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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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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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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.
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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.
 
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Otterly said:
They’re not flowered yet. Once I’ve got a big one ready to harvest I shall post you a picture of my mighty cucumbers. Forgot one last year (it was hidden behind the tomatoes) and it was 40cm long (and inedible) by the time I picked it. Could have beaten a man to death with it it was so big.
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Beaten to death by a cucumber.. Now that's the way to go. Love it when I get a good cucumber beating.
 
LongDayAgain said:
To add to this, don't let any IRA sympathisers gaslight you into thinking they were only targeting loyalists. They killed A LOT of innocent people with their car bombs, and often placed bombs in populated areas like stores and shopping centres and hotels (Brighton Hotel being the most infamous one). They didn't care about killing innocent people, despite their argument of "Well, we gave people 30 minutes notice!".
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Don't forget their habit of proxy bombing, where they'd kidnap a guy's family, handcuff him to the wheel of a car bomb, and then tell him either he and everyone around him or his family would wind up dying that day.
teriyakiburns said:
It's not that hot. I've been this hot when I was a kid. Just sit in the shade and drink some barley water. Eat a carrot. Put your feet in a bowl of water. Find a brown boy to fan you with an ostrich feather. fucking hell man, are you a colonist or what?
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UselessRubberKeyboard said:
Also, it is too hot. I can go up to about 17C before I start getting uncomfortable and angry.
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Please tell me you meant 27C instead and that was just a typo... Even if that's the case, let me know when it hits 37C. Then, you can complain about getting crazy from the heat.

I do finally have air conditioning but I'll probably spend some time out on the porch anyways when it gets that hot just so I can have an excuse to day drink.
Overly Serious said:
Oh, and if and when the Burgers appear asking why we don't all have air conditioning, just let them know that when you factor in standing charges and higher per unit costs and everything else, UK electricity costs 2 - 2.5x as much as it does in the States (and rising, given certain recent... actions by the USA).
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Man, I love being American, and thereby rich by default.
Otterly said:
With home grown mint in.
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I've got a fuck-huge shrub that's just grown seemingly out of nowhere by the wall of my house (and most definitely not in a planter) that gives tasty leaves that are great for summer tea.
 
anklyscr said:
I won’t lie my tower fan is missing a ton of blades due to it falling over. Seems to have self balanced quite well on its second bump and now only wobbles when spinning up.

Anyway the correct response should have been.
Fuck off yank.
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Has any one else noticed all the fat retards saying how glad they are to be American are using anime profile pictures? So proud of their culture and who they are, they have a fetish for anime characters.
 
Lost my usual farm cap somehow (a lovely Valtra brand baseball cap that I'm very proud of), so had to do today in a crufts bucket hat, looking like a cross between benny hill and a fat britpop reject.
The new lambs were having brilliant fun meeting the ducks for the first time, and the goats didn't bugger off into the neighbours field for once.
Looking forward to doing absolutely fck all tomorrow.
 
Just a boring name said:
Lost my usual farm cap somehow (a lovely Valtra brand baseball cap that I'm very proud of), so had to do today in a crufts bucket hat, looking like a cross between benny hill and a fat britpop reject.
The new lambs were having brilliant fun meeting the ducks for the first time, and the goats didn't bugger off into the neighbours field for once.
Looking forward to doing absolutely fck all tomorrow.
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Might want to ease up on the power level mate. Not a lot of Benny hill looking Jarvis Cocker impersonators work on a farm.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Might want to ease up on the power level mate. Not a lot of Benny hill looking Jarvis Cocker impersonators work on a farm.
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That depends where you live.
It's the only time I've truly felt like "The Grey Man" .
But thankyou for the safety reminder, it's much appreciated.
 
Vesperus said:
balsamic vinegar
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jesus christ


Didn't see this reported on here - seems Keir has torn up police pensions as well.(X) I have no love for the police, but I am intrigued as to how he thinks cutting the pensions of his attack dogs will play out long term.
1/ Police officers who gave decades of service to this country have just had their retirement plans ripped up overnight.The Government has quietly cut the lump sums available to retiring officers in the 1987 Police Pension Scheme - with immediate effect.
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2/ The change follows a Treasury decision to increase the SCAPE discount rate. That sounds technical. The impact isn’t.Officers retiring from TODAY will receive almost 5% less cash lump sum for giving up the same amount of pension than an officer retiring last week.

3/ In real terms, that means some retiring officers stand to lose thousands of pounds overnight.No warning. No transition period. No protection.Just a sudden reduction to retirement benefits after decades spent policing the public.

4/ Some officers have only recently received retirement quotations & benefit illustrations based on the OLD figures.People make life-changing financial decisions based on those numbers:
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mortgages
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debts
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family support
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retirement planningThe goalposts have been moved.

5/ The Police Federation is seeking independent actuarial and legal advice on:
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the scale and justification for the change
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whether officers who relied on recent quotations may have suffered financial detriment
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What legal remedies may exist

6/ PFEW National Secretary John Partington: “After decades of service, the ‘thanks’ retiring officers get is this: government quietly shaving cash off a hard-earned retirement overnight. It’s a blatant case of picking the pockets of police pensioners & we will not let it stand.”

7/ Police officers cannot strike. They cannot negotiate pay freely. They spend careers missing birthdays, rest days and family life in service of the public.The least they should expect is certainty and fairness at retirement.

8/ Yet again, policing is being treated as the Treasury’s balancing item.Officers are simply expected to absorb the hit.Add your voice to the thousands who have just
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#CoppedEnough https://forms.office.com/pages/response
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Also god can these fucking 'right wing' social media accounts shut the fuck up about vigilantism and stop spreading rumours. It pisses me off when I don't know if a rapist has actually died.
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
Didn't see this reported on here - seems Keir has torn up police pensions as well.(X) I have no love for the police, but I am intrigued as to how he thinks cutting the pensions of his attack dogs will play out long term.
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Wonder if it's cut to keep people working longer? How many were going to retire soon and so they made their pension less forcing them to put more in before they can? Might be an attempt to keep what few piggies they have left on the hook.
 
Heinrich Maneuver said:
I have no love for the police, but I am intrigued as to how he thinks cutting the pensions of his attack dogs will play out long term.
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My money says Reform, as the designated opposition they have pretty much become, will have restoring that in their manifesto soon.
Kofi Drinka said:
Wonder if it's cut to keep people working longer?
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While that is part of it as noted in the article the police cannot strike over this. It's a chunk of money the government can free up with no real fallout (to their mind). Police reputation is in the toilet so the wider public don't care, people who invest in pensions for their retirement are the filthy "rich" Greens want to tax into poverty so their voters who's not paid so much as NI never mind tax in their lives can continue to not work and those directly impacted have no obvious recourse.

This is of course not how it will play out in reality.
 
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