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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.

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.

 

[Made In Wales]

Cheers, now copy and paste the front page of GB News. I want to know what I should be angry about.

Today's choice:

* Transgender Marsupials caught in gang-bang with Rylan Clark-Neal.
* Bonnie Blue to become Nottingham's version of 'The Big Easy'.
* Angry Tarquin has his vagina stolen, Crimestoppers for once won't put a reward up.
* Lancashire man causes tectonic plate shift with ultra violent farts.
* Dianne Abbott flummoxed by 'why did the chicken cross the road' joke and blames racism.

 

[Marvin]

Oh actually the Royal Armouries museum is well worth a look. But that's it. Doughnuts and pewpew. What a line up.

I went to the Royal Armouries museum on a visit to Bongland once because I wanted to see a Luty. They have one in their collection but alas they didn't have it out on display, which sucked.

Still a neat museum though.

 

[Made In Wales]

If you're after the Racing news, the runners and riders at Royal Ascot are:

4/1 Crafty Wank (Grimes Stables)
5/1 Enormous Orifice (Labour Party)
10/1 Christ That Will Hurt In The Morning (Friday Night Misadventures)
15/2 Does This Look Infected (NHS Medical Facility)
25/1 Anneka Rice's Jump Suit (Eighties Classics)
100/1 Shut Up Grammatic Oil (Icheoku of Nigeria)

 

[DirtyDDisagrees]

Did you even read the article? A bottle a beer every day is not responsible drinking. If you're drinking every day there is something weird going on.

tell me you've never been to college, never played sports, never served in the military, never worked a trade or basically anything else normal or masculine in your entire life without actually saying it. I used to drink a 6 pack of Shiner every night just hanging out in my barracks room and I didn't even get drunk. One beer a day after a 12 hour shift in a factory or shop or out in the fields, is not excessive or irresponsible at all.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

If you're after the Racing news, the runners and riders at Royal Ascot are:

4/1 Crafty Wank (Grimes Stables)
5/1 Enormous Orifice (Labour Party)
10/1 Christ That Will Hurt In The Morning (Friday Night Misadventures)
15/2 Does This Look Infected (NHS Medical Facility)
25/1 Anneka Rice's Jump Suit (Eighties Classics)
100/1 Shut Up Grammatic Oil (Icheoku of Nigeria)

I've heard good things about The Islamic Caliphate of Blackburn at 40/1

 

[Coolio55]

tell me you've never been to college, never played sports, never served in the military, never worked a trade or basically anything else normal or masculine in your entire life without actually saying it. I used to drink a 6 pack of Shiner every night just hanging out in my barracks room and I didn't even get drunk. One beer a day after a 12 hour shift in a factory or shop or out in the fields, is not excessive or irresponsible at all.

 

[DirtyDDisagrees]

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you could have photoshopped in a beer to try to relate to anything I said. cope, loser

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Drinking on any night other than a Friday or Saturday (bar exceptions like weddings or whatever) is non-British behaviour. The British body is designed to be filled with as much alcohol and cocaine on a Friday night and be able to piss completely clean by Monday morning.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

tell me you've never been to college, never played sports, never served in the military, never worked a trade or basically anything else normal or masculine in your entire life without actually saying it. I used to drink a 6 pack of Shiner every night just hanging out in my barracks room and I didn't even get drunk. One beer a day after a 12 hour shift in a factory or shop or out in the fields, is not excessive or irresponsible at all.

You being an alcoholic doesn't make it a healthy or normal thing to do.

Drinking on any night other than a Friday or Saturday (bar exceptions like weddings or whatever) is non-British behaviour. The British body is designed to be filled with as much alcohol and cocaine on a Friday night and be able to piss completely clean by Monday morning.

Fry ups cure piss test failures.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

I know I mention GE a lot, but it may even be in Starmer's interests now to have one, de-select anybody not completely loyal to him, and go for broke. When he loses, so what - he'll still be a millionaire many times over and he'll still make a fair whack doing tours.

The thing to understand, aside from as mentioned many times that Labour do not care about their popularity, there people or indeed much of anything, is that Starmer ultimately cannot and does not make his decision in a vaccuum.

As is the norm for British politics vast amounts of money have been spent fiddling with the election, the climate going into it for years before and ensuring the right MPs are on side. The groups and individuals who spent that money expect Labour to provide a return on their investment. If Keir goes, "well, this job is hard. Guess I'll call it a day," there will be some exceedingly nasty consequences for him.

 

[Amin Yasister]

The CPS took it to trail despite video evidence of an unprovoked beating by the police so bad member s of the jury were in tears.

Must havd had the worst ever defence lawyer.

And jury. What jury, moved to tears, would not find him not guilty?

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Must havd had the worst ever defence lawyer.

And jury. What jury, moved to tears, would not find him not guilty?

They were crying because the pakis hands were hurting from all of the punching. Won't someone please think of the children consequences to muslims.

 

[lamppost]

*Snip*

"put humanity before politics"

Whoever wrote this is retarded beyond measure.

 

[Amin Yasister]

"put humanity before politics"

Whoever wrote this is retarded beyond measure.

If the thought of possible death using dingys to doesn't put them off, what will?

And 74 deaths out of how many illegals entering the UK in that same period?

More dangerous crossing a road in London.

 

[FedPostalService]

Must havd had the worst ever defence lawyer.

And jury. What jury, moved to tears, would not find him not guilty?

He was found not guilty. Did I miss type?

His lawyer wanted him to peruse legal action after the trail but he was smart enough not to. They’d have made his life a misery.

Look at Manchester police do to women who complain about them and think what the police will happily do to a man the press won’t care about.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

"put humanity before politics"

Radio 4 had the experts on about this today, long and short of it is that the crossings must be stopped by giving them a safe and legal route instead. So increased numbers and automatic citizenship.

I'm exaggerating slightly.

 

[bluegenius8585]

"put humanity before politics"

Whoever wrote this is retarded beyond measure.

They could have easily stayed in France

Or for most of them whatever dump they came from as most aren't refugees but skilless failures

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I was at the pub last night and ran into a fun conversation. Spotty nerd that ran for Labour here last election talking to an autist on the state of Britain. Immigration came up and Labour guy said he thought immigration was a good thing. Autistic guy spent the next 45 minutes ranting about immigration statistics and how bad they are for the economy. I sat back and enjoyed watching the spotty Labour guy try to hold it together as he couldn't believe what he was hearing.

 

[Overly Serious]

"put humanity before politics"

Whoever wrote this is retarded beyond measure.

"Continue living in fear of war, poverty and human rights abuses..."

Funny way to describe France.

 

[EddyRooney]

Whoever wrote this is retarded beyond measure.

Not necessarily. But certainly a traitor. I'm beginning to think these people aren't retards, but are malevolent. They can't be reasoned with.....

Watching the cricket. I long for the day when we play India in the Summer and it doesn't look like an away fixture. I was going to say it should be expected, it is Edgbaston. But would it be any different at Lord's, the Oval, Old Trafford, Headingley or Trent Bridge......Incessant pajeet drumming.