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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.

 

[Made In Wales]

Isn't it crazy that in quite literally every single way aside from prison quality (barely) our legal system is worse than it was a millennia ago? If we want to go Christian guided legal system then fuck you the only one that can judge me is God therefore all your legal rulings are bullshit heresy and I am off to go be not just racist in Greggs but also in starbucks too. I think we should have more Christianity in our government and legal system, mostly because it is literally satanic, the subversion and corruption of God's work through sin. I'm not saying kier is Satan or even demonic, that'd be far too high praise for him, but can you really tell me he looks human?

He's more robotic than even Sir John Major was as PM.

I am convinced he's an NPC Lolcow worthy of his own post here.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Starmer was unfortunately born without a personality. His aides running his speeches and tweets through chatgpt isn't helping the autistic robot image.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Starmer was unfortunately born without a personality. His aides running his speeches and tweets through chatgpt isn't helping the autistic robot image.

Man please don't make me say nice things about openai. But if chatgpt was running the country it would genuinely be better. It can't be self servicing or corrupt, it would just look at the numbers and go from there. And at least when chatgpt spouts shit and you call it out then it'll actually listen to you instead of just calling you a racism and getting you arrested.

 

[No-Eyed Square Guy]

You joke, but I'm in a smoke control area so the only fires I remember looked like this:

As a foreigner I didn't know they'd changed the jargon from "smokeless zone" (clear British language) to "smoke control area" (no fucking idea what that is, but I know it's worse because it sounds Californian).

When I was a kid there was a protest song about how the lawful "smokeless" fuels were poison:

 

[Clem Fandango]

Lammy: My Christian faith shows me it’s right to curb jury trials ​

Justice Secretary says religion has guided him to put victims at centre of his decision-making amid Crown Court backlogs
... John 7:51 ''Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?''

Could've also gone with "Judge not, lest ye be judged", but let's not pretend this sub-human ape has the same God as you or me.

 

[FedPostalService]

they have the two best Scottish teams not two top flight teams

It could be argued that’s not even the case anymore

 

[Otterly]

Starmer was unfortunately born without a personality. His aides running his speeches and tweets through chatgpt isn't helping the autistic robot image.

Bold of you to think he was of woman born, he was grown in a vat somewhere

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Bold of you to think he was of woman born, he was grown in a vat somewhere

Come on don't slander science like that. He just crawled out the mud like how medieval people thought flies were born, they were just manifested by miasma.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Let's see how this one ages.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Let's see how this one ages.
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Has any other politician ever had to say this? At least when they are in power. Normally you don't have to say that you will be in power because it has been made clear that the will of the people is for you to be in power. The only reason you have to say this is because it is clear that people are doubting it. You are just insecure and trying to reaffirm yourself. You are hated. No one likes you. The longer you are in power the more you will be hated.

People will piss on your grave when you are dead and no one will even try to stop it like they did for Jimmy.

 

[BongoMongo]

Anyone know much about bookmakers, please? As in, if I wanted to put a bet on starmer being out by next year, would they let me?

I tried to put on a bet during le coof, I wanted to put a bet on divorce rates going through roof after it was all over but I was told I was morally reprehensible and that they wouldn't take a bet on anything that caused misery.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Anyone know much about bookmakers, please? As in, if I wanted to put a bet on starmer being out by next year, would they let me?

Can us limeys use polymarket? they're running bets on Iran and Maduro iirc. I'm both pro and anti betting on political stuff, on the one hand its morally wrong to bet on which Uki village is going to get bombed today, but its also funny as shit to put my whole wages on Keir going...

Not sure what this guy's deal is, but he's all over twitter going on and on about the national grid about to fail.

https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

He's retweeting this guys substack. https://murphyofmercia.substack.com/p/part-i-britains-dangerous-decade (archive) and other electricity readings and warnings.

Britain’s Dangerous Decade: Why the Electricity Grid Is Already in Trouble​

Most people in Britain believe that electricity is something that simply arrives. You flick a switch and it is there. It has always been there. It will always be there. The idea that the United Kingdom could face recurring power shortages feels like something from another country or another century.
Yet the reality is quietly shifting beneath our feet. We are entering what may prove to be the most precarious period for the British electricity system in living memory. This is not a warning about some distant future. It is not a problem waiting on the horizon. Due to the long lead times required to build the physical infrastructure that keeps the lights on, much of what will shape the next decade has already been set in motion. It is set in motion but the current net zero plan for our national grid shows no signs of being suitable for the challenges of the present or the future. It relies heavily on innovation that is not yet proven at scale and assumes technologies that do not currently exist in dependable form. There is also an unspoken expectation that future breakthroughs will arrive in time to compensate for shortcomings in today’s system. That hope is not supported by any concrete evidence. Many of the technologies being counted on to stabilise a highly renewable grid remain experimental, commercially untested or decades away from deployment at the scale required...

Given the recent government advice about what to do in a blackout, Ed Milliband still fucking talking, and general incompetence across the board, we could be facing blackouts if this guys rambling is true.

 

[Russian Bot #5361]

Anyone know much about bookmakers, please? As in, if I wanted to put a bet on starmer being out by next year, would they let me?

I tried to put on a bet during le coof, I wanted to put a bet on divorce rates going through roof after it was all over but I was told I was morally reprehensible and that they wouldn't take a bet on anything that caused misery.

Yeah you totally can, just go to the politics page on any betting website and it's worth shopping around for good odds. Here's a little look at the prices from Coral.

Interesting to note that the betting market overwhelmingly believes that Kier Starmer will be ousted this year.

 

[FedPostalService]

Yeah you totally can, just go to the politics page on any betting website and it's worth shopping around for good odds. Here's a little look at the prices from Coral.
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The lack of May as an option tells me you need to bet on May if you can find it.

EDIT: I didn't realise it was a spread of months as i didn't read it properly. 5/2 seems like REALLY long odds for getting dumped after a collapse in the local elections.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Given the recent government advice about what to do in a blackout, Ed Milliband still fucking talking, and general incompetence across the board, we could be facing blackouts if this guys rambling is true.

The grid's been on the brink for a few years, thanks to the loss of reliable production capacity for the sake of green. Peak demand was a gnat's pube short of total available supply multiple times last winter. I'll be surprised if we make it through this one without a cut.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Yeah you totally can, just go to the politics page on any betting website and it's worth shopping around for good odds. Here's a little look at the prices from Coral.
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Man I do not understand betting odds. But this is saying that the likelihood of him being replaced this year is higher than him making it the rest of the term right?

The grid's been on the brink for a few years, thanks to the loss of reliable production capacity for the sake of green. Peak demand was a gnat's pube short of total available supply multiple times last winter. I'll be surprised if we make it through this one without a cut.

We should import even more people who are not used to the cold and use disproportionately more heating then.

 

[FedPostalService]

Not sure what this guy's deal is, but he's all over twitter going on and on about the national grid about to fail.
https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

I'm reminded of a story my dad told me during the fuel protest back in 2000. He drove past a petrol station and saw a load of people queuing to get petrol. He said "look at those idiots panic buying." He turned around his car and joined he queue. He laughed and said, "I realised I was a moron and part of the problem, but do you know what? I'm a moron with a full tank of petrol."

All my devices that need charging (except my work laptop lol) ae now charging.

 

[Russian Bot #5361]

Man I do not understand betting odds. But this is saying that the likelihood of him being replaced this year is higher than him making it the rest of the term right?

Odds are real simple, X is your winnings, Y is your stake. So odds are laid out like so: X/Y

So for the 2026 odds are: 8/11, so for every £11 you bet, you win £8. So if you bet £11, you would get £19 if you won (£8 in winnings + your £11 stake).

For 2027 it's 4/1. So for every £1 you bet you win £4. if you bet £10, you would get £50 (£40 in winnings + £10 stake).

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Gambling is haram.

 

[the rat]

We should import even more people who are not used to the cold and use disproportionately more heating then.

I would love to help but unfortunately the heating is off to save money and I have too much shit in front of the radiator for me to consider it safe anyway. Basically the average winter for me matches my cold, racist northern heart.

How are you all dealing with the weather, anyhow?