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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.

 

[Undead]

I wasn't going to, but now the glowie has called me a fat chav I'll be sure to spend tomorrow playing Minecraft.

Youre under watch right this second. As soon as you leave for a donner and a 4 pack of carling you'll be swiped up

 

[Eddie Riggs]

I am confident that we're entering the last months of this Government and that change will come - when it does, it will also come quickly and without warning but there will be signs that a regime change is more than very likely. Rainbow this statement (please do, I don't take offence) but remember that it only take done day and one series of events to change things forever.

I keep going back to the Tudors when it comes to the "one series of events" thing. An obscure family from a village in what was viewed as the most "uncivilized" part of the country becoming the ruling dynasty through a series of strategic marriages and polticial maneuvers.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Youre under watch right this second. As soon as you leave for a donner and a 4 pack of carling you'll be swiped up

Donner and Carling is a haunted combo. What you want is the donner, chips, salad with lots of onions and red cabbage; and a pack of some thatchers cider.

 

[Midwit]

salad with lots of onions and red cabbage

Why don't they put it in the kebab anymore? They always put it in a separate box which always end up getting left in the fridge until it goes naff and into the bin. Just slop it up my man it's a kebab, not an actual meal.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Why don't they put it in the kebab anymore? They always put it in a separate box which always end up getting left in the fridge until it goes naff and into the bin. Just slop it up my man it's a kebab, not an actual meal.

Kebab is punishment food you only eat when you're drunk. The idea they are giving you 'side dishes' is insane.

 

[The Gene Genie]

five people think my last comment is dumb but not a single reason why of course

arguing with a day old account

Same style as a previous poster in here.

I'm getting addblue vibes

Scotland Yard isn't sending their best.

You should have seen the other interviewees.

Try for a footie hooligan gimmick next time.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Why don't they put it in the kebab anymore? They always put it in a separate box which always end up getting left in the fridge until it goes naff and into the bin. Just slop it up my man it's a kebab, not an actual meal.

A box??? Hark at you, David Rockefeller. Kebab salad goes in the worlds flimsiest plastic bag, to make it nice and sweaty

 

[BrightonAndHoveAlbion]

All true english patriots should send me an anonymous message with their full name, date of birth, current address and a recent photograph to join up.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

All true english patriots should send me an anonymous message with their full name, date of birth, current address and a recent photograph to join up.

Will you be supplying V for Vendetta masks and a packed lunch when we march on London?

 

[Chunky Salsa]

All true english patriots should send me an anonymous message with their full name, date of birth, current address and a recent photograph to join up.

Done. Also images of me burning the Quran, holding an illegal handgun, and eating a bacon sandwich in my home (I am within 500 miles of a mosque).

 

[The Gene Genie]

All true english patriots should send me an anonymous message with their full name, date of birth, current address and a recent photograph to join up.

Spoiler: I have nothing to hide

Keir Rodney Starmer
02/09/1962
10 Downing Street, London SW1A 2AB

Spoiler

 

[LeChampion1992]

https://x.com/DocStrangelove2/status/1951718672160199054

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I saw this and I'm dying. She's apparently one of your students that's in America rn. She is scared of ammo locked behind a glass case at a Walmart. You have to get a wagie to unlock the case and show ID just to get a box. Do britbong's really?

A lot of middle class English people are the kost sheltered people in the world. Their interactions woth diversity is the token Indian person or the token brown person. To them they dont experience the issues the working class has. Also people like her dont understand america is dangerous because of black people.

The UK:

* Bans guns after the Dunblane School Shooting
* Guns can still be bought illegally (cash/crypto)
* Knives can still be bought
* Stuff like cyanide can be sourced or created if you know how
* Death by Spork is a thing.

'OMG THE UK IS SOOO SAFE'

Its sad to say but baby boomers really fell from the we need to ban guns and make the world safe because only bad people own guns. The urbanite propaganda did a number on everyone.

 

[Midwit]

Kebab salad goes in the worlds flimsiest plastic bag

Honestly I'd prefer that because then you have incentive to slop it yourself, the Indian places do it with the salad you get with a chicken tikka so why do the local turks go for a proper plastic tub? It just isn't proper.

 

[Snekposter]

I think some of the Jeets will, but the more cunning ones won't. When it all goes down, these homes will become attack vectors a la the Troubles, and I can bey you the insurance people are going to pull some strings to deny payouts of arson due to political violence, which you enacted. Also, they cannot pay quadruple; they're literally bankrupt now. Rachel is not disclosing fully how empty the coffers are, but they are empty.

Its taken only how many years for Labour to finish speedrunning the UK into Communist utopia? I think this might be a world record.

 

[LeChampion1992]

Everyone sit down. A rich (not any more kek) American wants to lecture us Europeans on why we should accept imported nonces and terrorists:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6SOXLfbgAZ4

People like him will never live with the consequences, he will never have kids and he will always love anisa because she was the first and only girl to give him the time of day and he changed everything about himself for her.

I hate these people so God damn much:
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Nitter/Xwitter

These people should go back Islam has no place in a secular England.

 

[Russian Bot #5361]

It may seem like nothing ever happens, but then something does.

I am confident that we're entering the last months of this Government and that change will come - when it does, it will also come quickly and without warning but there will be signs that a regime change is more than very likely ... remember that it only take done day and one series of events to change things forever.

I think you are wildly overconfident in your belief and have been drinking too much of the right-wing "revolution" Kool-Aid. I think it's undeniable to say that there are a lot of grievances with the current government – from both right and left – but looking at things objectively, the UK is nowhere near a tipping point for any sort of real political violence or major disorder. Economically, though things haven't been great, unemployment is only at 5%, inflation isn't anywhere near spiralling out of control, food is plentiful, and entertainment is ubiquitous, so the usual economic primers for political troubles aren't there. Moreover, though immigration is the issue of the day, people's opinions on legal immigration is still somewhat positive, with most only being bothered by illegal immigration / asylum seekers. I strongly believe that circumstances aren't anywhere near bad enough to lead to any sort of significant changes.

The UK will keep riding the managed decline until someone with more than two braincells to rub together decides to do something about it, but I can sure as shit guarantee that it won't be anytime in the coming years. Moreover, if the Government were to get a handle on the boat crossings and reduce immigration even marginally, this would probably be enough to sate the vast majority of those protesting currently. Don't fall for the revolution meme and always remember: nothing ever happens chud.

 

[Made In Wales]

I think you are wildly overconfident in your belief and have been drinking too much of the right-wing "revolution" Kool-Aid. I think it's undeniable to say that there are a lot of grievances with the current government – from both right and left – but looking at things objectively, the UK is nowhere near a tipping point for any sort of real political violence or major disorder. Economically, though things haven't been great, unemployment is only at 5%, inflation isn't anywhere near spiralling out of control, food is plentiful, and entertainment is ubiquitous, so the usual economic primers for political troubles aren't there. Moreover, though immigration is the issue of the day, people's opinions on legal immigration is still somewhat positive, with most only being bothered by illegal immigration / asylum seekers. I strongly believe that circumstances aren't anywhere near bad enough to lead to any sort of significant changes.

The UK will keep riding the managed decline until someone with more than two braincells to rub together decides to do something about it, but I can sure as shit guarantee that it won't be anytime in the coming years. Moreover, if the Government were to get a handle on the boat crossings and reduce immigration even marginally, this would probably be enough to sate the vast majority of those protesting currently. Don't fall for the revolution meme and always remember: nothing ever happens chud.

Not so sure I agree, but I accept what you say.

Starmer will have until the Conference Season to get to grips with these and other issues, or there will be no other option.

He won't be able to sate the people, both sides now see him as deadwood.

As some evidence that what I'm stating is not just retarded copium or wishful thinking:


Net zero betrayal: North East factory faces closure as manufacturing jobs shipped abroad to France and Greece:

https://www.gbnews.com/news/net-zero-north-east-factory-closure-manufacturing-france-greece

https://archive.ph/wip/W4QXl

That is the North now lost to Labour. Scunthorpe was only saved because Reform UK were prepared to do a deal with Trump to save both it and Port Talbot with the latter also keeping Cwmbargoed open for mining. Labour shit themselves over this and Scunthorpe was saved so as to build rails for railways with an Eco Arc Furnace now coming to Port Talbot which will produce lower grade steel.


Reform ‘holds talks’ with civil servants as party gears up Nigel Farage for power:

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/politics-news-labour-voters-keir-starmer-jeremy-corbyn-reform-uk-conservatives-migrant-crisis-echr

https://archive.ph/R3msW

Why do this now if 2029 is the de facto next date for the next GE? You'd do this if change were more imminent.


Matt Goodwin says we now have definitive proof Keir Starmer is ‘siding with illegal immigrants over Britons’:

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/migrant-crisis-matt-goodwin-keir-starmer-proof

https://archive.ph/wip/Gcf2q

Only going to anger the people on both sides of Left and Right even more.


@BrightonAndHoveAlbion I'm Welsh but I'm up for this venture. No nudes though, hun.

 

[Russian Bot #5361]

Starmer will have until the Conference Season to get to grips with these and other issues, or there will be no other option.

He won't be able to sate the people, both sides now see him as deadwood.

I think it's plain to see that if Starmer doesn't pull a miracle out his hat, that his time in politics is numbered. With Labour being evermore fractured with the Corbynites, Old Labour, and Islamic factions forming, along with internal divisions on Israel Palestine, and the Conservatives being more irrelevant by the day thanks to "Tommeh" and Farage, I think we're due to see a political shake-up sometime soon. However, the pessimistic side of me is inclined to think that most MPs will simply jump ship to a new rising party and the re-brand will be enough to satisfy most, as the UK continues to leisurely cruise down the road of irrelevancy in the world stage.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Why don't they put it in the kebab anymore? They always put it in a separate box which always end up getting left in the fridge until it goes naff and into the bin. Just slop it up my man it's a kebab, not an actual meal.

It's mostly white girls who refused to pimp their baby sister out to pakis these days. Heard about some missing kids locally, just outright gone with no trail. News never covered it, totally ignored but it's in a known grooming area.

Its sad to say but baby boomers really fell from the we need to ban guns and make the world safe because only bad people own guns. The urbanite propaganda did a number on everyone.

Fuck off. The Boomers didn't fall for banning guns, guns were banned without any one being asked. Have you ever seen the government ask a damn thing before they wrote a law? I haven't and Brexit is the closest to it and look how that went. The government banned types of guns, they never asked permission to do so.

I think you are wildly overconfident in your belief and have been drinking too much of the right-wing "revolution" Kool-Aid. I think it's undeniable to say that there are a lot of grievances with the current government – from both right and left – but looking at things objectively, the UK is nowhere near a tipping point for any sort of real political violence or major disorder. Economically, though things haven't been great, unemployment is only at 5%, inflation isn't anywhere near spiralling out of control, food is plentiful, and entertainment is ubiquitous, so the usual economic primers for political troubles aren't there.

Not everything is economic. Revolution doesn't just come because the unemployement rate hits a specific number. Revolution comes in many forms and Europe is dealing with an unpredictable situation. No one has ever been ethnically replaced like Europeans are now. Bread and Circuses with a global information network might not be enough to stop a revolution.

 

[the rat]

Scotland Yard isn't sending their best.

Budget cuts mate.