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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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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.

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

The best UK grinch story will always be the grinch experience that people paid for and all that happened was people broke into the house and wrecked the place.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

I don't see any downside to selling us the islands. You get the money you need, Starmer gets ousted inmediately for being a traitorous cunt, we get our penguin covered rock, Milei stays in power for the rest of time, no one hears complaints about the Falklands ever again, we all win.

Knowing this government we will end up paying YOU to take the islands off us.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

In lighter news, it's nearly Christmas and as such time to start breaking out the classics:

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

One of the most ridiculous Bri-ish laws I can think of is how you have to report that you've hit a dog with your car. It's such a ridiculous feels based policy where if an unleashed stray barrels out in between two cars you're expected to phone up the police and give your details so they could maybe charge you with a crime.

Now I like dogs, I’d feel like absolute shit if I hit one, but I really don’t see how an owner not being able to control their own fucking dog means that someone can be found liable and given a fucking criminal record over hitting one.

Especially when it’s so much easier to just ignore it, try to get on with your day and ignore peer pressure to hand yourself in.

 

[FedPostalService]

One of the most ridiculous Bri-ish laws I can think of is how you have to report that you've hit a dog with your car. It's such a ridiculous feels based policy where if an unleashed stray barrels out in between two cars you're expected to phone up the police and give your details so they could maybe charge you with a crime.

Now I like dogs, I’d feel like absolute shit if I hit one, but I really don’t see how an owner not being able to control their own fucking dog means that someone can be found liable and given a fucking criminal record over hitting one.

Especially when it’s so much easier to just ignore it, try to get on with your day and ignore peer pressure to hand yourself in.

It makes it worth running over the owner too so there are no witnesses

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

One of the most ridiculous Bri-ish laws I can think of is how you have to report that you've hit a dog with your car. It's such a ridiculous feels based policy where if an unleashed stray barrels out in between two cars you're expected to phone up the police and give your details so they could maybe charge you with a crime.

Now I like dogs, I’d feel like absolute shit if I hit one, but I really don’t see how an owner not being able to control their own fucking dog means that someone can be found liable and given a fucking criminal record over hitting one.

Especially when it’s so much easier to just ignore it, try to get on with your day and ignore peer pressure to hand yourself in.

Don’t tail gate and you’ll see things around you.

 

[Samir Al Hajeed]

One of the most ridiculous Bri-ish laws I can think of is how you have to report that you've hit a dog with your car. It's such a ridiculous feels based policy where if an unleashed stray barrels out in between two cars you're expected to phone up the police and give your details so they could maybe charge you with a crime.

Now I like dogs, I’d feel like absolute shit if I hit one, but I really don’t see how an owner not being able to control their own fucking dog means that someone can be found liable and given a fucking criminal record over hitting one.

Especially when it’s so much easier to just ignore it, try to get on with your day and ignore peer pressure to hand yourself in.

It's one of those laws that's a great idea in an already finely tuned Swiss watch of a high trust 1st world society, and absolutely retarded in the real world of a failing state barreling towards south africa living standards. A lot of British law is like this, I would not mind a heavy focus on the environment, recycling, etc. if it weren't for my nigger neighbors who don't know how to work a wheelie bin and instead dump their rubbish directly on the fucking street to get torn apart by seagulls.

 

[Made In Wales]

Speaking of comedy and fun, did anybody say the N word to any woke idiots today?

 

[The Crack Spiders Bitch]

One of the most ridiculous Bri-ish laws I can think of is how you have to report that you've hit a dog with your car. It's such a ridiculous feels based policy where if an unleashed stray barrels out in between two cars you're expected to phone up the police and give your details so they could maybe charge you with a crime.

Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong on this, but I was always told that the reason for the "must report running over anything larger than a dog" was so that people couldn't claim "I thought I hit a dog" when they hit a human because they have to report it anyway.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong on this, but I was always told that the reason for the "must report running over anything larger than a dog" was so that people couldn't claim "I thought I hit a dog" when they hit a human because they have to report it anyway.

I thought it was something to do with dogs being working animals way back in the mists of when many of our laws were first made, so if you hit one (with a horse n carriage, bike, car etc) you could be making it hard for some guy to do his work, therefore owe him compensation?

Toilet musings from a time when I had a better imagination, perhaps.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I thought it was something to do with dogs being working animals way back in the mists of when many of our laws were first made, so if you hit one (with a horse n carriage, bike, car etc) you could be making it hard for some guy to do his work, therefore owe him compensation?

It's also why dog owners are liable for damage their pet does, but cat owners aren't. Something I learned when a former neighbour tried to sue me after my cat walked on his car and allegedly scratched up the paint. I'm pretty sure the scratch was already there and he just didn't want to pay for repairing it, but it was all moot anyway.

 

[Anomalous Coward]

It's also why dog owners are liable for damage their pet does, but cat owners aren't. Something I learned when a former neighbour tried to sue me after my cat walked on his car and allegedly scratched up the paint. I'm pretty sure the scratch was already there and he just didn't want to pay for repairing it, but it was all moot anyway.

Because nobody owns a cat

 

[Crunkle]

Just heard about Bondi Beach shooting, thoughts and prayers blah blah but let's keep importing unvetted Muslims into the country by the millions.



Every country is doing this and the EU especially are terrified because the entirety of the West will be electing hard-right governments soon to sort this out. Even though there's been a mass murder on beachgoers with a rifle and other guns, YOU (the law-abiding, tax-paying, hard-working type) are not allowed to have a gun to protect yourself from a Muslim shooter.

How far do you think it needs to go for the discussion to making some kind of personal protection legal, even if it's mace? The streets aren't nice anymore and a huge amount of children are carrying knives around to protect themselves from other children with knives.

Then we'd just have London drill niglets in puffer jackets macing people in enclosed spaces for a bit.

EDIT: Just found out it was a Jewish festival. Disregard all of the above

 

[The Crack Spiders Bitch]

London Mayor weighs in:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/12/14/shooting-on-bondi-beach/

 

[Duane Dibbley]

London Mayor weighs in:
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/12/14/shooting-on-bondi-beach/

"Alright, yea? Saddik Kahn ere, init, yeah. My bruvvas and cuzzons are like, well sad that some jews were shot or whatever, kind of their own fault like so in reponse, yeah, we iz gunna put more of our bruvvas and cuzzons on guard around the jews. So if you lookin to get into heaven and please allah, pbuh, just shoot brits coz they'll av no protection n shit, init? Safe. "

 

[PandaChai]

I genuinely can't see an attempt at a war with Russia ending any way other than Starmer being dragged out of number 10 and put on trial. No one is sending their sons to die for the world centre of child trafficking or its midget Jewish kleptocrat.

Well, I can see one other way it could end

 

[Judge Dredd]

Is it that they didn't experience the 90s so have literally never experienced a nice England in their entire lifetimes? Is it genetics? Or is it just confirmation bias because ugly people have always existed? Or are we starting to see a harrowing reality that skincare and makeup products are seriously damaging adolescent skin?

I agree with those saying it's a shitty life and stress.

But the source of the stress isn't just the current state, but the future. It's all but confirmed that anyone currently under the age of 50 will never get a state pension, but have to pay into the system anyway. There's also no fun allowed as all the fun activities are either priced out, co-opted by politics, or simply don't exist.

For women, I don't think it's make up. The "manosphere" types have long talked about "the wall", where all the sex, drugs, and partying of their younger years catches up to them in their 30s. Add in an early life of full time work and constant fear of rape (justified or not), it's no wonder they age faster than milk.

Edit: It could be argued women face more pressure from social media than men. Men are expected to not do anything stupid, but women face pressure to start an only fans, while also knowing doing so could destroy their life.

Nobody is going to put boots on the ground in Ukraine because risking nuclear annihilation over Ukraine of all places is genuine retarded behaviour.

But have you considered all the updoots it would get on social media?

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Don't forget the effects of vaping, drinking gallons of energy drinks and popping anti-depressant/gym-stimulant drugs like they're tictacs.

We had none of that as kids or young adults.

 

[A-Logato]

How far do you think it needs to go for the discussion to making some kind of personal protection legal, even if it's mace? The streets aren't nice anymore and a huge amount of children are carrying knives around to protect themselves from other children with knives.

Then we'd just have London drill niglets in puffer jackets macing people in enclosed spaces for a bit.

They'll NEVER let us defend our self ever.

You will rely on the government for protection, you will live on fear and don't you dare try defend yourself or we'll put you in prison for longer then your attacker.

 

[Made In Wales]

Don't forget the effects of vaping, drinking gallons of energy drinks and popping anti-depressant/gym-stimulant drugs like they're tictacs.

We had none of that as kids or young adults.

Showing my age here but you are right, though we did have issues with kids sniffing glue and tipp-ex and the moral panic of 'Spliffy Kids' jackets in school (instant suspension if you wore one).

Oh, and kids drinking Hooch and alcopops was a thing for a while.

At least we had some semi decent music, and it was a variety of music other than Sheerhan or Swift.

Though I wasn't a massive fan of 90s music, I can still remember Elastica, Suede, Oasis, Blur, The Seahorses, The Charlatans, Ocean Colour Scene etc. being on the radio and being able to hear what was being sung and it sounded okay at the very least.