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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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Right, question for you all. Have you used the term 'bloody' in any form of regularity over the past 10 years?

Other than Indians trying to act tough and movies depicting stereotypical Brits I've never actually heard anyone say it for decades. There's just no situation where "bloody hell" really makes sense: if the situation demands it we say "Fucking hell", if we're around a bunch of prudes or coworkers then even 'bloody' would be considered a swear and unacceptable.

Like I'm sure it's been used regularly in the past but nowadays I associate the word with Yanks trying to cosplay as a Brit, much like how any talk of 'tea and scones' has my eyes rolling as you just know it's a fucking Englishman cosplayer.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Right, question for you all. Have you used the term 'bloody' in any form of regularity over the past 10 years?

Other than Indians trying to act tough and movies depicting stereotypical Brits I've never actually heard anyone say it for decades. There's just no situation where "bloody hell" really makes sense: if the situation demands it we say "Fucking hell", if we're around a bunch of prudes or coworkers then even 'bloody' would be considered a swear and unacceptable.

Like I'm sure it's been used regularly in the past but nowadays I associate the word with Yanks trying to cosplay as a Brit, much like how any talk of 'tea and scones' has my eyes rolling as you just know it's a fucking Englishman cosplayer.
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It feels a bit performative.
I've actually stopped using "arse" because of the same feeling.

I don't typically use "bleeding" but it's uncommon enough to have avoided the stereotype.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Right, question for you all. Have you used the term 'bloody' in any form of regularity over the past 10 years?
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Only in conjunction with other profanity, "bloody hell" is something you only say if you're doing a toff impression, not in everyday use, it's downright archaic.
 
I use "bloody" on a fairly regular basis. Bloody idiot, bloody thing, bloody useless, it's a useful increment on the spectrum of profanity.

I have a theory, bloody naysayers are you norf FC, souf FC or (disgusting) midlands FC?
 
Frostnipped Todger said:
Ok, so I know it's hot, but what the fuck is going on in Glasgow? I saw more women's arse cheeks today than I've seen in the last 10 years. Beautiful city, but the women (mostly) seem to dress like slappers. It was truly remarkable.
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I blame Rab C Nesbitt.

'Beat it!'

It's the Football Pre-Season, and racism is back:


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

Also, Welsh Women's simps/footy fans are calling The Samaritans:


Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/22fgq
 
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Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Right, question for you all. Have you used the term 'bloody' in any form of regularity over the past 10 years?

Other than Indians trying to act tough and movies depicting stereotypical Brits I've never actually heard anyone say it for decades. There's just no situation where "bloody hell" really makes sense: if the situation demands it we say "Fucking hell", if we're around a bunch of prudes or coworkers then even 'bloody' would be considered a swear and unacceptable.

Like I'm sure it's been used regularly in the past but nowadays I associate the word with Yanks trying to cosplay as a Brit, much like how any talk of 'tea and scones' has my eyes rolling as you just know it's a fucking Englishman cosplayer.
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I use it all the time. "What the bloody hell do you think you're doing?" is a great way to scare the kids or pets. It's weird not to use your own language because you feel it's performative. That's giving up your culture and letting Americans take you over.
Frostnipped Todger said:
Ok, so I know it's hot, but what the fuck is going on in Glasgow? I saw more women's arse cheeks today than I've seen in the last 10 years. Beautiful city, but the women (mostly) seem to dress like slappers. It was truly remarkable.
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Welcome to modern Britain. Even in the winter everyone dresses like a slapper.

I wouldn't mind everything being done through websites if those websites worked. You register for one and never get a confirmation e-mail through. It just doesn't bloody work. It's an essential service.
 
Frostnipped Todger said:
Ok, so I know it's hot, but what the fuck is going on in Glasgow? I saw more women's arse cheeks today than I've seen in the last 10 years. Beautiful city, but the women (mostly) seem to dress like slappers. It was truly remarkable.
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The lack of naturally occurring vitamin D in Scotland means the locals have to expose themselves as much as possible to create suitable reserves to survive Jock lands 9 month long winters.
 
Kier Starmer said:
The Orkneys are our Outer Heaven.
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I was visiting friends and went walking in the Trossachs over the weekend. You don’t need to go that far north to get a bit of paradise.
Frostnipped Todger said:
Ok, so I know it's hot, but what the fuck is going on in Glasgow? I saw more women's arse cheeks today than I've seen in the last 10 years. Beautiful city, but the women (mostly) seem to dress like slappers. It was truly remarkable.
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I love visiting Glasgow. It’s gentrified a lot over the last few decades but unfortunately the council are trying to destroy the progress by importing more Deliveroo bike delivery monkeys.
 
I had to make a twitter account unrelated to anything political. I haven't and won't engage with anything outside of a niche hobby I needed to contact someone about on there. All of my recommendations are anti-migrant or about the football. I don't ever look up things like that unless I'm using a VPN and I wasn't using a device I use a VPN on. There is no way to tie my politics to that PC or device.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
I had to make a twitter account unrelated to anything political. I haven't and won't engage with anything outside of a niche hobby I needed to contact someone about on there. All of my recommendations are anti-migrant or about the football. I don't ever look up things like that unless I'm using a VPN and I wasn't using a device I use a VPN on. There is no way to tie my politics to that PC or device.
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I tried an experiment a little while back. I've made a dozen posts on twitter in the last year, all some variation of anti-immigrant or pro-GC stuff, and now my feed is nothing but pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-palestinian... basically everything the system calculates might make me angry enough to post more. As far as I can tell, a new user is put into a broad demographic category, based on location and whatever else it can glean about them from public datasets, and then fed what the system thinks will be the most rage-inducing content possible, in an attempt to force interaction. Pro or anti doesn't matter, as long as it gets the user angry enough to post. It'll then tailor content based on their posts and who they interact with in order to refine the rage-bait loop. It's insidious.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
I had to make a twitter account unrelated to anything political. I haven't and won't engage with anything outside of a niche hobby I needed to contact someone about on there. All of my recommendations are anti-migrant or about the football. I don't ever look up things like that unless I'm using a VPN and I wasn't using a device I use a VPN on. There is no way to tie my politics to that PC or device.
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I made mine to find stuff to laugh at and my feed is the same. I think if you follow a select few people who put out anti-immigration content, merely scrolling by it is enough for Twitter to go, "well, he's looking at this content, so we should give him more of it."

It's good Twitter is uncensored enough to allow for such discourse nowadays but I would probably take it's application to the broader population with a pinch of salt. I've seen Gen X and older use TikTok more than Twitter, bizarrely; I think the ease of putting the former on your phone and easier account creation is probably why they prefer it, but it's based on a sample size of like 7 people. People my own generation use instagram more I've noticed.
 
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