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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.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

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IIRC there were multiple whistleblowers that in schools were English girls were made to put up with boys coming into the bathrooms and changing rooms because they were trannies, Muslim girls were given their own spaces or allowed to use disabled toilets etc with the express permission of the school.

Tax day... knowing that if I don't do my returns I'll get a knock on the door, but if Adbul down the street running his rape and vape shop doesn't do them, he gets to import 16 kids... maybe i'll just leave it as long as possible lol. Idk when the deadline even is, the website is fucking nightmarish and people keep going on about some 3rd form I have to fill in the Digital Income form? fucks sake man, I don't wanna support Becky and Basmillah and Braydens and Bomadishus kids they neglect, I just wanna be able to get the bins picked up and see a GP.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I just wanna be able to get the bins picked up and see a GP.

Now that is proper hate speak. I hope you feel ashamed of yourself. We have a diverse and inclusive country and we need all those GPs for boat people. Where is your stiff upper lip and open wallet? Are you brown? Post hands. You have to be brown to be this unBritish! God save the king, defender of the faith!

 

[Otterly]

we review all the worst gifts that you can give to children whose parents you hate!

-drum kit

 

[Gian-Luca Caluga]

-drum kit

Electric drum kit. You can pretend they're really quiet and great for noise-free practice but they're a lot louder than most think, especially if they're upstairs. Bonus points if it comes with a great big loud amplifier included like some of the Millennium bundles on Thomann.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

Where we review all the worst gifts that you can give to children whose parents you hate!

Nerf gun to that kind of young lad, especially if they have a sibling. Chaos will ensue.

 

[Chicken of the woods]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tory-mp-strangled-boy-to-death-at-sex-abuse-party-victim-claims-9864608.html
Everyone put in charge of investigating this resigns and gives up. It went through 4 different people over 3 years. And over 100 files went missing from the case file before it even got started.

This "Nick" has pretty conclusively been shown to be a fantasist. Unfortunately his allegations have just muddied the water and created a smokescreen for real perpetrators to hide behind.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

This "Nick" has pretty conclusively been shown to be a fantasist. Unfortunately his allegations have just muddied the water and created a smokescreen for real perpetrators to hide behind.

What evidence do you have for this? I'm not saying you're wrong but he was talking about things we've seen happening more recently so it's hard to know if he's a faggot lying or the media dressed him up as a clown.

 

[Clem Fandango]

-drum kit

Absolutely savage, you can definitely be a guest on the show

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Used to buy them an air gun or a sword and let them get themselves in more trouble than their parents could get them out of. No little boy can resist misusing an air gun.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

There are new allegations from a girl named 'Amelia' who is claiming that she was trafficked to Westminster and offered to a 'senior Labour MP' for sex in 2021-22.

Christ yea I can see why she became goth and wants to kill rapists now.

Your own King went and secretly converted to being a goat fucking, child bride having, pedophile worshipping

The only new part here is the goat fucking. You forgot to mention the incest though.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

No little boy can resist misusing an air gun.

Nerf guns were banned in my house till I was 11 because I'd just shoot my sister in the face (I was an excellent marksman).

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Nerf guns were banned in my house till I was 11 because I'd just shoot my sister in the face (I was an excellent marksman).

You were preparing her for being a loving girlfriend!

Nerf darts always went missing. You would shoot the dog like twice and suddenly they were all gone and "you have that at home" when you saw them in the shop.

 

[Quintex96]

Where we review all the worst gifts that you can give to children whose parents you hate!

Play dough or anything similarly messy that is impossible to get out of carpet.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Play dough or anything similarly messy that is impossible to get out of carpet.

Slime is worse than play dough. Gack I think it was called got in the carpet and never left. Glitter is good too..

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Overall I rate this a solid 9/10 on the hatometer. Join us next week when we review toy cars that make a repeating 7-10 second loop that can't be switched off without removing the batteries.

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING beats Scaletrix for shit, annoying presents. First off, it's a 50/50 chance that the track pieces don't fit together because they're made in china dogshit plastic, secondly within 10 seconds of pressing the accelorator you'll smell the most vile ozone type shit coming from the transformer, thirdly kids don't understand the concept of slowing down so every 5 seconds is spent putting the car back on the track while everyone complains.

They're also fairly expensive for what they are and after about two or three disappointing runs, the kids will never EVER play with it again.

 

[Clem Fandango]

within 10 seconds of pressing the accelorator you'll smell the most vile ozone type shit coming from the transformer,

Ahh, the smell of my childhood. Ours also had the smell of burning, coming from the contacts on one of the cars that had deteriorated until it looked like an overused paintbrush. Also, one car was noticeably faster than the other one, so the winner of any race was just determined by "who gets to be red" (which, in turn, was determined by fighting).

 

[Cassius Crayfish]

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!

Matthew says "the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah." While Luke says "Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph." So both of them go out of their way to remind people that Jesus was not the son of Joseph.

And if the contention is that he can't claim the Davidic lineage for that reason, well in Matthew's account Joseph names and raises Jesus after taking Mary as his wife, which made Jesus his legal heir in Jewish law (thus making him of the line of David in one way), while Luke's genealogy is generally believed to actually be giving his lineage through Mary's line (thus making him of the line of David in another way).

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.

You've got this the wrong way around. We celebrate Easter on the date of Passover weekend because it is directly connected to the Passover. We know which dates it could've happened in the approximate years because we can calculate based on when Passover would've been in those years, but the exact date is not as significant as the connection with Passover, so it moves around accordingly each year.

We celebrate Christmas on a particular day because no-one knows the exact date he was born, so they selected it based on a old tradition that prominent persons were conceived and died on the same date. From the date of Passover in the estimated year of Jesus death they concluded he died on 25th March, so therefore adding nine months of gestation would come to 25th December, and that's as good as any date.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Are you sure you're remembering right?

Yes. I'm not sure what part of my post you're taking issue with.

 

[Cassius Crayfish]

Yes. I'm not sure what part of my post you're taking issue with.

I edited an update while you were posting

 

[Clem Fandango]

I edited an update while you were posting

Ah fair enough, but I think I kind of preempted that by saying:

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.

Like, it's the observation of a nine year old. Obviously I'm not the first person to say "... but Joseph isn't Jesus's dad".

I'm no biblical scholar, but I did my time in Sunday school. Christianity is my religion and I reserve the right to point out funny/silly stuff in the bible. I'm not intending this stuff as serious criticism.