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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:
I think I'm going to need to start carrying something (recommendations welcome) ,
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An umbrella. Perhaps a steel water bottle with some kind of wrist strap that you could use to swing it. A decent sized bag to block their way. Deodorant spray can. Any spray is unpleasant, I do believe my hair is a little in need of hairspray.
FedPostalService said:
Legally, if you have the opportunity to retreat you have to or you can end up in front of a judge along with the person attacked you.
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But you can’t. Not on a train. Of course running away is the best option, but on a train you’re a sitting duck. I’d rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.
he who has thus come/gone said:
Can a Briton explain why their media uses the term "British National"
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It’s a weasel way of making the sounds that say British so they go I to the heads of the public and lodge there. You link the word British and the public think British. it’s linguistic weaselry.
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
£180
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The fuck? I thought it was like £50 a year or some shit? I mean a laptop and it's electricity cost as well as broadband that's a fraction of that cost and you can get literally anything on there if you look hard enough. I always look at shit like that in terms of food, probably says a lot about how I grew up, 10kg of rice is like £20 or so, you are at most eating 150-200g of that at a time. Worst case scenario you get 50 dinners out of it, then that 9 times over. You tell me, would you rather have a year and a half of rice or dogshit tv which no one even watches the bbc anyway they just watch the other channels? Even just other shit, that's a pack of chocolate digestives every week for four fucking years. Or several months of food for the dog. Idk I know it's different now with inflation and all that it's not the 90s anymore but I see something cost over £100 and just instinctively go no too expensive. Like if it has three digits just not considered, even if it's only a once a year thing.
Made In Wales said:
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My gf about had a fucking fit when she moved over here originally and didn't have the rigid recycling rules that she had back home. Took her a while to get used to the idea of just recycling and general refuse instead of having to separate every plastic and metal and paper and all that shit. And then you look into it and it doesn't fucking matter anyway because none of the recycling is actually recycled it's just all straight to landfill regardless. Our household general refuse bin also takes fucking months to fill up too, it sounds good on paper but then you realise oh yea that means I have a fucking sack of rotting food and other generally disgusting shit sitting there for months and you end up taking it out even when it's probably not even 10% full. The only thing that works is those bags designed for women's bathrooms but they're so fucking flimsy and shit they just broke half the time.
Made In Wales said:
Sneak a few of these in to the UK and make their pronouns 'were/was'
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Tasers are notoriously shit and have a reputation for not working. Just look at all the articles we have where shit like 10 tasers were used before the guy went down. They're also still just illegal to own one. You would be better off just having a shotgun, they are genuinely less illegal than a taser for the public.
 
Made In Wales said:

Sneak a few of these in to the UK and make their pronouns 'were/was'

Bonus points if they have braces on their teeth.
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Geoff Capes Vapes Apes said:
Possession of a taser is as illegal as possession of a 9mm pistol. Don't import tasers.
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There’s little point having a taser or a weapon. You’ll get sent down for a very long time and frankly most people have no idea what using one is like.
What I’m after is something that provides a physical barrier, or repellent, even if it’s just momentary. A knife you need to be close enough to use and you’re not winning that one as a short woman vs a man with a long reach.
A solid brolly can be used as a large stick, and that might just give you a split second to get away or for them to move on or to wedge between you to reduce how close they can get. Spray might make them recoil. But again on a train, in small seats, you’re trapped. Your options are very limited.
If you’re with your children, all you can do is put yourself between them and any attacker. If I was on a train I’d put them on the floor or under the table and get over them. What more can you do? In an ideal world half the passengers would be politely armed and the stabber would be full of holes before he blinked. But we don’t live in that world.
 
Just got round to talking to my missus about this. Surprisingly she hadn't even heard the news. She was shocked when I told her what had happened, and she asked who the attackers were.

Me: "who do you think?"

Her: "Arabs?"

Bless her, she tries, but she really needs to gen up on her racism.

Anyway, after a brief chat we're going to be driving up for Christmas this year. No more trains unless we can't avoid it.

You know what's going to happen? We're going to get" airport style" security in train stations now, aren't we (after a lengthy and expensive consultation of course). Fantastic.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Toaster in a pillowcase like in The Langoliers.
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Tape 4 qarans to your chest instead if you want to go goofy shit. If you want something like that then it's pool ball in a sock. Pool ball is from when my dad first took me to the pub at 6 years old and it was the first ball I ever potted. Sock is well who are you to question a man's sexuality?
 
femboy fart huffer said:
Tape 4 qarans to your chest instead if you want to go goofy shit. If you want something like that then it's pool ball in a sock. Pool ball is from when my dad first took me to the pub at 6 years old and it was the first ball I ever potted. Sock is well who are you to question a man's sexuality?
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Pool ball in a sock just makes me think of Scum.

The sad reality is that any public place that doesn't have an immediately available route of retreat/egress now has to be considered a potential death-trap, especially if a boriswaver/windrushist appears in it.

Been a while since I was last on a train, do they still have fire extinguishers in each carriage? I would imagine a blast from one of them to the eyes, followed by the extinguisher itself applied directly to the noggin (repeatedly, if necessary) would have had a wonderfully calming effect on the train stabber.
 
Clem Fandango said:
Just got round to talking to my missus about this. Surprisingly she hadn't even heard the news. She was shocked when I told her what had happened, and she asked who the attackers were.

Me: "who do you think?"

Her: "Arabs?"

Bless her, she tries, but she really needs to gen up on her racism.

Anyway, after a brief chat we're going to be driving up for Christmas this year. No more trains unless we can't avoid it.

You know what's going to happen? We're going to get" airport style" security in train stations now, aren't we (after a lengthy and expensive consultation of course). Fantastic.
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Just make sure that there's no Motorway related incident, or it'll be a case of 'Motorway's closed due to 'Non Whites''.

HABBO Hotel just got real.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
Tape 4 qarans to your chest instead if you want to go goofy shit. If you want something like that then it's pool ball in a sock. Pool ball is from when my dad first took me to the pub at 6 years old and it was the first ball I ever potted. Sock is well who are you to question a man's sexuality?
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Tape 4 Qarans to your chest, they can no longer stab you. Wrap your hands in bacon so every punch denies them 1 of their 72 virgins in heaven, stick a picture of Mohamed to your back so that they have to look away if they try sneak up on you.

Become immortal.
 
he who has thus come/gone said:
Can a Briton explain why their media uses the term "British National" all the time in these types of events? From looking it up, it seems like an umbrella category including people from places like the Falklands or the old empire or Hong Kong. But I don't understand why it's used instead of "British person from Hong Kong" or just "British citizen" or just "Briton". Is this a way to obscure the truth through Newspeak? Does the BBC think it's racist to say "British citizen" because it implies they're actually from Britain? Is it just a UK quirk that looks weird to Americans?

I don't understand what they mean when they say things like "the person who killed 8 little girls was a British National" and whether it's intentionally obscuring who it was by using that term or whether it's purely woke Newspeak with the happy side effect of obscuring the truth or whether it's actually common parlance by British people.
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It’s not common parlance.

Generally, in the UK, actual white natives will call themselves English, Welsh, Scottish etc.

Self-referring as “British” is one of four things: (1) a politically correct term to refer to the English, because calling yourself English is treated as a racist dog whistle. Mainly used by middle class twats. (2) People of immigrant descent who know instinctively they can’t honestly say they are English, Welsh etc. (3) Northern Irish unionists may say British instead of Northern Irish to emphasise unity. (4) Speaking/writing to foreigners (including Americans) online when the topic applies to the whole UK, or think specifying the sub-country could be confusing.


“British national” is being used in this case because the media/authorities can’t now lie that he’s white, so they’re trying to insinuate that he might be. And they can honestly say that he’s a born British citizen, and British national covers that.

For those who haven’t kept up with the whole story, a casual reader might assume he’s white. That’s the best they can do, along with censoring the race of the victims.
 
Geoff Capes Vapes Apes said:
Been a while since I was last on a train, do they still have fire extinguishers in each carriage? I would imagine a blast from one of them to the eyes, followed by the extinguisher itself applied directly to the noggin (repeatedly, if necessary) would have had a wonderfully calming effect on the train stabber.
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Full sized fire extinguishers are heavy and pretty fucking unwieldy. You're talking a 10-15kg block with only one real way to hold it that is incredibly awkward and the point of balance is far from your hand. You're not swinging that at any real speed. Best case is one hand on each end like a monkey with a rock and smash downwards, Spray to the face depends on the type, I think most are co2 or foam, co2 spray would be unpleasant and make you flinch and that's probably it, maybe the fog would give you enough obfuscation to smack them with it. Foam is similar but without the fog. Both would do less than hairspray to the eyes. Unless you can somehow keep a co2 extinguisher on them long enough that they move away from lack of air. You'd probably have a better chance using the broken glass off of the cabinet.
diroama said:
So what exactly do i do with the ham? And whats better - a large pack of wafer thin or a smaller pack of thick cut?
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Just throw it at them. They'll run away. Shout that 10% of their children are born with incest related medical problems too while you're at it. Cut doesn't matter, just ask the person doing the stabbing to cut it thinner if a thick chunk doesn't help.
A-Logato said:
Tape 4 Qarans to your chest, they can no longer stab you. Wrap your hands in bacon so every punch denies them 1 of their 72 virgins in heaven, stick a picture of Mohamed to your back so that they have to look away if they try sneak up on you.
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Forgot the guy way black though. Throw in a couple photos of george floyd and some bottles of lawrys seasoning too.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
On a small boat over the channel. Just like all those firearms.
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Exactly, just ask Abdul.

Jokes aside, people should have the right to defend themselves with anything - once a person has invaded their personal space and been warned, unless they back off then they deserve being punished.

I am sure those people on the train yesterday would have given anything for a taser or some means by which to stop the assailant.

We need to legalise open carry because these ghouls aren't going to stop the raping and killing.

Breaking News: 9 month old baby mauled to death at family home


 
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You posted that without the images which should frankly be a 1 week ban.

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A boy who has been named "Britain's top binfluencer" has said his family's recycling effort "helps the planet but also saves us loads of money".

Tommy, from Bury in Greater Manchester, has been given the title by waste management and recycling firm Biffa for helping his mum and dad drastically cut down their household waste.

The 13-year-old said he likes "seeing the bins getting filled up and also knowing that we don't waste anything" after encouraging his family to switch from disposable to reusable everyday items.

His mum Gemma said: "We've saved thousands since we started recycling six years ago, it all adds up."

Tommy encouraged his parents to move to reusable everyday items including cloths, food bags and wet wipes.

Artist Gemma, 42, and her husband Chris, 44, now have three waste bins in every room for paper, non-recyclables, bottles and cans, while in the kitchen, they have an extra one for flexible plastics.

Gemma said she had been amazed by how much money the family had saved by making some simple swaps.

She said: "I've stopped using kitchen roll and replaced it with reusable kitchen roll that you wash. I've swapped a disposable mop for washable mop pads.

"Instead of cling film I use stretchy covers and kitchen foil has gone and instead I use washable silicone sheets."
The family also use reusable food bags and washable make-up remover pads.

"We also use biodegradable toothbrushes, tooth flossers, earbuds and have a bio bin upstairs," Gemma said.

As a result of their recycling efforts, she said their general waste bin can last up to 12 weeks before it needs to be emptied.

For anything that cannot be recycled from home, the family take it elsewhere.

This includes flexible plastic and batteries to supermarket recycling facilities, and old clothes, electronics, and old pens are taken to high street shops which run recycling schemes.

"Only dog poo and the occasional wet wipes go in the general waste bin, in biodegradable bags," she said.

Tommy added: "It's fun to be able to recycle. I like seeing the bins getting filled up and also knowing that we don't waste anything."

Georgia Gibson, Biffa's Social Value Manager in Manchester, said it was "wonderful to see Tommy and his family inspiring people to waste less and recycle more".
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I dread to think what the father looks like.
 
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