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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.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Can I just be the first to say

Boing boing Burnley Burnley

Cov up, Leicester and Wolves down. The Midlands football roundabout spins on.

Oh god, Burnley back in the Championship. They make Italian football of the 90s look exciting. Can’t wait.

High Street mini-marts selling cocaine, cannabis and prescription drugs, BBC secret filming reveals

The usual suspects, I see.

Interesting to hear from other high street shop owners. It seems the drug and vape dealing forruns are attempting to violence their way into opening as many shops as possible, to sell as many drugs as possible. It used to be that shops were a big investment and took a lot to set up. There seems to be some issues with how easy it is to do this now, if it really is that easy. I’m assuming drug and immigrant family money, coupled with the dying high street meaning more units available.

In my day it was just ice cream vans selling drugs. You’re telling me I can nip into my local Bongistan shop and get something for the weekend? Ethel from over the road will be pleased.

Fuck me, we really have lost control, haven’t we? No real power to stop this, when everyone knows it’s happening. All local MPs and council members can do is repeat bullshit about how they’ve cut crime and their numbers are so much better than those other politicians. Meanwhile, at Bongistan Local they’re selling more prescription drugs than Boots.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expected to sign the three-year agreement with France on Thursday, which will see at least 50 police officers, each trained in "riot and crowd control tactics", drafted in to tackle violence and "hostile crowds".

Oooooh, a handful of riot police will definitely stop hundreds of thousands of foreign dickheads from getting in a dinghy.

Just trash every dinghy. Know we don’t have much of a navy left, but fuck sending them to the Middle East, they should be patrolling the south coast to scoop up/shoot the boats out from under these fuckers so they don’t get to our shores. Illegal immigration, clue’s in the name. Why are we allowing them to travel and land when it’s illegal? Why are the frogs allowing them to camp on the coast when they’re illegal there too? Plenty of planes hanging about, scoop them up and drop the fuckers in Rwanda. Real refugees go to the nearest country from their own and then go back home. These are economic spongers and we’re poor enough already. Fifty riot police, get a grip.

Or in other words, the media classes assume someone with a strong Northern accent is too unsophisticated and thick to be scheming, and will blurt out whatever they're thinking.

Midlands accents equal thick as fuck, so you never see them on advertising either unless it’s to have the viewer go “ah, silly fucker, isn’t X product nice for saving them?”.

Benny from Crossroads has a lot to answer for. And Timothy from Auf Wiedersehen Pet.

 

[Clem Fandango]

(same sort of thing as Scouse, which is never used in these "Northerners are trustworthy" examples)

A lot of these ads would take on quite a different complexion narrated in Scouse. It'd be like someone just wandered in to try and sell you pirated DVDs out of a carrier bag. No one wants to listen to that while doing the washing up.

 

[LongDayAgain]

The concept of a 40 year old man asking a 41 year old man to buy him fags in the future in the Yookay is really funny.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

The 'Yorkshire is trustworthy' probably comes from a lot of art/literature coming from the Yorkshire upper class and stately homes and being circulated amongst the London socialites. It breeds familiarity.

PoliticsUK has been unmasked as a potential Reform member, an advert for their 'Conversations' labelled Jenrick as the Shadow Chancellor. People repsonded poorly and accused PoliticsUK, who claim to be run by a team of uni students, to be a Reform member. Actually quite surprising to me as his 'counterpart' PoliticsGB (Charlie) is staunchly Reform/Restore and much more 'mask off' with with 'right-wing' stuff. They took the tweet down as I was trying to archive it,

 

[A-Logato]

It's St Georges day today, feels like even less people then the last have even acknowledged it besides a few lefties trying to "own the gammons".

 

[Chunky Salsa]

It's St Georges day today, feels like even less people then the last have even acknowledged it besides a few lefties trying to "own the gammons".

Warwick church tolled the bells as celebration for it.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

It's St Georges day today, feels like even less people then the last have even acknowledged it besides a few lefties trying to "own the gammons".

I don’t understand why it’s frowned upon to celebrate it, when the other nations in the union are cheered on for celebrating theirs. Colonialism be damned, England has a long-standing and ancient culture of its own that English people should be proud of.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I don’t understand why it’s frowned upon to celebrate it, when the other nations in the union are cheered on for celebrating theirs. Colonialism be damned, England has a long-standing and ancient culture of its own that English people should be proud of.

The real irritiance tbh is the gaslighting. The song and dance of 'You can't celebrate this day openly' and someone will inevitably reddit pose and say "Yeah you can, it's just propaganda that you can't"
You're getting called a fucking slur. I'm gonna hit you with a bikelock and then call you a slur.

 

[Quintex96]

It's St Georges day today, feels like even less people then the last have even acknowledged it besides a few lefties trying to "own the gammons".

Someone hung up St George's flags on every lampost where I live.

 

[Clem Fandango]

It's St Georges day today, feels like even less people then the last have even acknowledged it besides a few lefties trying to "own the gammons".

They acknowledged it at my work, but while other days got their own special menu in the canteen ("iftar", anyone?) it was sadly not powerful enough to dislodge Curry Thursdays.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

I can always rely on the farms to ruin a beautiful evening with doomerism.

Does anyone else think that the whole hatred of Liz Truss is astroturfed to fuck?
Why are people still talking about her and calling her the worst PM ever when we have TTK himself?

The whole thing especially the lettuce thing seems forced as fuck.

 

[Overly Serious]

I can always rely on the farms to ruin a beautiful evening with doomerism.

Does anyone else think that the whole hatred of Liz Truss is astroturfed to fuck?
Why are people still talking about her and calling her the worst PM ever when we have TTK himself?

The whole thing especially the lettuce thing seems forced as fuck.

I did then. I do now. I will in the future.

All the organs of Britain seemed to unite around attacking her. Half her own party suddenly turned on her.

She went against the banks.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I think it's because she largely doesn't defend herself tbh. The res of the political slime will screech and head to the press with blackmail tier material if you call them retards. Truss does not.

 

[Goose the Redeemer]

I don’t understand why it’s frowned upon to celebrate it, when the other nations in the union are cheered on for celebrating theirs.

Only the English are considered "white". The Irish were "slaves", and therefore Black; the Welsh were the "true Britons" that were "displaced" by the Romans, making Wales one large reservation for the "Natives"; and the men in Scotland wear skirts, so they get the LGBT pass.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

PoliticsUK has been unmasked as a potential Reform member

Fucking hell did they not learn anything from welshie?

 

[GratsTheat783]

PoliticsUK has been unmasked as a potential Reform member, an advert for their 'Conversations' labelled Jenrick as the Shadow Chancellor. People repsonded poorly and accused PoliticsUK, who claim to be run by a team of uni students, to be a Reform member. Actually quite surprising to me as his 'counterpart' PoliticsGB (Charlie) is staunchly Reform/Restore and much more 'mask off' with with 'right-wing' stuff. They took the tweet down as I was trying to archive it,
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I'm a little confused, how did that reveal them as a Reform member? I think Nigel already announced him as part of his "shadow cabinet", so it wouldn't be too unusual to refer to him as such, right?

EDIT: No, stalker, I did NOT triple post, you are merely delusional. Enjoy prison.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

I'm a little confused, how did that reveal them as a Reform member? I think Nigel already announced him as part of his "shadow cabinet", so it wouldn't be too unusual to refer to him as such, right?

There's been speculation for a while that one of them is working with Reform. Lewis Whitmore, Theo Griffiths, and Oliver Harries, are the named admins of PoliticsUK. Harries is a 3rd year undergrad at Kings College, and there are mentions that one of the team 'works with someone in Parliament'. None of them work with the Greens or Labour, given their coverage of them.
It's also generally considered that only Reform members actively refer to him as 'Shadow Chancellor', as they are not in Opposition; think of it as a Reform 'dogwhistle'. It's like if someone is speaking about Josh Moon, but calls him 'Dear Sneeder' or Jersh, you can tell that that person uses the forums. Several people are calling them out for using Reform party language, rather than just calling him Jenrick. Ed Davey was on 'Conservations' and was referred to as an MP and leader of the party, not Leader of the Opposition.

Fucking hell did they not learn anything from welshie?

I am actually very intrigued by the idea of any potential social media tactics with Reform. Whether they are just supporters innocently trying to drum up more voters, or actually paid by the party...

 

[i440BX]

I did then. I do now. I will in the future.

All the organs of Britain seemed to unite around attacking her. Half her own party suddenly turned on her.

She went against the banks.

Care to explain in detail why are banks acting like mafia?

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Care to explain in detail why are banks acting like mafia?

Money = Power.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Care to explain in detail why are banks acting like mafia?

One word replies are a ban.

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