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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.

 

[teriyakiburns]

haven't gotten a straight answer anywhere whether it's more proper to put spaces before and after a dash or not, or whether it's standard in British English to use em — over en – dashes. At one point I used hyphens - because I didn't notice the lengths were of different lengths before. I just use em dashes with spaces before and after now.
Now you know, unsolicited, my relationship with various horizontal lines used in the English language.

Depends on the style manual you subscribe to. The un-spaced em-dash (blahblah blah—blah blah!) is most commonly cited from the chicago manual of style, which most Americans seem to believe is the only style manual out there. Butcher's, which is the preferred style manual for both Cambridge and Oxford (and consequently for most British English copy-editing and journalism) prefers a spaced en-dash (blah blah – blah blah!) rather than the unspaced em-dash. Both indicate an unspaced en-dash for number rages (e.g. 22–45). British English also prefers an unspaced en-dash for an interrupted sentence, ("when you're talking, but–" an sudden stop appears) where Americans prefer an unspaced em-dash.

And none of this alt-code business! I use a compose key, like a real man. --- for em-dash, --. for en-dash.

A pro-Gaza campaign hid a radical social agenda at odds with the conservative Muslim voters who helped deliver their by-election victory

Might be one of those win the battle, lose the war things. It's likely not a campaign they'll be able to run twice.

 

[Ly Erg]

Speaking highly of the invader while at the same time shitting our your own people is the definition of treason

Listen if you want to take a bunch of white trash benefit junkies into your own home than feel free, I'm not going to stop you, hell take the muzzies and street shitters while you are at it since you seem to have loads over there anyways. What's a few more to you at this point?

Lowe is hopeposting.

I mean it's hopium but unless Reform get dispatched and thrown away than it's just inevitable coping when they lose their deposit like the Tories and end up splinting the right wing vote with the Greens taking advantage of that.

 

[Youtube Celery]

Can't believe we've got our very own "but the food is good!" poster now.

If Restore splits the right and the Greens manage to take power (lol) the death spiral of the UK becomes a plummet without a doubt.

 

[Ly Erg]

Can't believe we've got our very own "but the food is good!" poster now.

The food is good tho! They do lovely chicken wings as well as some nice Ackee and saltfish. Never tried it before But I like it. Not that it matters since I known them for a long time anyways to know they are good people.

Actually now that I'm thinking about it, All the Black people I've talked to here all have English accents...hmm.

 

[Overly Serious]

I haven't gotten a straight answer anywhere whether it's more proper to put spaces before and after a dash or not, or whether it's standard in British English to use em — over en – dashes. At one point I used hyphens - because I didn't notice the lengths were of different lengths before. I just use em dashes with spaces before and after now.
Now you know, unsolicited, my relationship with various horizontal lines used in the English language.

Long dash vs. short dash is primarily a publishing style preference. If you're writing something in Word it will auto change a short dash to a long dash for you, for example, but any grammatical rules that aren't also meaningful in hand-writing, aren't strong rules. Just ensure a space either side if you mean a dash, otherwise it's just hyphen.

Punctuation is a jewish concept designed to keep the white man from properly expressing himself

And that's exactly the viewpoint I'd expect from the land of James Joyce, who took any kind of convention as some kind of mortal insult to creativity.

I was lead to believe that there was nothing more National Socialist than proper use of grammar. Was I lied to?

We changed our name to the Alt-Write, years ago, thanks.

 

[Goose the Redeemer]

Gentlemen, I have recieved a telegram from a Jew. I'm not quite sure what he means, but, he appears to be mildly schizophrenic, fond of beaurocracy, and proud of his subversive nature (not that any of that needed to be said; He is a Jew, after all...)

Punctuation is a Jewish concept designed to keep the white man from properly expressing himself

You... are English? You can understand? Whatever the fuck... I say, without any form of punctuation or flowery bullshit, "dots on a screen". Not once in my life have I ever stopped; mid.

Conversation: To use an emdash or a semicolon or any of that. Bullshit? I communicate with words, and sounds, not! Fucking dots and dashes. This is because: I am not blind -or- In WWII, Cormac McCarthy was completely correct, even if... Shit gets misinterpreted, then, you are "white"... Enough!

To figure shit out (instead of bullshit): Spelling everything out (and telling you where to breathe) because the retards and jeets need to be told! That---the white man---does not need punctuation any more than he needs the IKEA.

- Instruction manual? I have none.
- Of the alt numpad shortcuts? Memorised (because they are all perverse).
- French letters? That serve no function.

In a civilised society, punctuation is the beaurocratic paper.

-- Pushing faggotry for conversations.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Most of the muslims live in cities and I have rarely seen them in areas that are more in the countryside which have always been more conservative in their voting anyways.

This isn't true. Cumbria is building mosques more and more. Lake Windowmere is infested.
As for the countryside that is yet to become browned, they are the exactly the kind of people who vote for more boat wogs. They're lefty liberals who will vote against reform and restore because they're icky racists.
The small countrysides that are ex-tory are too small to even matter.

Muslims moving to more leftist parties will end up biting the LGBT/Socialist types anyways when the inevitable infighting begins with the more conserative muslims clash with the LGBT movement. The only problem is that these people are cucks that will roll over for the muzzie savages.

That's exactly how they gather power. They know the gays are a weaker, softer target and they know that people will roll over a choose muzzies over gays.
Proof of this is the numerous times that the schools teach gay in muslim areas and they threaten to behead teachers and smash up the school.

You sound like a nice lad/lass but it doesn't sound like you have had to live among muzzies - lucky you.


Hardcore porn was never as widespread 30 or even 20 years ago than it is now and it was nowhere near as accessible. www.pornhub.com on your smartphone, bosh, full on 6 on 1 hardcore gang bangs.

Wind back to the 90s, you had to be 18, find a seedy german porn shop and go behind the curtain.
Easy access to the internet was a mistake.

 

[The Crescent King]

Irish Kiwi and thread tourist passing by with questions for those across the pond. Google tells me that the next general election isn't until 2029, so what votes are taking place now and what is their significance? Based on what I've skimmed here and growing anti-immigrant sentiment I didn't think the Greens were a significant party compared to Reform, Restore or even the Lib Dems for those turned off by leftism. Admittedly I know very little of how UK politics works.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Irish Kiwi and thread tourist passing by with questions for those across the pond. Google tells me that the next general election isn't until 2029, so what votes are taking place now and what is their significance?

Local elections. So the person who heads up the council in that area.

There is still some value to them because every time a Labour MP loses a seat they get closer to losing their majority. Losing them to the Greens means little because every terrible idea Labour has the Greens are likely to support.

 

[Vesperus]

Emdashes invariably require more effort to type, be it a compose key, code entry, or long press on a phone. So unless you're writing for a publication that has a set style guide to use, it tends to make you look like a pretentious git, or an AI, or a pretentious AI.
Spaces around a dash depend on how your using them. If - like here - you're using them as parentheses, you want spaces. If you're using them to mash two words together into a meta-word then you don't.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

Can't believe we've got our very own "but the food is good!" poster now.

Knew the type of person he was when he went "Westmonster" over the deposit return scheme.

Ly Erg, are you Catholic and from the west coast by any chance?

 

[Spud]

The food is good tho!

We have the recipes, we don't need the people.

 

[Ly Erg]

This isn't true. Cumbria is building mosques more and more. Lake Windowmere is infested.
As for the countryside that is yet to become browned, they are the exactly the kind of people who vote for more boat wogs. They're lefty liberals who will vote against reform and restore because they're icky racists.
The small countrysides that are ex-tory are too small to even matter.

Depends on what and where which countryside we are talking about. I know for sure that England compared to Scotland has a far bigger share of Muslims that have spread out from the core of London and the south east where they dock so I rarely ever interact with muzzies. Only time I see any is in Towns and Cities and in the Towns, I have only seen a a few throughout the year compared to the likes of Glasgow where I think it's the largest share of muslims in Scotland. (which ironically I think also has the largest share of Jews too) compared to everywhere else here.

I know for sure from interacting with many Farmers that they are not happy with the situation and almost all of the pubs in the countryside are also sharing that same sentiment. Haven't really seen any lefty liberals though in the countryside but I suppose they don't advertise themselves.

Don't get me wrong. I've been to Glasgow enough times to know it's a shithole (What isn't nowadays?) and it's where I've seen the largest amount of muzzies in the West of Scotland which is a given.

Knew the type of person he was when he went "Westmonster" over the deposit return scheme.

Ly Erg, are you Catholic and from the west coast by any chance?

And what type of person am I? I like to hear if you can guess right newbie. And since you asked, I'm an Atheist, used to be Protestant and I'm from the South West.

We have the recipes, we don't need the people.

Even if there isn't people. The likes of Jamie Oliver and Kay's cooking have proven that natives can screw that up too. And who the fuck keeps putting peas in rice? Everywhere I go into supermarkets. All of the fucking ready made rice have fucking peas in them. Only savages would put peas in rice.

 

[Replacement Account]

Even if there isn't people. The likes of Jamie Oliver and Kay's cooking have proven that natives can screw that up too. And who the fuck keeps putting peas in rice? Everywhere I go into supermarkets. All of the fucking ready made rice have fucking peas in them. Only savages would put peas in rice.

Some people being bad at cooking is not justification for so many people, no matter how much you love your authentic slopistani cuisine.

 

[Sheep King]

Even if there isn't people. The likes of Jamie Oliver and Kay's cooking have proven that natives can screw that up too. And who the fuck keeps putting peas in rice? Everywhere I go into supermarkets. All of the fucking ready made rice have fucking peas in them. Only savages would put peas in rice.

Some people being bad at cooking is not justification for so many people, no matter how much you love your authentic slopistani cuisine.

Now hold on here, we can deport both Jamaicans AND Jamie Oliver.

 

[Ly Erg]

Some people being bad at cooking is not justification for so many people, no matter how much you love your authentic slopistani cuisine.

I like how I said a place with good food and the people that work there I'm friends with is enough for some of you to go and assume I'm a lefty liberal that thinks we should allow everyone into the country. Also I said that natives can screw up food, not that all natives will screw up.

Now hold on here, we can deport both Jamaicans AND Jamie Oliver.

I feel like deporting Jamie Oliver to another country is just cruel. He's our mess and we should sort it in a way that means no one will have to deal with him.

Exile him to the arctic so he can be eaten by Polar Bears. Polar bears get food, no one has to deal with Oliver and everyone is free from his cooking. An all round win.

 

[Big Judge Cock]

The food is good tho! They do lovely chicken wings as well as some nice Ackee and saltfish. Never tried it before But I like it. Not that it matters since I known them for a long time anyways to know they are good people.

Actually now that I'm thinking about it, All the Black people I've talked to here all have English accents...hmm.

Whoops capital B black. Nice try, get out.

 

[Ly Erg]

Whoops capital B black. Nice try, get out.

Damn he got me. Guess my plan to make autistic half breed mongols to destroy the UK will have to wait another day.

Spoiler

I better not say nigga instead of nigger or I'm truly cooked!

 

[>IMPLYING]

 

[BongoMongo]

Irish Kiwi and thread tourist passing by with questions for those across the pond. Google tells me that the next general election isn't until 2029, so what votes are taking place now and what is their significance? Based on what I've skimmed here and growing anti-immigrant sentiment I didn't think the Greens were a significant party compared to Reform, Restore or even the Lib Dems for those turned off by leftism. Admittedly I know very little of how UK politics works.

Are you actually Irish, or American "Irish", because "across the pond is a total yank expression.