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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.

 

[Brahma]

I got my car nicked and had to argue with them to even get a crime number. Actually absurd.

I've had too many relatives and friends with similar stories or who were successfully fobbed off with "it's in the system now" only to find out it wasn't a month later when they rang to check up on things not be very cynical about crime statistics

In a working society we'd have PSA's about this kind of thing instead of PSA's about making sure browns don't feel sad

Actually, that would be an amazing angle for reform.

"Here's how you make a crime report, make sure you get the case number and name and badge of coppers you interact with. Let's find out just now bad things really are!"

But negative maybe but ...

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

Games Workshop

Ha! Nerd! Real men play Flames of War

I saw an advert for "The Teacher" on channel 5. Its about a teacher not respecting someones pronouns. I'm sure modern day media will portray her as reasonable and not at all as a demented JK Rowling stand in.

Don't even get me started on "Ellis". Strong black woman solve murders, 10/10.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Ha! Nerd! Real men play Flames of War

I saw an advert for "The Teacher" on channel 5. Its about a teacher not respecting someones pronouns. I'm sure modern day media will portray her as reasonable and not at all as a demented JK Rowling stand in.

Don't even get me started on "Ellis". Strong black woman solve murders, 10/10.

I'd play as the Nazia if I played FoW or BA but that's probably a crime these days.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

Despite being an Arsenal supporter, don't laugh, I haven't watched a match in quite a while. So of course the one game i decide to watch is the cup final today where Arsenal lost.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

The actual town I was thinking of when I describe the midlands. Used to have a thriving shoe industry, they were making very high end shoes and shipping them the world over. Chinese sweat shops flooded the country with cheap garbage and the industry died. The town was left with nothing, it was just the central point of the country so you could stop there if you wanted to get away from London.

I remember the shoes being exceptionally posh and expensive as a nipper. My mum always wanted to own a pair (never did). They also did bespoke shoes if you were a woman with unusually large feet, *wink wink*, or if you needed/wanted something that you couldn’t find in regular stores.

Also had a friend from the council estate I lived on end up a heroin addict and on the game in Northampton. Not quite sure how she ended up there from where we began, but there you go. She’s since gotten her life back together, so a happy ending after all. She left Northampton. And the Midlands.

Nah the city would be nice. It has some nice parts and the best aquarium in the country. Quite a lot of the city is really nice. It's just all covered in 50 layers of shit. It's nicer than people say you just have to look past shit that is almost impossible to look past.

Some of the houses in Brum are beautiful. The old terraces especially are really spacious inside despite looking small from outside. Back in the massive industrial expansion of Brum they built utilitarian housing, but even simple, workaday things back then had fancy little details like pretty moulded bricks and roof tiles, matching wooden porches along the terrace, specific coloured bricks around windows to pick out the arches etc. It’s just a shame they’re now rammed with fifty immigrants or students or both, presided over by slumlords who leave their property to slowly decay until they’re unliveable.

That and the racing around the Castle Vale estate on stolen motorbikes - great design for a racetrack, that was!

midlands slander sans brum and leicester is lame and is usually spread by bugmen like you from built up areas in yorkshire or the home counties who live off stolen funds

I spent 40+ years in the Midlands, kidda. While it’s still some kind of home, with all the memories that entails, I’ve never been happier than after I left. Bit of an eye-opener to discover there are entire cities where people don’t look at you like they’re about to punch you in the face at first glance.

Is every fucker in this thread from the Midlands, apart from Otterley and Mister Roman Numerals Brigade?

It was a nice place once, but it got hollowed out by the Distribution of Industry Act, the Local Employment Act and the Office Development Permit system.

Basically there were prosperous hubs like London and Birmingham, but midcentury planners felt urban sprawl was bad, so they figured they could balance employment opportunities oop North by forcing industry and service industry to focus on building facilities in more deprived regions (basically "levelling up"). London was too big to kill, but it effectively constrained Birmingham. Manchester is nice now because Birmingham was sacrified on a pyre.

The amount of industry and innovation that came from the Midlands in the past was astounding. That’s what makes it even more criminal that successive governments have treated the area like a leper colony crossed with one giant immigrant hotel. There was SO much there. Yeah, times change, but times were certainly encouraged to move a lot faster where the Midlands was concerned. Ironworks, watches, jewellery, silver, coal, ribbon, knitted fabrics, cars, tanks, ceramics, clothing, glass, trains, planes, massive gasworks and electricity generating plants. What’s left of all this now? A few bits in museums and a few bits of it buried under shitty rabbit hutch housing. Absolute travesty.

I got my car nicked and had to argue with them to even get a crime number. Actually absurd.

Someone who lived near me had their business broken into, and had hundreds of thousands of pounds of stock and cash damaged and stolen. They reported it to the police, and the police didn’t even come out. They sent them a fingerprint kit with ‘do it yourself’ instructions, ffs. Of course, none of the stock was recovered, nor was anyone apprehended for the theft - despite the stock being very traceable and sold/used openly in the local area. It was a case of ‘here’s a crime number for your insurance claim, and if you want any more investigating, you do it then bring your findings to us and we’ll look into it. Maybe.’ Fucking joke.

Not in the Midlands, I might add.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Is every fucker in this thread from the Midlands

East Anglia and the Southwest don't have electricity yet. The Norf thinks its spelt keywee and can't find the website. Scotland and Wales can't put down the sheep long enough to join in. The Manx are trying to kill each other on motorbikes. Laandaan is full of browns who aren't allowed here because they are stinky. The Midlands posters are the only option.

 

[Mound Dweller]

The Norf thinks its spelt keywee and can't find the website.

It's only pronounced keywee acktuelley.

Middul can get rekt, the future Norfumbric Livingspayce will extend from the Trent to the Thames.

 

[Changed later]

Is every fucker in this thread from the Midlands, apart from Otterley and Mister Roman Numerals Brigade?

I'm from the north-east, I don't contribute often but I lurk

 

[A-Logato]

Is every fucker in this thread from the Midlands, apart from Otterley and Mister Roman Numerals Brigade?

Am up ere in de norf

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Middul can get rekt, the future Norfumbric Livingspayce will extend from the Trent to the Thames.

The only thing in my blood is a fucking pint of stella like God intended.

Is every fucker in this thread from the Midlands, apart from Otterley and Mister Roman Numerals Brigade?

Nah but I live fairly close to the midlands. I'd say no more than half the country away so pretty close.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

My family crawled out of the coal blackened hell of Small Heath and made it to a nice village and we never looked back.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Is every fucker in this thread from the Midlands, apart from Otterley and Mister Roman Numerals Brigade?

This might come as a surprise to you, but a lot of us are masking our actual location by pretending to be from somewhere else.

That way I can continue to create a horrific social profile that inevitably results in some poor lad from Southend-On-Sea getting a no knock midnight raid and put in a black van.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I remember the shoes being exceptionally posh and expensive as a nipper. My mum always wanted to own a pair (never did). They also did bespoke shoes if you were a woman with unusually large feet, *wink wink*, or if you needed/wanted something that you couldn’t find in regular stores.

They were world class and came with life time repair on them. Made of proper leather, with pride from an industry they built a town around. China fucked them so hard it's like bang bros. Once they could flood the market with cheap trainers and boots that wear out every 6 months the home grown stuff died. You can still find artisans making stuff like riding boots but it's rare and very expensive.

They made a movie about a black tranny converting a Northampton shoe factory into a tranny boot factory. Only thing worse is Alan Carr won't shut up about being from the place.

Also had a friend from the council estate I lived on end up a heroin addict and on the game in Northampton. Not quite sure how she ended up there from where we began, but there you go. She’s since gotten her life back together, so a happy ending after all. She left Northampton. And the Midlands.

I cannot imagine the type of punters you would get from Northampton.

I find it funny everyone thinks they were about to get their heads kicked in there. Maybe it's because I have a bit of the accent from living close by as a kid but I never felt in danger in Northampton. It wasn't until all the immigrants and especially blacks moved in that it started to feel unsafe. Northampton scum wasn't going to mug you, they would ask for a fag and passive aggressively say "Alright then mate" as you walked past them. A few years back there was a big problem with acid attacks on the rise, I think it's fallen off now since Brexit. Maybe it's just covered up more.

Is every fucker in this thread from the Midlands, apart from Otterley and Mister Roman Numerals Brigade?

The Midlands are extremely conservative. The type of person drawn to the farms is going to come from conservative areas. Not going to find a lot of Londoners caring about British news and wanting to get rid of all the wogs.

From AOL. Get it in the back of the net our lad!

A women's advocacy group has called for a formal investigation after a Reform UK councillor allegedly made sexist remarks about gender at an International Women's Day event.

Peter York, vice chairman of West Northamptonshire Council, allegedly said "some women should have never left the kitchen" during a conversation at Northampton Guildhall on Saturday.

He is also alleged to have criticised the government's cabinet for having too many women in it.

York said he was "provoked" and his comments were taken "out of context" but apologised for any offence taken.

The council has apologised for the "wholly unacceptable" remark.

The Northants Women's Empowerment Group called the alleged comments a "series of deeply offensive and sexist remarks," as reported by the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

A formal complaint has been submitted by the group stating it was not "an isolated slip of the tongue" and that York chose to "double down" on his position when challenged.

It has requested the council carry out an investigation into whether York's comments breached the authority's code of conduct.

Martin Henry, the council's chief executive, said the comments do not "reflect the values of our council".

He said: "West Northamptonshire Council is proud of the women who lead, support and strengthen our communities every day and recognise the fundamental and invaluable contribution they play across all aspects of public and private life."

Hannah Martin and Laura Wright, of the group, said the views were "abhorrent".

"It is a gross betrayal of the spirit of International Women's Day for a high-ranking council official to use the platform to demean women's professional contributions," they said, in a joint statement.

They said the alleged behaviour "fosters a toxic environment that discourages women from entering local politics".

In a statement, York said: "I'd like to apologise for any offence taken to a comment made at the weekend, that was taken entirely out of context, whilst being provoked by a member of the public, and a councillor from the Liberal Democrat group."

Lib Dem councillor Farzana Aldridge, who was part of the conversation, refuted claims that she was trying to score points during the discussion.

Conservative James Hill also said he "could not believe [his] ears" and said York's comments were "completely tone deaf".

Reform council leader Mark Arnull said an investigation had taken place and he was "satisfied that this was a result of political point scoring".

"Councillor York agrees with me, that the comment made at the time, whilst taken out of context, was unacceptable and will not be repeated," he added.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

This might come as a surprise to you, but a lot of us are masking our actual location by pretending to be from somewhere else.

I do this by pretending to be from Scotland instead of Hermitage.

It allows me to blend in seamlessly as a glowie without anyone suspecting my true intentions.

 

[A-Logato]

This might come as a surprise to you, but a lot of us are masking our actual location by pretending to be from somewhere else.

That way I can continue to create a horrific social profile that inevitably results in some poor lad from Southend-On-Sea getting a no knock midnight raid and put in a black van.

The real truth nuke will be that most of us end up being Indians or Welsh.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I do this by pretending to be from Scotland instead of Hermitage.

It allows me to blend in seamlessly as a glowie without anyone suspecting my true intentions.

If you ever want a laugh join a small Scottish twitch stream and see how they talk to each other. They will type how they talk. They think no one is watching them but their mate and you get the full Scottish experience. It's not a language any more, it's just a hyper speed series of grunts and 3 letter words that make no sense unless read aloud.

Indians or Welsh.

I'm from the Caribbean. I came here on a banana boat in 1973. I play the steel drums so the white man will throw me shiny circles I can exchange for backy.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

This might come as a surprise to you, but a lot of us are masking our actual location by pretending to be from somewhere else.

What the fuck? People would really do that? Just go online and lie like that? Really? Lying online is illegal don't you know, if you tell me your true identity then I'll have you arrested.

Arthur really was one of those shows that I could be convinced I hallucinated it if it wasn't for the memes about it.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

The real truth nuke will be that most of us end up being Indians or Welsh.

None of us are actually real. We're just a 77 Brigade Op to degrade the greatest threat to the British uniparty (Reform and Nigel) by attacking It's most dedicated member (MiW).

inevitably results in some poor lad from Southend-On-Sea getting a no knock midnight raid and put in a black van

This is also the result of my time browsing the internet, but in that scenario they are dangerous terrorists who liked an anti Starmer meme.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Is every fucker in this thread from the Midlands, apart from Otterley and Mister Roman Numerals Brigade?

I'm not from there, I just worked there for a while. It was bad enough that I ended up making common cause with a bloke from Liverpool.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

It was bad enough that I ended up making common cause with a bloke from Liverpool.

Why? What's wrong with Liverrpouuuuelll? Nothing wrong with them as long as you have a pair of earplugs.