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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.

 

[HairyBadger]

Fuck them both.

Neither answer direct questions. I listened to PM questions today and Starmer sounded smug, like a traitorous cunt?

And well, Farage ... No thanks.

I live in Scotland. My choice is either SNP or Labour.

No one else comes even close. It its Scottish Nazi Party or Labour Facists.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

In my opinion, Nigel was right to ignore it. It's certainly crude and not really a good look, plus it gave the PM easy ammo along with a way to dodge the question (not that he wouldn't have just said "fauning over Putin" and then the whole Labour party claps), but it's not a threat, a threat would be "I will kill her", "someone kill her" or if he repeatedly broadcasted statements suggesting she deserves to die, which he didn't.

Wrong. He should have had a recorded apology from the moron in question and delivered it without hesitation.

Then Nigel should have asked Keir to immediately present an apology for that Labour MP that shared a comment about all those grooming gang victims needing to keep their mouths shut for the sake of diversity. And when Keir spluttered added, "happily the woman mentioned was not shot. Every last one of those girls had been raped at that point."

He's a useless tit.

 

[HairyBadger]

Kemi called Labour the paedo defenders party (though she was quoting someone else). PMQs is just monkeys slinging shit. Labour has a councillor who attempted to kill a man with a pickaxe (Mosin Hussain, as that one MP bought up today), Keir can hardly talk about death threats.

Labour are the pedofile defence party, that is proven.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

He also reshared text accompanying the picture, which said: “You dozy cow, you should be shot.”

So he didn't fucking send her a death threat you fucking retarded journo cunt. He shared someone else saying it. Those are not the same thing. If it came from his mouth I'd say it's probably not a good idea, not that I think it's something that you shouldn't say at all just that it's not really what I would expect from a professional. But he didn't. He did not send her a death threat. He did not even post one. He shared someone else's opinion. That's not a threat and it's not even fucking his anyway. God I fucking hate journos.

Going off to find any journo who quoted anything from Hitler at all in any context and cancelling them because they literally want to stab jews to death in the stree ok only if the journo is not a Manc otherwise it might just be true. Is that a retarded false equivalence? Yes. Exactly why I am going to do it.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

"you should be shot" is not a death threat. It's pretty fucking standard for people to say things like that.

 

[The Ghost of Sergei Witte]

I have reported you for this personal and violent threat against the welshie. Just not on such horrid language.

Sounds like Welshy should learn the WORKPLACE RULES

 

[Otterly]

Kemi called Labour the paedo defenders party (though she was quoting someone else). PMQs is just monkeys slinging shit.

She’s not wrong though.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

Ray Mears

 

[Overly Serious]

Otterly does indeed look like a real otter in a lab coat

She actually kind of does.

 

[Rival]

They won't just stop at splitting the left vote... they'll split the left tactical vote too.

 

[Overly Serious]

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I have never liked tactical voting. It leaves you trapped in some local maxima where you may get the best immediate solution, but only from the list of solutions approved for you to choose between. Which is never that much choice.

If I could get one political concept across to the electorate it would be that sometimes you have to take a short-term hit to make a long-term gain. That to get to the top of a mountain you first have to go down from the hill you're on. Or to use the old line: "You can't get there from here."

 

[Rival]

I have never liked tactical voting. It leaves you trapped in some local maxima where you may get the best immediate solution, but only from the list of solutions approved for you to choose between. Which is never that much choice.

If I could get one political concept across to the electorate it would be that sometimes you have to take a short-term hit to make a long-term gain. That to get to the top of a mountain you first have to go down from the hill you're on. Or to use the old line: "You can't get there from here."

I've always viewed it as roundabout runoff voting in a FPTP system, but it obviously has its flaws and exploits as is being demonstrated here.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

They won't just stop at splitting the left vote... they'll split the left tactical vote too.
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Typical uniparty shit. Is Restore the only party saying "Vote for us we want to do to this" and not "Vote for us we're not them"?

Was at a mate's house last night and had the telly on. Was watching some more Bear survival show and it had 2 teenage lads on it. One had sad brain (awww) and the other was a bit shorter and a bit rougher so he looked like a bad teenage boy. His response was "I think he should just get on with things. I don't really care or want to listen. He needs to focus on doing things and get over it." You know, the correct and healthy response to a teenage boy having a bit of the sads. The female presenter of the segment lectures him on how that's the wrong response, he should listen and care about his friend having the sad. To act like a little crying baby girl and have long conversations about why teenage boys are sad.

Do you know how you help men with depression? You give them purpose, a project and a goal to achieve. You make the brain power wasted on being sad and put it towards something they can chew on. It does wonders for the male brain to get a bit of the 'tism going and helps with all sort of mental health problems. But 2026 TV, so we can't tell men how to manage their situation, we have to punish them for not being women.

I also discovered there's been more barely reported hotel protests over the weekend. Nothing fighty but people in smaller areas protesting the hotels. Can't even sneak them into granny towns any more.

 

[Otterly]

She actually kind of does.

I shall take that as a compliment.

 

[Scream Tail]

Met some incredibly based British expats today. They are totally in the Total tranny/indian/paki/migrant/french Death train. Bonded over how much we all hate the browns and politicians ruining our countries.

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

Typical uniparty shit. Is Restore the only party saying "Vote for us we want to do to this" and not "Vote for us we're not them"?

Was at a mate's house last night and had the telly on. Was watching some more Bear survival show and it had 2 teenage lads on it. One had sad brain (awww) and the other was a bit shorter and a bit rougher so he looked like a bad teenage boy. His response was "I think he should just get on with things. I don't really care or want to listen. He needs to focus on doing things and get over it." You know, the correct and healthy response to a teenage boy having a bit of the sads. The female presenter of the segment lectures him on how that's the wrong response, he should listen and care about his friend having the sad. To act like a little crying baby girl and have long conversations about why teenage boys are sad.

Do you know how you help men with depression? You give them purpose, a project and a goal to achieve. You make the brain power wasted on being sad and put it towards something they can chew on. It does wonders for the male brain to get a bit of the 'tism going and helps with all sort of mental health problems. But 2026 TV, so we can't tell men how to manage their situation, we have to punish them for not being women.

I also discovered there's been more barely reported hotel protests over the weekend. Nothing fighty but people in smaller areas protesting the hotels. Can't even sneak them into granny towns any more.

was he sad because Bear was greedy and drank all the piss?

 

[Clem Fandango]

Typical uniparty shit. Is Restore the only party saying "Vote for us we want to do to this" and not "Vote for us we're not them"?

Was at a mate's house last night and had the telly on. Was watching some more Bear survival show and it had 2 teenage lads on it. One had sad brain (awww) and the other was a bit shorter and a bit rougher so he looked like a bad teenage boy. His response was "I think he should just get on with things. I don't really care or want to listen. He needs to focus on doing things and get over it." You know, the correct and healthy response to a teenage boy having a bit of the sads. The female presenter of the segment lectures him on how that's the wrong response, he should listen and care about his friend having the sad. To act like a little crying baby girl and have long conversations about why teenage boys are sad.

Do you know how you help men with depression? You give them purpose, a project and a goal to achieve. You make the brain power wasted on being sad and put it towards something they can chew on. It does wonders for the male brain to get a bit of the 'tism going and helps with all sort of mental health problems. But 2026 TV, so we can't tell men how to manage their situation, we have to punish them for not being women.

I also discovered there's been more barely reported hotel protests over the weekend. Nothing fighty but people in smaller areas protesting the hotels. Can't even sneak them into granny towns any more.

I got an email from my kid's school this week with this gem:

"<local authority> has developed a new project aimed at strengthening the support available to parents and carers of children who are experiencing Emotionally Based School Non‑Attendance (EBSNA)."

My reaction was pretty much that meme gif of Joe Pesci.

" What the fuck is this piece of shit? "

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I got an email from my kid's school this week with this gem:

"<local authority> has developed a new project aimed at strengthening the support available to parents and carers of children who are experiencing Emotionally Based School Non‑Attendance (EBSNA)."

My reaction was pretty much that meme gif of Joe Pesci.

" What the fuck is this piece of shit? "

Council estate mum talk for "my kid can't be arsed to go to school." All this bollocks gets in the way of solving problems.

was he sad because Bear was greedy and drank all the piss?

I think he was sad because the little one had seen a pair of tits and he hadn't yet. Typical teenage boy shit we all had going on back then and realized was stupid once we got a little older.

 

[teriyakiburns]

"<local authority> has developed a new project aimed at strengthening the support available to parents and carers of children who are experiencing Emotionally Based School Non‑Attendance (EBSNA)."

My brother's kids go (extremely reluctantly) to a school that sends out e-mails like this. They make a big fuss about kids not attending for "invalid" yet "understandable" reasons, while refusing to address the biggest reason for their non-attendance is absolute terror over the fact that the school refuses to do anything about a dozen kids literally tearing the place apart every day.

 

[Clem Fandango]

My brother's kids go (extremely reluctantly) to a school that sends out e-mails like this. They make a big fuss about kids not attending for "invalid" yet "understandable" reasons, while refusing to address the biggest reason for their non-attendance is absolute terror over the fact that the school refuses to do anything about a dozen kids literally tearing the place apart every day.

I do hope that this means I can take him out of school during term time for a cheap holiday, on the basis that he had, what was it again, Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance. They wouldn't fine me for that would they? It'd seem awfully judgemental. I was just trying to cheer him up!