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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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Heinrich Maneuver said:
We need to publicly execute the CEO of Cross Country. who the FUCK thinks its acceptable to have a two carriage train for the Cardiff to Nottingham line (via Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, and Darby). Always overbooked, crowded, and miserable. And they love to cancel trains. I also don't get why its so hard for them to ever clear the line of a fallen branch or smth.
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On a similar note we also need to string up cunts who don't secure their fucking trampolines when it's windy.

Bouncing about on a latex sheet is not a real or proper substitute for actual exercise. Any "parent" who thinks so needs sterilized at the very least.
 
>IMPLYING said:
(You can "rent a room" out to family members BTW. If you have a kid paying board or something then this is how you can shave off a bunch of taxable income)
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A significant proportion of people claiming the £7500 rent a room allowance are actually running Airbnb‘s. That was why they brought it in the first place.
 
Miles Gloriosus said:
A significant proportion of people claiming the £7500 rent a room allowance are actually running Airbnb‘s. That was why they brought it in the first place.
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Even though rent a room is solely intended for you to rent a room out in the home you live in. I have snitched on people for breaking the law on that one and will always do so without a shred of remorse. Fuck air BNB.
 
Made In Wales said:
Not as bad as the now retired Pacer unit, but very uncomfortable.

80mph on one of those things will feel like a prostate exam.

Between South Wales and Manchester, it's usually (thankfully) the 197 or the express which is a diesel locomotive and four coaches with a DVT (driving van trailer) on the rear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnD9WgAt2RU - this is a great service though,
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Ah, memories of the Valleys service from Cardiff. I had no idea trains so fucking primitive still existed, but there it was in all its solid plastic seated glory. The folding doors were straight out of 1960s British Leyland buses. You knew what time the train was due because you could hear it coming around 20 mins before it arrived (not that it got over much more than 20mph anyway).

Rumour has it that these trains have been updated now. Which begs the question: what part of the country have those shitboxes been moved to? Manchester? Birmingham? The arsehole of Scotland? There’s always some rail service somewhere needing a sardine can to move annoyed plebeians.
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
I also don't get why its so hard for them to ever clear the line of a fallen branch or smth.
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Infrastructure is managed by a different company. It's one of there more retarded outcomes of the EEC directive 91/440, which required the infrastructure to be managed by a services provider, which would license passage over its rails to one or more operators (who would lead their rolling stock from a stock provider). The upshot is that there's a disconnect between operators and track maintenance, meaning their only response to a blocked line is to sit on their thumbs until Network Rail sends someone to sort it out.

Incidentally, the only reason Labour can nationalise the railways now is because we're no longer in the EU.
 
UselessRubberKeyboard said:
Rumour has it that these trains have been updated now. Which begs the question: what part of the country have those shitboxes been moved to? Manchester? Birmingham? The arsehole of Scotland? There’s always some rail service somewhere needing a sardine can to move annoyed plebeians.
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Probably the Cumbria Coast Line, I've seen gaggles of excited trainspotters on platforms there waiting for some 1960s relic with manual doors to slowly trundle by. It seems to be where they send trains to die.
 
Otterly said:
I want this back. I want to go back to when things were funny and rowan Atkinson was confusingly attractive as blackadder II.
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The attitudes were so much more realistic back then. The resigned way the doctor says "Oh, so you've started fancying boys have you?" and "I'd rather be a quack than a duckie, good bye!"

Just a matter-of-fact mild condemnation is what's gone. Everything has to be celebrated or violently exterminated. To judge others is now the greatest sin imaginable. Unless they're a group proscribed by the State, in which case to not judge them is as bad. There's no space left between them for simply making fun of something.

As to confusingly attractive, it's probably just hard for a woman to not like a man who dresses in a ruff with diamond-studded black and ruby doublet.

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(And if my experience with certain types of girls counts for anything, being an evil conniving bastard probably helped too.)
 
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Overly Serious said:
There's no space left between them for simply making fun of something.
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It’s a good analysis of it. When everything is split as though it’s BPD-style, into Absolute Good and Absolute Bad, we lose a lot of nuance, tolerance (ironic since it’s pushed as tolerance, when it’s forced adoration.) and of course anything can be pushed, also BPD style from good to bad in a moment and you must obey or you’re destroyed.
You can’t make fun of anything when the puritans are in charge. They’ll burn you. I’m hoping we get a re run of the restoration period after this period of utter cultural dreck.
Our current society is like the mass expression of several mental illnesses at once, and run by people using abusive partner techniques to keep us all in check. It’s a bit miserable and I’d like to laugh at comedy codpieces again.
 
Mound Dweller said:
To beg the question is to assume the conclusion, to raise the question is to prompt it, thus it raises the question.
I got top marks in English Literature for good reason and will never let anyone forget it
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I hate this faux intellectualism. When people say "it begs the question" they mean there's an obvious question that arises from it which needs to be answered. People have been meaning that by it for as long as I've heard the phrase and it's more semantically correct than the interpretation you give.

The version you mean is a logical fallacy in which someone assumes preceding step is true and just proceeds directly to the next. This isn't really what the English phrase means semantically. It's just a too literal translation from Greek. And is common with too literal translations obscures the actual meaning. The Greek was something like "asking for the first thing" (can't be bothered to look it up). The common and widely understood meaning is a closer fit to it.
 
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