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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.

 

[anklyscr]

We need a big Baz to defecate on a Palestine flag, mostly just to see how the system treats it.

might need police help to get it down

https://archive.ph/2fgc6.
A Labour-run council has sparked outrage by ordering the removal of British flags from lampposts - while being ‘too scared’ to take down Palestine flags without police protection.

Bankrupt Birmingham City Council said hundreds of Union and St George’s flags recently hung around the city ‘could put lives at risk’ by endangering motorists and pedestrians.

The flags had been strung up by a small, organised group of residents to ‘show Birmingham and the rest of the country how proud we are of our history, freedoms and achievements’.

Their display of patriotism was met with a swift response from the city council, which vowed to immediately begin removing the flags due to ‘safety concerns’.

The decision was blasted by shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick as ‘blatant two-tier bias against the British people’, after critics pointed out Palestine flags had been left to fly from lampposts across Birmingham for the past 18 months without the council tearing them down.

When the Mail visited the Sparkhill area, where around 80 per cent of the population is Muslim, there were no fewer than seven Palestine flags hanging from lampposts on a mile-long stretch of Stratford Road.

It can also be revealed that the crisis-crippled council has privately admitted it is too scared to try to remove the Palestine flags without police protection.

In a leaked email obtained by the Mail, council cabinet member Majid Mahmood said of the Palestine flags hanging from lampposts in February: ‘We are taking these down, but we need the support of the police due to issues that have cropped (up) when we first tried to take them down.’
The backlash has only been intensified by the council simultaneously announcing this week it would light up the city’s library in the colours of the Pakistan flag to mark the anniversary of the country’s independence, followed by the Indian flag.

Mr Mahmood was among those happily posing for pictures this week as the flag of Pakistan was raised outside Council House in the city centre.

The council, which declared effective bankruptcy in 2023, is already facing intense criticism for its handling of a bin strike which has now lasted for seven months and seen the city’s streets buried under mountains of fetid waste.

Mr Jenrick said: ‘It is ridiculous that the council are taking down England flags and Union flags while Palestine flags are allowed to remain. It’s blatant two-tier bias against the British people.

‘Labour-run Birmingham council seem to be ashamed of our country - celebrating everyone other than ourselves. This pathetic self-loathing must end. We must be one country, united under one flag.

‘It is a damning indictment of how bad things have become that the council appear too scared to take down unauthorised foreign flags without the police. The authorities cannot allow themselves to be intimidated into submission.’

Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said: ‘The City Council piles bias and absurdity on top of their utter incompetence. After the chaos of the bin strike, where they can’t find anyone to empty the bins, they somehow manage to find people to take down our national flag on the eve of VJ Day when British and Commonwealth soldiers lost their lives for our freedoms. Shameful.’

Tory MP Sir John Hayes said: ‘Birmingham is a great city, the city of the Chamberlains. Joseph Chamberlain, who was a great patriot and the greatest son of Birmingham, would hang his head in shame.’

something something peace religion

 

[Crunkle]

at GCSE level

Don't forget that grading drastically changed during Covid and has not recovered to the same standard. Grades were awarded based on estimates from teachers. Have they changed this since? Otherwise I see a clear reason why grades are the highest ever.

 

[A-Logato]

English Literature at GCSE level will forever be a shit subject simply because the source material has to consider reading age, length of the book, equal appeal to girls and boys, quality of writing and quality of the book. Almost everything is disqualified by these means.

Probably explains why it's always American books by American authors they have you reading.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Beer, in this country, comes in pints or half pints. It does NOT come in 1/3 or 2/3 measures, and especially not for the prices these cunts charge for it. Suffah Brewdog.

Eta:


Genuinely might get one of these lol. I feel the cringe would be worth it to annoy people I don't like.

Be careful with wearing political clothing. This country has a lot of laws against political uniforms dating back to the 50s and 70s. You can fall foul of a law and end up in court because you wore the wrong hat or shirt. It's not been applied yet but you know Starmer would use it.

Don't forget that grading drastically changed during Covid and has not recovered to the same standard. Grades were awarded based on estimates from teachers. Have they changed this since? Otherwise I see a clear reason why grades are the highest ever.

Do brown people still get extra pity points?

 

[Convallaria majalis]

Don't forget that grading drastically changed during Covid and has not recovered to the same standard. Grades were awarded based on estimates from teachers. Have they changed this since? Otherwise I see a clear reason why grades are the highest ever.

I'm not aware of it changing - young people I know were awarded estimated grades last year and they had not been in a classroom for over a year. So we're doomed.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Probably explains why it's always American books by American authors they have you reading.

You WILL read Of Mice and Men and you WILL enjoy it!

 

[Crunkle]

You WILL read Of Mice and Men and you WILL enjoy it!

That book fucking sucks. Grapes of Wrath is a way better Steinbeck novel. My class loved it because we go to hear our sweet, softly-spoken teacher say "nigger" about 20 times.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Be me, be giving the dog a final wee before bed. Had to escort a young lady and her daughter home because it appears a guy was trying to sexually assault them. I live in a VERY white area with no hotels in about 20 miles, but I am somewhat shocked, honestly. Basically, the guy was dressed in complete black, and they showed me pictures, but he was following them in a residential area for 25 minutes and kept blocking their exit.

I think I have been trying to escape how bad it is by dissonance, but I am glad they were safe. It was honestly sad to see how scared they were.

I hate these people, and apparently by my own country's laws. That makes me a terrorist.

No woman should be scared to walk outside at night.

 

[A-Logato]

You WILL read Of Mice and Men and you WILL enjoy it!

The only highlight of that book for me personally was that I was able to say nigger out loud in a class room.

 

[Made In Wales]

That book fucking sucks. Grapes of Wrath is a way better Steinbeck novel. My class loved it because we go to hear our sweet, softly-spoken teacher say "nigger" about 20 times.

Can't stand Of Mice And Men either.

Books which I'd have loved to have read in school:

The Catcher In The Rye (now probably banned)
1984
Notes From A Small Island
Any Discworld Novel
Wild Magic

 

[Replacement Account]

Any Discworld Novel

Whilst I wouldn't go as far to say his last books were outright bad, you can definitely see his embuggerance at work and they're not as good a choice as the earlier ones.

 

[Quintex96]

May have accidentally stumbled upon something. Was discussing with a family member how Ricky Jones got off scot free this week, only I couldn't remember what his name was when talking about it. Here's a fun game, try and find an article about it on google without using his name. I ended up having to go back a few pages of this thread to find an article.

 

[East_Clintwood]

May have accidentally stumbled upon something. Was discussing with a family member how Ricky Jones got off scot free this week, only I couldn't remember what his name was when talking about it. Here's a fun game, try and find an article about it on google without using his name. I ended up having to go back a few pages of this thread to find an article.

Genuinely curious what you were trying to use to find it, because that was my first go.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

Be me, be giving the dog a final wee before bed. Had to escort a young lady and her daughter home because it appears a guy was trying to sexually assault them. I live in a VERY white area with no hotels in about 20 miles, but I am somewhat shocked, honestly. Basically, the guy was dressed in complete black, and they showed me pictures, but he was following them in a residential area for 25 minutes and kept blocking their exit.

I think I have been trying to escape how bad it is by dissonance, but I am glad they were safe. It was honestly sad to see how scared they were.

I hate these people, and apparently by my own country's laws. That makes me a terrorist.

No woman should be scared to walk outside at night.

Have you reported him? Also It's okay to find loopholes in fucked up laws to bring niggers like him to justice.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Whilst I wouldn't go as far to say his last books were outright bad, you can definitely see his embuggerance at work and they're not as good a choice as the earlier ones.

The only truly bad one is the last Tiffany Aching book, which was an incomplete draft published to fulfil a contractual obligation. The decline became obvious when he started using chapters; he was using them to pace himself, where before he didn't need to. He even flagged his state in Making Money, in the forger who suffered a sort of induced dementia that left him ignorant of his own abilities, but paradoxically happy.

And then there's the last. Despite everything, despite all the obvious signs of his mind leaving him, Raising Steam is a surprisingly deep and touching story. It's a railway story; a series of vignettes, told in series, each visited for a moment before falling behind into the vague, clouded memory of the past. He even hangs a hat on it when he mentions railway cottages beside the tracks, seen for a moment and then gone, inhabited by people whose lives are unknown and unknowable to travellers on the rails. Every page is a farewell to a character or a place he invented. The one constant throughout is the railway, which wraps up the disc in a protective web of iron that will prevent any future incursion by the elves. He wanted to be sure his world was safe, regardless of its reality. I feel it's his most powerful work, even if it's not his his best.

I doubt I'd have thought this way if I were still in school when it was published. It's not a story that can easily be dissected by a teenager; Mort is better for that, or Guards Guards.

 

[evrae]

No idea where you are (or need to know really) but it's the same where I live. Its exclusively White here and while people aren't greeting each other with Romans on the street, there has always been a natural undercurrent of healthy in-group preference; like calling the police if brown Amazon drivers are parked up for too long, that kind of thing. The last month or so has been wild though. From the guy behind the post office counter revealing his power level in a way that would make your average /pol/ poster say "steady on now" to open talk of lynchings in the pub.

The Yeoman is coming back boys. With any luck it won't be long before it'll be Barbour jackets and ballistic masks.

Yeah, it was actually fairly jarring to deal with just how suddenly everyone changed. I've heard also open Holocaust denial and the classic "it didn't happen, but should have" line. This is both colleagues and just random people I overhear on the street. I used to keep my opinions quiet and to myself (unless it was friends I absolutely trust) and to suddenly be in a position where I have to actually talk my actual opinions (and not my mild-mannered versions of such) or be called a "Jew lover" or other assortments of insults to my face that in the past would immediately get someone in deep shit, it both throws me off guard and makes me happy.

It makes me believe that poll claiming that a growing number of people want political violence and would take part in it (3-4 out of 10, was it?) that I think someone here posted earlier. It seems more and more like that's going to be an inevitability as people just want violence, out of what I assume is just primarily a collective revenge.

As an aside, if Starmer demands private households take in migrants, I'm sure pig farms will suddenly find themselves overwhelmed with all the pig feed they'll suddenly get for free.

Have you reported him? Also It's okay to find loopholes in fucked up laws to bring niggers like him to justice.

The police will take one look at him, see he's just some nigger or mudslime, and just let him walk free. Hell, they'll probably give him a free uniform and fake badge and say "Hey, it works for us in raping and killing women!"

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

The only highlight of that book for me personally was that I was able to say nigger out loud in a class room.

For me the only highlight was that somebody took the time to scribble "Lenny dies LOL" on the front endsheet of every copy of the book that the school had.

 

[inception_state]

Someone made a choose your own adventure game out of the Nicolas (30 ans) meme. Can you save £100,000 for a house before turning 35?

https://nicksimulator.com/

 

[evrae]

The only highlight of that book for me personally was that I was able to say nigger out loud in a class room.

Yep, I got that chance too, and I made sure to emphasise the fuck out of it when I got to that point. Gotta project your voice just enough that the adjacent classes hear the "NIGGER" too but not loud enough that the teacher knows you're deliberately trying to yell it. Lots of fun. Any book that has slurs gets attention because the kids are actually gonna have fun being rude as shit to each other and getting away with it.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

May have accidentally stumbled upon something. Was discussing with a family member how Ricky Jones got off scot free this week, only I couldn't remember what his name was when talking about it. Here's a fun game, try and find an article about it on google without using his name. I ended up having to go back a few pages of this thread to find an article.

His smugness is overpowering.