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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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Beautiful Border said:
16 year olds: Can't look at porn, can't drink, can't drive, can't buy certain video games, can't adjust graphics on those video games, can't buy things to chop their vegetables with, can't smoke, can't vape, can't be out of school, but CAN vote. This is definitely a sensible country we live in.
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Glad they can listen to spotify or shit would really kick off.
 
Beautiful Border said:
BREAKING: People cannot adjust the NVIDIA graphics cards settings on their Gaming PCs anymore because they aren't 18 thanks to the Online Safety Act.
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16 year olds: Can't look at porn, can't drink, can't drive, can't buy certain video games, can't adjust graphics on those video games, can't buy things to chop their vegetables with, can't smoke, can't vape, can't be out of school, but CAN vote. This is definitely a sensible country we live in.
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No 16 year old is going to vote for Labour now...

The woke ones will back Corbyn, Greens, Libs, Nationalists or Independents and the rest will back Reform UK.

Ways to nuke your own voter base Part 9348859435898.
 
If anyone wants some good news, albeit vicariously, I have finally cracked how to make a decent ragout. I am currently sitting on the sofa clutching my stomach and regretting nothing at all.

Manchester is absolutely horrendous. We went there a few months back for a concert and it was horrible to visit there. Dirty, smelly, felt unsafe. Did have a spectacular burger though and the concert was excellent. Meant to be going back there for another show on December but I've sold my ticket and re-booked in another city because I don't want to go back to Manchester any time soon.

I lived there for just over 18 months, many moons ago and worked near Shit-a-Dilly Gardens and even then it was bad. It's gone far downhill since then. It was living there when that concert was bombed that made me GTFO, along with the incredibly cucked reaction of locals.

Know how they say hindsight is 20-20? A thing happened to me the day that terrorist attack happened and it's stuck with me ever since then. I was grocery shopping at a supermarket and this Mudslime woman in a headscarf was staring at me with real, deep hostility (I can't say it wasn't reciprocal, it absolutely was). I remember thinking, "what is going through her head? What does she know?". Since then I've wondered, given what we now know about the mosque the bomber went to, did she know something was going to happen? Most likely yes, they all despise us and want to harm us.
 
Otterly said:
Think the worst of it is further north, we’ve just had it very windy, easing off now. Wouldn’t have wanted to be any further uphill though. Garden seems to have survived ok, some of the taller stuff is down.
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Don't forget to batten down the wild haggis. Don't want them getting blown away. (When I lived Norf Of The Wall I had my nephew's believing for a solid 2 years that they were real wild animals, and that the Sherrifs Court is so called cos at start of session they bring out the Ceremonial Lassoo. Good times).
 
BongoMongo said:
they were real wild animals,
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Bless ‘em. I think most parents do the same, hear the call of the wild ones when you’re out on the hill.
We have our trampoline strapped down with industrial strength straps drilled into the lawn and a pole after a storm a few years ago left us with three (3) partial trampolines/gazebos on the property that had blown in and ours wrecked. Spent about a week on the local FB group with people going ‘is this your ….? It blew into our garden….’
Apparently the power’s out further north but they’ll be fine, you don’t live on Shetland and get bothered by wind.
87 is my benchmark, that WAS bad
 
Otterly said:
Bless ‘em. I think most parents do the same, hear the call of the wild ones when you’re out on the hill.
We have our trampoline strapped down with industrial strength straps drilled into the lawn and a pole after a storm a few years ago left us with three (3) partial trampolines/gazebos on the property that had blown in and ours wrecked. Spent about a week on the local FB group with people going ‘is this your ….? It blew into our garden….’
Apparently the power’s out further north but they’ll be fine, you don’t live on Shetland and get bothered by wind.
87 is my benchmark, that WAS bad
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Omg the Great Storm? The one Michael Fish said wouldn't be a big deal but it was actually hurricane force winds? I remember that! Our neighbour had a beautiful Edwardian plate glass greenhouse. Had,being the operative word because it was fooked after that.
 
Some more news items:


First female director general of MI5 Dame Stella Rimington dies aged 90:




Broadcaster James Whale dies at 74 following lengthy battle with cancer as tributes pour in:




Christian preacher 'threatened with arrest' after being assaulted by Muslim men on street:




Kate Forbes accused of 'abandoning stage' as Deputy FM 'gives up on SNP' by deciding to stand down:




Rachel Reeves launches personal attack against 'big ego' Jeremy Corbyn as hard-left 'Your Party' plots to topple Labour:




‘He’s awful!’ Ex-Labour adviser slams Keir Starmer and names the only person who can save the party:




‘Couldn’t smash an egg!’ Fury in Aldershot as local savages Keir Starmer over migrant crisis and growing disorder fears:


 
Turkey Beef said:
Maybe Britain’s survival instinct is finally kicking in:
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I know like yea innocent until proven guilty and all that shit but I can't help but feel the word 'allegedly' is doing some fucking heavy lifting considering there is literally video proof. Like yea ok he hasn't been convicted but at the same time is there really any difference? Also another 'hundreds' lie. I mean yea there were hundreds if you're american and say everything up to 99 hundred is in the hundreds I guess. If anyone looks at those videos and says yea that's in the hundreds then importing immigrants is probably a good idea, replace them and you'd double the iq of that company in one move.
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In Manchester,
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Some of the best footage from last year was the shit out of ireland, loyalists and nationalists both marching together through Belfast. Genuinely surreal to see. One of the main reasons I went to Ireland a few months ago. Regardless, southerner or northerner we are still brothers. There's no point in wanting the emancipation of those six counties, no point in wanting to unite ireland if they're no longer fucking irish in any manner.
Made In Wales said:
No 16 year old is going to vote for Labour now...
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The youngest generation has been trending right for a long time now anyway.
 
Just remember when the government says they're going to do x, use the "present your balls" argument. The government has run out its credit line, and whilst there is the commie piece saying "the UK can never go bankrupt." I assure you, it can.

None of this shit can be implemented for a long time. I will say a huge thank you to the Indian dentist who is seeing me on an emergency. My other half knows I am pretty racist, but most Indian dentists I have been to have been fantastic.
 
Made In Wales said:
No 16 year old is going to vote for Labour now...

The woke ones will back Corbyn, Greens, Libs, Nationalists or Independents and the rest will back Reform UK.

Ways to nuke your own voter base Part 9348859435898.
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Labour are repeating almost note-for-note a blunder they made in the 60s: They lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, and then started an enforcement campaign to shut down pirate radio stations, something that happened to be extremely popular with the demographic they had newly-enfranchised. It was one of the factors that cost them the 1970 election.
 
Beautiful Border said:
Labour are repeating almost note-for-note a blunder they made in the 60s: They lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, and then started an enforcement campaign to shut down pirate radio stations, something that happened to be extremely popular with the demographic they had newly-enfranchised. It was one of the factors that cost them the 1970 election.
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There's a comedy film about the pirate radio stations that's pretty good. The Boat That Rocked, I think.
 
The worst thing about government censorship is that it's probably going to drive innocent children to using Linux. At that point you might as well let them be raped instead of spending hours trying to fix their display driver via the terminal.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
I know like yea innocent until proven guilty and all that shit but I can't help but feel the word 'allegedly' is doing some fucking heavy lifting considering there is literally video proof. Like yea ok he hasn't been convicted but at the same time is there really any difference? Also another 'hundreds' lie. I mean yea there were hundreds if you're american and say everything up to 99 hundred is in the hundreds I guess. If anyone looks at those videos and says yea that's in the hundreds then importing immigrants is probably a good idea, replace them and you'd double the iq of that company in one move.

Some of the best footage from last year was the shit out of ireland, loyalists and nationalists both marching together through Belfast. Genuinely surreal to see. One of the main reasons I went to Ireland a few months ago. Regardless, southerner or northerner we are still brothers. There's no point in wanting the emancipation of those six counties, no point in wanting to unite ireland if they're no longer fucking irish in any manner.

The youngest generation has been trending right for a long time now anyway.
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I’ll keep saying this as a Wildcard, the Burgers that own firearms tend to hate the globalist Governments. I wouldn’t doubt it if there were already smuggled American firearms with the British.
 
Kier Starmer said:
Just remember when the government says they're going to do x, use the "present your balls" argument. The government has run out its credit line, and whilst there is the commie piece saying "the UK can never go bankrupt." I assure you, it can.

None of this shit can be implemented for a long time. I will say a huge thank you to the Indian dentist who is seeing me on an emergency. My other half knows I am pretty racist, but most Indian dentists I have been to have been fantastic.
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Ive heard the same re: Indian dentists. I know a paki taxi driver who swears by the dentist who he sees,who is Indian. I think, if a paki can be singing the praises of an Indian then he must be good at what he does. They absolutely despise one another. That's why test match cricket between them is so excellent to watch.
 
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