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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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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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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.
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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.
 
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Duane Dibbley said:
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.
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If I win a stack of money on the lottery and can find a small village with a good pub and good internet I'm retiring to the Trossachs.
 
Chunky Salsa said:
He's quoting the tv show Darkplace. My response was either the preceding or following line. Can't remember which.
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Boooo! I was enjoying getting genuine replies to that.

And the brilliant following lines are, after a brief silence:

"My aunt lives in Scotland, she says it's quite nice"

"Well, she's wrong".

Eta:
BrightonAndHoveAlbion said:
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.
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I think I have to go see this. As evidenced, I'm a big Marenghi fan. I even liked Man to Man With Dean Learner.
 
Duane Dibbley said:
They hate the English and make no bones about it. Stick to the countryside and pretend the Scots and Nu-Scots don't exist.
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They hate nogs which is why they hate you.

The countryside is more xenophobic than the towns are. But Scotlands a funny place. They'll tell you English are the scum of the Earth, but they're very friendly and respectful to the English. It's like a sibling rivalry more than an actual ethnic hatred. Just don't ask them to support the English in sports. That is one line they draw and have pride in. Scotland support whoever England is playing, they know their teams are shite but someone beating the English is like a world cup win to them.

Have to get used to being called Pal a lot though.
 
Donald Trump says Britain “is not such a recognisable country anymore” and suggests Keir Starmer “could be” pandering to Muslim voters“. Keir has not been helpful. It’s very sad to see that the relationship is obviously not what it was” (X) He also thinks we should open up the North Sea and get energy prices down
DONALD Trump has suggested Keir Starmer is pandering to Muslim voters by not backing his war against Iran — warning Britain is “not such a recognisable country” anymore.
In an astonishing broadside, the US President told The Sun: “Stop people from coming in from foreign lands who hate you.”

And he declared he never thought he would see the once “most solid of all” Special Relationship in such peril amid the biggest rupture in UK/US relations in decades.
Amid a major Transatlantic fallout over the use of UK bases to bomb Iran, Trump lamented that things were “not like it used to be”, branding the breakdown “very sad”.
In a hammer blow to the PM, the President heaped praise on France and Germany, adding: “This was the most solid relationship of all. And now we have very strong relationships with other countries in Europe.”
Blasting Sir Keir Starmer directly, the President said: “He has not been helpful.
“I never thought I’d see that. I never thought I’d see that from the UK.
“We love the UK.”
And he blamed the PM’s botched deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius as the centre of their fall out, adding: “We call it the woke island”.
In a telephone interview from the White House on Monday evening, the President added: “It’s a different world, actually. It’s just a much different kind of relationship that we’ve had with your country before.”

Speaking to The Sun, Mr Trump said: “It’s very sad to see that the relationship is obviously not what it was.”
Asked about accusations that Sir Keir is pandering to Muslim voters for political reasons, the President said “it could be.”
Just days after Labour’s defeat at the Gorton and Denton by-election that saw accusations of religious bloc voting, the President added the embattled PM “has got his own difficulties.”
“The people of the UK, who I have a great relationship with, who I love, are sorry to hear it also… I don’t get it. But you know what? I just… I wish him a lot of luck.”
Speaking of Britain, Mr Trump said: “It’s also not such a recognisable country. I mean, you look at what happened over the last period of time and it’s very different.
“London is a very different place, with a terrible Mayor. You have a terrible Mayor there, some terrible people.
“But it’s a very different place.”

Asked what advice he would give the struggling Labour chief, the President replied: “Two very simple things.
“Open up the North Sea. Immediately.
“Your energy prices are through the roof.
“And stop people from coming in from foreign lands who hate you.
“Open up the North Sea and stop people from pouring into his country from faraway lands.”
On the wider war, Mr Trump said: “I can tell you that we’re doing very well… it’s a very dominant power.
“We are a very dominant power over and above everybody, and we’re doing very well, as you probably noticed.”
In a further humiliation for Britain, the President added America no longer needed its oldest ally to wage war in the Middle East.
He said: “It’s not going to matter, but [Starmer] should have helped… he should have.
“I mean, France has been great. They’ve all been great.
“The UK has been much different from others.”

The President added: “You’ve seen the Secretary General of NATO, the great things he said, Mark Rutte, He’s great.
“No, they’ve all been pretty much great other than…we think Keir’s was just very different.”
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Clem Fandango said:
I think I have to go see this. As evidenced, I'm a big Marenghi fan. I even liked Man to Man With Dean Learner.
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If you haven't heard, he's written a trilogy of books recently. I'm about halfway through Bride of Bone and it's excellent. It becomes so enjoyable when you just switch off and enjoy them unironically as pulp horror. The audiobooks are also a fun listen, Garth Marenghi, The Fright Honourable Lord of Terror, himself narrates them.
 
People say wages in Doobuy are better, but are they? I'm looking at them, and sure I'd make like 10k extra, but a lot of that is the low tax. I'd have to live in Dubai though, and for that I'd at least want another 50k on top.
 
Chunky Salsa said:
People say wages in Doobuy are better, but are they? I'm looking at them, and sure I'd make like 10k extra, but a lot of that is the low tax. I'd have to live in Dubai though, and for that I'd at least want another 50k on top.
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For some trades, yeah, they're double and triple what you would earn over here. It's just not worth it. Between the climate, the moral police, the normal police that require bribing as part and parcel of living in their shit hole and the smell, it isn't worth it.

And the sand blindness. Fuck me. Walking out of any building into the sun is like putting your retinas into the oven.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Medical aid for Palestine is showing begging ads on TV. Must have been a season switch since I've not seen them before
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It's Ramadan, and one of the principles of it is to give charity (zakat? or some shit) so the ads double. I keep getting the fucking 'Halal Booking dot com' ads as well which is just some muzzie tart complaining that her hotel doesnt have halal food and allows normal women to swim in the pool.
 
FedPostalService said:
Anyone noticed the lack of protests by the people who protest everything? It's like their funding has been completely cut off or something?
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A lot of the money going to these groups has dried up, or it has becomes optics poison to support them. USaid being abolished really did a number in general on the effectiveness of these groups to gather and shout.

>Palestine
I think it's sunk in now that there's nothing anybody can do to "free Palestine" at this point. Iran, Hamas' biggest backer, is fucked and even if they weren't, smuggling weapons to the Palestinians via the previous North Iraq into Syrian route is no longer tenable. In terms of effectiveness, protesting against Israel is equal to screaming at the sky—it achieves nothing.

Israel is central to American operations in the Middle East (AIPAC & Henry Ford in the 70s). America is also the defacto leader of NATO, so attacking Israel is tantamount to attacking America's interests which is a no-no. No country within NATO, regardless of how angry their people are, would lift a finger against Israel under these conditions. It also has zero benefits besides appealing to the only two types of people who give a shit: Muslims and young Leftists.

Chucking some paint into an airplane engine was the last hurrah for Palestine protestors in the UK, and the subsequent terrorist-labelling was a death blow. Pro-Palestine = Terrorist.

The country is basically Tibet-tier now—doomed to be forgotten or even turned against entirely. Within the next 5-10 years we might even get statements from Leftists acting all aghast. "Palestinians hate gay people?!?"

Also, the Muslims who would be protesting right now are all a tad hungry and dehydrated because of Ramadan so they're probably not as energised to go out into the cold, hungry, just to protest for a cause they know deep down is pointless.

>Environmentalism
JustStopOil, Extinction Rebellion, and such? Yeah, a combination of shit optics alongside their US government supported funding being stopped helped bring a stop to that. No big events, no transport for protestors—it all had to be "organic" now, which the likes of JustStopOil never really incentivised given how fucking awful they were as a group.
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Extinction Rebellion was also just a disguised anarchist group/death cult. You'd think with how often these groups have to hide their political affiliations they would get the idea that having to trick people into supporting them would mean their support isn't actually that high.

Most people have generally settled into the idea of recycling but otherwise, what else is there to do—spread awareness? Same difference, the people who ultimately make the decisions have to weight up the cost/benefits of keeping everyone's lights on and destroying all of our industry, infrastructure, roads, cars, etc. It's not a hard choice to make. We're at peak response to global warming/global cooling/climate change/whatever-new-term they've invented. We just twiddle our thumbs now for someone to invent fusion generators with net-gain then we can switch on some energy guzzler that sucks CO2 out of the air or something. If it's a big concern for people, there's nothing we can do right now that doesn't ruin our standard of living for no actual impact. It's like these people forget other countries exist.

>Anti-anti-immigration protestors
Bits of column A & B as the above. I spoke about it here but a large part if not the entirety of the pro-immigrant movement in the UK is effectively astroturfed. I think the sheer number of hotel protests in 2025 and the attempts to meet every single one might've drained their war chest. The Tommy Robinson march in Sept'2024 might've also been extremely demoralising to these people given it's the largest example you can point to of the British public not being aligned with them whatsoever. You had a guy who is known in the public's eye as a "racist" gather 10s of thousands in London with pretty much zero resistance. The dozens-to-a-hundred strong counter protests don't really convince politicians/financial backers that your group really has any impact on shaping public opinion, or leaving the anti-immigrant crowd wondering if they're in the wrong.

Stand Up to Racism is also working in America now, following the same trajectory as Extinction Rebellion, so this is a UK-based Leftist-aligned group flagrantly attempting to solicit donations in America to fund a pro-immigrant cause in the UK. You genuinely can't hate the Left enough.

Though you can ignore all this in favour of a simpler answer: The weather's not hot enough yet to protest.
 
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Most people have generally settled into the idea of recycling but otherwise,
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Had recycling been accepted? I think most people just chuck all the plastic and card in 1 bin and everything else in the other. No one reads if it can be recycled or not. It's just thrown in that bin because it's the only way to manage the stupid bin collection time table now.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Had recycling been accepted? I think most people just chuck all the plastic and card in 1 bin and everything else in the other. No one reads if it can be recycled or not. It's just thrown in that bin because it's the only way to manage the stupid bin collection time table now.
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Cans and plastic and shit go in one bin, everything else the other. But really I'm at the point where everything just goes in the other cause it's the only one I'm allowed to use plastic bags for, stingy fucking cunts.
 
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A lot of the money going to these groups has dried up
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USAid ending leading to the death of Manchester Pride is still the funniest shit to happen, so much for the 'we are by Mancs for Mancs' attitude lmfao

Spring Statement from Rachel from accounts; this year’s growth forecast has been cut from 1.4% to 1.1%, but Reeves says the GDP will grow "faster in 2027 and 2028" (meaning growth will be unchanged in this Parliament).
She is promising to meet with leaders in North Sea oil and gas to 'discuss the implications they face' due to the Iran conflict. I think the implication is 'we're fucked' and the solution is 'drill the north sea' but we shall see....
 
The Ghost of Sergei Witte said:

Will petrol and diesel prices go up now?​


Gas and oil prices soar and shares tumble as crucial shipping lane threatened​


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With Jews you... get 50% price spikes in petrol? I'm sure glad that we're a vassal state to a country whom are themselves slaves to Jewish prophesy. Being on the Imperial periphery is so fucking AIDS.
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Not a single soul should be shocked by this. If some one is, then they're a little bit slow.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Had recycling been accepted? I think most people just chuck all the plastic and card in 1 bin and everything else in the other. No one reads if it can be recycled or not. It's just thrown in that bin because it's the only way to manage the stupid bin collection time table now.
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That's basically what I mean. They're less conscious on recycling as a concept, but have settled into the act of recycling because of the fucking bins.
 
The Ghost of Sergei Witte said:
Only thing I'm shocked by are the (minority of ) Americans celebrating this. I don't think I'm retarded enough to understand the cognitive dissonance of "I love killing browns, it feels good to be White, FUCKING DIE EUROPOOR SCUM"
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Americans seem to have a weird obsession with trying to act superior to Europoors. No clue why. It's like jersh with his 'man Britain sucks' and then just stating that his life is miserable and he's powerless. It feels just weird.
Britain does suck though lmao.
 
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