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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.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Rewilding and reintroducing extinct animals is fucking stupid. The eco system has moved on and introducing new predators is going to come at a major cost to the wild life we have now. The concept is fine IF you have well informed people making wise decisions. Posh cunts larping with no idea what they're talking about will have a disaster. I remember them larping how rewilding was great because they had 25 different kinds of grass in their field now. But it was just an unkept jungle where nothing was maintained.

 

[Ahriman]

Rewilding and reintroducing extinct animals is fucking stupid. The eco system has moved on and introducing new predators is going to come at a major cost to the wild life we have now. The concept is fine IF you have well informed people making wise decisions. Posh cunts larping with no idea what they're talking about will have a disaster. I remember them larping how rewilding was great because they had 25 different kinds of grass in their field now. But it was just an unkept jungle where nothing was maintained.

Farmer hands typed this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves_in_Great_Britain

All joking aside, they were part of an ecosystem that was unchanged for much longer than the last ~400 years so in a way, it's not a "new" predator, if anything, he'd be coming back to where it belongs. The English wildlife now is sheep, sheep and more sheep.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Tonight, Parliament will join landmarks across the world taking part in Earth Hour 2026

All non-essential lights will be switched off from 8:30pm to 9:30pm to raise awareness of environmental issues.

Turning the lights off to celebrate Net Zero, you can't make it up lmfao. I personally don't think that billboards, etc, should be left on all night, but turning off the lights in the context of the Hormuz situation and Londoners already freaking out at petrol stations is not a wise move...

The UK has accused Iran of 'holding the world economy hostage'. People really can't think beyond the 'here and now' can they? They assume that what is now, is forever and must always be. They simply cannot comprehend idea of adapting to the ever-changing world. It's quasi-religious.

Did my weekly shop and then a few extras (soups, extra tins, chocolate, the kind of things I got before Covid kicked off), it was a bit uneasy to see a couple empty shelves, mostly fish, but it doesn't fill me with much confidence. Yesterday the whole of the High Street was swamped with teens running around and screaming, and then youths were smashing up cars waiting at junctions.

Water rationing is being proposed as well (original article as archive is being finicky). The very obvious answer, is not that one person is using 137 litres of water a day, but that there are a lot more people in the country than we know of.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

but that there are a lot more people in the country than we know of.

What the fuck are the immigrants using water for? Sure as shit isn't showering I know that much.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

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Farmer hands typed this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves_in_Great_Britain

All joking aside, they were part of an ecosystem that was unchanged for much longer than the last ~400 years so in a way, it's not a "new" predator, if anything, he'd be coming back to where it belongs. The English wildlife now is sheep, sheep and more sheep.

A lot of Scotlands economy depends on deer. Stalking is a major driver of tourism and paying for land management. If there are too many deer you simply tell stalkers to go shoot some more of them. Which is a solution that works. The venison can then be sold to make more money off of it and help pay for management.

That's one area I am very well informed on. Deer are only a problem if you let them be a problem. A man with a rifle can take out 50 in a night if you need him to. He's not going to like gutting them but they will be dead. Introducing a new alpha predator will impact every single creature in that eco system. Last year was a bad year for rabbits, they just weren't many around for some reason. Putting a pack of wolves into that eco system would kill all the rabbits left and then you have a collapsed food chain.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

What the fuck are the immigrants using water for? Sure as shit isn't showering I know that much.

washing a metric tonne of rice, or something. my mind goes to weed farms and the like, idk.

More Labour troubles, courtesy of the Times.

* Labour's internal MRP polling is said to be apocalyptic, in the capital and beyond. Labour is on course to lose *every one* of the 50 seats it holds in Sunderland, home to Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary. Most are predicted to go to Reform

* London, where all councils are up for election, is expected to be especially challenging. There are fears that the Greens could make significant gains in Camden, where Starmer’s seat is located, as well as Hackney, Lewisham and Lambeth

* Labour officials are so concerned by the threat now posed by the Greens in the central London councils they have long won by landslides that they have diverted almost all the party’s campaigning resources to contests in the heart of the capital

* One minister said that a bad night in London would be “existential” for Labour, given how many of its members were based there. The party leaders are well aware that Labour MPs are holding 59 out of the capital’s 75 parliamentary seats

* The minister added that the elections looked set to show that there were “no safe seats” for Labour, adding that they feared it was going to be a “bloodbath”.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

More Labour troubles, courtesy of the Times.

New York goes to the lunatic it did, ISIS attempted bombings on the streets within what, 6 months?

If London goes to the Greens I bet they beat that.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Gulls are increasingly moving inland, because why fight a shark for a herring when you can just hang out by a kebab shop in a town with no money for bin men and street cleaning?
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Cornwall and Devon is where you want.

How far back do those figures go? Because in my own personal experience, there were far more gulls inland when I was a nipper (back when dinosaurs roamed) than there are now. School playgrounds used to be full of them when the kids went back in for lessons. You barely see any now, back where I grew up.

Water rationing is being proposed as well (original article as archive is being finicky). The very obvious answer, is not that one person is using 137 litres of water a day, but that there are a lot more people in the country than we know of

I’m surprised they’re not starting with power rationing, but I guess water is easier to mass bullshit on. ‘The country doesn’t get enough rainfall any more due to climate change’ (a lie), ‘saving water saves the ecosystem and the planet’ (tell that to the AI farms), ‘think of the poor African children with no rainfall’ (so?).

Petrol and electricity rationing will be very likely if the yanks don’t wake the fuck up and admit they’re never going to beat Iran. But we’re all at the whim of whatever the knobhead who runs America says anyway. Our shitshower just fuck around rearranging the ever more bare shelves here in the U.K. to make it look like they’re actually in charge.

Looks like we’d better keep the bath full at all times, eh.

@Kofi Drinka you do know that plenty of those pregnancies would be the result of child abuse, rape, or some pushy arsehole boyfriend on an uneducated girl who didn’t really know what this shit was? Not everyone who got pregnant out of wedlock back then was a slag. A government that saw fit to remove kids simply because the mother wasn’t married was massive overreach, and they owe an apology to the entire country for it, not just the women involved. Brits are quick to point to the Magdalene laundries in Ireland but the UK had plenty of the same bullshit, just hidden behind social services instead of religion.

‘Just get over it’ doesn’t work when it’s something as fundamental as having your own child taken away from you. It’s the kind of thing that fucks people up for generations, both the parents and the kids.

 

[Clem Fandango]

‘The country doesn’t get enough rainfall any more due to climate change’ (a lie),

You can lie to the British public about a lot of things, but nobody in the country is gonna buy that after the dismal Jan and Feb we just had. I'm pretty sure it literally rained unbroken for three weeks straight at one point. I could probably have lived off the water collected in my wheely bin without having to touch my taps.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

What the fuck are the immigrants using water for? Sure as shit isn't showering I know that much.

Some of them probably come from places where seemingly free, unlimited, clean water that just magically comes out of a tap in your kitchen is considered a novelty.

 

[Otterly]

They also taste like shit. Either that or now that I'm 30 my tolerance for sweet things has tanked.

They’re revolting. There was also that ad with the gay kiss that was literally the stone toss panel (crème eggs?)
They are now full of palm oil and have that hideous sicky greasy flavour from butyrate in the chocolate

Turning the lights off to celebrate Net Zero, you can't make it up lmfao. I personally don't think that billboards, etc, should

We should reduce the amount of carbon in the Westminster apparatus for sure.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Some gyy drove a car into a crowd of people in Derby. No one died, but look at the language used. Not "British National", but a 'man originally from India'. He could be a tourist, I guess, but that's a new one. Sky News did show footage of the 'march against the far right' yesterday while also running the headlines underneath and it was endless migrant rape stories.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after "multiple pedestrians" were struck by a car in Derby city centre.

The car, a black Suzuki Swift, struck a number of people in Friar Gate at about 9.30pm on Saturday, police said.

"We can confirm that seven people were injured when a car was driven into pedestrians in a city centre street," Derbyshire Police said in a statement on Facebook.

"The seven suffered a range of serious but not life-threatening injuries and we can confirm that contrary to online speculation, no one died in the incident."

A man in his 30s, who is originally from India, was found a short time after the incident, said police.


He was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, causing serious injury through dangerous driving, inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, and dangerous driving.

Archive is down for me, original article here

 

[Clem Fandango]

They’re revolting. There was also that ad with the gay kiss that was literally the stone toss panel (crème eggs?)

Just when I had finally purged that from my memory, you had to bring it up again. Vom.

On a similar topic, has anyone seen that advert for laundry detergent (can't remember which brand) where it has two rugby teams facing off in a scrum, but then their kits apparently smell so good they start sniffing each other's clothes? There's something deeply unsettling about it. Like, I get the feeling that the person who made the ad is kind of.... into it, a bit too much? Ugh.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

There's something deeply unsettling about it. Like, I get the feeling that the person who made the ad is kind of.... into it, a bit too much? Ugh.

Have you seen the confused.com one which is just an inflation fetish video? After buying car insurance, the people turn into rubber versions of themselves and inflate. I've seen enough furry threads here to know.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

There's something deeply unsettling about it.

I get the joke. Taking something ultra masculine add our product and it’s so effective it can distract you to the other end of the spectrum.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I didn't know the cream egg thing, thanks.

All ads seem to be made for stupid women or fags these days. Who the fuck wants a musical advert about diarrhea? It wasn't even diarrhea cha cha cha, diarrhea cha cha cha.

I saw Kes last night, a film we all grew up with. It's such a strange film to watch because it's so grubby and run down, but it's still England. You recognize all the people in it and relate them to your own past. It was bitter sweet because it almost felt like being home again, but it's just a movie. I'd forgotten how it ended and it made me realize why we're all such cynical bastards. All of our childhood films end in misery and disappointment. Water ship down and Kes were on common rotation, so it's no wonder when we open a kinder egg we expect a 9 piece jigsaw instead of a toy car.

 

[A-Logato]

We had the Bombay dash in Derby yesterday as a Man arrested after car hits seven people.

It was "a man in his 30s, originally from India" as the article describes. Now is this anything terroristic or is this the classic Indian driving culture brought to the UK?

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

I didn't know the cream egg thing, thanks.

All ads seem to be made for stupid women or fags these days. Who the fuck wants a musical advert about diarrhea? It wasn't even diarrhea cha cha cha, diarrhea cha cha cha.

I saw Kes last night, a film we all grew up with. It's such a strange film to watch because it's so grubby and run down, but it's still England. You recognize all the people in it and relate them to your own past. It was bitter sweet because it almost felt like being home again, but it's just a movie. I'd forgotten how it ended and it made me realize why we're all such cynical bastards. All of our childhood films end in misery and disappointment. Water ship down and Kes were on common rotation, so it's no wonder when we open a kinder egg we expect a 9 piece jigsaw instead of a toy car.

It’s a massive culture shock to watch Kes now. The mining towns of Britain are an entire world away from that nowadays. The streets and buildings are the same, but everything else has completely changed (including the people). Not saying life was perfume and roses back then - Kes shows the hard side of life in the late 70s/early 80s with brutal honesty - but it was a productive, British life. What do any of the people living in those streets do now? Work in fancy coffee shops, manage social media for some online business, maybe at a push they work at the council or in the hospital.

Britain has had the entire basis of its existence ripped out by successive governments, for fuck all but trying to please other countries and make our rulers a bit of extra cash. We produce almost nothing now. As @DuaneDibbley pointed out, we have enormous oil, gas and coal resources, as well as wind, water and wave power to back them up. Huge tracts of farmland. We have 64 million people, at least half of which need full-time jobs. Why the fuck aren’t we trying to be self-sufficient as far as possible, producing our own energy, food and products at home? Yeah, it’s more expensive, but it’s right here and far less susceptible to the insane whims of whoever is the latest yank megalomaniac in power, or the latest shyster out to line their pockets in the EU. Or some gibbering nutjob from further afield. More importantly, it gives British people a sense of themselves. They work for the country, for their communities, to make everyone’s lives better. We make shit, we use that shit, our people have a basic standard of living because we can do that that no-one can take away from us. Why is that so hard to understand?

You talk to many middle-aged or older people in South Wales or Yorkshire now, and they’re still raging over the miners’ strike and how Thatcher and the government decimated their towns. There’s a seething hatred of those in power and those in power don’t seem to understand that a few new tv shows and shiny shoes to buy won’t soothe that anger. People fucking hate having someone more powerful than them destroying their lives seemingly for fun. Kes was a fantastic analogy for that whole thing.

That and it’s gutting to see kids today watch Kes and go ‘god, they had nothing back then, it’s so shit’. People had friends and family who were there in person. Jobs and social lives that you could reach out and touch. Young people being blinded by shiny trinkets and online fantasy lives is an absolute poison for our future. When we were kids, we were repeatedly told about tv not being real, and that copying stuff we saw on there was stupid and would end in disaster. Apparently now it’s entirely the opposite, and the bullshit shiny trinkets and fake life constantly shown off to others is what we should all be aiming for. No reality, nothing built with your own hands, friends all imaginary online wraiths and family disowned and hated because they’re real, and you have to deal with them in real life.

We’re fucked. What’s in the biscuit barrel today? I need a cuppa.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

That and it’s gutting to see kids today watch Kes and go ‘god, they had nothing back then, it’s so shit’. People had friends and family who were there in person. Jobs and social lives that you could reach out and touch. Young people being blinded by shiny trinkets and online fantasy lives is an absolute poison for our future. When we were kids, we were repeatedly told about tv not being real, and that copying stuff we saw on there was stupid and would end in disaster. Apparently now it’s entirely the opposite, and the bullshit shiny trinkets and fake life constantly shown off to others is what we should all be aiming for. No reality, nothing built with your own hands, friends all imaginary online wraiths and family disowned and hated because they’re real, and you have to deal with them in real life.

Seeing instragram wannabe sluts when shopping always gets my back up. It's such a disgusting vapid culture, it's not even like the tacky slags of old, the Pat Butcher types. There is a distinctly American thing about them in the way our bimbos and slags just don't have. I always see them in super market phone cable isles trying to figure out which USB cable they need. They take like ten minutes and have no idea if it's the right one or the quality of it. Being a helpful chap, if I see someone struggling like that I'll ask if they need a hand because I understand USB cables better than most grannies do. But in those cases I just leave them to suffer. If you spend all your time hoovering up instagram slut culture and you can't figure out how a USB cable works then you get what you deserve. I miss Debby the council slag who thought she was hot shit because she went to Disney land once and that made her the alpha slag among the council estate mongs. Proper British slags for proper British men!

We’re fucked. What’s in the biscuit barrel today? I need a cuppa.

It's those weird pink things that don't taste of much. Sorry, can't afford anything better with the cost of living crisis. Don't try and dip them, they will just dissolve.

 

[teriyakiburns]

How far back do those figures go? Because in my own personal experience, there were far more gulls inland when I was a nipper (back when dinosaurs roamed) than there are now. School playgrounds used to be full of them when the kids went back in for lessons. You barely see any now, back where I grew up.

They mustn't go back very far. For a long time there were as many gulls congregating around landfills as by the coast. The stories running around a couple of years ago had it that those gulls were migrating to France, because so much of the food waste that previously went into landfill here is getting turned into compost instead.