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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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Made In Wales said:
If they can, then fine, but as with anything this Government does I am highly sceptical that they'll manage to do it right.

We're playing catch-up - I believe that Sir Richard Dannatt commented the other day that it's akin to Neville Chamberlain asking Adolf Hitler in 1938 to not invade us until 1946.

Yes, I 100% believe that we need to defend the UK and have the capability to do so, but with money pissed away on wokeness, DEI and all the other shit we're now significantly weaker than we should be.

I'm not that confident but hey ho, what will be will be.
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Look up job listings for that company.

A year or 2 ago on here I said they were sitting on smr technology waiting for the right political situation.
 

Live feed of the sentencing of a 15-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl for the manslaughter of Bhim Kohli in Franklin Park, Leicestershire.

The 80-year-old died in hospital after being attacked at Franklin Park in September 2024 and the teenagers were found guilty following a trial earlier this year.

Seriously, 13 and 15 - what the hell is going wrong in the world?


Four jailed in Scotland over 'outrageous' £6m NHS contract fraud.


Finally, how to fuck up spending money in Wales.
 
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Made In Wales said:

Live feed of the sentencing of a 15-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl for the manslaughter of Bhim Kohli in Franklin Park, Leicestershire.

The 80-year-old died in hospital after being attacked at Franklin Park in September 2024 and the teenagers were found guilty following a trial earlier this year.

Seriously, 13 and 15 - what the hell is going wrong in the world?


Four jailed in Scotland over 'outrageous' £6m NHS contract fraud.


Finally, how to fuck up spending money in Wales.
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I’ve found that Leicester death case a little suspicious how hard they are going in on “muh racist” attack. I live far too close to Leicester than I’d like and was probably more likely a Pakistani vs India thing. Otherwise the BBC would have it plastered everywhere that the kids were white.
 
Vesperus said:
Odds are there'll be about 9000 unemployed Jaguar/Land Rover workers soon.
Retool the the Solihull factory and have all those useless migrants widen the Grand Union canal so you sail them out via London.
(Probably a saner plan than whatever ends up happening)
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"So your experience is just lowering in the windscreens on that one model of car and checking the seal around it? Great, how do you feel about working on the nuclear reactor seals for submarines?"
 
Overly Serious said:
Why the Hell are there not enough doctors and obstetricians in this country? It's not like it's difficult to know a population will need them.
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Because the GMC actively gatekeeps number of medical degree places for Doctors and for nursing and allied health professions, so like nursing, midwifery (and audiology,physiotherapy, podiatry and a slew of others) the fact they made those qualifications degree based,instead of practical and vocational 1. Puts off the right kind of applicants and 2. Attracts some absolute dreck into them.
 
BongoMongo said:
Because the GMC actively gatekeeps number of medical degree places for Doctors and for nursing and allied health professions, so like nursing, midwifery (and audiology,physiotherapy, podiatry and a slew of others) the fact they made those qualifications degree based,instead of practical and vocational 1. Puts off the right kind of applicants and 2. Attracts some absolute dreck into them.
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Also, when you need the results of a consultation, which country processes them because the NHS and GMC deem it acceptable?

A few hints: Crocodile Dundee, Kylie Minogue, Men At Work, Rolf Harris and David Campese.

Only just learnt that today from an NHS Auxilary, she seemed startled that I thought it was wrong.
 
Le b0wski said:
It's a prank bro.


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Idiot. Also this is the kind of policing I like to see - appears when needed, targets someone actually doing something wrong and quick and professional about it. He's honestly lucky the police were there. I'd have been on him like a brick from Heaven.

Reminds me of another idiot prank that went wrong.



I don't know where these people get the idea that this is funny. When I think of prank I think of things like this:


Also, does he actually look like that or was it a disguise?

BongoMongo said:
Because the GMC actively gatekeeps number of medical degree places for Doctors and for nursing and allied health professions, so like nursing, midwifery (and audiology,physiotherapy, podiatry and a slew of others) the fact they made those qualifications degree based,instead of practical and vocational 1. Puts off the right kind of applicants and 2. Attracts some absolute dreck into them.
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Why? To keep wages up? Or some even more sinister agenda? I'd like to learn more about this.
 
Right, my schizo conspiracy theory is that the push to add more recruits under the notion of "We need to protect us from Russia" is the UK realising they need a standing army ASAP in case anything major kicks off in the UK.

If a hundred thousand people started to smash down the barriers of parliament do you think the 20k or whatever army blokes stationed around the UK would be able to do a thing? I mean they could always use one of their fancy fighter jets to drop white phosphorus on them but as an armed presence as a standing army? Lmao.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Right, my schizo conspiracy theory is that the push to add more recruits under the notion of "We need to protect us from Russia" is the UK realising they need a standing army ASAP in case anything major kicks off in the UK.

If a hundred thousand people started to smash down the barriers of parliament do you think the 20k or whatever army blokes stationed around the UK would be able to do a thing? I mean they could always use one of their fancy fighter jets to drop white phosphorus on them but as an armed presence as a standing army? Lmao.
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Makes a lot of sense.

If the Government felt that was coming, however, I think that Starmer would be 'retired'.

Anything like another Southport on a larger scale, making the riots of the early 2010s look like a cakewalk in comparison, and even they'd have to say 'enough is enough'.

My slightly more bat-shit insane theory is that Russia has sent KGB cell 'migrants' here to assassinate MP's and will bring the Government down without any civilians getting hurt. They'll work with existing Russian Ops in Youth Demand, Just Stop Oil and pro-Palestinians to bring this about.
 
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