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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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Clem Fandango said:
Off work with a cold today. Mainlining lemsip and soup. Hit me with your best home remedies.
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Do you need to breathe on anyone who won’t forgive you in the next few days? If not, add an entire bulb of garlic to the below recipe;
1. Onion, carrot, whatever veg lying around, chop finely, brown off. Add chicken stock (real, not from a cube) and a couple of chicken legs or breast. Simmer for twenty minutes, remove chicken, shred it. Add it back in. Take out about a cupful and blend it, add it back in. Add some pasta. Cook for another 15. Eat.
2. Ginger, about the size of your thumb. Grate it. Shove in a mug. Add about a cm of honey, and the juice of a fresh lemon. Add warm water. Drink.
Xylometacaine spray will clear your nose.
Go to bed. Stay there. Fluids. Rest.
 
Made In Wales said:
Cymraeg
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I know it's like part of our country and all that up the welsh and all you know but can you guys rename your language to literally anything other than fucking cum rag please?
BongoMongo said:
If you live in Norf FC and you call it dinner, you're a Southern Poofter. It's fucking tea
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If you call it anything other than 'mars bar wrapped in a sheep's bowel and deepfried' you're a southern faggot.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
I know it's like part of our country and all that up the welsh and all you know but can you guys rename your language to literally anything other than fucking cum rag please?

If you call it anything other than 'mars bar wrapped in a sheep's bowel and deepfried' you're a southern faggot.
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It should be called Cambraig - as Wales was known as Cambria before Macsen became the first boss of Wales in 350AD.
 
BongoMongo said:
If you live in Norf FC and you call it dinner, you're a Southern Poofter. It's fucking tea
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Where I’m from, ‘lunch’ is a rude word (well, it’s a semi-polite word for rude bits). You’ll have dinner and like it. And if you get confused as to whether it’s tea, the meal, or tea, the drink - tough. It’s just yer tea. Gerrit down yer.

My bloke’s Welsh, he calls it ‘lunch’. Dunno what dinner is in Druid, but he’s from the arse end of a Welsh-speaking (now ex) coal mining town, so why the fuck he uses ‘lunch’ I dunno. Just to annoy, I suppose.

At least he doesn’t say garage as ‘ga-rarj’. Absolute nailed on proof of a southern prick, is that.

Also, it’s a batch. Though where I’m currently holed up, it’s a teacake. No wonder the forruns never manage to learn English :biggrin:
 
I've been informed the tory conference had an AI chatbot version of Thatcher (rather grim way to celebrate 100 years), and it spent most of it's time mildly scolding everyone for building a personality cult round her, pretty based tbh.
UselessRubberKeyboard said:
Also, it’s a batch. Though where I’m currently holed up, it’s a teacake.
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Unless it balm/bap (another soufen giveaway) this single particular type of :informative: is more doxxxable than any background bookcase/door handle/pizza box because it can come down to a few miles radius in some cases, that and what colour your bricks are, fortunately nobody except the ones who use it day to day have any idea wtf it even means better lock those doors and windows.
 
Mound Dweller said:
I've been informed the tory conference had an AI chatbot version of Thatcher
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Why must they do this? Wasn’t her reign of terror long enough? That snotty voice means instant rage pretty much anywhere north of Oxford. Can she not just rest in peace and let the rest of us finally breathe easy?

Plus if she were still kicking about now, I bet her policies would make Farage look left wing. The Tories should be relieved she’s not around to tell them how useless they’ve become.

As for doors and windows and bricks, it’s a barm cake, no? Dread to think what the Welsh call it. It probably has at least three y’s in it and ends in dd.
 
I thought "dinner" was the main meal of the day and that was the origin of the different regional uses. That in some regions men would traditionally have a large midday meal and in the evening just have a smaller meal with some tea, becoming just "tea". But in other areas, the main meal would be the evening one hence that was "dinner".
 
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