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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.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Not really trying to undertake some redpill exercise.

She's well aware of the regressive culture of Pakis in the UK (we watched that inbreeding doc some years ago and her take away was "I had noticed there were a lot of Muslims with learning difficulties") but she just works with too many fairly normal seeming middle-class Bangladeshi and Pakistani women to really get it and generally thinks it's just a few bad eggs. We live in an area fairly well populated by Pakis and Indians so it's not as if she's unaware of how women are treated.

We mainly just talk general politics but the Gorton-and-Denton by-election had so many interesting things happening that it naturally had to come up.

If your missus is anything like mine, she's aware of my "politics" and she's fine with it, but her overriding concern is please don't embarrass me.

The good news is, since Reform took on all those lame duck tories and Restore emerged as an alternative, now when one of her mates will say something like "... as long as Reform don't get in and ruin everything", I can now enthusiastically agree and say "Yes, that would be awful if those guys got in!".

But it still results in a subtle elbow to the ribs, and "We're probably going home after this one".

 

[BongoMongo]

I'm kind of lucky. His nibs and I are absolutely on the same page politically. He was sort of northern labour when I met him, but seeing the enshittification has tipped him over the deep end into full blown, send the whole fucking lot of them back, and their kids,along with their coal burners and all.

It's been kind of cool to watch,to be honest.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

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.

Just to sniff my own farts a little bit more.
Guess twas Iran that we attacked.

 

[Otterly]

I'm kind of lucky. His nibs and I are absolutely on the same page politically. He was sort of northern labour when I met him, but seeing the enshittification has tipped him over the deep end into full blown, send the whole fucking lot of them back, and their kids,along with their coal burners and all.

It's been kind of cool to watch,to be honest.

That’s good. I’m married to someone veeeeeery liberal, who thinks I’m a nazi. There’s whole topics i just can’t give an opinion on without being shut down completely and told off . Covid was a flashpoint, and I was proven right about absolutely all of it and have never had so much as a grudging acknowledgment
Never mind. I know I’m right.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

There’s whole topics i just can’t give an opinion on without being shut down completely and told off .

Sounds like the way it should be.

Covid was a flashpoint, and I was proven right about absolutely all of it and have never had so much as a grudging acknowledgment

This is not alright. I might be a prick but admitting when your wrong is essential. Even to the misses. She's going to give you shit for it but you deserve it if you're wrong.

My lass got woken up when she saw how fast where we lived changed by a small invasion force. Now she gets dirty looks in shops when people ask her opinion on them and she says she wants them gone.

How many boat people are claiming they're from Iran now and need asylum? How many are going to drive a car into innocent bongs? Why the fuck can't we stop messing with the middle east when we're in a critical condition and need to focus on ourselves.

 

[Otterly]

Sounds like the way it should be.

I’m right though. Covid was malarkey, kier Starmer is a wanker. Trannies are all pedos. Nuclear power is the future.
Doesn’t matter anyway.

 

[Clem Fandango]

That’s good. I’m married to someone veeeeeery liberal, who thinks I’m a nazi. There’s whole topics i just can’t give an opinion on without being shut down completely and told off . Covid was a flashpoint, and I was proven right about absolutely all of it and have never had so much as a grudging acknowledgment
Never mind. I know I’m right.

There needs to be an episode of Wife Swap with me and Otterly. But I know I'd ruin it by saying something stupid like, "Let me just get that hard drive filled with simulation rape/incest porn from the car". *freeze frame and transition to black and white with sad music*

BTW, sorry for the over-posting this afternoon, but I've had a few pints and I'm excited because I'm literally going to the National Front Disco tonight (Morrissey gig at the O2).

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I’m right though. Covid was malarkey, kier Starmer is a wanker. Trannies are all pedos. Nuclear power is the future.
Doesn’t matter anyway.

And you're still a woman. The most important skill set of a woman is to find a good man to lead her. And then wash his dirty socks before the dog eats them.

"Let me just get that hard drive filled with simulation rape/incest porn from the car". *freeze frame and transition to black and white with sad music*

You keep yours in the car? Do you have to sneak outside when you want some alone time?

Stop power leveling.

 

[Otterly]

Wife Swap

Wife swap is hilarious and I think having me swapped with a real harpy for two weeks would sharpen some minds around here. Or someone who spends hundreds a month on hair and nails, or who had serious domestic tidiness standards.
I am all for wife swap. Can I just fuck off to some spa in the alps for a fortnight maybe while my replacement enjoys it?

I'm literally going to the National Front Disco tonight (Morrissey gig at the O2).

Oh have fun! I was at a great gig there back in November and I was really impressed with the sound and setup. Wave some gladioli for me and enjoy. (Says prayer it won’t be cancelled…) stayed within walking distance (in heels…) too so no fannying around with the tube after.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Wife swap is hilarious and I think having me swapped with a real harpy for two weeks would sharpen some minds around here. Or someone who spends hundreds a month on hair and nails, or who had serious domestic tidiness standards.

It's always the women who say this who end up being the harpy..

 

[Clem Fandango]

Stop power leveling.

I'll tell you when I've... !

Actually, that's a good idea. I'll stop.

Says prayer it won’t be cancelled…

It'd be a really last minute flounce at this point. Still, hope I haven't jinxed it.

 

[Otterly]

It'd be a really last minute flounce at this point. Still, hope I haven't jinxed it.

Knock on wood!
Have a great time, I was walking on air after the gig I went to, it’s great to sing some tunes and have your sternum rattled by the bass.

 

[the rat]

Now you've got me picturing an otter dancing in a disco room like a Simpsons character. SHAME ON YOU!

 

[Otterly]

Now you've got me picturing an otter dancing in a disco room like a Simpsons character. SHAME ON YOU!

Ha! Well it wasn’t mozza I saw but it was good.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

I had a colleague a few years back who got taken back to Pakistan and married off to a cousin

Every so often I think about the brown girls I went to college with who just vanished : ( every day I am grateful I was born white and not into some shithole backwards cousin fucking religion


Thoughts and prayers for all the wannabe Thomas Shelby BMW drivers in Dubai. Must be a mad scramble to get a flight back to John Lennon Airport rn

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

>Be Baz, 48 from Southampton.
>Witness entire area turn to shit because of Arabs and darkies
>Can't even walk down the high street without fearing getting knifed
>Fear that it's only going to get worse
>Go on holiday to Dubai with the missus to take your mind off things
>Get turned into pink paste by a fucking arab because... the US bombed Iran?????

 

[Kofi Drinka]

>Go on holiday to Dubai with the missus to take your mind off things

If you go to a third world country and get blown up it's your own fault. Should have just got the train to Birmingham if you wanted that.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Keir Starmer using the war to 'sneak out another resignation' - Josh Simmons resigns after claims he was looking into the background of journalists.

Labour MP Josh Simons has resigned as a Cabinet Office minister, just days after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer asked his ethics adviser to investigate him.

Simons faced claims the think tank he used to run before he became an MP commissioned a report that looked into the background of journalists.

Confirming his resignation on X, the Labour MP said he had "become a distraction from this government's important work".

Sir Keir said he had accepted the resignation "with sadness", adding that ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus found Simons had not breached the ministerial code.

"I want to express my thanks for the commitment, focus, and energy you have brought to ministerial office," Sir Keir added.

Labour Together paid APCO Worldwide at least £30,000 to "investigate the sourcing, funding and origins" of a Sunday Times story about undeclared donations at the think tank ahead of the 2024 election.

The US public affairs firm's report included information about journalist Gabriel Pogrund's Jewish beliefs and claims about his ideological position.

The BBC has not seen APCO Worldwide's report in full, but sources familiar with its contents have confirmed the details, which were reported by the Sunday Times.

It also claimed, the sources said, that Pogrund's previous reporting, including on the Royal Family, "could be seen as destabilising to the UK and also in the interests of Russia's strategic foreign policy objectives".

A contract addressed to Simons, seen by the BBC, also agreed to investigate journalist Paul Holden and Matt Taibbi, an American reporter.

Simons, 32, had previously said the company which did the research for Labour Together had "gone beyond" what it was asked to do.

In a letter to the prime minister, ethics adviser Sir Laurie said Simons now accepted the terms he agreed with APCO Worldwide were "wider than he had understood" and he had acted "too hastily in confirming their appointment".

Sir Laurie said Simons had acted "in good faith" but added that the MP acknowledged the "perceived gap between his public statements and what he now accepts appears to be a more extensive scope has been damaging".

More than 20 Labour MPs had called for a "fully independent investigation" into Simons and the report.

Labour Together has been widely credited with helping Sir Keir Starmer get elected as Labour leader.

Allies of Simons have told the BBC he regretted what had happened but APCO had to take responsibility for its actions and so far had not.

They said he had put his party first by resigning but had never sought to smear journalists.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch accused Sir Keir of using the strikes in the Middle East to try and "sneak out yet another ministerial resignation".

"Josh Simons was in charge of a group that deliberately smeared journalists, even using a journalist's Jewish faith to call him into question. Labour hasn't changed," she said.

Badenoch also called for the PM to "tell us immediately if he will now end Labour Together's links with his Government and return the tainted money they've donated".

Labour has been approached for comment.

There were loud boos and whistles when the Leeds vs Man City game was paused to allow Muslim players to break their fast for Ramadan

Loud boos could be heard at Elland Road as Muslim players broke their fast during Leeds United and Manchester City's Premier League clash on Saturday evening. The match was paused in the 13th minute to allow those observing Ramadan to take on fluids, with several players heading over to the touchline.



The break was pre-planned, and a message was displayed on the in-stadium scoreboard to explain what was going on. It read: "As tonight's match takes place during the holy period of Ramadan, play has been paused to allow players to break their fast."

 

[Clem Fandango]

There were loud boos and whistles when the Leeds vs Man City game was paused to allow Muslim players to break their fast for Ramadan

I HATE ISLAM.

Holy fuck, "live and let live" is so far in the rear view mirror at this point.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

I HATE ISLAM.

Holy fuck, "live and let live" is so far in the rear view mirror at this point.

The deputy leader of the Greens Mortin Ali was at pro Iranian Regime protests today (pics not him). You can't hate these people enough.

Deputy leader of the Green Party Motrin Ali and National Election organiser Fiaaz Hasan at pro Iran regime demonstration

There will likely be another pro-Shah protest in Birmingham tomorrow, I will try pop by and see what's cracking.