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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.

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.

 

[EddyRooney]

I was trying to be nice to Welshy and hoped he would come to his senses but he's going full retard. "I feel welcome here" is why he's defending it and that's why he won't ever see the light.

If you leave the thread for 2 days, come back and write an essay after being bullied for essay writing to justify supporting Reform you're not going to learn.

The sheer arrogance that drips from these statements. It's your job to "educate" him is it ?
You've posted plenty of retarded shit on here ( as we all have ) so I'm wondering what makes you oh so superior that you feel an obligation to enlighten others ?
He's entitled to have his say ( perhaps that part of being British is lost on you, like many other British colloquialisms you don't seem to know or understand ).

 

[The Green Man]

The sheer arrogance that drips from these statements. It's your job to "educate" him is it ?
You've posted plenty of retarded shit on here ( as we all have ) so I'm wondering what makes you oh so superior that you feel an obligation to enlighten others ?
He's entitled to have his say ( perhaps that part of being British is lost on you, like many other British colloquialisms you don't seem to know or understand ).

Bet he's not even British.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Bet he's not even British.

if he was he'd be Tea Drinka

 

[Goose the Redeemer]

We didn't need to "compete with Hollywood". Look at how many classics were made in the UK. Most major from the peak of cinema were filmed or had major UK assistance in production. We were the best practical effects makers in the world.

We also excell at low-budget (and relatively high quality) productions with a quick turn around, but it doesn't matter if our media is primarily American slop. It also doesn't help that we don't have a cute name for our film industry, and "produced by the BBC" is not as much of a selling point as it used to be.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

i bet it grips like a retard with the class hamster

We had a class pet, I think it was a hamster maybe idk I was like 6 I think. I took it home and made it a paper jellyfish because we had made them in school that week or something and I put it in the cage with the hamster and it ate the jellyfish and I refused to take it home again because it was mean to me lol.

 

[The Green Man]

We also excell at low-budget (and relatively high quality) productions with a quick turn around, but it doesn't matter if our media is primarily American slop. It also doesn't help that we don't have a cute name for our film industry, and "produced by the BBC" is not as much of a selling point as it used to be.

What should our version of "Hollywood" and "Bollywood" be called?

 

[Chicken of the woods]

The British film / TV industry is still thriving. A lot of 'American' productions are shot in Pinewood and so on. There are even fairly acute skill shortages in some specialisms.

We benefit from LA being super expensive and in hock to ridiculous union rules.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

What should our version of "Hollywood" and "Bollywood" be called?

The thing that produces dog shit media and is full of child rapists? What did I miss and why are we trying to rename the bbc?

 

[Made In Wales]

What should our version of "Hollywood" and "Bollywood" be called?

I thought we called it Pinewood?

 

[CaptainAutism69]

The guy who spends all day on Kiwi farms trying to bully an autistic welsh teenager is a millionaire? Major doubts there. Six figures, multiple sports cars, owns a mansion and has a model for a white. But has to bully Reform's chief sperg? Not fucking likely.

I think you're moderately cretinious. 6 figures is not 1,000,000, that would be 7. You can pick up a nice Aston for around 60k Eur.. not beyond realistic to do.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

The sheer arrogance that drips from these statements. It's your job to "educate" him is it ?
You've posted plenty of retarded shit on here ( as we all have ) so I'm wondering what makes you oh so superior that you feel an obligation to enlighten others ?
He's entitled to have his say ( perhaps that part of being British is lost on you, like many other British colloquialisms you don't seem to know or understand ).

Arrogance? Seeing friends get stuck in Trump derangement syndrome is sad. Farage derangement syndrome is just as bad. I don't think it's my job to enlighten any one, I think it's fucking sad when you get stabbed in the back twice in a week and still write essays defending the people doing it. It's what got us where we are now. I don't want to see any one jumping through hoops to justify traitors selling them down the river and convincing themselves they're the saviours we need.

Entitled to your say? Sure. But a lot of people say stuff on this website that make them look retarded. But they usually don't repeat the same action and expect it to go well. Essay writing on how Reform is a big tent and that's great is what made him rage quit the thread before. And the first instance he came back he did it again. So next time Farage buddies up to another brown Conservative he'll rage quit the thread, block more people and repeat the cycle. We all know the lolcow cycle now right?

if he was he'd be Tea Drinka

Kofi is a grifting donation platform. Tea is for gossiping women. I don't want wine aunt juice!

@CaptainAutism69 If you own multiple sports cars and a large house then you would be creeping into 7 figures. A house to hold multiple sports cars would be approaching that alone unless you live in a third world shit hole.

 

[CaptainAutism69]

Arrogance? Seeing friends get stuck in Trump derangement syndrome is sad. Farage derangement syndrome is just as bad. I don't think it's my job to enlighten any one, I think it's fucking sad when you get stabbed in the back twice in a week and still write essays defending the people doing it. It's what got us where we are now. I don't want to see any one jumping through hoops to justify traitors selling them down the river and convincing themselves they're the saviours we need.

The only way it makes sense if if he's farage's personal rent boy, coping so hard that he's on the verge of hospitalisation, or brown and hoping if he shills hard enough he can find some status.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

@Chunky Salsa how does this make you feel?
Would you vote Reform if they pledged to report all midgets back to Oz?

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Would you vote Reform if they pledged to report all midgets back to Oz?

The lion the witch and the wardrobes been on it's last legs since women were banned for being haram and the only thing you can have in your wardrobe is a burka. Strange rise in skeletons in Oz too though, not sure why.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

The only way it makes sense if if he's farage's personal rent boy, coping so hard that he's on the verge of hospitalisation, or brown and hoping if he shills hard enough he can find some status.

I've said my piece and I don't want to see MiW bullied. I wish him the best and hope Reform doesn't take his life savings.

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@Chunky Salsa how does this make you feel?
Would you vote Reform if they pledged to report all midgets back to Oz?

Wasn't that a video nasty about a woman and a dwarf kidnapping women?

 

[CaptainAutism69]

@CaptainAutism69 If you own multiple sports cars and a large house then you would be creeping into 7 figures. A house to hold multiple sports cars would be approaching that alone unless you live in a third world shit hole.

A house would be nice, but instead a 2 beroom apartment with a couple of spaces in the garage is what I have instead...half way through a mortgage so the bank owns it...and really, if my apartment was worth a mil, it's kinda useless if you can't do anything with the money.
As I said before, if you're willing to sacrifice home comforts and rough it for a while, there's good money to be had outsideof the UK. I was lucky enough to spend a couple of years in the gulf during the 2008 crisis, and the savings were beyond anything i could hope to get in the UK (think 2500 pounds a month instead of 100) and that set the clock back to zero for me in terms of student debt.
There's still good money in shit holes like china or Saudi if you're willing to suck it up for a while, and the cost of living is dirt cheap in the Balkans.
Thankfully where I am now has a decent standard of life, and not filled with gyppos and browns.
One of my mates is a doctor. He said in the UK he was treated like shit, and the pay in relation to hours for a junior doctor was shit, with little chance to get a specialty since there's a shortage of spaces...so he learned a language and went abroad to set up his own private clinic.
There's something wrong when a Brit can get a better life abroad than at home, while the UK imports millions of foreigners to do those jobs...

 

[2 Faces 2 Colours]

The thing I'm worried most about reform is if people split off from reform again, then the right becomes split three ways; possibly even more schisms could happen after that, and then the right-wing in British politics just becomes a nightmare hodgepodge of smaller parties that all hate each other. It basically ensures that Labour wins again and again for the foreseeable future. I don't like Farage, and I don't want to vote for reform, but I wonder how far we can go down this spiral until it destroys the right.

 

[diroama]

I love election night TV coverage. All the swingometers and predictions and results rolling in.

I haven't a clue what's going to happen at the next one but it's going to be fascinating.

I think it might possibly be the straw that breaks the FPTP camel's back and forces us into some sort of PR. Not that I'm particularly in favour of it, but I don't see any other way forward if we are genuinely entering an age of potentially five parties with similar levels of national support.

 

[The Green Man]

Farage doesn't want to win. And if he does, I'm not sure he's ready to be prime minister. As someone said earlier, he loves the underdog grift. Winning kills that immediately. He's going to keep making dumb mistakes on purpose to ensure he doesn't win but can keep saying the left and labour are holding him back.

 

[Made In Wales]

The thing I'm worried most about reform is if people split off from reform again, then the right becomes split three ways; possibly even more schisms could happen after that, and then the right-wing in British politics just becomes a nightmare hodgepodge of smaller parties that all hate each other. It basically ensures that Labour wins again and again for the foreseeable future. I don't like Farage, and I don't want to vote for reform, but I wonder how far we can go down this spiral until it destroys the right.

I certainly don't think that there will be a split, but you are right in saying that there are people who don't like Reform UK/Farage but also don't like the system which we have.

Unfortunately, it's nigh but impossible for any of the alternatives on the Right to catch up with Reform UK - from Britain First and Heritage to the BNP and National Front. Farage ended any chance of them growing, which does create a future problem for Reform UK down the line if they get seen as 'too left' of a party with the Overton Window shifting right.

As alternatives, a new Welsh party is rumored to be starting in March - 'Rhyddid' or 'Freedom' are standing on a pro-independence and out of the EU platform (basically, no to Westminster and no to Brussels). The people behind them are said to be some ex-Plaid and ex-UKIP members who want to put Wales first and promise 'true independence' and whom trust neither Nigel nor Rhun.

This is an interesting notion, as there are people here who voted Leave but don't trust Reform UK.

Depending on whether or not they put candidates forward for the Senedd Election, they might be the difference between Plaid or Reform winning power.

The right have had its schisms, with David Kurten and Laurence Fox starting their own parties and Tommy Robinson doing his own thing, yet none of these parties are gaining individual support.

I think of Reform UK as more than just 'Nigel's Vehicle' - it's the start of the change and not the middle or the end which is 50 odd years into the future. For me, it's not a question of whether or not I like Farage (I like him more than I dislike him and I disagree with him on some things) but what the party will do and what its message and missive is. Nigel will be gone by the 2030s and Reform UK (or whatever it's called then) will then be building for the second wave with, hopefully, young patriots who can then steer the party forward for many decades of Government.

Labour and the Tories will be spoken of in the past tense before long, it's now a new world of politics and new parties will enter the frame over the next few years.

If Farage doesn't want to win, and doesn't have it in him, then what better way to prove it than by voting him in as PM - we all know Farage will be gone in two years anyway (his health's not good, and I believe Jenrick will then be brought in to take over whilst the groundwork to stay in power is completed).

By 2040, this is what I believe the state of the parties will be:

National Reformists (formerly Reform UK) - the Government

National Socialists (a re-birth of Labour)
Liberal Party
National Democratic Party (a mixture of ex-Lib Dem and left-wing Tories)
Environment & Ecology Assembly (the Greens after nuking themselves with woke)

Welsh Nationalists (I suspect Rhun will also nuke Plaid - this new party would be more of a Wigley/Ellis-Thomas era 'Plaid' with emphasis on Welsh heritage and the language without the woke)

Alba, The Party of Scotland (Once the SNP become completely irrelevant, I expect Alba to take over)

These would then form the Opposition.

FPTP is problematic but still way better than the D'Hondt method which the Senedd will be using this summer, along with 'super constituencies'... a terrible idea, but that's par for the course here.