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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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A sculpture of a Greggs sausage roll is to be unveiled at Madame Tussauds waxworks museum.

The world-famous attraction has said the pastry-cloaked processed meat cylinder is the first food item to go on display in its own right.

It elevates the snack to the level of a British cultural icon, sitting along celebrities such as Shakespeare and David Attenborough.
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Finally got around to watching Starmers anti Farage car crash from today and just wanted to save my favourite question from the Guardian of all people.


 
Monopolywheel said:
Is it happening? Are even the bugmen turning on Starmer?
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That's been going on for a while because they view him as a Blue Tory. This journalist is mostly just pissed that Starmer's incredibly boring and so they can't get snappy clickbait out of his interviews as easily.
 
SnergenFlergen said:
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Not especially newsworthy, but this shit pisses me off. Basically a load of people were forcibly evicted from their homes for the A1 expansion scheme that never even materialised. Their properties have sat empty since and haven't been (and won't ever be) returned.

It just serves as a reminder that even if you outright own your property in this country, you don't really own it. The government can come in at any time for any reason and force you to sell up (and let's be honest, they'll offer you half the market value for it at best) and you have absolutely zero recourse or ability to appeal the decision whatsoever. The punishments for paedophilia in this country are less severe than what was inflicted on these people, whose only crime was owning a house that exists in a spot where the government wanted to do some stupid bullshit.

One such seized property was an old farm that had been owned by the same family for over 200 years- this is due to be bulldozed soon, for (as far as I can tell) no fucking reason whatsoever as the road project was ultimately cancelled.

£68m wasted, multiple lives upended, historic buildings destroyed and the square root of fuck all to show for it. You don't hate the government enough.
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Happened to my mam and dad, they used to own property up north that was compulsory purchased and they never recovered as housing shot up in price shortly after and my dad lost his good job due to having to move and being too far away to raise his kids and my mam had a break down she never recovered from. We got a nice council estate upbringing instead with a mad mother thanks to the government.

I'll never forgive the cunts as long as I live. Neither will those poor souls ripped from their roots or their children who grow up watching their old folks struggle to recover from the life they worked hard to secure.

They can ruin your life and your children's life on a whim and never think anything of it. Never forget that.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Alright I'm curious, without doxxing yourselves is your local weather reporter a flaming faggot?

Every time I go up and down the country to see gigs, I'll flip the TV on for a little bit while I'm getting ready and there's a shiny guy in a suit who is camp as Christmas telling me it's going to be drizzly showers.

Is that the pipeline for failed male drama students? To become weather reporters?
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Yes, my local weather reporter is gay, but not a total flaming faggot.

The weather reporter in question is Derek Brockway, actually a decent and intelligent guy and his 'Weatherman Walking' series used to be good before it got co-opted by Asians and the disabled.
 
Not really news to anyone who has eyes and ears, but still a nice little video reinforcing a well deserved cultural stereotype.....

Daily occurence at ALbrecht DIscount......

"You're taking the piss now......."
 
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Special spoonie said:
Finally got around to watching Starmers anti Farage car crash from today and just wanted to save my favourite question from the Guardian of all people.


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LMAO

This is actually a huge issue in the left and progressive types of the Globohomo world order. They have just absolutely killed any charismatic leaders they had in the past due to the need for tight control, meaning the only people allowed to keep going and rise the ranks are ones whom the leadership thinks can't turn around and try and fight them. This is how they went from people like Tony Blair and Obama (who could at least write a speech and then read it out without sounding like a automaton) to the likes of Starmer and Dementia Biden.
 
Made In Wales said:
Something possibly of interest from the Novara Media peeps - Sangita Myska hits back at James O'Brien of the LBC:

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James O'Brien is quite possibly the most insufferably smug faggot on the radio, and that's all the acknowledgment I'm going to give him because its more than he deserves. I would have appreciated some warning about the egg-headed troon jumpscare from Novara Media though:

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I had to see this, now so do all of you.
 
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