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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.

 

[East_Clintwood]

Also didn't the Iranian government say they think the UK is a hotbed of Islamic terrorism? Ha. Hahahaha. Fucking telling.

Nah that was the UAE. More specifically they were supposedly worried about their kids being radicalised at British Unis i.e. exposed to the wrong, slightly different, branch of their shitty religion. Also a bit fucking rich considering where a lot of money and support for those fucks comes from in the first place

Why is he so determined to PAY Mauritius to take Chagos? I genuinely don't understand it from a political standpoint unless Starmer is just a fucking traitor.

Would it make more sense if I pointed out that Phillippe Sands, the barrister who has been championing the cause for a decade plus, and who is now in line for a payout in the millions for his work on it, describes himself as a close friend of Starmer?

 

[BongoMongo]

That picture of Andrew. The red in his right eye is an indicator of retinoblastoma. Couldn't happen to a nicer man

 

[pot of sneed]

That picture of Andrew. The red in his right eye is an indicator of retinoblastoma. Couldn't happen to a nicer man

Nah, that's a sign of adrenochrome consumption withdrawal. Edit: I always thought MiW was incredibly weird and terminally online in his support for Reform despite how obviously compromised they are now. Almost like a glowie.

 

[Overdrive]

Peace out and peace off.

Does this mean none of us are invited to the 1000-year Reform Reich now??

 

[FedPostalService]

What'd you allegedly hypothetically in theory do this time?
Whatever it was, you need to mind your manners, you Black Bastard.

Unironically “mind your manners” was the reason for the ban.

I was laughing at a certain cheese bothering autistic website owner who is a self proclaimed great interviewer who was jealous a YouTuber was having sex with BPD women rather than him, so he believed all woman and made an arse out of himself because he didn’t realise a certain type of woman will lie like crazy when she has a bad break up.

Two weeks just for that.

Present day Nick Griffin has basically stopped hating Islam and has instead become a full time Jew sperger

Griffin is so hung up on tha Jooos, he allies himself with Muslims. I can't take him seriously because of this.

He’s unironically an actual 1930s nazi now. Which he claimed he could be because his dad was in the RAF

A mate was telling me that her boomer dad who barely uses the internet and was probably one of the biggest Farage supporters in his district has flipped to Restore.

I know this is just anacdotal evidence here but if the hardline Reform supporter retirees are flipping to Restore then there's a genuine problem for Farage. I could understand the millenial generation who have flipped hard right to be in the 'know' switching to Restore but I was under the general impression that the traditional support wouldn't have a clue about Lowe's party until well after the next election has come and gone.

Pretty much everyone I know is in two groups:

Works for the government in some capacity or boomer in mostly white town who barely leaves it: disenchanted Labour vote or pissed off shy Tory

Everyone else: AUSLÄNDER RAUS!

I can see Restore hovering up voters with more and more momentum. The danger is it splits the right even more. There’s plenty of retards who have fell for Farage’s pull a funny face and hold a pint you only ever take a sip of act, mainly in South FC.

Sleep with a 17 year old, has his royal title stripped, house taken off of him, humiliated and dragged through the ringer.
Huw edwards, Schofield, half the BBC, a throng of muslim men and most of scotland yard are child fuckers and nothing is done.

Prince andrew is investigated and arrested for allegedly giving secrets away to foreigners.
Mandleson was selling out our country while pretty much been the head of the fabian uniparty nothing happens.

I'm not saying Prince Andrew shouldn't hang. I'm saying he shouldn't hang alone.
Very strange how he is the target and distraction, while the real weasels slink off.

I hope they lease it to america for 100 trillion pound a year.

Good. Fuck them. Always bleating that we don't help and do nothing. Lets see the MIC launch an oil-grabbing invasion all alone. It will be worse than Vietnam.

Has he still got his passport? I’d have buggered off to Dubai to bang Russian whores weeks ago if I was him.

 

[Gregis]

Buddeh, you could bring up a lot of things abut the absolute state of current year Albion, but a giant statue of monkeygod ain't one of 'em

You’re awfully smug about the fact that your immigration policy is so backwards, the jeets you import are too poor to afford their giant monkey statues

 

[SIMIΔN]

Present day Nick Griffin has basically stopped hating Islam

Shame, although I disagree with him on many things, the BNP were the first to speak up about Islamic rape gangs. Or as HopeNotHate mocked them "Muslemic ray guns"

 

[Overly Serious]

Did it work?

Not really. But I am happy that most people here don't care.

The HTM is mainly for understanding foreign countries so we can bomb liberate them better. Using it to understand an online culture is new and could prove quite interesting. Genuinely might be fun to do, then give to Kier Starmer so he can protect the British people from the Farm's fascism.

I would explain more but that's off thread topic and massive powerleveling.

How does it feel knowing that your upper management are probably right now trying to stuff your hard work into an LLM and expecting it to give them magical answers to all their questions?

 

[Kofi Drinka]

It's plainly obvious that Israel doesn't have as huge an influence in the UK as the USA

Every party in the UK has a friends of Israel advisor group who have money invested in them. The UK is not as bad as the US but it's still a constant background influence on everything.

MiW actually could, which is why the whole thing is puzzling because he just threw a strop for no reason when he could have leaned into it and given us a "told you so" if/when Reform cleaned up.

He threw a strop when Reform did everything we knew they would do and he couldn't handle it. He is a cultist and he's upset we're not going along with it. Did he ever change from "we kick Nigel out and then all the pakis can be deported?" I'd like to know how he is coping with the party being browner than a McDonalds chicken nugget.

Put the little soya pieces back in pot noodles while you're at it

Make pot noodles good again!

Next the EU will demand we serve our chips with mayo on. And all tea will be that hideous sour green shit in bags from Twinings (worst tea brand ever).

Twinings do some good herbal teas. I've not had much of their builder's tea though. Why are they so bad?

Most of the problems you faced in this thread really seemed self-inflicted, you didn't need to spend several posts trying to explain your decision to support Nigel to someone who clearly has their mind set on him being the second incarnation of Muhammed, if you just stated your opinion and didn't engage, no one would have argued.

He didn't try to explain himself. His first cry fest was against me because I predicted this and refused to budge. I wouldn't listen and believe that Reform would be a solution. Once the first ex-tories started flooding in he got angry and blocked me because I wasn't "being civil". I'm a cunt but I'm not a retard when it comes to bong politics.

You heard the man Otterly, get undressed...

You can always tell who's really British in this thread because of the very specific kind of moaning. No one can moan like we can. That and making really obscure references.

These two things do not go together well. We moan about the weather not grandma's undressing.

If anyone did threaten MiW then they need to have boiling milk poured down their nostrils but saying that like with everything on this website I take any claim like that with skepticism.

I very much doubt any one actually threatened him. He's acting like a twitter tranny because 2 autists in the thread are milking him sperging out. If someone wanted to threaten him he would be very easy to dox and send real threats. And he would go to the police with them not post about it in public. We all tried to warn him not to say too much but he can't help himself.

I was laughing at a certain cheese bothering autistic website owner who is a self proclaimed great interviewer who was jealous a YouTuber was having sex with BPD women rather than him, so he believed all woman and made an arse out of himself because he didn’t realise a certain type of woman will lie like crazy when she has a bad break up.

Two weeks just for that.

I came into conflict with him on that. But I didn't get a ban as far as I know. Simping for BPD women is stupid and it makes the farms look bad. But you likely did more than that to get a 2 week ban.


I was taking a break from the farms but MiW's crash out was too funny. He'll keep coming back and making an arse of himself. He wants the audience but he can't handle people turning on Reform. It's sad the state he's got himself into, but if he keeps going people are going to dig. They'll find his twitter account and personal details. He will become an actual thread unless he learns to back down and admit Reform was a honey pot. Promising to solve the problem while only making it worse. Why the fuck did they put a brown man marching down a beach to talk about foreign beach invaders?

 

[A-Logato]

Being at work and hearing someone yell out Prince Andrew had been arrested and then the whole room cheering was quite the experience.

 

[CaptainAutism69]

I always thought MiW was incredibly weird and terminally online in his support for Reform despite how obviously compromised they are now. Almost like a glowie.

He works for Reform. He turned up originally when the little girls were stabbed under a different account and mistook this place as somewhere he could do some astroturfing. Farage et al started hitting social media during his UKIP days, trying to get the disinfranchised behind him and this is just a continuation of it. On many UK centric boards, or even the likes of 4chan, you can find an identical MiW doing his thing.
Just this one was ripe for milking, and lols did he yield.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

He works for Reform. He turned up originally when the little girls were stabbed under a different account and mistook this place as somewhere he could do some astroturfing

Which account?

 

[Kofi Drinka]

He works for Reform. He turned up originally when the little girls were stabbed under a different account and mistook this place as somewhere he could do some astroturfing. Farage et al started hitting social media during his UKIP days, trying to get the disinfranchised behind him and this is just a continuation of it. On many UK centric boards, or even the likes of 4chan, you can find an identical MiW doing his thing.
Just this one was ripe for milking, and lols did he yield.

If this is true can you provide some screenshots to back it up? Is he using the same MiW username?

 

[CaptainAutism69]

Which account?

Honestly, can remember the name. I just remember union jack avatars with St. George and the Dragon on it, lots of fedposting, and mentioning of reform. Same writing style, and same lack of awareness that this isn't a UK political forum. Claimed to be Welsh. I'm looking in the stabbing thread now and can't find any of his spam...maybe the fedposting led to him being purged.

 

[K-Hole]

Being at work and hearing someone yell out Prince Andrew had been arrested and then the whole room cheering was quite the experience.

But the best part was when everyone stood up and clapped!

 

[FedPostalService]

Honestly, can remember the name. I just remember union jack avatars with St. George and the Dragon on it, lots of fedposting, and mentioning of reform. Same writing style, and same lack of awareness that this isn't a UK political forum. Claimed to be Welsh. I'm looking in the stabbing thread now and can't find any of his spam...maybe the fedposting led to him being purged.

It’s weird how he ramped up the Reform simping to 11 one day and couldn’t suss out how to turn it down. It was as insufferable as the people who think being a member of the Labour Party is a substitute for having a personality.

Hit me with the rainbow stickers, but I don’t see him as the fedposting type. He’s got a head canon about Our Nigel and he’s going to be extremely disappointed in the near future.

It’s a shame he lost his mind as I enjoyed some of his news threads prior to that.

 

[Overdrive]

On many UK centric boards, or even the likes of 4chan, you can find an identical MiW doing his thing.

I sometimes check other places where we bongs can talk freely and the reform shilling has (especially over the last 6 months or so) always felt a little too forced. Initially sure, it all seem quite organic but pretty much from the time they kicked Lowe out it just didn't feel right. Speaking of 4chan, if you've checked brit/pol/ in the last couple of days they're really pushing the anti-restore stuff on there and it couldn't be more obvious that it's paid for and/or the true believers in panic mode.

 

[Drihten]

Speaking of 4chan, if you've checked brit/pol/ in the last couple of days they're really pushing the anti-restore stuff on there and it couldn't be more obvious that it's paid for and/or the true believers in panic mode.

8chan's always had a better brit/pol/ anyways, 4chan's /pol/ has been awful for a long, long time.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I say behead the enemies of reform! Nigeshallah!!

 

[Overdrive]

8chan's always had a better brit/pol/ anyways, 4chan's /pol/ has been awful for a long, long time.

I'm well aware but it's slower and some days I'm waiting hours on end for model training or build processes to finish so I end up scraping the bottom of the barrel that is 4chan's /pol/ for something to read.