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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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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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Otterly said:
This is how part of the anti tranny pushback started. They started cracking down on online speech, and women just went round to each others houses or the pub and decided that that’s about enough of that kind of thing and started buying eggshell stickers, and ‘having a word’ with people in power. Online was just whinging, but it’s funny when you start talking in person you start actually doing stuff, rather than talking about doing stuff.
The techniques the government have used successfully - control of social media, legacy media, etc are losing their ability to control. There will be more protests. There will be people locked up. There will be a point where people get pushed too far and that’s when things will get spicy. It is inevitable. This isn’t a policy that can be dialled back, like winter fuel. Those immigrants are here, everywhere. Huge damage has been done, and now we are just sliding down towards the cliff.
None of this needed to happen. We could have exited the nineties and gone an entirely different path.
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I suspect that the shift to actively cracking down on Internet speech, rather than using the Internet as a sort of pressure release valve, is because the Home Office and the intermediary NGOs used to police speech are now fully staffed by ideological true believers, and have an innate desire to stomp out any dissent wherever it may be. It also goes together with something I mentioned earlier, in that the Government/Establishment is so weak and on such unsteady ground that it cannot afford to keep even one avenue of dissent open. The only reason why they haven't started seriously cracking down on in-person meetings and actively policing the spoken word and thoughts is because they simply cannot. The Police are understaffed and incompetent, and the same for the Security Services.
 
Interesting one I've not been able to confirm as of yet via any news sources. There's an incoming Digital Waste Tracking programme, which from what I can tell is largely another attempt to price out the lower end of the market and let yet another industry become increasingly tightly controlled by large industries. So business as per.

What's not being mentioned is the system is apparently another Fujutsu one. You know, like the Horizon one recently featured in the Post Office scandal. I've not been to independently verify this, it's entirely word of mouth info, but if true I suspect we know what the future will hold.
 
I am compelled by my current job, to live down souf. My left and right neighbours have just moved in a bunch of foreigns and they are literally shrieking in their mud tongue. Insane. Time for this huwhite, to get on with his flight.

They also smoke weed by what smells like the tonne. Which is insane, since weed is pretty expensive to smoke, and I've yet to see them not in their garden, so clearly they lack jobs.
 
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FedPostalService said:
You’re from some backward part of Norf FC if that’s the case. It’s far cheaper to get stoned than drink. I don’t smoke as I don’t need stupid criminal charges showing up in my record during a background check.

TL;DR Free the weed
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Midlands originally, and it was £10 a gram when my friends used to partake in the zaza at uni. Either it's gotten a hell of a lot stronger in the three years since I last smelled it, or they are going through a lot of the stuff.
 
Chunky Salsa said:
I am compelled by my current job, to live down souf. My left and right neighbours have just moved in a bunch of foreigns and they are literally shrieking in their mud tongue. Insane. Time for this huwhite, to get on with his flight.

They also smoke weed by what smells like the tonne. Which is insane, since weed is pretty expensive to smoke, and I've yet to see them not in their garden, so clearly they lack jobs.
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Time to get on that pixel map game and plot our meeting point. We'll have a uhwhite kiwi enclave. Nothing but spergs and brown people larping as white in our Ethno state.

We might even play cricket if enough of the brown fakes turn out to be Indians.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Time to get on that pixel map game and plot our meeting point. We'll have a uhwhite kiwi enclave. Nothing but spergs and brown people larping as white in our Ethno state.

We might even play cricket if enough of the brown fakes turn out to be Indians.
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At least we'll have curry in the ethnostate then, fantastic!

FedPostalService said:
You were getting robbed. We’d happily buy it by te ounce in my student days.
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I never toked up - shit stinks - and instead drank, which means I was 100% getting robbed. £55 for a bottle of Jameson is theft; but that's what the uni shop charged.
 
FedPostalService said:
You might have some very good points, but that one word makes me think you’re an effete snob who looks down on sports fans because you were bullied, so I stopped reading as soon as I saw that word.

Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
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You sound autistic. It's a catch all term for every sport from soccer to football from baseball to cricket and we don't have snobs over here.

Kofi Drinka said:
I assure you little boys are still calling each other faggot, nigger and now cuck. The younger generation use different slang but the shit talking doesn't change. Hang out with young boys from your family and see how long it is until they call you a cuck.
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I don't talk to little boys and neither should you. And the kids can say what they want until they have passed through college and university. If they still have their minds or believe in free speech then we can talk. Until then, censorship is on the menu.
 
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