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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.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I mean, it's just 2 performers who absolutely hate eachother miraculously coming together for a nostalgia-bait tribute to a country that no longer exists.
Completely natural.

There is a reason.

I know it’s cynical but when I see ageing rockers re form the band I always wonder which one of them has a divorce settlement or illegitimate baby he needs to fund.

And Otterly got it right. One of them had a nasty divorce recently and needs to earn some more cash quick.

First off I'm American

Then kindly shut up and fuck off fatty. Mexicans rape kids just as much as pakis do and you can't get enough of them. Tell us how you will totally rise up with all your guns while your country turns browned than the slop you call food.

 

[A-Logato]

Cope, Seethe and think voting for Reform would make any difference. It's so over Brit bongs so over enjoy your third world status in the next decade. Hope 40 years of neo-liberal bullshit was worth ruining your okay but never great nation. To be clear if I was on a jury I'd vote not guilty in both cases.

This post was typed with Amerimutt hands.

Also I'm literally the most vocal Nigel and Reform hater on this thread.

 

[Necrosan]

In fairness, between importing hordes of rapists, and the entire government being blackmail slaves to jews, because they all raped kids. I'm honestly torn between which is worse.

Always refer to good ol' reliable.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Also I'm literally the most vocal Nigel and Reform hater on this thread.

Oh, Nigel and reform hater. I think I'm ahead of you on the niggle hate (hated him since 2009 or so), but I'm still cautiously riding the Reform train... unless the SDP actually stands a candidate in my constituency, or I get a sudden rush of shit to the brain and vote tory.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

I'm becoming the token American on here lol

 

[Mister Fister]

Exactly that, and now they have multiple groups/political parties gunning for them.

Before it was just Farage and the Far Right, now it's Palestine Action, Corbyn and the Kneecap fans.

There is, apparently, a video doing the rounds on the socials of Lefties screaming 'f**k the BBC' during Kneecap's gig at the Green Man Festival.

Let that sink in - the militant Left now hate the BBC and Government even more than the Right Wing do.

I can call Two tier Kier a queer in public without being arrested, can you?

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

On the Jones "stickers with razor blades behind them", were they ever photographed or filmed, or in anyother way, proven to exist?

Based off all the articles it seems to be someone told him that it happened. Just like all those gender critical ones out there the police wasted time investigating.

 

[FuckedOffToff]

I can call Two tier Kier a queer in public without being arrested, can you?

Yeah, I can. I'd film myself saying it in the pub, with all the mild agreement it would bring, but that'd constitute a doxing event, so I'll not bother.
There's not a camera everywhere, and a bug in every room, despite what GCHQ would have you think.
Can't speak for the cities, mind.
If anyone phoned the police on me, I'd have time to finish my pint and be in the next boozer before they arrived, right enough, so I might be in the right kind of zone.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

After visiting a site today I noticed a rare piece of British culture the yanks should know about.

Poets day,
Piss off early, tomorrow’s Saturday.
The shop floor was empty by 1:30pm.

Edit, and if anyone wants to make a quick buck stick “it’s okay officer, I identify as Ricky Jones” on a T-shirt.

Honestly, it's a rare Friday when I'm not in spoons by 1220

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I'm becoming the token American on here lol

And you can fuck off as well Eddie! You aren't even Eddie Hitler, the true British hero we need right now. You're some tosser from the other side of the Atlantic!

Based off all the articles it seems to be someone told him that it happened. Just like all those gender critical ones out there the police wasted time investigating.

It doesn't make sense for them to do this any way. No one removes stickers with their fingers in a way that would cut them. And if you did you would use rusty ones to improve the odds of an infection not nice new clear ones.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

And you can fuck off as well Eddie! You aren't even Eddie Hitler, the true British hero we need right now. Some tosser from the other side of the Atlantic!

Aww thanks

 

[Made In Wales]

I can call Two tier Kier a queer in public without being arrested, can you?

In like-minded company, yes I can.

Just because Starmer is a pussy baby who can't stand criticism, it doesn't mean that I or others (or even, now, those former political opponents of mine) can't say what we feel.

Are the BBC going to push for Kneecap and the festival attendees (mainly Green Party and Plaid Cymru voters) to be arrested for insubordination? Doubt it, people on all sides are speaking out and that is very healthy going forward.

I'm no fan of Kneecap but kudos to them for not giving in to the Government.

To add to what @FuckedOffToff has said, do you really think everybody at GCHQ or MI5 is taking Starmer seriously? When the Home Office recently advertised for security staff for the PM and made the conditions of entry lower than Mother Teresa's pelvic floor, I think even they might be wondering what the fuck is going on in Government - ah, for the days of stellar Stella...

I can also blast this out at any time of the day without fear - most people I know of agree with it:

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

On the Jones "stickers with razor blades behind them", were they ever photographed or filmed, or in anyother way, proven to exist?

Scruffy communists have been bleating about this since the 70s, everywhere you find a mentally ill lefty you'll hear talk of "razor blades behind stickers" and "red laced boots" like skinheads needed a footwear based version of the gays hanky codes to specify exactly who they were racist against.

They're so RickyJonestarded they believe everyone who isn't 100% with them is a Captain Planet villain. I'm racist as fuck but I wouldn't put razor blades behind stickers in public because I'm a racist, not a sociopath.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

They're so RickyJonestarded they believe everyone who isn't 100% with them is a Captain Planet villain. I'm racist as fuck but I wouldn't put razor blades behind stickers in public because I'm a racist, not a sociopath.

It also wouldn't work because you can see them under it and you use a scraper to remove stickers.

 

[chilli burn]

On the Jones "stickers with razor blades behind them", were they ever photographed or filmed, or in anyother way, proven to exist?

Ngl i watch the leader of the NF on youtube and hes legit thinking of making a complaint to the met police based on false and misleading info from ricky jones

 

[evrae]

One thing I've noticed is ever since Starmer got in is there has been a fairly gigantic shift rightwards where I live and also where I work (very surprising for this area), and people who I've known for being traditionally lefty suddenly spouting opinions I never would've expected from them. Anti-troon, anti-Labour, anti-semetic, the whole works!

It's wonderful to see, and it means for once I can sperg about how we should have the right to bear arms in person, and have people actually agree with me wholeheartedly on it. While the news sounds dire as always, seeing that on the ground at least makes me more hopeful.

And on the topic of bladed stickers, it obviously never happened (though in the past I've seen pro-troon stickers with razors hidden underneath them). The bulge from the blade is easy to spot, and you'd use a scraper and not your nails to get rid of stickers (I know from experience from removing stickers from laptop backs and such, taking even ordinary stickers from things with just your nails is a cunt and the stickers tend to tear to bits, prolonging the whole process).

 

[An Idle Observer]

One thing I've noticed is ever since Starmer got in is there has been a fairly gigantic shift rightwards where I live and also where I work (very surprising for this area), and people who I've known for being traditionally lefty suddenly spouting opinions I never would've expected from them. Anti-troon, anti-Labour, anti-semetic, the whole works!

Generally speaking, when societies make a move, it's like a glacier cleaving off into the ocean. A lot of little things build up to it, and then a bunch goes at once. I wonder how many of them were repeating leftoid shit just because they thought it was chic, in vogue, or "the right thing to do," and then here comes foreign leaders shaming your nation on a national stage, the migrant crisis is ever mounting, Baz had to give up his pint at the pub because his rent got hiked again, there's that fuel allowance for the elderly that got cut, they looked up that Coinbase ad their mates may or may not have looked up which could only be made by Brits given just how polite and dripping with seething hatred at the state of things it was... on and on until eventually they find out that no, it is not in fact socially enforced that this matters, no, Starmer is not your friend even if you lean left, and no, ain't shit changing until you give up the damn politeness and start telling people to bugger off.

Were they always lefties, or did they just talk a big game for conformity's sake?

 

[Brumbletroons]

The bulge from the blade is easy to spot

The poetry of this, troon stickers can be easily identified by the same markers as their owners, though usually the man face/hands are a more apparent mark of the beast

 

[Otterly]

And Otterly got it right. One of them had a nasty divorce recently and needs to earn some more cash quick.

Is that so? Can’t be having that authentic Manchester Cotswolds life interrupted I guess

One thing I've noticed is ever since Starmer got in is there has been a fairly gigantic shift rightwards where I live and also where I work (very surprising for this area), and people who I've known for being traditionally lefty suddenly spouting opinions I never would've expected from them. Anti-troon, anti-Labour, anti-semetic, the whole works!

I’ve seen similar and i think people where I’m from have traditionally been either country (Tory, farming) or village (pits, labour) because of how the parties have related to the labour force and their concerns. Generations have voted left because they assumed left was something and they’re realising that left isn’t that at all. They wanted worker solidarity, better conditions, a health service and what they’ve been served up is mass immigration, the industries smashed and never replaced, and the infrastructure crumbling.
I think people are waking up to the fact that there isn’t two parties one left one right - there’s a massive political class who all want the common man to be a serf, the culture destroyed and fuck the green and pleasant land, we will pave it all over and put sewage in the rivers
Most people old left or old right are decent, and the current political class screws everything either side held dear. Environment? All getting built on, and greenwashed with net zero. Economy? Fuck you. Health? Fuck you.
In that light, labour and the tories are irredeemable. Reform have one chance to get in and actually DO something. If they turn into uni party lite then they kick the can down the road and we get the mass civil unrest in five years, rather than within a year or two.
I have never seen people this pissed off over such a broad range of issues. This kind of rage was for specific things - the pits closing, the poll tax, etc.
It’s actually quite exhilarating.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

Most people old left or old right are decent

There was an old left that was decent?