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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.

 

[chilli burn]

And you got an auto dialer to reconnect you. And learned to use IRC to resume large downloads.

Are you me? TFC was great. It's dead now.

Smart phones don't belong in schools. Nor do laptops. All this technology gets in the way of learning. I know we fucked around online in the computer class the same way everyone else did. Now it has to be the default if there's not a mirror on the back wall to see what the kids are up to.

Anyone else play that mario is missing online game with princess peach?

 

[Coolio55]

Anyone else play that mario is missing online game with princess peach?

I preferred Legend of Krystal.

 

[The Green Man]

Great news everyone! A British production won Best Limited TV Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for TV at the golden globes.

Spoiler: And the award for best propaganda goes to..........

Adolescence

If you ever need a list of things to brainwash yourself with. Look no further than these golden globes. It won multiple awards along with other propaganda pieces no one watched and no one remembers after a week. It's almost like they're trying to convince people to watch them by giving them these awards.

Seeing that fucking poster of that show everywhere last year. The kid looking evil and Graham looking like he's about to cry. It was hilarious but also frightening that people took it actually so seriously

 

[teriyakiburns]

Nah that's just where I live.

I confess I misread the post a little (I am retarded).

Today Reform welcome aboard a new shit-tier Tory deserter in the form of Nadhim Zahawi. JH Christ, the absolute state of the UK's 'alternative' party. Mail archive

Never let indians run your company (Reform ltd is a company masquerading as a political party). They always hire more of their "people" until you're surrounded by stinking subcontinentals. Nigel is trying to build a broad coalition and seems to think that means you have to include your enemies. He's throwing votes away every time he does this shit.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I confess I misread the post a little (I am retarded).


Never let indians run your company (Reform ltd is a company masquerading as a political party). They always hire more of their "people" until you're surrounded by stinking subcontinentals. Nigel is trying to build a broad coalition and seems to think that means you have to include your enemies. He's throwing votes away every time he does this shit.

We have the native populations vote but what we really need is the votes of all the people they want us to deport. Then we'll be even more powerful and powerful!

Why is it so difficult to understand the biggest voting block in the country wants their country back under their control and every time you go for a modern audience you lose the only audience that matters?

 

[Smyrna]

At this point I am curious if there are any Tories that Farage would say no to. I had thought that Dorries was the limit of their desperation, but it seems not.

 

[A-Logato]

Indians are the worst for hiring amongst themselves and it's been prove statistically. I don't even think Shell Petrol stations have a policy of only hiring Indians, it's just the jeet hiring managers choosing to only hire other jeets.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

Wait a sec, just seeing that I've got this all right:

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Also 16 yr olds can vote, leave education and join the workforce, live alone and have their own bank account. But consider this chud, there's boobs and bad words on social media.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

We have the native populations vote but what we really need is the votes of all the people they want us to deport. Then we'll be even more powerful and powerful!

Why is it so difficult to understand the biggest voting block in the country wants their country back under their control and every time you go for a modern audience you lose the only audience that matters?

Because Nigel is a big tent, economically right, everything else centre liberal.

 

[Decapitated Nigger Baby]

Daily reminder that you don't have a loicence to post on this extremist website (banned in the uh-keey) and that you can be jailed for posting here ok hunny bunnys? x
(reddit and orwell had an abortion and called in XXIst century britain)

 

[gay]

i'm pretty sure he's talking about Ronnie McNutt, what a pussy and his dad is soft too.

Who TF gets ptsd from snuff films. I remember in school everyone in my friend group would have ran to the computer if one of us found a gore video more brutal than the last. I think most teenagers have watched gore at some point, there's nothing weird about it. This is the gov's way tricking people into more internet bans by using the classic "think of the kids argument".

in my school some people made it a point to invite everyone to watch the Nick Berg video (this must've been around 2004/2005) on the school computer through the /b/.

i'm super desensitized though because i've been exposed to so much "extreme content" while lurking the wild west era of the Internet so i can't really relate with zoomers who grew up without LiveLeak and Ogrish.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Indians are the worst for hiring amongst themselves and it's been prove statistically. I don't even think Shell Petrol stations have a policy of only hiring Indians, it's just the jeet hiring managers choosing to only hire other jeets.

Shoutout to Stonetoss for one of my favourite strips



It's true, Indians don't just hire other Indians but they specifically hire Indians in their caste, something which is completely alien to any normal fucking person.

 

[Swerf'n'Terf]

Never let indians run your company (Reform ltd is a company masquerading as a political party).

Not sure if this is metaphorical or America-brained but in the interests of accuracy I'm going to point out that neither Zia Yusuf nor Nadhim Zahawi is Indian (Sri Lankan and Iraqi). As ever the problem is a diverse coalition of muzzies.

ETA: the point was just autist accuracy, no comment on the comparative quality of different brownoid populations.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

My policy of 'if it's brown, flush it down' has not failed yet, nor is it likely to ever fail.

 

[The Green Man]

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i'm pretty sure he's talking about Ronnie McNutt, what a pussy and his dad is soft too.

in my school some people made it a point to invite everyone to watch the Nick Berg video (this must've been around 2004/2005) on the school computer through the /b/.

i'm super desensitized though because i've been exposed to so much "extreme content" while lurking the wild west era of the Internet so i can't really relate with zoomers who grew up without LiveLeak and Ogrish.

He's either a complete faggot or a plant that the government will use to further censor us. Or both.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Indians are a fucking plague, I think I actually hate them more than Muslims. At least with Muslims, you know they want to kill you. They are an absolute scourge on this planet, and I only pray that a leader turns their ire onto this trash bug-like race. They are practically inhuman with their mannerisms. Good job, India. I think the West would collectively side with the muzzies to obliterate them.

So if Starmer gets rid of X, how does he intend to recover the optics of his party? Facebook? BlueSky? They would shoot their most viewed way of communication, on such a piss poor method to gain control. As I said the other day, to gain control, you have to have considerable resources to exert control, and Starmer does not have that. Also, he is universally despised globally.

As for Nigel and his retarded new hire, a Kurd who has been in most political roles yet achieved nothing, a must pick, truly.

The kid in the interview sounds like a faggot psy-op.

 

[diroama]

It's true, Indians don't just hire other Indians but they specifically hire Indians in their caste, something which is completely alien to any normal fucking person.

How do they know who is in which caste do they have a colour chart like you use to choose emulsion?

 

[Coolio55]

How do they know who is in which caste do they have a colour chart like you use to choose emulsion?

They have to line up the IR sensors in their foreheads.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Not sure if this is metaphorical or America-brained but in the interests of accuracy I'm going to point out that neither Zia Yusuf nor Nadhim Zahawi is Indian (Sri Lankan and Iraqi). As ever the problem is a diverse coalition of muzzies.

ETA: the point was just autist accuracy, no comment on the comparative quality of different brownoid populations.

It's a colourful metaphor. Non-european ethnics tend toward in-group-preferring behaviours, with varying levels of obnoxious baggage attached. Indians are the most obvious and obnoxious, but arabs and muslims in general will also attach far greater value to hiring their own verses hiring someone competent, which quickly leads to any organisation being taken over within a few years once they reach a certain level of power within it.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

These reform picks are getting absurd now!