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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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‘… and pictures of Norwich.’
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Chunky Salsa said:
Am I the lunatic here? We live on an island, we are surrounded by water, there are a limited number of airports and sea ports, we can just stop them from coming in.
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We have tried nothing and are all pit of ideas. I know it’s barmy isn’t it? We are a fucking island surrounded by cold water. Just do not let the fuckers into the country.
I had to fly out of Manchester airport a month or so back. Was like the third world. The only white people I saw were, oddly, border guard posts.
 
FedPostalService said:
The EU is going to shit so they just stop covering news from there unless they really have to and hope we just all think it’s a paradise over there.

The worst thing is retards will fall for it
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Are you not a nigger in the north? I hate Kier, all our oppositional parties are useless. Trump? Why do you retards want Americanization? I thought people on this thread were more self-aware.
 
Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
Are you not a nigger in the north? I hate Kier, all our oppositional parties are useless. Trump? Why do you retards want Americanization? I thought people on this thread were more self-aware.
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The BBC between my legs is a Big British Cock and very white.

Also, we’re a bunch of autists who spend all day moaning to strangers on the uppercase I Internet. How self aware could anyone of us possibly be?

I am a proud member of Norf FC though.
 
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BongoMongo said:
Is anyone else finding it a little bit challenging to be optimistic about stuff or to see any sort of hope in all of this clusterfuckery?

The scope and scale of Muslims consolidating their power over stuff is vast and only getting worse. None of the parties can be relied on to do anything concrete about it all. I can honestly see a situation where in a few years they'll have enough power to start forcing through legislation to enact a Sharia state.

It all feels extremely hopeless just now.
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I feel exactly the same. I never thought I would ever feel this way, but I do.
 
British police and a psychologist showed up in a man's home because he had written on social media "Christians must stand up" after Islamist attack. In UK and Europe there is no freedom of speech, JD Vance is right.

 
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How many times does this guy want to do photos ops with Muslims?

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Next PM is a muslim, mark my words.

If you haven't bought a home abroad, learn how to escape. The UK is done and this has been in the works for 40 years.

@Chaotic Pizzaparty - Our military, as in the physical military of planes and tanks, is small and gay. Our ability, and the strategic planning of battles, attacks and general war, are the best in the world.
I've had the honour of working closely with the French, German, Romanian, Bulgarian, Canadian and Australian armed forces, on the ground, and I've had the displeasure of spending 6 months with the American Army. I won't/can't elaborate why, just trust me (bro), they're thick as fuck and the blue-on-blue is very rarely an accident.

They say an army's strength is 8/10ths perception, and while our American friends on this board will hate me for saying it, their army is a paper tiger. All of the toys and flashy weaponry, none of the ability or strategy.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
They say an army's strength is 8/10ths perception, and while our American friends on this board will hate me for saying it, their army is a paper tiger. All of the toys and flashy weaponry, none of the ability or strategy.
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The biggest issue, in my opinion, is institutional arrogance, with this belief that because the Armed Forces haven't lost a war in the history of the country, then it can never lose a war. This can theoretically be mended by combat, but what cannot be is the hollowing out of war-critical industry. People have this idea, especially in America, that factories and shipyards can be summoned out of the aether like what was done in World War II, to become the arsenal of democracy. But it simply cannot happen like that anymore. There'd need to be a ten year 30s-styl re-industrialization and rearmament campaign to even get close to that.
 
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The biggest issue, in my opinion, is institutional arrogance, with this belief that because the Armed Forces haven't lost a war in the history of the country, then it can never lose a war. This can theoretically be mended by combat, but what cannot be is the hollowing out of war-critical industry. People have this idea, especially in America, that factories and shipyards can be summoned out of the aether like what was done in World War II, to become the arsenal of democracy. But it simply cannot happen like that anymore. There'd need to be a ten year 30s-styl re-industrialization and rearmament campaign to even get close to that.
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It’s one of its biggest strengths as defeat is an alien concept to the British army. It’s why it’s so remarkably tough. When other armed forces are planning a withdrawal, our army are brewing a cup of tea and moaning about the weather.

I remember reading someone who served alongside British forces in Kosovo who admired our stubbornness. If the British were ask to hold a position it held. The enemy would run out of ammunition or bodies before the we‘d moved an inch.
 
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