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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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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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The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary

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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.

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.

 

[FedPostalService]

I have a terrible hangover which is preventing me from going to Greggs.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I find it really funny how Liverpool got whitewashed from being put in the football hooligan group of Leeds, Millwall, West Ham, Chelsea etc. because their fans jumped ticket barriers and resulted in 97 Liverpool fans being crushed to death and now we can't talk about a very significant part of their fanbase at the time being the cuntiest fans of all. What happened in Heysel was so horrific that I cannot believe it's treated as an afterthought in English football. It was not a tragedy no matter how anyone tries to spin it. It was Liverpool fans pressing into a wall (hmm) along with throwing stones at innocent Juventus fans that caused the wall to collapse and kill 39 Juventus fans.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Rachel Reeves, ignoring her rent shenanigans lest she gets kicked, considers ‘supercharged’ council tax for high-value properties, a possible alternative to a ‘mansion tax’, as she tries to plug a financial hole in her budget.

It has previously been reported that a rumoured “mansion tax” — an annual 1 per cent tax on the portion of a property’s value above £2 million — would hit nearly a fifth of properties in Kensington and Chelsea in London and would affect about 150,000 homeowners. On a £2.5 million property the tax would cost £5,000 a year.
George Osborne considered creating new council tax bands for the most expensive homes in England in 2012, when he was Conservative chancellor. Many property industry experts see it as the “least worst option” among the schemes mooted for taxing expensive homes.
Ruth Curtice, head of the Resolution Foundation think-tank, said: “I could see them doing a supercharged council tax for high-value properties — it’s one way to tax wealth.
“On its own it wouldn’t sort out the mess that is property taxation, but we do already pay council taxes and you’d be asking the wealthy to pay a bit more.”
At the last budget, Reeves left herself with only £10 billion between planned government revenues and expenditure — which has disappeared because of higher government borrowing costs and U-turns on winter fuel payments and benefits.
The Treasury has refused to comment on future changes to tax policy, insisting the chancellor would only make tax policy decisions at fiscal events.”

My only comment is what I've said before; Stop giving contracts out to put foreign men in hotels and army bases then maybe you'll have some fucking money for the British people.

Yanks (foreigners in general) only buy up football teams because they can't comprehend the idea of your local team that's almost passed down through the generations, they just see dollar signs and merch and 'business opportunities'. The recent Grimbsy Man Utd upset was a classic example of proper english futbol, and you can't make moments like that no matter how many faggy yanks buy up some team and film it constantly. I'm a big fan of the policies that Basque football teams have, that a certain % of players must be from the Basque region/Basque nationality to ensure the teams identity isn't lost.

 

[GratsTheat783]

I find it really funny how Liverpool got whitewashed from being put in the football hooligan group of Leeds, Millwall, West Ham, Chelsea etc. because their fans jumped ticket barriers and resulted in 97 Liverpool fans being crushed to death and now we can't talk about a very significant part of their fanbase at the time being the cuntiest fans of all. What happened in Heysel was so horrific that I cannot believe it's treated as an afterthought in English football. It was not a tragedy no matter how anyone tries to spin it. It was Liverpool fans pressing into a wall (hmm) along with throwing stones at innocent Juventus fans that caused the wall to collapse and kill 39 Juventus fans.

The narrative I've heard about the Heysel crushing is that it was all the authorities' fault for not monitoring the situation and not being prepared and I heard that's the conclusion the courts came to a few years ago. Apparently they really hate The Sun in Liverpool since it took the position of blaming the fans.

EDIT: That was Hillsborough I was talking about, not Heysel. It is weird there are 2 crush events involving Liverpool fans in an area in which it's name begins with H.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Now I can finally post pictures again without tor corrupting them, here's a crudely edited picture to warm your cold, black Nazi hearts.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

I have a terrible hangover which is preventing me from going to Greggs.

I feel your pain, getting to the pub at 1210 yesterday was not wise. I'm getting too old for this shit.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Do none of you drink a pint of water before bed? Lightweights.
'Major backlash' from residents and politicians as Cameron Barracks and Crowborough army training camp in East Sussex set to 900 male asylum seekers.

Angus MacDonald, [Inverness] the local Liberal Democrat MP, said he was not opposed to the use of army camps to house asylum seekers but insisted Cameron Barracks were the wrong location given their proximity to local people... 'I very much thought the idea of putting them in army camps was to have them out of town, and make them less of an issue for the local population,' he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Ah, so migrants are okay just not near us!


Pictures from Sussex and Inverness show the Union Jack and Saltire being flown from posts.

In other Scottish news
Furious Scots parents pull kids out of school & protest over ‘unvetted’ migrants attending English lessons (Emphasis mine)

Dozens of protestors congregated outside St James’ Primary in Renfrew this morning after learning on social media that classes were being held during school hours in the adjoining community hub.
Safety fears were sparked after videos were posted on social platforms showing a large group of men hanging around the school campus between classes.
School bosses have now axed the lessons as parents questioned why there wasn’t more communication around the service, said to be funded by a charity.
One concerned mum, Anne Boyle-Pierrotti, 42, said: “I now don’t trust that this school is capable of keeping my child safe. I only found out about this yesterday while I was at work.
“I saw that other people were kicking off about it on social media and had to do a bit of digging to find out exactly what was going on.

The scheme is now 'paused' while protests continue. Up to 70 kids may have been pulled from the school. None of the migrant men were checked for criminal backgrounds before entering the school due to them entering under ''educational'' reasons.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Do none of you drink a pint of water before bed? Lightweights.

Real alcys have a bottle of powerade or some sort of fortified sports drink next to their bed to gulp down first thing in the morning. That and the greasiest bacon sandwich known to man (even better if you have it with fried bread and runny fried eggs) will have you ready to get back on it by 3pm.

 

[Otterly]

as she tries to plug a financial hole in her budget.

Has she tried spending less?

 

[FedPostalService]

Has she tried spending less?

Remember when the media was sperging about AUSTERITY because the government not spending £2 for every £1 of tax revenue it received was somehow a bad thing?

 

[femboy fart huffer]

He's just been kicked out of his parents' house and is now fighting with them on Twitter. Also he uploaded a video of the fight.

I just don't get these people. Like I get hating family. But jesus fucking christ if you live with your parents bite your fucking tongue and stop being a faggot. If the only thing keeping you from being literally homeless is your family's opinion of you then don't fucking start shit with them you retard. Yea I don't share the same opinions as my family, I think they're fucking retarded on half the things they say. But I'm not going to start shit if I live with them. Is expressing your opinions really worth being homeless over? Just reeks of american bipartizanship. Also he sounds like an even gayer sargon.

I hate literally everyone in this video.
The mother fucking crying and sobbing oh he's really right wing and posting stuff online while seemingly fucking talking to the police? Your son closed a door and has a different opinion to you and your first fucking action is to break down crying and call the police like a fucking child? Like fucking hell are there any adults in this house at all? Dad's a faggot too. Idk everyone in this video is a faggot. Mother's weeping to the police that her son is right wing and in his room. The guy's being a cunt and stirring shit. The father's even worse. I think maybe pushing people and starting shit like that because of politics is also fucking retarded. Getting your dad arrested for that sort of shit is incredibly retarded but also the dad is incredibly fucking retarded for giving the police a reason to arrest him especially on camera and the guy is retarded for his pissy oh I'm not scared shit that seemingly spurred on the father. Honestly as much as calling the police is retarded I do genuinely think this is one of those situations where having a policeman come and just fucking slap every single one of them is the best idea. They're all being overdramatic faggots and need someone with a brain to tell them to grow up.

I know nothing about these people but fucking hell I hate literally all of them.

Do none of you drink a pint of water before bed? Lightweights.

The fuck are you on about pint of water before bed? Real men drink a pint of beer before bed, pint of gin if you're a proper man. Fucking pint of water before bed yea and I should put dandelions in my pants too should I? Want me to wet the bed do you?

One concerned mum, Anne Boyle

Christ best do what she says or king Henry'll have you fucking beheaded. Absolutely retarded scheme and honk honk and all that. So is the migrant shit. Why are we focusing on storing them? They're treating these people less like people and more like objects, they're not trying to give them a life in England they're just stockpiling them, in military bases too, interesting that isn't it? What fucking good is just shoving 500 people into a military base? You are forever confirming that they will live off of the state and provide no value so should just be deported. But no, the military bases all need a bottomless stockpile of brown people for some reason. Hopefully target practice, unless it's the navy, we all know why they need an endless supply of young brown men.

 

[Rival]

Does this lad have a thread or anything? How old is he?

Not currently, and he's 21+ I believe.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Real alcys have a bottle of powerade or some sort of fortified sports drink next to their bed to gulp down first thing in the morning. That and the greasiest bacon sandwich known to man (even better if you have it with fried bread and runny fried eggs) will have you ready to get back on it by 3pm.

Real alkys know a bottle of wine fits inside a lucozade bottle for optimum public drinking strats

Bird Flu in East Sussex and free GLP1 for 5000 people in Scotland as part of a fatty culling mega genocide study- jabs for everyone!

 

[Mound Dweller]

Does this lad have a thread or anything? How old is he?

"Moi sun iz 22 and eh iz reully radikuloized!" Probably too small a pond but I see potential here, pure cringe fuel.

 

[teriyakiburns]

He's just been kicked out of his parents' house and is now fighting with them on Twitter. Also he uploaded a video of the fight.

I was willing to give his parents some benefit of the doubt, until I saw the very obvious sausage lips on his mother when she was fake-crying while reporting him to the pigs for "radicalisation". You can easily understand out the entire family dynamic from this interaction: the father is weak-willed and consequently prone to violent, angry outbursts between long periods of meekly knuckling under to everyone around him. The mother is vain and manipulative, and has the father wrapped around her little finger. The son is the inevitable result; a whiny faggot with no real identity, who has latched on to whatever he thinks might provide a stable role model, which just happened to be identitarian grifting. He'd as easily be a troon or antifa, or even a muslim convert, without any change to the script.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Real alkys know a bottle of wine fits inside a lucozade bottle for optimum public drinking strats

Great tip, I was trying to think of some way to get away with drinking on the tube.

Edit:

I found some drink can "sleeves" online, that can hide your can, but they're all for 330ml, when I need 440ml

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Probably too small a pond but I see potential here, pure cringe fuel.

Honestly even if the chance of the guy being thread worthy is small it's still worth starting a pg thread. Either it dies and goes nowhere in which case it's like the thousands of other threads just like it, or it does take off and if he does become a full blown lolcow it's best to have the thread first otherwise it's another jean hollywood situation and all the information is scattered in 50 different threads and no one knows what the fuck they're talking about.

free GLP1

Is that the new openai product?

Nope it's just more fucking medical bullshit. Man I will restrain myself. But fucking christ yea let's medicate everyone's problems away. Yep trannies get 50 injections a month, depressed people get 120 pills and a therapist on standby at all times, fat people get fucking injections too now why not? The only mental problems (of which obesity partly is) that deserve to be medicated is shit like schizophrenia and even then it's still overdone. How is an injection going to magically stop me eating 3 mcdonalds every day? They're fucking Scots they deep fry everything known to man but nah a little injection and you can continue to live a destructive lifestyle in peace. Do these injections reduce the cholesterol? Do they reduce the strain on your internal organs? Is it going to unclog my arteries? Does it unfuck your teeth? Or does it just increase your metabolism and make you shit yourself like all the other ones? Idk maybe just stop fucking eating fatty. Stop eating or die of a heart attack at 30.

Fucking hell. The jab just slows the rate at which you get hungry. You know what else does that? Eating actual fucking food instead of goyslop. Yea I need an injection to make me feel fuller for longer instead of just eating normal foods. We have something that does the exact thing this jab does, it's called fibre, protein and fruit/veg. Literally just eat a fucking weetabix you fat cow.

Great tip, I was trying to think of some way to get away with drinking on the tube.

Nah that's some cringe shit. Unless you're drinking white wine it'd be obvious. The real trick is just drink however much out the lucozade and fill it back up with whatever spirit. No one is going to know that the coke/pepsi bottle is actually 50% rum.

 

[Mound Dweller]

This guy is a trip
"I wuz aun immural mon but oi foind khrist" Is really put into fresh context now I know what his dad looks like.

I would really really appreciate it if the mushmouthed spastic retards forming the e-vanguard could practice a bit of elocution, and stop doing the ersatz Mosely LARP fake posho thing, please and thank you.
@Rival do you actually know this guy or do you just find his shit on twatter?

 

[Rival]

@Rival do you actually know this guy or do you just find his shit on twatter?

I lurk a lot on Twitter and he gets retweeted whenever the wignats think you've forgotten about him being a faggot and so every time I check in on him there is always drama.

 

[Made In Wales]

Some news bits from the People's Channel:

* NHS told to stop hiring foreign doctors and employ Britons instead in Chris Whitty review

* ‘I enjoyed this!’ Jeremy Clarkson sides with Carol Decker’s fiery outburst after watching GB News moment

* BBC accused of 'hitting new low' as former SNP MP bags acting role in new crime drama: 'Actual actors are looking for work!'

* Blackpool Rogue trader jailed after swindling pensioners out of £25,000

* Community left 'disgusted and sad' after soldier statues vandalised in Ossett town centre

* China 'stole' sensitive technology from British factory in latest espionage scandal

* 'Missed opportunity': Free bus pass plans scrapped as Labour makes U-turn

* Pensioners to be 'clobbered' with £1,000 tax hit as Rachel Reeves accused of 'mental gymnastics' over Budget plans

* Council tax warning as Rachel Reeves considers higher tax bands in Budget raid on property wealth

* Rachel Reeves slammed as 'reckless' as she plots NEW £4billion tax raid on pension perks