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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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Kofi Drinka said:
The left kept saying the Online safety bill was about stopping CP and how Trump was an Esptein supporter. This is a controller narrative by the left wing in the West. Bunch of faggots keep going "think of the children!"
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I'd say the left's big problem is that they think about children too much.
Suspiciously so.
 
Otterly said:
It’s amazing that a fairly innocuous four line tweet can come across as so insufferable. I’d need to analyse why this is.
As ever, the single panel meme is spot on. Few more years and that’ll get the artist gulagged
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Because you're reading it in Britas's smug voice. He's lecturing you on how your opinion is WRONG and you're a bad person because you don't think like he does.

 
Otterly said:
It’s amazing that a fairly innocuous four line tweet can come across as so insufferable. I’d need to analyse why this is.
As ever, the single panel meme is spot on. Few more years and that’ll get the artist gulagged
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It's a fairly simple thing to analyze
>"I won't shy away from decisions to protect kids."
Demonstrably untrue, Kiar Starmer would throw white children into a volcano if it meant a dozen M'bugnu got extra benefits
>"Even if there are the predictable cries of nanny state"
"I know we are massively overreaching, and I will preempt you by saying that your cries of foul play are simply predictable, I have portrayed you as the nannyjak, and myself as the statechad."
>"We're stopping shops from selling high caffeine energy drinks to under-16s."
Complete nothingburger announcement following strong words.
>"So they can turn up to schools ready to learn."
Of all the problems our schools face, "Monster Energy Drink Consumption" is not one of them, it's a caffeinated beverage, not fucking crack cocaine. Niglets aren't gonna stop nogging if they have to illegally buy Monster. (Also I swear that kids were already banned from buying energy drinks, am I going insane?)
 
The energy drink thing is retarded as practically any major retailer already refuses to serve under 16s under the same way that they limit paracetamol sales (even though it's not actually illegal to sell more than two packets). The only people who will break this law are the same Paki corner shops who don't give a shit about selling single use vapes or loose cigarettes.

Once again, a new unenforcable law has been created which gives police officers more to do with less staff. I think I might propose a retarded law where it's illegal to murder a 28.2-38.5 year old man named John and call it John's Law, yes murder is already illegal but fuck it, it'd look nice on my CV as the person who implemented John's Law, and I could spend the rest of my life ragebaiting politicians wanting to repeal it by asking why they don't care about men named John aged 28.2-38.5 from being MURDERED.
 
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How To Decolonize Pakistan

The Christian British and other Europeans are culturally enriching Pakistan with vibrant diversity

Comrades: The Pakistani Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) is thrilled to announce the latest election results. Sir Chadwick Kensington has won the race to become Mayor of Islamabad. He is the first ever Christian British person to serve in this position - diversity is our greatest strength!

Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammed Kefir bin Starmzad has congratulated Sir Kensington. Their Laballah Party is committed to increasing immigration from Britain. Every year, trillions of rupees are budgeted to house Christian British migrants in luxury hotels. Thousands of future doctors and engineers arrive every week by rowing across the Indus River. They have a human right to free food and healthcare, especially for refugees in need of dental equity. Under new inclusivity initiatives, Brits are given priority for jobs over native Pakistanis. However, more Christian Brits have enlisted in international hooligan organizations than the Pakistani military and some have even hacked our soldiers to death.

Islamabad was 99% Pakistani in 1950, but today Pakistanis are a shrinking minority. The most popular boy’s name in the capital city is now Harry. Millions of Christian Brits are culturally enriching Pakistan by converting mosques into churches and opening non-halal fish and chip shops everywhere. No one knows where they get their money from, how they can afford to have so many children, and how much of it is sent back to Britain in remittances.
British migrants are waving the Union Jack all over Islamabad during protests.
Knife crime keeps rising, so the Laballah party is banning knives. Last summer, British and French Pakistanis rioted in the streets of Lahore and Karachi over a European football match. Both cities also have British mayors and segregated neighborhoods for French, German, and other European migrants who prefer to live amongst each other instead of assimilating.

Grooming gangs comprised of Christian British men have raped thousands of Pakistani girls across the country, but the Pakistani police covered it up for fear of being called racist. Brits loyal to the Christian Brotherhood have also conducted several suicide bombing terrorist attacks that have killed hundreds of Pakistanis, including one at a Dua Lipa concert. Don’t look back in anger!

If you criticize Christians, burn a bible, or insult their prophet Jesus Christ, the police will arrest you for Christophobia under our new blasphemy rules. They are pushing for Christia law, which includes mandatory face coverings for women and female genital mutilation. British Lives Matter has received ample funding from Pakistani corporations, but saying Brown Lives Matter is considered hate speech.

Maharaja Chaka Khan III of the Pakistani royal family has knighted Sir Chadwick Kensington. He has invited British Christians for Christmas prayers in the Grand Mosque of Islamabad. Most of the Pakistani national football team is British and we need more to win World Cup against India because they have so many top German players. Pakistan must apologize for colonization, so we must keep our borders open and consider reparations. The top priority of Pakistani foreign policy is to keep funding Eritrea in its war against Ethiopia. No matter what party Pakistanis vote for, more Brits will arrive and you will be labeled a far-right fascist if you don’t want that to happen.

This is what democracy looks like. Christ is King! At least we’re not speaking Hindi!

Coming up next, Dame Judy Dench stars as Muhammad Ali Jinnah in a critically claimed historical drama about Pakistan’s independence.

(It feels like satire is dead, in current year. This is a decent switcheroo, but it still misses a lot of the bite of properly done satire. Can you even write a proper satire skewering the YooKay without being arrested?)
 
Symbol of the Chud said:
Of all the problems our schools face, "Monster Energy Drink Consumption" is not one of them, it's a caffeinated beverage, not fucking crack cocaine. Niglets aren't gonna stop nogging if they have to illegally buy Monster. (Also I swear that kids were already banned from buying energy drinks, am I going insane?)
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Call me old fashioned but I've never liked energy drinks and I think they're bad for kids. I remember growing up and kids being a problem when they had too much coke. They would get a sugar rush and be a pain in the arse then crash. Giving kids a bunch of caffeine and sugar is going to cause the same problems.

I don't like the energy drink and gym culture we've found ourselves in. I would understand needing a red bull on a long drive, but you see people drinking it as a casual drink. It's every where and become more common to drink than coke or pepsi among men. Seems like it would lead to heart conditions if you're popping those most of your life.

Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
The only people who will break this law are the same Paki corner shops who don't give a shit about selling single use vapes or loose cigarettes.
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Which is where kids often shop because they set up close to schools and in small villages. We need a law that bans foreigners owning corner shops. And another law that bans opening 6 different super markets within walking distances of each other. Do we really need Tesco, Aldi, Waitrose and Lidl all within 2 minutes walk of each other? Super markets have become so large, it's faster to walk between them than it is to walk across one.

I'm going to go on a bit of a rant here. How are old ladies and disabled supposed to navigate these mega super markets? There's like 5 isles just for frozen food. They're becoming the dominant part of our towns now, where everything is a super market mega structure or it's a charity shop. How do all these rival super markets make money with locations so big and a rival within spitting distance?

I'm going to get a pipe and slippers for my next birthday aren't I?

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If you had called it London instead of Pakistan it would have been perfect comedy.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Call me old fashioned but I've never liked energy drinks and I think they're bad for kids. I remember growing up and kids being a problem when they had too much coke. They would get a sugar rush and be a pain in the arse then crash. Giving kids a bunch of caffeine and sugar is going to cause the same problems.
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Sure, but if you actually want to fix schools you.
1) Bring back beatings and canings
2) Start treating troublemakers and disobedient students like they are literal retards
2.5) shoot niggers out of a cannon
3) Implement a no-tolerance phone ban.

Energy drinks aren't going to be a major problem either way. Kids will drink energy drinks to SHOW their disobedience, they don't fuckin cause it.
 
A-Logato said:
Well looking at where she was from in Manchester and what age she was when she had the kid then I presume she was downing bottles of white lightning for 23 weeks before the poor kid tried to self abort.
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She’s from Cheadle, not Mosside. It’s a nice town.

I bet she thinks Salford is part of Manchester. Everything about her is fake.
 
Maybe I'm being a Negative Nancy because I'm in the middle of a house move, but I don't think Rayner is going anywhere.

As for energy drinks and under 16s my Mum was a teacher and worked in a secondary school. It was parents buying their kids red bull and dosing them up on them to get their little darlings to misbehave so they'd get an ADHD diagnosis and the parents would get the additional benefits that was the issue. And this was in a relatively nice Southern town. It was flagrant and widely known.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
I disagree. Filling a kid full of sugar and caffeine is going to make them hyper as fuck
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We're not fuckin talking about 9 year olds here, granddad, we're talking about 14 and 15 year old shitbags. Or at least I am. Unless things are even worse than I think they are, I think the only epidemic facing primary schools is the Skibidi Fortnite Italian Brainrot Fever.
 
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