've ever received asking for money goes in the bin. Council, 'parking' fines, TV License threats. All in the bin. I've never been chased, I've never had bailiffs or third party wankers knock on my door and the one time a TV license nonce knocked on my door, he was greeted with a "fuck off" and a door slammed in his face.

Council tax is paid through direct debit, if they've made a mistake calculating my bill, they can rectify it next year. I don't waste my time working for free; I won't send in FOIAs, write to companies about their mistakes, or get threatened by a bullying car park service threatening to take my lunch money if I don't pay up.

If people are that worried, phone the number, tell a complete stranger your card details, address - including postcode and pay the fine. Personally, not a chance in hell would I do any of that. You'll have to turn me upside down and shake the three quid of my pockets. Good luck though, I'm a tight yorkshire cunt with pockets tighter than an erection in a milk-bottle.
 
FedPostalService said:
They‘re worse than gangsters when it comes to council tax.
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I remember when I went bankrupt, the council were the only fuckers who still sent bailiffs to my house despite the debt forming part of the bankruptcy. Was a nice laugh when I called the police and the bailiff company was formally investigated for trespass/harassment (sadly not charged of course). Ever since I simply stopped paying council tax along with most other forms of invoiced debt - on paper I own nothing so they can also take nothing.
 
I purely pay council tax for criminal record reasons regarding immigration but if I was not I would not pay those nonses a cent. The idea of council tax is insane and based on tything concocted by some frigid bitch. I can't wait for them all to collapse, Starmer's idea of centralizing it is so utterly retarded that he has not thought it through and it will speed up the process.
 
Chunky Salsa said:
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.
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You get a better class of racism in Pret.
BongoMongo said:
Had a letter from mine, first one ever I had advising I owed £3.19 from 2023-2024.
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Oh they are just bastards aren’t they? First off, pay it, don’t mess around with that, make sure it’s paid. If you want to spend the time then you can ask for when the first letter was sent, but honestly, save yourself the stress, it’s like whacking your head against a brick wall.
I got a parking ticket once for parking on my own street with a permit clearly on display. Had to pay it and then get a refund, they were such utter arses about it all. Took me an afternoon sitting in various bloody queues at the council but I did sort it out in the end. Trouble is the poor sod you end up talking to isn’t the one who actually made the error so there’s no point giving them a barracking. Bloody council.
 
I went to Gregs yesterday, it was full of Indians. My sausage rolls were served to me by Indians, the people behind me line were Indian. Even the people in the back were Indian.

I have never felt the urge to be that openly racist in public in my entire life.
 
A-Logato said:
I went to Gregs yesterday, it was full of Indians. My sausage rolls were served to me by Indians, the people behind me line were Indian. Even the people in the back were Indian.

I have never felt the urge to be that openly racist in public in my entire life.
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That’s what American looks like. Apparently it’s progress.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
  • China and India kill baby girls because they're not worth as much as men when it comes to earning power.
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India does it because they're a bunch of evil jeet faggots who hate women which is why India is Rapeland.

China did it because of the "One Child Policy" they enacted to control population. They didn't kill girl babies before that because even if they did prefer sons, they figured they could always try again.
 
AnOminous said:
India does it because they're a bunch of evil jeet faggots who hate women which is why India is Rapeland.

China did it because of the "One Child Policy" they enacted to control population. They didn't kill girl babies before that because even if they did prefer sons, they figured they could always try again.
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They killed the girls in favour of saving boys, they use a sick reasoning to justify it, but they did it.
 
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Whatsapp chat from 3 years that's presumably been sat on for a rainy day has come to light (LEAKED) and has 2 MPs implicated so far, it's mostly ov gevalt/fucking old people tier stuff from what I gather but it's thoroughly career derailing stuff for anyone stupid enough to get caught up in it
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1lv1gqgmdzo/https://archive.is/FGtQS
A second Labour MP has apologised for comments made in a WhatsApp chat, after Andrew Gwynne was sacked as a minister over messages he sent to the same group.
Burnley MP Oliver Ryan said in a statement that comments he made in the group "were completely unacceptable" and he regretted "not speaking out at the time".
Fellow MP Gwynne was sacked as health minister on Saturday after the Mail on Sunday reported he sent a string of offensive and abusive messages in the WhatsApp group, which contained other Labour figures.
A government source told the PA news agency that the party's chief whip would speak to Ryan "and no action is off the table".
"I did not see every message, but I accept responsibility for not being more proactive in challenging what was said," Ryan added.
"I also made some comments myself which I deeply regret and would not make today and for that, I wholeheartedly apologise."
He said would cooperate fully with Labour's investigation, which began after Gwynne's messages were revealed.
Gwynne was suspended from the party and apologised in a statement on X for any offence caused by the "badly misjudged" comments.
Ryan, 29, said he was a member of the WhatsApp group between 2019 and early 2022, when he was a councillor on Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. He was elected for the first time as an MP in July.
"Some of the comments made in that group were completely unacceptable, and I fully condemn them," he added.
"I regret not speaking out at the time, and I recognise that failing to do so was wrong."
Look at these cold soulless eyes and tell me how spicy you think he got
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