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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.

 

[Overly Serious]

Restore are standing in Makerfield.

For whatever my opinion is worth, it is absolutely the right decision. If Restore are to be a serious national party aspiring to form a government, then it has to contend every single Westminster by-election. It is irrelevant which other parties are helped or harmed. The Tories are standing. The Lib Dems are standing. The Greens are standing. Restore must stand.

Well, the die is cast! If they run they must do well. I guess time to get my printing press going... Right or wrong it's on and Restore are going to have to punch well above their weight.

EDIT: I guess I like their attitude. They aren't running away from a fight. The one thing they have in their corner is that they are the better party. But will that be enough?

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Right or wrong it's on and Restore are going to have to punch well above their weight.

Reform or Restore losing this election doesn't carry the same political weight as Burnham losing imho. Burnham is essentially deciding Starmer's fate if he goes ahead with a leadership challenge; Reform is proving also trying to prove Labour is over. Reform losing will get them a lot of flak "nationalism will never win" etc etc from the media but it won't be completely over. I still think it's stupid to run the risk of "splitting the vote" but Restore/Lowe's belief is that votes belong to no one and are earned. May the best campaigner win.

 

[Overly Serious]

Reform or Restore losing this election doesn't carry the same political weight as Burnham losing imho. Burnham is essentially deciding Starmer's fate if he goes ahead with a leadership challenge; Reform is proving also trying to prove Labour is over. Reform losing will get them a lot of flak "nationalism will never win" etc etc from the media but it won't be completely over. I still think it's stupid to run the risk of "splitting the vote" but Restore/Lowe's belief is that votes belong to no one and are earned. May the best campaigner win.

Well you and I have had this discussion a few times. One might say that your focus is on the enemy and mine is on the traitors; though that's my framing and might be a slightly unfair characterisation. I'm honestly not sure I care if Burnham displaces Kier or not. Would he bring some more unity to Labour.... prooooobably? But personally I'm just enjoying the show right now - Labour are a trash fire. I agree it could be a mistake by Restore to run. But... Alea iacta est. If you're going to play, you have to play to win.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

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Well, the die is cast! If they run they must do well. I guess time to get my printing press going... Right or wrong it's on and Restore are going to have to punch well above their weight.

EDIT: I guess I like their attitude. They aren't running away from a fight. The one thing they have in their corner is that they are the better party. But will that be enough?

This is autistic of me, but the party names being so similar (Reform/Restore) is bound to trip up at least some voters. Not sure that’s a good thing.

 

[Otterly]

When women can see other women in the movement and they're not getting driven into social exile for it, I think it helps them be more comfortable expressing such views themselves.

I think so too but my goodness, it’s hard to find women friends irl who won’t try to destroy you for even the slightest bit of non conformity. A few high profile popular girls on the side of sanity would be great

Exactly the same arguments would be used if 2 million swedes decided to decamp here and took over whole towns.

Imagine the conformist metrosexuality… shudder. Latte-* drinking metrics and blocky cut clothing stores would be through the roof.
But yeah, even cultures who are fairly similar and well behaved don’t benefit a place in high numbers. Immigration should be something that happens in small numbers only - someone marries a French girl and they settle here, or some Aussie comes over as a barman and married a local and never leaves. Wrecked spanish armarda soldier turns out to be quite attractive and married a local lass. That sort of thing. Small numbers only, anything that can’t just be quietly absorbed will always have negative effects, and the millions we import we are not building infrastructure for. Even if they were model citizens, they’d be straining the infrastructure,
Millions must go and that’s that.

*deliberately provocative, bite me

 

[Overly Serious]

This is autistic of me, but the party names being so similar (Reform/Restore) is bound to trip up at least some voters. Not sure that’s a good thing.

It's a good thing for the party with lower than half the voters and a bad thing for the party with more than half the voters, because both would trend towards the centre. But that presumes equal intelligence in both sets. If hypothetically and strictly for the same of argument, Restore voters were smarter than Reform voters, then they would make the mistake less often and therefore a confusion bias would benefit them more than it would benefit Reform.

One could think that the risk of Reform voters making a mistake could be reduced by putting Nigel Farage's face on the ballot, but then that would introduce an additional incentive not to vote for Reform that would have to be accounted for.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Wrecked spanish armarda soldier turns out to be quite attractive and married a local lass.

We can't base our immigration policy on your old Mills & Boon collection.

 

[No-Eyed Square Guy]

This is autistic of me, but the party names being so similar (Reform/Restore) is bound to trip up at least some voters. Not sure that’s a good thing.

I heard someone who canvassed for Restore (can't remember who) mention this, that the similarity of names has made it so that in the minds of those who don't closely follow politics, Restore doesn't exist.

Everything they hear about it, they attribute to Reform—solidifying its false reputation as the evil "far right" party (what normal people want to vote for).

 

[Anti Lolicon Bomb]

Is this Tommy thing today then? I did a quick look on shitter but its a bunch of dented boomers posting clips of the last one.

 

[Anti Lolicon Bomb]

Maybe the most controversial thing I will ever say. But gingers are more attractive than blondes.

 

[Amin Yasister]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tHq7nFDyH90
Nigger stabs unarmed white man to death with large knife, claims white man called him racial slurs, bleeding white man gets arrested and dies in the back of a squad car. The nigger then claims religious exemption, claiming to be a Sikh and that his knife was a ceremonial Kirpan, his lawyer is now pleading for self defense against racial slurs.

I remember years ago I made the suggestion that British people should "convert" to Sikhism just so they could open-carry a weapon as a deterrent or even for self defense, and my idea was totally ignored. I really don't understand why this nigger had the idea and went with it before native white British people did. Maybe this'll cause Anglos to catch on to the fact they can use laws meant to protect minorities for themselves? I don't see why not.

So I've learnt that Sikh's have to carry a wooden comb, wear a bangle and carry a Kirpan to show their faith.

The murderer had a small, one inch kirpan on a chain around his neck, which is sufficiently Kirpan enough to satisfy the conditions of their faith.

So why carry an 8 inch kirpan? Maybe because he is a murderous cunt. What is the reaction of the Sikh community to this? I have seen nothing yet from any media outlet seeking out Sikh's to get their view. Are they afraid of getting stabbed?

 

[Otterly]

We can't base our immigration policy on your old Mills & Boon collection.

Can you imagine basing it on a modern one?
Migrant billionaire werewolves have risen 50000% this year, the government orders us to be compassionate …
Most wreckees got lynched on the spot by the locals apparently, but I know someone whose family tree seems to include one the local ladies saved…

 

[Mussolini’s Merkin]

Looks like Streeting confirmed he’ll be running for the leadership?
I know it’s The Metro but every website sucks these days and the BBC only have it on their shitty live feed

 

[Otterly]

I also have to defend my literary honour, @Clem Fandango and say I’ve never actually read a mills and boon, nor have I succumbed to monster chick beast romance books.

Family are down in London today and saw both the protests. They had children with them so kept well out the way until everything had passed.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Looks like Streeting confirmed he’ll be running for the leadership?
I know it’s The Metro but every website sucks these days and the BBC only have it on their shitty live feed

Seems confirmed.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/16/wes-streeting-launches-scathing-attack-keir-starmer-vision-leadership

https://archive.ph/eUYGk

Guardian has changed the first image it used, I wonder why?

 

[Eekum Bokum]

Is this Tommy thing today then? I did a quick look on shitter but its a bunch of dented boomers posting clips of the last one.

Oh it's Tommy Robinson organizing it? It's worthless then.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

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Am I losing it, or do they basically look like the same person, just that one of them has tried Just For Men?

If I shaved the moustache off your pfp you would fit in there too. Don't throw razors when you live in a glass barbershop.

 

[Beautiful Border]

I have noticed disturbing similarities between the current leadership struggle in the Labour Party and the beginnings of the South Sudanese Civil War. The established leader (Keir Starmer/Salva Kiir) is suddenly betrayed by a former ally (Andy Burnham/Riek Machar) leading to the breaking up of their party (the Labour Party/Sudan People's Liberation Movement).

Even the names of the leaders are similar - Keir? Kiir? - the historical parallels are too worrying to contemplate. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

I've been watching this dude a bit lately. He's got a interesting view on Britcuck politics and he came out this morning with a couple of interesting points.

1. Why is Starmer trying to kick off a fuss? His Jew Tube/Insta-thot video is practically begging for a riot. He's threatened massive police retaliation on any minor infraction, they've broken out all the toys for whitey plus they're openly bragging they will scan every face but the sand niggers, we're told, are going to be left alone. Why in hell would you just come out and say that openly?
2. The Jeet stabbing that white guy. It happened over 6 months ago. So why was it allowed to hit the news this week? Just days before the rally all the usual suspects starting running it as a feature, pushing it right into whitey's face that Britcuck po-po would let you bleed out and die in hand cuffs rather then arrest a sand nigger.
3. Bragging about blocking all those nasty ebil whitey's who wanted to come to the protest. When you look at the list most of them are pretty damn mild but Starmer's up there talking like they're one step away from being Hitler.

All in all I think this guy's right. The Britbong elites want something to happen, be it a riot so they can finally crack down once and for all on those evil British nazi's or rather more insidiously they want to push the "populism" even farther for some other reason, He speculates the elites want to push populism to the front to gain control and direct it towards their goals rather then allow it to just spontaneously spring out nowhere and outside of their control.

Personally I dunno about the latter. I think that's giving the Britcuck elites too much credit. I think Starmer's just a fool whose usefulness is almost up so he may be the one to start the crack down and then be sacrificed to appease the masses when they go to far. Not that anything passed will be rolled back but the plebs will be allowed their pound of flesh to satisfy them.

 

[Clem Fandango]

I also have to defend my literary honour, @Clem Fandango and say I’ve never actually read a mills and boon, nor have I succumbed to monster chick beast romance books.

Family are down in London today and saw both the protests. They had children with them so kept well out the way until everything had passed.

Oh syuuuuure you haven't.

I kinda wanted to go to the UTK thing, but I've been solo-parenting today and didn't feel like dragging miladdo around central London.

I guess it would be pointless anyway. But sometimes it gets a bit tiring being so utterly powerless, and you want to do something. Probably not worth getting my face (and my boy's) on some sort of wrong'uns database.