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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]

Several MPs called Keir a lying liar who avoids questions in Parliament today, including Sultana who got removed from the House lmfao.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

No 10 sources say the public will get to see “angry Starmer” in the Commons later today.

ANOTHER TWINK???????????????? Fucking hell someone get him in chastity.

Dry stone walls kinda confuse me honestly. Where the fuck did they come from and who made them? Like that's a lot of stone cut to fit and there's so much of it. There's loads near me but there's no quarries. Idk did ye olde englishe folke just did it rain rocks or something? Idk did people back then just do stonemasonry as a hobby or something. It must have taken just an insane amount of work to do especially transportation and all that. Crazy. Like I bet I could make a Stone Henge easier than an entire dry stone wall.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Dry stone walls kinda confuse me honestly. Where the fuck did they come from and who made them? Like that's a lot of stone cut to fit and there's so much of it. There's loads near me but there's no quarries.

It's generally not cut stone, but small boulders and waste pieces, which is why assembling the wall is such a skilled job. You have to be able to cobble random bits of stone together in a reasonably even face, using their shapes to lock them together so they don't immediately fall apart. A lot of the stone is ploughed up over the years, but a lot also comes from small quarries that have since been filled in. In a pre-industrial society they're less maintenance intensive than hedges and more robust than fences, so for a lot of history they were the default for marking out boundaries and keeping livestock from wandering. Most of those walls near you were likely originally laid down hundreds of years ago. They'll have shifted about a bit as boundaries changed and as repairs were made, but depending on which part of the country you're in, it's not unlikely the stone in them was quarried around the time magna carta was being signed.

 

[diroama]

As a voter who is increasinly comfortable embracing his growing enthusiasm for racism I find the below tweet to be music to my ears.

https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/2046130237822431551

Imagine an updated "Labour isnt working" poster, but instead of a line of unemployed British people, its a snake of dusky delivery drivers, doctors, engineers and their retarded children. Just the text "Millions must go". Would be utter dynamite and it would get my vote.

I know this thread is missing its daily Reform shilling, so i thought i'd bring a bit of that energy back.

 

[Replacement Account]

Like I bet I could make a Stone Henge easier than an entire dry stone wall.

I mean sure you could, it's current year- Stonehenge for what was available was a crazy undertaking.

Some of the stones travelled from as far away as Wales with others *only* the other side of England.

They didn't even have metal or the wheel here at the time.

 

[diroama]

I mean sure you could, it's current year- Stonehenge for what was available was a crazy undertaking.

Some of the stones travelled from as far away as Wales with others *only* the other side of England.

They didn't even have metal or the wheel here at the time.

I think stone henge is overrated.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

How is Restore doing in polls? I know it's very early, but I'm genuinely curious.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

It's generally not cut stone, but small boulders and waste pieces

There is no way that especially that image hasn't had the sides of the stones smothed to some extent. I get they're offcuts and shit but there is no way the offcuts come off that clean. Maybe if they were offcuts from sawing but even then those are remarkably smooth on all sides it looks like they would have at least smoothed them to some extent. Obviously not cutting them into perfect blocks but at least roughly chiselling them flat.

How do you get offcuts that well fitting without any smoothing when normally the offcuts end up as cobbles that need mortar to fill the gaps it results in.

Stonemasonry is just one of those inherently cool things. Truly the human desire to take something from nature and create something that will outlive any knowledge of it's creators. All that shit just used to be an amorphous blob in the ground. Now with nothing more than human intelligence and willpower it's a specific shape that alligns with other specific shapes all to come together in one massive shape that has outlived every animal and almost every plant that were alive during it's construction. Just the sheer amount of labour that goes into a single cut block of stone I have no idea how they ever managed to build anything. I look at the old churches near me and even without factoring in transport there's no way I could cut all that stone by hand with just a chisel in a lifetime.

 

[diroama]

How is Restore doing in polls? I know it's very early, but I'm genuinely curious.

Small single figures (though they're registering without being prompted), but the fact that it's being said is something at least. The needle needs to be moved to arguing about how many millions should go, rather than how many million more should be let in, and I think it's twitching.

I'm baffled by Reform's continuing popularity: how can they have got to the level of support they have by being the party of racism, and all that entails, yet retain it when we see them stuffing their ranks with brown people? I think it's probably all down to Farage and once he's gone they'll pop. We need to move beyond cult of personality politics - be that Corbyn, Polanski, Farage or Trump. It's just so small time.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

I'm baffled by Reform's continuing popularity: how can they have got to the level of support they have by being the party of racism, and all that entails, yet retain it when we see them stuffing their ranks with brown people?

I'm also really confused by Reform's numbers and policies. However, I'm a Yank, and there a lot of things about British politics I don't understand.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

I'm baffled by Reform's continuing popularity: how can they have got to the level of support they have by being the party of racism, and all that entails, yet retain it when we see them stuffing their ranks with brown people?

Does the average person keep up to date with politics that much though? Or was it just 'tories are shit this other one sounds good' and they haven't thought about it any further in the past year? Or how many of those people are the type of people to vote tory not because they like the tories but because there's an election and they're not going to vote labour and reform just took the place of that mindless vote.

 

[diroama]

I'm also really confused by Reform's numbers and policies. However, I'm a Yank, and there a lot of things about British politics I don't understand.

Nothing in British politics has been about policies for about 20 years. It's all spin, u-turns, lies and disappointment as we sleep walk into a future owned by babbling rape cultists and bone idle chronic illness sufferers with SEN kids.

Does the average person keep up to date with politics that much though? Or was it just 'tories are shit this other one sounds good' and they haven't thought about it any further in the past year? Or how many of those people are the type of people to vote tory not because they like the tories but because there's an election and they're not going to vote labour and reform just took the place of that mindless vote.

You nailed it. The people who claim to "keep up with politics" are trannies and their handmaidens watching Green party tiktoks.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

The people who claim to "keep up with politics" are trannies and their handmaidens watching Green party tiktoks

But we all keep up with politics here... oh no are we are Green Party trannies???

 

[diroama]

But we all keep up with politics here... oh no are we are Green Party trannies???

No were monitoring politics it's very different.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

But we all keep up with politics here... oh no are we are Green Party trannies???

We do? This is a news thread? I thought this was just the place for English people to be racist?

 

[Otterly]

Like I bet I could make a Stone Henge easier than an entire dry stone wall.

It’s a real skill. It’s fascinating to watch, if you ever get the chance.

Obviously not cutting them into perfect blocks but at least roughly chiselling them flat.

Not necessarily . People used what they had and they’d use a mix of reclaimed stone, the rocks that had been cleared from the fields and then they’d pic out specific things for the capstones and the facings. Slate and schist split easily along the planes and so they’re kind of naturally flat faced, and I’d bet it’s easy with a lot of the limestone you see too. The oldest a dry stone walls o. Britain are nearly 4000 years old so they sure weren’t dressing every stone.
You used to see people fixing them more - I knew a few people who’d do it on the summer breaks as poorly paid labour just for an enjoyable way to be outdoors.
People who lay hedges as well - also fascinating to watch done.
This has been boundary autism, with Otterly

 

[Just a boring name]

There is no way that especially that image hasn't had the sides of the stones smothed to some extent. I get they're offcuts and shit but there is no way the offcuts come off that clean. Maybe if they were offcuts from sawing but even then those are remarkably smooth on all sides it looks like they would have at least smoothed them to some extent. Obviously not cutting them into perfect blocks but at least roughly chiselling them flat.

How do you get offcuts that well fitting without any smoothing when normally the offcuts end up as cobbles that need mortar to fill the gaps it results in.

Stonemasonry is just one of those inherently cool things. Truly the human desire to take something from nature and create something that will outlive any knowledge of it's creators. All that shit just used to be an amorphous blob in the ground. Now with nothing more than human intelligence and willpower it's a specific shape that alligns with other specific shapes all to come together in one massive shape that has outlived every animal and almost every plant that were alive during it's construction. Just the sheer amount of labour that goes into a single cut block of stone I have no idea how they ever managed to build anything. I look at the old churches near me and even without factoring in transport there's no way I could cut all that stone by hand with just a chisel in a lifetime.

It's an amazing process .... every single piece is useful and nothing is wasted. Even the tiny bits are popped inbetween and used as fillers. It is kind of like Tetris, but with more grazed hands.
We see a lot of it around where I live, I had a go last year at my friend's farm.
The whole process, from removing the fallen rocks, sorting them into sizes, and putting them back, is Autistically Fascinating.

There is a tradition of putting a coin inside the wall for good luck. If Dear Leader made junky, crappy metal coins instead of decent silver coins I'd have definitely shoved some in the wall.

 

[Just a boring name]

It’s a real skill. It’s fascinating to watch, if you ever get the chance.

Not necessarily . People used what they had and they’d use a mix of reclaimed stone, the rocks that had been cleared from the fields and then they’d pic out specific things for the capstones and the facings. Slate and schist split easily along the planes and so they’re kind of naturally flat faced, and I’d bet it’s easy with a lot of the limestone you see too. The oldest a dry stone walls o. Britain are nearly 4000 years old so they sure weren’t dressing every stone.
You used to see people fixing them more - I knew a few people who’d do it on the summer breaks as poorly paid labour just for an enjoyable way to be outdoors.
People who lay hedges as well - also fascinating to watch done.
This has been boundary autism, with Otterly

I agree! Hedgelaying is also fascinating, the way they know exactly how much they can cut the main stalks (trunks?) to not kill them, but make them pliable enough to bend and weave is a fantastic art.
I wish LANTRA or some organisation would run hedgelaying courses.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

It’s a real skill. It’s fascinating to watch, if you ever get the chance.

I've seen people repairing the walls from car crashes or tree damage and honestly they just looked like they were doing the classic fake busy shit and just moving things from a to b and then b to a on a loop.

Normal stonemasonry is really cool. If I had a shit load of extra time and access to a personal quarry I'd definitely build I guess a shed or something?

 

[EddyRooney]

As a voter who is increasinly comfortable embracing his growing enthusiasm for racism I find the below tweet to be music to my ears.

Why do you think Rupert Lowe's tweet is racist or sympathetic to racism ?
I don't understand. He hasn't written anything even approaching racist. Race isn't even mentioned in the tweet.
All he has stated is that his potential government intends to follow the natural rule of law by returning people that are here illegally.
Language such as yours needs to be questioned. This isn't even remotely racist ( or pandering to it ), it isn't illegal, it's just common sense - it is the government doing what it is supposed to do.