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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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Geoff Capes Vapes Apes said:
So it's not compulsory, but you won't be allowed to work or have somewhere to live without having it? Will it then be expanded so that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark?
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Its voluntary in the same way its voluntary to be competitive in a gacha mobile game while not spending a penny.
 
Made In Wales said:
As I understand it:

The Nutty 'Free Plasticine' Left hate Starmer
The pro-Burnham Left hate Starmer
The Lib Dems and Greens hate Starmer
The Nationalist Left hate Starmer

Plus Reform UK hate him too.

What a time to be alive...
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Yet no one in Labour seems to hate him enough to try to push him out.
 
William Murderface said:
Yet no one in Labour seems to hate him enough to try to push him out.
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They're keeping to their cowardly nature since it's very much a poisoned chalice/very slowly falling sword of Damocles/actual challenge at the moment, same vibes as in 2016 post the B-B-BREXIT result that had Boris and co scrambling to not be quite so keen on being in charge afterall all of a suddenly.
My personal tinfoil theory is that would-have-been contender Sajid Javid (member him? Sunak before Sunak down to the brown), in his capacity as Chancellor, knew all about COVID and saw how it was gonna go, which led him to make a deal to fall on his scimitar eating all the resultant shit. They always do this crap, because they're all lesser creatures borne of financial management and journalism.

Who would even be the replacer? The only one with any real profile is Burnham and he's not even in it (he' playing the long game), the rest are lietrallywhos, this is by inept design; they need a Sajid to eat the shit but Keith ain't quite up to it.
 
My biggest fear is a right wing government coming into power and rounding up every paki, arab, darkie, jew, faggot and cripple and putting them into a work camp to be forced to do grueling manual labour or else they get shot in the head.

Because what if they forget to round up the gypsies?
 
Don’t know how you guys manage to keep yourselves under control with the amount of jeets bossing you around. They’re only 1-2% of the American population but by God are they horrible. I viscerally hate these “people”.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
rounding up every paki, arab, darkie, jew, faggot and cripple
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Kemi? Is that you?
ICE Style rounding-ups are on the cards now. I have no problem with this if they only hire (white) Brits for this until the pozzed Civil Service or councils (who imho are the real villains here), it's also more jobs, simple as. This also isn't a Reform policy that the Tories (or labour) are copying, which is interesting, trying to claw back the electorate with some full throttle racism Kem?
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
Kemi? Is that you?
ICE Style rounding-ups are on the cards now. I have no problem with this if they only hire (white) Brits for this until the pozzed Civil Service or councils (who imho are the real villains here), it's also more jobs, simple as. This also isn't a Reform policy that the Tories (or labour) are copying, which is interesting, trying to claw back the electorate with some full throttle racism Kem?
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The poses an interesting question..... what should the UK version of ICE be called?
 
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