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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.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Lol. "Climate change" my fucking arse

Climate change is real. That's why we should nuke the whole on India and Africa and all the fucking americans pushing dogshit consooomerism. Billions of human waste fuck the planet up much more than me not dying of hypothermia in winter.

Why the fuck would you do this?

Because he's already the most hated politician in history. Why bother trying to be good and appeal to people? He's already lost. Might as well push through all those controversial laws that everyone secretly wants behind the scenes. He isn't a politician anymore, he's just the fall guy. He takes the shit, everyone looks at him and calls him an absolute faggot, but lets be honest here, parliament isn't going to undo anything he did that no one likes. They're going to keep it for a whole slew of bullshit reasons but it will save whatever other ruling party the hassle of having to propagandise these human rights infringements as good things. He's just helping out the next faggot that pretends to serve this country.

 

[StimulatedOrb]

No idea, I'm a white man, married to a beautifual Indian woman.

Thats actually worse than being gay.

 

[Otterly]

If you get enough of them they start to attract badgers,

Firstly, I have this mental image of dodgy hedgehogs enticing badgers to their cat food buffet, but secondly; really? How does that work? We’ve had a lot of hedgehogs, never seen a badger in the back garden. We are semi-urban-rural, enough to see deer wander through but never had a badger.

 

[Crunkle]

Thats actually worse than being gay.

FrostedClit is the usual thread faggot -Jack-'s thread. Here's what he looks like (he's a faggy gay man from Welwyn Garden City who thinks he's Britney Spears' gay son):

https://embed.kiwifarms.st/threads/the-easy-to-track-username-hall-of-shame.104753/post-21538497

 

[Chunky Salsa]

FrostedClit is the usual thread faggot -Jack-'s thread. Here's what he looks like (he's a faggy gay man from Welwyn Garden City who thinks he's Britney Spears' gay son):

https://embed.kiwifarms.st/threads/the-easy-to-track-username-hall-of-shame.104753/post-21538497

He looks...really young.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Firstly, I have this mental image of dodgy hedgehogs enticing badgers to their cat food buffet, but secondly; really? How does that work? We’ve had a lot of hedgehogs, never seen a badger in the back garden. We are semi-urban-rural, enough to see deer wander through but never had a badger.

Yea you don't want badgers, first you get hedgehogs, then they bring in the badgers and once they hit a critical mass you end up with a mushroom and that's just not cricket.

I would assume that the increased activity alerts the badgers though. I have heard of people putting hedgehog food in small boxes, kinda like those anti pigeon bird feeders but hedgehogs and badgers. Though I'm in the same boat, deer and foxes in the garden all the time but the only time I've seen a badger is upside down on the side of the road that the dog wants to try and fucking eat. Probably just good at camoflauge and all that shit. Bit harder to see than something 4ft tall or bright orange.

 

[Otterly]

you end up with a mushroom

Badger badger badger!
moon on a stick

 

[Muad'Dick]

Firstly, I have this mental image of dodgy hedgehogs enticing badgers to their cat food buffet, but secondly; really? How does that work? We’ve had a lot of hedgehogs, never seen a badger in the back garden. We are semi-urban-rural, enough to see deer wander through but never had a badger.

The badger is to the hedgehog what the escalator is to the Chinese; the apex predator. People assume it's foxes, but foxes only really go for their young or any carrion they find. Badgers give zero shits.

I was always pretty ambivalent towards hedgehogs as they're pretty good for you garden, but when they get comfy they breed like rabbits and thats a free lunch to badgers.

I never had a problem with badgers on my land until I had a bunch of hedgehogs settle in. Then the badgers settled in on my neighbour's land and we're kind of stuck with them now. You can't just gas their setts (very easy to do btw) because they're protected by law.

I had to relocate my chickens and dig footings to stop the badgers burrowing under the fencing and getting they KFC. I don't want to tempt fate, but they'll have to dig through brickwork now.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Climate change is real. That's why we should nuke the whole on India and Africa and all the fucking americans pushing dogshit consooomerism. Billions of human waste fuck the planet up much more than me not dying of hypothermia in winter.

I don't know how real it is, but a bajillion tonnes of plastic tat sailing from China to Europe daily is a needless waste of the environment. Nobody needs another plastic santa, chinknesium spanner set or turkish hair clippers.

Why the fuck would you do this?

I actually do wonder if the government thinks that we're all genuinely retarded?

There are many levels to the Digital ID and whichever way you slice it, it's about control. Look back to COVID, how many people were pissed off with the control there? Blocked from entering businesses, banned from the hospital, barred from shops, no entry without a smartphone, mask or jab.
Yet millions of people went along to get along. Digital ID will be the same.

It's all about control. Digital ID to get on the internet - which will be censored, paywalled and censored again, Digital ID to travel, to buy products etc.
It will be sold as a way to stop the small boats but it won't matter. It may as well be sold as a gay card that fornicates your mother, the masses will eat it up.

"It's so convenient having a Digital ID! I can shop, travel and see friends without having to do the icky passport control, completing insurance forms online and I never get stopped at self-checkouts for ID anymore. I can buy spoons without hassle...snark"

 

[teriyakiburns]

Yet millions of people went along to get along. Digital ID will be the same.

No. Every single time they've tried to introduce a new national ID card, no matter how they sold its supposed benefits, the people refused. It's a cultural instinct to refuse mandatory government ID. People went along with teh covid pass at least partly because it appeared time- and purpose-limited; it was for covid, so they could mentally justify it, no matter how intrusive it was, because they believed it would go away when the pandemic ended. Even then, it was widely acknowledged to be an abysmal failure, with a paltry uptake rate, largely because people realised it was an attempt to sneak a national ID system through the back door.

National ID, digital or otherwise, is an entirely different proposition. The only people who would accept it are immigrants, who are already used to such systems in their home countries. The majority of the English will refuse it point-blank. Even if they try and push it through with the claim it's to stop immigration, the majority will refuse it. They'll reject the requirement that they need to get ID in order to stop immigrants.

 

[Otterly]

badgers

I was camping down in Cornwall maybe twenty five (ouch) years ago and we had a badger come into the tent. We had some bacon and sausages in the outer porch bit and I heard something snuffling around and thought it’d be the farmers dog (who had tried it before) or a fox. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw it was a badger, I thought they avoided humans but this one was bold as brass. First live one I’d ever encountered, see a few on the road now and again dead, rather sadly.
Entirely my own fault for leaving bacon there, I yelled at it (actually I just yelled like a girl but whatever) and it scarpered.
Apparently the local ones were really pushy, mainly due to stupid campers leaving food around. While we were there some bloke got attacked by one he cornered in his garage and it took half his arm off, they’re vicious things.
Happy days.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Badgers are really nasty and they can kill your dogs. Never encourage them to be near you and avoid their holes when it's getting dark. Not worth the hassle.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

No. Every single time they've tried to introduce a new national ID card

Because they never had the correct 'motivation' for the people to accept it.

Even then[covid lockdowns], it was widely acknowledged to be an abysmal failure, with a paltry uptake rate, largely because people realised it was an attempt to sneak a national I

They still went along with it.

so they could mentally justify it, no matter how intrusive it was

Then DigID only requires justification lubrication for it to slip in the minds of the people.

The majority of the English will refuse it point-blank.

The majority of the English, aren't English.

You're an intelligent poster, so I can't accept that you haven't seen worse things attempted and succeeded to be implemented.

Remember the Rape Ban that Cameron tried? It failed.
Remember the internet censorship that the tories tried? It failed
Yet here we are, VPN'ing to access the internet.
If at first you don't succeed...

I believe DIGID is coming and if Starmer can't, or won't push it through, then he will be removed and replaced with most probably Farage. Farage is in the best position to convince Big Baz and Fat Dave down the boozer that DIGID is a good idea.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

First you have hedgehogs, then you have badgers, and before you know it you've got mushrooms. This inevitably leads to snakes, a snake, ooh it's a snake.

I have read that back in the day, badger hams were considered quite the delicacy. It's a notion that has stayed with me despite actually useful information long since having turned to dust.

 

[Mound Dweller]

If (((they))) force it through it will not be pretty, fundamental incompatibility with the national spirit.
I'm saying it now; I would sooner live a life of iterant petty crime, gyppo maxxx, and live in a fucking caravan than be branded with a digital ID, and I reckon I'm not the only one.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

If (((they))) force it through it will not be pretty, fundamental incompatibility with the national spirit.
I'm saying it now; I would sooner live a life of iterant petty crime, gyppo maxxx, and live in a fucking caravan than be branded with a digital ID, and I reckon I'm not the only one.

If you're going full gyppo, prepare to fight badgers for the right to dine on hedgehogs. The key is to cover them in clay then bake them in the coals of a fire. The dried clay brings the spines away with it, apparently.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

First you have hedgehogs, then you have badgers, and before you know it you've got mushrooms. This inevitably leads to snakes, a snake, ooh it's a snake.

I have read that back in the day, badger hams were considered quite the delicacy. It's a notion that has stayed with me despite actually useful information long since having turned to dust.

They often carry TB so eating them is a bad idea. They're protected by law when they can pass it onto cows and fuck up farms really easily.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

They often carry TB so eating them is a bad idea. They're protected by law when they can pass it onto cows and fuck up farms really easily.

The forbidden fruit is often all the sweeter, and I'm more concerned about contracting TB, ebola etc from the Axel Rudakubana lookalikes in the local precinct than from dining on back strap of brock

 

[redlenses2112]

Neoliberal fearmongers warned us that Trump’s tariffs would bring pain. Shitlibs in the UK and elsewhere are forewarned to brace themselves:

Britain’s only museum dedicated to the vagina has paused sales of its products to the US amid Donald Trump’s global trade tariffs.

The Vagina Museum in Bethnal Green, east London, sells items including postcards, magnets, stickers and tea towels featuring the female anatomy.

But they are now subject to the US president’s 10 per cent baseline tariff which came into effect in August.

This constitutes a blow to equity:

The museum was founded in 2017 by Florence Schechter, a consultant in the cultural and creative industries, who realised there were several penis museums worldwide but none for the vagina.

Previously, the Vagina Museum managed to survive being oppressed by its landlord.


It isn’t always easy to stand up for tasteless shitlibbery in a world that has been fed to the teeth with it, yet the Vagina Museum endures.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

What fucking american is importing a fucking vagina postcard? Glad to her the domestic american pussy magnet market will flourish again, I know it died off pretty hard when I last visited.