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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.

 

[Otterly]

But I'm fairly sure it was nothing to do with that.

Had she actually read the book?

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Emerald Fennel is a hack. She's an all style no substance posho twat who ripped off Mr Ripley for her gay slop 'oooh so deep' debut film which everyone was mega obsessed with (yet was painfully shallow and honestly quite hateful towards the working class without an ounce of reflection or critique)
She has read Wuthering Heights, yet calls the film "Wuthering Heights" in quotation marks (see the covers) to signify its her own interpretation of the film and nothing like the book, there's an interview about it.

Edit, attachments broke so here's the quote

She added, "The thing for me is that you can't adapt a book as dense and complicated and difficult as this book. I can't say I'm making Wuthering Heights. It's not possible. What I can say is I'm making a version of it. There's a version that I remembered reading that isn't quite real. And there's a version where I wanted stuff to happen that never happened. And so it is 'Wuthering Heights', and it isn't."

 

[mindlessobserver]

Its finally happened. The good ole' boys club in the US Senate has finally cottoned on to the Chagos Islands Deall, and they hate it as much as the devil hates holy.

One Senator has just straight out started shopping a bill to buy the Islands since the UK clearly does not want them anymore.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Someone please archive this video- it's Kemi's interview with Rob Peston and a fucking mouse scurries past under the radiator. Seems like everyone is fleeing the sinking ship

 

[Sheep King]

They want it to be the THING OF NOW. Young peoples culture is so fucking homogenous, people are into ONE THING at a time and its always that ONE THING; Ie Arcane, Spiderverse, Doechii, Pitt, Bridgeton, whatever trendy slop TV Film Music whatever!!! They want WH to be the new Barbie that everyone talks about and obsesses about, but forget its ditched within a month for the next new thing to show that You are cool/trendy/in touch/have good taste.
The New Thing dominates every social, but is gone just as quickly, even now ""analogue hobbies"" are trending because people are complaining about taste/fandom being all the Same and online everyones making their videos about crocheting and painting and reading again!!!!
As a bitch in politics, trains, and only 20th C lit, its exhausting. No one has true and honest taste unique to themselves anymore! Theres no more cliques or subcultures or anything and its all Yank Slop pushed by socials. Rant over
ETA because rant not over, even our politics are the thing of Now; which is the ICE immigration stuff, which all my UK political adjacent mates are talking about. None of them had a clue about the Green slavery arrest, 15 U Turns, the Met Police beating pro-Shah protesters, or even Mandelson and the 2024 elections, Mandelson and Brown, former Prince Andrews new information, nothing! To be Political is to be served the new Yank Issues even though we are British. Even young british conservatives get the yankee online Now Culture (Clavicular had a moment everywhere). People just take on what they are served

Have to disagree on this. Media and social media have become homogenous but there are more niches than ever among Gen Z. As you say, the mainstream music and tv shows only get the engagement they do because people want to appear in the know, but as a counter, anyone who doesn't participate tends to move towards smaller groups that just don't get talked about. The fragmentation of culture is part of why there's a loneliness epidemic.

I think in essence we used to have lots of cultural touchstones in music and TV that everyone had heard about on radio or newspapers; if you met someone really into metal then you could recognise some of what they talked about even if it wasn't your thing. But now the mainstream is dominated by the same mass-marketed tv shows that push name recognition at the expense of all else, which are nominally engaged with by people who want to follow the herd, while everyone who doesn't want to watch hypersexualised mystery meat adaptations like Wuthering Heights are funnelled into recursively obscure rabbit hole fandoms, usually based on whatever self-indulgent media gratifies them the most (video games, tabletop, cartoons, smut literature etc.). Every now and then you get a flash in the pan like FNAF which briefly dominates social media before it shrinks back to its hardcore audience. There's a much greater divide between the mainstream and the niche now.
A good chunk of popular music now is the same mainstays that were popular 20 years ago (Lady Gaga, Coldplay), but if you actually ask a zoomer there's a 50% chance they listen to that tokenly, or have never heard it in their life and are instead obsessed with K-Pop, some other flavour of Eastern music, Russian hardbass, mumble nigger rap or just "don't listen to music". Social media obfuscates a lot of this as you won't see them unless you're part of the audience already and have tuned your feed to find stuff which isolates people in their niches even more hence why so many zoomers are retarded and can't talk to eachother.
Sorry for ranting back at you.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Sorry for ranting back at you.

I love a good rant and discussion, its why im always MATI on kiwifarms. There are niches definitely, like the LGBTQAIPP crowd, or extreme autists who still like FNAF/TADC etc, but within each 'niche' there is a overarching homogeneity you can't escape and an all consuming trend cycle; IE the gamer crowd were alll obsessed with Mouthwashing when it came out, or Baldurs Gate 3, but not a peep of it now. Even within the gamer crowd, their videos, posts, whatever, will use whatever Trending audio or song of the month is, same as the baker crowd, or the artfags.
Perhaps its hard to explain but no ones 'faves' last. Everyones 'obsessed' with something for a whole month to a degree that I've never seen on the Internet/culture until, say 2024 ish.

But now the mainstream is dominated by the same mass-marketed tv shows that push name recognition at the expense of all else, which are nominally engaged with by people who want to follow the herd, while everyone who doesn't want to watch hypersexualised mystery meat adaptations like Wuthering Heights are funnelled into recursively obscure rabbit hole fandoms,

I think we are talking about the same thing, the 'everyone who doesn't want to watch [mainstream]' is growing much, much smaller though. People aren't really discovering their own taste or finding niches anymore. Tumblr is honestly the only website/social media platform left where very small, specific fandoms can exist without coming into contact with outsiders (not counting Star Wars, Dr Who etc blogs/forums for the older generations if those still exist). I agree zoomers are retarded.

 

[Overly Serious]

Its finally happened. The good ole' boys club in the US Senate has finally cottoned on to the Chagos Islands Deall, and they hate it as much as the devil hates holy.

One Senator has just straight out started shopping a bill to buy the Islands since the UK clearly does not want them anymore.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zuE6_XtAZeY

Excellent. They seem to have upped their game from the days when Congress was worried a new military base might tip the island over.

Someone please archive this video- it's Kemi's interview with Rob Peston and a fucking mouse scurries past under the radiator. Seems like everyone is fleeing the sinking ship

That looks on the large size for a mouse. I'm thinking probably a rat. 50/50. Anyway, your local copy!

Had she actually read the book?

I presume so, by implication at least.

 

[Otterly]

Someone please archive this video- it's Kemi's interview with Rob Peston and a fucking mouse scurries past under the radiator. Seems like everyone is fleeing the sinking ship

The Palace of Westminster has a huge rat problem (and rodents as well.) . It’s so bad that it’s deemed an unsuitable environment for cats.

 

[Chicken of the woods]

I heard some fun info about the Church of England today.

Same-sex marriage is legal under civil law but not canon law. In other words gay couples can marry in a register office but not in a church.

However, two people of the same sex can marry in church if one of them has a Gender Recognition Certificate. There is no requirement for that person to have had surgery or hormone treatment. They just need to get a GRC. At that point, the C of E will treat them like a heterosexual couple.

The catch is that priests are also not allowed to ask whether someone has a Gender Recognition Certificate, because this would be considered a hurtful invasion of privacy.

So if a priest agrees to marry a man in a suit to a man in a dress, they have no way of knowing whether they are committing an offence under church law, unless the information is volunteered.

What's morel, although a priest can opt not to carry out such a marriage himself on grounds of conscience, he can't deny the use of his church for another priest to carry out the ceremony.

No wonder the kids are all going Antiochian Orthodox.

 

[BongoMongo]

Its finally happened. The good ole' boys club in the US Senate has finally cottoned on to the Chagos Islands Deall, and they hate it as much as the devil hates holy.

One Senator has just straight out started shopping a bill to buy the Islands since the UK clearly does not want them anymore.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zuE6_XtAZeY

I'm not gonna lie; I watched all of that expecting that man with the lovely Southern accent to say "Ah say, ah say AHHH SAAAAAYYYU, BOOOOOOOOIIIII have yah lost yah dayum mind??!!?"

 

[Overly Serious]

The Palace of Westminster has a huge rat problem (and rodents as well.) . It’s so bad that it’s deemed an unsuitable environment for cats.

I see what you did there. Also, isn't there supposed to be a resident No. 10 cat? If it's an unsuitable environment for them did that change? Maybe they should have a No. 10 terrier. That'll get a rat.

I heard some fun info about the Church of England today.

Same-sex marriage is legal under civil law but not canon law. In other words gay couples can marry in a register office but not in a church.

However, two people of the same sex can marry in church if one of them has a Gender Recognition Certificate. There is no requirement for that person to have had surgery or hormone treatment. They just need to get a GRC. At that point, the C of E will treat them like a heterosexual couple.

The catch is that priests are also not allowed to ask whether someone has a Gender Recognition Certificate, because this would be considered a hurtful invasion of privacy.

So if a priest agrees to marry a man in a suit to a man in a dress, they have no way of knowing whether they are committing an offence under church law, unless the information is volunteered.

What's morel, although a priest can opt not to carry out such a marriage himself on grounds of conscience, he can't deny the use of his church for another priest to carry out the ceremony.

No wonder the kids are all going Antiochian Orthodox.

It's been oft-said but I'll say it once more, that nobody would be more surprised by Jesus's return than the Church of England.

Good info, though. Something to add to the list of the CofE's failures.

 

[Made In Wales]

I heard some fun info about the Church of England today.

Same-sex marriage is legal under civil law but not canon law. In other words gay couples can marry in a register office but not in a church.

However, two people of the same sex can marry in church if one of them has a Gender Recognition Certificate. There is no requirement for that person to have had surgery or hormone treatment. They just need to get a GRC. At that point, the C of E will treat them like a heterosexual couple.

The catch is that priests are also not allowed to ask whether someone has a Gender Recognition Certificate, because this would be considered a hurtful invasion of privacy.

So if a priest agrees to marry a man in a suit to a man in a dress, they have no way of knowing whether they are committing an offence under church law, unless the information is volunteered.

What's morel, although a priest can opt not to carry out such a marriage himself on grounds of conscience, he can't deny the use of his church for another priest to carry out the ceremony.

No wonder the kids are all going Antiochian Orthodox.

Back from Newport, and oh what a great day out.

We have our new Welsh leader, a Blackwood boy no less, and James Evans has officially joined the party as well - great to see so many of the great and good in positive and optimistic form.

Was given this as a gift to the site as well - Starmer's links with paedophilia and PIE:

https://x.com/pwestoff/status/2018619616713757039

https://archive.ph/wip/SUcK3

The odds on Kalergi Keir are shortening by the hour - with four days of Parliament until the February break he could be gone at any time. McSweeney looks as if he is on the ropes, there's a major rebellion of backbench MP's who no longer want Starmer as leader (on paper, if a VONC was called today, he'd lose) and more than a few of these are apparently beginning to question their futures as MP's if this is all there is.

MP's are breaking ranks and the pound is falling with gilt yields also affected.

It's IMO not a case of nothing will happen, something is going to happen.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

999, I would like to report a gang rape, please.

So Keith rolled up this morning, and legitimately thought saying BP "I'm sorry" would work. He bunkered in the Starmer bunker for 12 hours with that ginger mongoloic twat and thought "I'm sorry" and a presentation called "Pride in Place" where he basically said British people cannot be native and their ideals for nationalism are deeply racist.

Then came the press questions,

Jesus fucking christ, they destroy him. None of the questions are about his shitty jew funded fucking psy-op. I implore youto watch it. It is the most brutal press circuit I have seen in my life. One journalist quotes what Labour MPs have told him and says, "It's like Chris Pincher on steroids." I even agreed with a communist (LBC) who simply asked, "As a senior lawyer, you knew about what he did yet still hired him."

This egotistical fuck thinks he is out of the woods, but the wife is in the house sharpening the butcher knife. The Mandleson issue has been a point of contention from its inception, and it will not blow over anytime soon.

 

[mindlessobserver]

I'm not gonna lie; I watched all of that expecting that man with the lovely Southern accent to say "Ah say, ah say AHHH SAAAAAYYYU, BOOOOOOOOIIIII have yah lost yah dayum mind??!!?"

He did say Starmer has his testicles on order from Amazon in that accent. Pretty close. And like a good southern gentleman he did apologize at the end for saying it lol.

 

[BongoMongo]

He did say Starmer has his testicles on order from Amazon in that accent. Pretty close. And like a good southern gentleman he did apologize at the end for saying it lol.

I clocked that, it made me laugh like a loon. What a gentleman!

Everything is fucked but there's some decent people who balance their goodness with coming across as wholesome and funny. All isn't completely lost I guess.

 

[Made In Wales]

This is not going to go down well with some...

 

[Otterly]

If it's an unsuitable environment for them did that change? Maybe they should have a No. 10 terrier. That'll get a rat.

Apparently there’s so much poison down they’re not supposed to put a cat in there in case it eats it or a rodent that’s eaten it.
The entire building is a mess.

Was given this as a gift to the site as well - Starmer's links with paedophilia and PIE:

Archive it? That sort of stuff disappears.

 

[BongoMongo]

God all mighty, Keir really is a smug cunt. Oh I was lied to. Yes you were, by someone with a history of lying who has proven themselves to be untrustworthy.

And he wasn't elected on any mandate. He was elected because the system is broken by design, and we have a uni party, with red and blue versions. Both the same, just different starter Pokémon, that's all.

Also with him being a lawyer,seems like he doesn't know his ABCs. Assume nothing, believe nobody, challenge everything . That said his brand of law is standing up for the very worst, the most disgusting people, and criminal defence are absolute bottom feeding vermin, making bank from the public purse.

I love that you can tell he's miffed that people are refusing to let this go.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

I'm glad mandelson has left a disgrace. He was a disgrace during the Blair years, racking up scandal after scandal. Then ended up on the tory team (I would like to hear cameron's thoughts) then became a gaylord.

He is the globohomo, uniparty spectre that has haunted parliament and I hope he 41%'s himself or has found to have passed through [obviously staged] auto-erotic asphyxiation.

 

[mindlessobserver]

I'm glad mandelson has left a disgrace. He was a disgrace during the Blair years, racking up scandal after scandal. Then ended up on the tory team (I would like to hear cameron's thoughts) then became a gaylord.

He is the globohomo, uniparty spectre that has haunted parliament and I hope he 41%'s himself or has found to have passed through [obviously staged] auto-erotic asphyxiation.

He really is the pure personification of everything that has been wrong with government in all western nations for the last 30 years. We have our own share of swamp creatures here in the USA, but thankfully they have either been fished out or have sunk really deep into the mud.