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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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FedPostalService said:
The French are cowards of the highest order.
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Then I hope that instead of the head ripping off machine their cowardice makes them piss themselves even more often and that paris goes from a damp urinal to a full blown water park and uhh somehow that fixes the problem somehow idk bro the porn bans been hitting hard.
BrightonAndHoveAlbion said:
It's the same as when Californians leave their state for Texas or Brits leave the country for Australia. You made your bed in your home state/country, so don't fucking come over here and do the same thing again. Australia is full of Brits who decry the state of Britain and what it's become, then are getting the hump with Aussies for being too racist.
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I know that personally if I hear a southerner start talking my mind starts to turn off. You know how you pick up a phone and the second you hear HALLO I AM FROM DE MICRO SOFT your brain just disconnects from your ears, it's like that but southerners. And I know a lot of other people around here that do the same thing. If your accent isn't obviously from around the area then instantly you are on the don't trust list.
 
Whoopsie Daisy said:
There's a lot of sentiment around "when the English/Brits/French/Krauts/etc" are pushed too far, they go medieval and the crusades will march again. I believe it, but it may be copium. When was the last time a former strong country/empire came back for a revival? (honest question. I need some more copium, my supply has ran out).
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The Iberian Peninsula kicking out the muslims after like 600 years. Though that time frame is worrying me a bit, I don't have that kind of time I want them out NEOOOOOOWWWW
 
A-Logato said:
How does a country in which it does nothing but rain all year round, need to have a hose ban?
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Our water reserves are horrifically mismanaged
Mike Patton Official said:
Are you trying to move to the countryside/quieter areas, are you trying to immigrate to other countries? Or are you just too poor to leave and are basically forced to stay in your shitty neighborhood.
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I'm somewhere between B and C, I just need to get my driver's license sorted and then see if I can't get a minibus license as well since I know someone who works with 'em over in the states, other than that I'm just gonna slug it out in my increasingly brown-staffed food factory.
 
Midwit said:
I'm somewhere between B and C, I just need to get my driver's license sorted and then see if I can't get a minibus license as well since I know someone who works with 'em over in the states, other than that I'm just gonna slug it out in my increasingly brown-staffed food factory.
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No point doing extra categories on your licence if you aren't staying since most ocuntries won't accept them and you'll have to just spend the money again.
 
Small white pill.

Sainburys' latest advert doesn't have any blacks in prominent positions. It's a white family and a white zoomer girl for the staff. There's some nogs in the background but it's a big change in direction from a major company.
 
Whoopsie Daisy said:
There's a lot of sentiment around "when the English/Brits/French/Krauts/etc" are pushed too far, they go medieval and the crusades will march again. I believe it, but it may be copium. When was the last time a former strong country/empire came back for a revival? (honest question. I need some more copium, my supply has ran out).
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There's a speech which Sir Iain McGeechan gave in 1997 when the British & Irish Lions were touring in South Africa about the Lion waiting for its prey to wear itself out before it attacks:


The Left are always in a frenzy, they need to survive being attacked and savaged by the Lions because they have everything to lose - everything in their empire which they've won via cheating, threats and easy wins (the state holding back the 'aggressors') as they can't win fairly on a level playing field.

Since 2014, the Right in the UK have had more of an upward trajectory - there have been moments when things haven't been great, true, but overall since UKIP's win in the EU, the Leave vote winning and the rise of Reform UK. A bit like the rise of Wrexham FC from the Conference, we've achieved a lot in a short space of time politically and we're now outperforming every other party in the national polls.

The Right have done what the Left never thought they would dare do - attack back and win support.

The Left are running scared and wounded here and, ironically, it's the election of Trump as POTUS which has stymied Starmer and the Left. They are angry because they know they're running out of time and support with the bleed out from Labour now happening with new parties like Your Party coming to the fore and the message being sent from the 'angry racists' who oppose Starmer being 'NO! WE DO NOT CONSENT - YOU WILL NOT DO THIS AND WE WILL FIGHT!'

To think that the 'uncouth working class scum' would dare tell the Left 'NO!' is 'wounding and dangerous' for them.

This is why all we have to do is wait for the Left to finally exhaust themselves - when absolutely nothing they try works, they will eventually have to admit defeat or kill themselves. We are going to savage these bastards either way, it's a question of waiting for the moment when we know to attack.

I feel that the moment is almost upon us, change is coming and it'll come quickly when it does.

Let's go for the fucking jugular when we do.
 
Nature is healing.

In more positive news, Farage is pivoting to a negative migration model, and his economic plans work with the model that the IMF is suggesting in a potential (eventual) I do think that when the recession happens, Starmer will bail. I cannot remember where I saw it, but the IMF said in the document that the NHS will be the first to go.

Labour is fucked, though along with Corbyn's muslim party, because when economic ruin comes, people's opinions change fast.
 
Eddie Riggs said:
I assume Didsburistan is one of Manchester's 95 percent muzzie neighborhoods?
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It's a town, with about 17% as of 2019. I expect it's closer to 25% now, but it's likely they were already a well-established enclave with a parallel society before they even hit 10%. That's how they take over places, by just being a horrible cancerous mass within a larger community.
 
Coolio55 said:
Mod Tagged: Misleading
This is not a government job, this is simply a posting on a government website for a local job.
For instance, there are also postings for "Spice Distributor" and "Counterfeit Currency Manufacture".
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There shouldn't be shariah anything in any European country though.
You'd be surprised (or maybe not) at how quickly these leeches turn private jobs into community positions funded by the taxpayer.

Everyone involved in Islam in the UK should be immediate deported into a lava pit
 
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