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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.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

You fuckers I just ordered a Panasonic bread maker.

In other news Starmer is fucked even Labour are pissed. I am furious about the fishing; fishermen are some of the loveliest people I have met, and they respect the profession dearly.

 

[Otterly]

You fuckers I just ordered a Panasonic bread maker.

You know if we fused the membership of mumsnet and kiwi farms we’d probably be able to take the uk back, and all have nutritious dinners. Just saying.

 

[Overly Serious]

You fuckers I just ordered a Panasonic bread maker.

We forgot to ask you the most important question: Is your kitchen filled with appliances you rarely use and weird specialised pans, plates and utensils that you've forgotten you own. If yes, congratulations on adding to the list. If not, welcome to the world of delicious fresh baked bread!

EDIT:

You know if we fused the membership of mumsnet and kiwi farms we’d probably be able to take the uk back, and all have nutritious dinners. Just saying.

I'm imagining some version of that Gus Fring meme like "You oppose porn because it harms women. I oppose it because it is run by Jews. We are not the same."

EDIT EDIT:

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Every day is just fighting the urge to fed post for me now.

That is one ugly guy. Why do gays pay for it BTW? They can just go down to a gay bar and strike up a conversation with another random if the want to bum someone.

They both look like they're still in high school, have little/no connections, and will give it up for dirt cheap? That must be catnip to UK leadership

 

[Crunkle]

I'm neither Tory or Labour, but I would rather see labour nuked from orbit

Same. I'm not even excited for a Reform government, I'm just excited to wipe out the Tories after such failure.

You fuckers I just ordered a Panasonic bread maker.

Ohh, look at him, lads! Another bit of kit to use twice a year then it sits above the kitchen cabinets gathering dust next to the sandwich press, George Foreman and a coffee percolator.

(speaking from a place of immense jealousy because a nice bread maker can save your skin)

Let me know how the Panasonic one you got is, I used to have a Russell Hobbs one which packed in after a good five years of use. Don't trust online reviews enough to drop £200 on a bit of kit I won't use too much.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I'll say this folks, a rice cooker is also a good versatile kitchen item. Obviously there's the ability to bulk cook rice, but essentially you have a little mini hob for whenever you want to steam some vegetables while boiling some potatoes underneath. The heating element basically stops once a certain moisture consistency is reached so you can basically chuck a can of beans in, flip the switch and come down after a shower to see it switch to 'maintain warmth' instead of burning the house down.

In other news, the UK has finally been spooked by the Pro-Palestine voting block to suspend negotiations on a new trade deal. If anyone remembers the Iran terrorist thing literally weeks ago well it's looking like we're going to get a major terrorist attack this Summer afterall considering Israel will cut intel.

UK suspends trade talks with Israel and summons ambassador over 'cruel' aid blockade​

Addressing MPs, David Lammy says the "threat of starvation is hanging over hundreds of thousands of civilians" in Gaza, which he calls "abominable".
He says the 11-week blockade stopping humanitarian aid reaching Gaza is "indefensible and cruel".
"They are isolating Israel from its friends and partners around the world, undermining the interests of the Israeli people and damaging the image of the state of Israel in the eyes of the world."
Lammy says the UK is suspending negotiations with the Israeli government on a new free trade agreement and is summoning the Israeli ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, to the Foreign Office.
He says that Middle East minister Hamish Falconer will tell Hotovely that "the 11-week block on aid to Gaza has been cruel and indefensible".
"The world is judging. History will judge them," he adds.
"Blocking aid, expanding the world, dismissing the concerns of your friends and partners. This is indefensible, and it must stop."

 

[-Jack-]

Acquiring the bumming isn't the hard part it's the not getting metaphorically bummed afterwards, my lived experience (as a 3rd party impartial observer) is that it is downright hazardous being a homo, if you're paying for it you know what you're in for, and are a bit less likely to have your wallet nicked, and your cupboards ran through, and the back of your head cracked in mid self-hating gay-panic etc.
That and the drugs, it's typically a package deal, basically gays = degens in every fashion to the extent that straight up getting a rentboy is the safe and hygienic option.

This doesn't happen often enough to exclaim it as fact, it sounds like an indie movie plot that some Christian organisation would make and say that if you look at a faggot you're at risk of getting aids, funny, but not true.

It's actually quite boring and uneventful most of the time, and 95% of the time you end up being ghosted anyway, so nothing-ever-happens, even with fags.

 

[Mound Dweller]

This doesn't happen often enough to exclaim it as fact, it sounds like an indie movie plot that some Christian organisation would make and say that if you look at a faggot you're at risk of getting aids, funny, but not true.

It's actually quite boring and uneventful most of the time, and 95% of the time you end up being ghosted anyway, so nothing-ever-happens, even with fags.

My sample size is about a couple of dozen certified fags (tm) and about half of them have been in that situation, might just be a subculture thing influencing it.
Even then it does happen, often enough that you've all had it happen to you/know someone who has had it happen to them, which is something that outright isn't a thing for us hetros 99.999% of the time.

 

[Otterly]

My sample size is about a couple of dozen certified fags (tm) and about half of them have been in that situation, might just be a subculture thing influencing it.
Even then it does happen, often enough that you've all had it happen to you/know someone who has had it happen to them, which is something that outright isn't a thing for us hetros 99.999% of the time.

Imagine not trawling for meaningless sex with potentially dangerous randos on hookup apps though.

 

[FedPostalService]

You fuckers I just ordered a Panasonic bread maker.

In other news Starmer is fucked even Labour are pissed. I am furious about the fishing; fishermen are some of the loveliest people I have met, and they respect the profession dearly.

I have a panasonic bread maker. You won't regret it.

 

[Breadbassket]

Inauguration ceremony of Rotherham's new mayor, Rukhsana Ismail:

 

[Mound Dweller]

Imagine not trawling for meaningless sex with potentially dangerous randos on hookup apps though.

Apps? That's just overcomplicating things, especially when there's a perfectly good poorly lit back alley just over there that's ideal for getting your very own back-alley filled by the nice gentlefolx whose name you're not even sure of.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Inauguration ceremony of Rotherham's new mayor, Rukhsana Ismail:

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Rotherham of all places.

 

[teriyakiburns]

So them claiming to both Ukrainian and Romanian would make sense, especially if they're dual citizens.

I choose to interpret this in a way that lets me call them gypsies.

 

[the rat]

I love toast.

It's alright when there is nothing in the fridge. Sausage sandwiches are the real king though.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

My war declaration.

I like wraps. Cook any meat, chop up, throw in wrap, sauce is allowed IF it's less than 3 ingredients. (brown is an ingredient)

 

[Crunkle]

My war declaration.

I like wraps. Cook any meat, chop up, throw in wrap, sauce is allowed IF it's less than 3 ingredients. (brown is an ingredient)

Brown sauce + red sauce + Worcestershire sauce wraps like a king

 

[-Jack-]

I love avocado on toast, I use this famous, top-quality recipe from beloved British home cook, Kay.

 

[Made In Wales]

I'm neither Tory or Labour, but I would rather see labour nuked from orbit before the tories. Sure, Milk Snatcher was a tory, but they've done less damage to the country than Labour have in the time since Thatcher. Blair and Starmer have fucked this country harder than Lex The Impaler on Viagra.


Speaking from experience?

Their address is Plough Way. Come on, simulation, y'ain't even tryin' no mo'

I wonder if he's a potential 'Wimbledon Commoner' as AFC Wimbledon now play back at Plough Lane...

Underground, overground, cottaging free...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNvMa9aNhn8

 

[Breadbassket]

This is Sheffield, England's new mayor