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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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Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Your homework for tonight is to listen to Wham's Last Christmas at least 3 times
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Have some mercy, man, it’s Christmas!
Anyway it’s ’one on a scooter pippin’ his hooter’ and you can either have the big cigar or wearing a wonder bra if the teachers aren’t listening.
No-Eyed Square Guy said:
Finding more than one till open at Aldi is a greater miracle than the birth of Christ.
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our local one is pretty good tbh, always tills open and cheery staff. Think it’s one of the better run establishments, I’ve heard they treat staff ok in that branch.
I have survived the Christmas Eve stuff, and I wish I could go to a midnight service with lovey music but I can’t, so I will just try to have a cuppa then hit the hay before I am awoken by screeching children at an ungodly hour.
 
BongoMongo said:
I hope Starmer is diagnosed with something painful, fatal and incurable for Christmas. Same for all MPs,really.
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It makes me wonder, if Starmer had a massive stroke after choking on his Christmas dinner and was reduced to a wheeelchair weilding, droopy faced spaz... Would he actually be a better PM?

I mean right now he's allegdly compus mentus and straight up cannot explain a single policy. A "BLEWWWFFFFFFFFF WEFFFFFFFFFFFF" might unironically be a good way of explaining away why he can't do anything. Plus he'd be the first heavily disabled PM which would make Labour even more diverse and innovative.
 
Watching sub saharan warble in Westminster abbey including the full Simon cowell sob story background then everyone in the pews put them to shame with one song at the end.

Merry Christmas future cell mates.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
It makes me wonder, if Starmer had a massive stroke after choking on his Christmas dinner and was reduced to a wheeelchair weilding, droopy faced spaz... Would he actually be a better PM?

I mean right now he's allegdly compus mentus and straight up cannot explain a single policy. A "BLEWWWFFFFFFFFF WEFFFFFFFFFFFF" might unironically be a good way of explaining away why he can't do anything. Plus he'd be the first heavily disabled PM which would make Labour even more diverse and innovative.
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The seppos had that congress fella who had a stroke and came out of it fairly based..... Couldn't hurt
 
BongoMongo said:
I hope Starmer is diagnosed with something painful, fatal and incurable for Christmas. Same for all MPs,really.

Why sir, how did your face get scalded? Oh, my wife waterboarded me with the bisto.
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I hope they all go 'bye bye' as well:

 
Low's 'Just Like Christmas' popped up in the playlist and it fucking broke me. It's so fucking good and bittersweet but also just melts into total optimism and the vibe of being a little kid on Christmas while remaining a relatively monotone shoegaze track.

Pairing it with Wizard's 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday' is tonal whiplash to the max.
 
Honestly watching everyone get more merrier as the thread progresses over Christmas as we have a few festive beers makes this such an unironically wholesome place. It's great how the British thread is just a weird hugbox of peak British roasting, wild opinions and united in hatred for Labour.

Wild how the British government has made it illegal for us to be here to begin with because they fucking hate us and want us to be burned alive and mutilated by Pakis. A little group of autistic weirdos on a Chris Chan tracking/neo-nazi/tranny hating website.

Merry Christmas you cunts.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Honestly watching everyone get more merrier as the thread progresses over Christmas as we have a few festive beers makes this such an unironically wholesome place. It's great how the British thread is just a weird hugbox of peak British roasting, wild opinions and united in hatred for Labour.

Wild how the British government has made it illegal for us to be here to begin with because they fucking hate us and want us to be burned alive and mutilated by Pakis. A little group of autistic weirdos on a Chris Chan tracking/neo-nazi/tranny hating website.

Merry Christmas you cunts.
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We love you too, kiwi bro. Merry Christmas.
 
Otterly said:
Next year in the Gulag!
Sláinte Mhaith to you all, may your Christmas be merry, or at least acceptably tolerable, and may Father Christmas put whatever, or whomever, you wish for under the tree /mistletoe for you.
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Awww, same to all of you. You guys are my favorite Bonglanders and I wish you all a very merry ✨ Starmer somehow getting diphtheria and pooping himself to death in the middle of a parliamentary broadcast ✨

Come on Santa, us Kiwis have all been such very good girls and boys this year. :heart-full:
 
Merry Christmas one and all, I'd typed some right soppy shite here but I will instead say that I would happily go to the pub with each and every one of you and I have no higher praise than that.
 
I think you're all awesome.
If any of you ever find yourself in my neck of the woods, (although because we are such a nasty, Doxxy website that it's not the done thing around here), I'd happily have a drink or few and chat shit with you.
 
Merry Christmas lads and lasses, I braved the roads to travel from one end of the country to the other earlier and surprisingly zero traffic issues at all. I'm now a two or three (or more) glasses into one of my favourite whiskys and shitpoting my evening away while eveyone else watches some Christmas slop on the tv
 
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