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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:
Bruh, that's genuinely one of the worst Christmas songs. It's so mind numbingly repetitive.

The true best Christmas song is clearly Driving Home for Christmas. Cozy af, and uniquely British in that I'm fairly sure other countries don't sing about cheerfully sitting in traffic jams.

I TAKE A LOOK AT THE DRIVER NEXT TO ME
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Why do you hate baby Jesus and WWII veterans?
 
FedPostalService said:
Maybe she should have tried being less annoying?
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There is that, but the presenter in question is Ruth Dodsworth and her ex was an actual shit of a 'human being' and what he put her and their children through was horrific.

Like many of us here, I don't normally have time for celebrities, but a few I don't mind like Ruth and Derek Brockway, Owen Money and Roy Noble who are all very decent people.
 
Clem Fandango said:
Bruh, that's genuinely one of the worst Christmas songs. It's so mind numbingly repetitive.

The true best Christmas song is clearly Driving Home for Christmas. Cozy af, and uniquely British in that I'm fairly sure other countries don't sing about cheerfully sitting in traffic jams.

I TAKE A LOOK AT THE DRIVER NEXT TO ME
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I'm going to assume you killled him by posting this.
 
anklyscr said:
I just hate the Beatles and everything they get involved in.
Last Christmas or don’t let the bells end.
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Jimmy Eat World's cover of Last Christmas is superior in every single way.

Also I was surprised to learn, Rob Halford (the giga queer singer from Judas Priest) has done several covers of Christmas songs. His version of O, Holy Night is lovely. And he has an original one called Winter Song which is oddly sweet.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney
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is a song specifically designed to send retail workers into some sort of mass psychosis brainwashing trance.

Starmer is 'considering' under 16s social media ban; while I agree under 16s should not be using social media, it's the fucking parents job to talk to them. Who was in further back in hte thread that said we should only offer people the dole if they agree to be sterilised? jesus christ. There's also a bunch of animal welfare reforms being debated (but no halal slaughter ban... interesting)
 
BongoMongo said:
Jimmy Eat World's cover of Last Christmas is superior in every single way.

Also I was surprised to learn, Rob Halford (the giga queer singer from Judas Priest) has done several covers of Christmas songs. His version of O, Holy Night is lovely. And he has an original one called Winter Song which is oddly sweet.
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So Matt Lucas and Rob Halford are /our gays/
Muppetstudios said:
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On the bright side he'll save a few quid on petrol this year
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Fuck, Road To Hell is a tune.
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
is a song specifically designed to send retail workers into some sort of mass psychosis brainwashing trance.

Starmer is 'considering' under 16s social media ban; while I agree under 16s should not be using social media, it's the fucking parents job to talk to them. Who was in further back in hte thread that said we should only offer people the dole if they agree to be sterilised? jesus christ. There's also a bunch of animal welfare reforms being debated (but no halal slaughter ban... interesting)
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I'll admit, I'm glad they want to ban farrowing crates. They're absolutely barbaric. Pigs are highly intelligent animals and treating sows like that is so inhumane. Shame we're not going to ban halal and kosher slaughter, however. Both are as bad as each other and are repellant.

I find it incredibly jarring to see the Turkish barbers near where we live. The staff have a couple of budgies in a huge cage and the care they lavish on those birds is incredible. But knowing they'll eat meat from animals which die in needless and preventable terror? The juxtaposition really gets to me.
 
BongoMongo said:
I'll admit, I'm glad they want to ban farrowing crates. They're absolutely barbaric. Pigs are highly intelligent animals and treating sows like that is so inhumane. Shame we're not going to ban halal and kosher slaughter, however. Both are as bad as each other and are repellant.

I find it incredibly jarring to see the Turkish barbers near where we live. The staff have a couple of budgies in a huge cage and the care they lavish on those birds is incredible. But knowing they'll eat meat from animals which die in needless and preventable terror? The juxtaposition really gets to me.
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I hate to break this you all, but unless an animal has died in a stable of old age surrounded by its loved ones then the meat you are eating has died horribly. If it has died nicely after living a wonderful life it will taste horrible.


I have to be the bearer of bad news but there isn’t a nice way to kill things. We are going to find this out as euthanasia rolls out for humans which looks peaceful but in most cases will cause a ton of suffering to the person dying because the pleasant way looks ugly.

Eat meat and don’t be a faggot. Ironically the most humane ways to kill, like hunting, are either already banned or in their way to being banned because of this gayness.

TL;DR got and snare a rabbit for some stew, you faggots
 
BongoMongo said:
I'll admit, I'm glad they want to ban farrowing crates. They're absolutely barbaric. Pigs are highly intelligent animals and treating sows like that is so inhumane.
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Domestic piggies may be smart, but they're also violent, infanticidal, and extremely fat. Farrowing crates are necessary to prevent them squashing or eating their young.
 
BongoMongo said:
I'm funny about Christmas, as I know from first hand experience people can be grieving over it, or that maybe it's not a good time for them. I don't like this mentality of shitting on people who aren't feeling festive. Maybe they're not a Grinch; perhaps they're grieving?

That said, anyone who wishes me a happy Christmas gets the same in return. Not a happy holiday or festive period. A happy fucking Christmas.

I know I'm the exception, not the rule,but the Christmas my gran died was the absolute worst and I wanted to cry at anyone wishing me a happy one. So, I keep quiet unless someone brings it up, but then they do I'm so appallingly festive, I practically spaff tinsel.
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I've taken to saying Merry Holidays just to annoy everyone. It works quite well in my area.
 
BongoMongo said:
I'll admit, I'm glad they want to ban farrowing crates. They're absolutely barbaric. Pigs are highly intelligent animals and treating sows like that is so inhumane. Shame we're not going to ban halal and kosher slaughter, however. Both are as bad as each other and are repellant.

I find it incredibly jarring to see the Turkish barbers near where we live. The staff have a couple of budgies in a huge cage and the care they lavish on those birds is incredible. But knowing they'll eat meat from animals which die in needless and preventable terror? The juxtaposition really gets to me.
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The ban on farrow crates is a good idea, but banning trail hunting - not so sure that will achieve anything as no foxes get killed and the BS that 'ooh it's a smokescreen' doesn't wash.

Labour are trying to eradicate the past and demand that we worship them as the new religion.

Well, it ain't working - had an interesting chat earlier with an ex-Labour voter in his 80s who knows of some of the 'old guard' locally like Kinnock and he told me that the grandees in the party are 'absolutely sick and tired' of Starmer as he has 'made the Labour party something it was never meant to be.'

Blair, Beckett, Campbell, Kinnock, Brown and the other 'old timers' are angry that Starmer has wrecked the party and that he will not listen to them or McSweeney.

Apparently, Starmer is cutting his communications team 'to the bare minimum' next year and wants to control what the media says about him - therefore, any criticism of Starmer could be met with a stern response as he 'can't do criticism.'

When you see what the response was by the middle class to Starmer on The Royal Variety Show, booing John Culshaw's brilliant impression of him, then Starmer attempting to silence any dissent will mean that he has to silence almost 100% of the population - even his own party hate him.

As for Turkish Barbers, the one near me closes at about 4.30 pm but is open at midnight (there's lights on inside) though there's never any customers inside... curious that.
 
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