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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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Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Her entire IMAGE is based on blatant advertising and it's funny as hell how she's trying to get on the early 00s nostalgia kick by trying to kicking up a fuss about where she's been (nobody cares) and releasing a tell-all book, which is incredibly funny because you'd assume a musician doing a comeback would have an album prepared of material they've been working on, not some shitty ghost written book.
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I've learned this from Mumsnet, so I may be wrong, but it's my understanding that she did just release an album but it's a tell-all album, with each song about how awful her cheating husband is. And she timed the album release to be a month ahead of the Stranger Things release, when he'd be on heaving press tour duty. (As he's the sheriff on Stranger Things.)

What I also learned on Mumsnet, is that he didn't straight up cheat, but cheat in ways that were off the cards in their open marriage (which the songs say was at his insistence). That the poor sad kids in her songs, aren't his, they're from her first marriage where she constantly cheated. And, apart from the album, she's had so many abortions she can't keep count, and thinks it's funny.
 
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I've learned this from Mumsnet, so I may be wrong, but it's my understanding that she did just release an album but it's a tell-all album, with each song about how awful her cheating husband is. And she timed the album release to be a month ahead of the Stranger Things release, when he'd be on heaving press tour duty. (As he's the sheriff on Stranger Things.)

What I also learned on Mumsnet, is that he didn't straight up cheat, but cheat in ways that were off the cards in their open marriage (which the songs say was at his insistence). That the poor sad kids in her songs, aren't his, they're from her first marriage where she constantly cheated. And, apart from the album, she's had so many abortions she can't keep count, and thinks it's funny.
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She only got the breaks thanks to her similarly weird dad Keith.

Calls himself a comedian - I've had funnier piles.

Some GB News bits:

* Virginia Giuffre's brother demands on Charles pressure Donald Trump and release Epstein files

* Reform UK becomes first party to reach major milestone since May as Nigel Farage scores double victory

* Politics LIVE: Labour stands by Peter Mandelson and refuse to remove his peerage... despite Andrew losing his.

* Retirement warning: Pensioners face 'worrying reality' as thousands live on less than half the income needed - just 'move where it's cheaper' say 'experts'.

* Keir Starmer says no need to slash THIRTY-FOUR BILLION pound welfare bill despite hard-working Britons set to be smacked with tax hikes.

* 'Sneering' Labour branch forced to apologise after branding migrant protesters 'Neanderthals'.

* Care home fraudsters faked 85-year-old resident’s £175k will in attempt to get hold of fortune.

* Food van accused of 'insulting Britain's war dead' after parking in front of Falklands memorial.

* Rules banning trans people from using toilets and changing rooms not matching their biological sex could be delayed for over a year.

* Britain 'faces invasion of deadly black widow spiders' - could one be in YOUR luggage?

* EXPOSED: NHS staff took 625,000 'sick days' for mental health in just one month.

* Sergeant jailed for six months after sexually assaulting female soldier who took her own life.

* Keir Starmer publicly berates Rachel Reeves after housing rule break - but REFUSES to punish her.

* Ed Miliband’s solar panel drive sparks safety fears amid spate of rooftop fires.

* Your Party thrown into chaos as three top advisers resign and issue parting swipe on 'hostile' MPs.
 
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Blogpost.

Today, I returned to my home city for the first time in 15 years. The last time I went back was the first time in 5 years and in those short years, the place had changed a lot.
It's a city, so seeing the odd smartly dressed banking negro or chink businessman was nothing strange. Even the odd Bosnian, Iraqi or Kurd sighting was rare, but frequent enough that you didn't blink twice.
I estimate the white population of the people milling through the city 20 years ago would be 95% minimum.

I understand it's human nature to make things sound worse for clout, for flavour of a better story or because we're just miserable bastards. That said, with all seriousness - and I'm probably low balling here, the city is now 50% white at best.
There are hordes of muslim women in head scarves, romanian gyspy looking lads, gangs of black fighting age men, throngs of every flavour of oriental and myriad brownoid mutts.
The only white people were old, 50+ and looked like wrecks. There's a posh banking part of the city which is now 50 shades of brown with few whites to be seen.
The most striking thing to me was the variation of darkies. It ranged from people as black as 2 in the morning, to light brown who were 2nd or 3rd generation interbred half-castes.

I saw "FUCK YOU" and some pentagrams (or stars of david) spray painted on a church, the paint was old. No police investigation of local journalists to be seen.

The air of the city is gone, as in, the atmosphere, the feeling of the shared conciousness. It was now a thousand groups of individuals with no shared commonality other than walking through this city they clearly didn't belong in, or felt like they belonged to.

The worst part, I wasn't even mad, I was sad, genuinely heart-broken. I grew up there, shopped there, got so knee-walkinginly drunk there multiple times without fear or danger. I knew that city, it was my home and now, it's as alien as any foreign metropolis. I've lost that connection to a place that made me, me.

While there I met an old friend whose relative works in the job centre. They were relaying to me what they have been told, that a new class of person frequents the dole queue; the tech/IT professionals. Men in suits with careers in degrees no longer able to find work. That there are thousands upon thousands more people claiming dole every month to the point where there is a month-long backlog before anyone can even have their claim processed. That the introduction of the national insurance changes earlier this year have led to companies folding and laying-off staff at an unprecedented rate and we're just now seeing the real impact of it.

Between the severing of the connection to my city and country, and the possibility that redundancies could come at any time, without warning and without new opportunities in sight, I am going to spend the weekend creating a contingency plan.

TL;DR - I am Cartman at a waterpark.
 
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Clem Fandango said:
Why are there so many articles on the BBC about Lily Allen and her new album? Who cares about Lily Allen? Is she paying for these blatant adverts?
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NGL, I would hit her like the fist of an angry god.

I have no doubt she is a vile shrew who would abort our hypothetical young as soon as washing her hands, but she gives a strong impression of being absolute filth.
 
Coolio55 said:
Who else likes the polish section at the supermarket?
They've got a chilled one at my local place and it's lovely. Plenty of delicious yoghurts and cooked meats.
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I've been trying to find some shoe polish and that bit has gone. It used to have shoelaces too!
 
Coolio55 said:
Who else likes the polish section at the supermarket?
They've got a chilled one at my local place and it's lovely. Plenty of delicious yoghurts and cooked meats.
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Poles like pickles and sauerkraut. So yeah I'm always in there.

You know it's Halloween tonight? I bought a bag of 71 fun size mixed chocolate bars, put them in a bowl, and I've not had one kid turn up. I've just started eating them myself now, starting with the Bounties (obviously, no kid is going to want them). Then probably proceeding, in order of increasing desirability, through Milky Way, Twix, Snickers, and finally Mars Bar.
 
Clem Fandango said:
Poles like pickles and sauerkraut. So yeah I'm always in there.

You know it's Halloween tonight? I bought a bag of 71 fun size mixed chocolate bars, put them in a bowl, and I've not had one kid turn up. I've just started eating them myself now, starting with the Bounties (obviously, no kid is going to want them). Then probably proceeding, in order of increasing desirability, through Milky Way, Twix, Snickers, and finally Mars Bar.
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Least successful paedophile ever.
 
Funny halloween thing actually.

So I mentioned a while back that I had relatives who had a bunch of Bomalians move in next door either through subletting illegally or the council basically buying the house to house the worst people known to man. So as a response, she got a ring doorbell so she could monitor anything weird.

So tonight obviously it's halloween and a bunch of kids came knocking down the street and they knocked at the Bomalian house, my family member caught the whole interaction where a bunch of children in witch outfits and white sheets went "boo", a 45 year old Kuwaiti or whatever the fuck guy fucking SCREAMED in panic and shut the door on them. Like it's genuinely the funniest video I've ever seen and I can't show a single person it because it'd dox them hard and probably get them a visit from Prevent.

I keep forgetting just how weird arabs and muslims are about evil nasty Djinns.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
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A load of people turned up at a brown man's house wearing white sheets and you're laughing? The kkk has teamed up with the african witch doctors and you're laughing? They're going to put fucking milk and mayo in the jekonmo and you're laughing?
 
Clem Fandango said:
Poles like pickles and sauerkraut. So yeah I'm always in there.

You know it's Halloween tonight? I bought a bag of 71 fun size mixed chocolate bars, put them in a bowl, and I've not had one kid turn up. I've just started eating them myself now, starting with the Bounties (obviously, no kid is going to want them). Then probably proceeding, in order of increasing desirability, through Milky Way, Twix, Snickers, and finally Mars Bar.
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Way less kids here too. We usually have billions of the little gits back and forth until about 8pm, but barely any have knocked the door tonight.

Anyone want roughly 50 bags of Starmix and some Maom chews?
 
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