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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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Morethanabitfoolish said:
I'm not going to bother posting the many, many articles across all media about the poor refugees freezing in tents in Manchester since the council just won its bid to be allowed to move them on. I am however going to archive this BBC article which shows they couldn't find a single woman to interview.
https://archive.ph/GEbpS
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That BBC article, near the end, states:

"The hearing heard the camp had become a "revolving door" where new refugees moved in after previous residents were housed by authorities".

So are the authorities doing something or not something in housing the  deserters refugees?

Also, why is a Romanian a refugee?
 
Amin Yasister said:
That BBC article, near the end, states:

"The hearing heard the camp had become a "revolving door" where new refugees moved in after previous residents were housed by authorities".

So are the authorities doing something or not something in housing the  deserters refugees?

Also, why is a Romanian a refugee?
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They're housing those they can but there's a finite amount of housing and an infinite number of invaders.

As to the Romanian guess it comes down to whatever NGO devised excuse was used.
 
I just got in from my 4 night shifts in a row. Saw a new series of Unforgotten on ITVX, thought, oh, will stick an episode on to unwind with my brew and fish finger butty. It shows a group of young, fighting age men in a container entering the UK illegally. Immediately binned it off and stuck on an episode of A Touch Of Frost instead.

Anything which shows or presents such behaviour in any way or manner other than condemning it can absolutely and categorically go fuck itself.
 
BongoMongo said:
Maybe if you wanted to lose 3lb via a torrent of liquid shit?

Is The Vale pub still open in Glasgow? The one near the train station that's not Glasgow central? I had a good night in there once enjoying Sahara Nuts and a Guinness or three. I've not seen that particular bar snack sold anywhere else since.
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No, in a horrific act of vandalism they made it a site office when they were doing up Queen Street Station and now it’s an information office. You could go in there once every few years, see the same people, and they’d remember you and have a laugh. It was a great pub.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
And in totally unrelated news why don't we do free cash for the homeless in Manchester? Oh sorry, UBI.
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I think UBI is a great idea in principle, but I know it will never be implemented properly. Especially in this country, where all the funding would be sucked up by layers of administration and management, while the process to receive it would be so opaque as to render it impossible to actually get paid. And then they'd tax you on it anyway, even if you never saw a penny.
 
BongoMongo said:
Maybe if you wanted to lose 3lb via a torrent of liquid shit?

Is The Vale pub still open in Glasgow? The one near the train station that's not Glasgow central? I had a good night in there once enjoying Sahara Nuts and a Guinness or three. I've not seen that particular bar snack sold anywhere else since.
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https://www.saharanuts.co.uk/
>hot nut dispenser
 
Chaos Theorist said:
How long before our tiny hatted friends go absolutely apeshit at Labour for allowing Gazans to claim mass asylum here
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(((They))) support this. They get to kill two goyim birds with one stone; they get to deport the Palestinians from the lands they stole, and get to further their goals of exterminating white people to bring about the demonic entity they worship known as Moloch (that they falsely claim is god).
 
GloJojo said:
Won't somebody think of the poor widdle councillors?!? Link/Archive
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it's almost like people don't want these traffic claiming measures that councils force upon them

BBC said:
The BBC has talked to those living in the camp, many of whom struggled to speak English
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More economic rocket fuel to keep our line going up
BBC said:
The Greater Manchester Law Centre had tried to fight the order and argued that the council had not complied with its statutory duties to care for those in the camp under homelessness law and instead referred people to support charity Mustard Tree.
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Deport them with the other useless eaters

On the one hand I feel sorry for people running away from war but then again we had 2 big wars a while ago and everybody didn't just turn tail* at the first sight of a Panzer coming over a hill.


except France
 
Nothing concrete, so take it with a subreddit's worth of salt, but the rumours flying around right now are that Reeves will be tendering her resignation next week.
 
teriyakiburns said:
Nothing concrete, so take it with a subreddit's worth of salt, but the rumours flying around right now are that Reeves will be tendering her resignation next week.
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Do you believe that the first domino is about to fall and that the purge has begun?
 
Yeah, I keep bumping into that soon, I assume some people in Westminster put it out. I keep hearing though her replacement is Yvette Cooper which is horrifying. I assume it is down to a few things;
  1. Trump meeting next week is a show of strength and somewhat connected to Vance's jabs about the UK. We need them onside and Starmer knows if he pisses off the Americans a significant portion of the Labour moderates and of course put him in a very dangerous line for no confidence which of course Raynor can then initiate because of her strong core. This also empowers Cooper who is viewed as one of the only credible members and seemingly involved in this secret cous with Raynor.
  2. The reshuffle - A reshuffle was supposed to happen last week but was stopped because Reform leading the polls consecutively. A reshuffle would have given them more strength. A reshuffle this early is unheard of I only know a few occasions of it happening but it was due to external forces.
  3. Protection from the cous and sacrificial lamb- Starmer knows a cous is coming as Angela has said it will happen secretly but not when. He is trying to galvanize but I think it is all but futile, this is too transparent of a move to use her as a sacrifice but it does not address the other problems.
The issue is an insane left-wing government got in when the population is centre to center-right. The only solution is an election and though I think the outcome would be a coalition with Reform and the Tories, it's a much better one. Even globally Labour as a government has no place and this is where I think Trump will urge William and Charles to call for one. The Royals have always had the mantra of keeping onside with the Americans and Elizabeth understood this masterfully (I miss her). William is going to be an envoy to Trump which I think he has done to influence and all too well you cannot reason with Labour they are mostly insane. I only somewhat respect Raynor for being so forward-thinking, that bitch watched House of Cards. There is a lot of infighting currently and I think Labour are done after this personally. I think a snap election is coming whether they like it or not.
 
I really believe the Queen intentionally held out til Truss was PM to die to intentionally piss off Boris Johnson.

I also think, if there is a snap election we should look at how much money is wasted by these fuckwits, of all parties,when they get in. It is simply appalling,when we are apparently in such dire financial straits, that they spaff away our money on pictures and paintings and redecorating their offices. It is obscene and ridiculous.
 
I think the Tories will get Boris back in. Babadook is one of the biggest failures in Conservative history, even Truss is regarded as someone willing to challenge the establishment. It still baffles me why they did not select Jenrick because his policies were sound and he actually presented policies unlike Babadook.
 
Chaotic Pizzaparty said:
It still baffles me why they did not select Jenrick because his policies were sound and he actually presented policies unlike Babadook.
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He said something/did something/committed to something behind closed doors which got "out" and it cost him a lot of support and sank his chances overnight.
Prior to going full Farage-barrage my area's lot were pro-Jenrick till a week before when they all flipped badddienoch and I still don't know why, something to do with Israel I think (or the gazan problem perhaps),
 
Unyielding Stupidity said:
(((They))) support this. They get to kill two goyim birds with one stone; they get to deport the Palestinians from the lands they stole, and get to further their goals of exterminating white people to bring about the demonic entity they worship known as Moloch (that they falsely claim is god).
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The most insidious posts are from the rampant Zio shills in Reform and whatnot that conflate any political considerations or activism from browns to be rioting. Posts with pro-Palestine rallies in London for example making it seem like they're aimless Jawas trying to destabilize Britain for supporting Jewish colonialism and that if they were all shipped back it would make Britain happier, healthier and stable in an instant
Jewish capital wants more migrants, Reform will happily sell every remaining public service in the UK the minute they're in power and have no real plans to deal with migrant problems, housing problems, 4 cans of Monster from Tesco being £6.20 and whatever else because it keeps people rooting for them
 
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