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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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Imagine thinking fratboy (an american term, glowie) and dude weed (an internetism) are the same thing.

Imagine thinking those comedies started out by being watched by, or made for, any of the above groups.

Kofi is a glowie or a 17 year old whose knowledge of the past is learned through internet osmosis.

Another glowie to add to the block list.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Still Yorkshire Gold, if you're povvy scum and can't afford them then Asda do decent knockoff Gold teabags.

To this day I genuinely don't understand why people buy Tetley. Back in the 90s they had some good adverts and a bunch of collectable shit you could get but the teabags were incredibly bland.

Typhoo are bottom of the barrel shit tier.
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My nan used to call PG Tips "floor sweepings". I think the only time I've drank that is when it's the complimentary tea in a B&B (with one of those in-room kettles that takes 15 minutes to boil).
 
I am deeply upset a man who thinks American animated sitcoms are culture has blocked me. I have developed the sniffles and I'm going to Canada to kill myself immediately.

Would any one be interested in trying to collect together a list of what media they think is good British family viewing? So much is getting lost in this American slap era that it would be nice to have a list to pull from.

How does Animals of Fathering would hold up for young uns? I know it has some eco messages but "don't destroy our natural habitats" seems a good message. It's got to be better than zootopia making furries right?
 
Jason_Cruiser said:
You're looking at it wrong. It's a condiment, not a side dish. The consistency is of that of a mash potato so you can dip your chip in and get a nice lump on it.
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Ok and it's a condiment that I do not enjoy the texture or taste of. I don't want to dip my chips in mush. Peas are so much nicer as simply just peas.
Heinrich Maneuver said:
Biscuit arguments again
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Yea and it's raining outside and it's cold.
Heinrich Maneuver said:
CountDankula has been filming the blaze.
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That's just normal Scottish behaviour. If you see something on fire you run as close as possible in the hopes that some drugs are being burnt and you can get high off the smoke.
 
Duane Dibbley said:
Imagine thinking fratboy (an american term, glowie) and dude weed (an internetism) are the same thing.

Imagine thinking those comedies started out by being watched by, or made for, any of the above groups.

Kofi is a glowie or a 17 year old whose knowledge of the past is learned through internet osmosis.

Another glowie to add to the block list.
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Kofi is a """man""" who seemingly doesn't know how either both male relationships work nor male genitalia, equally loves the super trad based flower dress wearing woman with all the hair down there you'd see on posters in 50s media. """He""" also happens to be a hyper racist, no ifs no buts about it and it seems to be that """he""" thinks shows like Futurama and Family Guy are watched by big men who wear addidas, bang blonde women with heavy makeup and get their money from the dole they drive to in their VW Golf.

Now I don't know about you but something doesn't quite add up here...
 
Honestly I wonder what is going to happen if Glasgow Central has to shut down, it's a massive central hub for getting across Scotland AND all across the UK.

So say, if you're coming from London there's literally no way for you to get to Glasgow Central via train as I'm pretty sure the last stop before Glasgow is Lockerbie which is like an hour away on a high speed train, so god knows how long a bus replacement would take.

Plus the alternative of going to Edinbrough instead is also hell because it's a decent distance away because Scotland's infrastruture is fucking weird.

I can't even see it being open to the public by next week so that's basically fucked everyone who commutes to Glasgow and back.
 
the rat said:
Futurama and Family Guy are watched by big men who wear addidas,
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I think futurama and family guy has a huge fanbase of stoners. Is this a controversial opinion? Everyone I've met who liked American adult animation was a stoner. The Simpsons is the only exception. But Futurama, King of the hill, American dad and Family guy had a very specific demographic. Teenage boys and stoners. I don't think either are big men.
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Kofi is a """man""" who seemingly doesn't know how either both male relationships work nor male genitalia,
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I am not as experienced wanking other men off as you are.. I have zero experience.
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Honestly I wonder what is going to happen if Glasgow Central has to shut down, it's a massive central hub for getting across Scotland AND all across the UK.
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This completely fucks up the rail network. Even if it just stops trains going to Glasgow it has a knock on effect with crews. This is going to be a real mess and it's not the sort of thing they can fix in a hurry. What kind of a blaze collapses a building over a train station?
 
A-Logato said:
All bets on bomb plot gone off early.
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Absolute scenes when terrrorists intent on destroying critical national infrastructure end up doing it by complete accident.

But honestly this just looks like one of those situations where a genuine miracle has stopped this from happening in the past. You have the lithium from the vapes which are notoriously hard to put out, you've got the Victorian type infrastucture which allows air to blow in and stoke the fire and give it more oxygen, and you've got plenty of shops around the area with material that could make the fire worse (there's a nail salon and a hair salon that's also been destroyed and imagine how many flammable chemicals they have in their back room).

Then inside the station you've got a bunch of little 'market' shops filled full of potential fuel. WHSmiths is there, M&S is there, coffee shops and bakeries are there, and it looks like the entire station is impossible to enter with fire crew (because of building collapse risk) so it's spreading inside while water is being sprayed on the outside (doing the square root of fuck all).

The building is toast, as are the Greggs Sausage Rolls.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
WHSmiths is there
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Books and even newspapers are actually rather hard to burn. In fires like this they don't really provide much fuel once a fire is hot enough to burn shit like the carpet and the wood stands. You'll frequently hear of people who's bible survived a house fire and how it's a sign of God when that's just how books burn. The fire burns the outside of the book but can't penetrate much deeper than that,
teriyakiburns said:
Garden or marrowfat?
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Green.
Sugarsnaps are nice though. The concept of just picking an entire pod off a plant and eating the entire thing in one go is very nostalgic of my grandma.
 
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