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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.

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.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

I see Mahmood is trying to throw about some red meat to prevent the media from latching on. I caught your lie, you said when questioned, you said "donor" but there were 2 donors. I suspect the cabinet is linked to all of this, considering they're throwing meat.

Starmer thinks he can get in Digital ID without any kind of Parliament discussion/approval. He is setting up Kendall to take that hit, which is what Boris did. I can't wait to see the back end of these fuckers. They are all delusional cultists.

The good thing about the following government is that they have no mandate. How can you follow it? We got in through a corrupt as hell Blairite who was acting for a previous government, most of the cabinet was interwoven through fraud, and we got in on the lowest turnout election in history.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

it's very, very stupid and Pritchard is an expert at this.

He became a vegan chef. I own one of his cook books and recommend you never do. He was always a twat. Pancho is the best one.

Brookside had lesbians

Are they sister lesbians playing Call of Duty? The slant eyed chick and her porn sister have set my standards very high.

Bit of a change of topic, but I made my own stuffing at the weekend. HOW has Paxo been getting away with this scam for so long? You literally grate one of the heels off the loaf, and an apple.

When I think of all the thousands of pounds I've wasted over the years...

Sage is delicious. It's what makes stuffing taste so good and we don't use it enough in cooking. Sage, Sausage meat, bread and apple is all you need for a good stuffing.

Have you ever seen a real vagina before? You do know that that area is also gross and smelly and even worse than your armpits in terms of hygeine because you don't fucking piss out your armpits and you don't shit out of your biceps.

You clearly haven't since you think women piss out of them.

Bellybuttons were the feet of the 2000s.

Your username isn't ironic is it? Always gave off diddler vibes.

the ankle,

This is why we need burkas. Ankles are too erotic..

When was the last time you saw a swan and a 12 year old girl in a car?

My stag night.. And the girl wasn't driving.

Every time I go to feed the ducks and see there's a shit load of swans there I roll my eyes and try to throw the food towards the ducks instead.

So you hate white creatures?

Geese taste good and they're easy to shoot because they're fucking huge. Good, bad, it all the same when you have some cranberry sauce and mash tatties.

 

[Made In Wales]

I see Mahmood is trying to throw about some red meat to prevent the media from latching on. I caught your lie, you said when questioned, you said "donor" but there were 2 donors. I suspect the cabinet is linked to all of this, considering they're throwing meat.

Starmer thinks he can get in Digital ID without any kind of Parliament discussion/approval. He is setting up Kendall to take that hit, which is what Boris did. I can't wait to see the back end of these fuckers. They are all delusional cultists.

The good thing about the following government is that they have no mandate. How can you follow it? We got in through a corrupt as hell Blairite who was acting for a previous government, most of the cabinet was interwoven through fraud, and we got in on the lowest turnout election in history.

The numbers don't add up - I strongly suspect fraud in Labour seats.

If people were unfairly turned away and denied votes, and if the Electoral Commission knew about this or was paid off, then it's a criminal act and the Government can be removed instantly.

I still think the Budget vote will be the end point - Farage and Badenoch apparently support an Opposition Day motion on blocking it and if successful that the vote passes and also that the Budget is voted down then there's no more cards to play.

This could trigger Starmer into panicking.

I suspect more leaks are going to come out, as predicted. McSweeney and his Aunt (Sue Gray) need a thorough investigation and I suspect Starmer's enemies will slowly be leaking tidbits out.

Speaking of young children and Labour, apparently the Labour Party Conference will have a creche for children aged from 6 months to 14 years of age.

Does anybody else find this a bit weird? What 14 year old child would want to play with a 6 month old baby in a Labour Party creche?

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I can think of many 14 year old 'children' who would LOVE to play with a 6 month old.

 

[Made In Wales]

I can think of many 14 year old 'children' who would LOVE to play with a 6 month old.

Yeah, I thought that as well.

Oh dear...

For any footy fans who care, the League Cup 4th Round fixtures are:

Arsenal v Brighton

Grimsby Town v Brentford

Swansea City v Manchester City

Newcastle United v Tottenham

Wrexham v Cardiff City

Liverpool v Crystal Palace

Wolves v Chelsea

Wycombe v Fulham

 

[Midwit]

Are they sister lesbians playing Call of Duty? The slant eyed chick and her porn sister have set my standards very high.

I hate that I know the exact video you're talking about, you sad pathtic winker.

Sage is delicious.

One of the few things I like about where I work is that fact that it occassionally involves handling and unloading ten-kilo bags of the stuff, which smells pretty good.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I hate that I know the exact video you're talking about, you sad pathtic winker.

I don't know what video you're talking about. I was checking out that presenter earlier and found their twitch/youtube channel. Hasn't been active in 2 years.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

You clearly haven't since you think women piss out of them.

I'll be sure to kiss my gf's armpits doubly just for you before I go sleep I'm sure you don't need the last remaining thread faggot to explain to you that when the vast majority of people say vagina they mean the entire area not the biologically accurate term.

So you hate white creatures?

Yes. I hate some white people too. Namely most eastern europeans and specifically romanians and bulgarians. I am not racist because of what I see on the surface, I am racist because I understand what is below it.

Also more on topic political shit stirrer tyler oliveira made another video on the state of England including an interview with robinson. He sounds like even more of a faggot than usual. Also he's wearing a fucking stony ffs.

If I had a penny for every retard that said just get rid of starmer I'd have enough money to run a campaign telling them the fucking tories started this not keir.

 

[EddyRooney]

Yes. I hate some white people too. Namely most eastern europeans and specifically romanians and bulgarians. I am not racist because of what I see on the surface, I am racist because I understand what is below it.

I did introduce the Major a few pages back as a light hearted introduction to classification.

IC1 White - North European
IC2 White - South European
IC3 Black
IC4 Asian (South Asian)
IC5 Chinese/Japanese/South East Asian
IC6 Arab or North African
IC9 Unknown - Colloquially known as pikeys.

Harry Callahan's guide to racial equality starts about 30 seconds in below -

If I had a penny for every retard that said just get rid of starmer I'd have enough money to run a campaign telling them the fucking tories started this not keir.

Tony B-Liar of Labour started it. Weak non-conservative Conservatives allowed it to continue. They are all to blame, but ultimate responsibility lies with the Devil.

 

[bort420]

Or we could just start punishing them the way their home countries would if it's worse. Call it cultural sensitivity.

Western europe in general decided post-WW2 that being the human rights capital of the world was worth destroying thousands of years of culture so good luck with that. Ironically the very browns and muslims saved by those rulings would happily execute criminals like those given the chance.

 

[The Incredible Gassy]

Geese are Satan's emissaries upon this Earth an you cannot tell me otherwise. Not as evil as Muslims but not far off.

Geese would gangrape little girls the same way pusslims do if they could.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Bri'ish Kiwis, what are the REALISTIC chances of Farage and Reform UK actually winning power in the next 12-18 months?

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Bri'ish Kiwis, what are the REALISTIC chances of Farage and Reform UK actually winning power in the next 12-18 months?

It’s worth sticking £20 on Trump replacing Farage as PM in 2028 just for the comedy value.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

I supposed it's inevitable that a greggs thread would turn into such a sausage fest.


The fact that it literally happened seems to pass these people by. The press runs the stories, then runs the "debunk" - nobody has been caught! - a few days later as part of a rage-bait cycle, but the fact that it actually happens hasn't changed.

Curry chef escapes jail for killing a swan: Sleeping bird was strangled in drunken attack - paki immigrant found with the carcass. He had intended to cook it.
‘I wanted to see what it tasted like’ Man fined for killing and EATING Queen’s swan - turkish immigrant

Loads more if you look for a few minutes.

Every new academic year, foreign students would be found in campus housing with dead ducks strung up in their kitchen windows, taken from the various campus ponds. Every academic year, staff would gently but forcefully attempt to educate foreign students that the local wildlife is not for catching and eating. Common knowledge, and I’d wager most other universities with local duck populations have the same issue.

Add to that the hanging of clothing from every point possible but the cupboard - usually light fittings, curtain rails, smoke alarms and sprinklers. Oh no, the sprinkler just randomly went off for some reason, and not due to being clattered by an idiot with a hanger, no.

Doesn’t stop in off-campus housing either. It seems many foreign students have no concept of regular bin collections, and instead just chuck their full bin bags in the nearest outside space they can find (usually back or front gardens). And they walk past them merrily each day even when the pile gets higher than they are.

Most of these students were Chinese. Make of that what you will.

Some fucking hilarious music that they played, though. No idea about the Chinese popular music scene, but wow do they have some crooners.

 

[Overly Serious]

My first actual crush was raven but the one from teen titans,

Quotes me to tell me I'm off-base in thinking Victoria Beckham is more attractive than Geri Halliwell, proceeds to hold up a cartoon character as better example.

Many such cases.

 

[Elysian]

If we’re still talking about fit children’s TV people I’m contractually obligated to post mid-2000s Barney Harwood for the women/homosexuals.

 

[Amin Yasister]

Yeah but theres wierd vibes when the other girl is the sister.


Broke my heart as a young lad when she kissed the guy from ant n dec on that saturday morning show. Dont know which ones which,the one who doesnt have a huge foredome that stops him from driving sober.

She can laugh at herself too.

 

[Gian-Luca Caluga]

Most of these students were Chinese. Make of that what you will.

You ever fannied about on Rednote, the Chinese TikTok thing that's accessible across the Firewall? Right now, what with it being the beginning of the academic year, it's fucking brimming with new-to-the-UK Chinese students literally asking whether they're allowed to eat the geese on their uni campus.

That they're asking, this year, is progress.

 

[Amin Yasister]

Some asylum seekers saying they had no choice but to work illegally for as little as £20 a day to pay off debts to people smugglers

Why don't they grass up the smugglers they are paying? Starmer's clamp down on smuggling gangs would see them arrested within seconds. Wouldn't he?

 

[Erikkk]

Most of these students were Chinese.

Not surprising one bit. I've heard horror stories from family members that have worked as cleaners for student dorms over the summer, to get them ready for the next lot, and the Tiddlywinks are by far the most disgusting. A lot of the ones here are rich kids back home that have maids to pick up their shit after them so they leave the places an absolute mess but, the worst part was hearing from my cousin about the mystery meat & bones they would find in the freezer which looked like nothing from a shop. The security guard told her that he'd occasionally see them walking in with stray cats... now make of that what you will.