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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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teriyakiburns said:
For a pleasing aside: the paki shop down the road isn't a paki shop any more. The guy behind the counter is ginger now. We did the dance of recognition.

This is one of the "jobs british people won't do". I like to think it's a sign of something. I'm not sure what, but it's a sign of something.
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Gingers are the biggest Muslim converts.

A Muslim chimp out would cause a massive shift in the overton window and would shift politics extremely far right over night. As soon as it becomes more than one guy in a van the country will change over night. I'm surprised the fathers of some of these rape gang victims haven't done it. If it was my kids I wouldn't be able to hold myself back from making the fire of London look like a barbecue.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
I'm surprised the fathers of some of these rape gang victims haven't done it. If it was my kids I wouldn't be able to hold myself back from making the fire of London look like a barbecue.
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That thought occurs to me a lot. My sister got battered by her first boyfriend and me and my pals at the time drove around our town in a van looking for him to...do what, I don't know, but we'd all got hammers at the time. The idea of someone doing that sort of thing to a child of mine and I'd probably just blow up their house. Or petrol through the letterbox at 2am and run them over as they ran out.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Gingers are the biggest Muslim converts.
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Proselytising cults tend to seek out those most downtrodden by society. Being ginger is one of the few physical characteristics that it is still socially acceptable to make fun of, so gingers get all of the shit that would otherwise be spread around more evenly, which makes them unusually vulnerable to the sort of lovebombing that muslims engage in to harvest new recruits. It's a shit situation.
Kofi Drinka said:
I'm surprised the fathers of some of these rape gang victims haven't done it.
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Some did. They're in prison.
 
Chunky Salsa said:
That thought occurs to me a lot. My sister got battered by her first boyfriend and me and my pals at the time drove around our town in a van looking for him to...do what, I don't know, but we'd all got hammers at the time. The idea of someone doing that sort of thing to a child of mine and I'd probably just blow up their house. Or petrol through the letterbox at 2am and run them over as they ran out.
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What usually happens is any group of guys going out to sort someone out like that, depending on size, will usually have one in the group whose a nutter / more reckless than the rest, who is up for being the one to actually go in and use said hammer. They're not really needing as much of a reason as everybody else. What they need is a situation where the rest of the group condones it.

So it is with civil violence. It's not so much waiting for people to be angry enough to do something. It's waiting for them to be angry enough to let someone do something. That's why that woman is doing two years in prison for saying she didn't care if someone set fire to the hotels. The tipping point isn't someone burning down a hotel. There's always someone who'd like to do such things. The tipping point is the rest of society going "good".
 
Bob Vylan makes death threats at concert

So......how many years will this guy get ? If Lucy Connolly got 31 months ?

He called for death to a certain minority group live on our national broadcaster.

Other than one was online and one was on tv, but both in theory were on mass communication, I fail to see a difference.

Were all the members in the audience chanting the same thing back just as guilty ?
 
EddyRooney said:
Bob Vylan makes death threats at concert

So......how many years will this guy get ? If Lucy Connolly got 31 months ?

He called for death to a certain minority group live on our national broadcaster.

Other than one was online and one was on tv, but both in theory were on mass communication, I fail to see a difference.

Were all the members in the audience chanting the same thing back just as guilty ?
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Finally we're not alone in hating the IDF! We're mainstream and on the BBC!
 
Bob Vylan sang “heard you want your country back? Hah, shut the fuck up” at Glastonbury.

 
teriyakiburns said:
Proselytising cults tend to seek out those most downtrodden by society. Being ginger is one of the few physical characteristics that it is still socially acceptable to make fun of, so gingers get all of the shit that would otherwise be spread around more evenly, which makes them unusually vulnerable to the sort of lovebombing that muslims engage in to harvest new recruits. It's a shit situation.
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Sadly true, being part ginger (aka a Day walker) I got shit in the summer when the sun would bleach my hair semi ginger. To the point where I have died it ever since
 
Oh well, that will be the end of Glastonbury as a festival.

Labour seething, Eavis family under pressure.

RIP Glasto 1970-2025 - yes, I'll call it now, rainbow this all you like ;)

With regards to a Muslim 'chimp out', if a couple of Mosques go up in flames then definitely we are going to be looking at major problems.

At that point, Starmer may as well throw in the towel.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Gingers are the biggest Muslim converts.

A Muslim chimp out would cause a massive shift in the overton window and would shift politics extremely far right over night. As soon as it becomes more than one guy in a van the country will change over night. I'm surprised the fathers of some of these rape gang victims haven't done it. If it was my kids I wouldn't be able to hold myself back from making the fire of London look like a barbecue.
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shhh....
Chunky Salsa said:
That thought occurs to me a lot. My sister got battered by her first boyfriend and me and my pals at the time drove around our town in a van looking for him to...do what, I don't know, but we'd all got hammers at the time. The idea of someone doing that sort of thing to a child of mine and I'd probably just blow up their house. Or petrol through the letterbox at 2am and run them over as they ran out.
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My Sister was abused by her boyfriend.
We took him off the street, drove to the very north of Scotland, stripped him naked and left him.
 
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Some late news from GB News:

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Two further arrests made over RAF Brize Norton break-in under Terrorism Act:

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Nadiya Hussain hits out at BBC over show axe AGAIN as she fumes 'I won't be grateful' in passionate rant:

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Paul Pogba joins first club since drugs ban saw Juventus contract ripped up:

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/uKvsk

Rod Stewart fans fiercely defend singer as he's BOOED by Glastonbury crowd amid Farage backing: 'What he said is TRUE!':

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Kneecap lead chants of 'f*** Keir Starmer' as rap trio perform at Glastonbury amid BBC's refusal to broadcast set:

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Keir Starmer warns 'backroom stitch-up' could see Nigel Farage win Wales despite ex-Labour FM plotting anti-Reform pact:

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Albanian PM promises to take back every criminal if Nigel Farage is right about prison population:

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/ExTXs
 
Breadbassket said:
Bob Vylan sang “heard you want your country back? Hah, shut the fuck up” at Glastonbury.

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What a way to win the British public. Telling them that they have no claim to their own land whilst you sing from an over priced, offensively upper middle class circle jerk.
 
One of @FedPostalService's relatives made a demand for a seat with more legroom in an airplane; when it was was not met he responded by lying on the floor so that he had to be dragged off the plane:
https://xcancel.com/CollinRugg/status/1938274359510179887
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Nice Garfield shirt. His tantrum delayed the flight from Bangkok’s Don Mueang International Airport by an hour.
 
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