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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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Otterly said:
I presume all the golliwogs have been purged?
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The funny bit about gollywogs is that kids LOVED them, like they probably did more for improving race relations between blacks and whites back in the day than anything else. Like the name was essentially jolly black people, they looked happy, they had ridiculously colourful clothing (which funnily enough may have caused Sape culture in Jamaica) and even though the characteristics were amplified for comedic effect, they were adored.

Plus it's created a circular racist situation. Wog is a racist term for black people, therefore gollywog is bad but wog ORIGINATES from fucking Gollywog. It's like if I made a brown doll and called it Joydunna and then all of a sudden Dunna becomes a slur for Pakis so it gets banned.
 
I worked from 08:00 to 21:20 yesterday and missed pancake day. I shall atone at the weekend with an extra large batch.
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they were adored.
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I used to have a toy one. I had no idea they were supposed to be ‘black people’, it was just a toy. All these adult prejudices and baggage we put onto kids.
You used to get little pin badges of gollywogs as well with Robinsons jam.

Moon face could be a munchie with steroid side effects I suppose. Get with the times, and all.
 
UselessRubberKeyboard said:
If they discover The Wishing Chair or The Children of Cherry Tree Farm, we really are fucked.
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'Five Children and It'. A delightful story of five young children meeting and learning to celebrate a non-binary individual.

'The Secret Seven'. A young child hides seven migrants in her house keeping her parents unaware.

Otterly said:
I presume all the golliwogs have been purged?
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Must. Not. Make. Rupert. Joke.


GratsTheat783 said:
Since Restore is now a valid alternative, do you still think Nigel would still try to sink Reform knowing the voters would just turn to them?
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Otterly said:
Don’t give them ideas!
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Could have been worse. Several of the Famous Five books talk about them going to a special island.

I presume you're familiar with the (real) series of parody books. Like this one where Anne makes everyone give up Gluten or they have to go to a corporate away day.

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Otterly said:
I used to have a toy one. I had no idea they were supposed to be ‘black people’, it was just a toy. All these adult prejudices and baggage we put onto kids.
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I said the same thing when talking with a friend about Ravelry banning gollywog knitting patterns back around 2010 or so. The golly was always on the label of Robertson’s jam, and I had a knitted golly toy when I was small. It was simply another version of the rag doll, cute and friendly, easy for parents to make even with basic crafting skills. Recognisable as the Robertsons brand immediately. I grew up in a very multicultural city and there were black and Asian kids in my class at school. Never for a moment did I think of them when I saw the gollywog, or vice versa. If anything, I thought the gollywog was a miner or chimneysweep.

In what world does a gollywog look like a black person? Says more about the racism of those offended by it really.
 
UselessRubberKeyboard said:
If anything, I thought the gollywog was a miner
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Ah now that’s problematic because that brings us to class… now that’s the one lens you can’t look through. Race? Sex? Political leftyrightery? Sexuality? You can certainly start on all of those, but not class.
It’s almost as though that’s something that might upset the status quo rather than reinforce it, and we can’t have that, can we?
 
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Dunna becomes a slur for Pakis
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new slur just dropped

New U-turn PENDING. Labour could scrap minimum wage manifesto pledge amid fears of fuelling record youth unemployment.

Oliver Lewis of Reform has stepped down to join Restore. He is from Weston-Super-Mare which had a kerfuffle a while ago over becoming a 'sanctuary city' which led to protests and the idea being scrapped. Swarthy Carl has reached out to 'work together' as this chap was regional coordinator and seemingly has a few connections here and there.
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Seven Kent councillors (some may have been booted out Reform however I have a bastard of a cold and I'm not doing my due diligence until I have a lemsip or three) have also had their applications accepted, however Lowe and co have announced that 'dozens' have also been rejected as they did not pass the racism test.
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Looks like we're gearing up for a military intervention in some far flung land.
It's early days of maneuvers at the moment but the signs are there.

Will it be Iran, Russia, Ukraine, Greenland, Gaza? We may soon find out.
 
Jenrick's first act as Reform's Treasury spokesman is to shackle himself to the Office of Budget Responsibility (a reversal of the party's previous position) as well as a pledge to maintain the independence of the Bank of England (another reversal).

I am not quite sure where the 'reform' is now supposed to come from.
 
Otterly said:
Ah now that’s problematic because that brings us to class… now that’s the one lens you can’t look through. Race? Sex? Political leftyrightery? Sexuality? You can certainly start on all of those, but not class.
It’s almost as though that’s something that might upset the status quo rather than reinforce it, and we can’t have that, can we?
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There have been epic arguments about blackface and Morris dancing. Inasmuch as anything about Morris dancing is authentically traditional, wearing blackface is, at least in some parts of the country. It probably doesn't have anything to do with African people, since the villages where it originated had probably never seen any. Most likely it either represented a way of obscuring the dancers' identity, or referred to occupations like mining. But it's now banned at many folk festivals despite that.
 
I have several gollywogs. I love them to bits, they belonged to my grandmother and her mum, so I have a great deal of fondness for them.They sit on a shelf with my other stuffed animals (a kiwi, an armadillo, a tyrannosaurus called grumpysaurus rex, a couple of bunnies and a bear). They all coexist peacefully and happily, collecting a smattering of dust, and that's more than can be said for the niggers in the UK.

And blackface was a way of disguising yourself. My grandad was big into Morris dancing and we were raised going to see them in the village on holidays. It was great. A little cringe when I was a teenager (I think it's the bells,the bells, to paraphrase Quasimodo) but then, what wasn't?
 
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