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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.

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.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Alright, let's exile them to a shipping container filled with carbon monoxide.

Just kill em. Why have extra steps? Why dump our rubbish in other countries?

I don't believe that a man has a right to take a life. In the same way, if one does, they are animal, not man and should be exiled from the human realm, forever.

From 'send them to Rwanda' to 'send them to Russia'.

Always knew Russia was next to Rwanda (alphabetically) in the countries of the world for a reason.

I approve, Vlad will have to be won over though.

Why did you choose Russia and not amazon or australia, Spade in Wales?

 

[Carbiter]

Not really, and I guess I bang this drum quite a lot in this thread. But looking at it another way, pretty much every society before literally this one right now has historically had a death sentence. You know I mentioned the execution method of strapping guys to canons and blowing them to bits. The British were still doing that in the 1930s - less than a hundred years ago.

Has abolishing the death penalty really improved things? I would say no. Nowadays, there's almost no jeapordy to being a criminal. We're still in the early days of this knowledge being commonly known, since we're still coasting on the momentum of us being, in the recent past, a high trust society. But things are starting to go to shit, and I think they will increasingly and rapidly go more to shit as the realisation permeates that you can basically do what you want and the police aren't going to show up and punish you. The pendulum needs to swing back sharpish imo.

Agreed. So much of the western world, including in America where I live, has such cucked way of thinking about criminals and their thought processes. We tolerate too much shit. What's worse is that our courts are not battling with the morality or immorality of the death penalty, but instead that a sex offender should get life in prison with no parole or 300 hours of community service, without house arrest.

I don't know where it started but I think these beliefs pushed our nations to this point:
- Prisons should be for rehabilitation
- Getting to the root causes of poverty and social inequality
- Treat people like criminals and they'll be criminals
- Police force is bad

We do basically everything to reward bad behavior and social decay.

 

[FedPostalService]

I can't believe I'm going to say I think the Taliban got something right but their take on murderers is allow the family of the murdered the choice to carry out the execution themselves. That's excellent. We should allow this.

They’re right about women too.

One of the few football facts I know is that the 1975 West Ham United team remains the last all-English team to win the FA Cup.

We need to deport the Scots and the Welsh. Once we allowed them to play things went to shit.

On telly tonight. Mrs Riley. Based .
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Cope & seeth, troons

My beautiful jewess

 

[Overly Serious]

Exile to an inhospitable environment on the other hand is fine.

What if the perpetrator already lives in Birmingham?

 

[FedPostalService]

Back to Royal Mail, how is a package going to be delivered today by three o’clock if it’s in a sorting centre over 300 miles away?

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Back to Royal Mail, how is a package going to be delivered today by three o’clock if it’s in a sorting centre over 300 miles away?

Oh it's going to be delivered, just not to you

 

[FedPostalService]

Oh it's going to be delivered, just not to you

If they leave it in the entry way to the block of flats again then I’m saying I didn’t receive it. It’s an expensive piece of autism and I wouldn’t mind a second one for free from Amazon.

 

[Croaking Spider]

Yeah, and I've been on holidays from Morocco to Indonesia where it sounded like the imam was at the foot of my fucking bed at 6am.

My sincerest condolences for having to experience this, but this made me laugh the hardest I've laughed in months. Bless you, stranger.

 

[Otterly]

Ok but have we considered just butter. Nothing fancy just butter

This is also an acceptable answer

Idk who the fuck is getting the cheese grater out and chopping up herbs in the morning?

People who get up early

unironically i would hang people for fly tipping. there's no excuse for it, and it just shows you are the lowest of lowest scum, amoeba in a pond are higher up the evolutionary chain. its dirty, disgusting, and shows you have no fucking capacity to think or care. i'm like jersh in that i agree we shouldn't call people paedos (or fly-tippers) unless we would be comfortable being the ones pulling the trigger, i would be first to sign up for his majestys execution service to kill the fuckers who dump rubbish in the canals. i would personally hang them on their street of residence or outside the town hall with big signs, in multiple languages if you catch my drift.

Yeah I agree. We want all the fruits of civilisation but we don’t want to be at the sharp end. If you eat meat you should be willing to confront the fact it needs killing.
The death penalty is one of those things like taboos and standards that may be bad for the individual but benefits society, and as long as the bulk of us act like animals, if we stop doing it / them then things slide.
About 15% of people seem to have e a morality developed enough to just behave with no religion or laws. If you abolished the police and courts tomorrow I’d still behave. If you think everyone would you’re deluded, so we need laws and penalties.
Just look what happened when we got rid of shame as a concept.

don't believe that a man has a right to take a life. In the same way, if one does, they are animal, not man and should be exiled from the human realm, forever.

Ok but why do we then do with killers and the evil? We aren’t locking them up for life, they get back out in months and so it again. Some we don’t even lock up. Nobody has the right to kill unnecessarily, but some do. What then? If there’s no death penalty there HAS to be life meaning life and strong, FAIR enforcement. We can’t have three years for a spicy tweet and getting shanked by a Muslim gang for one guy, and scot-free for someone caught with terabytes of child porn.
We are unravelling as a society, and it’s deliberately imposed. We have to rewind to put some standards back in place.

 

[Clem Fandango]

We want all the fruits of civilisation but we don’t want to be at the sharp end.

Quite right. I want to make something clear - it's easy to say shit on the Internet, to act like Billy big bananas. "Oh yeah, I'd do the execution, no problem".

In all seriousness, it's not a job that many people have ever wanted through history. There's a a really good episode of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History about the executioner. It basically made you a bit of a social outcast in your village, but at the same time people knew that it was a job that needed doing.

But what I was saying before is true - we've never really tried not having a death penalty at any point in history. It's like we're living in some weird experiment, and it's not really working. I don't see why we can't go back.

We're not talking about ancient history here - when we were still strapping uppity Afghans to canons in the 1930s (promise this is the last time I'll mention this, I'm like a broken record), my grandad was a teenager. Not my great-grandad, not my great-great-grandad. Just, my dad's dad. He came to my wedding! This was not that long ago.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Isn’t that what we have the Falklands for?

The Falklands are a beautiful piece of near Antarctic wilderness and the last bastion of a seafaring empire. Don't dump our trash there. The penguins and landmines are beautiful in a southern summer.

We want all the fruits of civilisation but we don’t want to be at the sharp end.

This applies to things like working, relationships, just existing in society as well. Speaking to young people/my peers is fucking nightmarish, social media and western leftism promote 'main character syndrome' and me me me, viral videos talk about how running errands with your friends, doing DIY for them or picking them up from somewhere is 'emotional labour', sexual/romantic relationships are all about what you can take from the other person and not about building a life together, next day delivery and convenience and getting someone else to do it are all the rage, etc etc. We live in a paradox of hyper self-centered-ness and a deep loneliness for those who subscribe to it.
Bobby Kennedy's 'ask not want the USA can do for you, but what you can do for the USA', was something my (British) mother used to quote all the time. Simple things like 'treat others how you would like to be treated' have been lost on a generation that struggles to envision other people as other people.

Anyway, here's Labour's Gorton and Denton candidate- Greek born, studied in Manchester, Council's lead member for Transport and Environment during Covid and stood in the 2014 European Parliament election and 2024 general election for Chester South and Eddisbury. They pulled out their finest gyro for this.

 

[Sheep King]

If you can't live by the laws of man, then you are condemned to live in the realm of the animals.

If you proposed that way of thinking to any of the early civilisations that built 'the laws of man' you'd be laughed out of the room.
I agree we shouldn't be flippant about killing people the way raghead honour culture treats it. But step one in having a society at all is agreeing there are certain values more important than the lives of those who disregard them.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Ok but why do we then do with killers and the evil? We aren’t locking them up for life, they get back out in months and so it again. Some we don’t even lock up. Nobody has the right to kill unnecessarily, but some do. What then? If there’s no death penalty there HAS to be life meaning life and strong, FAIR enforcement. We can’t have three years for a spicy tweet and getting shanked by a Muslim gang for one guy, and scot-free for someone caught with terabytes of child porn.
We are unravelling as a society, and it’s deliberately imposed. We have to rewind to put some standards back in place.

Exile, Otterly, Exile.

If you proposed that way of thinking to any of the early civilisations that built 'the laws of man' you'd be laughed out of the room.
I agree we shouldn't be flippant about killing people the way raghead honour culture treats it. But step one in having a society at all is agreeing there are certain values more important than the lives of those who disregard them.

i'm not exiling these people to the bahamas, St Lucia or Tanzania, I am sending them to the harshest, most inhospitable environments on earth, those that are barely survivable. Something with a 99% survival rate.
Why have a survival rate at all? For the desperate struggle to last long enough for the people to realise what luxury, comfort and decency they have given up by acting like animals.

My preferred location would be the jungle. Hot, dangerous, full of predators and all sorts of nasties. If you find civilisation, it will more than likely be a cannibalistic tribe.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

We could probably get away with the moral ickiness of the death penalty by having the prisoner themselves agree to the death penalty, even mid sentence. Then you give them the most painful non-death sentence you can think of (complete isolation in a tiny box with zero stimulation) and just wait.

Most would agree to hang in less than 3 months.

 

[FedPostalService]

Anyway, here's Labour's Gorton and Denton candidate- Greek born, studied in Manchester, Council's lead member for Transport and Environment during Covid and stood in the 2014 European Parliament election and 2024 general election for Chester South and Eddisbury. They pulled out their finest gyro for this.

I hope the Washed Up Brown Tory Party annihilates them.

Also, why is parachuting candidates allowed? If it was up to me you’d have to at least have livid in a constituency for five years before you can stand. You wouldn’t culturally enrich your constituency if you actually had to live there.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

i'm like jersh in that i agree we shouldn't call people paedos (or fly-tippers) unless we would be comfortable being the ones pulling the trigger

It's always funny whenever I see the argument of "even if we DO have the death penalty, we wouldn't be able to find ANYONE capable of hanging them"

I'd pull forty levers an hour for minimum wage, and if there's not enough of me then you can always get SERCO to hire some nigger to press a button.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Anyway, here's Labour's Gorton and Denton candidate- Greek born, studied in Manchester

Feckin' Greeks! They invented gayness!

 

[FedPostalService]

It's always funny whenever I see the argument of "even if we DO have the death penalty, we wouldn't be able to find ANYONE capable of hanging them"

I'd pull forty levers an hour for minimum wage, and if there's not enough of me then you can always get SERCO to hire some nigger to press a button.

The Pierpoint family made it their business.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

It's always funny whenever I see the argument of "even if we DO have the death penalty, we wouldn't be able to find ANYONE capable of hanging them"

The last hangman Albert Pierrepoint came from a family of hangmen (his father and his grandfather iirc) he was practically raised in the culture of 'this is for the benefit of society' by hanging fuckers. and if you can't find someone well adjusted who understands the role, you can always find some chav who sets wasps on fire to do it.
Besides, you get psychopaths in abattoirs and the police, and nursing. Why should I care if the guy shooting paedos enjoys it? If you like what you do, you'll never work a day in your life

 

[FedPostalService]

Feckin' Greeks! They invented gayness!

The Greeks invented the orgy, the Romans invited the women.