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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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Amazon also steal cats and have such a high concentration of foreign workers at their BHX4 site, last year they had a TB outbreak.
 
A report into disgraced former Great Ormond Street Hospital surgeon Yaser Jabbar has found that 94 children were harmed during the care he provided.

The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) released a report on Thursday into the actions of the former orthopaedic surgeon who treated hundreds of children over five years.

The review found that 98 patients (12.4%) experienced some level of harm, and 94 of these cases were linked specifically to the care provided by Mr Jabbar.

The London hospital undertook a clinical case review of 789 of Jabbar's cases after concerns were raised about his clinical practice.

Some patients were left in continuous pain or needed further corrective surgeries, the independent review found.

Harm gradings ranged from mild, such as an unnecessary general anaesthetic, to severe gradings for situations like delayed diagnosis of complications or surgery that did not achieve the intended outcome.

Some 36 children suffered severe harm because of Jabbar, who worked at the hospital between 2017 and 2022 and focused on lower limb reconstructions.

A further 39 patients suffered moderate harm and 19 patients came to mild harm, the report said.

"There were instances of premature removal of fixation devices, the combination of procedures without clear rationale, inadequate counselling on fracture risk, and an over-reliance on junior staff," the report said.

"There were some serious problems found, including poor planning before surgery, not making the area stable enough, unclear or incomplete notes, and putting implants in the wrong place.

"Other issues were making cuts in the bone at the wrong level or using the wrong method, making decisions that didn't match what was seen in the scans during surgery, problems with how frames and pins were used, and not involving the wider team when dealing with infections."

Analysis of the independent expert case reports "identified that Mr Jabbar was highly inconsistent in his approach to clinical care with recurrent deficiencies in documentation, assessment, and surgical decision-making", the report said.
James Wood, 19, from Great Yarmouth, was left in "horrifying" pain after Jabbar carried out a procedure to stretch the tissue in his knee by fixing a frame to his leg. He also carried out an Achilles tendon lengthening procedure.

Mr Wood - who was born with multiple pterygium syndrome that caused skin webbing across the joints - experienced extreme pain and swelling in his right thigh.

It was later found that one of the pins used to secure the frame had protruded into Mr Wood's thigh, causing bleeding and damage to the femoral artery when it was removed.

In another case, a leg-lengthening procedure Jabbar carried out on Vivaan Sharma, 12, to correct a shortened and bowed right leg was found to have been "incorrect and unsuitable".

Jabbar was found to have used a different frame to the one commonly used in such procedures, with the issue being too complex to resolve in a single procedure.

Though the report found Vivaan had suffered moderate harm, his parents said the treatment had impacted his independence beyond six months and caused nightmares.

"It's appalling. Our boy will be affected for life," Mr Sharma said.

In some cases, patient records were incomplete, meaning it was not possible to reach a clear conclusion.

A very small number of children came to harm for reasons not related to Mr Jabbar, such as administrative delays or issues involving other clinicians.

GOSH chief executive Matthew Shaw apologised to affected families on Thursday, branding Jabbar's practice as "entirely unacceptable".

"We are profoundly sorry to all the patients and their families who have been affected by the care provided by Mr Jabbar," he said.

"The report we have published today sets out in full what happened, what we found in our review of patients, what we have learnt and what we have done as a consequence."

Mr Shaw said significant changes had been made at the hospital but acknowledged "this comes too late for the families affected by this issue".

A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said: "We will review the report commissioned by GOSH and assess whether there is any requirement for police involvement."


Mr Jabbar rescinded his UK medical licence in January 2024.

He is believed to have since moved overseas.

Sky News has attempted to contact representatives for Mr Jabbar.
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If they're not raping our kids they're using the NHS to butcher them. #saveourNHS . Then when they're caught they run off back to the third world and justice never finds them. If only we had some kind of special forces who could kidnap people or kill them without being detected.
 
Otterly said:
Financially maybe, but happiness-wise, being an exile can be very lonely and isolating
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I'm not going to smug-post (much) about NZ residency, but my local pub is full of poms and we have a cricket team.
The downside is, that the money is absolutely shit: You should view it as a giant retirement village.
I'm currently looking at re-emigrating to rural California, where the money is better and there's even less people to annoy me (the downside there is, only the gas station attendants can understand me - apparently serving nachos to tweakers at 3am is good training for a Westmorland accent, but @KiwiFuzz2 can confirm I am utterly incomprehensible to a native Californian)

You don't have to run screaming from the burning deck of HMS Britain. But also you also don't have to go down with the Ship of Fools - they've given you no allegiance, don't give them any.

In Europe's Darkest Hour (it's always pronounced with capital letters) the UK gave shelter and arms to fighters from Portugal to Russia. I figure we should be able to run there and get big fucking guns and shit.
 
Vesperus said:
In Europe's Darkest Hour (it's always pronounced with capital letters) the UK gave shelter and arms to fighters from Portugal to Russia.
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Portugal was neutral, although they did provide a lot of intelligence to Britain as Salazar hated the Nazis as he thought they were a bunch of pagans.
 
Vesperus said:
I have these:
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Don't try and out-British me, nigger.

Edit: I also have this
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Because I'm on a budget.
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Whoa buddy, it's not a case of Britishness. The Latin in your sig got me thinking that you went to a Grammar school, which I now sadly know could not be the case. You never had the joy of knowing that Caecilius in via laborat.

I'd give my opinion on Marmite, but I basically got mugged when I told my truth about After Eights, so I'll leave it.
 
EddyRooney said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aJ9fjN1az9g
Dad, Daddy, two daddies.....

McCain promoting perversion and attempting to destroy the nuclear family - a play out of the Left's handbook. Can't just sell me some chips then, got to tell me what a family should look like too ? Fuck them.

It's not entirely the message, I just loathe all of these companies that try to "educate" me with their advertising. I really need some coked up ad producer telling me what to think. The ads influence me more in terms of what NOT to buy.

But solid Dad joke on your part.
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Luckily I don't watch TV so I've missed out on all of these utter woke nonsense ads.

You're right that ads are trying to push a message on you instead of selling the product. They're like 90s perfume ads but instead of pretentious gobbledegook, it's pretentious currentyear homosexuality.

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While @Clem Fandango is a possible nonce for not liking after eights, I'll throw my hat in on marmite; all spreadables are for tastebudless homosexuals, third worlders and and the mentally retarded. If you can't enjoy toast without coating it in an inch of processed shit, then you are one of the aforementioned wrong 'uns.
 
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Flavoured nuts are fucking pointless and shit. Yea so give me something that tastes nice and is expensive but make it taste like something worse that is cheap. There is a reason we invented crisps. Cashews are nice just on their own what's the point in ruining them by trying to make them taste like something else? Unless it's shit like trying to add to it stuff like salt or honey I just don't get the point.
 
Marmite stops babies being deformed and is a byproduct of our brewing industry, fantastic spread. Gods perfect spread.

If you give marmite/folic acid to a kid with leukemia, it will literally double the leukemia; it is from this stupendous fuck-up we have chemotherapy, thanks to Sydney Farber and his search for an ''anti-folate'' (later aminopterin).
 
Vesperus said:
No. They do not.
But I realise why you made that mistake, they do have nice pies. They even make a passable Pavlova.
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Yours have too much gravy.

And I really like gravy (obviously), but there is such a thing as too much. No one wants a soggy bottom.

What are you doing over there anyway? Come home.

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Heinrich Maneuver said:
Marmite stops babies being deformed
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Awesome!
Heinrich Maneuver said:
If you give marmite/folic acid to a kid with leukemia, it will literally double the leukemia
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Wait, what?
 
Duane Dibbley said:
If you can't enjoy toast without coating it in an inch of processed shit, then you are one of the aforementioned wrong 'uns.
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The proper covering for toast is a good cheddar, melted down with sage sprinkled over it. If you want to go full Welsh rarebit you can grate it, mix in some egg, brown ale, some chopped salad onions, just make this great big cheddary topping and bake the whole thing. Also, the bread should not be pre-sliced but something you can cut to an 3/4 inch thick.

Mmmmm. Cheese on toast. I'm sure @Made In Wales would agree on this.
 
Clem Fandango said:
What are you doing over there anyway? Come home.
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I'm in the shires where I grew up. For now.
Home is NZ where my stuff is?
Or California where my dog is?
Mrs Vesperus is in the shires bitching about the bill of rights.

What are you moaning about?
 
Kofi Drinka said:
I don't consider the creatures in "The City" to be human. Of course they're faggots, they're in "The City".

The propaganda channels will keep running propaganda until they're shut down. They're not how you judge the political climate.
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I bet you're fun at parties
 
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