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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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1953428520064942441

NEW: Keir Starmer has been warned that he has just six months to turn things around or be "timed out"

Seems someone is reading here, or aligns with what we have been theorizing. He is going to use Reeves as a bullet sponge in the budget to try and prevent this.

 

[Made In Wales]

I'm just gonna say it; NHS was a mistake, socialized services are doomed to wreck and ruin just like everything else socialist.
It was a nice idea and actually worked well for a while, but that was only made possible thanks to the post-war dividend of social cohesion; good luck getting that goldilocks scenario back again.

When it started it was a good idea.

However, it's now been ruined by mouth-breathing cretins, Unionised to the point of non-functionality and there's simply too many people in this country dependent upon it.

Notice there's loads of new builds but no new parks, shops, police stations, hospitals, clinics/surgeries, fire stations etc.

The NHS will have to go, unless somehow it can compete with Spire, Circle, Nuffield etc. Those businesses can treat people and make a profit - the NHS can't/won't. Why is that?

@Kier Starmer I am not surprised to hear that, considering that he's now unable and/or unwilling to change course as the iceberg approaches. He's lost the Jewish vote, after many of them feel that he won't protect them from antisemitic attacks from Palestine Action, and also there's two new scandals of Rushanara Ali (the Minister in charge of tackling Homelessness) has in fact made more people homeless and the Labour leader of bankrupt Cambridge City Council has awarded himself a 33% pay rise. It never rains but it pours - that's the shower of shit called our Government.

We need to be more Spanish as well:

https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/spain-muslim-ban-festivals-banned-public

https://archive.ph/wip/j62uI

 

[ProximityThrill]

I kind of hate that the State and immigration and their consequences have forced me to become more conservative because now I’m lumped in with trad LARPers who want to ban alcohol and hang fags or some shit, and my Xitter feed is filled with them. I’m naturally inclined toward libertarianism, but unfortunately that simply can’t exist without tough on violent crime policies and effectively closed borders.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

inclined toward libertarianism,

I'm sorry for your diagnoses of *checks notes* being a fucking retard. Best of luck with that.

 

[teriyakiburns]

To be fair our Tridents don't work half the time anyway, so what would be different really?

To be extra fair, the failure wasn't in the launch control system, but seems to have been a failure of the missile itself, which was supplied by America as a test article.

 

[ProximityThrill]

I'm sorry for your diagnoses of *checks notes* being a fucking retard. Best of luck with that.

The worst part about libertarianism is libertarians. They’re mostly absolutely insufferable, especially when they put ideology above practicality, like advocating for open borders or child labour.

 

[The Crack Spiders Bitch]

I hate these people so God damn much:

Nitter/Xwitter

 

[Made In Wales]

I hate these people so God damn much:
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I've stopped hating them, in fact the more useful/useless idiots like Rashan the better as they are only helping and strengthening Reform UK and the Far Right.

Even some of the FBPE ones are set up by deep cover Reform UK or Tory members to troll the Left.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

 

[ProximityThrill]

I hate these people so God damn much:
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The leftoid will only ever change their mind when it personally affects them (e.g. Ana Kasparian being assaulted by a homeless crackhead)

 

[Crunkle]

Great few pints with @Marvin in Sheffield today.

We went to the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield after a few drinks and spotted this absolute heaping pile of shit under "Female Game Designers". It's none other than the Throat Goat herself, Zoe Quinn.




Not only is it just a screenshot of that shitty "game", but listed in the same grade as Barbie games. We laughed so fucking hard when we saw this.

This is literally Gamergate 2025.

 

[Marvin]

Great few pints with @Marvin in Sheffield today.

We went to the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield after a few drinks and spotted this absolute heaping pile of shit under "Female Game Desigers". It's none other than the Throat Goat herself, Zoe Quinn.

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Not only is it just a screenshot of that shitty "game", but listed in the same grade as Barbie games. We laughed so fucking hard when we saw this.

This is literally Gamergate 2025.

Lol can confirm.

We saw a screengrab of Depression Quest. Amazing vidya history. Throw out tetris, Mario, pacman, doom, all that bullshit; in 200 years, students of the medium need to learn about Depression Quest.

I feel enlightened.

Also we played a lot of dumb indie games. Half were actually super fun, the other half were exactly what you imagine when you hear "indie video game". That is, terrible, unplayable hipster trash.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Great few pints with @Marvin in Sheffield today.

We went to the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield after a few drinks and spotted this absolute heaping pile of shit under "Female Game Designers". It's none other than the Throat Goat herself, Zoe Quinn.

View attachment 7749457
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Not only is it just a screenshot of that shitty "game", but listed in the same grade as Barbie games. We laughed so fucking hard when we saw this.

This is literally Gamergate 2025.

Lol can confirm.

We saw a screengrab of Depression Quest. Amazing vidya history. Throw out tetris, Mario, pacman, doom, all that bullshit; in 200 years, students of the medium need to learn about Depression Quest.

I feel enlightened.

Also we played a lot of dumb indie games. Half were actually super fun, the other half were exactly what you imagine when you hear "indie video game". That is, terrible, unplayable hipster trash.

@Null These two kiwiniggers met up irl and went on a date. Do they get a special little medal for this?

 

[Crunkle]

That is, terrible, unplayable hipster trash.

By far the worst offender was this one, There Is No Game. It's some kind of old Flash game and you have to click around or some shit until the game reveals itself to you.

@Null These two kiwiniggers met up irl and went on a date. Do they get a special little medal for this?

Only if there's a medal for being a Randal.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

By far the worst offender was this one, There Is No Game. It's some kind of old Flash game and you have to click around or some shit until the game reveals itself to you.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0KFy-CL6znw

Only if there's a medal for being a Randal.

Recess was a good show.

 

[Mound Dweller]

Do they get a special little medal for this?

"Online socialization is a bust!" is indeed a trophy, I'm still waiting for mine though, so get in line pickleboi!

 

[Marvin]

"Online socialization is a bust!" is indeed a trophy, I'm still waiting for mine though, so get in line pickleboi!

Pfft, I already got mine, because awhile ago I pronked a retarded man while wearing a pickle suit. #tyced

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

I can’t help but feel we are being led on all sides to a Serbian story situation of neighbour killing neighbour.

It’s the raf attack from Palestine action that sealed it for me.

In a previous life I was in an urbex community. Some members once tried to get into an empty army base. (00’s)
Ground vibration sensors scuppered that one.

The idea of protestors getting far enough to sabotage fighter jets without approval is ludicrous.

My conclusion. Is step back and bunker down.

 

[Null]

@Null These two kiwiniggers met up irl and went on a date. Do they get a special little medal for this?

Yes, I gave him one. Marvin already had one and would have a collection by now. He meets up a lot. If you're in the DC area and he doesn't think you're weird he'll meet you. If you're a black girl and 420 friendly he definitely wants to meet you.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

When it started it was a good idea.

However, it's now been ruined by mouth-breathing cretins, Unionised to the point of non-functionality and there's simply too many people in this country dependent upon it.

Such is the fate of all socialism. The nhs was a good idea, it worked for the society that created it and upheld it. We do not live in that society. The nhs started as a way to give healthcare to people in dire need of it but who were unable to afford it. Now it's clogged up with the chaff of society who think that having a headache is cause for an a&e trip. No one alive today properly remembers what it was like before the nhs, everyone takes it for granted now. It's not an amazing social feat anymore, it's just there. Look at fat loss shows, the amount of retards that will say they have no support in just fucking eating less and then you look at them and they have a gp, a doctor, a psychologist, nutritionist, physio, fucking everything you could ever want. Disregard the whole point of the nhs being to elevate the lowest people in society relying on the rest giving up money for a good cause despite constantly importing even lower people from abroad. Even ignoring that. A massive amount of what the nhs gets used for is just fucking retarded. Idk what the solution is, maybe a £50 fine or whatever if you go and leave with a prescription of 'take a paracetamol and have a nap', maybe some sort of ai filter to replace gp receptionists that can weed out all the time wasters before they waste anyone's time. Even if we somehow fix the overpopulation tax drain then the nhs still needs major reform.

We went to the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield after a few drinks

Why the fuck is there wholesome shit in the British news thread? Is it that the concept of Britain and news are negative and the whole two negatives make a positive?