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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.

 

[diroama]

The Scottish Greens fella, on a student visa, turns out to be a liar

What is the point of researching an article discrediting his working class identity if you're going to pander to his bullshit non-binary gender identity?

If he can pretend to not be a man, and this newspaper goes along with it, why wouldn't they also go along with anything else he pretends?

 

[Champion of Khorne]

That's 62F. You guys are Englishmen, not Finns.
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We conquered a third of the world and complained about the weather and local food every step of the way.

 

[the rat]

Look it’s been the longest most desolate miserable winter in years. Today it’s sunny. Enjoy it.

Dark cold miserable weather > sunny too fucking warm weather any day. I do not care if I would never get to see the sun ever again in my lifetime, I fucking HATE it being too warm and bright.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Dark cold miserable weather > sunny too fucking warm weather any day.

I can put on another blanket or thicker pyjamas. I cannot remove my skin. Not even the Jewish way with all the fucking insects that end up in the house with the windows open.

 

[Replacement Account]

Dark cold miserable weather > sunny too fucking warm weather any day. I do not care if I would never get to see the sun ever again in my lifetime, I fucking HATE it being too warm and bright.

Someone could argue that we're all mushrooms and I wouldn't be able to disagree tbh.

 

[Briananderson1138]

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Lets have a fight : Best non-alcoholic drink for this weather?

Tea, you bloody heathen. A nice, hot cup of Yorkshire’s finest, with just a splash of milk.

I can’t abide squash. It always tastes somehow dry to me. Remember those plastic squash cups with sealed tops that you used to get in the 70s & 80s, with a sharp straw to pop through the top so you could drink it? Classic of the school trip. Dried your mouth out worse than eating naked cream crackers. Truly horrible way to treat kids roasting under the midday sun at West Midlands safari park.

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.

Fucking 27C? At that point I’m sleeping in the local Debenhams. Posh shops have aircon, they can’t make me leave.

@Otterly you say it’s cooler up north, did you forget it was Donny that hit 40C a few years ago? London could never.

 

[Pat Mustard]

Saw these pics making the rounds on twitter over the recent heatwave. The Scottish are really bad at being nationalists. It's so strange they adopt a third worldist narrative about how they are currently colonised by England when they joined the union voluntarily after going bankrupt failing to colonise Panama. They never celebrate the countless Scottish inventors, explorers or writers (with the sole exception of Robert Burns) and completely deny the integral role Scots played in building the empire. Instead they do what people in t' norf do and focus on how rough hard knock their area is as if that's some sort of brag. This type of shit is exactly the same as Africans complaining about the Mercator projection that makes Africa look smaller as if that has any bearing on them whatsoever.