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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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Theoretically subsequent governments should be able to undo any of those but in practice not so much.

It's one of the fundamental assumptions of Parliamentary sovereignty that no parliament may bind its successor. If Parliament can't overturn the laws of a previous Parliament, then it is not sovereign. The belief that certain laws should be considered sacrosanct and untouchable by successor parliaments was probably first introduced under Wilson, though it took a while to really become established (naturally it found its true footing under Blair), and it has become an unspoken tenet of the current settlement that laws passed "for the right reason" cannot be ever repealed, no matter how popular the repeal may be, because it is immoral to do so. Parliament is therefore no longer sovereign, but operates solely to enact the will of the Cabinet Office.

It's all Walpole's fault.

 

[PandaChai]

MenB

Perhaps the least popular of the Spice Girls

Can we have a Bottom appreciation thread lol?!

This has a very different connotation after @femboy fart huffer's latest thread debacle

Westminster will be the death of us.

FTFY

I ate a lot of things.

Yeah we can tell, porky

Also the Leicester Uni stabbing was black-on-black crime, as suspected. As both of my granddads have independently said "It's like playing bloody spot-the-white-man in Leicester"

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Labour trying to tell us what "British values" are is like asking a paki what the age of consent is.. They don't fucking know.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

I'm confused now, sex work is real work and sex workers are modern day secular saints, figures for young women to look up to, but men who actually throw them £50 for a blowie are worse than Hitler?

It'll be damned lean times for sex workers (I prefer 'filthy whores', personally) if men stop actually having sex with them.

 

[SIMIΔN]

does anyone have any experience of getting decent strength melatonin in the UK

When I lived in Australia I just ordered it from America, I doubt British customs would seize it.

I wouldn’t use it long term, there’s some work implying it can cause cardiac issues.

At what dose? I find 2mg more than enough, but most pills are 10mg

it's a good thing we haven't been pulled into this absolute quagmire.

The UK produces much of its own petrol and natural gas, why should we care about far off lands.

Farage 100% so long as its Trump. Kemi 50/50.

Kemi is a big fan of Thatcher, I don't know if she'd be tempted with a Falklands boost in the polls.

 

[Otterly]

At what dose? I find 2mg more than enough, but most pills are 10mg

Not sure. You dont need 10mg it’s too much.

https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/articles/2025/11/03/16/19/mon-melatonin-aha-2025

The documentary is bizarre - this guy has issues for sure, real women don’t always say yes. Even a woman who is extremely enthusiastic about sex with you is going to have days she’s just not up for it. If your benchmark is that your girlfriend exists purely to have sex with you and never say no then you’ve got a problem, because that’s not seeing them as human.
And then you have to ask - what actually IS the threat to women’s safety? Is he a threat?
Well on the native side it’s a very tiny number of naive predators who will attack a stranger (they’ve always existed and always been rare) and domestic violence. Most rape in that situation is people who know each other. This does not make it ok of course. But the prevailing culture in the UK is ‘never hit a woman, never cross a picket line, always get your round in at the bar.’ Men know violence against women is wrong. That is the cultural background they come from.

So why are we less safe now? Mass immigration - hordes of men from cultures that do NOT see women as human equals. Pakistani rape gangs preying on kids.
Documentary guy is kind of sad, but is he a threat to women? He’s paying hookers. I don’t think there are millions of men like him.
We are less safe because of demographic change and removal of female only spaces, not some guy who can’t get a girlfriend and is spending his paycheck hiring hookers.

@Geoff Capes Vapes Apes for some reason I cat quote but I seriously oppose any sort of ‘sex work is real work’ stuff. Once the state gets involved you’ll end up with wome beng forced I to it for benefits. After all, if it’s just a job, why not? There was already a woman in Germany who had her benefits threatened to be removed and they sent her to work in the bar of a brothel because of that argument.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

There was a headline recently that 'Gen Z women are more likely to want to submit to their husbands/men more likely to want submissive wives' but it completely missed out on the race/ethnicity data... of course white men are also going to become '''incels'' or anti-women when they see browns completely getting away with calling women filthy sluts and beating them but they get made fun of for 'cringe' dating app profiles and get filmed in public on dates etc.
Young (20s) white women seem almost apologetic for liking white dudes now, even the total slags I was friends with in Uni always had some kind of joke or put-down for liking white guys (they'd never date brown/black tho, it was like self-flagellation). If you want to be open about liking white guys, it 'has' to be another trend or meme like 'boy aquarium' ice hockey or 'cowboy summer' etc, which are very weird to hear in the UK.

Cypriot PM calling for an 'open and frank conversation about the status and future of the British bases in Cyprus'.
Kent death toll rises to 27. The outbreak already has a wiki page lmfao. I saw a headline this morning that the outbreak was 'under control', but after 4 more cases popped up, I can't find it. Should have archived when i had the chance.
Ed Davey wants gov to hold a COBRA meeting about the 25% gas price spike.
Unemployment at 5.2%

20.7% of UK adults between the ages of 16 and 64 are said to be economically inactive, meaning they aren’t in work and are not actively looking for work

 

[teriyakiburns]

Cypriot PM calling for an 'open and frank conversation about the status and future of the British bases in Cyprus'

WE do, and part of that conversation should be "why aren't we defending our own bases?"

Somehow, in the effort to rule out involvement with the American bombing of Iran, we've ruled out defending many of our own assets from stray attacks. We should have a destroyer down there already, just patrolling the med and shooting down any stray rockets or drones. Starmer made even that idea toxic with his dithering.

Ed Davey wants gov to hold a COBRA meeting about the 25% gas price spike.

First item on the agenda should be "why the fuck don't we have enough storage to weather out price spikes?". Second should be "Roundhouse kick ed milliband into the concrete."

 

[Kofi Drinka]

If your benchmark is that your girlfriend exists purely to have sex with you and never say no then you’ve got a problem, because that’s not seeing them as human.

This isn't fair. Men do expect women to have sex with them regularly and when they want it. It's not because they see them as inhuman, but it's because it's how men bond and they have higher sex drives. A woman having sex with you is the ultimate cuddle and reassurance for a man. It says he's wanted and loved in the deepest part of his brain. So men expecting to get sex whenever they want it is reasonable, as long as he is reasonable about asking for it. If she has the flu and feels like shit, don't ask to fuck her.

In many ways sex is what makes men feel human. That connection to another person, feeling accepted, safe and wanted helps the alienation society does to men. In the modern world, which is so anti-white, another person tickling your acceptance button in your brain is like an oasis in the desert.

He’s paying hookers. I don’t think there are millions of men like him.

I bet there are millions of men paying prostitutes. I don't think most of them are dangerous though. Just sad blokes who get desperate. It's a shame there's no way to make it a safe industry without causing more problems than it would solve.

Kent death toll rises to 27.

How many are non-white?

 

[the rat]

This isn't fair. Men do expect women to have sex with them regularly and when they want it. It's not because they see them as inhuman, but it's because it's how men bond and they have higher sex drives. A woman having sex with you is the ultimate cuddle and reassurance for a man. It says he's wanted and loved in the deepest part of his brain. So men expecting to get sex whenever they want it is reasonable, as long as he is reasonable about asking for it. If she has the flu and feels like shit, don't ask to fuck her.

In many ways sex is what makes men feel human. That connection to another person, feeling accepted, safe and wanted helps the alienation society does to men. In the modern world, which is so anti-white, another person tickling your acceptance button in your brain is like an oasis in the desert.

How dare she not have sex with me yesterday! That uncaring bitch!

I dunno man you sound kinda brown to me right now.

 

[Otterly]

This isn't fair. Men do expect women to have sex with them regularly

Regularly is great. IF you both want it.
But… That’s not what I said. The guy wants ‘a girlfriend who always says yes’. Not ‘is up for it loads’ or ‘I want a girlfriend to have a healthy sex life with.’ Or ‘he has a high sex drive and wants a girlfriend who is the same.’ It’s just that she must, always, say yes. That is unreasonable.
Even the most enthusiastic of women is going to be on her period, knackered, or just not up for it once in a while. Even if she’s dragging you off to bed as the norm.
It shows a mindset that has zero regard for the girlfriend other than as a hole to fuck, and that is a massive turnoff for pretty much every woman on earth.
What does the girlfriend get out of this? Nothing, hence he’s having to pay. You don’t need to pay people to do things they really want to do. Your work pay you because otherwise you wouldn’t do it.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

’ It’s just that she must, always, say yes. That is unreasonable.

You missed the other part of the post. She must always say yes, but you must always consider how she's doing before you ask. It's a two way street. If she's having a bad period and walking like your gran, don't ask if she fancies a quickie.

What does the girlfriend get out of this?

Fucked.

 

[Otterly]

She must always say yes, but you must always consider how she's doing before you ask.

You shouldn’t need to be begging for it. If you make her feel good enough she will want it anyway. If you’re nagging her for it and she’s not up for it most of the time she’s not enjoying it. Bad sex isn’t just a bother for women, it’s painful and humiliating and really unpleasant.
Women also find good sex important, and it is important in a relationship. Again, if you’re making her feel really good, you’re going to get laid. If she’s not up for it most of the time (with all the usual caveats about life things happening, illness blah blah) then there’s something wrong.
Everyone enjoys nice things. Everyone tries to avoid not nice things.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

and humiliating

Sorry Otterly, I am not a wizard. I don't have a solution for women feeling humilated from having sex with me..

 

[Mound Dweller]

If you have to "ask" you're probably doing it wrong anyway, it's one of those instinctual things that you do together, doesn't need overthinking.
Putting so much emphasis on "asking" and "making sure" (don't get me wrong: consent is important) is just another symptom of a low trust society, if I have to audibly enunciate my genital intent it not only kills the mood but also demonstrates poor prior communication.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I don't pick up women on nights out anymore simply because modern British women are functional alcoholics who can be completely 'gone' to the point of being unable to form memories but still run completely on autopilot to where they're able to have complex back and forth conversations and only sound a little tipsy.

I meet my women the old fashioned way never

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I don't pick up women on nights out anymore simply because modern British women are functional alcoholics who can be completely 'gone' to the point of being unable to form memories but still run completely on autopilot to where they're able to have complex back and forth conversations and only sound a little tipsy.

The size women are today trying to pick them up is fucking impossible. You will do your back in.

 

[The Ghost of Sergei Witte]

Need a shag. Simple As.

 

[Otterly]

I have to audibly enunciate my genital intent

Fill out the form in triplicate.
But you’re right - the idea of taking consent forms is a bit odd. If you’re in a healthy relationship sex is something that just happens. If one of you is avoiding it, they’re not enjoying it.

Need a shag. Simple As.

 

[Mound Dweller]

The size women are today trying to pick them up is fucking impossible.

Not so long ago it used to be you'd have a fair few porkers in every age group, gradually increasing as the future recedes as you'd expect, now? solid 1/3 OBEAST for each and every cohort MINIMUM. Not just a bit of belly squish either; full on bloated folds. The men aren't any better either, used to be you'd have to hit at least 30 to get a full visceral fat liver going, but now it's common amongst the 20 somethings, they go balder sooner and have wrinkles too.
Why is everyone so FAT?