UK British News Megathread - aka CWCissey's news thread

  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
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.

View image on Twitter


spread happiness@p4leandp1nk
https://twitter.com/p4leandp1nk/status/1080767496569974785

#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs
2764.png


7
10:07 AM - Jan 3, 2019
See spread happiness's other Tweets
Twitter Ads info and privacy


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."

View image on Twitter


pg often@pgofton
https://twitter.com/pgofton/status/1080772793774624768

The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary

42
10:28 AM - Jan 3, 2019
See pg often's other Tweets
Twitter Ads info and privacy


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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Click to expand...
I have had a lab/retriever, two shih tzus, a poodle, a spaniel, 12 guinea pigs, one rat and one bird as pets in the past. I also got a call from my mother asking if - when I'm over for Easter - I minded having a look at where she wants a pond dug out. I only just levelled and laid down the grass in the garden two years ago and now she wants me to dig it all back up? Insanity, but she likes fish and frogs and wildlife.
 
Just got back from taking our pet dog polar bear to the ethnic park. Yet again the rule has not been broken, the streak continues. Yet again I managed to see a fucking creature. I am once again reminded that the monsters in fairy tales are not mythical but just indian. Really they should just weld the gates shut and stick up a sign saying freakshow. Back in the 1800s people would fucking kill to see a woman with a beard, they'd fucking empty their entire bank accounts to see the shit I have in this side of town. Admittedly I don't actually know if they were retarded and deformed. They might have just been regular indians. But it's kinda hard to tell the difference.

I would say it's a shithole too but I've lived here long enough to know it's always been like that. The only difference in terms of litter is now there's more just general shit and a lot less beer cans and condoms. I would say that's a good thing but I think I would rather them all use condoms, partly so they stop having 15 kids with their sister but also because I don't want to be near patient 0 for when super nippah aids gets fucked into existence by these things.
 
I don't eat biscuits, chocolate or drink tea so I've really enjoyed the recent dog posting. I was feeling a bit left out lol

@Otterly totally agree about the owners situation needing to be right in order to meet the needs of a dog. I always wanted a dog. un/luckily my life kind of fell apart and I wound up with the perfect setup to give some dogs a good life. You could still get a retired working collie, growing up my friend had one and he would pretty much sleep all day. Lived to a ripe old age. Learn their commands and you could just chill in a field telling one to run around and exercise itself.
 
Chunky Salsa said:
I have had a lab/retriever, two shih tzus, a poodle, a spaniel, 12 guinea pigs, one rat and one bird as pets in the past. I also got a call from my mother asking if - when I'm over for Easter - I minded having a look at where she wants a pond dug out. I only just levelled and laid down the grass in the garden two years ago and now she wants me to dig it all back up? Insanity, but she likes fish and frogs and wildlife.
Click to expand...
Guinea pigs are just precious. They really are. I love the little chirring noise they make to each other. We had a lot of them when I was kids because I mistakenly put the gentleman guinea pig in with the ladies because I thought he was lonely. He had an absolute whale of a time. Top shagger of the cavie variety.
 
Overly Serious said:
Had a woman in the supermarket talking to me just last week about the queen in present tense. Wasn't a super elderly person either, just mid-Fifties I'd guess. But it had plainly slipped her mind that it was King Charles now. It's still surreal turning over a note and seeing his face staring back at me.
Click to expand...
I know we Americans like to make God-Emperor jokes about Trump but if anyone deserved to be an immortal ruler it was her. Sure, go ahead, sacrifice a thousand souls to her every day so she may never truly die, just so long as they're Muslim ones.
 

I don't know if anyone's talked about this yet but I have an interesting point I'd like to make. In the United Cuckdom, you can't own a gun, or a knife, or any real weaponizable implement of any kind even if its intended purpose has nothing to do violence. Self defense is effectively illegal.

You can, however, own a dog as a pet. Dogs are traditionally used as guards, a sufficiently large dog can maul the shit out of an assailant and will defend their owner until they're reduced to a puddle of red mud. Rape is an overwhelming problem in the UK, and if I were a white britoid and my wife just gave birth to a daughter, I would immediately buy a Saint Bernard and make my kid take Fluffy everywhere she went, because niggers and sand niggers both fear the wrath of dogs, and dogs are protective of the very same demographic niggers seek to rape.

However, there is nothing innately malicious about keeping a dog, the same arguments for owning a weapon don't apply to a dog because you can't argue innate malicious violent intent. People own dogs for a variety of reasons, companionship, handicap assistance, ect. You can't argue that dogs are military grade assault mammals because that argument is laughably stupid to even the most biased low IQ leftoid. If a dog on a leash held by an 11 year old girl mauls an adult brown male, that raises questions about the brown male's behavior and intent.

So how do you go about making the case that an already vulnerable demographic such as women and children should be rendered abjectly helpless without making it obvious your intent is to just remove their last remaining legal line of physical defense from assault? Well you can't say what you really mean or what you really want, because that would out you as a deplorable piece of shit who is pro-rape, so start whining about shit like allergies and some generic "fear" of the animal. Window dress it as Islamic women being in fear of dogs, not men, because saying men are afraid of dogs would raise eyebrows, but if a woman says it then it wouldn't illicit the same response. Fear of what though, precisely? Nothing specific, just some nebulous "fear."

I'm sure everything I just said is patently obvious to everyone, but it's interesting how their overreach has extended to domestic animals, an uncontroversial societal staple that was fully acceptable from the time of cave paintings up until now, with flimsy and frankly desperate reasoning.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
. In the United Cuckdom, you can't own a gun, or a knife, or any real weaponizable implement of any kind even if its intended purpose has nothing to do violence. Self defense is effectively illegal.
Click to expand...
Wrong.

Next time you open your mouth get a fucking clue about what you're talking about. The UK has loads of gun owners.

I don't understand youth fashion. I know I'm old so I don't understand the kids and their whacky slang. But I don't know why modern mens style make them look like pedophiles. They look like Barry Chuckle if he touched kids, or the liverpool drunks from Harry Enfield. I was watching an American cooking show and it's even turning up there now. Who goes to the hair dresser and says "give me greasy, curly hair and a tiny mustache"? You look like you work for the BBC you nonce.
 
We had a bitser terrier-type when I was a kid (mostly Jack Russell, I think) who thought she was 3 times her size and would have done her best to kill anyone who looked at us funny. Although she was ok with anyone who we vouched for (by inviting them indoors) once she gave them a couple of sniffs. With the exception of one of our neighbours, who did turn out to be a nonce.

She was also a secret hussy, we'd let her off the lead in the woods and sometimes she'd go missing for a bit. One time she had a litter of puppies that looked suspiciously like a cross with Alsatian, and I don't want to think how the logistics of that worked. I loved playing with the litter of puppies (we had to give them all away, obvioisly). This making me want to go down to Battersea and get a dog...
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
I'm sure everything I just said is patently obvious to everyone, but it's interesting how their overreach has extended to domestic animals, an uncontroversial societal staple that was fully acceptable from the time of cave paintings up until now, with flimsy and frankly desperate reasoning.
Click to expand...
There is no end to the indignities that these fucking vermin want to enforce on people.
 
Chunky Salsa said:
There is no end to the indignities that these fucking vermin want to enforce on people.
Click to expand...
Remember during Covid when domestic cat culls were floated? They were trying to get the idea going that cats could carry and transmit it.
The government does t like you owning animals. Chicken registries, foot and mouth culls. Now dogs.
There will be a crackdown on animal ownership at some point.
 
Otterly said:
Remember during Covid when domestic cat culls were floated? They were trying to get the idea going that cats could carry and transmit it.
The government does t like you owning animals. Chicken registries, foot and mouth culls. Now dogs.
There will be a crackdown on animal ownership at some point.
Click to expand...
You should check out a book called Tender Is The Flesh, if you fancy depressing yourself. It's by a Argentinian, but don't let that put you off. It's an excellent,albeit chilling, read.
 
You know, the world is full of mystery. Like, for example Sabre from Gladiators. Yes she's sexy but then you hear her talk and she's... Scottish?

But then you check the early life section on her Wikipedia page and it turns out she was actually born in Windsor so she's not really Scottish so it's OK.


So you see, the world does make sense, but sometimes you just need to dig a little bit deeper.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom