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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.

 

[Snekposter]

We had no money after WW2, we spent every last penny protecting Poland from Germany. To call it a backstab is rather disingenuous, there was nothing we could do. America also didn't really lend a hand out either did they?

I was actually thinking about 1939 where you sat and laughed as the French lied through their teeth to the Poles about how their offense into Germany was going.

 

[Spud]

I was actually thinking about 1939 where you sat and laughed as the French lied through their teeth to the Poles about how their offense into Germany was going.

That's just good banter. We didn't think the funny mustache man would actually go through with invading them in the first place.

 

[>IMPLYING]

I was actually thinking about 1939 where you sat and laughed as the French lied through their teeth to the Poles about how their offense into Germany was going.

We were blockading Germany on the 3rd of September, striking ships in port by the 4th. Meanwhile we were sending our armies over ready to join the French in a push into Germany, which France had already initiated by the 7th of September (The Saar Offensive). Germany had reached Warsaw the very next day on the 8th.

The French offensive was halted because the plan was 20 years out of date and could only make it about 2 miles before they decided it wasn't tenable, and after a full withdrawal the French had lost 2k soldiers to Germany's 500.

 

[Otterly]

A 9th council for Reform (including Doncaster which is a metropolitan borough) - North Northamptonshire.

Amazing results

I know local elections are not as significant as general elections.

Yes and no. Local has a lot of direct impact I think.

Skeleton Army

I’ve said before about this aspect of the British psyche. Perhaps it is this merry ole England stuff, perhaps not, but there’s something in us that will not stand that bit where pomposity becomes tyranny. I don’t think forriners get it because they see English and think posh folk with bowler hats and think everything is stuffy, but that English peasant spirit is there still and we don’t like this stuff. I don’t really know how to express what I mean but there is something in us that doesn’t like being told what to do but doesn’t necessarily express it as a desire to tell others what to do either.

 

[Snekposter]

We were blockading Germany on the 3rd of September, striking ships in port by the 4th. Meanwhile we were sending our armies over ready to join the French in a push into Germany, which France had already initiated by the 7th of September (The Saar Offensive). Germany had reached Warsaw the very next day on the 8th.

The French offensive was halted because the plan was 20 years out of date and could only make it about 2 miles before they decided it wasn't tenable, and after a full withdrawal the French had lost 2k soldiers to Germany's 5 hundred.

And the French sat there telling the Poles everything was just on a slight delay and they had managed to force the Germans to divert several divisions to deal with their assault. Nobody in the UK thought to tell the Poles otherwise.

 

[FedPostalService]

I was actually thinking about 1939 where you sat and laughed as the French lied through their teeth to the Poles about how their offense into Germany was going.

This is basketball enjoyer levels of thinking,

Maybe the Poles should be better at war?

 

[Snekposter]

This is basketball enjoyer levels of thinking,

Maybe the Poles should be better at war?

Could say the same about the French, though, considering they lasted only a few days longer in 1940. My point is that the UK should have told one of their retarded allies that their other retarded ally was not just being a bunch of tards but also lying about being a bunch of tards.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

And the French sat there telling the Poles everything was just on a slight delay and they had managed to force the Germans to divert several divisions to deal with their assault. Nobody in the UK thought to tell the Poles otherwise.

Just a bit 'a banter m8.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Could say the same about the French, though, considering they lasted only a few days longer in 1940. My point is that the UK should have told one of their retarded allies that their other retarded ally was not just being a bunch of tards but also lying about being a bunch of tards.

Everybody involved in the war on the Allied side made a bunch of false assumptions about their own capabilities and what the Germans themselves were actually capable of.

It's worth noting that the Poles also relied on an outdated plan, which was formed in 1930, when Germany was still rather middling militarily. Poland assumed they'd be able to hold out for a few months against Germany, not accounting for a Soviet invasion — they couldn't even half-heartedly plan for it since Russia invading after Germany did was a secret arrangement, not open.

The French plan relied similarly relied on Germany's Western flank being weak. but they still managed to overestimate the Germans because they were unaware of their own 3:1 advantage. Nobody knew what the fuck was going on despite it being all obvious in hindsight. Whilst both the UK and France agreed to cease offensives for the time being (the UK wouldn't have a significant number of troops on the mainland until the end of September.) the French did inform Poland that the offensive had shifted dates, telling them on the 13th of September that the offensive would start in earnest on the 17th-19th of September — at which point the Soviets would invade (4AM on the 17th). Whether this was a lie or not we're not sure. Where the French did lie was informing the Poles that the plan had worked at drawing German divisions away from the Polish front, when in actuality the French weren't sure of German troop numbers whatsoever. The French pausing their invasion let the Germans know the French didn't know, which allowed them to move the bulk of their defensive force East to finish off Poland. Just continued fuckups by a general who knowingly lied and was famous for incompetency (General Gamelin).

Assuming Britain were aware of French plans (Which they weren't, since both sides still barely co-ordinated) talking to the Poles to tell them the French were lying and they were actually fucked (and Britain still couldn't do anything anyway since they still had to go through France to reach them) wouldn't really help anything. The early part of the war where France and the UK were being gormless retards (for understandable reasons) was called the Phoney War.

TLDR: Blame the French.

 

[FedPostalService]

Could say the same about the French, though, considering they lasted only a few days longer in 1940. My point is that the UK should have told one of their retarded allies that their other retarded ally was not just being a bunch of tards but also lying about being a bunch of tards.

Maybe we did and they didn't understand because they speak that weird version of potato-nigger that isn't quite Russian and isn't quite German. Dumb fuckers need to get better at war and learn a proper language. And also stop emigrating to real countries and depressing the wages of the workers there.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Guys, I just wanted to say, I've not been back a week and I love this country so much. Never stop fighting for her, because believe me: there's no where else to go. I've literally just checked.

I wouldn't have believed it a few years ago, but I can sincerely say that for the White man, this is it. There is no secret awesome country you can escape to.

There are no Greggs in the USA or Australia. We must make our last stand here. The line must be drawn. This far. No further.

Fight fight fight. I've come back with renewed vigour. We must save the UK. I'll admit it, I was weak, I wanted to run away. But now I see thats not even an option. We have to save our country.

 

[Goose the Redeemer]

There are no Greggs in the USA or Australia.

If Greggs ever goes bankrupt there will be riots in the streets, rivers of blood, bodies piled high; Our once great and glorious Empire, the source of all civility in the modern world, reduced to savagery and barbarism.

Truly, what is the point of life if one cannot be racist in a Greggs every now and then?

 

[Crex Crex]

From an international point of view, I've seen nothing on not only news where I live, but also EU news outlets. A rejection of the British two party system without any mention anywhere else.

They're too busy astroturfing a new, desperate narrative about "the Trump effect" and how it's totally melting the worldwide right, and can't have stuffy running counter to that.

 

[Oxyjen]

Seems pretty major…

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2wqy5ejdjo

Spoiler

Eight men, including seven Iranian nationals, have been arrested in two separate counter-terrorism police investigations.

Five were arrested at various locations around England on Saturday as part of a "pre-planned" investigation into a plot to "target a specific premises", the Metropolitan Police said.

Four of those - two aged 29, one aged 40 and another aged 46 - are Iranian nationals. Police said the nationality and age of the fifth was still being established.

Three other men, all Iranian, were arrested in London on Saturday under national security legislation as part of a separate investigation led by the Met's Counter Terrorism Command (CTC). Police said the two operations were not connected.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper thanked police and security services "for the action they have taken to keep our country safe".

The Met Police's CTC has responsibility for leading counter terrorism-related investigations and as well as investigations into espionage and state threats.

In the operation in which five men were arrested, four were detained under the Terrorism Act. The fifth man was arrested under the Police and Criminal Evidence (Pace) Act.

All five were arrested on suspicion of preparation of an act of terrorism.

The men were arrested in Swindon, west London, Stockport, Rochdale and Manchester, and remain in police custody.

It is understood that military personnel assisted in the Rochdale raid.

 

[Drihten]

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Eight men, including seven Iranian nationals, have been arrested in two separate counter-terrorism police investigations.

I can't believe Neema Parvini would plot something like that!

 

[GratsTheat783]

Did this thread always have an American flag?

 

[Drihten]

Did this thread always have an American flag?
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No, it was added after British IPs were blocked due to the Online Safety Act.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Did this thread always have an American flag?
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No. Some tranny fag got pissed off and changed it because OFCOM outsmarted them and they did OFCOMs work for them.
But the jannies are totally not paid off and giving your data to the UK gov. Definately not. nudge, nudge, wink, wink, knowhatimeant, knowhatimean?

 

[Corette]

Did this thread always have an American flag?
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Big Brother says that this thread has always had an American flag.

 

[Oxyjen]

Big Brother says that this thread has always had an American flag.

59th state innit