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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.

 

[the rat]

need to hit CAPS LOCK to capitalise anything.

But I can type faster with caps lock than I can with shift and it's more comfortable for my pinkie finger

 

[Made In Wales]

I used to be in IT, and we had a lot of former coppers with 20+ experience who said 4 years ago the police were beyond saving. Now one of my clients for whom I do the books for his son, who is new on the force for 6 months and already has regrets. He is young but said it's a wreck with morale in the gutter and new recruits leaving because it's just paperwork and not solving any actual crime. The lad in question is someone in our camp lets say and said he has seen so much crap about online crap and a lot of free speech stomping. It seems a lot of the force detest doing this stuff as they don't find it fair.

I used to work in the local council in finance, and from my contact list, with whom I share pleasantries with, they said they have lost so many staff. Councillors are pissed about the Serco deal as it will knock every single council into overspend. The increasing spending on illegals and migrants has pushed spending into overdrive, where the costs cannot be recouped. On top of that, several local councils are selling their main offices to dry and claw back revenue in the sale to put them in the black, so as not to affect their loans. They have huge staffing issues and are forcing finance staff to do admin work on top of their duties, with staff leaving in droves due to burnout.

A family member recently left the military and said the new recruits are leaving before even completing training due to pay and disagreeing with the government's intent in using the military. One of the issues is a potential civil war, and you know the military dislike Pakis immensensly.

The civil services are beyond fucked.

This has already started to happen with my local council in Clydach Vale and in neighbouring Caerphilly (though they've been financially and morally bankrupt for many years - three councillors were sacked for inappropriate behaviour, but paid their salaries anyway).

Imagine that - three years sitting on your backside doing nothing, getting full pay thanks to the taxpayers of the area.

We've reached the choke point.

 

[Kane Lives]

I used to work in the local council in finance, and from my contact list, with whom I share pleasantries with, they said they have lost so many staff. Councillors are pissed about the Serco deal as it will knock every single council into overspend. The increasing spending on illegals and migrants has pushed spending into overdrive, where the costs cannot be recouped. On top of that, several local councils are selling their main offices to dry and claw back revenue in the sale to put them in the black, so as not to affect their loans. They have huge staffing issues and are forcing finance staff to do admin work on top of their duties, with staff leaving in droves due to burnout.

I hear stories like this and really start to wonder how does anything get done. Where's all the money gone?

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

I'm pissed off about the UK-EU passport queues. I was enjoying sailing through the Eu line while the Brits queued for fucking hours.

Thanks, Starmer, you cunt.

 

[testnameplsignore]

Is the madman actually going to do it and hand over /our rock/
Also I recommend a visit to Gibraltar for a day or 2. Lots of British military history and the good type of monkeys, plus its quaint to see a British high street in the med.

 

[FedPostalService]

These were all prior to the supreme court's ruling, as well as a couple of other precedent-setting cases that established the expression of "gender critical" views as protected. The law is in limbo at the moment. Legally, being a troon is protected by various bits of law, but it's also legal to say a troon is a man, which used to be treated as transphobia, but now can't be. Any kid getting kicked out of school for "transphobia" today would have a pretty decent case for discrimination of protected views.

Being gender critical has pretty much always been constitutionally protected, but Stonewall told all these organisations it wasn't. The big issue is you'd have to get this fight beyond the lower courts as magistrates are fully pozzed (as wwell as some higher courts), so most people aren't going to risk their kids losing even more shools time as the case finds it way to the Supreme Court.

Funnily enough the police and the council aren't part of the civil service.

It's almost like this guys doesn't have a fucking clue what he's talking about and spends all day writing fanfics about British politics.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Funnily enough the police and the council aren't part of the civil service.

No, but if you're of a certain age, you might see no problem referring to police/fire/what have you as "the civil services", plural, as a synonym for "public services". Distinct from "The Civil Service". I won't speak to the wider predictions, but I have to defend that one.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Honestly the fact that the UK is fragmented into multiple organisations is part of the reason why it's such a fucking shitshow to actually get something done.

The police (headed by the Crown) will arrest someone, CPS (different entity altogether) will decide whether or not the person should be charged or not, the courts (Civil Service) will do the trial, if the person is bad they go to prison (Civil Service) or probation (Civil Service) and somewhere along the line they'll have a mental health assessment (NHS) and if they have kids they'll get seen to by children's services (third party entity). When they're released from prison they'll typically be homeless (Council) or have drug dependencies (local drug organisation, I know it varies across the country)

Meanwhile for every interaction between these, as there isn't a shared database (apart from the Prison/Courts/Probation bit which is semi-streamlined) every organisation needs emailed about X person to find their details. There's no national identifier in any of the databases so it can get incredibly messy when Dave Taylor and Dave Tailor have the same birth date but are different people.

Some fucker needs to just completely streamline everything. Pick A national identifier, technically we all have National Insurance numbers and NHS numbers so we could go from that but somehow they don't use them as the base identifier.

 

[BrightonAndHoveAlbion]

I'm pissed off about the UK-EU passport queues. I was enjoying sailing through the Eu line while the Brits queued for fucking hours.

Thanks, Starmer, you cunt.

That's going to ruin my enjoyment next time I travel to the EU. My wife is an EU citizen among others so I got to piggyback off hers. Woke nonsense.

 

[FedPostalService]

Some fucker needs to just completely streamline everything. Pick A national identifier, technically we all have National Insurance numbers and NHS numbers so we could go from that but somehow they don't use them as the base identifier.

I'm pretty sure the Book of Revelations predicted this. Is Starmer the Anti-Christ or the False Prophet?

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

How long before Starmer scraps Brexit? I think that's his ace card he hopes will save him, but it will backfire.


Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Cancelled by a tweet you jug-eared twat? How does the boot taste now it's on the other foot?
(When this controversy broke last week, I said to family "He's gone against the jews, he will be sacked within a week. You don't come back from that)

You called it lmao.

 

[isalaide]

You failed to add the words "since Wogan passed". Shame on you, it was great with him on and mocking every entry as he got increasingly plastered.

I firmly believe anyone who has anything other than total vitriol for Wogan is simply too young to remember being forced to watch the cunt interview celebs with all the deft touch of a car park rapist THREE NIGHTS A WEEK when we only had FOUR FUCKING CHANNELS and were compelled to be subjected to this absolute shite.

Never forget that the legend Tommy Cooper died on stage but Terry Cunt Wogan was allowed the dignity to not expire in front of the cameras.

Ireland's worst export and I'm including explosive devices and Tony Cascarino in that assessment

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

That's going to ruin my enjoyment next time I travel to the EU. My wife is an EU citizen among others so I got to piggyback off hers. Woke nonsense.

It makes no difference to Brits with passports which queue they queue in, it just pisses off dual-citizens.
Sort of joking aside though, we give them 12 years of fishing rights and in return, those who can afford to go abroad don't have to queue as long...be sure to give them your biometric data and pay for the visa though!

 

[teriyakiburns]

I firmly believe anyone who has anything other than total vitriol for Wogan is simply too young to remember being forced to watch the cunt interview celebs with all the deft touch of a car park rapist THREE NIGHTS A WEEK when we only had FOUR FUCKING CHANNELS and were compelled to be subjected to this absolute shite.

Well, I stand as living proof that you're wrong, but that's likely because my parents didn't force me to watch afternoon television with them. Besides, he was doing Eurovision before he did Wogan.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

I firmly believe anyone who has anything other than total vitriol for Wogan is simply too young to remember being forced to watch the cunt interview celebs with all the deft touch of a car park rapist THREE NIGHTS A WEEK when we only had FOUR FUCKING CHANNELS and were compelled to be subjected to this absolute shite.

You'd be correct in my case. I mostly enjoyed him on Radio 2.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I'm pretty sure the Book of Revelations predicted this. Is Starmer the Anti-Christ or the False Prophet?

Going by the Ukrainian hooker burning his stuff down, and the paki acting as his sugar daddy, I'd say he's probably closer to the Whore of Babylon.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

The Ukrainian batty-boy story went awfully quiet very quickly. Not sus at all.

 

[A-Logato]

At this point can Kier just come out as gay? The fact that this guy is not only a male prostitute, but also knew some really obscure stuff about Kier Starmer and then there's the mountain of stuff around him an Ali is all starting to be too much to ignore.

Kier "let me be clear, stick it up my rear" Starmer would commit less reputation damage to just come out as a homo. To a Tory, this sort of scandal would just be a Tuesday.

 

[bort420]

At this point can Kier just come out as gay? The fact that this guy is not only a male prostitute, but also knew some really obscure stuff about Kier Starmer and then there's the mountain of stuff around him an Ali is all starting to be too much to ignore.

Kier "let me be clear, stick it up my rear" Starmer would commit less reputation damage to just come out as a homo. To a Tory, this sort of scandal would just be a Tuesday.

The labour core voter, the Islamist type, would defect immediately to some islamic party

 

[Coolio55]

Anyone know where to get non seed oil bread? Literally every loaf had it in the supermarket. "Original Farmhouse Recipe" my fucking arse. Shame on you, Warburtons.
Also, seems they've fucked up Jack Daniels. Grabbed some for a sore throat and was horrified at the bitter harsh swill they'd sold me (insert your "so nothing's changed then!" jokes here) ...but it's not just here, the Yanks are complaining about it on reddit.
They were out of Jim Bean but maybe they've fucked that too. Thank heavens that I'm not a regular drinker.