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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.

 

[FedPostalService]

I assume non-viable meant it was loaded with explosives, but he had done a shit job of rigging it up, otherwise they would have said fake?

It usually means that it had the potentially to go boom but it was wired by a retard. However, the police is ran by women these days and they don't know how words work.

 

[Justsomecicada]

I’m surprised they haven’t done this yet.

It won’t be that blatant, it will start as something like a spare bedroom tax

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Non-viable, as fedpost said, means it could have gone boom, but the -80 fat Paki thankfully cannot read.

 

[Pholidota]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d7l2pvdrro

https://archive.is/HQUF8

This is such blatant propaganda by the BBC, not that that's a shock. Family with ties to Saddam Hussein(!) shops around the EU for 15 years, being denied asylum by several countries due to not actually fleeing any danger besides the paranoid belief that their past evil will catch up to them and "alleged death threats".

Eventually pays near 5 grand (where did that money come from?) to cross the Channel, killing their young daughter in the process.

Now the BBC is fawning their success of having another anchor baby to replace the one they killed, a baby conceived whilst still homeless, still trying to convince any (read: predominantly white) country to give them undeserved asylum, evidently unconcerned about the instability and danger they'd be raising their next child under.

Sara would have been luckier in life if she didn't have such fucking atrociously irresponsible parents.

They still want to come here though, France isn't good enough for them apparently. At least they seem to have learned their lesson about not killing their children in needlessly risky adventures.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Now the BBC is fawning their success of having another anchor baby

I just want to point out, legally the UK has had no concept of birthright citizenship since the early 80s. ECHR rulings about "family life" notwithstanding, there's no such thing as an anchor baby here. If (when, god willing) we dump the human rights act, it'll make removals a lot easier.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

I’m surprised they haven’t done this yet.

They did, but with more palatable and oft attractive peoples the Ukrainians.
Having an 18 year old Ukrainian Au Pair is a nicer idea to swallow than 40 year screaming ab-dab mohammed al baksur praying six times a day.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

I'd say I can't sleep either but I'm at work. Slow night though, so I'm currently half listening to Can't Pay We'll Take It Away.

This show is great, it really brings life to the saying "the dildo of consequence rarely arrives lubricated".

Don't quote me on this but apparently paul is a massive cunt. Apparently had building work done that he just didn't fucking pay for and got himself in debt over. Also entered into a lawsuit against the broadcasting company with another one of the bailiffs, agreed to split the payout 50-50 and just fucking didn't apparently. But yea good show and all the redditfags complaining that it was being mean to people should fucking kill themselves.

In the UK it is, and always has been, legal to marry your first cousin. This has been the case since at least Tudor times, when the table of prohibited degrees of kinship was formalised, and cousins were never included.

This is what I mean. It doesn't seem like we've decided that fucking a cousin is ok, we just forgot to make it formally not ok. There are plenty of places in the world that until fairly recently did not have laws against sex with children or animals because fucking no one does that to even make it something a lawmaker would think about making illegal. First cousin marriage should be illegal but it was just never included and now all the faggots in charge are too pussy to actually make it illegal because they don't want to be called racist or some shit.

Why not just live with your parents and care for them and inherit the house when they pass on.

Don't forget you need to pay inheritance tax though. You know, tax on the house that my family purchased (using money that was taxed) and had to constantly pay council tax (with taxed money) and now I have to pay (with more fucking taxed money) inheritance tax on because the fucking government can't let your family die without demanding you pay them a shit load of money and then once they have extorted you they then tell you that you have to still pay more fucking tax that will never go to anything you actually use or care about and also any left over money that the faggots don't steal from you and you want to buy things with you have to pay tax on that too. Literally five fucking levels of tax just because someone died and even then it still takes a fucking year to see a doctor. I do agree with a lot of things that are taxed jokes aside, but there is absolutely no justification for inheritance tax at all.

He's, as of last night, been housed 'somewhere in Ireland' in an undisclosed location to keep him safe.

Remember back in the good old days where this guy would suddenly wake up with two self inflicted sledgehammerings to the kneecaps. If only they weren't all traitors off selling ket and still gave a shit about the country.

The barely intelligible Manc accents really make this video. what a shambles. why are there no parademics or police at that dead mans side? who's letting crackhead vicky and those two jews just walk past him? average day up norf

Simple. You don't want to bring in an ambulance if there is still an active shootout 10ft away. Secure scene then ambulance, not the other way around. The attacker isn't secured, not disarmed or handcuffed or anything so no ambulance will get near incase he decides to go for round two. Especially if he has a fucking bomb. And also because the guy's dead. They're paramedics not necromancers. The only thing that surprises me is that they only shot him once. And that's far from the worst manc accent? That's perfectly understandable smh. But hey. Welcome back to the early 2010s. Hope none of you were planning on using the tube any time within the next decade.

What do you think he is lads?

Arab beard. I saw him and my mind instantly went to turk but then again why the fuck would a turk give this much of a shit?

Bomb Squad blew up the 'suspicious items' on the dead guy. Death count now at two.

Your links are fucked btw.

If you’re ever unfortunate enough to find yourself in Birmingham the art gallery is actually quite nice.

I know it's a meme. But Birmingham is actually quite nice. It is by far the worst city in the country. Their aquarium is the best in the country. Assuming that you stay within the city centre. Go outside into the housing areas and it's fucked but the city centre is good and nice. The real hell hole is leicester right next to it. Imagine birmingham but without the nice city centre, imagine the entire thing is just exclusively the third world shithole housing areas of birmingham. All the negatives of a 40% british population with no redeeming qualities.

Police not identifying the suspect "for safety reasons".

My money is on those safety reasons being it is going to kick off, big time if this is a boat brown.

No!!!!!! Stop thinking about things gosh diddly darn it. They are doing it to protect the safety of the terrorist to make sure no one does a racism against him. Dead people have feelings too you know? Just look at parliament and all the ghouls in there.

Oh it was a bomb that they had to detonate

Didn't even get to hit post and this has already aged well, how do I quote a post that isn't even posted? 'Hope none of you were planning on using the tube any time within the next decade.'

The suspected bomb-belt was 'not viable', which I interpret to mean it was so shoddily wired it wouldn't have been able to detonate (they're not sending their best...).

Nah. If there's one thing muslims are good at it's blowing themselves up. My money is on it being an intentional time waster. If you get shot then you tend to die, that's kinda the purpose of it. Once you are dead then that's the attack over with. The only way to elongate it is to either not get shot, have more than one person, or do something that prevents the area being secured after you die. The easiest way is to just cellotape a couple bags of sugar to yourself and pretend they're bombs. That way the police can't instantly run in to handcuff you and secure the scene and instead have to wait for the bomb squad, that added time increasing the likelihood of victims bleeding out. It's just stalling basically. If you've ever seen bomb squads they tend to blow everything up, even if it's nothing they still throw their own explosives on it to trigger an explosion to make sure it cannot further explode, that's likely what the 'explosion' people reported was.

 

[Spaz-12]

Why are they like this?

 

[Crackpotjackpot]

I don't live in a country that currently participates in this. Still i suddenly get this Age Verification thing on X. Did i miss em here or were can i watch some footage. Twitter Essentially is dead :/ . "Hurrdurr Verify your 12 year old Twitter Account. Nah fuck you guys i won't link shit with my real identity.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Having an 18 year old Ukrainian Au Pair is a nicer idea to swallow

I don't think you're the one swallowing if you get an 18 year old slav staying under your roof.. That's going to destroy so many marriages. The lefty woman thinks she'll help some poor family and the husband thinks 18 year old minge willing to do anything for a little cash is better than... Nora Batty with facebook.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

The lingual stepping stone has been placed.

Starmer is blaming anti-semitism for the terrorist attack carried out by an islamic extremist.
You know who else is anti-semitic according to starmer? The faaaaaaar right.

ergo, this inbred-import ackshually did a stabby because tommy robinson and andrew tate. Have you watched Adolescence yet, or do you hate jews?

 

[femboy fart huffer]

I don't live in a country that currently participates in this. Still i suddenly get this Age Verification thing on X. Did i miss em here or were can i watch some footage. Twitter Essentially is dead :/ . "Hurrdurr Verify your 12 year old Twitter Account. Nah fuck you guys i won't link shit with my real identity.

The worst are the the websites that fucking hate you just for no reason because you use anything to get around it. Sign in to confirm you're not a bot. Select all the images. You have been rate limited try again later. Unusual activity detected. Sign in failed too many requests. Confirm your identity by opening an app on your phone or receive a text. All this bullshit. I just want to make a single email account and send a single email to a single person but I fucking can't because everything needs a phone number to 'verify' my identity and definitely not just harvest personal information to sell. Even fucking proton refuses because despite being the only decent email that can be made without a phone they still hate tor for some reason. I mean most of these websites went along with the osa and the eu version simply because they just want to create as much data to harvest as possible.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

The lingual stepping stone has been placed.

Starmer is blaming anti-semitism for the terrorist attack carried out by an islamic extremist.
You know who else is anti-semitic according to starmer? The faaaaaaar right.

ergo, this inbred-import ackshually did a stabby because tommy robinson and andrew tate. Have you watched Adolescence yet, or do you hate jews?

You just knew it was coming. Ffs.

Massive powerlevel, but I freaked the moment I heard about this attack today as I have close friends who are Manc Jews, some of whom attend the synagogue that was attacked. Everyone is okay physically, thankfully.

As someone said upthread, Jewish people have been in Manchester since the 1800s. You’d have no clue my mates were Jewish unless they told you - they’re just regular people like any other, bar religious rites. If ever a people assimilated, it’s them.

A few of my pals did the traditional thing of living in Israel for a few years, as being Jewish gives you the right to do. Visiting extended family, working and saving, and never taking public transport because of the bus bombs.

They come back to England where they’ve lived for generations, assuming they’re safe now. Only with the current political shitshow, they’re having to watch their step constantly. Their kids’ (Jewish faith-based) school has a police van outside it at all times now. In the U.K., in 2025, Jewish children are needing police protection to go to fucking school, because social media fed arseholes see fit to yell abuse and throw stuff at families walking their kids to Jewish school.

And now a social media-fed arsehole has decided to attempt to play the Big Muslim Hero and attack a synagogue full of families. In Britain, in 2025, when we are not at war with anyone and the population should have a reasonable expectation that they won’t be targeted for daily abuse because of their religion. (And yeah, I also note that it’s all the rage to shit-talk Christians too, but the sacred and holy Muslim faith must be treated with reverence at all times?)

Even if you don’t give a shit about the religious element, you don’t go charging about strapped with explosives and waving knives around in Britain. Doesn’t matter what background you’re from. Anyone doing this shit needs fucked off out of the country if they’re not fully British, or chucked in some prison ship moored in the angriest part of the North Sea if they are. No quarter for this blatant terrorism.

Have the usual cuntwallops on Reddit started cheering about the attack yet? Because you know that’s coming. No concept that it could easily happen to them.

 

[InteracialBowelSyndrome]

Isn't that just Gypsies?

Getting travelers and migrants to live together seems like solving 2 problems at once.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Can everyone please stop being friends with foreigners?

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Can everyone please stop being friends with foreigners?

Never ask:
- A woman her age.
- A man his wage.
- A racist the ethnicity of his best friend/girlfriend.

 

[Crunkle]

Found my favourite video of the year so far. HGV driver on the way to France picks up a migrant and instead takes him deeper into France.

"Long way back to Calais! He he!"

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Never ask:
- A woman her age.
- A man his wage.
- A racist the ethnicity of his best friend/girlfriend.

- A Chunky Salsa how his Warwick thread is doing

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

Found my favourite video of the year so far. HGV driver on the way to France picks up a migrant and instead takes him deeper into France.

"Long way back to Calais! He he!"

longwaybacktocalais.mp4

It was nice of Peter Kay to do that.

 

[Crunkle]

It was nice of Peter Kay to do that.

'ere, who 'members the small boats? yeah...