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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.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

I'm sorry, Your Highness.

The entire thing around the deal hinges around leasing it back to Mauritius. It's not even a hot topic, and has never been a hot topic or even registering on the voter concerns charts. Why open yourself up to such pain, or did he really think that this was a political win somehow? Most people couldn't even point to the Chagos Islands on a map.

Now the cost of the entire project is the same cost as the budget deficit.

Giving the islands to some Rothschild scion as their personal retreat would have been less costly.

 

[Crunkle]

Giving the islands to some Rothschild scion as their personal retreat would have been less costly.

I'm convinced the Chinese government has something on Labour or higher-ups in Labour. Or something's going on.

Lammy has been frothing at the mouth for this Chagos Islands deal.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Chagos had a right to vote for Independence.
This deal gives us or the yanks (can’t remember which) a military base there for the next 100 years.

 

[Clem Fandango]

I'm sorry, Your Highness.

Not having a pop at you personally. It seems that this has just become the phrase that is used to refer to this debacle, in the media and elsewhere. And it razzes me off every time.

 

[Crunkle]

Not having a pop at you personally. It seems that this has just become the phrase that is used to refer to this debacle, in the media and elsewhere. And it razzes me off every time.

I couldn't agree more, I was just pulling your leg a bit.

I don't mind the term 'deal', it makes it sound really shadowy and backroomy which it definitely is. 'Arrangement' or 'agreement' sounds a bit more official-y and legalese, suppose we'll see what the public opinion is.

Does anyone have any polling on public attitudes to the Chagos Islands stuff? I can't find anything that relevant.

 

[Marvin]

I'm in an uber on my way to Manchester airport. The Peak district and its accompanying sheep are great scenery for my morning before I have to take a miserable eight hour flight over the Atlantic.



Next time I'm in Bongland I need to hit up Chatsworth again.

I think last time I was there I accidentally stumbled onto a goofy rich person party.

 

[Overly Serious]

Only sour note was that the Met. Police were everywhere after the match - apparently Palestine Action had phoned a bomb threat to the stadium. Scumbags.

I expect that's more "Palestine Action" than Palestine Action. Most of them are just regular protestors and TPTB really want to shut down the anti-Zionist voices as it's getting way out of control for them now. The Establishment Left is always trying to work out how they can promote an anti-rich, anti-elite message whilst somehow magically having no anti-zionist sentiment at the same time. They want their bara brith and eat it.

 

[Otterly]

I'm in an uber on my way to Manchester airport. The Peak district and its accompanying sheep are great scenery for my morning before I have to take a miserable eight hour flight over the Atlantic.

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Next time I'm in Bongland I need to hit up Chatsworth again.

I think last time I was there I accidentally stumbled onto a goofy rich person party.

Are the reservoirs still empty? Check as you go over the tops. Glad you had fun in God’s Own County

 

[BongoMongo]

Are the reservoirs still empty? Check as you go over the tops. Glad you had fun in God’s Own County

Some of them were dead dry looking heading over tops yesterday. Though I can't figure it out : blue badge holders are allowed to use hosepipes despite the ban. Like, sorry you're crippled and all but your geraniums dying is hardly a crisis.

I can only guess that someone at water board has had their ear bent by someone frothing at gash at idea of the garden getting a bit crispy.

 

[Marvin]

Are the reservoirs still empty? Check as you go over the tops.

I'll keep my eyes peeled but I might've passed them already.

I saw them earlier in the week and they were low.

I also saw some trashy people (or I assume they were trashy, they'd be trashy back home) filling up an above ground swimming pool that looked like they ordered it off of Amazon, with a hose, despite the ban. I didn't say nothing because I ain't no snitch but it made me smile.

Back home, the reservoirs around Baltimore are also somewhat low because it's been hot as balls. This was a great reprieve from the heat back home.

Glad you had fun in God’s Own County

Totally.



I saw the Book of Mormon with a friend up in Newcastle. And while I was there, I also saw a castle in Newcastle. (We have forts in the US, but no castles)

Also, I've seen a ton of Jehovah's Witnesses in Bongland. At least where I was visiting in the north, in Sheffield and Newcastle. Any clue what that's about?

Back home I occasionally see them (they're usually elderly black people), but I usually see about as much Doctors Without Borders dipshits as I do JWs.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

Reminder that kikes destroyed the UK

 

[Otterly]

Also, I've seen a ton of Jehovah's Witnesses in Bongland. At least where I was visiting in the north, in Sheffield and Newcastle. Any clue what that's about?

Dunno. We have them, like everywhere does. Also quite a few of the odder sects like the Plymouth brethren.
It’s a nice run over the Pennines, my commiseration that you have to deal with the horror that is Manchester airport, but safe trip back!

 

[Eddie Riggs]

"Kier Starmer" sounds like a sci-fi villain name.

Just putting that out there.

 

[BongoMongo]

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What annoys me with this, is the posh bint in background asking, "why are you doing this?" When in all likelihood, she probably supports rapefugees.

Why is he doing it? Because every fibre of his DNA, every aspect of him as a being,is inferior,in every single way to white western people, and heis fundamentally incompatible wth life anywhere except a third world pustule.

@Marvin; the Joe Wits,their whole belief system is based on end of days being a bit near, but now, they're more convinced than ever the End Is Extremely Fucking Nigh.

I mean,you've seen state of the place, can you honestly blame them?

 

[Clem Fandango]

And there we have it. My son finally asked me why Vida the Vet has two dads. Not sure how hard to go on this one, in the moment I just said "because this show is full of woke nonsense" and that seemed to satisfy him. But thanks for making me have that conversation CBeebies, just what I need on a Monday morning.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

And there we have it. My son finally asked me why Vida the Vet has two dads. Not sure how hard to go on this one, in the moment I just said "because this show is full of woke nonsense" and that seemed to satisfy him. But thanks for making me have that conversation CBeebies, just what I need on a Monday morning.

 

[BongoMongo]

Screens/TV first thing in the day are awful for you. They absolutely fuck with your ability to learn. Bonus of faggot propaganda is the real kicker.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Some of them were dead dry looking heading over tops yesterday. Though I can't figure it out : blue badge holders are allowed to use hosepipes despite the ban. Like, sorry you're crippled and all but your geraniums dying is hardly a crisis.

They're unlikely to have a full robust garden. It's for grannies to water their hangers.

Also, I've seen a ton of Jehovah's Witnesses in Bongland. At least where I was visiting in the north, in Sheffield and Newcastle. Any clue what that's about?

They used to be way more common. They would bother you at least once a week but not any more.

Can you spoiler the sheep in the future please? Don't give Welsh a boner without warning him. He gets enough of those walking through Aldi during the spring. Too many sheep pictures on the walls.

You are right the peak district is gorgeous and shows what this country used to be before the invasion ruined it.

As you already know. Fuck off. We're full. Don't come back again or we'll getting the slipper out.

Screens/TV first thing in the day are awful for you. They absolutely fuck with your ability to learn. Bonus of faggot propaganda is the real kicker.

Nothing wrong with waking up to power rangers and Mr Motivator.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Nothing wrong with waking up to power rangers and Mr Motivator.

I remember getting up obscenely early on Saturday mornings and watching something called "Trans-World Sports" (it was the 90s, so this meant something different back then) while waiting for cartoons to start.

Anyway the little bugger has been up since 6:20am, so I'm not convinced this counts as "first thing" any more.

 

[EddyRooney]

I'm sorry, Your Highness.

The entire thing around the deal hinges around leasing it back to Mauritius. It's not even a hot topic, and has never been a hot topic or even registering on the voter concerns charts. Why open yourself up to such pain, or did he really think that this was a political win somehow? Most people couldn't even point to the Chagos Islands on a map.

Now the cost of the entire project is the same cost as the budget deficit.

I don't think you understand Starmer. He is a technocrat ex lawyer. He will always respect a court's judgement.

On 25 February 2019, the judges of the International Court of Justice by thirteen votes to one stated that the United Kingdom is under an obligation to bring to an end its administration of the Chagos Archipelago as rapidly as possible. Only the American judge, Joan Donoghue, voted in favor of the UK. The president of the court, Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, said the detachment of the Chagos Archipelago in 1965 from Mauritius had not been based on a "free and genuine expression of the people concerned."

So the International Court of Justice said.......that's all Starmer cares about. He doesn't give a shit about what is good for Britain, nor is he prepared to defend our interests. A paper court with no real powers said, so he feels compelled to bow to their judgement. The man is a traitor and a pussy.

I do wonder what would happen if the court told him to stick his head in an oven.....he'd probably ask what temperature.