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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.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

"Isolated" or "unrepresentative" come to mind. Anything to minimise the reality.


Classic example of a strawman. Reframing a valid concern into a farcical one and then attacking the farce. I hate it when people do that and I hate the people who fall for it. Not slowly. Immediately.

The strawman is even wrong. He's trying to say a white police man raped girls in Rotherham. When I was reading up on it his surname was Ali. Know many white men with Ali for a surname?

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Thought, Rayner is the scapegoat to crackdown on small scale private landlords.

Labour already had one of those, can't remember his name but the one basically operating glorified slums.
Or there was the other one recently who turfed people out because she was going to sell then it was found on the rental market again at a higher rate.

 

[Muad'Dick]

Thought, Rayner is the scapegoat to crackdown on small scale private landlords.

More likely a crackdown on tax dodging. Small scale landlords are fucked enough as it is (unless you're an MP).

I do think this is all the work of Streeting gang though.

 

[Drihten]

Mad Nads (Nadine Dorries) joins Reform UK:

Terrible news, that crone was one of Boris' biggest cheerleaders.

 

[Made In Wales]

Labour already had one of those, can't remember his name but the one basically operating glorified slums.
Or there was the other one recently who turfed people out because she was going to sell then it was found on the rental market again at a higher rate.

Do you mean Luftur Rahman?

Absolute scumbag.

 

[Smyrna]

Rahman is a scumbag, but I think the slumlord he is referring to is Jas Athwal.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Do you mean Luftur Rahman?

Absolute scumbag.

Rahman is a scumbag, but I think the slumlord he is referring to is Jas Athwal.

Jas is the one, plenty of other scandals around him too.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

That's the American term.

That's why he should be sacked. If the turncoat wanker wants to use Americanisms, he can sod off to the other side of the pond.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UMaNwSZyAk4:93
Guido Transcript:

• Mason:
  “You’re sounding like Boris Johnson used to do. You can’t answer the direct question of whether a minister who had broken the ministerial code, if that’s the case, would be sacked.”
• Starmer:
  “Well, let me point out the key differences. Firstly, I strengthened the code and the role of the independent adviser. Secondly, I insist that if there’s any issue, any minister refers themselves to the process.”
• Mason:
  “And what about thirdly, that if there’s a conclusion of a breach that you sack the process?”
• Starmer:
  “Well, all I’m saying is he’s doing his job now and I need to let him finish that job. But this is a million miles away from where we were under Boris Johnson, where there was simply…”
• Mason:
  “Could you not just explicitly say if a minister has broken the ministerial code, they’ll be sacked? And you’re not saying that?”
• Starmer:
  “What I’m saying is there’s a clear procedure. I strengthened that procedure. It is now taking place. I am expecting a result pretty quickly. I do want it to be comprehensive, as you’d expect. And then of course I will act on whatever the report is that’s put in front of me.”

Starmer and Reeves are doubling down. Even O'Brien isn't having it.

Mason:
"If you didn't have breakfast this morning, how would you feel?"
Starmer:
"There was a process to making breakfast, which is more robust than when the maid does it. I made breakfast in accordance with that process and ate it satisfactorily. On the day I feel the need to avoid eating the breakfast, then I will tell you how I feel".

Same energy.

Starmer won't say if he will sack her because he needs the report to be published before a decision. If he says he will sack her, then the report may cover up evidence to keep Rayner in a job. That hurts Starmer.
Whereas if he keeps his cards close to his chest, and the report says Rayner should be sacked, he has the sword of Damocles hanging over her.

 

[ChefKiss]

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maybe if we could come up with one that prevents shitting in the street

 

[teriyakiburns]

maybe if we could come up with one that prevents shitting in the street

We already have the solution:

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

We already have the solution:

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Mobile toilets are not a solution.

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

We already have the solution:

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This will only work if you add madmax style spikes and shit to the front of it.
I need one with a giant combine harvester attachment modified to go through bone like butter.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I need one with a giant combine harvester attachment modified to go through bone like butter.

You don't need any of that. They'll instinctively throw themselves into the path of anything remotely train-shaped.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Spray the streets with a homeopathic solution of pigs blood and cows blood. The indians won't shit on it and the muslims, rastas and jews won't walk on it.

White utopia revived without firing a shot.

 

[The Gene Genie]

Starmer won't say if he will sack her because he needs the report to be published before a decision. If he says he will sack her, then the report may cover up evidence to keep Rayner in a job. That hurts Starmer.
Whereas if he keeps his cards close to his chest, and the report says Rayner should be sacked, he has the sword of Damocles hanging over her.

Let's be frank: He's waiting for the nod from Blair on whether or not the Party will cut her loose or not.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Let's be frank: He's waiting for the nod from Blair on whether or not the Party will cut her loose or not.

Is there a risk that if he cuts her loose, Corbyn will hoover up labour MPs like reform did to the tories?

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Ah yes, keep the housing minister who broke trust laws with public money for her disabled son and then proceeded to have multiple homes and tax dodged. What a beacon in politics.

"The grown-ups are now in charge."

Meanwhile, you have a Chancellor who LIED on her CV but won't fire her.

"We need the cronyism and corruption to end." Angela Rayner 2023

As for Corbyn, what a catch, the Labour MP who is hated. What the fuck is with Labour MPs and the inability to understand optics?

 

[Chunky Salsa]

What the fuck is with Labour MPs and the inability to understand optics?

I was thinking about this earlier actually. I think the only reason that Shaitan (Sorry, Sir Tony Blaire) managed all that he managed, was because he was the only labour MP - pretty much ever - that could shut the fuck up, get on with things, and handle criticism decently. Every single other labour MP seems to have a brain tumour that makes them incapable of basic PR.

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

What the fuck is with Labour MPs and the inability to understand optics?

These people struggle to comprehend basic concepts like "Economy of Scale", do you really think that they can understand such advanced things like "Public Perception" or "Hypocrisy?"

 

[Snackbarism]

I see Guido Fawkes now has a new look after so many years. Posting comments on that site was like pulling teeth, had to sign in EVERY TIME YOU WANTED TO POST SOMETHING.

Is it me or are they trying to go paywall on comments or is the free option very hidden at the bottom? https://order-order.com/membership/

Hopefully they fixed the dog shit commenting system as well, could find some entertaining stuff in them if they could evade the censors.