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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.

 

[greatUncleShitHeel]

Tastes like shit.

You're not supposed to eat it like nutella. Maybe your taste buds are just broken.

Here's another truth bomb: Australia has better pies than NZ.

Look into your heart, you know it to be true.

They have 4 and 20 which proves you objectively wrong.

 

[Clem Fandango]

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?

I think I'm just confused more than anything. From this description, I have no idea where "home" is to you. I've lived abroad for more than a year, but I never considered "where my stuff is" to be my home.

I'd say, primarily, where your dog is should be your home. Or failing that, at least where your missus is.

But whatever, come back to the UK and call me a nigger anytime.

Edit:

They have 4 and 20 which proves you objectively wrong.

Whazzat? If its pie related then I need to know.

 

[the rat]

The proper covering for toast is a good cheddar

Overly Wrong! The proper covering for toast is simply more toast.

 

[Overly Serious]

Overly Wrong! The proper covering for toast is simply more toast.

But I already included that by saying you cut the bread 3/4" to an inch thick. If you do this and bake it you get this beautiful crisp slab of toast with the cheddar topping. So it's really like toast topped with toast topped with cheddar and sage and find chopped salad onion. Mmmmmmmm.

(But I take your point).

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

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.

I don't know why you tagged me in this incomprehensible jumble of consonants and vowels but I assume it was to congratulate me on being a great human, or something.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

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.

A doorstop thick piece of toast and a slice of cheese hacked off with a breadknife slapped on top with a splash of wer-sest-er-shy-er sauce and you're laughing.
Add ham and tomato for that hoity-toity feeling like your an 'ollywood superstah

 

[the rat]

But I already included that by saying you cut the bread 3/4" to an inch thick. If you do this and bake it you get this beautiful crisp slab of toast with the cheddar topping. So it's really like toast topped with toast topped with cheddar and sage and find chopped salad onion. Mmmmmmmm.

(But I take your point).

I just eat the two slices how they come out of the toaster. No butter or cheese or cutting it up or anything.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

Bros and ladies, Marmite on toast with a little bit of butter is the most kino shit imaginable. I still think beans on toast is one of the best budget meals alive. Put some cheese in that bad boy too, I think I realised later in life how British my dad was. Marmite in spag bol, beans. Friday nights at the pub with a play area. It makes me actually thankful.

@FedPostalService Those Caramel custard doughnuts are deadly, on a hunger rampage, I can nuke 2 in microseconds. They should have a warning.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Marmite is actual nectar of the gods and makes any meal better (apart from apple pie, I suppose).

Speaking of apples, when drunk back in the day I made cheese on toast with apple sauce under the cheese. It was fucking spectacular, though it burnt my mouth something awful.

Marmite and cheese on toast is also spectacular. Marmite goes in your gravy, pretty much every soup and stew, and anything containing mince or a dark meat.

Or you can just eat it from that adorable-shaped pot with a spoon. Not too proud to say I’ve done it on more than one occasion.

Henderson’s is better than Lea & Perrins though, and is also good in every meat dish, soup, stew and on cheese on toast.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

People are more interested in bloody Marmite than the paki doctor who butchered multiple kids..

And Marmite tastes like shit. If you can eat more than 2 Twiglets without gagging you rim rent boys.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

the paki doctor who butchered multiple kids..

That shit's rife. Despite the claim that they are "Saving r en heych ess", the browns only make up about 10ish overall percent of staff, but account for nearly 60% of malpractice. It's fucking insane. There's a ward in the midlands which has battlefield medicine survival rates for babies coming out, and has had several where the brownoid nurse has literally ripped off the head of the baby trying to pull weirdly.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

That shit's rife. Despite the claim that they are "Saving r en heych ess", the browns only make up about 10ish overall percent of staff, but account for nearly 60% of malpractice. It's fucking insane. There's a ward in the midlands which has battlefield medicine survival rates for babies coming out, and has had several where the brownoid nurse has literally ripped off the head of the baby trying to pull weirdly.

Which hospital/ward?

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Which hospital/ward?

lmao, which do you think?

Of course it's Birmingham. @Otterly talked about the atrocious decline in medicine in the country before as well, but that image IIRC is from an NHS whitepaper they released which basically said "Yeah shits fucked!" I'll see if I can dig it out. From what I remmber, of the 53 places natal wards inspected. 60% were rated 'not fit', in terms of actually caring for babies and mothers.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

lmao, which do you think?
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Of course it's Birmingham. @Otterly talked about the atrocious decline in medicine in the country before as well, but that image IIRC is from an NHS whitepaper they released which basically said "Yeah shits fucked!" I'll see if I can dig it out.

Oh no. All the dead paki babies. I am torn up inside at this horrible situation..

 

[BongoMongo]

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.

Dude. Only a complete nonce would disagree with you.

 

[Otterly]

All come together over baked goods? This isn't a public school dormitory

I laughed.

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.

This sounds delicious. Not the healthiest but delicious. Maybe not the onions. It’s not that I dislike onions I just feel like I can taste them for a week afterwards. Homemade bread I assume? I have a good recipe for overnight bread but it needs a solid crockpot that you don’t mind nuking at high temperature. Makes excellent bread though.
I used to have a housemate who put mashed banana and cheese on toast. It was actually ok.

 

[Overly Serious]

I'd say, primarily, where your dog is should be your home. Or failing that, at least where your missus is.

LOL! The order of priorities...

I just eat the two slices how they come out of the toaster. No butter or cheese or cutting it up or anything.

Elwood?

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

I used to have a housemate who put mashed banana and cheese on toast. It was actually ok.

Mine did butter, ketchup, and salt. He swore by it. He was Scottish though.


Keir is back again promising the ""£150"" off bills will continue- but only for low income earners. It's ridiculous he's allowed to claim hes lowering peoples bills when its only government housing types who feel the benefit; I bet Octopus et al jack up the prices for the rest of us to account for the deficit lest they earn a penny less than their couple billion a year :/

 

[tack så mycket]

Speaking of apples, when drunk back in the day I made cheese on toast with apple sauce under the cheese. It was fucking spectacular, though it burnt my mouth something awful.

I know it sounds weird, but raisins are also a delicious addition to cheese on toast.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Mine did butter, ketchup, and salt. He swore by it. He was Scottish though.


Keir is back again promising the ""£150"" off bills will continue- but only for low income earners. It's ridiculous he's allowed to claim hes lowering peoples bills when its only government housing types who feel the benefit; I bet Octopus et al jack up the prices for the rest of us to account for the deficit lest they earn a penny less than their couple billion a year :/

This is where I feel traitorously weird.
My energy bill has dropped by a third. Labour kept a promise to me and I think I’m the only one.