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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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BongoMongo said:
Oh my gosh no need to apologize at all.

And yeah I think the comparison with pakis an assorted nogs and Mexicans may well be fair.

That said, I'm not sure if the Mexican are as systemically violent as the Muslims? I'm not aware of state sanctioned and supported rape gangs of Mexicans in the USA?
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Part of my apology came from me not closely following this thread, and also I find it inappropriate to possibly say something which might infer someone from a different country is telling someone else from another country/continent how they should feel about their people/history/country.

There are a lot of police cases in America of illegals from LatAm raping/attacking white people, not only that I'll break down other issues with this while trying to be detailed but succinct:

Say you live in a first world country/superpower directly north of a third world country with lots of political turmoil and gang violence, the latter of which involved horrific things related to drug cartels (i.e. the "Funkytown" video). These people know liberal policies in the neighboring country give handouts to racial minorities, so oftentimes Mexicans sneak across the border and abuse the Fourteenth Amendment (originally meant to hastily fix a complicated issue relating to giving former slaves citizenship) to have a child on American land for the purposes of making that child a citizen so the whole family from Mexico can come over and get on government benefits. You, as a responsible (probably white) taxpayer, are indirectly by proxy paying for the expenses, homes, educations, and healthcare of these kids and their illegal families. Meanwhile, depending on state, you might be being taxed to death as the cost of living rises every year and have a wife and kids of your own to take care of.

These people also by and large aren't paying taxes because they do not have Social Security Numbers (no birth record in America, no documents or anything). And they have casus belli to have as many kids as they can because they know the (shrinking) white majority in America is fitting the bill for them. Lefty politicians in America want to keep importing them because they are a reliable Dem voting bloc because they have been the "handouts" party since the 1960's thanks to LBJ. To add insult to injury, scummy blue collar companies which are desperate to cut corners will hire people they can get away with working slave hours for slave pay because hiring a white person with a SSN would cut into their bottom line. And if the business owner is anti-migrant, they have no choice but to hire them to fill quotas regardless of other factors because if they don't, they might have a civil rights case on their hands/get their mom and pops business cancelled. - Since the civil rights era in the US, white people are taught in public school to feel sorry for demographic groups of people who themselves hold the mentality of "ha ha, look how we get over on dumb whitey".
 
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Inquisitor_BadAss said:
If you want to live near a large city have you considered in or around Edinburgh? Been there a couple times and it was quite a nice place but I was only there for a couple days each time.
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Morethanabitfoolish said:
Fine to visit from a safe distance but living there would be hellish.
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Oi!
I feel the same way about London.
Edinburgh’s not bad, it has some cultural peculiarities but there’s some lovely little villages around it and you’re close to nicer emptier countryside than down south ( not that you don’t have pretty countryside, what’s left of it, more that you’re overrun…) it turns to hell during festival time and our government is even worse than the English one (but not as bad as the Welsh) but overall, if you like drizzle and bitterness its alright.
 
Crunkle said:
Is your primary goal to get threadbanned from all of your regular threads?

It's always amazing how politicians always get these huge epiphanies right when polls start to move away from them.
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It’s been a slow policy for 2 governments to end the hotels by dispersing the replacements in every community.
The last law I read on it said they want to buy housing for 1 replacement for every 200 citizens.
This is rebranded as a victory with “We will close the migrant hotels!!!”
 
Special spoonie said:
They really need to stop these cringe visits to the norf.
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Every time they go at the moment the degree to which they hate the people there shows more.

Speaking of their hatred of the North they're continuing plans to try to transfer more water from the region to the South. While there's a drought on in the North West
A drought has been declared in north-west England as reservoir levels dwindle.
Hosepipe bans could follow, the Environment Agency said, though this is a matter for water companies, which have been directed to follow their drought plans.

Much of the rest of the country is in prolonged dry status, which is the step before drought, and without significant rainfall more areas could follow the north-west.
England had the driest period on record between February and April, and despite recent rainfall, rivers are at exceptionally low flows across the country and reservoir levels are declining.
United Utilities has particularly low reservoir levels: its Carlisle reservoir is at 46.4%,compared with the 92.5% it was at this time last year. The Haweswater and Thirlmere reservoirs are at 47.5%, compared with 94.8% last year. These are the reservoirs which serve areas including Cumbria and Manchester, in the drought area.

An Environment Agency spokesperson said: “The north-west of England has entered drought status due to low water levels in reservoirs and rivers. No other areas in England are in drought and we continue to monitor the situation closely.”
Climate breakdown will make droughts more likely, scientists have said, as rainfall becomes less predictable.
Richard Allan, a professor of climate science at the University of Reading, said: “The lack of rainfall across the UK in spring 2025 constituted a meteorological drought and this quickly depleted the soil’s moisture, leading to concerns over agricultural drought. Lowering river and reservoir levels are a concern for the north-west of the UK as further dry spells could threaten the supply of water as part of a hydrological drought.
“Droughts are expected to onset more rapidly and become more intense as the planet warms since the atmosphere’s thirst for water grows. A warming climate means moisture is more readily sapped from one region and blown into storm systems elsewhere, intensifying both wet and dry weather extremes with wilder swings between them. The only way to limit the increasing severity of wet and dry extremes is to rapidly cut greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors of society.”

There have not been any major reservoirs built in England for more than 30 years, but the government has announced that it has approved two to begin construction.
The Guardian reported recently that to avert a drought there would need to be rainfall at levels last seen in 2012, when record-breaking deluges caused floods across the country. This does not look likely, with hot, dry weather ahead.
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Otterly said:
Oi!
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It's a city thing. I wouldn't live in one at gunpoint. Everything unkind I'd say about Edinburgh I'd say with even more venom about Manchester simply because I've been there more.

Now Glasgow on the other hand. That and London are especially hellish.
 
FedPostalService said:
The government seems to think Manchester is the entire of the Norf
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It's an improvement from the 90s, when their idea of "the north" didn't extend much past Birmingham. Though, given how they're now turning every city into a mini London, maybe "improvement" is the wrong word...

SirCliveSinclairdabbing said:
This is rebranded as a victory with “We will close the migrant hotels!!!”
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I still can't get over Starmer constantly claiming to have fixed this or that immigration problem and saying he's better than the tories, when he was the direct cause of so much of it to begin with. Every problem he's claiming to fix is a problem he most definitely created. It was his tenure at the prosecution service that saw the most onerous interpretations of the law, in order to punish wrongthinkers and blasphemers, while at the same time ignoring blatant paedophilia. It was his "civil rights" legal activism that saw just about every protection against untrammeled immigration cast down or neutered, alongside every legal avenue to throw the bastards out. I legitimately hate this man, possibly even more than Blair at this point.
 
SirCliveSinclairdabbing said:
This is rebranded as a victory with “We will close the migrant hotels!!!”
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Moving the cat shit out of the box and putting it under the sofa cushions doesn’t help how the room smells.
Unless they are removed from the country it doesn’t matter where they’re housed. We are still paying for it and they’re still here

My policy is still: every single asylum seeker and migrant is housed within 500m or the primary residence if a politician. Every single one
 
SirCliveSinclairdabbing said:
It’s been a slow policy for 2 governments to end the hotels by dispersing the replacements in every community.
The last law I read on it said they want to buy housing for 1 replacement for every 200 citizens.
This is rebranded as a victory with “We will close the migrant hotels!!!”
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That’s what the Serco housing project is.

“We’ve caused an accommodation crisis, made the entire of African want to move here for a free house, put gangs of rapists on the street of everyone of of voters, but we’ve closed the migrant hotels!”
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Speaking of their hatred of the North they're continuing plans to try to transfer more water from the region to the South. While there's a drought on in the North West
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Horrifying that we can see such reserves deplete with 3 months of mild weather.
Blame the climate, blame the environment, blame hose pipes. Point out problems.
God forbid we take responsibility that we have more people than we planned to have, 30 years ago. God forbid we hold water companies accountable for their lack of maintaining infrastructure. And God forbid we come up with a long term solution, like, oh I don't know, desalination plants to create fresh water from the fucking seas we're surrounded by, powered by, oh I don't know, a shite load of off-shore wind turbines.

What's that? Sustainable, almost infinite supply of water, powered for free by green energy, cheaper than than the cost to bail out another water company, in Britain?! Such a suggestion is absurd when we could continue screaming about muh enrivonment, rather than embracing solutions which 150 years ago would have seen men don suits and face the challenge head on out of sheer pride to help the country they love.
 
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Why are they still going on about this? What makes this case special compared to the many other children going missing?
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It's a money-laundering scheme. They know who killed her, they've known since the begining, but hey, some plods in England get to have a jolly to portugal once a year on the taxpayer dime, while jerry and kate cash in on the child they killed.
 
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