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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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I do not get Starmer, he appears to be a child trying to get into the "cool" club whilst the "cool" club finds him to be the weird homeschooled kid. The meeting on Tuesday went disastrous for him Schoultz stormed out when Starmer proposed troops branding it as schitzo. He said it was "unhelpful", and "pointless" and said it "would no doubt cause esculation". Meloni did not even go and Macron was "alarmed at the proposal". The Polish were disturbed by the proposal and told Trump about it. It is abundantly clear Europe wants out and Starmer wants to go in for optics when the public is against it. When Germany an authoritarian state looks at you and mutters "the fuck" you know you are too far gone. I have a feeling Starmer set up the meeting and honestly tried to get them to put troops in.

This is a "leader" who is completely out of his depth but someone deeply psychologically touched.
 
Otterly said:
Maybe we need some sort of reverse war of independence.
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Just restart the war of 1812 and watch it end with the burning of Westminster.

And then watch the confused faces of American soldiers when they hear a roaring cheer from British forces. Telling Americans they missed a spot.
 
Chaotic Pizzaparty said:
This is a "leader" who is completely out of his depth but someone deeply psychologically touched.
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He was a latchkey kid iirc ie. emotionally neglected and left alone by his parents for much of his life which might explains why he seeks meaning in getting gaped by a paki on the reg.

If he put forward a legion of Norf FC lads going around the country shooting any graffiti or grime with dry ice he'd have a lot more tangible effect on the mood of the country tbh. People seem to tolerate globohomo architecture as long as it looks clean.

 
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Take a walk down your streets and tell me the quality of the people you see. Take a stock of your government and tell me the quality of those too. Do you honestly think your country is capable of fighting Russia, or the US?
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If they bring vodka and heroin I see absolutely no reason to fight our Russian brethren
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
Russia? It would be tough as they're well versed in Urban combat.
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They’ve been stuck in a muddy field for over a year and had their arse handed to them by a nation of farmers and camgirls.

Russia is a nation of alcoholics and AIDS ridden drug addicts.

They won’t be able to go against a NATO power. Even Belgium would fuck them.

If it wasn’t for them being a nuclear power they’d be an irrelevant backwater with a lot of space.
 
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Be that as it may, your governments are likely to pick a fight with Russia if anyone.
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My government isn't going to pick a fight with any cunt. There will be whining here and there, but 'eastern Europe' has spent its entire history under the boot heel of either the Russians or the Germans, and that won't change. The line of influence just moves around every so often. My government has enough fucking problems what with adjusting to being perma broke without trying to fling around the military might it doesn't have.
 
Snekposter said:
Aside from all of that house-to-house fighting we did in the MidEast, of course. I'm sure those 850 Englishmen at Fallujah carried the 10,500 Americans present all by themselves.
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Free the Pedos said:
Lots of combat in Iraq (less in Afghanistan) was urban warfare.
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Afghan wasn't urban combat. There were houses and streets, but it wasn't urban. Bosnia and Sarajevo, they were Urban.


Eekum Bokum said:
We might win a battle or two against the US but ultimately lose any war. What makes the American military scary is its sheer size and its production, no need for strategy when you can drown your enemy in munitions.

America is not the Qing's Banner Armies.
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The size of their military is irrelevant because they don't know how to use it. As stated before, perception is 8/10ths an armies strength and that's what America has.

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They’ve been stuck in a muddy field for over a year and had their arse handed to them by a nation of farmers and camgirls.
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A war of attrition as pushing further was not worth the gains for the potential losses. They haven't had their arses handed to them by farmers, when said farmers' death toll stop being recorded when it broke 400,000 dead.
That's before we ignore the 'international help' with weapons and ammunition.
 
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