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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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ApeBass said:
Theresa May proposed self-declaration for trannies, completely removing any input from doctors. She promised to “streamline and de-medicalise” the process, claiming it was intrusive.
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Man I wish we could demedicalise tranny shit. No more hrt or srs. Just fuck off and grow up. That'd be nice. Not what she means but still.
Heinrich Maneuver said:
time for a powerpoint presentation on how to guard correctly boys.
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Can I forego jury duty, take me off the list of potential jurors. I will instead serve my part in civilised society as a military base guard. Give me a fucking mg42 and the countries ammo stockpile and fucking none of them will get in.
BongoMongo said:
They were great neighbours and it was a lovely, quiet, safe, clean community.
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Yea. That's just jewish people. They're closer to fr***h people than indians. They still want civil and clean, even the whole like subversive jewish ruler type people they all want to live away from the shit they cause. Even the worst ones don't want to live surrounded by scum, they just want to subject you to that. They are at the very least clean and civil. I mean hell just look at israel compared to the rest of that area.
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Context fucking matters.
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They know. They're not saying it's 'just some paint' because they think that's what it is. They know it's more than that, military tactics aside they know that they're causing a much larger disruption than simply just needing a bottle of acetone. They're just saying that to downplay their actions. Similar to what they do with the actual hamas terror group. It's just some paint, or a minor military retaliation that only lasted a few minutes. But when israel does anything then it's an absolute fucking genocide, if they spit on a muslim then it's literally them fucking torturing an innocent war orphan who was going to be a rocket scientist. They're all disingenuous faggots and they know they are, they're not being dumb.
 
Maybe she's born for it, maybe it's TheresaMay

I reference her every time I walk through a field of wheat. My other half, of course, had no fucking idea what I was on about.
 
Kier Starmer said:
Maybe she's born for it, maybe it's TheresaMay

I reference her every time I walk through a field of wheat. My other half, of course, had no fucking idea what I was on about.
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Look at this shameless motherfucker, talking about walking through wheat fields out of pocket like that. Fucking scandalous is what it is.
 
Snackbarism said:
May voted Remain and as such wasn't suited to the job of delivering Brexit. Outside of that, she could have been a decent PM, but it's Brexit that ruined her. She was given a poisoned chalice courtesy of Michael Gove who stabbed Boris in the back and ruined his aborted leadership campaign. Only after May did we finally get Boris.

Truss was sabotaged from within because the Tory MPs wanted Sunak and the membership said otherwise - this is why the Tories keep on trying to change the rules so that the membership don't get a vote. Handled the death of the Queen and only got thrown out after that mini budget which Rachel Reeves has no doubt done worse, but as she's Labour she gets away with it. It doesn't seem like the Tories want much to do with Truss these days either, as if she had to take the fall, plus she lost her seat in the 2024 General Election.

Don't think May caused much of a fuss after leaving the role and occasionally brought up good points on the back benches. First PM to go to the Lords after Thatcher too, which used to be a regular occurrence until John Major didn't take one up. Lord Pig Fucker only happened when Sunak brought him in as Foreign Secretary, otherwise didn't take one up for many years. Will just have to see who else will finally give up a green bench return to end up on the red benches. You know that Boris wants to come back after all.
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I have a little head canon. I think Liz held out for Boris fucking off before she died. I think she wanted to deny that odious prick the chance to oversee her funeral.

The pictures of Liz II meeting Truss? Liz looks happy and settled and calm and at peace. Like she's thinking "yeah, I can go now. That blonde twat is gone. This woman can oversee my funeral. All is well". I reckon she was seriously buttmad about the circumstances surrounding her husband's funeral, and was salty about that, and rightly so, and knowing that The Turk was gone gave her the peace to go herself.

I'm not a Royalist by any means but I have a great deal of affection for the late Queen. She never complained, never meddled (or if she did she never got caught and that's a virtue in and of itself) and just got on with the job. She wasn't raised to it nor did she expect it, but it was foisted on her, and she saw it as her duty, and she just cracked on.

On the occasion I had pleasure of meeting her and her Husband,they were both very kind to me, and were really nice. Phil The Greek was a hoot and she knew a lot about the county I am from originally, and to me, she was like my Grandma. Both of them were lovely to me,and I feel blessed for meeting them and I say that as someone who is a staunch anti monarchist.
 
BongoMongo said:
May wasn't too awful. She at least wanted the job.
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On a personal level, I don't hold any animus towards her, but politically I can only conclude that she was and is absolutely terrible. She is Patient Zero for the conversion of the Tories into a hollow shell full of Lib Dems, with her speech at Conference in 2002 calling her own party the 'Nasty Party' and imploring them to soften their image. That paved the way for IDS' removal, which led to the installation of Howard, whose only job was to lose the 2005 election with some dignity and make things ready for Cameron to take over with everything that entailed.

Her time as PM was an almost unmitigated disaster. There is nothing wrong with the principle of a remain supporter negotiating our departure from the EU, but there is absolutely a problem when that remain supporter delegates the entire process to a hardcore civil service Remnant, which is what she did with Oliver Robbins. The Withdrawal Agreement that May couldn't get through Parliament was his creation. She gave him the power; all of the subsequent psychodrama is therefore self-inflicted.

Then there is the snap election. She changed her mind and called that election because she was 20 points ahead of Labour in the polls. She then blew that lead completely because she is an atrocious campaigner and decided to die on the hill of how to fund adult social care. This is where Leadsom withdrawing from the leadership contest is of most regret - if May had been forced to fight for the job in the first place, her weaknesses would have been exposed and she would either not have called the election or would have fought it in a very different way.

Finally, there is Net Zero. She signed the country up to the insane targets chosen without Parliamentary scrutiny and when her own Chancellor was telling her 'this will cost £1 trillion to achieve'. Did she care? No. She just wanted a legacy. A legacy that is hobbling the country and has now been disowned by the Tory party leadership.

I will give her credit for some things - in particular, putting Johnson at the Foreign Office was a decent political move. High enough to keep him happy and also demanding enough to start exposing his weaknesses and potentially allow others to exploit them when the next leadership election took place.

OK, that's my sperging for the evening done. I will now accept your puzzle pieces with good grace.
 
Amin Yasister said:
Wait until they are on your flight, and they kick up a big fuss because you won't move from your seat. Not my fault I was sat next to their wife. Want to sit next to your wife? Then book and pay for two adjacent seats, and don't expect someone to move to appease your lack.of foresight. Have they never seen Final Destination?
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Amin Yasister said:
Wait until they are on your flight, and they kick up a big fuss because you won't move from your seat. Not my fault I was sat next to their wife.

Want to sit next to your wife? Then book and pay for two adjacent seats, and don't expect someone to move to appease your lack.of foresight.

Have they never seen Final Destination?
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I have been in that exact situation, except it was a jeet that wanted me to move. He asked me directly first and I said no I don't want to swap. Then they went and got the staff (cheeky fuckers), but I stuck it out on the basis that they wanted me to move from my aisle seat to a middle seat ("or you can pop me in first class if you like"). They gave up in the end.

And lest you think I'm an actual dickhead, I do often swap seats on trains, buses etc where it's obvious that two people who know each other are sat across the aisle from one another. I've had people do that for me and the missus before, so I try to pass that on.
 
Clem Fandango said:
I have been in that exact situation, except it was a jeet that wanted me to move. He asked me directly first and I said no I don't want to swap. Then they went and got the staff (cheeky fuckers), but I stuck it out on the basis that they wanted me to move from my aisle seat to a middle seat ("or you can pop me in first class if you like"). They gave up in the end.

And lest you think I'm an actual dickhead, I do often swap seats on trains, buses etc where it's obvious that two people who know each other are sat across the aisle from one another. I've had people do that for me and the missus before, so I try to pass that on.
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It's a good way to get an upgrade on a plane
I had a lardbarge taking up half my seat once and got bumped to business class because of it. It was fucking cushty.
 
It's kinda british news related but I have found a new male bonding exercise. Teaching your grandad new slurs for indians after he calls you over a dodgy text he got. He just used to call them all pakis because he simply didn't give a shit about them being two different countries, all the same, like calling an xbox a nintendos but more racist and correct. Or maybe because when he was born they were the same thing, that probably makes more sense. I mean you ask him what about israel gaza and he'll say he doesn't give a shit and the only important one is that jeruselam should be christian type shit. Idk what's more racist, calling them jeets or just saying they're all pakis considering how they view each other. I mean I know that basically the worst thing you can call a jap without speaking japanese is just calling them chinese and I'm fairly sure india pakistan are the same. But it doesn't really matter, I've drilled in to his head to ignore every single text message unless it's family and to instantly hang up the phone as soon as he hears a hallo saar. I feel like a 10 year old who just managed to explain what a tralala trelalo rizzler is to my dad.
 
BongoMongo said:
It's a good way to get an upgrade on a plane
I had a lardbarge taking up half my seat once and got bumped to business class because of it. It was fucking cushty.
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Noice! Hope that happens to me some day.

Another thing I remember about that flight is that after the crew had given up trying to get me to move, there was this fat guy sat across the aisle. Ultimate "Big Baz" St George's Cross tattoo, gammon phenotype. Said to me "Good on yer, don't let em boss you around!". And I remember when they came round with the drinks he asked for three double gin and tonics, and they actually gave him six of those miniatures. What a legend.
 
Clem Fandango said:
Noice! Hope that happens to me some day.

Another thing I remember about that flight is that after the crew had given up trying to get me to move, there was this fat guy sat across the aisle. Ultimate "Big Baz" St George's Cross tattoo, gammon phenotype. Said to me "Good on yer, don't let em boss you around!". And I remember when they came round with the drinks he asked for three double gin and tonics, and they actually gave him six of those miniatures. What a legend.
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The best airline for generous measures of drinks is Air India. They have no clue and overdo the spirits. It's great.

Edited to say: as much of a cliche as it is, I had the best curry and naan I've ever had on an air India flight. The naan was soft, fluffy perfection.
 
Symbol of the Chud said:
Yes, I hear the service is to die for.
The people serving drinks might have no fucking clue, but you may also find that neither do the pilots.
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If I'm that shit faced I'm not gonna care tbh. And better that than meeting my end in a care home at the tender mercies of a tongue clicker or a Somali or whatever. I'd rather kill myself. It was great service,the flight was cheap and I was trolleyed. And I didn't die,nor did I have a hangover. Literally nothing not to like about it.

As for the pilots, there seems to be a lot of "unexplained" death doing the rounds lately. Safe and effective linked, I'd wager. Though there's also known issues with Boeing planes.
 
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If I'm that shit faced I'm not gonna care tbh. And better that than meeting my end in a care home at the tender mercies of a tongue clicker or a Somali or whatever. I'd rather kill myself. It was great service,the flight was cheap and I was trolleyed. And I didn't die,nor did I have a hangover. Literally nothing not to like about it.

As for the pilots, there seems to be a lot of "unexplained" death doing the rounds lately. Safe and effective linked, I'd wager. Though there's also known issues with Boeing planes.
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I dunno, if I'm going to die I'd like the possibility of my head that has been liberated from my body by the plane exploding not to end up being used as an improvised football by jeet children. Just personal preference.
That actually happened to a victim of the last Air India plane that exploded.
 
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