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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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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.

 

[BongoMongo]

MPs should be paid, or we'd end up with the country being run by people with enough disposable income - which these days would be footballers, "influencers", the worst sort of landlord, and bank execs.
But, set that pay to the national average. It will encourage them to do better. And no travel expenses, beyond free public transport, which will do wonders for policing.
They can have a bedsit in Westminster if they need to stop over.

I've long said we need a block, within walking distance of Parliament, of student digs style housing for them. Single occupancy bedsits or one bedroom flats. I'm not a total bitch, I don't advocate for the young ones style shit. Somewhere where they can sleep when they're down there. Free to them, with maybe a flat fee towards laundry and shit.

But the idea of fully furnished to their own taste houses is unconscionable to me and it's bad for an already fucked London housing market.

Any MPs genuinely in it for the public good, rather than to rinse us for perks and expenses could hardly find fault with that and anyone who does, sees the perks and expenses as bunce, and should be trebucheted into the Atlantic.

 

[>IMPLYING]

MPs should be paid, or we'd end up with the country being run by people with enough disposable income - which these days would be footballers, "influencers", the worst sort of landlord, and bank execs.
But, set that pay to the national average. It will encourage them to do better. And no travel expenses, beyond free public transport, which will do wonders for policing.
They can have a bedsit in Westminster if they need to stop over.

I don't disagree wholly with your perspective, but I have two counter-thoughts:
1) Very open question here, but would you say politicians before or after this date were better overall? The logic is sound, but in practice it's rare. (Thatcher is ironically a PM who had a rather humble background and didn't go into politics already affluent.)

2) The "worst sorts" of people end up in charge regardless.

A lot of senior Labour politicians typically worked as union bosses which gives them a fat stack of cash. There's a reason Rayner emphasises her social worker credentials despite working as a union chair on a 6-figure salary before entering politics. I want to abandon all pretences whilst also ensuring if rich-types do try to run, it's because there's nothing more to gain financially from doing so.

You could also abolish the party system altogether to stop the Labour party's working class LARP and have independents-only but that's another thing entirely.

Edit: I do think the national average is a sound idea. You can almost correlate an increase of salary to a decrease in the quality of politician.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Seems to be a spur of the moment protest in Aberdeen and police have got K9 units out.

Regarding the earlier man with a knife; police statement, he was arrested 5 hours ago. It's worth mentioning on the 15th of February, 2026, David Kennedy, the General Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, said to the Herald, “If you walk out into the street in Scotland with a knife you should expect to be shot by police.”

Man arrested following disturbance in Calder area of Edinburgh

A man has been arrested in connection with a disturbance in the Calder Gardens area of Edinburgh, which happened around 8.25am on Monday, 2 March, 2026.

Police, including firearms officers, attended after we received reports of a man with a bladed weapon.

The incident is not being treated as terror related.

Two people were injured and taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for treatment to non life threatening injuries. A man suffered injuries consistent with being stabbed. A woman suffered a laceration to the head, not believed to be caused by a bladed weapon.

Enquiries are ongoing and officers will remain in the area.

Chief Inspector Scott Kennedy said: "I’d like to thank the public for their assistance and patience while we dealt with this incident.

“I understand what happened was alarming for the local community and I want to reassure the public there is no ongoing wider risk. However, if you do have concerns please speak to the officers at the scene or call us on 101.”

ETA: One of the victims may be a concierge (?) or work as a cleaner/groundskeeper for the block of flats which is given to migrants .

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Someone who is in both Manchester and Glasgow a lot for work I can confirm.

Drugs or prostitutes?

 

[Replacement Account]

haggis niggers

I believe the scientific term is porridge wog, but your assessment is otherwise spot on.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Aberdeen and police have got K9 units out

Glad to see that Aberdeen are finally employing some women on the force.

I believe the scientific term is porridge wog, but your assessment is otherwise spot on.

Come on it's Scotland porridge is too advanced for them. They might just be able to get gruel if they're lucky.

 

[the rat]

Come on it's Scotland porridge is too advanced for them. They might just be able to get gruel if they're lucky.

I thought heroin was the national dish for the skag wogs?

 

[Duane Dibbley]

I thought heroin was the national dish for the skag wogs?

The way they moan about the English, I thought their national dish was sour grapes.

 

[Jimmy Dean Bowl]

My eyes on the ground view of Glasgow is that it's rapidly becoming Manchester, which alone is trying it's hardest to become Birmingham.

It's not even slow change, I've been to like 6 concerts over the past 3 years and the sheer influx of niggers and postboxes has only really happened over the past 12 months.

Yeah, I stated at a hotel in Glasgow about a year ago and the hotel next door was a migrant hotel. E-bikes lined up outside and all.
When we got back from the gig around midnight there was a gang of them hanging around our hotel's door. Luckily I was with my giant husband and he just barged past them. They parted like the Red Sea.
That same hotel we stayed in is now also a migrant hotel. I think Glasgow has something like 10 now. Unreal.

 

[teriyakiburns]

It's not Glasgow I'm worried about. It's the places further north like Dundee and Aberdeen which are getting pretty pissed off. There are more places than just Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland.

I'm not looking forward to my next trip up to Stirling. Last time I was there, last year (I think?), it was still basically white. The trossachs were unsullied by anything other than tourists. Callander was still safe and Deanston was still a preserve of whisky buffs. This time, I worry I'll be faced with a heaving mass of brown and piles of shit.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Honestly, the whole Iran shit is absolutely hilarious because there's like dozens of different angles to it where people who are not me are eating shit.

Gareth who moved to Dubai despite protests from his 'racist' family is now suddenly realising WHY the wages are so good, it's essentially hazard pay. Tough luck mate, and don't you fucking DARE think about using taxpayers money to get you back safe.

Similarly, Starmer being the corpse in the room is incredibly funny because everyone knows he's going in May as going now would basically condemn the next Labour PM to a similarly dreadful start. So he can't commit either way to whether we get involved because both answers are bad. If he goes all in then he eats shit from the Palestine Action leftists lot who Labour still think they can bring back as well as being seen as a warmonger who is trying to save his job... meanwhile if he doesn't do anything then he's seen as completely compromised by the Islamists and unwilling to defend allies.

So he's left having to wag his finger and say "b-b-but International Law" while allowing SOME airstrikes, pissing off everyone in the process.

 

[BongoMongo]

Honestly it's hilarious. That whole region is unstable because of where it is,who runs it and the prevalent faith there.

People were lured in by vacuous half wits on social media and anyone who makes a decision based on social media content, is irredeemably, weapons grade stupid and deserves what they get.

Suffah, influencers, suffah.

 

[FedPostalService]

Anyone noticed the lack of protests by the people who protest everything? It's like their funding has been completely cut off or something?

 

[Clem Fandango]

Yeah, I stated at a hotel in Glasgow about a year ago and the hotel next door was a migrant hotel. E-bikes lined up outside and all.
When we got back from the gig around midnight there was a gang of them hanging around our hotel's door. Luckily I was with my giant husband and he just barged past them. They parted like the Red Sea.
That same hotel we stayed in is now also a migrant hotel. I think Glasgow has something like 10 now. Unreal.

I've been to Scotland, once.
I remember it much as one recalls a dream, or a nightmare. I was on a budget flight to Norway when a storm forced us to ditch in Glasgow Prestwick.


The cabin crew suggested we all go out and club it. I had no option. I figured it'd be safer on the streets.

I saw the Scotch in their natural habitat -
and it weren't pretty. I'd seen them in stations before, being loud, but now I was surrounded.

It felt like they were watching me. Fish-white flesh puckered by the highland breeze. Tight eyes peering out. Screechy booze-soaked voices hollering for a taxi to take 'em to the next pub.

A shatter of glass. A round of applause. A 16-year-old mother of three vomiting in a sewer, bairns looking on, chewing on potato cakes.

I ain't never goin' back. Not never.

 

[BongoMongo]

I've been to Scotland, once.
I remember it much as one recalls a dream, or a nightmare. I was on a budget flight to Norway when a storm forced us to ditch in Glasgow Prestwick.


The cabin crew suggested we all go out and club it. I had no option. I figured it'd be safer on the streets.

I saw the Scotch in their natural habitat -
and it weren't pretty. I'd seen them in stations before, being loud, but now I was surrounded.

It felt like they were watching me. Fish-white flesh puckered by the highland breeze. Tight eyes peering out. Screechy booze-soaked voices hollering for a taxi to take 'em to the next pub.

A shatter of glass. A round of applause. A 16-year-old mother of three vomiting in a sewer, bairns looking on, chewing on potato cakes.

I ain't never goin' back. Not never.

People rhapsodize,Misty eyed, about sauchiehall street but it's fucking grim. I had the absolute misfortune to live there for a few years and to be absolutely honest

Spoiler: Apologies, me-rail

it was a fucking relief when my marriage collapsed and I could go back down south and move in with my mum for a few months.

Edited to say, we went to Caithness on holiday last year and it was wonderful. We didn't see a single non white person the other time,with the exception of some Japanese tourists at dunnet head. They were tolerable and having a whale of a time watching the puffins. One of their kids was doing a pretty good imitation of their walk which was endearing. I can stomach tourists and I don't mind the pons.

No pakis,no niggers, no Americans. It was delightful and well worth the drive. His nibs did the driving and he did extremely well and that last leg up from Inverness, it's magical. It feels so remote. I absolutely recommend it to anyone.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I've been to Scotland, once.
I remember it much as one recalls a dream, or a nightmare. I was on a budget flight to Norway when a storm forced us to ditch in Glasgow Prestwick.


The cabin crew suggested we all go out and club it. I had no option. I figured it'd be safer on the streets.

I saw the Scotch in their natural habitat -
and it weren't pretty. I'd seen them in stations before, being loud, but now I was surrounded.

It felt like they were watching me. Fish-white flesh puckered by the highland breeze. Tight eyes peering out. Screechy booze-soaked voices hollering for a taxi to take 'em to the next pub.

A shatter of glass. A round of applause. A 16-year-old mother of three vomiting in a sewer, bairns looking on, chewing on potato cakes.

I ain't never goin' back. Not never.

My nan said it was lovely though.

 

[BongoMongo]

My nan said it was lovely though.

It really does depend where you go. Edinburgh is nice enough,but very tacky. Also rammed with boat scum, although it is hilarious to watch them suffer in the winter. There's also a fantastic beach, believe it or not.

We loved Caithness. It's so remote. The quiet was wonderful. But I wouldn't go back to Glasgow in a hurry tbh. I was meant to go last month for a concert,but that was cancelled. And to be honest my overwhelming feeling was relief at having avoided going there. I hate it. Absolutely despise it. It's a horrible city. Grim, violent, dirty.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

West Scotland and Northern, Northern Scotland (Loch Ness area) are absolutely stunning. Proper postcard vistas, mountains and lakes everywhere.

The A9 is a boring drive but a beautiful one for a passenger, with castles nestled behind forest and Lochs so still that they look like a mirror reflecting the heavens. It's hard to believe that we have such scenery in the UK.

Glasgow and Edinburgh are just London and Birmingham, respectively. Best to be avoided, as with most towns in Scotland tbh. They hate the English and make no bones about it. Stick to the countryside and pretend the Scots and Nu-Scots don't exist.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

It really does depend where you go. Edinburgh is nice enough,but very tacky. Also rammed with boat scum, although it is hilarious to watch them suffer in the winter. There's also a fantastic beach, believe it or not.

We loved Caithness. It's so remote. The quiet was wonderful. But I wouldn't go back to Glasgow in a hurry tbh. I was meant to go last month for a concert,but that was cancelled. And to be honest my overwhelming feeling was relief at having avoided going there. I hate it. Absolutely despise it. It's a horrible city. Grim, violent, dirty.

He's quoting the tv show Darkplace. My response was either the preceding or following line. Can't remember which.

I love Scotland. Did the NC500 with some friends. Absolutely beautiful place.

 

[BrightonAndHoveAlbion]

Master of The Macabre, Visionary of Horrors, Garth Marenghi is doing his book tour for This Bursted Earth at the minute. At £20 a ticket it looked like decent night out. It's also quite good that its one of the few things I want to go to which is actually happening relatively close by for a change.

I can recommend going, I went to the first leg late last year and I will most likely be going again with my wife this time. He'll be in character the whole time and if you like his work then you'll like the show.