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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.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Speaking of which, Starmer's allowed the Chinese Embassy to be built - and of course this won't prove problematic at all...

Fucking let them stay at this point. What are they going to do? Steal more trade secrets from Dyson? As if the government hasn't already destroyed English manufacturing enough already. There's nothing left here for them to steal unless they want tips on how to censor and surveil the public but something tells me the chinks probably don't need us to help them with that. They're probably just over here to steal all our waste cooking oil so they don't need to get it from the sewers anymore. Remember that every pint of lard down your drain is another chink life saved.

You made your own dead gay thread for Reform coping and astroturfing.

It's either reform sperging, food debates or which female is the most fuckable. Maybe with a side of weather talk if you're lucky. That's just being English.

 

[Made In Wales]

Fucking let them stay at this point. What are they going to do? Steal more trade secrets from Dyson? As if the government hasn't already destroyed English manufacturing enough already. There's nothing left here for them to steal unless they want tips on how to censor and surveil the public but something tells me the chinks probably don't need us to help them with that. They're probably just over here to steal all our waste cooking oil so they don't need to get it from the sewers anymore. Remember that every pint of lard down your drain is another chink life saved.

It's either reform sperging, food debates or which female is the most fuckable. Maybe with a side of weather talk if you're lucky. That's just being English.

If Starmer is actually the Chinese Spy who has been mentioned, that would be hilarious.

 

[diroama]

A bit like how it's pointless for Farmers to protest over the loss of their livelihoods and homes, or that Pensioners shouldn't kick up a fuss that Starmer sent their Winter Fuel allowances to the Ukraine?

Protesting to influence government policy is not the same as whining because other people voted in a way you don't like and that made you feel sad.

I am pretty sure there's a few Lefty infiltrators here.

Are they the people who are pro islam and promoting the placement of tranny prisoners in women's prisons?

 

[teriyakiburns]

That running these elections gets in the way of fixing potholes.

There's a lot of other things getting in the way of fixing potholes before we even think about elections.

I see nobody has mentioned this one:

UK defends Chagos deal after Trump calls it 'act of great stupidity'

 

[Duane Dibbley]

We can hate queer starmer, because he is ours to hate, but if a foreign leader tells us what we can and can't do, they should be told to fuck off.
My only gripe with cameron was not hanging obama for threatening us over brexit.

Trump should be told to suck it and if he doesn't like it, tough tits.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

most fuckable.

It's Rachel Riley.

EDIT: Re Trump. I actually don't really consider what Trump is doing (directly threatening his allies, fucking with the international 'order') to be some heinous crime like a lot of people seem to. Americans cheerleading him acting like a nigger are cringe, but so are the Europeans making teary eyed speeches about how they resist the evil Donald! America can fuck with Europe because Europe is weak. Europe could fuck with America back in the financial and non military manner, but they won't; because they are weak. They know they are too weak to follow through, Trump knows they are too weak to follow through.

The EU should be looking to disentangle itself from the US and become independently able to self sustain, but they won't, because the EU is - like America - addicted to the poisoned cup of slime that is the global modern financial system. However unlike America, they lack any sort of robust entanglement into it that isn't entirely based around suckling at it rather than giving to it. This entire thing is like watching a pitbull savage a toddler. The pitbull is a nigger animal sure, but whoever put the toddler in its cage is just as at fault. We all know what America is like, they are shifty, unreliable, can't be trusted, don't keep their word and act like niggers on the world stage. Why is anyone shocked by this? You could never rely on America to keep agreements and alliances. It's nothing new, the only thing people seem to have forgotten is that you need a way of avoiding the consequences of America tarding around the place. Instead the EU tig welded itself to Americas asshole.

The reality of it all, is that it is simply too much of an upfront cost to wean off of Americas booty; so the "leaders" in the EU won't do it. They don't even have the political will to stick to basic promises like "We will fix some trains and powerlines" let alone reorganise the financial and industrial needs of their nations. People will get their digs in at America, and people will get reddit updoots over it, but fundamentally America has won this already. What is France going to actually do if the US puts troops on the ground? Are they going to get into a shooting war with the US? Lol, lmao even. The only 'winning' the EU might do would be in a decade if they all start dumping into their own industrial bases and re-organise themselves into a collection of strong nations again. But they won't

Because they're weak.

 

[Florch]

Opal Fruits are my nostalgia. I tried the re-released ones last year, but they were a pale imitation of what we used to have. Probably for the best, though; I'm pretty sure eating enough of the green dye qualifies you to rule arrakis.

If you can find them in one of those international sweet shops (/embezzling fronts), American-made Starburst still taste like the OG however the flavours are different (cherry/strawberry/orange/lemon vs strawberry/orange/lime/blackcurrant) but still much better than the watered-down shite available now.

 

[Gap Hag]

Oy brits, someone explain to me who the norfs are, is that just a joke image or are there really brits that are huge and dumb like that who are simple?

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Oy brits, someone explain to me who the norfs are, is that just a joke image or are there really brits that are huge and dumb like that who are simple?

It's just classist hate about poor people, there are guys that actually are norf fc, just like there are retarded hillbilies; but mostly it's just people hating the deprived.

 

[Midwit]

Oy brits, someone explain to me who the norfs are, is that just a joke image or are there really brits that are huge and dumb like that who are simple?

They are literally me.

 

[Gap Hag]

It's just classist hate about poor people, there are guys that actually are norf fc, just like there are retarded hillbilies; but mostly it's just people hating the deprived.

Question is, is the average brit retarded or can they actually hold a conversation that follows logic? how brainwashed are brits?

They are literally me.
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I don't know what that is but i want to try it.

 

[CaptainAutism69]

Oy brits, someone explain to me who the norfs are, is that just a joke image or are there really brits that are huge and dumb like that who are simple?

If Hadrian built his wall, say, 30 miles north of Oxford, many of the UK's problems would have been solved. But in typical Italian fashion, he half assed it and made some bad decisions.

 

[Otterly]

If Hadrian built his wall, say, 30 miles north of Oxford, many of the UK's problems would have been solved. But in typical Italian fashion, he half assed it and made some bad decisions.

We should have drowned them all in bogs the moment they set foot here and started setting up an administrative state. And we should have done the same to the Normans and the great heathen army as well.

 

[BongoMongo]

Controversial pick and one I considered putting on the list but rejected, simply because I only ate them as a replacement for the GOAT that was bovril crisps.
Humm forgot about those scampy snacks that came in a small packet and would be hanging on a belt in the pub. Smelt like your mums vag but tasted great. They go down as number 11.

Mate scampi fries. Them and bacon fries mixed in a wee bowl make for what my favourite pub landlord calls "a poor man's surf and turf".

Also for anyone based in the UK who wants proper old-fashioned sweets, I really do recommend Joseph Dobson. They're based in Elland, West Yorkshire and make their stuff there. It's absolutely wonderful albeit awful for your teeth.

 

[diroama]

Trump should be told to suck it and if he doesn't like it, tough tits

If you're referring to the Chagos Islands deal it should be cancelled immediately.

 

[ArgonianVoter]

did kiwi ever get that injunction against Ofcom from that judge? or is that suit still ongoing? I didn't forget I just stopped hearing stuff about it al-together

 

[East_Clintwood]

did kiwi ever get that injunction against Ofcom from that judge? or is that suit still ongoing? I didn't forget I just stopped hearing stuff about it al-together

Still ongoing, nothing major happened yet as it's still early in the process. Case has a dedicated thread here if you want to follow. Thankfully it doesn't attract quite as much off-topic posting has the Greer case so easier to follow actual updates.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

PMQs today. Ed Davey and Polanski are fucking mouth breathers but whats new, at least they remembered to turn up.
Some female Green MP asked Keir about working with farmers and protecting rivers/water (a very reasonable question even if she was a Green) and he told her the Green party is 'high on drugs and soft on Putin'; so we are officially approaching 'everyone I don't like is a Muscovite' territory.
Ed Davey told Keir to grow a spine and stand up to Trump, and he gives some very limp wristed reply about 'not ripping up the US-UK relationship'- he literally HAS ripped it up tho. Retard.
The Shadow Transport Secretary got kicked out for heckling Starmer.

Also Trump has called us brokies lmfao. This Chagos deal is ugly as fuck, is the Bill still in the Lords? And does anyone have the address of the Chagos government in exile, I'd like to write them to get a flag (which you can do by emailing/writing any embassy nicely, or at least get yourself some nice promotional merch or posters)

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Some female Green MP asked Keir about working with farmers and protecting rivers/water (a very reasonable question even if she was a Green) and he told her the Green party is 'high on drugs and soft on Putin'; so we are officially approaching 'everyone I don't like is a Muscovite' territory.

"Would it be possible to work out a sustainable farming system that does not put excess nitrates into delicate water systems."
'You bitch, you dumb fucking russia loving bitch. Fuck you.'
"Thank you Mr Prime Minister, next question."

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

"Would it be possible to work out a sustainable farming system that does not put excess nitrates into delicate water systems."
'You bitch, you dumb fucking russia loving bitch. Fuck you.'
"Thank you Mr Prime Minister, next question."

btw Chunks theres a new hire working at my local supermarket whos a fucking redheaded dwarf with vitiligo. My soul left my body when he came to ID me at self checkout, so I rescind any accusations that you are a pussy for being afraid of them.