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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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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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teriyakiburns said:
No, I don't miss a hypocritical theocratic dictator who betrayed the people he claimed he was fighting to protect and almost turned the British Isles into a christian version of the caliphate.

Though it would be funny to see him storming through Westminster again.
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What about the Watamelon version?
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Eddie Riggs said:
What about the Watamelon version?
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You've convinced me.
A-Logato said:
JD Vance’s holiday brings ‘circus’ of road closures and police patrols to sleepy Cotswolds village

Total NIMBY death. I hope his motorcade is blasting the American national anthem on full blast at all times to signal his arrival.
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I wonder what jezza (clarkson, not corbyn) thinks of this whole thing. No mad tweets or anything. I guess he's too busy harvesting.
 
Marvin said:
Honestly the British have a deep running culture of being fat shits. No one acknowledges this. Americans just have abundance because of material wealth.
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The idea that American culture isn't fundamentally Anglo-Saxon is silly, we're both fat because we both love having comfy times with comfy food.
Clem Fandango said:
in the moment I just said "because this show is full of woke nonsense" and that seemed to satisfy him.
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Need to get him onto the based kids shows pronto, the Fat Controller wouldn't stand for this nonsense.
No-Eyed Square Guy said:
Keister Rimmer
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He's Keister, Keister, Keister Rimmer
His election chances couldn't be much slimmer.
He's somehow more pathetic than the average streamer.
I want to beat him with a Zimmer.
 
Made In Wales said:
1) Get some old carpet
2) Wrap the corpses in the carpet
3) Put corpses in the carpet in the boot of your car
4) Drive to a farm, out into the countryside or down to the nearest beach
5) Dispose of the corpses somewhere quiet
6) Burn the carpet destroying DNA evidence
7) Return home and clean up
8) Should the Police come knocking, you saw nobody and know nothing.
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Possibly late as fuck, because I'm catching up; leave your phone at home. And check your "house guest" as well.

A piece of shit here gone done for murder because they tracked his phone and his victim to a forest, but only his came back.
 
A-Logato said:
Additionally from that article I got a good laugh off of this image they used from a protest held their over JD Vance visiting.
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Oh look, ugly middle aged dyke..........Beta cuck that thinks he's going to get laid by being there, but never will.......... and a bunch of old ex school teachers who have never done anything in the real world, but are happy to sell out their grandchildrens' futures if it means virtue signalling.....
........every. fucking. time.
 
Crunkle said:
Starting work on it now. If anyone knows any PHP/Laravel shit, DM me. Hosting it will by far be the hardest part. If anyone can help me with freedom-based hosting, let me know. I consider the UK an authoritarian state currently so would rather not touch a host unless they accept XMR/BTC.
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I always host my free speech challenged things with NearlyFreeSpeech, although I don't know if they take crypto.
Midwit said:
The idea that American culture isn't fundamentally Anglo-Saxon is silly, we're both fat because we both love having comfy times with comfy food.
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I want to know who doesn't?

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In American English scone is pronounced how it's spelled, like rhyming with phone. So this rhyming pun doesn't work. How common is that in the UK?

Also I'm back in America.

This was mailed to me (I had to share it with someone):
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Marvin said:
In American English scone is pronounced how it's spelled, like rhyming with phone. So this rhyming pun doesn't work. How common is that in the UK?
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Depends where you are in the country. Rhyming with bone is most common in Derbyshire and the east midlands. Rhyming with gone is how you'd hear it further north and west. Everywhere else it's about equal between the two and the biggest debate is over whether you put the jam or the cream on first. Interesting to note that the bone pronunciation roughly aligns with the borders of old Mercia.
 
Marvin said:
I want to know who doesn't?
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Forreners don't understand proper comfyness, if you aren't eating brown food laid out on a brown table while sat on brown chairs it isn't comfy enough. Brown is the comfiest colour, after all.
 
Marvin said:
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Why have you photoshopped your hands to be white? We know what you are greenigger pickle man.
Marvin said:
How common is that in the UK?
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There were three main arguments growing up and everyone had an opinion on each that they would be pretty passionate about.
messi or ronaldo
yorkshire or pg tips
scone or scone
They are both correct ways of pronouncing it. It's a bit like saying oh it is aluminium or aluminum aside from instead of uk-usa it's just contained within the uk. The real question is what do you call a small loaf of bread roughly the perfect size for a sandwich?
 
femboy fart huffer said:
Why have you photoshopped your hands to be white? We know what you are greenigger pickle man.
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When I was like 24, I ran into a dude cosplaying as cwc at a convention. I had my pickle suit in my backpack so I excitedly pulled it out and put it on and took a picture with him. That picture is somewhere out in the world.
femboy fart huffer said:
There were three main arguments growing up and everyone had an opinion on each that they would be pretty passionate about.
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What about the Lionesses?
 
A-Logato said:
Jeremy Clarkson joins backlash as JD Vance holidays in the Cotswolds

Seems like he's in on the seethe some what. Though he can't film his show because of it so I some what get it.

Additionally from that article I got a good laugh off of this image they used from a protest held their over JD Vance visiting.
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They don't even deign to wave or wear the flag (Union or St George) as they carry out this piddly protest. At least you can tell it's organic by the shitty signs. They immediately devalue their message by framing his arrival as being worse than the boat-crossers, somehow, whilst also trying once again to mire it with an ostensibly foreign conflict (Palestine/Israel).

Here's Clarkson's "joined the backlash" btw.
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So the headline is just a lie then?
 
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