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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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Posh tosser Giles Coren crying about the USA will never not be funny.

Don't forget, the retarded brother of Victoria Coren-Mitchell once posted about literally 'fucking a boy' who was annoying him playing the drums...

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Also, fancy a new Government job?

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Nice work, if you can get it - pic courtesy of Lee Anderson (Reform UK)

Plus, this retarded Plaid Cymru idiot shows that their party is no different from Labour in the immature twat behavioural stakes:

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The last person I heard of called Madog was a murderer...

@Heinrich Maneuver Even Bonnie Blue has said 'fuck that' to the offer!
 
FedPostalService said:
I was going to make a joke about Wigan being a tip anyway but that’s unfair. Great pies and fantastic chippies.
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Just for that I'm going to providing some pie news. AKA the best of Wigan.


Wigan Today 2024 warning, contains accents
Two elite level veterans were disqualified from the 2024 World Pie-Eating Championships in Wigan - for not downing them quickly enough because "the pies were too tasty".
It was in direct contrast to this year's champ, Michael Chant, a 43-year-old builder from Bury who chomped through his pastry in 57.2 seconds during a pie-off.
He scoffed his first one in a record 15 seconds.
The meat and potato delicacies were provided by Noel Radford of Channel 5's 22 Kids and Counting, a baker and piemaker from Morecambe.


Michael said: “It’s wonderful, I’ve been waiting a couple of years. If I come back next year I might be able to beat my record.


"I’ve tried it with Hollands Pies before and my record is 12 seconds.

"Generally I’m just a very fast eater. When I was younger my father joked whoever eats fastest gets the most.

"My uncle lives in Wigan so I visit all the time anyway so I knew of the event.”

But red-carded veterans Dave Johnson and Gareth Jones capitulated to temptation, and were still eating five minutes after the winner claimed victory - and The Poulet Surprise trophy.

Dave said: "I had no idea pies could taste so good, despite practising for the Championship virtually every night. They don't normally touch the sides, but there must be a secret ingredient.”​

Pie master Tony Callaghan: "I've ne'er seen owt like it. It were like Erling Haaland and Kevin de Bruyne stopping to have a chat in front of an open goal, which they seem to be doing a lot lately.

"Such antics don't help when we've feared for years now that our championships may be bureaucratted out of existence through obesity laws and Westminster not knowing their rump from their pig's trotter. Extinction of the event - it's happened to icons like Rumbelows, C&A and MFI - is a real concern.
"The championships are taken seriously in Wigan, with prospective champs practising endlessly.

"We're now going to send a championship pie to the world's leading time capsule repository, the Hallstatt Memory of Mankind in Austria, before elite-level pie eating is forgotten.
"Hopefully they'll store it forever, and maybe even open the seal in centuries to come when Star Trek-like food technology will allow it to be returned to its original sell-by date condition for a taste of Wigan in 2024.
"We'll also include some chips and gravy to ensure the quality of taste of a championship pie and its accoutrements can be fully savoured."
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The World Pie Eating Championship thought its flatulence fix for competitors would come up trumps but it has caused an almighty stink.

Organisers of the annual contest will use chicken as a filling next Tuesday over fears the traditional meat and potato makes eaters break wind.

They reckon the move will help tackle climate change and stop crowds turning their noses up at the event.

But purists have cried fowl on the switch, saying there is little time to adjust training regimes and chicken is too easy.
Tony Callaghan, owner of contest venue Harry’s Bar in Wigan, Greater Manchester, said: “We’re steering things away from red meat this year for health considerations and also to avoid the methane issue.”

He cited “the warnings about greenhouse gasses from cattle and the controversy involving farting at major darts tournaments which recently distracted players”.
But Dave Smyth, the 1992 winner, said: “Competition has been softened. There is great skill in downing a pie without spillage, crumb splatter or swallow-stall – talent developed over years.
"Chicken is less demanding and requires a different and less challenging technique.

“The introduction of chicken means lower-level weekend competitors will be mixing it with the elite.
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BBC 2016 Pies in Space (if someone can grab the video that'd be grand)
A meat and potato pie has been sent "into space" attached to a weather balloon.

The pioneering delicacy was launched from Roby Mill, Wigan, at about 11:30 GMT ahead of the World Pie Eating Championship next week.

The aim is to see if its journey up to 100,000ft (30km) changes the molecular structure of the pie making it quicker to eat.

It is believed this is the first pie to be launched into the stratosphere.

Space enthusiasts from Sheffield-based SentIntoSpace have attached a camera and tracking equipment to the weather balloon and will analyse the data and edit video of its journey.

'Pie's the limit'​

Bill Kenyon of Ultimate Purveyors from St Helens, who were commissioned to make the pie, said: "This is the first step to enable mankind to consume pies with more elegance and comfort.

"Neither the sky, nor the pie, should be the limit."

He added: "This pie will be tested to the extreme. It's structural integrity will be tested against the potential rigours of being served by a grumpy pie lady from Wigan or being transported for delivery in a pie van that hits a pothole in Hindley."

It is thought the pie will freeze on its ascent and will be cooked as it reaches "massive speeds" on re-entry.

The World Pie Eating Championships 2016 is to be held at Harry's Bar, Wallgate Wigan, on 20 December.
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Guardian 2009 anger and a walkout over switch to Adlington pies

The world pie-eating championships proved once again to be a controversy-strewn battleground today as the sole woman competitor stormed out and officials banned gravy after rumours of doping with cough mixture.
Drama also engulfed Harry's Bar in Wigan, the contest's venue, as its owner, Tony Callaghan, entered a protest against the exclusion of Wigan pies in favour of rivals from nearby but "foreign" Adlington.

"We were stunned," said one of the Lancashire town's local pie-munching favourites, Andy Driscoll. "My mate and I have been practising for weeks on small, soft Wigan pies, and at the last minute, they've substituted these monsters."
Crusted with brittle pastry and 12cm (4.7in) in diameter, the pies tasted wonderful but played havoc with records at the championships, one of Britain's main contributions to international competitive eating. Ranked with New York's 4 July hot dog-eating contest and the peanut butter and banana sandwich championship at Biloxi, Mississippi, the Wigan event – in which competitors must eat a single pie in the fastest possible time – has been won in an impressive 35.86 seconds.

But there was no hope of that with the Adlington pies, which confused veterans among the 10 finalists and allowed a novice, Barry Rigby, to take the title. An outsider, the 36-year-old warehouseman finished his pie in 45 seconds and celebrated with three more, using the silver winner's cup as his dish.
"It's a matter of practice, whatever the size of the pie," he said. "But there's a lot of thinking involved too. You've got to work out how to breathe, for instance. I'm not giving too much away, but the basic rule is bite, swallow, bite, swallow and breathe through your nose."
Julie Walsh, who had hoped to become the first woman to seize the trophy, walked out when she realised the pies were not from Wigan. She said: "I'm sick with disappointment but there are some principles you can't compromise. I'll be back next year, if they see sense. I don't normally eat as crudely as men, but you can psych yourself up for the one big moment, and that's what I'd done."
The pies' baker, Vince Bowen, originally from southern England, was unfazed by the criticism, pointing to the speed with which spare pies disappeared among Harry's Bar customers, even as Callaghan drafted his protest.
"I may be from down south but I know what makes a good pie," he said, as the bar owner muttered about the pie lids' steam holes admitting foreign objects. "We only use the best English beef, not foreign objects, and we make sure there's enough liquid in there to help swallowing."
The ban on "outside gravy", slopped on from a float, followed allegations last year that cough linctus was added by some competitors to ease the food swiftly down. Previous controversies have led to a complicated set of rules, rather resembling cricket's, which were drawn up after officials resolved their differences at an all-day meeting in Hindley Green.
Wigan's special place in pie lore stems from the nickname of "pie-eaters" given to locals, although this has metaphysical roots, rather than any connection with cooking. It stems from outsiders' scorn in the 1920s, when Wigan miners broke a regional strike and were accused of eating humble pie.
The contest adapted to the "new North" three years ago when the traditional challenge of eating as many pies as possible in a set time was replaced with the single pie, speed-eating formula used today.
Callaghan said today this was yet another possible source of controversy because of the recession. "If everyone eats two pies rather than one," he said, "it follows logically that the pie sector of the economy would double in size."
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I alas could not find the article about the year non-standard pie sizes were used.
 
CaptainAutism69 said:
We all know GB news exists. You don't need to keep spamming the forum with the paki supporters news site every day.
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Sunshine, you can call him an utter moron who deserves every single rainbow tag because he will always stand by his man.

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But at least provide constructive critique. Around a dozen articles were posted, slap them around rather than him. I'd put money plenty of them were pure click bait.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
What seems to be missing is when it passed into the Duchy's ownership. Does the video clarify?

The wording in the article along with no mentioned date suggests that it might be a recent one. So like you've noted someone owned it, it was used as a dump site like that other one that got posted here recently, the owner of the land passed with no will, the Duchy inherited it.

I'm honestly torn. On one hand I can't say I'm fond of a law that allows the Crown to just get land. On the other if the council got that land instead I am certain the lack of liability for the state of it when it enters their ownership would stay.

Weirdly it looks smaller than the other one that got posted here recently. I can't tell if it's just the aerial view or what but the area is not that massive. Might be that the bulk of the waste has been piled up so that makes a difference.

Also I've been to Bickershaw. The biggest thing in the place is the prison.
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According to this article July 2025.
https://discover.swns.com/2026/01/u...ish-dump-on-land-partially-owned-by-the-king/

The fault lies with the council sorry people of Wigan next time elect better councilors. The King isn't a royal bailout piggy bank.
 
Yet Another Wanker said:
The fault lies with the council sorry people of Wigan next time elect better councilors. The King isn't a royal bailout piggy bank.
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Clearly it doesn't. The council could never be at fault. It's just the lazy faggots of Wigan itself. What you have time to complain about shit online but not to go pick the shit up yourself? Fucking hypocrites.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Sunshine, you can call him an utter moron who deserves every single rainbow tag because he will always stand by his man.

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But at least provide constructive critique. Around a dozen articles were posted, slap them around rather than him. I'd put money plenty of them were pure click bait.
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That means I have to click through to a Rag that makes The Sun look like a doctoral thesis.
Since his meltdown, and Farage importing even more browns, all the Welsh faggot has done is spam the forum with GB News crap. The front page of A&E is filled with that shit.
 
CaptainAutism69 said:
That means I have to click through to a Rag that makes The Sun look like a doctoral thesis.
Since his meltdown, and Farage importing even more browns, all the Welsh faggot has done is spam the forum with GB News crap. The front page of A&E is filled with that shit.
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As much as GBNEWS is a rag full of rage-bait bullshit for the low iq demographic, I for one quite enjoy the Welshman's posts, as they keep the thread moving and occasionally give points for discussion.
 
Starmer and 60 business leaders are heading to Beijing for a 'visit'. We all know this is a trade envoy and we hope to do some big trades with China, which could benefit us.

This week the EU have done 'the mother of all trade agreements' with India. India who are hit with 50% tariffs from America.

Two interesting things on the horizon:
1) Are we looking at cutting America out of the trade loop and buying direct from China and India?
2) What will be done about the R in BRICS? We will go back to trading with Russia for cheap oil and LPG and again cut America out?
 
BRICS is a retard pact of people who wish they could be in NATO but are too retarded. They all hate each other; the Chinese hate the jeets. Well, look at their economies too, they are all shit. The Chinese literally make up their numbers.

As for the OSA, I sense a U-turn as Pornhub has chosen to block the site post February 2026. Why deal with the issue when you can just cut away from it. A lot more companies will see this as a method.

He is going to get fuck all from China, their economy is in the shit currently.
 
Here's a video of Matt Goodwin eating a book after losing an electoral bet.

I don't think he's a bad candidate as such, just a soul-sucking member of the parasite classes, man was in academia and think tanks until 2024, and at an elite level. He just has no particular connection or appeal to the people in the area, besides being on GBNews, being an overeducated, soft-faced Southern fancy lad.

I've attached some of his transcripts for posterity, From Voting to Violence? New Evidence on Far Right Supporters (Chatham House, 2012) and Hate crime and its violent consequences (government inquiry, 2017).
 

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I don't think he's a bad candidate as such, just a soul-sucking member of the parasite classes, man was in academia and think tanks until 2024, and at an elite level. He just has no particular connection or appeal to the people in the area, besides being on GBNews, being an overeducated, soft-faced Southern fancy lad.
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Sargon would be better than these candidates unironically.
 
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