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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.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

They did a 'food market' in town two weeks ago and I was excited to get some Portuguese tarts and sweeties, only to find almost every stall was run by Indians, including the 'Mexican' food stall, the 'olde English' fudge, the 'Chinese' stall... disgusting.

I've noticed anything patriotic is owned by pakis. The old English tea company or whatever is pakis. There was some DESU VULT shirt place that made cool patriotic shirts (I was looking for one as a joke when playing in tournaments in other countries, I'm not that autistic) and again owned by pakis. They know no one will buy paki stuff so they label it native to try and blend in. There was that big scandal over biscuits at Christmas. The Swedish(?) butter biscuits were all being made in India and labeled European. They showed how gross the factories were and everything.

The only foreign owned food places I accept are owned by greeks or someone similar and then it has to be long term settlers. I know of a decent chippy that's got a slightly brown owner. But he's owned it since before I was born. He's been here forever and he's only slightly brown. Like Italians, Spanish, greeks. European rape babies are usually okay if there's just one of them running the chippy.

The cohort of warhammer autists I know absolutely luurrvvvv Digbeth and the model/card shop in the custard factory and how 'great' it is on a night out, and completely fail to realise most of that area is white middle class people owning their own shops and pubs.

I don't know the area well. What is the custard factory?

A lot of card shops have tranny problems. It sucks to be an autistic man child and find a decent store get invaded by DnD larpers pretending to be women.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

I don't know the area well. What is the custard factory?

A lot of card shops have tranny problems. It sucks to be an autistic man child and find a decent store get invaded by DnD larpers pretending to be women.

Spoiler: Bham and card shop sperging

The Custard Factory/Zellig is the '''gentrified'' (it was RUN down and empty beforehand, ww2 bombing that was never rebuilt) area of Digbeth, its a large building that rents out spaces to 'artsy' places, indoor golf, pubs/bars, a pizza gaff, vegan cafes, a hairdressers or two, a hobby shop, etc. There's some controversy around it to my understanding because the area was rented out with the promise/understanding that the tram extension from Moor Street would be completed in 2022-3 and connect Digbeth to Corporation street, thus bringing more business as people wouldn't have to walk under the Bullring and down Digbeth, which again, is super run down. The tram opened this Monday, and only goes two stops. IDK the name of the card/hobby shop but I know there is one there.
There is, recently just moved, the GameHQ in Great Western Arcade that does TCG, run by a guy called Dan and some other fat white guy. Nice lads but terrible trade in prices for Pokemon lol.

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[Otterly]

A lot of card shops have tranny problems.

The last two games workshops I’ve been in to pick something up for the kids I have been treated like it was the queen dropping by. Maybe they don’t get many women in, but the guys running the floor could not have been nicer or more enthusiastic if they tried. Honestly a very fun experience, excellent customer service

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Spoiler: Bham and card shop sperging

The Custard Factory/Zellig is the '''gentrified'' (it was RUN down and empty beforehand, ww2 bombing that was never rebuilt) area of Digbeth, its a large building that rents out spaces to 'artsy' places, indoor golf, pubs/bars, a pizza gaff, vegan cafes, a hairdressers or two, a hobby shop, etc. There's some controversy around it to my understanding because the area was rented out with the promise/understanding that the tram extension from Moor Street would be completed in 2022-3 and connect Digbeth to Corporation street, thus bringing more business as people wouldn't have to walk under the Bullring and down Digbeth, which again, is super run down. The tram opened this Monday, and only goes two stops. IDK the name of the card/hobby shop but I know there is one there.
There is, recently just moved, the GameHQ in Great Western Arcade that does TCG, run by a guy called Dan and some other fat white guy. Nice lads but terrible trade in prices for Pokemon lol.

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I don't know the place well enough to know what you mean. I'll have to google stuff and figure it out.

The last two games workshops I’ve been in to pick something up for the kids I have been treated like it was the queen dropping by. Maybe they don’t get many women in, but the guys running the floor could not have been nicer or more enthusiastic if they tried. Honestly a very fun experience, excellent customer service

GW shops are usually run by 1 dude. It's a coin flip what they're like. You get neck beards who stare at your tits or decent dudes like you got. One local store would lie to people going in to buy gifts like you were. The staff would pretend to know the person they were buying for and try to nudge them towards buying things they didn't want. If you were asked to pick up some primer you might get told they knew your son and he wanted these new space marines for his army. It was sketchy as fuck

Don't buy from GW direct. every where else does 10-20% off. You will save a fortune shopping at places like Element games or Wayland games online.

 

[Haunted Tamagotchi]

The last two games workshops I’ve been in to pick something up for the kids I have been treated like it was the queen dropping by. Maybe they don’t get many women in, but the guys running the floor could not have been nicer or more enthusiastic if they tried. Honestly a very fun experience, excellent customer service

Similar experience at the one by me, to be honest. Husband and I occasionally go in to get some Warhammer bits and pieces and the staff are kind, enthusiastic and lovely blokes. They actually had a girl working there the last time I went and she seemed to really be happy in the job too.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Communities Secretary Steve Reed has been placed in charge of "community cohesion" during the war but it's expected that any major protests will be managed by the Home Office and police forces. They note fears of 'stop the war' protests in Muslim communities

Hours after this, pro-palestine demonstrators attempt to swarm 'senior service personnel' leaving the Ministry of Defence. (alt tweet archive)

Via Emma Parr of Chelmsford Safety Watch, Crowborough migrants kick off after being denied new clothing. She adds that in Wethersfeld, migrants protested due to a lack of Internet.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

The last two games workshops I’ve been in to pick something up for the kids I have been treated like it was the queen dropping by. Maybe they don’t get many women in, but the guys running the floor could not have been nicer or more enthusiastic if they tried. Honestly a very fun experience, excellent customer service

Gw is almost exclusively staffed by people who are going to be hyper autistically into warhammer. No one is going to want to know how many points a greater demon of slanesh (with whip not claw) is and how many wounds it has unless they give a shit about the game itself. They're always going to be the type of person that will love to talk to you about their niche hobbies, that's probably why they applied for the job in the first place. Same for model shops and tcg shops and so on. It's not going to pay much better than working at tesco or some shit but is going to require extra knowledge, if you don't care about that knowledge you'd just go work at tescos.

Crowborough migrants kick off after being denied new clothing.

Ahhh yes sorry I forgot about the human right to be given a new stony jacket by the government. That one's written in both the quaran and echr that is.

And what the fuck is a 'camp incident'? I mean I know what I'm thinking, I know what you're thinking, I just don't think labour would do that, maybe Lowe will. But are we really just fucking shoving them in a park and giving them a tent or some shit? At that point shove them on a plane back home, clearly that can't be much worse. Or is this part of that programme to reintroduce native megafauna?

 

[Just a boring name]

The last two games workshops I’ve been in to pick something up for the kids I have been treated like it was the queen dropping by. Maybe they don’t get many women in, but the guys running the floor could not have been nicer or more enthusiastic if they tried. Honestly a very fun experience, excellent customer service

I used to have a similar experience in Maplins (PBUH).
Always staffed by blokes who have never been within sniffing distance of a woman, It was always fun when going into the shop wearing what I call a "Holy Shit!" bra and a top showing off The Girls.

Instant service, mystery discount that Mr. Just A Boring Name never seemed to get, and a few freebies chucked in the bag for good measure.

If I had a penchant for Worammuh (Thanks, Athletico Mince!) I'd nip into Games Workshop (does it still exist? I thought I heard awhile back that it had gone into liquidation or something?) and do the same for a giggle.

DISCLAIMER- I've had a shit week at work and fallen face first into a bottle of Banana Rum

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Hours after this, pro-palestine demonstrators attempt to swarm 'senior service personnel' leaving the Ministry of Defence. (alt tweet archive)

Via Emma Parr of Chelmsford Safety Watch, Crowborough migrants kick off after being denied new clothing. She adds that in Wethersfeld, migrants protested due to a lack of Internet.
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They’re welcome to fuck off back to where they came from, if they don’t like their life over here.

How many natives get second hand clothes and internet provided to their door, and would riot if they didn’t? Fucking cheek of their illegal immigrants. If you want rights to free stuff, go to your own country. They don’t give you those rights? Riot for them there. Not our responsibility to keep these people in internet porn and free clothing.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Banana Rum

Bananas are fucking vile and banana flavouring ruins literally anything it touches. The only exception was that disgustingly neon yellow medication that tasted so heavily of chemicals that it overpowered the banana flavour it was meant to taste of.

 

[Just a boring name]

Bananas are fucking vile and banana flavouring ruins literally anything it touches. The only exception was that disgustingly neon yellow medication that tasted so heavily of chemicals that it overpowered the banana flavour it was meant to taste of.

I would normally agree wholeheartedly with you, but I've been in the pub since half 4 and I've left my sense of dignity safely locked away at work.

 

[Brahma]

And what the fuck is a 'camp incident'? I mean I know what I'm thinking, I know what you're thinking, I just don't think labour would do that, maybe Lowe will.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-accommodation-at-military-sites-factsheets/crowborough-training-camp-east-sussex-factsheet

Military camp. They're probably in the barracks or more likely new prefabs or something

 

[femboy fart huffer]

I would normally agree wholeheartedly with you, but I've been in the pub since half 4 and I've left my sense of dignity safely locked away at work.

Fucking hell posting from a pub? And drinking rum in a pub? Spirits? In this economy? Christ.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Bananas are fucking vile and banana flavouring ruins literally anything it touches. The only exception was that disgustingly neon yellow medication that tasted so heavily of chemicals that it overpowered the banana flavour it was meant to taste of.

Rubbish! Bananas Foster is a godly dessert. We basically had to ban it in our house when we first discovered it, as I was having it multiple times a week and probably taking years off my life (worth it).

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Welshy's ghost is lurking again. "We have to be professional and we need experience" wasn't his opinion. It's the party line for why every single new hire is a paki. There's 8 pakis and 1 black announced today. And the response is sparmy shit like this. White people just can't be as professional as this literally brown ghoul. This comes from a black conservative they dropped into the seat after the last popular conservative (white man) retired. So it's Reform and Conservatives parroting the same narrative on why you need more brown people.

 

[teriyakiburns]

She adds that in Wethersfeld, migrants protested due to a lack of Internet.

Oh, they're on YouFibre as well are they?

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Keir Starmer has yet to authorise the seizure of Russian tankers in the English Channel over fears the sailors will be able to claim asylum. It's thought that Putin has sent agents on board so they can spy on Britain from within. Many sailors on on the sanctioned Russian tankers are mercenaries hired by the Kremlin who could argue they were at risk of persecution in Russia or their home country if they returned there.
I almost cracked a rib laughing out loud.

The UK is 'preparing a new plan' to ready the whole nation for war. From the military and police to hospitals and industry, the head of the UK Armed Forces says the new Government War Book will require Brits to think differently about resilience.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Keir Starmer has yet to authorise the seizure of Russian tankers in the English Channel over fears the sailors will be able to claim asylum. It's thought that Putin has sent agents on board so they can spy on Britain from within. Many sailors on on the sanctioned Russian tankers are mercenaries hired by the Kremlin who could argue they were at risk of persecution in Russia or their home country if they returned there.
I almost cracked a rib laughing out loud.

The UK is 'preparing a new plan' to ready the whole nation for war. From the military and police to hospitals and industry, the head of the UK Armed Forces says the new Government War Book will require Brits to think differently about resilience.

So their plan is to fill the country full of Islamists and then go to war with an Islamic country. Mean while Australia witch hunts their best soldier because he killed people during a war with guerrilla islamists.. The west cannot get any stupider. There is nothing this country would fight for or go to war with other people over right now. They would rather turn their weapons on the government than go fight sand niggers or Russians.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Chagos deal is off. Archive - Live. Turns out the treaty couldn't be formalised without a formal exchange of letters with the US, which never happened. There's not enough time left in the current session of parliament to pass the bill authorising the treaty and it's unlikely to appear in the king's speech at the next opening.

I guess the Chagossians winning their court case put the kibosh on it at last. Starmer is forced into yet another humiliating u-turn.

 

[AssignedEva]

Chagos deal is off. Archive - Live. Turns out the treaty couldn't be formalised without a formal exchange of letters with the US, which never happened. There's not enough time left in the current session of parliament to pass the bill authorising the treaty and it's unlikely to appear in the king's speech at the next opening.

I guess the Chagossians winning their court case put the kibosh on it at last. Starmer is forced into yet another humiliating u-turn.

Thank fuck. I still think we don't know the whole story here because not only was this such an insane deal but also the US apparently really pushed us towards it, and then suddenly changed their mind.
Whatever was going on, the moment the US stopped "pushing" us, we should have snapped back to reality. Unfortunately our idiot PM moves at a glacial pace to make any decision.