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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.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

History Debunked is a good bloke
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nX6tRKgbeEM

He is however wrong about the idea that we're going to be scrapping our deterrent. We're just finishing up a refurb of the existing warheads, and have moved ahead to make more advanced ones to replace them entirely. Aldermaston has gone on a massive hiring spree as well. It's more likely we'll try and run two entirely new weapons at once, and do away with the concept of only using a submarine based system. I don't like that idea personally as it implies that there is a tactical use of nuclear weapons; which encourages the idea that they are not solely for ensuring MAD.

 

[SaltyFanta]

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 ?

As we move into this future of white racial consciousness, I think this whole "What we he get? Will it be fair?" act we all do, where we pretend sarcastically that justice might actually be blind, needs to end. We need to speak plainly.

He is black, he will not be charged unless it's out of sheer capitulation. It is more likely the police are monitoring his tweets to charge people who criticize him.

 

[Otterly]

Bob Vylan sang “heard you want your country back? Hah, shut the fuck up” at Glastonbury.

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What a twat. He should be locked in rhe worst portaloo they have and rolled down a hill. (Modern scaphism ..)
Glasto needs more drugs. The insanity started when they cracked down on everyone getting stoned out of their gourd. Bunch of hippies on acid and weed is far preferable to subversive political crap.
Rather sad and bitterly ironic this happening with sight of Glastonbury tor. I want my country back, mate, and a better line up next year as well. You against the wall, and some better acts on the pyramid stage, and more hippies and dancing and less of this kind of thing

 

[They were once men]

He is however wrong about the idea that we're going to be scrapping our deterrent. We're just finishing up a refurb of the existing warheads, and have moved ahead to make more advanced ones to replace them entirely. Aldermaston has gone on a massive hiring spree as well. It's more likely we'll try and run two entirely new weapons at once, and do away with the concept of only using a submarine based system. I don't like that idea personally as it implies that there is a tactical use of nuclear weapons; which encourages the idea that they are not solely for ensuring MAD.

well those defence contractors have gotta be paid somehow.

 

[Tragon Dirtle]

Ginger women have been popular with men since the bullying stopped in the 2000s. Lots of celebrity red headed women and some anime influence leaking in with the red haired characters popular with the youth.

Could you stop being a twat? The anti-Nigel posting is getting tedious and you're posting in a way you know will upset people. Nigel's wife is a white French woman who works on anti-immigration policy in France and Europe. They have a home in Essex which she owns according to wikipedia. You know you're posting like Farage has some little yellow thing he calls a wife. We've all seen the weird old men with ugly old Asian women on the street and you know that's what people think when you say immigrant wife.

If we're going to lose either way then it doesn't hurt to try does it? Or are you going to tell us the solution is offering our wife and kids to pakis so maybe they won't be so mean to us when they take control next? I would have thought someone so keen on surrendering would have been a big fan of Farage's French wife.

I know you're new here, but you should know that I previously working in child safeguarding and I've talked about that here on the farms so I am not on the 'hand women and children over to muslims' side. The only reason you went for that is because you had no other legs to stand on and you're ignorant. What I'm trying to do is get people to pay attention to the fact that Farage had a european wife but was a main pusher of Brexit - because it made him money. He is head of Reform now, which he has set up as a PLC (a company you donated to to carry out an objective, not a political party, so he can take as many donations as he likes and use them as he likes, and can't be removed as director of the PLC) and he is working with muslims because he isn't against them at all. He's doing all this because it makes him money, and it isn't the fucking solution you think it is.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

well those defence contractors have gotta be paid somehow.

Paid should really be gold coloured, because the government dropped £15Bn on the new warhead, and AWE itself hires something absurd like 1500 new people a year. It's probably one of the few recession proof industries the UK actually has.

 

[teriyakiburns]

He's doing all this because it makes him money, and it isn't the fucking solution you think it is.

I just want him to be PM so I can watch him have a nervous breakdown when he realises he's stuck there.

Seriously though, as much as he's clearly only in it to expand his pension collection, he's nevertheless opened a floodgate of genuine political rebellion that he can no longer direct or control, regardless of how he's structured the party. If an election were held today, Reform would have a very strong chance of forming the next government. People want change. Reform is the only way they can see forward, however much they might see Farage as a grifter. I've been telling people he's a grifter for years here, but I still plan on voting reform next time around because it's the least terrible option.

Paid should really be gold coloured, because the government dropped £15Bn on the new warhead, and AWE itself hires something absurd like 1500 new people a year. It's probably one of the few recession proof industries the UK actually has.

It's one of those very rare cases where the civil service has recognised the need to maintain domestic skill in a strategic industry. The UK can still build nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs and has never lost that ability. We just need to figure out rockets (Again) and we're completely divorced from the need to rely on foreign partners for our nuclear deterrence.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

It's one of those very rare cases where the civil service has recognised the need to maintain domestic skill in a strategic industry. The UK can still build nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs and has never lost that ability. We just need to figure out rockets (Again) and we're completely divorced from the need to rely on foreign partners for our nuclear deterrence.

We can already build rockets, we have a joint venture in the form of Roxel with the french. We could have our own ballistic missile program running just fine inside of a few years. I think it's purely politics why we don't, I think it's probably beneficial to our nuclear program to work so closely with the Americans in regards to the missiles themselves; as we probably do a lot of information sharing with them. Probably.

If we phased that out, and used Roxel to develop the boosters, and did all the guidance systems in house, we would inevitably draw closer to Europe as we moved away from America. I'm not opposed to that, but I'm also not for that.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I wonder what the ethics of creating a charity to ensure that migrants will be able to attend Glastonbury would look like, I'm sure it could be created on the grounds of "It'd be nice to ensure that new arrivals are able to experience British culture" whereas it'd be fantastic for giving sad middle class wankers something to worry about.

 

[Tragon Dirtle]

I just want him to be PM so I can watch him have a nervous breakdown when he realises he's stuck there.

Seriously though, as much as he's clearly only in it to expand his pension collection, he's nevertheless opened a floodgate of genuine political rebellion that he can no longer direct or control, regardless of how he's structured the party. If an election were held today, Reform would have a very strong chance of forming the next government. People want change. Reform is the only way they can see forward, however much they might see Farage as a grifter. I've been telling people he's a grifter for years here, but I still plan on voting reform next time around because it's the least terrible option.

He has got most of the political dissent focused on him, that's true. And technically it would be funny to watch him panic as PM, if it wouldn't literally fuck everything else up in the process. I can't afford the chaos. But Labour are making steps towards anti-immigration policies and unfortunately I think that we got into a 14-year deep hole slowly and will have to get out of it slowly, which means vocally and positively supporting the steps the government are taking in that direction. (Which doesn't mean becoming a Keir fan or a lifelong labour supporter). Which is exactly why I think the mainstream media is winding everybody up against Keir rather than focusing on what they are doing, because as I've also said, the media was on board with the tories all the way through our decline and I think the tories and establishment are using Badenoch to bring in more immigrants but nigerians this time.

Also I don't think I've seen this brought up here but everyone talks about how everyone can apparently afford deliveroo and doordash and that's the dark economy the boat immigrants are participating in - those guys are openly dealing drugs here, it's not the fast food economy, it's drugs, and nobody does more cocaine than westminster. Theresa May's husband has the main pharmaceuticals contract for weed-based medications to the NHS. But they still use under the table immigrant workers to grow it. They're involved both legally and illegally.

 

[Made In Wales]

I wonder what the ethics of creating a charity to ensure that migrants will be able to attend Glastonbury would look like, I'm sure it could be created on the grounds of "It'd be nice to ensure that new arrivals are able to experience British culture" whereas it'd be fantastic for giving sad middle class wankers something to worry about.

It would be interesting to see if the Eavis family would allow 'open borders' for their festival... which is held behind large fencing and guarded.

 

[bluegenius8585]

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uhh yeah because they're literally related to mohammed.

This has been going on for ages with Islamist dawah accounts. They use AI to produce clickbate videos either claiming some famous person is related to Muhammed or that some random celebrity has converted to Islam

 

[Made In Wales]

@Tragon Dirtle I would not be surprised to see Starmer threaten to rip up Deliveroo's trading licence, if he feels that would win him brownie points.

You're right in that the issue of mass illegal migration will take time to sort, but I think Reform UK will be able to do it within five to six years of being elected - we've hopefully got some support from Albania and even the NCA is now taking the claims that certain FBPE types on X such as Simon Harris are or have been involved in facilitating the problem. Starmer will want the NCA to crack down on these people before the summer recess, and then go into September in a more confident mood.

The upshot will be that he'll further annoy the woke Left in the process, as they see him lurching into Reform UK territory and using Farage's rhetoric.

The Overton window is shifting right, despite the best (and worst) attempts of the Left to stop it.

 

[Tragon Dirtle]

This has been going on for ages with Islamist dawah accounts. They use AI to produce clickbate videos either claiming some famous person is related to Muhammed or that some random celebrity has converted to Islam

They actually are related to Mohammed, but they're related to basically any historical political leader because the upper classes of all the different countries constantly intermarry. They'll make it relevant when they want it to be, and probably have brought it up when talking to a sheikh or whatever, but what's more important is that Charles is openly pro-Islam right now and encourages everyone else to be too.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Glasto needs more drugs. The insanity started when they cracked down on everyone getting stoned out of their gourd. Bunch of hippies on acid and weed is far preferable to subversive political crap.

That's subversive political crap. Teenagers getting god knows what STDs and scrambling their brains with drugs is an attack on the British family. Does any father worth his salt want his daughter to be some cum rag whore at Glastonbury? Do you want to marry a woman who rolls in the mud off her face shagging random men she meets at festivals? Do you want your son to come home with permanent mental health issues because he's been given god knows what pills and it's messed his brain up forever?

If we want to restore our people and culture stuff like Glastonbury needs to be deeply shamed as an avenue for outside corruption of our culture, a way to degrade and harm our young people and a relic of a hedonistic era we left behind. You can have local party in the parks with local musicians playing, where you have a big get together for a weekend and get more invested in those around you. These mega festivals full of foreigners screaming fuck you British people and waving other country's flags around have got to go.

I know you're new here, but you should know that I previously working in child safeguarding and I've talked about that here on the farms so I am not on the 'hand women and children over to muslims' side. The only reason you went for that is because you had no other legs to stand on and you're ignorant. What I'm trying to do is get people to pay attention to the fact that Farage had a european wife but was a main pusher of Brexit - because it made him money. He is head of Reform now, which he has set up as a PLC (a company you donated to to carry out an objective, not a political party, so he can take as many donations as he likes and use them as he likes, and can't be removed as director of the PLC) and he is working with muslims because he isn't against them at all. He's doing all this because it makes him money, and it isn't the fucking solution you think it is.

Fuck off, you're a twat.

 

[Otterly]

Does any father worth his salt want his daughter to be some cum rag whore at Glastonbury? Do you want to marry a woman who rolls in the mud off her face shagging random men she meets at festivals?

See the last thing on my mind anywhere like that would be sex. Nobody washes and nobody has any privacy. No way.
Brits have been happily getting drunk on the local cider and having a roll in the hay after the morris dancing for millennia. I managed to be lightly pissed at various festivals and gigs for half my youth without it ever occurring to me that i was there to shag anyone. Drink and dance with friends? Yes. Sex? Not at all. It was all about the music (maaaan.) for us anyway.
Glastonbury and similar things used to be very much all about the wild pagan side of. British life. There were morris dancers and jack in the green stuff and a massive revival of that British folklore style of music in the seventies as well. It was daft and fun and the worst you’d come home with was a hangover (or trench foot on a bad year) and a few new bands to enjoy. We were able to enjoy life and blend that wild side fine, not everything’s a sex thing.
Someone who is a foreigner telling us we can’t have our country back should get a reaction that involves a wicker man. It is deeply shameful, and i can’t think of any other time in history people would be so emboldened to do that - of course they are now because the government and so much yoof culture is on their side. There needs to be a resurgence of national pride, love of our history, culture and country and it has to be separate from this left right stuff.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Brits have been happily getting drunk on the local cider and having a roll in the hay after the morris dancing for millennia. I managed to be lightly pissed at various festivals and gigs for half my youth without it ever occurring to me that i was there to shag anyone. Drink and dance with friends? Yes. Sex? Not at all. It was all about the music (maaaan.) for us anyway.

You were just promoting hedonistic culture where you take drugs. You can't have it both ways. Either it's hippy hedonism or it's listening to an Oasis CD in the garden with a cider.

Festivals involve a lot of sex. Drunk, high and young people like fucking and they do it a lot when given the chance.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Protests should only be allowed when people protest issues within this country. Protesting about Iran, Ukraine, Palestine, Gaza or starving wogs, should be shut down immediately.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Protests would be more fun if no police protection was guaranteed. That way I wouldn't give a shit who protests because someone is going home paralyzed.

 

[Made In Wales]

Protests should only be allowed when people protest issues within this country. Protesting about Iran, Ukraine, Palestine, Gaza or starving wogs, should be shut down immediately.

100% bang on the money, and no foreign charities are allowed to take British money.

That's our tax bucks, hands off!

Protests would be more fun if no police protection was guaranteed. That way I wouldn't give a shit who protests because someone is going home paralyzed.

The way we're going with the LGBTQWERTY Plod, the next time there's a riot you can expect gay disco dancing and leather handcuffs!

'Stop! In the naaaame of love...'

Or

'Hands up! Baby hands up! Give me your heart...'