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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.

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.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Fag Streeting deciding to focus on men's prostates and mental health with new announcement (emphasis mine)

For too long, men's health has been overlooked. There has been a reluctance to accept that men suffer specific inequalities and hardships. The fact is that life can be really difficult for men in today’s society. Men are dying nearly four years earlier than women, and suicide remains one of the leading causes of death for men under 50."
This strategy marks a turning point – the first time we're taking comprehensive, coordinated action to address the health challenges facing men and boys.
Teaming up with the Premier League will harness the power of football to break down barriers and reach millions of men who might never walk through a GP's door.
We know men are less likely to come forward for healthcare. From partnering with the premier league to rolling out health support in the workplace – we're meeting men where they are and giving them the support they need to live longer, healthier lives."

He aims to tackle the "physical and mental health challenges" men and boys face every day by:
- Partnering with the Premier League to link football clubs with local NHS trusts for suicide prevention training and support
- Promoting NHS Talking Therapies and Every Mind Matters through football channels
- Investing £3.6m in suicide prevention projects for middle aged men
- Expanding mental health support teams in schools to reach 900,000 more pupils
- Introducing home testing for men with prostate cancer from 2027 and allowing them to order tests through the NHS App
- Investing £3m in community based men’s health programmes- Training NHS staff with new men’s health e-learning modules
- Piloting workplace health schemes with EDF Energy and other male dominated industries
- Trailing £200,000 worth of interventions focused on cocaine and alcohol related deaths

I mean the number one way to prevent suicide, imho, is to give people a decent quality of life and ways to achieve life goals. I guess making presentations is easier than dealing with that. Getting depressed/anxious young men into sports or clubs though is a positive step if that's what they actually do rather than just fucking 'don't kill yoself' talks.

 

[FedPostalService]

I think more men should kill themselves.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

What mental health and ‘talking therapy’ services, though? They are already overburdened with the likes of gender idiots, and waiting lists in some places are years long. They also only offer short courses that are pretty much one-and-done, which is okay to give coping skills etc, but it’s not enough to work through actual issues and trauma.

It’s a great idea, but I don’t think there are the services behind it, and there really needs to be.

Norwich City did this brilliant video for mental health awareness last season.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Men want to fight, compete, exercise and at the core of it, be men. Men do not want to talk about feelings or sad brain, that's why the feminisation of men has occurred, leading to men thinking they need to talk about feelings, making them more feminate, meaning they want to talk about feelings...

When Men are angry or have shit on their mind they fight, drink, chop and burn wood and break bottles behind WahWah.

But even those suggestions will have men shout me down because "no, men should talk about their feelings". No they shouldn't.
Make Men Great Again.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Introducing home testing for men with prostate cancer from 2027 and allowing them to order tests through the NHS App

What exactly does this entail? Is this state sponsored self-buggery?

Eta:.

Just saying, I know where my prostate is. And I remember getting one of those big cotton swabs up my nose when taking a flight back in 2021.

 

[ApeBass]

It seems a bit of a pointless endeavour to pretend that men and women are the same and so should have the same risk of suicide or life expectancy. Men will always be the more violent sex, and that includes violence against the self.
Simply having two X chromosomes protects women from a lot of genetic diseases, while oestrogen changes fat distribution in women which results in better cardiovascular health.
Women tend to live longer, but have higher rates of chronic disability in old age. Is living a few more years with minimal quality of life really an improvement?

Behaviourally men are risk-takers and always will be, unless they're forced to behave like women. A mere 4 year gap in average life expectancy between the sexes sounds pretty good to me.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Until they come to wherever you run off to of course.

They are? I thought you heroes staying behind were going to fix the problem?
'They' won't be coming to where I'm going.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/13/call-off-puberty-blocker-trial-or-legal-action-nhs-warned/

https://archive.is/JYONQ

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/london-stocks-sink-global-rout-fed-rate-cut-valuation-jitters-2025-11-18/

https://archive.is/jKrkb

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/commentaries/how-many-refugees-receive-benefits/

https://archive.is/sEVao

 

[FedPostalService]

violent sex

The best kind

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

What exactly does this entail? Is this state sponsored self-buggery?

It's an at home blood test (I assume like a diabetic finger prick?) for prostate specific antigen. I have never trusted/liked at home tests for serious things, they are fine for something routine like BV but using this for cancer screening? (there's also ''at home'' tests for endometriosis which are a complete scam imho) Any man who suspects prostate cancer should be seen for full blood work and not just at home 'oh the test said it'll be fine' and not go in. Sounds like another government contract to buddies.

It’s like that ring with the Islamic inscription found in a Viking grave. It doesn’t mean they were Muslim ffs, it means they plundered and raided and traded and worked as guards all the way to Constantinople and brought a trinket back for Hedda to woo her.

Men, if you have ever wondered what to get the missus for Christmas-

 

[Duane Dibbley]

In other news. The train stabber has been given additional charges.

Mr Williams is due to appear at Peterborough Magistrates' Court later, charged with the following:

• Attempted murder of a 14-year-old boy at Henry Penn Walk in Peterborough
• Attempted grievous bodily harm of a 28-year-old man at Viersen Platz in Peterborough
• Attempted murder of a 22-year-old man near Pleasure Fair Meadow Road in Peterborough
• Affray and possession of a bladed article in connection to an alleged incident at Ritzy Barbers in Peterborough
• Theft of knives from an Asda supermarket in Stevenage
• Common assault of a 31-year-old man onboard a train travelling between Hitchin and Biggleswade.

If only there was some way of preventing the train stabbing. If only we had have had some clue that this nog was a violent maniac. Hindsight is 20/20, don't look black in anger.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I thought the biggest issue with male mental illness is that typically a lonely man wants a woman, they typically have some friends to drink with and hang out with but they want a woman and modern dating is an extreme form of self harm if you're even slightly above average, let alone the type of person who is also suffering from mental health/fitness/physical disability issues too.

But because mental health services can't actually fix this problem because you can't FORCE someone to date these people, everybody who feels lonely goes to these 'Andy Man Club' wankathons, realises that it's a bunch of empty platitudes and then ends up topping themselves.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/commentaries/how-many-refugees-receive-benefits/

The Department for Work and Pensions sent my grandma a threatening letter demanding she return a paltry sum of overpaid pension money after my grandfather died. I hope every worker there gets stabbed to death by pissed off African migrants deprived of their bennies.

Edit: Looked it up and it was 62.39 GBP they felt it necessary to harass a grieving woman over. I had to pay it since good luck getting an 80 year old to send money to some faggot UK bank account from Australia.

 

[Clem Fandango]

They are? I thought you heroes staying behind were going to fix the problem?
'They' won't be coming to where I'm going.

If you've found somewhere to go, congratulations honestly. That's about where I was at mentally a few years ago. But I travelled a lot, and I came to the conclusion that there's really nowhere for white people to run to. Any country I set my sights on, I'd always be a foreigner there anyway. So I decided to stick around and see what happens. If we do get it sorted, for my part anyway, you're welcome back anytime, no hard feelings. Do what's best for you and yours.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I hope every worker there gets stabbed to death by pissed off African migrants deprived of their bennies.

Funny thing really, back when I was poor and on bennies around the turn of the millenium there weren't any security guards on the job centre door.

Then all of a sudden, there were. Then they doubled up security. Curious.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Then all of a sudden, there were. Then they doubled up security. Curious.

What colour/ethnicity are they and all 'security' guards working retail?

 

[anklyscr]

He aims to tackle the "physical and mental health challenges" men and boys face every day by:

literally spending less money than they spent on the religion of peace after another one of their members acted out in public

In other news. The train stabber has been given additional charges.
-Stealing knives from Asda

Wait wait. Why didn't amazon stop him from stealing?
you're not going to tell me that all the measures put in after the peaceful religious choir boy did a naughty didn't work.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I think more men should kill themselves.

Brown men to the front of the queue.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/13/call-off-puberty-blocker-trial-or-legal-action-nhs-warned/ https://archive.is/JYONQ

Fucking good. putting kids on those drugs is abuse, plain and simple. Even their use for precocious puberty is ruinous to the child's long-term health. They were designed as last-resort cancer treatments and are only used on children by sex-obsessed weirdos. I hope everyone who tries to push this tranny shit forward is sued and sued again until the lesson sticks.

Funny thing really, back when I was poor and on bennies around the turn of the millenium there weren't any security guards on the job centre door.

I've predicted before (in this very thread, IIRC) that we'll be emulating south american habit of having private, heavily armed, guards outside shops and important buildings in a few years, regardless of legality. We'll see it especially in the more "diverse" ethnic enclaves, where access to weapons is much easier. It'll be ignored or even quietly condoned by the police, unless it's politically expedient to prosecute someone for shooting the wrong kind of robber.

 

[Mussolini’s Merkin]

Men want to fight, compete, exercise and at the core of it, be men. Men do not want to talk about feelings or sad brain, that's why the feminisation of men has occurred, leading to men thinking they need to talk about feelings, making them more feminate, meaning they want to talk about feelings...

When Men are angry or have shit on their mind they fight, drink, chop and burn wood and break bottles behind WahWah.

But even those suggestions will have men shout me down because "no, men should talk about their feelings". No they shouldn't.
Make Men Great Again.

Bring back National Service.

It gives young men some direction at a crucial moment in their lives and let’s them get some aggression out. Plus they’ll be making new friends, learning skills and maybe seeing parts of the country they wouldn’t see otherwise. Plus having a trained core of men who know how to fight is always a plus.

Wouldn’t work right now due to the shambolic nature of the armed forces, you could get there.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Wait wait. Why didn't amazon stop him from stealing?
you're not going to tell me that all the measures put in after the peaceful religious choir boy did a naughty didn't work.

I didn't know knives were still on display in shops. Kind of funny to think that cheese and meat has electronic tags on them, and booze is kept behind a perspex screen and individually security tagged, yet knives, the thing that people keep crying about, are open to be nicked without security measures.

Really makes you think.