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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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Cloaca Rimjob said:
German surname + subversive behaviour + beady little eyes = pattern recognition begins to kick in
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He's even got the hardcore sexual deviancy down pat!

(Seriously, you could crop the photo to show just his head and I guarantee you there'd be no end of people claiming he was a Jew on looks alone.)
 
FedPostalService said:
They called themselves National Socialists, or Nationalsozialist if you want to be more correct, but they were a bunch of bum boys who bombed my nan, so I don’t care what they called themselves. I’ll happily deadname those faggots.
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Just don't capitalize it. It's not the proper name of anything. Just like the Holocaust.
 
King Charles message was a bit weird this year.

Much shorter than I thought it would be. He's looking...fuller, as well.
 
Cloaca Rimjob said:
Was watching reruns of still game with the family over christmas instead of the shite on TV (there was some woke BBC comedy about a stinky muzzie whining about christmas) £1.90 a pint of lager on the pub board, felt like one of those fat americans that cry about the price of petrol in old films.
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Gonna throw a huge cornish pastie of context your way because you’re on a downer.

Watching Brittas empire earlier, season 7 so firmly 1996 filming.
10% deduction from wages before tax was £19.

Full time wages £190 = £5.31/h for a 37 hour week or 3.2 (draught £1.65) pints per hour.

Current full time wages before tax is 12.7/hour which at the same rate is roughly £3.96/pint.







Fuck.





Yeah, research turbo cider and countries that we get full pension in.
 
SirCliveSinclairdabbing said:
Gonna throw a huge cornish pastie of context your way because you’re on a downer.

Watching Brittas empire earlier, season 7 so firmly 1996 filming.
10% deduction from wages before tax was £19.

Full time wages £190 = £5.31/h for a 37 hour week or 3.2 (draught £1.65) pints per hour.

Current full time wages before tax is 12.7/hour which at the same rate is roughly £3.96/pint.







Fuck.





Yeah, research turbo cider and countries that we get full pension in.
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In ten years time we'll be counting in freddos instead of pints
 
teriyakiburns said:
36 pence for a sodding chocolate frog. It should be 18 with inflation. And they've changed the recipe to use more palm oil, so it doesn't even taste right any more.
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Absolute soul-less bastards

Anyway, Happy New Year and Happy Nude Queers to everybody here.

I hope that 2026 is a lot better than the past few years!
 
UselessRubberKeyboard said:
If they’re even legal by then. Sugar is bad for you, fat is bad for you, treats are bad for you, happiness that isn’t government-provided is bad for you.

Edit: and pints will probably be the same way.
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Ah, smoking is not good for you, and it's been deemed that anything not good for you is bad; hence, illegal. Alcohol, caffeine, contact sports, meat...

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I would've fucked her via those VR goggle things, she'd be wearing them too so wouldn't see me having a ham shank
 
Pay at point of use won't ever happen under the NHS. The British public has romanticized it to the point where not paying for healthcare is a core national identity (an actual 'British value!'). There's basically nothing else you can do to avoid having spiraling costs especially from the infinity Bomalian migrants that are imported every year either. You'd have to eradicate the entire idea of the welfare state from the political consensus for anything to change.
 
Happy New Year Starmer haters, Islamphobes, welshmen, disabled haters, gary lineker phenotypes, joyless alcoholics, joyful alcoholics and Duncan from MI5 monitoring this thread.

I've already made my year by calling my mates wife who is a Your Party type leftist "a pally flag shagger" which REALLY got her going. Sorry hun, I know it hurts when your childish insults get turned back on you but ahahaha wot am I lyk xoxoxox
 
Kill yourself faggot.

That's how we say hi on 4chan. Through a somewhat odd cascade of sequential thoughts I have awoke and found myself here, on the cold Kiwi side.

I like you a lot more than almost anyone else on this intracranial wireless global head probe. It's been really nice lurking here. Now....otter, on helmet? March...on Westminster? Sigh....
 
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