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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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Clem Fandango said:
Ho-lee-shit, I think I've actually uncovered something. I need the rest of the thread to chime in (don't dox your location, obviously) but have they fucking banned smoky bacon crisps in London?!? Why are people not talking about this?
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Smoky Bacon Crisp Ban: What you need to Know. It seems a lot of smoky flavourings have been banned due to health concerns as well,
EU member states quietly agreed upon the ban at the end of April, and the smoky flavourings will be phased out completely over the next few years across Europe.
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While we are talking about London, have any Londonfags seen those posters that say 'this service is provided by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Kahn'? There's some discussion on social media about these posters showing off what sadick is doing and how Benevolent he is, like a fucking African warlord or smth.
 
evrae said:
A little guy who lived in a little world, drinking little drinks in a little Spoons at a little bar, before the little walls all drop and reveal it's a little gas chamber with little "shower heads" that are linked to little bottles of gas. All to cut their life short.
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What sort of small man are you to do such a petty act?
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
Smoky Bacon Crisp Ban: What you need to Know. It seems a lot of smoky flavourings have been banned due to health concerns as well,

While we are talking about London, have any Londonfags seen those posters that say 'this service is provided by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Kahn'? There's some discussion on social media about these posters showing off what sadick is doing and how Benevolent he is, like a fucking African warlord or smth.
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Thanks for the info.
The primary reason behind the recent bans on smoky bacon crisps is food safety. Recalls have been issued due to contamination with undeclared allergens. For example, some crisps were found to contain traces of milk or nuts, which were not listed on the packaging.
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Look, this is going to sound heartless, but if you die when you consume milk or nuts, I think you're just gonna have to die. Your body is literally defective. And I wants my crisps.
 
Clem Fandango said:
Look, this is going to sound heartless, but if you die when you consume milk or nuts, I think you're just gonna have to die. Your body is literally defective. And I wants my crisps.
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Tbh this reason sounds like utter bullshit so I'm going to keep digging on if smoky bacon crisps HAVE been banned for islamic reasons tbh. There's been a fucking million recalls for shit like yoghurt or baby formula and that never gets banned en masse, they just get recalled and remade; why is only smoky flavouring banned for recall issues?
I hope you can finds your crisps
 
UselessRubberKeyboard said:
It’s tea, you fancy southern poofter ❤️
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It's not tea because I'm not some geriatric old bint that needs to blend my food and wash it down with a gallon of milk and half a kilo of sugar.
Clem Fandango said:
Look, this is going to sound heartless, but if you die when you consume milk or nuts, I think you're just gonna have to die. Your body is literally defective. And I wants my crisps.
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Why would you ban an entire type of food because some of it's contaminated? If smoky bbq crisps have nuts and milk in them then go and fucking fine the factory responsible and slap them into getting their shit together. But no let's just ban things because rule fucking britannia sail the seven seas of unending bureaucratic paperwork bullshit.
 
Clem Fandango said:
Ho-lee-shit, I think I've actually uncovered something. I need the rest of the thread to chime in (don't dox your location, obviously) but have they fucking banned smoky bacon crisps in London?!? Why are people not talking about this?
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Local asda has all the meaty crisps and also walkers smoky bacon multipacks. The real scandal is those multipack bags are only 25 grams. That's barely a mouthful!

EU's smoky flavour ban is almost certainly based on linear no-threshold toxicity models. At high enough amounts, they cause measurable damage, so they're assumed to cause cumulative but un-measurable damage at any amount and therefore must be banned.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
Why would you ban an entire type of food because some of it's contaminated? If smoky bbq crisps have nuts and milk in them then go and fucking fine the factory responsible and slap them into getting their shit together. But no let's just ban things because rule fucking britannia sail the seven seas of unending bureaucratic paperwork bullshit.
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If that's all they're contaminated with, then I should be able to buy all those recalled bags at deep discount. Fuck the health concerns of smoky flavourings, I'm literally smoking as I post this (my body is a temple).
teriyakiburns said:
Local asda has all the meaty crisps and also walkers smoky bacon multipacks. The real scandal is those multipack bags are only 25 grams. That's barely a mouthful!
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What were they back in the day? I want
to say 35g at least. And McCoys were 50g.
 
diroama said:
The idea that there should or would be a general election because a fraction of the electorate want one was always utterly retarded.
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It was meant more as a warning shot from a lot of disaffected people across the political scale that this Government is doing a shit job and things have to change.

4 million can become 8 million, can become 16 million, can become 32 million and with Reeves allegedly now turning against Starmer (did not see that coming, I thought that Laurel and Hardy were tethered together) things definitely don't look good for the current Government.

At least Strathern admits Labour is failing, I can respect him for saying that if nothing else.
 
You know, the ONE thing the British do best is fucking crisps (not chips you american cunts).
Go to any country in the world and they have CRISPS, but none other than the UK has the assortment of flavours that god himself intended.

Top 10 CRISPS

1) Bovril (Smiths) R.I.P.
2) McCoys Salt and burn your fucking lips vinegar
3) Walkers BEEF and onion
4) Nik Naks Nice N Spicy
5) Picked Onion Monster Munch
6) Walkers Worcester Sauce (I found some M&S bags here and literally bought every single bag in the store because I miss that flavour so much)
7) Space Raiders
8) Quavers (Cheese of course)
9) Salt and Vinegar Discos
10) Skips Prawn Cocktail

Do not discuss this, your opinon is simply wrong if you don't agree.
 
Every single flavour of Walkers crisps is done better by Seabrook, you get a better crunch to them and you get a full bag of crisps as opposed to the half bags of air that Walkers sell.

If you really are a little nancy boy who wants soft crisps then M&S do some fantastic thin cheese and onion crisps.

Seabrook pickled onion, worcester sauce and prawn cocktail are fantastic. Although I do go through a McCoys phase every now and again because the crunch on those is great.

Remember Walkers XL? Those were probably the last good Walkers crisps before absolute irrelevancy.
 
CaptainAutism69 said:
You know, the ONE thing the British do best is fucking crisps (not chips you american cunts).
Go to any country in the world and they have CRISPS, but none other than the UK has the assortment of flavours that god himself intended.

Top 10 CRISPS

1) Bovril (Smiths) R.I.P.
2) McCoys Salt and burn your fucking lips vinegar
3) Walkers BEEF and onion
4) Nik Naks Nice N Spicy
5) Picked Onion Monster Munch
6) Walkers Worcester Sauce (I found some M&S bags here and literally bought every single bag in the store because I miss that flavour so much)
7) Space Raiders
8) Quavers (Cheese of course)
9) Salt and Vinegar Discos
10) Skips Prawn Cocktail

Do not discuss this, your opinon is simply wrong if you don't agree.
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That's a solid selection, can't really disagree.

I used to drink bovril in the office at my first proper office job about 20 years ago. It occurs to me now that it was probably a bit antisocial to stink up the tea point to that extent. Still, I have no regrets.

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7) Space Raiders
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I'm sure someone, somewhere, has now scanned and uploaded the entirety of that comic that you used to get a few panels of on the back of each bag. But no, I won't look it up, because the whole point was that you just got a little glimpse of it every time you ate a bag. Reading it all beginning to end would just be wrong (and it probably sucks anyway).

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Seabrook
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Seabrooks always used to have a list of exotic flavours on the back that you would never see in shops. I'm still skeptical that those flavours ever really existed.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Every single flavour of Walkers crisps is done better by Seabrook, you get a better crunch to them and you get a full bag of crisps as opposed to the half bags of air that Walkers sell.

If you really are a little nancy boy who wants soft crisps then M&S do some fantastic thin cheese and onion crisps.

Seabrook pickled onion, worcester sauce and prawn cocktail are fantastic. Although I do go through a McCoys phase every now and again because the crunch on those is great.

Remember Walkers XL? Those were probably the last good Walkers crisps before absolute irrelevancy.
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Son, I don't live in Englandland anymore, M&S is the best I can get here, and occasionally Kettle Crisps.
When I was in the UK a Walkers Grab Bag of BEEF and onion was enough to feel satisfied, last time I went to the UK, I opened a bag and said 'where the fuck are the crisps?'. Literally one 6 pack multipack was the same amount of crisp as a grab bag used to be.

Shrinkflation is gay and retarded.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Every single flavour of Walkers crisps is done better by Seabrook, you get a better crunch to them and you get a full bag of crisps as opposed to the half bags of air that Walkers sell.

If you really are a little nancy boy who wants soft crisps then M&S do some fantastic thin cheese and onion crisps.

Seabrook pickled onion, worcester sauce and prawn cocktail are fantastic. Although I do go through a McCoys phase every now and again because the crunch on those is great.

Remember Walkers XL? Those were probably the last good Walkers crisps before absolute irrelevancy.
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Never tried Seabrook's, all I know about them from a contact who's an ex Prison Guard is that they're known as 'Prison Crisps' as they are given to inmates with their evening meals.

Piper Beef Longhorn crisps are quite good, IMO, as are Kettle Crisps. Tyrrell's I've found to be hit or miss at times, but not had Walker's in years.

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