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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.

 

[GratsTheat783]

A British patriot claims that Muhammad was a pedophiIe and is attacked by a Muslim mob and arrested by the police.

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It's quite funny that all you need to do to trigger a Muslim to violence is to state what's in his holy book.

And being right-wing is extremely toxic in youth spaces. If you're far-right you will have no friends there, and be a cast as a social pariah.

Are you referring to them being loud with their politics or lefties purity testing everyone who interacts with their circle?

Seriously, I rarely see right-wings stickers/posters around uni areas(commie/palestine and fags stickers are on every lampost, wall and surface where you stick things though)

Regardless of political affiliation, I think stickers look really bad and I'd be in favour making it a legal requirement to kill anyone caught posting them, as well as anyone caught posting graffiti in public.

 

[Jason_Cruiser]

Are you referring to them being loud with their politics or lefties purity testing everyone who interacts with their circle?

Both. Shit-libs can be loud, but their is a genuine silent discrimination that happens if you're right-wing in these spaces. If you're not hated, you're ignored.

Regardless of political affiliation, I think stickers look really bad and I'd be in favour making it a legal requirement to kill anyone caught posting them, as well as anyone caught posting graffiti in public.

Yeah, graffiti sucks. But it's about the demographics of the area than anything else. Left wing graffiti can be up for ages, before it's either destroyed by the elements or someone who's not me comes along to deface/destroy it(I sometimes leave stickers I find on my daily commute, to see what happens to them over time).

 

[anklyscr]

with men making up the majority of perpetrators worldwide, regardless of where they come from.

that's such a retarded take I don't know how to phrase a reply.
it's akin to saying "100% of all murders drank water and breathed oxygen, so we're banning water and oxygen"

such a lie to not have to blame their pet retards.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Da yoof like to say they like them yes, this counts for nothing since da yoof don't actually voooote.

I always wonder how/where these polls are conducted.
In my mind, they're simply collecting from the easiest place to find young people: universities.
Not only are Uni students more left-leaning, there's also probably no accounting for citizenship/nationality meaning the "yoof" voters for Green, assuming they're collecting from Unis, have a 50% chance of being foreign too i.e. couldn't even vote if they wanted. Another factor in these polls is that you have to approach them first. Then they choose when to include you.


I'm not going to claim anything ridiculous like young people don't lean left, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Green's support amongst young people was vastly overestimated considering what's required just to take part.

 

[Airstrip One]

I always wonder how/where these polls are conducted.

I can't comment on the professionalism (or lack there-of) in regard to YouGov. However, during the brief period of time when I worked on a news agency, I was sometimes asked, out of the blue, to spend an hour on the streets of London polling passers-by on a socially relevant issue. The results, which were multiplied by a 100 or a 1000 to give the impression of a far larger sample, subsequently appeared in national newspapers.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

I can't comment on the professionalism (or lack there-of) in regard to YouGov. However, during the brief period of time when I worked on a news agency, I was sometimes asked, out of the blue, to spend an hour on the streets of London polling passers-by on a socially relevant issue. The results, which were multiplied by a 100 or a 1000 to give the impression of a far larger sample, subsequently appeared in national newspapers.

I took part in regular yougov polls not long after it first started. Removed myself from there because pretty much every poll was designed to give a specific answer, and you could tell by how questions were phrased as to what was being frowned upon and what was encouraged. It felt like a really sick mass version of manufacturing consent.

It may have changed in later years but I doubt it.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Not sure why he brought up Joseph, when he didn't even save sex with Mary and, Joseph himself isn't even the central figure of the religion.

This reminds me of a funny thing. So in the gospels of Matthew and Luke you have those really long "so and so begat so and so" sections. The point of those is to show that Jesus fulfils some Jewish prophecy that he has the right to inherit the throne of David, because he's directly descended from him.

But the whole thing is stacked on Jesus' lineage through Joseph... who he's not actually related to.

I'm sure there's some religious comeback to pointing this out. But I noticed it as a child, and always thought it was funny.

Happy Easter all!

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

that's such a retarded take I don't know how to phrase a reply.

Remember that these same people argue that the second a man declares himself a woman he is and no longer the danger that #YesAllMen are.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

This reminds me of a funny thing. So in the gospels of Matthew and Luke you have those really long "so and so begat so and so" sections. The point of those is to show that Jesus fulfils some Jewish prophecy that he has the right to inherit the throne of David, because he's directly descended from him.

But the whole thing is stacked on Jesus' lineage through Joseph... who he's not actually related to.

I'm sure there's some religious comeback to pointing this out. But I noticed it as a child, and always thought it was funny.

Happy Easter all!

I still don’t understand how someone managed to make a note of Jesus’s birth date, cos we celebrate it on the same date every year, but no-one thought to make a note of when the dude rose from the dead. People are born every day of the week, but how many do you know who came stomping out of a cave after three days of karked-it paradise (Archie Battersbee not included)? You’d think someone would’ve gone “wow, that’s unusual, perhaps we should make a note of that somewhere”?

Instead, we’re left working this shit out based on cycles of the moon, just like the pagans did before Christianity was invented. Oh, would you look at that - almost every Christian festival is simply a pagan one, re-dedicated? What are the odds? I’m shocked, I tell you.

So shocked I told this to one of the nuns who taught us in secondary school, and I got suspended. I stand by my observation, though.

Happy zombie Jesus day. Eat your eggies, now.

 

[Really makes you thunk]

I took part in regular yougov polls not long after it first started. Removed myself from there because pretty much every poll was designed to give a specific answer, and you could tell by how questions were phrased as to what was being frowned upon and what was encouraged. It felt like a really sick mass version of manufacturing consent.

It may have changed in later years but I doubt it.

I don't think this is the first time in the thread this clip has been posted, but it's relevant.

 

[Jason_Cruiser]

I still don’t understand how someone managed to make a note of Jesus’s birth date, cos we celebrate it on the same date every year, but no-one thought to make a note of when the dude rose from the dead. People are born every day of the week, but how many do you know who came stomping out of a cave after three days of karked-it paradise (Archie Battersbee not included)? You’d think someone would’ve gone “wow, that’s unusual, perhaps we should make a note of that somewhere”?

Instead, we’re left working this shit out based on cycles of the moon, just like the pagans did before Christianity was invented. Oh, would you look at that - almost every Christian festival is simply a pagan one, re-dedicated? What are the odds? I’m shocked, I tell you.

So shocked I told this to one of the nuns who taught us in secondary school, and I got suspended. I stand by my observation, though.

Happy zombie Jesus day. Eat your eggies, now.

I'm never bothered by the lack of divine evidence for these things. I treat religion more culturally and it existing as a defined set of national traditions and practices to maintain the in-group, rather than thinking all these supernatural things exist. Anyway the issue with a lot of Christian texts is that they were written decades after the events. I think most of the books came about in the 70s' - 90s. And for some of them, I they were compiled by the direct disciples of the Apostles, rather than the Apostles themselves. Some data is going to be missing.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

I'm never bothered by the lack of divine evidence for these things. I treat religion more culturally and it existing as a defined set of national traditions and practices to maintain the in-group, rather than thinking all these supernatural things exist. Anyway the issue with a lot of Christian texts is that they were written decades after the events. I think most of the books came about in the 70s' - 90s. And for some of them, I they were compiled by the direct disciples of the Apostles, rather than the Apostles themselves. Some data is going to be missing.

It was just a method of social cohesion before stuff like police, mass education and everyday government existed. Can’t be stealing from your neighbours if you want to avoid being tortured for all eternity. Big sky daddy sees you when you’re sleeping so BEHAVE.

Nowadays we just have government cameras and fuck knows who reading all our internet posts.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

It was just a method of social cohesion before stuff like police, mass education and everyday government existed. Can’t be stealing from your neighbours if you want to avoid being tortured for all eternity. Big sky daddy sees you when you’re sleeping so BEHAVE.

Just a good set of rules for retards who can't manage their own lives as well.

Both. Shit-libs can be loud, but their is a genuine silent discrimination that happens if you're right-wing in these spaces. If you're not hated, you're ignored.

People on the right know what happens if they're outed so they don't talk about it in those spaces. The same way the right doesn't like graffiti and stickers every where. So they don't do the shit the left does. It's easy to deface a building with spray paint but all it does it make it look ugly. Why would someone on the right want to do that?

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

I just want to express my complete fucking at the concept of a fucking newspaper saying anyone is seething

This is just more proof of how young you are. Seethe was a word long beform it was used in tandam with cope. It's actually used in it's proper usage here, as in seething with anger.

This global warming shit isn't real, I'm gonna go set off as many aerosols as possible and start burning plastic.

Um actually the newspeak term is Climate Change which is why its getting colder, the climate is changing instead of the globe just getting warmer. Anyway this is why we need destroy all our heavy industry and return to the stone age, economic consequences be damned.
Gen thought, climate change is real but its effects are massively overstated to make you want to give up all your rights. Only socialism can fix the planet Goyim.

the issue with a lot of Christian texts is that they were written decades after the events

The Bible overall is actually a really interesting piece of historical text. The favt reddit users treat it like fanfiction is really disingenuous. Most scholars agree that Jesus was actually real and that minus the miracles most of the Bible happened.

Back to the Gen Z divide for a minute. I agree that the polls don't actually give a good impression of voting intentions. I think people who are around 20 ish now are probably going to vote green. However there are still a lot of hardcore right wing young uns and I dont mean young Tories I mean full on "Lowe is based as fuck send them back" types.
I honestly think though that todays school kids are going to be be racist as fuck from nigger fatigue. Its one thing for uni students to rave about diversity and another to have to go to school with them and thier chimp outs.

Clan wars are back lads and the Britons are better at scrapping than the niggers think.

 

[Jason_Cruiser]

The same way the right doesn't like graffiti and stickers every where. So they don't do the shit the left does. It's easy to deface a building with spray paint but all it does it make it look ugly. Why would someone on the right want to do that?

I guess marking territory? Saying your people are in the area? I agree, stickers don't do too much when it comes to making real change, it's petty activism for the lazy.

Um actually the newspeak term is Climate Change which is why its getting colder, the climate is changing instead of the globe just getting warmer. Anyway this is why we need destroy all our heavy industry and return to the stone age, economic consequences be damned.
Gen thought, climate change is real but its effects are massively overstated to make you want to give up all your rights. Only socialism can fix the planet Goyim.

The silliest part of climate change is the extreme green laws that only castrate the west, when the west as a whole doesn't contribute much, even if we go back to our outputs from a few decades ago. Any climate plan that doesn't involve carpet bombing india and china can be just seen as a close-minded delusion by climate actvists or a deliberate ploy to hurt the west by said nations.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

The Bible overall is actually a really interesting piece of historical text. The favt reddit users treat it like fanfiction is really disingenuous. Most scholars agree that Jesus was actually real and that minus the miracles most of the Bible happened.

It's not just historical texts either. There's events we can compare to archeology, astronomy and natural events that line up with the events in the bible. They have narrowed down dates to specific times of day on dates by splicing together all the clues given. If it's just a story it lines up almost perfectly with reality, so it's more like a ARG than lord of the rings.

 

[pot of sneed]

Happy Easter, friends and foes. Apparently 'our king' has still neglected to give us all a message on this lovely day which has not escaped public notice. Sure is strange that 'our king' has never neglected to officiate his love and positivity towards islamic populace but has not said a peep about one of Christianity's most holy days.

 

[FatalTater]

Happy Easter, friends and foes. Apparently 'our king' has still neglected to give us all a message on this lovely day which has not escaped public notice. Sure is strange that 'our king' has never neglected to officiate his love and positivity towards islamic populace but has not said a peep about one of Christianity's most holy days.

Condolences, friend.
As an American my instinct is to tell you lot to get ready to fight like hell to stay Christian, but I have a feeling I should just tell you to prepare to start dressing your female family members in hijabs and abayas.
I hope I'm wrong.

Happy Easter

 

[Duane Dibbley]

How obvious does it have to be that muslims run Britain? They control the voting blocks, control the king, can pray in the middle of London, are protected by the police, are allowed to nonce on kids without punishment - 40 years later and migrants are majority muslim.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I decided to get some CULTURE and go visit a nice English historic location. Get some fresh air, enjoy the flowers, see some old ruins. You know the thing.

Get to the car park and 3 20ish black guys run in with super soakers. Full London, hood up looking really sketchy. I assume they're super soakers and not air soft guns. But it's not a pleasant display.

I toodle round. Enjoy the flowers, the ducks on the pond. Jolly good English weather trying to steal my top hat and require my cane to keep me from toppling over. The usual English spring problems.. And then I spot it..

Spoiler: Britain 2026.

There is a girl close to or in her early teens. Cat ears head band.. She walks past me and then I see she's got a fucking tail on her skirt. We're talking all but fursuit outfit here..

This country is now a bizarre circus of negro antics and creepy fetishes on display. Back in my day the weirdos used to hang around in men's toilets and offer to wank you off for a fag. It's all gone to pish and I am disturbed that the jolly ol' England is now just the internet from 15 years ago.

Spoiler: old man complains about the youth

I do not want to see little girls dressed as furries. If it was a kid playing silly games that's fine, but this was not an outfit that's just some kid playing around. Short skirt, stockings and tail down to the knee. It was disturbing.