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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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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.

 

[prayforpills]

The nigger is in the wrong but if you think the police will do shit then you're obviously mental.

He was convicted. He also sprinkled some 'dyke' and 'lesbo' in there which is the magic trigger for police do actually do something, because then it's considered a homophobic hate crime. The only reason it was investigated is likely because of that, so in a way she's lucky the ape was so uninhibited to even extend his meltdown to wrongthink anti alphabet people langauge, kek.

 

[Otterly]

They are removing peoples Circuses, while it gets more and more expensive to get the bread?

Either they have a plan, or the elite have forgotten why "Bread and circuses" is important to keep the mob in check.

Let them. People have been unhappy a long time, and angry a while. They are starting to be able to express it but everyone’s still too fat and comfy.
But the infestation has spread so far that everyone’s affected. Only the telly and cheap comforts and inertia and fear are stopping a major chimp out. Let them take the cheap comforts, and see other people protest, and then maybe we will see something.
Hosepipe bans are a stressor. Expensive food is. Hot weather is. Country’s a tinderbox.
Tick tock, kier!

 

[Kofi Drinka]

If I had a penis, the thought of dead and dying Muslims would get me rock hard, not gonna lie.

Would you like to borrow one? It's not as selective about it being Muslims, it's happy for any browns to die.

We will all be invited to join the Anti Sex League instead while the chemicals in our Stella/Diet Coke/Posh Water remove all our desires.

And cities will be renamed to just numbers. That way you won't have to remember they used to be white places named by the evil oppressors.

Hosepipe bans are a stressor.

How middle class do you have to be to be stressed by a hose pipe ban? Watering cans do more than enough for most people. Unless your garden is growing food there's not much need for a hose pipe.

 

[Otterly]

How middle class do you have to be to be stressed by a hose pipe ban?

Middle class? No, just not urban yuppie flat dwellers. Gardens need water.
Kids can’t easily have a little cheap paddling pool. Bored hot stressed kids. Can’t hose the dog off outside after it’s rolled in something. Older people can’t carry endles cans of water, their lovely little garden that’s kept them going starts dying because we’ve had months of drought. The ground down south is like concrete. Your veg patch dries up and the one bright spot of nice healthy food in the summer is gone. I know people who live in London flats don’t care, but even a small suburban back yard needs more water than old people can carry in cans. A cubic metre of water weighs a ton. Veg needs an inch a week in season. Allotments run on hoses and rainwater butts. Hosepipe bans are a stressor for anyone with anything growing.
I do t care about people unable to wash their cars but veg needs water, rural and growers need it. Food has to be grown somewhere. The cities hate the countryside, and frankly I hope the countryside starves them one day

 

[Kofi Drinka]

The cities hate the countryside, and frankly I hope the countryside starves them one day

This we can agree on.

I've never watered my garden and the grass has always grown well. This summer it wouldn't stop growing and needed to be mowed constant. Was thinking of buying a goat to keep it in check, but I might have lost the goat in the grass with how fast it grew.

 

[A-Logato]

How middle class do you have to be to be stressed by a hose pipe ban? Watering cans do more than enough for most people. Unless your garden is growing food there's not much need for a hose pipe.

How does a country in which it does nothing but rain all year round, need to have a hose ban?

 

[Overly Serious]

Look who got a puff piece in tha toimes, top tier PR, some illuminati social engineering bollocks this is.
Extremely quotable and absolutely disgusting; reader discretion is advised, bleh.
Normally I don't bother inserting the images, but this toime (heh) it's important to get across just how fucking busted she is.

tl;dr the bitch is barren, which is what drove her cock-crazy to try and make up for it, very sad many such cases.
https://www.thetimes.com/life-style...terview-1000-men-normalisation-porn-dd6rcq8gq/https://archive.is/5FAg6

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I thought that was Vanessa Kirby from the new Fantastic Four movie. They look very alike. Shows what I know!

 

[Kofi Drinka]

How does a country in which it does nothing but rain all year round, need to have a hose ban?

Our water storage is poorly designed and millions of foreigners tax the system.

 

[Crunkle]

Our water storage is poorly designed and millions of foreigners tax the system.

Not to mention water companies "accidentally" letting loose sewerage all over the country. Water companies should be forced to have to announce a spillage themselves on their own social media the moment it happens.

 

[Otterly]

I've never watered my garden and the grass has always grown well.

The grass can be let go - it’ll almost always bounce back, I don’t water it at all. It’s the trees and the veg that need consistent couple of times a week deep watering, or things dont do well.

How does a country in which it does nothing but rain all year round, need to have a hose ban?

Nobody has built new reservoirs for a few decades, during which time we’ve added thirty million plus to the population, with no new infrastructure. And during who h time the water companies have made out like bandits, paying themselves huge bonuses while we lose more in leaks and they discharge raw sewage into previously swim able waterways

Not to mention water companies "accidentally" letting loose sewerage all over the country. Water companies should be forced to have to announce a spillage themselves on their own social media the moment it happens.

They should be chained at the base of the outfalls and made to drink and wallow in it, total polluter death,

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

This we can agree on.

I've never watered my garden and the grass has always grown well. This summer it wouldn't stop growing and needed to be mowed constant. Was thinking of buying a goat to keep it in check, but I might have lost the goat in the grass with how fast it grew.

Wait till you see the paperwork and regulations to keep a goat.
Can’t be having free milk you know…

 

[Otterly]

Wait till you see the paperwork and regulations to keep a goat.
Can’t be having free milk you know…

There is a massive war on anyone who likes to grow things or keep a small holding. Imagine going back a few hundred years and telling regular peasants that this would happen. You can’t even feed chickens kitchen scraps unless your household is vegan. They regularly run ‘gardening is muh right wing’ articles and ‘allotments are worse than supermarket for co2’ articles and they put plastic turf in new builds.
I’ve just nipped out and picked a cucumber and some fresh tomatoes which will do me a nice side salad for lunch. The cherry tomatoes are growing in old buckets that I drilled holes in the bottom of. Homedone compost. Seeds from last years tomatoes. Pretty much zero cost.
Aren’t we all supposed to be being green? How much greener is it to grow your own than buy from mega greenhouses?? And yet there’s huge discouragement for growing. Tiny shitty new builds with gardens that have no access except through the house. So all waste and soil needs to go through the house. Gardens with no topsoil just building rubble and a deck.
Endless fucking regulations about chickens way beyond sensible ones (fine to not keep then past a certain urban density but if you live in the sticks you should be able to and feed them scraps from healthy home made food.) I dread to think what having a goat entails in paperwork.
Oh and you couldn’t buy seeds during Covid, which was the point a few people I knew became pitchfork wielding radicals,

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Wait till you see the paperwork and regulations to keep a goat.
Can’t be having free milk you know…

I'm going to be an illegal goat keeper and there's nothing Starmer can do to stop me! I'll even have unlicensed chickens!

Fuck you Labour. I am a rebel!

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

There is a massive war on anyone who likes to grow things or keep a small holding

Same with energy.
Any sign of a microgrid on your house (off grid solar or turbines) and the energy company will disconnect you and refuse inspecting it so you can prove it’s not connected to the grid

 

[Chunky Salsa]

‘allotments are worse than supermarket for co2’ articles and they put plastic turf in new builds.

My sister got a new build, put down some nice turf and was setting up little wooden plots, and it was all dead. Nothing took, so me and her boyfriend dug up the garden. Down about half a foot was rubble, plastic bags, random bits of rubbish, just dumped. We had to dig four feet down to get it all out, and then buy a load of new soil to put in. Actually fucking insane.

 

[Fish Maggot]

Gardens need water.

Spoiler: bongsperging

I cannot stress how useful it is to have some water collection methods at home, the main thing* that's kept me going in the drought is having water butts for collecting and storing water. Invest in some decent water butts and hook those bad boys up to your guttering and you've at least got something for the garden when our hose licenses are revoked. Slap a chunk of mosquito dunk in them every now and then and job's done.
If you're feeling fancy you can get pumps for them so you can use it with a hosepipe but I'm yet to find one that isn't utterly fucking dogshit.

*And also keeping fish, when it gets too hot I need to get the temperature down in the tanks anyways so a gradual water change gives me enough water to slap into my containers/greenhouse as they need. Can also compost any plant trimmings or fucking algae that comes out of there too.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Well I couldn't find the McDonalds individual who got arrested, have some of the rest.

Comedian has to cancel a Fringe show after getting involved with ramming a van into a defence contractor's fence.

https://archive.ph/IoSmg

Comedian Susan Riddell has cancelled her Edinburgh Fringe show because she cannot travel into the city under bail conditions imposed after a van was allegedly driven into a defence factory fence.
Ms Riddell was one of three women arrested in connection with the incident at Leonardo UK's facility on Crewe Road North last week.
At a private hearing via videolink at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday, she made no plea to a charge of malicious mischief, aggravated by having a "terrorist connection".
Her new show How Do You Sleep at Night? had been due to run for a month at the festival, which begins next week.

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https://archive.ph/o/IoSmg/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scotland
Ms Riddell is a regular panellist on BBC Scotland's Breaking the News and The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected, and recently presented BBC Edinburgh Unlocked.
She has also written and starred in her own BBC mini-sitcom pilot Dregs.
In an Instagram post, Ms Riddell said: "Thanks to everyone who has shared my Edinburgh fringe show but unfortunately due to bail conditions I'm barred from Edinburgh for the foreseeable so I won't be doing my show."
The Glasgow-based comedian's hour-long show had a 19:15 slot at Monkey Barrel at The Tron from 28 July until 24 August.
However, her bail conditions have restricted her travel into the capital.
She was charged alongside Allegra Fitzherbert, 34, of London, and Naomi Stubbs-Gorman, 31, of Glasgow - all of whom made no pleas at the court hearing.
Ms Riddell was also charged with an offence under the Road Traffic Act 1988 which was "aggravated by reason of having a terrorist connection".
The Shut Down Leonardo campaign had said it was protesting against the company's laser targeting system, which it claims is used by the Israeli military.
Leonardo said it does not supply equipment directly to Israel and that its main customer is the UK's armed forces.

Council is told, "it would be a legally bad idea to do this" and does it anyway

https://archive.ph/L6ssD

A council in Northern Ireland has gone against its own legal advice and voted to call for charges to be dropped against people arrested for supporting the newly-banned group, Palestine Action.
Derry City and Strabane District Council is understood to be one of the first local authorities in the UK to back such a motion.
The government proscribed Palestine Action earlier this month under the Terrorism Act following a break-in at an RAF base, with membership carrying a maximum jail term of 14 years.
Dozens of people have been arrested for carrying placards supporting the group, including an elderly female vicar and an 81-year-old former magistrate.

More than 100 people protesting the decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terror group have been held across the UK.
Demonstrations in support of the pro-Palestine activist group took place in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol and Truro, in Cornwall, on Saturday.
The Metropolitan Police said 55 people were arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences for displaying placards in support of Palestine Action, at the largest demonstration in Westminster.
Palestine Action lobbies against Israeli-linked businesses in the UK and accuses the British government of complicitity in genocide in Gaza.


The motion calling for charges against the arrested supporters of Palestine Action to be dropped was passed by Derry City and Strabane District Council on Wednesday.
That was despite the advice of the city solicitor, Philip Kingston, and chief executive John Kelpie, who told councillors that a section of the motion calling for the charges to be dropped "must come out".
The Sinn Féin Mayor Ruairí McHugh said he would allow the motion in its entirety and it was carried with support of his party, the SDLP, People Before Profit and some independents.
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) voted against.
The motion also calls for the ban to be lifted, but as this was enacted by the Westminster Parliament, it would have to be repealed by that body.
People Before Profit councillor Shaun Harkin, who proposed the motion, said tens of thousands of people had been "killed and slaughtered" in Gaza and Palestinian children were being "starved to death".
The government, he said, were "complicit in this" and would "reap the whirlwind".
He said the banning of Palestine Action was a "ridiculous use of legislation" which could end up in peaceful people being put in prison.
Independent councillor Gary Donnelly said the ban was an attempt to "scare the life out of people" and "scare them off the streets", while Catherine McDaid, of the SDLP, described the legislation as "the slippery slope".
"If you go out and oppose genocide, you are going to be done for supporting a terrorist organisation," she said.
But DUP councillor Niree McMorris said it was "absurd" for the council to go against their own legal advice.

In between golf Trump is apparently doing something this trip

https://archive.ph/2Vyy2

The EU appears to be on the verge of signing a trade deal with Donald Trump after the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, announced she would meet the US president on Sunday during his four-day trip to Scotland.
Trump landed in Scotland on Friday evening before the opening of his new golf course in Aberdeenshire. He said he was also planning to meet the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, on Saturday.

The European Commission said von der Leyen’s visit would be at Trump’s invitation. Ireland’s taoiseach, Micheál Martin, said on Friday a deal would “hopefully be signed off before the weekend is over”.
After getting off Air Force One, Trump described von der Leyen as a “highly respected woman”, said there was a “good 50-50 chance” for a deal, and said the “sticking points have to do with maybe 20 different things”. He said it “would be the biggest deal of them all if we make it”.

Trump heaped praise on Starmer and Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney, and said the French president, Emmanuel Macron, was “a team player” but that France’s planned recognition of Palestine as a state would not “carry any weight”.
Trump said he was looking forward to meeting Swinney. Before boarding the presidential plane, he told journalists: “The Scottish leader is a good man, so I look forward to meeting him.”
He said he had a “lot of love” for Scotland.
Trump hinted he was looking for more concessions from the EU, saying Japan had had a worse chance than Brussels of getting a deal but succeeded after offering more to the US.
He also criticised what he called “the windmills” – windfarms – which he claimed were “ruining your beautiful fields and killing your birds”, and hit out at the level of immigration in the EU, saying it was an “invasion” which was “killing Europe”.
Von der Leyen said she “had a good call” with Trump before he landed in Scotland and they had “agreed to meet in Scotland on Sunday to discuss transatlantic trade relations, and how we can keep them strong”.
Trump would not meet von der Leyen unless a deal was ready to be signed, sources have said.
He also hinted he was ready to widen the deal he had already agreed with the UK, fuelling speculation he could finally eliminate the 25% tariff he imposed on steel. “This week we want to talk about certain aspects [of the trade deal] which are going to be good for both countries; more fine tuning. We are also going to be doing a little celebrating together because, you know, we get along very well,” he said.
“We are going to have a good time, I think. The prime minister and I get along very well; the Scottish leader too, we have a lot of things, my mother was born in Scotland, and he’s a good man, the Scottish leader … so I’m looking forward to meeting him.”
Asked about a trade deal with the EU, he said: “I would say that we have a 50/50 chance, maybe less than that … I would have said we had a 25% chance with Japan, and they kept coming back and we made a deal.”
The EU is resigned to an agreement in principle on 15% baseline tariffs, including on cars, which will make brands from Volvo to Volkswagen more costly for US traders to import than Range Rovers from Britain, which carved out a deal allowing 100,000 cars a year to be imported to the US at a 10% tariff.
On Friday, Volkswagen laid bare the cost of Trump’s import tariffs saying it had taken a £1bn hit in the first half of the year as a direct result.
Trump struck a deal with Starmer in May, reducing tariffs on cars from 27.5% to 10% in exchange for increases in UK imports of beef and ethanol. While it is being seen as a clever move by Starmer, the ethanol industry says it is fighting for survival against US ethanol, which is used in E10 biofuel in filling stations around the UK.
The president of the National Farmers’ Union, Tom Bradshaw, said his “biggest worry” was that Starmer would sell farmers out by allowing in US dairy products. “We understand the US is pushing very, very hard for dairy access, and for us that is a real red line as they use hormones that we stopped using in dairy production 30 years ago.”
He said the farming sector could not “give any more” and warned Starmer not to sacrifice agriculture.
Before boarding Air Force One, Trump claimed he would have sealed deals with nearly all of the 60 countries he threatened with punitive tariffs by next Friday, his self-imposed deadline for agreements.
He said he had not “really had a lot of luck with Canada” but he was not focused on it, and rather was “working very diligently with Europe, the EU” to get a deal.

Spain had apparently had some recent kerfuffle where a bunch of schoolchildren were removed from the place, all Jewish. Turns out the pilot trained a couple of the 9/11 hijackers (in a normal flight school)

https://archive.ph/0wP7p

The pilot who ordered the removal of 47 French Jewish children from a plane before take-off gave flying lessons to two of the September 11 terrorists, it has emerged.
Iván Chirivella was named by the Spanish airline Vueling as having been in charge of the flight from Valencia to Paris Orly on Wednesday.
As the captain, he had taken the decision to call the Guardia Civil police force and expel the group of mostly teenagers for “disruptive behaviour” and a “confrontational attitude” towards the cabin crew.
In a statement, Vueling said a group of children aged between 10 and 17 were returning home from a summer camp when they began meddling with the plane’s safety equipment, which included trying to “take out life vests, manipulate ceiling compartment oxygen masks and remove the high-pressure oxygen cylinder”.

The airline and the Guardia Civil denied that the decision to remove the children and their monitors had any connection to the reported singing of songs in Hebrew, as a parent of one of the children claimed.

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According to an expanded statement issued by Vueling on Friday, Mr Chirivella, who was born in the Canary Islands in 1976, has flown for the airline since 2006.
Previously, he worked as a flight instructor, including a spell at the Jones Aviation academy in Florida, where he taught the 9/11 terrorists Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al Shehhi.
Atta flew a hijacked plane into the North Tower of New York’s World Trade Center, with Al Shehhi directing the jet he was piloting into the South Tower 17 minutes later, causing the deaths of 2,753 people.
In a 2003 book entitled Innocent Accomplice, Mr Chirivella wrote about having been one of the September 11 terrorists’ flight instructors, adding that there was no way of knowing what the al-Qaeda operatives’ intentions were.

He remembered Atta and Al Shehhi as “normal lads”, despite their expressing “sexist” attitudes. However, they “never said anything bad about the US”.
He said that the two were expelled from the academy for their behaviour towards women who worked there and the attempt by one of the two men to falsify the signature of his accomplice on a training roster.

Mr Chirivella was investigated by the FBI over his connection to the two 9/11 pilots, saying during an interview with the newspaper El Mundo while promoting his book that the bureau had treated him and many other people “unfairly”.

 

[teriyakiburns]

If you're feeling fancy you can get pumps for them so you can use it with a hosepipe but I'm yet to find one that isn't utterly fucking dogshit.

A sump pump will do the job in most cases. I've got a 400W/10k litre p/h one that was plenty big enough to pump out my garage when it flooded a few years back. Allegedly 10,000 litres an hour, anyway; I suspect that doesn't account for the back-pressure from the hose.

Just attach your hose to it, drop it in the butt, and off you go.

 

[Amin Yasister]

My sister got a new build, put down some nice turf and was setting up little wooden plots, and it was all dead. Nothing took, so me and her boyfriend dug up the garden. Down about half a foot was rubble, plastic bags, random bits of rubbish, just dumped. We had to dig four feet down to get it all out, and then buy a load of new soil to put in. Actually fucking insane.

Aren't most UK new builds like this? Dump all the rubble created whilst building, and dump it in the garden areas rather that remove it. Then they only need a bit of topsoil to put it a few cms deep on each garden. Then turf it with some cheap meadow grass a couple of weeks before the buyer moves in. Which will die or look shit, no matter how it is cared for within a couple of months.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Aren't most UK new builds like this? Dump all the rubble created whilst building, and dump it in the garden areas rather that remove it. Then they only need a bit of topsoil to put it a few cms deep on each garden. Then turf it with some cheap meadow grass a couple of weeks before the buyer moves in. Which will die or look shit, no matter how it is cared for within a couple of months.

Seems to be, yes. The UK is turning into a giant slum. Joy. I might just fucking leave. I'm 30 soon, I have a decent STEM job, I can get a Euro passport, and just fuck off somewhere. It's very disheartening.