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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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Keeping Up Appearances
(I’m slowly retrieving copies of old stuff from the Internet and they are my most recent two).
 
Cloaca Rimjob said:
I used to watch Eurotrash all the time. I used to think it was porn. I'd change the channel everytime I heard my parents come upstairs in case they caught me watching it.
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The Word, then Eurotrash straight after. I seem to remember there was Beavis & Butthead, Vic & Bob and Jack Dee somewhere in that lot too
 
It’s fair to say at this point we are all of a certain age.
Oh, IT crowd but only on dvd because of all the stuff they pumped into the commentary/subtitles
 
Anomalous Coward said:
You can't put them out with a fire extinguisher, lithium batteries in some cases just have to be left outside to burn off if they fail catastrophically
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You need a properly rated fire extinguisher. IIRC, our class D fire-putter-outer dumps 12kg of a specially prepared salt onto the fire, and can just about manage a 1ish kilogram metal fire. If you have loads of lithium vapes around the place on fire, you're just fucked lol. It'd be like someone popping a wiley pete shell into your area.
 
Chunky Salsa said:
IIRC, our class D fire-putter-outer dumps 12kg of a specially prepared salt onto the fire, and can just about manage a 1ish kilogram metal fire.
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Sand or salt yea. There's not much too special about it, it's special because of particle size and shit like that and most importantly being as dry as possible, other than that it's just shit straight from a kid's playpit or the cupboard, though table salt has additives that extinguishing salt doesn't. In theory you can use almost anything that doesn't easily melt and will not boil and has decent thermal properties, it's not really extinguishing in the normal sense it's just sucking enough heat from the metal to the point that it is no longer hot enough to burn.

But you need so much fucking material for even a small fire that it would probably be impossible to use in that situation and D class extinguishers are something most people have never heard of and so will be entirely useless to help. That video you're fucked from the get go. The guy seemingly has to leave the store and grab someone else's extinguisher, even if he was given the proper extinguisher he'd have a hard time getting back in and using it in time, especially with how thick the smoke from a battery fire like that is and how fast the fire gets intense. There's no way someone else nearby would have one either, hence why he runs in with a water version. Metal fires is just a situation where if you don't get it quick it can get out of hand much faster than other types of fire. I would be doubtful if they even had one. I've never walked by a vape store and seen an easily accessible fire extinguisher full stop, let alone a specific type.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
Sand or salt yea. There's not much too special about it, it's special because of particle size and shit like that and most importantly being as dry as possible, other than that it's just shit straight from a kid's playpit or the cupboard, though table salt has additives that extinguishing salt doesn't. In theory you can use almost anything that doesn't easily melt and will not boil and has decent thermal properties, it's not really extinguishing in the normal sense it's just sucking enough heat from the metal to the point that it is no longer hot enough to burn.

But you need so much fucking material for even a small fire that it would probably be impossible to use in that situation and D class extinguishers are something most people have never heard of and so will be entirely useless to help. That video you're fucked from the get go. The guy seemingly has to leave the store and grab someone else's extinguisher, even if he was given the proper extinguisher he'd have a hard time getting back in and using it in time, especially with how thick the smoke from a battery fire like that is and how fast the fire gets intense. There's no way someone else nearby would have one either, hence why he runs in with a water version. Metal fires is just a situation where if you don't get it quick it can get out of hand much faster than other types of fire. I would be doubtful if they even had one. I've never walked by a vape store and seen an easily accessible fire extinguisher full stop, let alone a specific type.
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Yeah, we have one in our lab, but even then, it's more meant to just dump and run.
 
It's almost as if allowing illiterate foreigners to stockpile hundreds of kilos of shoddily made Chinese batteries with huge energy density, with a propensity to unexpectedly release said energy over the course of a few seconds, in a Temu nightmare money laundering front disfiguring a historical building might be a bad idea.
 
Regulations are written in blood, or in this case soot I suppose, hopefully it'll lead to some sort of crackdown on imported chinkshit; member hoverboards a few years back? You don't really see them anymore since they got super mega banned after those retard kids died, the niche got taken by ebikes which would go the same way were it not for the practicality of them.
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
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.
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It's really all because of England's geography and the development of the train network being focused on the West Coast mainline, and the East Coast mainline. This being because of those mountain ranges that got in the way of the middle of Britain. The intuition follows on from this:

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Which considering that it can be a pain to make a trainline through maintains basically led to the standard east coast, west coast divide. Still, I would recommend taking the Transpennine route. It can be pretty stunning.

On the reason why new railway infrastructure hasn't been built? Well, most of it was shut down and gotten rid of in the 50s. Just look at how much of a farce HS2 has been with all the backlash towards it.

But even with HS2 we still see the impact of Geography within the original framework of it, where there is the clear east coast-west coast split:

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Now that we're on the topic of British comedies being mentioned I find it weird that Only Fools and Horses has not been mentioned.

No Steptoe and Son? Definitely a classic

Which sure, Peep Show has been mentioned quite a few times, and that on this thread we're all apart of the Dobby Gang, as we eat our Blair resignation jam whilst looking for naughty, slutty mummy.

Like yeah, Peep Show does also have Nancy.


But, we're also forgetting other shows that came from That Mitchell and Webb look. Known for "Hans maybe we're the bad guys, but there are other iconic skits from that show such as the Pink Flamingos


and the, well...


Then, shockingly there has been no mention of 'Allo 'Allo. I shall say this only once, but a funfact of trivia one of the HOI4 DLCs did base their background for the opening menu off of the show. As such, we cannot forget our @Herr Flick.

There's probably other comedies I could mention in the classic realm but I do want to get to bed.
 
ConsentAccidentVictimNo98 said:
It's really all because of England's geography and the development of the train network being focused on the West Coast mainline, and the East Coast mainline. This being because of those mountain ranges that got in the way of the middle of Britain.
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The geography argument does make sense, or at least it would if the trails weren't already blazed; just take a glace across the Pennines on google maps and you'll see pretty much every useful connection has long since been dynamited open for you already. It does get a bit steep around Bowland/The Dales but it's nothing insurmountable, glorified gentle slopes really.
Only reason we've never had any proper infrastructure post Beeching is purely lack of interest from LANDAN.

Peep Show SUPREMACY btw, honourable runner up to Thick of It.
 
ConsentAccidentVictimNo98 said:
Then, shockingly there has been no mention of 'Allo 'Allo.
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Allo allo was mentioned.

The BBC are claiming a foreign black man (from Gambia, living homeless with broken English) ran into the vape shop to see the chargers and then tried to block off the street. He is very clearly a migrant and my conspiracy hat is firmly on.

Shops owner was called Arslan. I wanted to look more into who owned it and see the story around the shop, but they're trying to hide the name and owners as much as possible.

There has been requests I be more cheerful. I have changed from the conservative midget to a dancing midget. I hope this fulfills some of that request.
 
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