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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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On a personal level, I do know of at least 10 people who have been unemployed for a while and been good people - all of them lost their jobs with the pandemic, sadly two are still not able to work due to respiratory problems which inhibit what they can do and when.

Though I will accept that a lot of long-term unemployed people aren't exactly the best people.

There are people out there who want to work, but can't or for whom it's going to be very difficult for an employer to take them on. Plus, with the way we're heading under Labour, a job will not be guaranteed anymore - maybe for migrants but not for white/indigenous youngsters.

When Remploy was still a thing, this helped a lot of people to find work and it should be brought back unless we think that the physically and mentally disabled do not matter in the world and should be ignored.
 
Made In Wales said:
On a personal level, I do know of at least 10 people who have been unemployed for a while and been good people - all of them lost their jobs with the pandemic, sadly two are still not able to work due to respiratory problems which inhibit what they can do and when.

Though I will accept that a lot of long-term unemployed people aren't exactly the best people.

There are people out there who want to work, but can't or for whom it's going to be very difficult for an employer to take them on. Plus, with the way we're heading under Labour, a job will not be guaranteed anymore - maybe for migrants but not for white/indigenous youngsters.

When Remploy was still a thing, this helped a lot of people to find work and it should be brought back unless we think that the physically and mentally disabled do not matter in the world and should be ignored.
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On the other hand, Remploy often placed people in work who were wholly unsuitable for it. I had to, more than once, as a student, tard wrangle people who couldn't safely use anything more than a butter knife, who had hospitality jobs. It was bloody impossible.
 
Duane Dibbley said:
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Well, fuck.
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The problem isn't the ECHR, which the UK helped found in the 1950s, but the human rights act 1998, which grants our courts the direct power to decide human rights cases and requires all government institutions to enforce "equal rights" as a matter of course, rather than simply performing their duties. The human rights act and the equalities act together mean that every economic migrant who steps into the country can immediately bring a case at the nearest magistrate's court and have a human rights lawyer arguing for their right to remain indefinitely. This is a large part of why the court system is so overloaded, too; there are human rights cases being heard every single day, pushing everything else to the back of the queue. Abolition of the human rights act would end this farce overnight.

It's a lot harder for abdullah abdul abdallah to stay in the country when he has to spend a fortune and go to strasbourg to argue his case, and it's a lot harder for human rights lawyers to make their money when they can no longer run omnibus human rights cases in front of every magistrate in the country.
 
 
Duane Dibbley said:
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.
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Damn right.

I felt kinda down the other day, just the usual 'everybody gets the blues,' overthinking, fake and gay brainworm.

Did some woodstaining, and resealed my kitchen sink with silicone. Felt great after.

Talking about my feelings like a nigger wouldn't have done shit.
 
Flavius Claudius Julianus said:
Talking about my feelings like a nigger wouldn't have done shit.
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It's great that you felt better with doing a practical task, many people do. However, men should be able to talk about their feelings, just like your girlfriend, wife, fiance in the hairdresser, like you in the pub, pool bar etc. Many straight couples get divorced due to lack of honesty, there's no honesy.

Aslo, the John Lewis advert was fucking shit.
 
this actually makes logical sense, because only browns could reasonably expect a jury of their peers at this point
 
VeteranOfTheRetardWars said:
How have you people not straight burned everything down at this point, an American dog has more rights than a native European at this point.
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Because they don't have it in them. The people that did, left the country and went to the US instead.

I do believe that they'll make it though. It's an unsustainable way of living that can only end badly. Only question is how many corpses do they want to have in between those two points.
 
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Am I being schizophrenic or is it blatantly obvious that most jury trials are being abolished to make it easier for His Honour, Judge Aziz Malik to convict Big Baz for the indictable offense of being a bit racist in Greggs, and give him the maximum penalty, without that pesky jury getting in the way?
 
Lord Denning said:
Am I being schizophrenic or is it blatantly obvious that most jury trials are being abolished to make it easier for His Honour, Judge Aziz Malik to convict Big Baz for the indictable offense of being a bit racist in Greggs, and give him the maximum penalty, without that pesky jury getting in the way?
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You;'re not Schizoprehnic, yo'd know if you are, this is simply the case of saving *more* money. I suspect Rachel is doing everything she can to reduce any spending to make the new budget look ok.

Let's be clear, no budget has ever looked good, no matter the 14 years with the Tories. Stock up on long-life food :)
 
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Am I being schizophrenic or is it blatantly obvious that most jury trials are being abolished to make it easier for His Honour, Judge Aziz Malik to convict Big Baz for the indictable offense of being a bit racist in Greggs, and give him the maximum penalty, without that pesky jury getting in the way?
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I could not know anything about the law or the UK and I would still say it's a safe bet to assume this.

Any reform or law proposed or passed in the last 10-15 years has been for the benefit of everyone BUT the British.

I cannot recall an instance where I could say a Bong gained freedom.
 
Lord Denning said:
Am I being schizophrenic or is it blatantly obvious that most jury trials are being abolished to make it easier for His Honour, Judge Aziz Malik to convict Big Baz for the indictable offense of being a bit racist in Greggs, and give him the maximum penalty, without that pesky jury getting in the way?
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Mr Baz, for the crime of not paying your jizya to the local Iman I sentence you to be hanged and for your daughter to be correctively raped by Pakis.
 
Flavius Claudius Julianus said:
I felt kinda down the other day, just the usual 'everybody gets the blues,' overthinking, fake and gay brainworm.

Did some woodstaining, and resealed my kitchen sink with silicone. Felt great after.

Talking about my feelings like a nigger wouldn't have done shit.
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Yep, you've got to lose yourself in action, lest you wither in despair. And this applies to women just as much as men IMO: if I get down in the dumps, whingeing to a friend helps a lot less than tackling a physical task. I don't believe in talking as a cure at all any more really, maybe it helps in 1 or 2 percent of cases but for the most part it's a destructive con.
 
A problem shared is a problem doubled.
Talking about a problem reinforces and strengthens the neurons in your brain that connect that problem to other parts. Ignoring it, letting it atrophy and before you know it, it is gone.

Constantly bringing up an issues is akin to smoking 20 a day while trying to quit because you used to smoke 40 a day.
 
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