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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.
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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.
 
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Broadside said:
Four Lions was Regime propaganda, they just knew at the time they couldn't make people like and forgive muslims so they tried to pass them off as simply misguided goofballs and actually Americans are the real monsters.
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Allo Vera said:
7/7 wasn’t fucking funny but they took the circumstances of that day and repackaged it for LOLs.
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I thought Four Lions was a hilarious demystification of jihadis. The writer and director, Chris Morris, is behind some of the most biting satire of the past 30 years including Brass Eye, Jam and The Day Today. His paedophile special of Brass Eye in 2001 was the most complained about piece of TV up until 2020 or something because it went way over peoples' heads.

It doesn't glorify or even excuse them the entire film, constantly reminds you that you are watching people planning mass murder, and constantly gives them chances to make a better choice. It pissed a lot of people off when it released because it made them look like goofballs. Islam and Jihadis always want to be seen as some terrifying, invisible force that can strike wherever and whenever. It's almost always just some brown-skinned mongoloid in his bedroom.

Their power is greatly diminished if you laugh at them. Cannot recommend Four Lions enough, but avoid his last one (The Day Will Come) - that one wasn't as good.

I just don't see how you can be upset by something like this. It is objectively funny.

Clip from the Crime episode of Brass Eye:
 
Crunkle said:
Islam and Jihadis always want to be seen as some terrifying, invisible force that can strike wherever and whenever. It's almost always just some brown-skinned mongoloid in his bedroom.
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I agree with your take on this. Terrorists want to be terrifying, and laughing at them is a way to show that they hold no power over you. Obviously it would be nice if our police and security services could eliminate these cunts while we're all merrily "getting on with things"...

Another thing I liked about the film was that it clearly shows the family and friends of the terrorists know about their plans, and that they don't inform on them or go to the police with info. There's one cousin or brother (can't remember which, but hey what's the difference lol) that tries to talk them out of it, but even he does not grass them in to the authorities. I thought that was realistic and fairly unflinchint. If you wanted to portray Muslims as a whole as a sympathetic entity, then you probably wouldn't do it like that.
 
Clem Fandango said:
Another thing I liked about the film was that it clearly shows the family and friends of the terrorists know about their plans
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Oh, it goes way further than that if I recall. It actually shows the son (about 9/10 years old) who believes in the same shit his father says. The bedtime story reading is "what, jihad all the infidels? Cool!" Or something along those lines.

Obviously that's horrible, but it even manages to get a laugh out of the idea of these awful people who are radicalising their children and discussing the jihad over breakfast.
 
Allo Vera said:
After 7/7, and every attack since, we should have been taking to the streets in white hot rage. Instead we collectively shrug and keep our heads down.
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You're keeping calm and carrying on. Just as intended.

That phrase is one of the best psychological rug pulls that has ever been foisted on us. It's framed as stoicism but the reality is it just means compliance.

Every time some inbred muslim commits an atrocity on our shores you're reminded to "Keep Calm & Carry On". Don't react. Don't externalise any feelings you might have, they're contagious. We wouldn't want people doing the job the powers that be should be doing now do we? Just play with your toys, have a steak bake, knock one out over that new celeb, maybe buy yourself a mug with the phrase on to signal how stoic and disconnected you are from everything, put a filter on your profile picture, get ready for the next football season and go back into work. Whatever you do just make sure you don't do anything.

Crunkle said:
It's almost always just some brown-skinned mongoloid in his bedroom.
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Did you ever watch the extras where Chris Morris was interviewing the Asian lads? Worth a watch if you haven't.

I think Morris managed to nail everything in that film. It captured just how farcical domestic terrorism is on every level if you're prepared to take a step back. There are a few subtle digs in there that are easily missed. I think one of the best is the "is a wookie a bear?" scene. On the face of it, it might seem a ludicrous scenario; how do a pair of trained professionals fuck up this badly? Then you remember Jean Charles de Menezes getting his brains emptied in public because he was the wrong shade of brown.
 
Nopenopenope said:
It's crazy to me that for so long anti-Semitism has been something pinned on the far right, yet now it's a staple of the left. Then they have the nerve to call anyone who isn't a multicoloured hair tranny a Nazi! Truly clown world.
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Israel has never been popular on the left. It's always been "the nazi state". It's just become more openly spoke about rather than background noise for the left. Protests have been going on around colleges as long as I can remember.
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Oh yeah, bang on. All of the right wing grifters these days are pro-Israel. Embarrassingly so.
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Israel pays 7 grand per social media post. It's probably one of the few well paying right wing influencer paychecks you can get.
 
Crunkle said:
Their power is greatly diminished if you laugh at them. Cannot recommend Four Lions enough, but avoid his last one (The Day Will Come) - that one wasn't as good.

I just don't see how you can be upset by something like this. It is objectively funny.
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I’m not upset by comedy. I’m old enough to remember Chris Morris at his peak (good AIDS/bad AIDS is one of my favourites).

I don’t want the public to be afraid and cowed by terrorism, I want them to be angry. Instead we’re taught to giggle and mutter “rubber dingy rapids” because - as @Muad'Dick says - god forbid we allow ourselves to actually process how badly this country has gone to shit over the last 25 years. The last ten, even.
 
Nopenopenope said:
I wonder if anything will actually happen in regards to the pro Palestine protests now? Apparently some went ahead last night, straight after this incident. Can't help but feel if a mosque got bombed etc and anti immigration protests went ahead, it would be cracked skulls and media condemnation all round.

It's crazy to me that for so long anti-Semitism has been something pinned on the far right, yet now it's a staple of the left. Then they have the nerve to call anyone who isn't a multicoloured hair tranny a Nazi! Truly clown world.
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Keir Starmer is such a stupid fucking bastard. He must have known this would happen, and he appointed a muslim as home secretary. Labour thought oh a former hate of the DPP he must have a serious intellect and some political nous.

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Incidentally muslims are only making a token effort at looking like they give a shit. Lots of stories about how ackschullly there are 6,313 hate crimes against muslims last year. (thanks uk police for allowing muslim groups to weaponise crime reporting) .

The media are desperately looking for any prominent muslims that will condemn the attack without talking about fucking palestine.
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Also I'm just going to leave this here becuase I can't believe it hasn't blown up on social media.

 
Allo Vera said:
s to actually process how badly this country has gone to shit over the last 25 years. The last ten, even.
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It's hard to convince people how bad it has gotten when most grew up post 9-11, post 98 web and only know VHS's from that movie about that man in space with a walkman.

While everything has gone to shit at a rapid rate in the past 10 years, the boiled frog can't see the difference between pre-trans/woke 2014 and today. They have no concept of change so it's everything as usual. They grew up with 50% brownoid friends so have no reference of how things can be when it's 90+% white.
 
Chunky Salsa said:
Kier Starmers MOT report got leaked.
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I can't imagine finding any woman hot who would fuck a starmer..

Has any one looked into this jew hive and the supposed hero? Every time there's an attack on places like this it's never just random. They're up to weird shit. I know Muslims don't need a reason but I don't trust the media painting any one as a hero.

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A wookie is not a bear. Yes but I shot it as a bear.
Are you fucking kidding me?
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Bullets aren't magic. If they had to shoot the guy standing in front of the door then the people behind the door are at risk of being hit too. Bullets go through flesh and wood quite easy and the Jihadi was wearing a suicide belt as far as they knew. Better to stop him exploding even if you have some cross fire into the pedo cultists behind the door.
 
This whole team killing jews thing could have been avoided if they had Gazza on speed dial.

"Howay Jihad lad. Calm doon. Ah've been tae Chicken Cottage an' got yer a bargain bucket like."
 
Ehhhh. They thought Holy War the Syrian had a bomb vest on, and in that circumstance protocol is iirc to pop him in the brainstem to keep him from initiating his vest. Centre mass carries too much risk of setting off his potential vest full of unstable home made boom.

Combine that with overpenetration depending on the ammunition in use (used to be they used expanding rounds, dunno what they use these days with plates being so widely available) and people trying to hold shut the flimsy door, I can see it happening.

As much as I don't like the police, not much else they could have done in these circumstances. Doubt it's going to stop the armchair Andy McNabs kvetching though.

The correct response is to not let people called Jihad into the country and remove those already here, so we don't need the police to be shooting them against a squishy Hebrew backstop.
 
Sensitive Young Man said:
Rupert Lowe.
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No shade on you specifically bro, but wtf is it with foreigners really really really loving Rupert Lowe? He's really nothing special just got a nice ye olde radio voice and says a few right things, but is ultimately barely anybody at all.
He must have great advertising that only targets abroad because most folk haven't even heard of him, and that one that do don't think all that much of him, it's a real Germans love David Hasselhoff sorta thing.
 
Geoff Capes Vapes Apes said:
As much as I don't like the police, not much else they could have done in these circumstances. Doubt it's going to stop the armchair Andy McNabs kvetching though.
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On the other hand the yanks manage to slot jamhaal jooones the furd with little collateral damage. Hell that’s just the average patrol officer.

The swat guys are doing John Virgo style trick shots through plate glass and monitors.
 
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