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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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Gender of peace said:
Home Office is doing away with the worst excesses of anarcho-tyranny. Why now?
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Because they'll be doing something worse.

Grooming gang stuff - after dragging their feet, repeatedly denying the existence of any sort of racial component, burying evidence in the media and more, delaying requesting records be preserved for 7 months to give chance for everything to be deleted now there will be an enquiry into if certain things played a factor. The new definition of Islamaphobia (don't care if the word was removed, we know what it was) will play no part in shaping this report.

Non-crime hate incidents going - because we'll make them actual crimes

Protecting free speech - as above, we'll criminalise your speech
 
Lol. As fucking if muslims, a group who are allowed to practice the most abhorrent proclivities of their degenerate faith, including child marriage, polygamy, electoral fraud, genital mutilation, and utilizing rape against the most vulnerable of our native population, with free-rein from the authorities, could ever be considered vulnerable.

Anyone who thinks they are vulnerable is a weapons grade spastic and needs to be liquidated with extreme fucking prejudice.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Wrong.

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

>For privileged "with good reason" purposes of hunting or vermin control
>Not for self defense

Next time you open your mouth get a fucking clue what you're talking about.
 

MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
Wrong.

>For privileged "with good reason" purposes of hunting or vermin control
>Not for self defense

Next time you open your mouth get a fucking clue what you're talking about.
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I can attest. If you so much as mention the idea of using it in someone, even an armed intruder, they will immediately deny you everything that allows you to own a gun. The cop checking your documents will even probe you a little during your application, trying to catch you off guard by asking if you think it would be handy for home invaders also. You have to store your guns in a locked safe and store the ammo separately elsewhere, probably making it non viable to go and retrieve your gun anyway if someone broke in.

They really do operate on the assumption that you will call the police, who will make it their in a timely fashion and catch the intruder without issue. The people know better than that, only transphobes and racists get the real police treatment, and so they pretend they don't have backup plans for when the cops prove useless yet again. It's almost comical.

(I don't have guns, just friends with someone who does) (please don't call me a terrorist, Big Brother. I'll be good)
 
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.
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I can keep goats in my council flat though?
 
Clem Fandango said:
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.
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she's a rugmuncher too.

I reckon the accent and the protein farts would eventually put me off her.
 
TheArtilleryman said:


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Just a mildly funny PL. I used to live with with a few lads and lasses who ran a clay pigeon shooting club and owned all sorts of shotguns and rifles that had to be checked in and out of the club locker. One day they come back from a competition, drunk, late at night, and decide 'it'll be alreet' to leave the guns in the car, uncovered, in the roughest part of Liverpool. I almost fainted when they told me the next morning.

Indian national Sandhu Ponnachan, 36, has been charged over the Derby car ramming; Six counts of GBH with intent- One count of attempted GBH with intent- One count of dangerous driving- One count of possession of a bladed article
The Golders Green arson was Pakistani-British dual nationals
Keir promises we are well placed to 'weather the storm' and the country is prepared for the effects of the Iran war.
 
Gender of peace said:
Home Office is doing away with the worst excesses of anarcho-tyranny. Why now?

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April fools right?

The internet ruined April fools for me. 10 years ago it went super corpo and every thing has to be super fake and gay. It's not pulling a prank on your mate any more. It's look at this silly logo/announcement we made. But it's corporate humour and never lands.
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
Wrong.

>For privileged "with good reason" purposes of hunting or vermin control
>Not for self defense

Next time you open your mouth get a fucking clue what you're talking about.
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I live in the countryside mate. I know more people with guns than most Americans do. "It's not for self defense" doesn't matter because you can still get your gun and shoot someone if you needed to.

Fucking retards and their "The UK has no guns!" is just pathetic fat larping by ignorant obama voters.

I think I need a break from the internet. Warwick's majestic dance isn't working today.
 
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Home Office is doing away with the worst excesses of anarcho-tyranny. Why now?
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They've finished shredding all the files that could connect The Party to the rape gangs, and they've got laws drawn up to make all criticism of The Party and The Religion of Peace actual crimes.
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
Larry the Cat killed a mouse in front of Downing street during the speech, the first time in 12 years. I'm no celtic pagan but that feels lke a bad omen
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Given a year or two and sufficient funding, a few good men and a lab, I can create a tiger sized version of Larry, and he can be set free to sort the vermin issue out in Downing Street.
Or cheaper, import a few of those spicy tigers from the Subderbans. An Elite Feline Capital the country needs.
 
Larry is useless. There's not a place on this Earth with more rats and he hasn't killed a single one of them. I've been reading The king in yellow and the old deformed man keeps being attacked by his cat.. He can't look any more rat like then Starmer so why isn't Larry giving him the old one-two kitty claws?
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Larry is useless. There's not a place on this Earth with more rats and he hasn't killed a single one of them. I've been reading The king in yellow and the old deformed man keeps being attacked by his cat.. He can't look any more rat like then Starmer so why isn't Larry giving him the old one-two kitty claws?
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Don't forget he's technically just another civil servant. Furry fucker sold us out for a brown envelope full of catnip years ago.
 
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