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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.

 

[Tall Man in a Small Car]

I do however refuse to eat halal bacon, I'd rather eat gravel than that fucking imitation turkey shite. Halal fry-up is an affront to our culture.

This reminds me of my small-town, confused, 18 year old self who had freshly moved to the heart of East London for university. I thought I'd explore the local area one morning and grab breakfast, but to my dismay, as someone who loves a classic fry up, I found nowhere nearby that would serve a full English with pork (except for the local Wetherspoons and campus cafeteria).

 

[Gregis]

This reminds me of my small-town, confused, 18 year old self who had freshly moved to the heart of East London for university. I thought I'd explore the local area one morning and grab breakfast, but to my dismay, as someone who loves a classic fry up, I found nowhere nearby that would serve a full English with pork (except for the local Wetherspoons and campus cafeteria).

Are eels halal?

 

[Russian Bot #5361]

Sanex shower gel advert banned for 'suggesting white skin superior to black skin'

"It received two complaints that the ad perpetuated the racial stereotypes ... The ASA ruled the use of different skin colours to portray a "before and after" of the product's use created a juxtaposition of black skin shown as itchy, dry and cracked, and white skin shown as smoother ... the black skin, depicted in association with itchy and dry skin, which was shown to be problematic and uncomfortable, whereas the white skin, depicted as smoother and clean after using the product, was shown successfully changed and resolved ... We concluded that the ad included a racial stereotype and was therefore likely to cause serious offence."

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It's insane that two people making a complaint about an advert can cause a government department to BTFO a corporation for 'racism', but here we are in 2025 the year of our lord.

Are eels halal?

If I'm not mistaken fish are pretty much always halal, but it depends on the sect of Islam, I think Shia's believe that any fish without scales is haram, but fish that do have scales is halal, so I suppose eels are haram for them. So the answer is maybe it depends on which sect you belong to.

 

[Made In Wales]

openly declare the entire country an asylum centre.

Let them try this, they will reap what they have sown very soon after.

There's talk of a General Strike emerging on the Left, in order to get Starmer out.

UNISON, RMT, ASLEF, Unite and others including USDAW are not happy with the Government, and it's going to be hard for Starmer to brand them as 'Far Right Thugs'.

Should USDAW strike (and they are more Conservative than other Unions) then expect no deliveries of goods to shops. They're a small but very powerful Union and them downing tools would be a critical hammer blow to Starmer and Labour.

 

[Amin Yasister]

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It's insane that two people making a complaint about an advert can cause a government department to BTFO a corporation for 'racism', but here we are in 2025 the year of our lord.

Plus there is the cost of the advert that has to be shelved, at least in the UK.

I think I will complain about every ad I see that contains a black person. I doubt any ad will be banned, but I would probably be arrested.....

 

[Overly Serious]

Sanex shower gel advert banned for 'suggesting white skin superior to black skin'

"It received two complaints that the ad perpetuated the racial stereotypes ... The ASA ruled the use of different skin colours to portray a "before and after" of the product's use created a juxtaposition of black skin shown as itchy, dry and cracked, and white skin shown as smoother ... the black skin, depicted in association with itchy and dry skin, which was shown to be problematic and uncomfortable, whereas the white skin, depicted as smoother and clean after using the product, was shown successfully changed and resolved ... We concluded that the ad included a racial stereotype and was therefore likely to cause serious offence."

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It's insane that two people making a complaint about an advert can cause a government department to BTFO a corporation for 'racism', but here we are in 2025 the year of our lord.

Managed to track down and extract the banned ad. Here it is in its full Hitler-celebrating glory.

 

[Muad'Dick]

The St. George's Flag is now considered a racist symbol in Britain.

Always has been. I agree with every word this nigger has to say, but...

You will never be a real Englishman. You have no heritage, you have no lust for conquest, you have no investment in these isles. You are a black man twisted by academia and cultural terraforming into a crude mockery of Albion’s perfection.

All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your parents are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “friends” laugh at your passport behind closed doors.

White people are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of evolution have allowed White men to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even niggers with light skin look uncanny and unnatural to them. Your bone density is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get an Englishman to take you seriously, he’ll turn tail and bolt the second he gets a whiff of cocoa butter.

You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.

Eventually you’ll be too much to bear – they'll buy a rope, tie a noose, put it around your neck, and plunge you into the cold abyss. Your parents will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your slave name, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a nigger is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skull that is unmistakably negroid.

This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I feel like the real reason why the UK hasn't caved and created detainment centres in places like Pontins or some abandoned hanger etc. is the underlying knowledge that there'd be no way of being able to staff them as if you don't give Bomalians literally everything they want they tend to get a little stabby and rapey.

How much would you have to pay a bunch of security guards to live in Airbase 5 while knowing that that shift might be their last? I already told you how fucked prison officer wages are so imagine being paid £27k per year or less to oversee all that.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Managed to track down and extract the banned ad. Here it is in its full Hitler-celebrating glory.

And the lesson sensible advertisers will take from that is to avoid having non-white people in their adverts.

I feel like the real reason why the UK hasn't caved and created detainment centres in places like Pontins or some abandoned hanger etc. is the underlying knowledge that there'd be no way of being able to staff them as if you don't give Bomalians literally everything they want they tend to get a little stabby and rapey.

There's been a few news stories mentioning it and it gets brought up in the thread a few times. A lot of the security tend to also be here illegally or barely legally and at the few sites with women and children there's been more than a few issues.

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

How much would you have to pay a bunch of security guards to live in Airbase 5 while knowing that that shift might be their last? I already told you how fucked prison officer wages are so imagine being paid £27k per year or less to oversee all that.

I reckon we could pay them like 150k a fucking year each if we were to save the money spent on say, 10 hotels for one camp.
Also who doesn't want to be given a machine gun and told not to let any of them out? Pretty hard to get stabbed if you never interact with them face to face.And if one of the detainees gets sick? Well, they're doctors and engineers! I'm sure they can figure things out.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Also who doesn't want to be given a machine gun and told not to let any of them out?

>be me, first day on security guard job
>after 15 minutes of onboarding I'm left guarding the entire West gate because Serco are running this
>things get a little rowdy but I keep my cool
>a group start wandering towards the gate, I tell them to back off but they surround me
>they give me a kicking like the manchester airport situation and reach for my gun
>I pull the trigger

This is where it becomes an interactive storytelling game. Go grab a dice

1-3
>The gun does nothing, there are no bullets in it because of the legal complications that would come from killing a migrant

4-6
>The migrant is filled with bullets. I'm immediately arrested and put on trial for provoking racial tensions and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
>6 months in, Abdul stabs me to death while I'm in the shower because he caught wind I killed one of his 'brothers'

 

[Intensening Rapeye]

I think we should just build a huge magnet, and then that would fix everything.

 

[Made In Wales]

Related to my previous post, I've just had lunch with somebody who has a family member who is a Civil Servant currently based in Cardiff.

Apparently, morale within the CS is through the floor and halfway to the fifth circle of Hell, and even the most Labour-ite of Civil Servant is desperate to see the back of Starmer whether in Whitehall or outside of London. There is a log jam of work which the CS is now unable or unwilling to do and there are big tensions brewing between them and McSweeney, many believe to be a rogue plant (possible Chinese agent or working for another 'unfriendly' country such as Russia).

With regards to the Unions, Ed Dempsey was recently at Cardiff's Canton Depot, on a mission to help save Pullman Rail, and mentioned that unless Starmer 'truly razzle dazzles' at the Conference in Liverpool in late September then 'it's curtains for him'. Apparently, the grandees of Labour (Kinnock, Blair, Brown, Beckett etc.) are holding an emergency meeting about Starmer in Liverpool at the same time as the Conference as they are extremely concerned as to how things are going.

Starmer might believe that he is impenetrable as leader (Lord Alli jokes aside) but he is in for a rude awakening if his bosses in Labour no longer have faith in him.

 

[pangolins]

A lot of the security tend to also be here illegally or barely legally

A few years ago I applied for a job at a hotel and ticked a box to be considered for roles at some of their other sites in the area. I got offered an interview at a different hotel that was housing migrants. I turned up and there were two ambiguously brown security guys in the carpark who stopped me and asked me in some questionable English what I was there for. I was not told what was going on with the hotel until the actual interview. Interestingly every staff member I saw inside the hotel was a white woman.

 

[Coolio55]

Next it'll be internet-capable devices require an ID. Fuck it, lets just slap a subdermal age-tracking chip into every child so that they can RFID-tap to turn on a laptop.

Oh hai, Microsoft Pluton!

 

[Hoi Polloi]

who is a Civil Servant currently based in Cardiff.

This will be pretty dependant on the branch they work in. Do you know which agency they are part of? Home Office? DWP?

I only ask because shit like DEFRA, DSTL, UKHSA, etc. have a lot of skilled workers (such as scientists) where the Civil Service experience is rather different to your usual desk worker.

I've got a friend from Uni who pretty much just spends her time looking after chickens and pigs and stuff for DEFRA. She seems pretty happy aside from never getting a decent payrise.

 

[Made In Wales]

This will be pretty dependant on the branch they work in. Do you know which agency they are part of? Home Office? DWP?

I only ask because shit like DEFRA, DSTL, UKHSA, etc. have a lot of skilled workers (such as scientists) where the Civil Service experience is rather different to your usual desk worker.

I've got a friend from Uni who pretty much just spends her time looking after chickens and pigs and stuff for DEFRA. She seems pretty happy aside from never getting a decent payrise.

Home Office.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Why is UK government seemingly so intent on suppressing British ways and promoting foreign ways?

Like allowing Palestinian flags to fly but not British ones?

 

[Russian Bot #5361]

Why is UK government seemingly so intent on suppressing British ways and promoting foreign ways?

Like allowing Palestinian flags to fly but not British ones?

Liberal (woke) interpretations of colonial history and white guilt is a hell of a drug, and sadly seems to have taken root within the government. That and importing foreigners is pretty much the only way to keep the GDP funny line going up, especially when the government is shitting the bed on any and all internal investments / projects, and cutting expenditure around the board.

 

[ghj123]

Managed to track down and extract the banned ad. Here it is in its full Hitler-celebrating glory.

sanex_banned_ad_racism.mp4

Relief could be as simple as a shower...Did they get that slogan from 1940's Germany?