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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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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.

 

[Mound Dweller]

A what now?

Ginnels where you stick the bins when it's not bin day and half the time has a stream or something running through it, the easement is more of a sideroad, wouldn't expect you to know since apparently you don't speaking fucking English

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Ginnels where you stick the bins when it's not bin day and half the time has a stream or something running through it, the easement is more of a sideroad, wouldn't expect you to know since apparently you don't speaking fucking English

I have never heard of an easement in my life. It’s ginnels and snickets around here, nowt else.

Mind you, most other English speakers struggle with the local accent.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Edit: wtf do they call the Midlands, apart from ‘that doghole we have to drive through to get to the souf’?

The Black Country has become a bitterly ironic name these days

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

They call them backins, where I'm from

 

[LaxerBRO]

because she accidentally used the seemingly innocuous phrase "born and bred" to differentiate herself from immigrants. She gets a telling off from the interviewer for wrongthink.

What a weak bitch.

She should have doubled down.

When pressed to answer why a person that was born and raised in the UK should have more consideration than some new arrival, just ask the reporter:

Do you think an American that came here a week ago and was pushing for gun rights perhaps even CCW in the UK should have their cultural beliefs given equal weight as a native?

The whole thing backtracking is pathetic.

 

[Made In Wales]

The lady of house has passed away at age 96
I hope you're all going to be dressed suitably when you speak to the vicar about Mrs Bucket.

Very sad, one of the acting greats as well.

Mrs. Bucket, Hetty Wainthropp, loads of 'Talking Heads' episodes and also she worked with another Northern funny woman in the form of Victoria Wood.

I've decided that with the GB News 'dump', as so many (all) of the news items are paywalled that I'll mention stories and it will be up to people here to read more into them (or not):


* Jihad Al-Shamie was on police bail for alleged rape when he carried out Manchester terror attack.

* Reform UK won six by-elections and gained five seats overnight in a stomping victory, extending the party's councillor headcount to 891.

As well as holding one seat in the Isle of Wight, Reform claimed one seat from Labour and another from the Tories, before winning a landslide victory in the Harrietsham and Lenham by-election in Maidstone, Kent.


* Adil Ray faces GMB viewers backlash over comments about the Crumpsall attack:

"It’s striking, the fact that Rob, somebody like Rob, would say that Jewish communities don’t feel safe here."

Reacting to the hypotheticals posed in Mr Rinder's tweet, Mr Ray asked: "Where would they go next? It’s not even something we should even consider."

* Plus, Rachel Riley fumes at ‘rampant antisemitism’ as Countdown star speaks out on Manchester terror attack:

'In a post on X, Ms Riley wrote: “This June I had the privilege of interviewing former hostage Eli Sharabi in front of 800 packed into Heaton Park Synagogue.

“Jewish events aren’t advertised. We have security at shuls, schools, charities, everywhere. CST put their lives at risk to keep us safe. Britain 2025.”

The post included photos of the event, featuring one of Ms Riley sharing a hug with Mr Sharabi.

In a second statement, she added: “As well as sending thoughts and prayers to those affected, we need to address the issue at large - rampant antisemitism running riot in our country, often excused or ignored.'

Also, Stacey Solomon admits it's 'scary to be Jewish' as she issues Manchester synagogue statement: 'One does not cancel the other':

"It goes without saying, although I've said this before, my thoughts are also with the innocent people in Gaza.

"Being proudly Jewish & being against the horrific attack today does not cancel the other. I realise no matter what I say, someone somewhere won't like it. But all I really have to say is that none of this is ok."

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Keir Starmer is a nigger.

 

[Made In Wales]

An interesting take on the Labour party and its recent shindig in Liverpool:

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-and-the-lobbyists-conference-anacta

https://archive.ph/baGmI

(No paywall either!)


Also some more GB News bits of mention:

* We have a new Archbishop of Canterbury... and she's a woman - Dame Sarah Mulally replaces Justin Welby.

* An active Police Officer at Charing Cross Police Station has been arrested, following the BBC's Panorama programme which aired earlier this week.

* AFC Wimbledon striker Osman Foyo faces a five month-long suspension from all football activities after an independent regulatory commission found him guilty of placing 252 illegal bets on matches.

* Sheffield Wednesday face major penalty after failing to pay wages for the FIFTH time.

 

[fakemon]

Noem's over 50 and still fuckable, met by a dirty paki who looks like she could roll easily down a shallow slope. She's even got that proper paki look.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

What is the point of Reform if they're as afraid of stating the obvious as any other party? Between this and the pro-trans messaging of a few weeks back it's difficult to see what they offer.

Scotland is worse than England for Reform to win votes. In England they have to show they're not Labour but not racist by Labour's BS standards. In Scotland they have to show they are not Labour and not SNP and not racist by either standards.

It's a damn shame. I have a soft spot for Falkirk and seeing shit like that bothers me.

 

[Big Judge Cock]

Noem's over 50 and still fuckable, met by a dirty paki who looks like she could roll easily down a shallow slope. She's even got that proper paki look.

She looks like a fucking clown, and always has that rictus grin on her face. The rest of them are just banal evil, but there's something disturbing about her that's on another level.

 

[bort420]

If any of this actually happens I'll eat my hat

Article 8 of the ECHR will easily crush this.

 

[Clem Fandango]

It is Northern speak for what is correctly termed a "twitten"

Are you actually joking? Twitten??

It's not a bloody songbird. Get yourselves a proper word that you can sink your teeth into. Ffs, southerners don't sound like poofters challenge: impossible.

 

[teriyakiburns]

She looks like a fucking clown, and always has that rictus grin on her face. The rest of them are just banal evil, but there's something disturbing about her that's on another level.

Reminds me of Cherie Blair (whose chambers is, incidentally, still one of the largest collections of "human rights" lawyers in the country).



None of these people are human. Icke was right about everything.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Article 8 of the ECHR will easily crush this.

Have you guys considered withdrawing from what cucked assed Europe wants you to do?


What the hell happened to your country???

You are bitches to some faggots in Brussels.

 

[East_Clintwood]

>Communist Green party conference currently ongoing
>British politics thread ignoring them to argue about ginnels

Absolutely based tbh, well except for those of you who incorrectly call them something else, obviously.

For those that haven't seen the Greens, it appears they've decided to go further left with the usual batshit policies:

Leave NATO, and instead approach Europe about a defence pact (you know those countries who are basically all in NATO now and not fucking leaving)
Decriminalise all drugs
Muh taxing the 1% to magically fix everything
Decriminalise Palestine action and other terror supporting protestor faggots
Let me say it loud and clear, migrants are welcome here (actual quote from the leader's speech)

 

[Overdrive]

I have never met anyone (even during my time at uni) who gives a shit about the green party or what they think. As far as I'm concerned they're the equivalent of the "Residents of Bumfuckshire Party" who get a handful of pity votes from their friends and family.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

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.

Every time the topic comes up I have this compulsion to mention that this isn't political really, the israel thing has always been economic. Israel is one of the biggest factors in semiconductor manufacturing, one of the most important factories in the entire fucking world. Just if you were wondering the actual reason people are so keen to align themselves with israel. Another one is in taiwan, another country that gets a lot of defence sent to it by the west and is incredibly protected. The world runs on jewish magic rocks. That's why people give a shit. That fab is getting old though, there was meant to be something like a 400 billion usd investment to make an absolutely massive one but those got cancelled and now israel is looking less important.

Free palestine. Perfectly fine. Absolutely nothing wrong with it. Socially acceptable. Haha from the river to the sea lol tee hee i want to genocide jews. Nothing wrong there. But the fucking second you replace palestine with ulster? Always fucking hated all these leftist faggots with their from the river to the sea bullshit, the actual saying is from people turning 'only our rivers run free' into 'from our rivers to our seas all of ireland shall run free'. Not the palestine bullshit because they don't fucking speak english you retards. One of them says that part of the country is occupied and should be set free, the other says that an entire country must be demolished. But hey having american faggots hopped up on star wars logic stealing anything irish for whatever current trend is just par for the course at this point.

Daily Mail are fuming over this.

They also made montages of the terrorists nostalgic childhood memories. It's the daily mail, they're not outraged they're just pretending to be.

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.

I can't really tell because the video is so fucking shit but the video of him after he has already been shot once looks like the rifle's mag is too thin to be rifle caliber. At the same time some of the photos that look to be from the scene does show some police with full caliber rifles though. It's one of those things where it's fucked but not really anyone to blame. At the absolute most you can say that the police should have been at an angle but at the same time it looks like a fairly populated area and it's better to have any over penetration go in to the brick walls instead of sailing down the road and unfortunately sometimes that goes wrong.

Also in the search of clearer images I also saw that people were being fucking arrested for taking the piss out of lammy. You will let the people responsible for the terrorism preach at you at a vigil for the victims and you will be happy and you will not question.

Thank you for your input fucking humza yousaf. The moral compass of the civil society. Other than the fact that no nonmuslim is innocent to them and all that shit you are responsible for this, you pushed for this exact shit of bringing all these people in. This is what you want. Don't fucking piss in face and tell me it's raining.

Usually armed police are pretty well trained. That’s a bit weird and I’d like to know more about what the fuck happened. Could just be that bullets be doing bullet things.

From what I've seen it was a single bullet that went through a door, through a guy's leg and into the second's stomach. Single stray bullet.

She gets a telling off from the interviewer for wrongthink.

What the fuck is the interviewer even saying? Immigrants get pissed off when people say that someone who was born and bred in falkirk were 'born and bred here'? The woman's retarded as shit as to be expected of a scottish woman but what the fuck is the interviewer on about? People fucking say that they were ''born and bred here' because that is where they were born and bred maybe? What next you'll get getting pissed off because I called a woman a woman instead of a birthing person? Oh. Wait. Am I no longer allowed to say oh yea I was born in the hospital in glasgow in case it offends some fucking muslim that probably wishes he could be in there all alone or some shit?

Why is big liz in a wheelchair? What fucking dei shit did they do to her?

Let me say it loud and clear, migrants are welcome here (actual quote from the leader's speech)

One party that says this has never had any power at all and is mostly considered a joke or protest vote. One party says the opposite and is slated to win by a landslide. So yea about them being 'welcome here'.

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

Why is big liz in a wheelchair? What fucking dei shit did they do to her?

That's Britannia you uncultured swine, the personification of our country.
And she's in a wheelchair because niggers and brown people broke her kneecaps with sledgehammers.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

That's Britannia you uncultured swine, the personification of our country.

What the fuck is that and is there and lesbian sex of that and big liz I think there should be rule britannia and all that you feel