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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.

 

[Otterly]

Have to say I am not a farage fan at all. I think he’s a grifter and I don’t trust him.
Some of the slime brewing under the Birmingham bin strike would be preferable to starmer though….

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

You know, I still feel really bad for Liz Truss, it genuinely seemed to me like she truly did care for the country (wanting to get rid of the sugar tax for example actually seems like something somebody listening to the public would want to do, because dumping loads of chemicals into drinks or shrinkflating the fuck out of them didn't solve anything), only for a stinky paki to stab her in the back with his connections within the party to fuck her over. The party was given the choice between woman and pooman, so they chose the only option that made sense.
It was the most blatant political backstab in history outside of the fucking night of the long knives.
I fucking hate Rishi Sunak and hope that he trips into a skin peeling machine.

I personally lay all the blame on that cunt Rishi for being the most unelectable candidate in history (Only to be beaten by Starmer come next election)

 

[Clem Fandango]

Energy drinks to possibly be banned for under-16s in England:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c707074qdnko
https://archive.ph/wip/O6bFu

Already get ID'd for these when buying them at WH Smiths at motorway service stations. Nothing beats having an overweight, put upon wageslave have to amble out from behind the counter to the self-service tills every time someone wants to buy one can of Monster energy drink. Yes. Please roll this out nationwide. It's what the country needs.

 

[the rat]

Have to say I am not a farage fan at all. I think he’s a grifter and I don’t trust him.
Some of the slime brewing under the Birmingham bin strike would be preferable to starmer though….

It's like you have a gun to your head and about to be shot and you have a choice to either be a bitch and start screaming about how the killer is a nazi chud or you can just smirk and call his mother a gay whore. Might as well positive polly to the end and get a good last laugh since you're going to die anyway.

No chance of that IMO, if there was a chance of Nigel bailing then Tice would take over and Jenrick, Cates, Trott and other Right-Wing Tories joining to bolster Reform UK and nuke Kemi from orbit.

Nigel has to see this through and though I get that you and others aren't fans of him, he's the only chance which the UK has. Paul Golding isn't an option, Laurence Fox and David Kurten aren't either.

There's more chance IMO that Reform UK will do well at grass roots - the Caerphilly Senedd by-election will be a tester and one which I believe Reform UK can be successful at achieving as the only other option to voters there is Plaid (council-wise in the area they're not too bad, Labour in Caerphilly are absolutely bloody awful). Reform winning their first seat in Wales is 80% likely, Plaid will need the Lib Dems and Greens to either step aside or not split the vote to have any chance.

I'd have to disagree because of the type of person Farage is and how the whole UKIP thing went but I won't lie though, your hopium is admirable.

Starmer has got to be fuming

Makes me wonder what kind of person he is in private. A drunk, violent domestic abuser sort or meek, slapped in the back of your head by your wife who is way older than him bitch like Macron?

 

[Made In Wales]

It's like you have a gun to your head and about to be shot and you have a choice to either be a bitch and start screaming about how the killer is a nazi chud or you can just smirk and call his mother a gay whore. Might as well positive polly to the end and get a good last laugh since you're going to die anyway.


I'd have to disagree because of the type of person Farage is and how the whole UKIP thing went but I won't lie though, your hopium is admirable.


Makes me wonder what kind of person he is in private. A drunk, violent domestic abuser sort or meek, slapped in the back of your head by your wife who is way older than him bitch like Macron?

Hopium, yes, but also there's literally no other option.

Labour are cooked, Tories are bombed... Lib Dems aren't making a dent and the only other party gaining but unlikely to form a Government is the Corbyn Party.

Don't conflate Nigel with being the answer - he's the beginning of the end of the nightmare only, the rest of it will depend on the younger members of Reform UK.

There is more to the movement than just one man or woman, there's an us.

 

[Otterly]

It's like you have a gun to your head and about to be shot and you have a choice to either be a bitch and start screaming about how the killer is a nazi chud or you can just smirk and call his mother a gay whore. Might as well positive polly to the end and get a good last laugh since you're going to die anyway.

Well when you put it like that…
I’d rather vote for the bin juice than starmer, or any of his current Labour cronies, so I guess I hold my nose and vote for nige, and hope someone better gets to lead reform.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

All politicians are wankers but you've got to vote for someone. None of them keep their promises and none of them are a good person you want in power. But of all the slimy cunts you can vote for Farage is the least bad.. Unless we can get Welshy to run for MRLP on a platform of Jaffa cakes and proper Sausage rolls.

 

[>IMPLYING]

I guess I hold my nose and vote for nige, and hope someone better gets to lead reform.

You know how Starmer got roundly cowed by rebels? Or how the "assisted dying bill" and "home abortions up to birth bill" weren't front and centre in Labour's manifesto, because they were in fact PMBs thrown up for a vote by some random MPs? Or how Cameron relented to a third of his party to give the public a referendum on Brexit despite being personally against it? Also recall how Sarah Pochin asked Starmer about banning niqabs even though it's not Reform policy? And the subsequent row got Nige's Islamo-bank Yusif demoted from chairman?

Essentially all these things paint a picture where the leader doesn't matter quite as much as the MPs being a big enough pain in the ass. So long as some good MPs get in (a lot of good MPs if we're being honest) then it doesn't matter if Farage is the captain really, the ship's heading is ultimately decided by the wind, and a hundred MPs make product a stronger gust than any of Nigel's hot air.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Farage saying the Southport killer was "born in the UK" gets my goat proper. When can we call a spade a spade and a nigger a nigger?

 

[Eekum Bokum]

U.K Citizens are getting raped hardcore by their government. I actually feel bad for them.

Anyone who is in the U.K please get out of there as quick as you can. Its all gone to shit ever since the queen died.

Stop telling us to abandon our homeland because things are getting rough. It's very tiring and condescending.

 

[Otterly]

So long as some good MPs get in (a lot of good MPs if we're being honest) then it doesn't matter if Farage is the captain really, the ship's heading is ultimately decided by the wind, and a hundred MPs make product a stronger gust than any of Nigel's hot air.

I hope so. A lot of the reform MPs are untested. That could be good or bad I suppose. Things cannot continue as they are without the country simply sinking, so I suppose we just try something new.
Let’s just hope Labour don’t take out the Lords in this term.

 

[Muad'Dick]

Looks like the press have got the call about Rayner. I'll give her until Monday.

 

[Otterly]

Looks like the press have got the call about Rayner. I'll give her until Monday.

I want to see her mascara running at PMQs until she looks like a bad knockoff Robert smith.

 

[Chandiler Savant]

I want to see her mascara running at PMQs until she looks like a bad knockoff Robert smith.

or like Roy's date in IT crowd with the joker lady

 

[Delicious Diversity]

I hope so. A lot of the reform MPs are untested. That could be good or bad I suppose. Things cannot continue as they are without the country simply sinking, so I suppose we just try something new.
Let’s just hope Labour don’t take out the Lords in this term.

I feel the same way. On the one hand, they're the only party that might actually do something about free speech, grooming gangs, immigration, troons, and the islamisation of Britain. On the other, they are mostly amateurish populists with zero experience actually governing a G7 economy of 70 million people. My concern is that if they do get in power they will struggle to actually legislate the things they promise and furthermore completely fuck up the economy and public services.

Still, we can't go on as we are; dying from the slow boil is no better than dying from the quick one. It's probably worth taking the risk at this point. If nothing else then a period of chaos under Reform might at least force a change in the wider political establishment and have some lasting legacy like proportional voting.

Like @Made In Wales said, we should probably view it as the start of change rather than change itself.

 

[JosephStalin]

 

[teriyakiburns]

Might as well positive polly to the end and get a good last laugh since you're going to die anyway.

It might even save your life.

You have a guy who's desperate to tear down Farage and Trump and Farage eating him alive. He's making people laugh at him.

This is one of the huge differences between Parliament and the US Congress. Parliament is basically a PVP shit-posting arena, where people spend their lives learning how to insult one another in the most veiled and sneaky ways possible. It's an extension of the public school debate clubs, with a little less alcohol and a fewer rules. Congress - at least from what I've seen of it - lives and dies on decorum and collegiality, which makes them completely unprepared for someone boiled on the floor of the Commons. When George Galloway went up in front of congress, oh so many years ago, for what should have been a soul-crushing pillorying of his support for Saddam Hussain, he ran circles around everyone present and made them look like complete fools.

Makes me wonder what kind of person he is in private. A drunk, violent domestic abuser sort or meek, slapped in the back of your head by your wife who is way older than him bitch like Macron?

I think he sits in a charging station and stares at the wall.

 

[the rat]

I think he sits in a charging station and stares at the wall.

I almost forgot that this is the same freak who said he doesn't dream.

 

[Otterly]

or like Roy's date in IT crowd with the joker lady
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qub7M5W-geU:125

So funny. Such a good show

with a little less alcohol

There’s multiple bars in the Palace of Westminster, and they get through a lot of booze per year, all subsidised by us of course. There was a scandal about ten years back where they FOId the bar bill and it was something like 1.2million quid. Since then a few bars got closed but there’s still a heavy drinking culture

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

I almost forgot that this is the same freak who said he doesn't dream.

Why do you think he got so angry about having Happy Birthday being sung to him?
STARMER wasn't born, he was created, and there is no foreseeable reason to celebrate the manufacturing date of a product as it grows closer to expiry.