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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.

 

[anklyscr]

I just thought Reeves is retarded. The welfare cut is 5 billion but the immigration shit is nearly 11 but growing because more illegals

but you see we need them to make line go up

 

[Van Darkholme]

Lovely! April often very brisk, but it’s the most gorgeous place on earth. Just drive around and enjoy the beaches. Scarista is a treasure. If you’re island hopping then Tiree is really nice.

I'll be probably staying on Lewis for most of the time. I've been to Orkney last year and it was very nice too. Honestly, you get used to the 24/7 wind going across the island.
Very few people around, no niggers and dune coons, exactly what I needed, and I hope it will be the same on Lewis.

 

[FedPostalService]

At what (realistic) point would anarchy explode within the UK? We can tut and moan all we like, but we certainly have a breaking point-just what is that breaking point? When was the last time that breaking point erupted?

The government is about to take the proles free money and tell them they need to do the jobs that are being given to foreigners anyway.

There’s going to be a lot of people milling about on the streets and moaning on Facebook groups once the weather gets warmer with a lot of spare time when they can’t afford Sky Sports anymore.

All this is happening so they can be conscripted at a moments notice into the army so rapey Africans can wander the streets and live in hotels completely free.

Poll Tax Riots

Labour in the last budget went harder than any Tory would dare to and will go even harder when they go for the dole scum and professionally disable.

They’re getting away with it because the telly box news is going east on them.

They’re going to be shocked once again when the tinder keg ignites.

 

[Karen of Human Resources]

The government is about to take the proles free money and tell them they need to do the jobs that are being given to foreigners anyway.

There’s going to be a lot of people milling about on the streets and moaning on Facebook groups once the weather gets warmer with a lot of spare time when they can’t afford Sky Sports anymore.

All this is happening so they can be conscripted at a moments notice into the army so rapey Africans can wander the streets and live in hotels completely free.



Labour in the last budget went harder than any Tory would dare to and will go even harder when they go for the dole scum and professionally disable.

They’re getting away with it because the telly box news is going east on them.

They’re going to be shocked once again when the tinder keg ignites.

I admire the optimism.

One of the things I thought Reform did have going for it was that it does somewhat fit into the sentiment of legitimate change. Vote for a candidate, let the candidate change things for the better. That was, of course, until Nigel revealed himself yet again as not like those other girls and had to be the most special, pretty one of all to whom nobody else may ever disagree with.

British children have been raped on an industrial scale which even the sex scandals in churches and schools haven't matched. The country is being invaded by foreign mass migrants beyond anything from previous mass people movements in history. The Prime Minister is so desperate and eager for any sort of head pat from the EU he's desperate for a war with Russia despite it being clearly suicidal for the people under him. The new assisted dying legislation is less elective euthanasia than a pensioner reduction programme.

"When will the British rise up?". They won't. They're too scared of being called misogynist or islamophobic.

 

[A-Logato]

Labour in the last budget went harder than any Tory would dare to and will go even harder when they go for the dole scum and professionally disable.

We need more unemployed people for a poll tax moment. Poll tax riots proceeded a lot of people already losing their jobs due policy changes and the dismantling of industry and then the welfare state all but being removed so this "safety net" these people would have other wise had wasn't their for them when Thatcher took their jobs away. The poll tax was simply the last straw for a lot of people who already didn't have any money left and were about to being fucked for daring to have large family's.

Removing the welfare for these dossers who make a living doing nothing wont kick up a riot since their often too lazy to do so anyways, it needs to be the people who were working who've lost their jobs due to the governments greed and then had any benefits they may have been entitled to be taken away. I think then you would actually get riots.

 

[FedPostalService]

Don’t worry, lads. Farrage will pose for a picture pulling a funny face and holding a pint and Britain will be saved. Allah save the King.

 

[isalaide]

@Pickle Inspector

You might be too young to remember the great reform to the old Incapacity Benefit, so here is some background.

Incap was great, because the old unemployment benefit and then Jobseekers Allowance had this very annoying thing where you had to make some half arsed effort to get a job now and then. Not a good one mind or you'd actually get the job and have to go through the drama of getting laid off and signing back on and all the trouble that caused with sorting out your qualifying benefits and that shit. Incap, they just kept paying the giro.

So the Major government came up with a plan to get everyone off Incap and onto a benefit that was much much harder to get called Disability Living Allowance.

This didn't actually get the people on Incap into work. But what it did do was get them off the figures as 'unable to work, getting a giro'. They mostly went back to fiddling their JSA. But the figures were assiduously collected by the government' these people didn't go to work. Still, the government got to say it had made 'benefits cheats' and 'slackers' get off the dole, so this was a very popular policy.

This is the same plan 30 years later. It will be even less effective, because the people they are punting off the brew this time already qualified for DLA, so these people are substantially more disabled and unable to work than the old Incap punters. DLA is genuinely pretty difficult to get, and "having the vapours because you're a zoomer" won't qualify you.

What it will do is get people off DLA as a qualifying benefit for a lot of other things that cost money, like Blue Badges for parking, and the Motability scheme, and takes away their enhanced housing entitlement. It will disqualify them for PIP. It will get these people onto Universal Credit, which is much cheaper, and involves the regular theatre of pretending that anyone wants to hire someone with a lower leg amputation and unstable psychosis.

But the government will be able to say to the people who are working but skint, "Behold, the 'benefits cheats' can no longer live off the dole with their fake crutches". It doesn't matter whether or not that is factually correct; what matters is the public perception that other people are claiming disability benefits whilst other folk go to work. This is a widespread and deeply rooted belief.

The disabled will just get skinter in reality, but everyone in the UK public more or less hates the disabled, and taking a free swing at them is rarely penalised in the polls.

This will be an enormously popular policy. Especially with the old bastards who haven't stop squealing about the means testing of their winter fuel payment yet.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

The thing is our government wastes 10 billion+ on immigration the swanky hotels etc.

And that is just one of the money sinks they actually admit to. You would not even have to go on a basic DOGE level search for where to cut stuff to get all needed funding. Just stop the things they openly admit to that everyone knows about because the press has reported on it.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

The thing is we all know someone cheating disability and driving a new motability car.

 

[Smyrna]

From the FT: friends of Musk say that he is interested in backing an alternative to Reform, presumably with Lowe at the top.

https://archive.ph/PmrKi

 

[Karen of Human Resources]

The thing is we all know someone cheating disability and driving a new motability car.

There also is another area we don't talk enough about, but does need to be raised.

People who are disabled should be supported, I do not question this principle. But there is an increasing area that we are also creating more disabled people.

I understand genetic issues can crop up at random, and this likely cant be prevented. That said, Born in Bradford suggests that 1 in 6 babies have some sort of genetic condition and it doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out why.

At the other end, I've seen some very questionable life choices. I've never raised it to her but I know a lady who was fully aware she was a carrier for something that absolutley would lead to a lifelong disability. Theres several genetic faults which sometimes you can inherit but usually don't suffer any ill effects of yourself. It usually only manifests in any future offspring of a particular sex.

I don't particuarly want to be the one to tell people not to breed, but going on to not screen but then have multiple children, both carriers and multiple others who manifested a fairly unpleasant condition....While it can be managed, and of all disabilities going this is one that doesnt remove someones ability to work, this is not cheap. The average person is not able to take care of many of these via private care.

Nobody minds accidents or genuine fortune or misfortune. People like me mind a fucking lot when people start routinely pumping out disabled kids because they need to marry their cousin so he can move over

I don't begrudge any woman who gets pregnant by accident, can't afford a child but doesn't want to abort. What I do begrudge is severely inbred children. I also begrudge knowingly having children that, without screening eggs/sperm when you know there is something in the mix that isn't a small chance, is guranteed to cause harm to your descendant and is going to cost us all considerable sums of money.

 

[The Crack Spiders Bitch]

I've never raised it to her but I know a lady who was fully aware she was a carrier for something that absolutley would lead to a lifelong disability. Theres several genetic faults which sometimes you can inherit but usually don't suffer any ill effects of yourself. It usually only manifests in any future offspring of a particular sex.

I remember hearing about this back in 2012 and being utterly disgusted:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19648992

The "fix" for this is to now create three parent babies by removing damaged mitochondria and replacing it with donor genes but I think this should not occur.

If your genetics are fucked, then I don't think you should be having kids.
There is so much we don't know about genetics and epigenetics.
They don't know if three generations down the hybrid mitochondrial line they're going to create some abomination disease where the person can't make proteins past a certain age or something else equally horrible (FFI comes to mind)

 

[FedPostalService]

If your genetics are fucked, then I don't think you should be having kids.
There is so much we don't know about genetics and epigenetics.
They don't know if three generations down the hybrid mitochondrial line they're going to create some abomination disease where the person can't make proteins past a certain age or something else equally horrible (FFI comes to mind)

Nah, we need to make super babies with wings and four arms.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Nah, we need to make super babies with wings and four arms.

Atomic supermen with octagonal bodies, and barbed tongues to suck the very lifeblood out of anyone they meet!

 

[Sneeter Rabbit]

Atomic supermen with octagonal bodies, and barbed tongues to suck the very lifeblood out of anyone they meet!

Thing from The Thing. I keep saying this but, as always, good sense is ignored by those who don't appreciate it.

 

[>IMPLYING]

"When will the British rise up?". They won't.

I don't think it's something you can reliably predict. The complete apathy in the recent general election as well as the rise of Reform in the polls (At least prior to Farage's fumble) to me indicated a positive trend towards actual action and motivation in the populace. Sure, there's no 'revolution' on the books because there's still the belief that voting is a viable option to solve things.

The lack of popular response to the Rotherham shit was because both the government and media suppressed it, and that there was enough wiggle room for the government to not be blamed for it directly. The only actual way to learn about the nitty gritty of grooming gangs and the like was to look into it yourself online, and it only kind've entered the public consciousness years after the fact when media suppression and demonisation stopped being as effective. You can compare how many people know about Jimmy Saville being a nonce versus the grooming gangs because the media was far happier to report on one over the other.

People aren't willingly doing fuck all in response to all this shit, they either don't know about it (due to aforementioned suppression or lies) or are firm in the idea that voting can help things if they are in the know. I think the Southport riots were indicative of the kind of response you could see on a regular basis if they didn't actively suppress info. Social media helped to fan and encourage the response to Southport, and take into account that the riots were pretty much a kneejerk reaction -- imagine if they suppressed nothing about the Muslims and associated browns. The inbreeding, the lack of contribution to the economy, the widespread molestation, the drain on social services and the NHS. That's why the government (both labour and conservative) were trying to curtail what you can say online, and still are, only stymied at the moment by the likes of Elon having Trump's ear and Vance being vocal about Europe's lack of free speech.

The more people are made aware, the more angry they'll get, and if there's no political solution they can see, how else is change supposed to be enacted? I think the only reason the British haven't 'risen up' is entirely down to suppression of info, the lack of politicians speaking out, and the fact Reform exists and is rather popular polling-wise. As long as people can see political change in the form of Reform, they'll be content. Most normal people I've talked to (normal as in, doesn't spend more than an hour or two a day on social media, forums, youtube, etcetera) aren't even aware it's imploding yet.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the government and police forces are aware that they're utterly unready and unprepared for any sort of widescale discontent, especially outside of the larger cities. That's why they go overtime in arresting and suppressing comments made on social media and do nothing to upset the more volatile people groups. Muslims are treated with kid gloves because they react with violence and rioting to the slightest thing, so they are coddled (two-tier policing) but if it got the point where the actual natives reach a state of similar volatility, they would need to do the same thing. The main issue with is that it's easy to release the pressure on discontented whites (Reform, Brexit, Ukip, Rwanda scheme), but I do think there'll come a point there they'll be left with no choice but to actually listen to the natives, if to spare their own careers if nothing else. It won't last forever.

 

[BongoMongo]

Atomic supermen with octagonal bodies, and barbed tongues to suck the very lifeblood out of anyone they meet!

Sounds like you're describing those demented harridans from the hard left tbh.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

I think the Southport riots were indicative of the kind of response you could see on a regular basis if they didn't actively suppress info.

Which side was rioting and which side were protesting?

 

[-Jack-]

Has everyone had an okay day today? My day was OK, and I gladly didn't see any sand nigs throughout it.

I did go to KFC and was surprised to see all white, British workers there....so maybe it isn't so bad?

I did not get kicked out for being racist-sadly.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Which side was rioting and which side were protesting?

Just a quick grab from google. Some Muslims were also present to be the 'counter protest' but they didn't show up in large numbers. There were some obviously put together counter-protests to the anti-immigrant crowd when said crowds gathered on set days (totally not orchestrated) but otherwise the reaction to the Southport stabbing and lack of action from the government got a strong, very negative response. I know from some right-wingers online and at least two people I know IRL said that this isn't the way to do things but I don't think the government really responds to anything else but this sort of thing really. Then again the pro-Gypsy riot and BLM-inspired riots didn't really cause much to change either, except in the latter it helped to normalise some typically American anti-white rhetoric in some politicians. These riots might've helped Reform as well as put some of the more overt solutions - 'demigration' I.E. deportation, even if bribed - into some mouths. That's why Farage kicked out Lowe, since he was one of the more vocal proponents, but Tice has also expressed similar sentiments. There were also protests/demonstrations in September of last year headed by Tommy Robinson, and there's also the farmer's protests - both of which are received little coverage, and if they are covered, it's in a negative light. But there is a mounting anti-government sentiment across the nation I feel. The youth are also rather discontent.