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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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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]

Why do they not mention that the people cooking and starting fires in Bourton-on-the-water are brown btw? Having been there, whilst it was busy with every race That’s mainly who it was. They do it right near the banks and bridges. Like it was mentioned a while back, it’s same in places like Dovedale in the peaks. Do you really have to cook curry right now on your day out? With the hoard of a family they brought out. They leave rubbish absolutely everywhere too.

I went to a very rural farm shop the other day and there were 10 pakis there talking in jigaboo as loud as possible. Trying to haggle prices down and making the place stink. They're all driving brand new cars as well so something really fucking weird is going on with these rural paki invasions. You don't get 2 new cars and have 6 people in each off of a corner shop income.

 

[Made In Wales]

The problem that the Right has is idealists on one side and pragmatists on the other.

The idealists want everything they want now, no questions and no talking back - everything back as it was now or riots.

The pragmatists know that it's going to take time to achieve things - we can't kick those we don't like or want here out in 24 hours, people will have to accept that change takes time.

That's the thing which annoys the rabid left - like Verruca Salt going 'I want it now, Daddy!' I want doesn't mean I get.

You need to change the system when you get in, you cannot say 'when I get in things will change' as that gives the game away and makes it easier for those you oppose to instigate things whereby even if you are in charge you legally cannot change them.

That's why Nigel is saying a lot of things, but keeping some things secret - he knows that once elected he can bring about changes surreptitiously and blindside those who want things as they are.

For example, Nigel could say 'when I'm PM, the BBC will be axed' - now, he may win support for this, but the BBC then have time to counter Nigel's plans and try to press-gang people against him;

'If you lose the BBC, you lose £x billions in revenue, Nigel's idea is bad...'

This reminds me of a riddle from Knightmare:

'Trashy Jack was quick to act, and thought about it later... whilst Stodgy Mort just thought and thought, but action did not savour... Steady John said 'Steady on! I'll think whilst there is time... but as a fact, I'll have to act or else I'm in the slime!'

You can't act and then think about the consequences, but you can't over-think the consequences and not act when you'll be next in line to be affected. You have to take the nuanced view of 'let's do a sensible approach and let's act on that.'

That's probably why some say I'm a glass half full and optimistic person, but I like to be pragmatic and reasoned (maybe I give too much reason to the unreasonable) and much as I'd like to think that all our problems will disappear tomorrow, even with Nigel as PM they won't. They can, however, start to become less of a problem, and seeing the 'up yours Starmer' England fans in Birmingham on Saturday gives myself and many others hope that now we're in the ascendancy and woke twits like Ellie Goulding are being mocked into silence that hopefully the change we want is coming fast.

There might, however, be a way of solving the migrant issue quicker than we thought - in Birmingham, where the trash isn't being collected, cholera is now spreading and considering that some migrants have bought TB, typhoid and other illnesses to this area a super-bug could form from their bacteria and potentially become fatal.

If you could imagine a new style plague forming from this (and we've seen super rats in Birmingham, not just the council leaders either!) then this would cause a national pandemic and we'd have to use the law to shut the country down - no planes, no boats, no Eurostar and it would be likely that as Blacks and Asians are more susceptible to these illnesses that they'd die off before the Whites who mostly have a naturally immunity but there are some with compromised systems since Covid.

What would the Wokes/ECHR do then? Demand more plague and more asbestos?

Even the idiot FBPE classes would be panicking about the amount of Poopyjeets.

I certainly hope that such an event doesn't happen, but there are major health problems being documented in Birmingham since the bin strikes. They only need time to mutate into something else.

 

[Crunkle]

A new Banksy was sprayed on the Royal Courts of Justice last night, and was quickly covered by a screen.



He's a Bristol artist so it's more than likely a reference to Palestine Action.

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[Special spoonie]

I went to a very rural farm shop the other day and there were 10 pakis there talking in jigaboo as loud as possible. Trying to haggle prices down and making the place stink. They're all driving brand new cars as well so something really fucking weird is going on with these rural paki invasions. You don't get 2 new cars and have 6 people in each off of a corner shop income.

Along with all the nonsense “the country side is racist articles” this is the next place of attack. Turn up and antagonise the last remaining majority white towns so they can remind everyone “diversity is our strength” Then lobby the government to make the farmers be taxed to death so it’s sold for more housing estates so we can get the next Bradford & Mohammed and his mates can buy up all the housing. The rest can go to those who turned up on boats. Who needs green spaces anyway.


Edit: and in other news seen these whispers recently but it’s been confirmed by Robert Peston that Starmer wanted to sack Ed Miliband but he refused to go. Funny he’s so weak now he can’t even sack certain people…

 

[FedPostalService]

A new Banksy was sprayed on the Royal Courts of Justice last night, and was quickly covered by a screen.

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He's a Bristol artist so it's more than likely a reference to Palestine Action.

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I like to think it’s about the oppression of the anti-migrant hotel protesters.

If Banksy can be turned into a far-right dog whistle then I’m all for it.

 

[teriyakiburns]

You don't get 2 new cars and have 6 people in each off of a corner shop income.

Those six people in each car are all paying for it. They lease the cars, take out loans to pay the lease, and then keep rolling the debt over, likely claiming benefits at the same time. It's very likely they get favourable treatment from jeet-infested financial institutions.

Starmer wanted to sack Ed Miliband but he refused to go.

He must have leverage of some sort. Milliband has been around the top of the party for a long time.

 

[FedPostalService]

Edit: and in other news seen these whispers recently but it’s been confirmed by Robert Peston that Starmer wanted to sack Ed Miliband but he refused to go. Funny he’s so weak now he can’t even sack certain people…

The thing about getting sacked is you don’t get a choice if you go or not. It’s a whole part of the getting sacked thing.

I smell shite with this story.

The weakness was not sacking Our Angie and thus giving her a way to come back and cause trouble in the future.

 

[A-Logato]

I like to think it’s about the oppression of the anti-migrant hotel protesters.

If Banksy can be turned into a far-right dog whistle then I’m all for it.

Sadly Banksy has made it very clear on what side of the discussion he is on. Though rebranding him as a stormfront, alt right, ultra nationalist would be hilarious.

 

[BongoMongo]

A bit off topic so I apologize profusely: has anyone seen 28 years later? It's got an overwhelmingly white cast

1. This is nice to see
2. Boyle who directed/ written it has said it is because back in 2002 the UK was predominantly white
3. And this is entirely mine own canon,but if a catastrophic event were to ever occur then we would absolutely split along ethnic group lines. And I don't blame the blacks for that, nor do I blame the whites. It's just what would happen. Robins fly with robins, wood pigeons with wood pigeons, blackbirds with blackbirds. It is absolutely just how nature is.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

A bit off topic so I apologize profusely: has anyone seen 28 years later? It's got an overwhelmingly white cast

1. This is nice to see
2. Boyle who directed/ written it has said it is because back in 2002 the UK was predominantly white
3. And this is entirely mine own canon,but if a catastrophic event were to ever occur then we would absolutely split along ethnic group lines. And I don't blame the blacks for that, nor do I blame the whites. It's just what would happen. Robins fly with robins, wood pigeons with wood pigeons, blackbirds with blackbirds. It is absolutely just how nature is.

Must have missed how white it was when half the screen time is

Spoiler: Not for the ladies

MASSIVE BLACK COCKS

swinging around.

 

[BongoMongo]

Must have missed how white it was when half the screen time is

Spoiler: Not for the ladies

MASSIVE BLACK COCKS

swinging around.

Where's the massive black cocks? I must have missed that. There's an alpha and he's a bit brown, but not very.

He's swarthy for sure but he's not a full blown nigger.

 

[Made In Wales]

Along with all the nonsense “the country side is racist articles” this is the next place of attack. Turn up and antagonise the last remaining majority white towns so they can remind everyone “diversity is our strength” Then lobby the government to make the farmers be taxed to death so it’s sold for more housing estates so we can get the next Bradford & Mohammed and his mates can buy up all the housing. The rest can go to those who turned up on boats. Who needs green spaces anyway.


Edit: and in other news seen these whispers recently but it’s been confirmed by Robert Peston that Starmer wanted to sack Ed Miliband but he refused to go. Funny he’s so weak now he can’t even sack certain people…

I can believe it.

Starmer does not want to work with the Blairites and that's what is causing the civil war within the party, and which is enveloping them with only three more Parliament days until they head up to Liverpool (and they're not going to get a warm welcome from the Scousers...)

Ed has experience of being the leader and has his own objective - to make brother David lots of money through Green Taxes. Starmer IMO doesn't care about drilling for gas, but Ed does and this has brought both to blows (figuratively) as Starmer wants access to oil and gas whereas Ed doesn't because then David will be sad as his Green money won't materialise.

I've also heard from 'an insider' (no names/pack drill) that there almost was a GE called for July due to Starmer backing Reeves no matter what and he apparently threatened those who didn't support him and the way he is running the country with potentially losing their seats.

Starmer doesn't care about anything other than getting his way - he already looks done as PM and would rather be cosying up to Zelensky than taking care of business here, therefore why should he care about MP's losing their seats now when they're going to lose them before long in any case?

The Blairites want Reeves gone at any and all cost, and replaced by Darren Jones, and the refusal to remove her has irked them. Starmer is captaining the ship (towards the icebergs) but Blair and the grandees are telling him that Labour is their party and not his which he absolutely cannot accept.

Potting Starmer now would be an admission of failure, but not potting him now means that Labour can only lurch on for so long as more and more people turn against them and we will be in for big trouble this winter. Add into the mix the still rising and popular Reform UK and the calls for change will not just be a case of optimism's flames but a real necessity demanded by all sides.

The last PM's before the break (and they've only been back for five days!) this Wednesday will give us an idea on whether Starmer can make a Lazarus type comeback or if he is indeed toast.

Anyway, something a little bit different: 'Only Fools And Horses' celebrates its 44th birthday today.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Where's the massive black cocks? I must have missed that. There's an alpha and he's a bit brown, but not very.

He's swarthy for sure but he's not a full blown nigger.

Must have missed how white it was when half the screen time is

Spoiler: Not for the ladies

MASSIVE BLACK COCKS

swinging around.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Where's the massive black cocks? I must have missed that. There's an alpha and he's a bit brown, but not very.

He's swarthy for sure but he's not a full blown nigger.

He's black. Look at his IMDB profile.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Sadly Banksy has made it very clear on what side of the discussion he is on. Though rebranding him as a stormfront, alt right, ultra nationalist would be hilarious.

I did see this on undercover police officers Hard Right 1488s only telegram channel. No idea if someone actually added that, or if it was done digitally since I only get my news from schizophrenic people online.

I liked 28 Years Later. I liked some of the themes involved in it, I liked most of the characters. I did not like random nogs full frontal nudity; and I did not like that supposedly still living human infected could walk off a magazine of 5.56 to centre mass at point blank range from three different directions. I actually really like the Jimmies at the end and while I don't think Danny Boyle was deliberately touching on the idea of re-enchantment, I do think it's in the film and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is however, very fucking pretentious lol.

 

[BongoMongo]

He's not a full blown nog.sorry not sorry if that offends,but he isn't. He's not a 2foot Wang swinging Somalian.

Edited to say, none of it was full blown nudity it was all modesty clothing and prosthetic wangs. Unlike 28 days later where we got to see Cillian Murphy's actual dick.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Unlike 28 days later where we got to see Cillian Murphy's actual dick.

...I do not remember that bit at all. I can't even go rewatch the film now for like a week either since having now seen this comment, it'd be gay to.

 

[Muad'Dick]

...I do not remember that bit at all. I can't even go rewatch the film now for like a week either since having now seen this comment, it'd be gay to.

Its only gay if you pause it

 

[Kofi Drinka]

He's not a full blown nog.sorry not sorry if that offends,but he isn't. He's not a 2foot Wang swinging Somalian.

Edited to say, none of it was full blown nudity it was all modesty clothing and prosthetic wangs. Unlike 28 days later where we got to see Cillian Murphy's actual dick.

I don't think any one cares if it was his real penis or a fake one. It's still a movie with constant black dicks in it. Maybe better in the horror thread though. Starmers takes up most the dick discussion in this thread

 

[BongoMongo]

It doesn't have constant black dick in it. Racism is fine, blind fanaticism stopping you from enjoying a film is borderline retarded.

Spoiler: Me rail

his nibs is better hung than the alpha in it and he is 100% Yorkshire. I'd ride him like the skeggy donkey that he is