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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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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.

 

[Camo Fox]

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

All the Christmas songs from that era kinda are, but they are all my favourites. The dreary-ness really adds to the British Christmas feeling of starting on the wine at 9am with your presents.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

I'm just happy that there's one time of year that everyone appreciates Slade again.

Noddy Holder is a national treasure. Slade were amazing, despite being overshadowed by their more hefty Brummie cousins like Sabbath.

TL;DR got and snare a rabbit for some stew, you faggots

God I love rabbit stew. Awesome in a slow cooker with the basics (celery, carrot, onion, garlic). A big dollop of mash and you’ve the perfect meal. Fuck the fancy steak brigade.

 

[Vesperus]

Should I go to the gym or to the pub?

Go to the gym, but fill your water bottle with gin.

 

[Amin Yasister]

Should I go to the gym or to the pub?

Find two pubs next door to each other. Have a beer in each and you will be doing parallel bars.

 

[BongoMongo]

Rabbit is best in a pie with leek and smoked gammon, imo. The fat of the gammon counters the lean of the rabbit.

I've just stopped in for a pint after picking up some overtime at work, and I barely got any change from a tenner for a pint and a packet of nuts. I've not been in a pub since July, and that was my old local where it was £3.75 for a pint of real ale.

Either that place was dirt cheap and I was lucky or cost of a pint has rocketed lately.

Nice to see the no Labour MPs or Councillors sign on the door. Proper warmed my cockles.

And snaring rabbit is boring. I prefer netting a bury and chucking some ferrets down it.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

And snaring rabbit is boring. I prefer netting a bury and chucking some ferrets down it.

Just go to PetsatHome

 

[BongoMongo]

Just go to PetsatHome

You'd be surprised how quickly you can get banned when you want a dozen at a time but won't say why.

 

[Otterly]

Eat meat and don’t be a faggot.

I thought we had rules about farrowing cages? Wasn’t there a big thing about it a decade or so back and we banned the ones that don’t let them lie down at all? Or am imagining that? Was that stall and tether we banned, the really nasty intensive stuff?

 

[2 Faces 2 Colours]

Country is rubbish as always. Trying not to stress about it too much since it's the week of Christmas. I might log off for the next few days and pretend everything is fine just to see how life goes.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I thought we had rules about farrowing cages? Wasn’t there a big thing about it a decade or so back and we banned the ones that don’t let them lie down at all? Or am imagining that? Was that stall and tether we banned, the really nasty intensive stuff?

We do have rules about them, a great many orules in fact, which is why Labour making a fuss about banning them is so stupid. I don't know the details of them, other than they were an effective compromise that allowed the pork industry to stay alive against competition from Denmark, where IIRC the regulations are somewhat looser. It's only become an issue now because Labour are throwing everything against the wall in the hope of drumming up enough support from activist groups to overcome the complete collapse of their support.

One fun fact about pig farming is that Jeremy Clarkson, of all people, invented a way to stop free-range pigs squashing their piglets in the "pigloo" shelters that are often used in such situations. He decame up with a circular guard bar that went around the perimiter of the shelter, which left enough space for piglets to hide in if the mother decided she was going to use her kids as a hot water bottle. It was the sort of genius that only a complete oaf could display.

Doesn't stop them eating their young (though that's a stress reaction to being so confined), nor is it suitable for the kind of intensive farming that is unfortunately necessary to keep so many of us fed and porky.

 

[evrae]

Word I've caught today is that Labour are trying to work around the migrant hotel issue by stuffing them into HMOs (Houses of Multiple Occupancy) instead. Basically the houses that a bunch of students stick in once they're out of uni halls, typically.

Since these tend to be in areas with cheaper housing, this will usually stick said rapey migrants into the areas where the protestors live. It also separates out the migrants into smaller units and also means police protection would be divided (rather than focused around one hotel, try a couple dozen houses in a district), right on the doorstep of the very groups that hate said rapey browns the most. This would probably also lead to people finding who owns said properties and going over to their actual house too.

 

[Made In Wales]

Word I've caught today is that Labour are trying to work around the migrant hotel issue by stuffing them into HMOs (Houses of Multiple Occupancy) instead. Basically the houses that a bunch of students stick in once they're out of uni halls, typically.

Since these tend to be in areas with cheaper housing, this will usually stick said rapey migrants into the areas where the protestors live. It also separates out the migrants into smaller units and also means police protection would be divided (rather than focused around one hotel, try a couple dozen houses in a district), right on the doorstep of the very groups that hate said rapey browns the most. This would probably also lead to people finding who owns said properties and going over to their actual house too.

Would not bet against that happening, especially as less students are going to University and Mr. Landlord has to get his easy money somehow. Explains why areas like Cathays (Cardiff) and Treforest (Pontypridd) have become more violent since the more darker skins have moved in.

Some late news:

Man charged with 56 sexual offences against ex-wife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGAaPRWWGQo

https://archive.ph/wip/Cr6MS

 

[Jason_Cruiser]

Word I've caught today is that Labour are trying to work around the migrant hotel issue by stuffing them into HMOs

Have they been closing down some migrant hotels? I drive past one everyday and as of late i've noticed there's not been much activity in the building (Lights off, no cars parked in-front). I have no reason to think they're actually deporting them, as you said they could just be moving them elsewhere.

Would not bet against that happening, especially as less students are going to University

The rates must be dire for us natives. I drove past one a few weeks ago. Around the time some classes must have finished and like 70-80% were foreign, not necessarily just brown, but a mix of yellow asians and pajeets; with a few nogs hanging around the bus stop.

 

[evrae]

Have they been closing down some migrant hotels? I drive past one everyday and as of late i've noticed there's not been much activity in the building (Lights off, no cars parked in-front). I have no reason to think they're actually deporting them, as you said they could just be moving them elsewhere.

Seems to be the case, they were initially trying to punt them all off to unused old military bases until the lefties cried "muh hooman rights". Unis have indeed seen a decline in intake (a very noticeable one at that from what I've heard from academic friends) and they've been putting the students in halls for all BSc years to avoid all the issues of slumlord HMOs and such, so now the HMO landlords (usually scummy pakis or jeets if it wasn't some corporation) are looking for another way to make money.

They're basically shuffling them around wherever they can fit them to avoid having them in one place and make it not as easy for those against migrants to find out. Unfortunately, I get the feeling this plan is being passed over by council workers who don't like the government over to said protestors, so it's not like the gov are gonna be able to hide that. Not like they'd be able to hide the increased sexual assault stats that come with dumping rapefugees somewhere anyways.

Thing is due to the associated protests, it's seen as high risk by insurance companies (and likely won't give the landlords insurance as a result) due to the protests and the videos of rapefugees trashing the hotels. If a place keeps getting its windows smashed in or burnt down, the gov won't cough up money for repairs/rebuilds and the insurance will go "tough shit". It'll fall apart once protests kick off again and the first landlord gets his hand stung by costs.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Honestly, the list of "People that need shooting if I ever get into power." Is growing shockingly large if it has to include all the Landlords that will rent to these "people".

 

[Made In Wales]

Honestly, the list of "People that need shooting if I ever get into power." Is growing shockingly large if it has to include all the Landlords that will rent to these "people".

We're going to need to chop down more trees then...

BTW, I agree with you - I am thinking of launching a game show called 'Get It Right Or Go To Hell' and giving these idiots the chance to live by getting almost impossible questions right:

'and here is very queer Keir.... okay Keir, in order to breathe oxygen again here is your question.... you have five seconds....

* Name all of the metallic compounds of Sesquioxides

'OH DEAR KEIR... you didn't get one right! The answers were, of course:

Aluminium, Iron, Chromium and Lanthanide...

DOWN YOU GO... *Another One Bites The Dust Plays*

Starmer drops down into Hell where Satan announces 'The Chief is here at last!'

 

[JustWant2PlayVidya]

Rumours are that shithole councils from shithole bits of Britain (e.g. Manchester, Liverpool) are spending vast amounts of money to create their own little exhaust by purchasing housing in my nice bit of the country and filling it with their reprobates.

Its all very conspiratorial atm, but there's two towns with two separate councils where noticing locals are seeing something might be going on.

 

[BongoMongo]

This is happening in the town one of my family members lives in. Her local pub landlord had some bloke in working in the area who let slip he is going to be working there for several months converting some places into HMOs.

Anyone who is placated by their promises of closing hotels and has only just clocked onto their plan of putting them into communities? What are you? Retarded? Drunk?

They've no intention of getting rid, they never have had. Putting them into communities is a cast iron guarantee they're going nowhere.

They'll be able to establish themselves,get a local slag pregnant and get a family life, and that, that is the golden fucking ticket to staying here forever.

I'm work tonight, and boxing day as well (industry I work in, it takes a break 1 day of the year, I get a good rate of overtime, work are paying for a taxi, and my gaffer is leaving me a plated up Christmas tea in the fridge. I know it sounds sad but I can't wait) and then I'm off for a few weeks after that, we're fucking off somewhere remote for a bit.

I sincerely wish all of you, even people who get on my wick a little, a peace, happy, joyous Christmas, doing what you like most with your loved ones, and I pray, from the bottom of my heart that the abominable fuckshow that this country is gets sorted next year with minimal harm to its native sons and daughters.

As laughable as starmers clamouring for a Falklands moment with Russia is, I would urge anyone who hasn't got something in place to take care of themselves, to get it sorted. Cooking indoors might not be realistic for you. If not, stock up on MREs, bottled water and some similar to seven oceans biscuits. Boring fare but it'll keep you going, and I have a feeling they're planning something in the coming year. It won't be what it appears to be, it'll be completely manufactured.

What I can say though, from personal experience, is that the food supply chain in this country is on its fucking knees and is one IT event, one mishap, one cock up, away from going down for a couple of weeks, and one of the big companies involved in it is indicating it's in dire straits.

Have a wonderful Christmas, all of you, and make sure you can look after yours when something goes down next year.

 

[Clem Fandango]

I'm almost finished with work for Christmas. So starting right now I'm going to wear a dressing gown and slippers, I'm going to eat drink and be merry, and I'm not going to talk or think about niggers, pakis or wogs until new years day. As the young kids say these days, good vibes only please.

Eta:

For example, I'm just sat here having tea and cheerios while my son does dot to dot puzzles in his little book. Listening to him whisper "one... two.... three... " as he tries to find the next dot is just the cutest thing ever. Life is pretty cool sometimes. I recommend everyone take the next week off "hassposting" for mental health reasons and just enjoy cosy family times for a bit.

 

[<3 norafawn]

I'm almost finished with work for Christmas. So starting right now I'm going to wear a dressing gown and slippers, I'm going to eat drink and be merry, and I'm not going to talk or think about niggers, pakis or wogs until new years day. As the young kids say these days, good vibes only please.

Eta:

For example, I'm just sat here having tea and cheerios while my son does dot to dot puzzles in his little book. Listening to him whisper "one... two.... three... " as he tries to find the next dot is just the cutest thing ever. Life is pretty cool sometimes. I recommend everyone take the next week off "hassposting" for mental health reasons and just enjoy cosy family times for a bit.

You brits are so fucking lucky. Its going to be 42 and storming for chrissy here in Australia. Hope you and your kiddo have a nice break lad