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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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Otterly said:
It’s rather sobering that I, and probably most of us on this thread, am at least as qualified to be the Chancellor of the Exchequer as Rachel Reeves is.
None of these people have ever held a real job.
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It also drives me to drink that any of us anonymous shitposters would do a far better job.
 
Some interesting data from Ofcom of all places. It covers data ranging from 2022 to March of 2024, so how things have shifted post-election and post-Southport aren't included, which is noteworthy since this was released in September of last year, The data is easier to read and more presentable on the linked PDF but I'll just paste it here under a spoiler just in case.

An overwhelming majority (96%) of UK adults say they consume news in some form. However, the ways in which people access the wide variety of news platforms are changing. • In 2024, seven in ten (71%) say they consume online news in some capacity, level with news consumed via TV and on demand (70%). Social media is a significant component of online news consumption, with more than half of UK adults (52%) using it as a news source. • Although TV news viewing, previously the single most-used platform, has declined since last year (75% in 2023, falling to 70% in 2024), we know from Barb data that half of all adults (51%) still watch news on any of the main public service broadcasters (PSBs) each week. The PSM tracker shows that the public value of trusted and accurate news is a priority for audiences and is rated highly. • Although online and social media have increased in use, traditional platforms outperform them on a number of attribute ratings; in particular, trust, accuracy and impartiality. BBC news output, across all its platforms, reaches 68% of all UK adults, and BBC One continues to be the most-used single source of news. However, PSBs are declining in popularity and four of the top ten individual news sources are now social media platforms. • The use of newspapers for news, including their digital formats, has declined significantly since 2023, while the use of radio for news has been stable over the past couple of years. Online and social media: • Among adults who directly access news publishers, websites and apps, the BBC website (59%) has the highest claimed use, followed by Sky (20%), The Guardian (20%) and The Daily Mail (19%). • Facebook continues to be the most-used social media source (reaching 30% of UK adults), in line with 2023, while TikTok has been growing in popularity as a source of news, reaching 11% of UK adults, up from 1% in 2020. • Six in ten UK adults (59%) claim to use some form of online intermediary (social media, search engine or news aggregator) for their news consumption. Meta (40%) and Google (32%) are the most commonly used intermediaries, reaching three-quarters of all adults. Generational differences (16-24s and over-55s): • Online sources continue to be most popular among the younger age groups, with nine in ten (88%) 16-24-year-olds using online sources for news. Social media is the main driver of this, with eight in ten (82%) young adults using this platform. Only half of 16-24s (49%) use TV for news. • In contrast, TV news (including on-demand) is the main news platform used by 85% of people aged 55+. But this age group is also gradually adopting online news, with over half (54%) now using online platforms for news. This is largely driven by direct access (to news publishers, websites and apps), with only 28% of those aged 55+ using social media for news. BBC news output, across all its platforms, reaches 68% of all UK adults, and BBC One continues to be the most-used single source of news. However, PSBs are declining in popularity and four of the top ten individual news sources are now social media platforms. • The use of newspapers for news, including their digital formats, has declined significantly since 2023, while the use of radio for news has been stable over the past couple of years. Online and social media: • Among adults who directly access news publishers, websites and apps, the BBC website (59%) has the highest claimed use, followed by Sky (20%), The Guardian (20%) and The Daily Mail (19%). • Facebook continues to be the most-used social media source (reaching 30% of UK adults), in line with 2023, while TikTok has been growing in popularity as a source of news, reaching 11% of UK adults, up from 1% in 2020. • Six in ten UK adults (59%) claim to use some form of online intermediary (social media, search engine or news aggregator) for their news consumption. Meta (40%) and Google (32%) are the most commonly used intermediaries, reaching three-quarters of all adults. Generational differences (16-24s and over-55s): • Online sources continue to be most popular among the younger age groups, with nine in ten (88%) 16-24-year-olds using online sources for news. Social media is the main driver of this, with eight in ten (82%) young adults using this platform. Only half of 16-24s (49%) use TV for news. • In contrast, TV news (including on-demand) is the main news platform used by 85% of people aged 55+. But this age group is also gradually adopting online news, with over half (54%) now using online platforms for news. This is largely driven by direct access (to news publishers, websites and apps), with only 28% of those aged 55+ using social media for news.

TLDR: Online news now matches TV in popularity (71% vs. 70%), with social media playing a key role—over half (52%) use it for news. While TV remains dominant for older audiences (85% of 55+ adults), younger people (16-24s) overwhelmingly prefer online sources (88%), especially social media (82%). TV news entitied like the BBC still reach large audiences (68%), but their influence is waning, with four of the top ten news sources now being social media platforms. Trust in traditional outlets remains higher, but newspapers continue to decline, and TikTok’s role as a news source is growing (11% of adults, up from 1% in 2020).

Whilst this always felt the case, it's good to have a source to point at.
 
Kier Starmer said:
10% tariff for the UK, Rachel will be screaming. I think it is an excellent political move to oust the cabinet, as you get governments that align with you.
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>10% for us
>25% for EU
Lmao.
I know we're not as big a market and Trump's soft on the UK but I always appreciate the EU getting shafted in some respect.
(I just became aware they're reciprocal, but still.)
 
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10% tariff for the UK
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Wow is that it? I was expecting the Chicago Town levy to be 25%+ at the least I guess drumpf really did love his mummy and doesn't want his cousins overcharged too badly.
With the recent bullying the amerilards have been bouncing off of us I've been finding myself more and more recently having dangerous thoughts bros, Chinese thoughts, is belt and road really that bad? it is free money after all. If this multipolar lark really does take off I might buy myself some huawei digeridoos.
 
Mound Dweller said:
With the recent bullying the amerilards have been bouncing off of us I've been finding myself more and more recently having dangerous thoughts bros, Chinese thoughts, is belt and road really that bad?
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Yes
To avoid the one word post if you think differently I recommend Canadian healthcare.
 
Gorillion others said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SbdymMmnspQYeah, they really want to make this a thing.
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They really want to shift things towards the conversation that can be had as a result of the show (that online misogynists are causing young males in society to randomly kill) rather than focusing on the show itself. They're in a no-win situation there, since the show is entirely fictional and the threat presented is pulled out of thin air (In this 'fact check' the writer rebuked claims of raceswapping by saying he basically imagined the motives of teenage criminals over the radio), or it was based on a true story but they race swapped the perpetrator thus indicating that they know who is perpetrating a lot of these killings. Can't believe the government tried to create a psyop from a Netflix show of all things.
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If you're a normie and go online to see discussion revolving around it, you might end up being exposed to the possibility of the race swap, which might have you thinking, and they'd rather not have that. At bare minimum it looks like the Conservatives aren't going to enable it.
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Gorillion others said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SbdymMmnspQYeah, they really want to make this a thing.
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It's easier to blame a nebulous group of people which are fairly easy to dislike and wont really fight back then it is to address any societal issues or god forbid they look inwards at themselves for 2 seconds.

Besides Incels, this show really just wants to go after Andrew Tate. The UK is obsessed with him to an unhealthy degree and at every turn they want to blame him for what is happening to young men when the overwhelming majority of them don't even watch him. They probably only know who he even is because they heard him mentioned on the news every morning.

The shows just another fear mongering propaganda slop for women who seem utterly terrified at the idea of a man who hasn't had sex in 6 months and watched an Andrew Tate short on youtube over the very real fear of gang violence.
 
A-Logato said:
Besides Incels, this show really just wants to go after Andrew Tate. The UK is obsessed with him to an unhealthy degree and at every turn they want to blame him for what is happening to young men when the overwhelming majority of them don't even watch him. They probably only know who he even is because they heard him mentioned on the news every morning.
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The best thing to do with Tate is ignore him. He just be a half caste pimp if we’d ignored him.

Lefties clutching their pearls made him seem dangerous and cool when he is just a retard.
 
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