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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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Karognis said:
Chinese AI detected. You seem nice though, you can stay as long as Wales gets to keep Taiwan.
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台湾是中国的一部分，这是理所当然的。但威尔士可以拥有西藏，因为它们都拥有众多山脉。

航行于大海取决于舵手。基尔·斯塔默并不知道海里是什么概念。
 
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Amin Yasister said:
It's the way Law Enforcement in the UK is going, with Police, National Crime Agency, HMRC, etc., all recruiting Graduates rather than the actual people they should be recruiting (i.e. people suited to the jobs).

Most of the new intake at each of the above are scared of their own shadow. Useless.
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The police is absolutely rife with pakis. Don't forget they want to control any investigations into their crimes so they will corrupt the police.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
English is as French and as Latin as it is German. They're all around 25% each with the remaining 25% being split between mainly Celtic and Scandinavian languages with a miniscule amount of other stuff thrown in too.
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Disagree. We have a fair amount of vocabulary from French and Latin, but the underlying grammar and the majority of the vocabulary is germanic. Specifically a "low german" dialect, related to Frisian (as opposed to "high german", spoken in the Germanic core - you can probably guess which nationality picked the names for these things). What makes English different is that it dropped nearly all the inflection common in Germanic languages. It's simplified Saxon with a smooth, buttery layer of French words on top and a thin smear of Latinate jam.

Amin Yasister said:
t's the way Law Enforcement in the UK is going, with Police, National Crime Agency, HMRC, etc., all recruiting Graduates rather than the actual people they should be recruiting (i.e. people suited to the jobs).
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And yet they somehow still manage to be thick as pig shit. Police don't want actually intelligent people in the ranks. They want order-followers with a certificate.
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
Tottenham game today blasted the Islamic call to prayer, weeks after the Ramadan break was booed at a Leeds game. What the fuck?
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The famous Jewish club, played the Islamic call to prayer before a game ?

Are you sure it wasn't a trumpeter playing "oh when the Spurs......go marching in....oh when the Spurs go marching in......" ?

.........Are you absolutely sure ?


And there was no Spurs game today ?!
 
teriyakiburns said:
Disagree. We have a fair amount of vocabulary from French and Latin, but the underlying grammar and the majority of the vocabulary is germanic. Specifically a "low german" dialect, related to Frisian (as opposed to "high german", spoken in the Germanic core - you can probably guess which nationality picked the names for these things). What makes English different is that it dropped nearly all the inflection common in Germanic languages. It's simplified Saxon with a smooth, buttery layer of French words on top and a thin smear of Latinate jam.
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I'm no linguist, but I'm aware that we have a very large number of words in our language compared to our European neighbours. And I believe it's because we essentially duplicate our words numerous times, depending on where they came from.

For example, most of us live in a house (German, Haus), but we also live in a residence (French?), and additionally a domicile (Latin?).

I've also heard that that's why crosswords are so popular in the UK compared to abroad. Our language lends itself to using clues for other words that mean essentially the same thing.
 
Clem Fandango said:
I'm no linguist, but I'm aware that we have a very large number of words in our language compared to our European neighbours. And I believe it's because we essentially duplicate our words numerous times, depending on where they came from.

For example, most of us live in a house (German, Haus), but we also live in a residence (French?), and additionally a domicile (Latin?).

I've also heard that that's why crosswords are so popular in the UK compared to abroad. Our language lends itself to using clues for other words that mean essentially the same thing.
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But do they all mean exactly the same thing ?
House means a building for human habitation. The implication is an independent structure ( although not necessarily ), otherwise it would be for example an apartment or flat. It doesn't make a statement about ownership or a person's commitment to the property.
A residence is a place where someone lives, but is not necessarily a permanent address.
A domicile ( important difference legally ) is someone's permanent address.

This is why I truly love the English language, because whilst all these words approxmiate to the same thing, they are not the same. This pleases my pedantic nature. I am normally very precise with the words I use, much to the frustration of some people, as I use them to convey the exact meaning I want them to. I would not use the words in your example interchangeably. Possibly this is linked to the size of the vocabulary and the understanding of the definitions by the user of the words.

This explains a lot.......

There is no single "African" word for maintenance, as Africa has thousands of languages. However, translations often use terms for caring, fixing, or keeping, such as ukugcinwa (Zulu), ndozi (Igbo), or kudumisha (Swahili). Some discussions suggest that many indigenous languages lack a direct, single word for ongoing, technical maintenance.
 
EddyRooney said:
But do they all mean exactly the same thing ?
House means a building for human habitation. The implication is an independent structure ( although not necessarily ), otherwise it would be for example an apartment or flat. It doesn't make a statement about ownership or a person's commitment to the property.
A residence is a place where someone lives, but is not necessarily a permanent address.
A domicile ( important difference legally ) is someone's permanent address.

This is why I truly love the English language, because whilst all these words approxmiate to the same thing, they are not the same. This pleases my pedantic nature. I am normally very precise with the words I use, much to the frustration of some people, as I use them to convey the exact meaning I want them to. I would not use the words in your example interchangeably. Possibly this is linked to the size of the vocabulary and the understanding of the definitions by the user of the words.
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Oh no, on the contrary. I didn't mean to imply an equivalence between all three words. I agree, one of the best things about the English language is the ability to be very precise with brevity.

But I'm a big crossword fan (Telegraph cryptic, all you Times pseuds can get fucked) and so I'm more naturally attuned to think "what's a word for where you can live? " and having all of those fit in the bill.

Habitation, there's another. Sounds French to me.
 
Funnily enough, the conversation swayed into a point I was going to raise, to add to why Labour is fucked. @Heinrich Maneuver, the tweet you posted is pretty much the common consensus in the force. I am fortunate that in my last workplace, we had a lot of former DI, and they all said this almost word-for-word.
Amin Yasister said:
It's the way Law Enforcement in the UK is going, with Police, National Crime Agency, HMRC, etc., all recruiting Graduates rather than the actual people they should be recruiting (i.e. people suited to the jobs).

Most of the new intake at each of the above are scared of their own shadow. Useless.
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The problem is that the intakes end up doing non-law enforcement roles. At this point, I think the government uses the figures to overinflate the numbers to make things look better than they are.

The truth is, Labour is putting all these policies in place to spread Police to thin. For society's sake, another Southport would blow the lid. Southport, it appears, is for a lot of senior staff to be the Rubicon. Something they don't agree with, but also our Police and Military are not trained for a full-out LA-style riot. Due to our country's size, it will spread to other cities. I do want it to happen because I think for the centrists, etc., it would be their wake-up moment, and the damage will be defining for our country, though.
 
Clem Fandango said:
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Lots of Norse influence too and some interesting historical things. For example cow is similar to the old Norse word, but beef is from the French. The peasants had to look after the animal but the nobility ate the good stuff.
You often get double or triple wordings - there will be a Norse, a Saxon, a Latin or a Norman derived word for a single thing.
Also pronouns - they/their is from old Norse and he/him is from the Saxon.
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
Tottenham game today blasted the Islamic call to prayer, weeks after the Ramadan break was booed at a Leeds game. What the fuck?
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They weren't booing the ramadan break. The news will want to make it sound like that but nobody in the ground knew what was happening. They just saw Pep do another sideline team talk mid game - because all players, not just the muslim ones, went running over.

It was all a set up to make football look racist. If the PL cared about the players' welfare and ramadan, they would have kicked off 15 mins later, as the game was stopped 12 minutes after kick off.

The ramadan breaks are happening more often and no stink is being kicked up. Football fans are now majorly middle-class laptop-caste, as the working class have died off, or getting forced out due to astronomical ticket prices and woke nonsense.

If I had a penny for every time I heard an ex-hooligan style football club praise gays, trans and defending muslims, I would have enough to buy an island.
 
Woke up to the local gossips talking about pakis in vans pulling up to little girls and telling them to get in.. What a wonderful place this country is. I was chatting to someone new to the area the other day and trying to find a nice way to say "Avoid these bits of the local town" without scaring them. It's really hard to say "These are the nigger bits, these are the paki bits and you need to be careful being in the town after dark" without sounding like it's a war zone. I remember when people would go out clubbing and walk home pissed at 3am and get home safely. Where the only security was giving someone 3 rings before you got into bed.

English was invented by the English, for the English by the English. Big Baz said so and that's final. No one crosses Big Baz and gets away with it.

I like chip shops. I think chip shops are a brilliant invention and one of the best parts of this country. Fish, chips and mushy peas kicks the shit out of most food. The batter soaking up all the oil is often even better than the fish is. And a good bit of cod and a cup of tea is a delightful Saturday evening.
 
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