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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.

 

[Free Alex Jones]

Refute Scottish propaganda with population data - Scots HATE this one simple trick!

Now do white people.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Everyone with pets keep an eye on them:

Considering buying a chest freezer to put the fucker in.

 

[BongoMongo]

I have a friend who is a Rangers fan and he insists that she didn’t live in the marital home and spent most of her time with her doctor girlfriend who live in Bridge of Allan near Stirling because the fan forums had a ton of stories about her.

What's the lesbian version of a beard? Whatever it is, Murrell is one of those.

The thing about Scottish politics, is it's a tiny scene,really. Certain people with in it have , in my personal experience,been very vocal about Sturgeon setting off their dyke radar.

 

[EddyRooney]

The three key words are......

0:50

 

[Kofi Drinka]

What's the lesbian version of a beard? Whatever it is, Murrell is one of those.

The thing about Scottish politics, is it's a tiny scene,really. Certain people with in it have , in my personal experience,been very vocal about Sturgeon setting off their dyke radar.

All Scottish women are Dykes. They like the taste of Haddock too much. The only way to fix them if to give them a bit of cod to suck on.

 

[Champion of Khorne]

The three key words are......


I don't care.mp4

Sorry for being an optics fag but going full “me ne frego” might not be the smartest move and has just given Hope Not Hate and the press to compare the Restore movement to the same movement as a certain cue ball headed Italian.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I have spent the whole day at a family bbq. We moaned about the weather, drank too much, ate copious amounts of meat, and moaned about the weather some more. It was bliss. Now I'm home and considering my life choices, which I reckon I'll resolve by opening another bottle of fizz.

I can’t remember the last time I saw something good at the cinema.

To echo others: Project Hail Mary was pretty good. It is a long film, but it doesn't feel long, which I find to be a good marker of quality. It crams a lot in and does it in a way that is easy to follow. The rock (not that rock) was the best part of the film.

All Scottish women are Dykes. They like the taste of Haddock too much. The only way to fix them if to give them a bit of cod to suck on.

Why are they all named pilchard?

 

[The Silent Perjority]

I don't watch telly or films usually but gave Project Hail Mary a go because the book was so good, read it 3 times.

For me the film was awful, the actor was trying way too hard to be quirky and funny all the time (there was some of that in the book but they really over did it)
They crammed the whole setup of the book into the first hour and it was just too fast paced. I actually gave up and switched off just as he met Rocky which should have been the fun part but by then I felt like they'd ruin that too.

Sorry for being grumpy.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Sorry for being grumpy.

Never apologise., especially for being grumpy. It's grumpy people that invented everything we take for granted, because they got grumpy that water didn't boil fast enough.

 

[BongoMongo]

I don't watch telly or films usually but gave Project Hail Mary a go because the book was so good, read it 3 times.

For me the film was awful, the actor was trying way too hard to be quirky and funny all the time (there was some of that in the book but they really over did it)
They crammed the whole setup of the book into the first hour and it was just too fast paced. I actually gave up and switched off just as he met Rocky which should have been the fun part but by then I felt like they'd ruin that too.

Sorry for being grumpy.

Naw I get it. We did the exact same thing at cinema. We were worried rocky was going to be cast as a twee disneyfied sidekick.

Grace was an annoying beta cuck Reddit soyboy incarnate in the film, as well as the book,but the book was easier to filter out. But ultimately he was that because that is exactly what Weir is.

I also didn't like the karaoke scene. Not in the book, adds nothing, totally needless.

 

[East_Clintwood]

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Not only is it hot as Satan's arsehole but I've been "volunteered" to help with something at the local church so I'm about to get to spend a couple of hours doing hard graft outside. If When I die of heatstroke I want you all to please remember my final words:

Spoiler: Final words

They're correctly called ginnels and barmcakes and everyone who voluntarily lives south of Stoke-on-Trent is a filthy Southern poofter

So I managed to survive being sent to hell forced to touch grass. Unfortunately, while I did put sunscreen on, I did it before I took my shirt off so I didn't do the back of my neck and shoulders that weren't covered by my vest and now I have a genuinely, spectacularly horrendous sunburn for the first time in probably 10 or 15 years.

 

[Oxyjen]

Since we're dunking on the Jocks right now it's the perfect time to post this
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Former SNP chief executive and Nicole Sturgeons ex husband has plead guilty to stealing £400,000 from the SNP.

I can’t believe it, finally!

He sounds like an ultra lolcow, there’s so much we don’t know

They're not optimised for staying cool, it's true. No Spanish style courtyard for letting the heat out through an updraft but still, it's not as bad as you say. It's the modern British house architecture that is bad for hot weather.

Modern UK houses are well insulated, air sealed etc, but no thermal mass at all (just plasterboard with insulation behind it).
So they are immediately affected by solar gain, and nobody has external shades or usually even internal ones.

If you do add shades and a bit of airflow (in from downstairs at the north side of the house or basement if you have one, out from the highest window, you don’t need AC unless it gets to like 25+ outside at night.

Older houses with thermal mass do better for this as you say.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Now we have one that implies Londoners are of equal worth to other people.

That's shameful bait and you know it.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Why are they all named pilchard?

They aren't. We just can't figure out their real names. Any time you ask you get something like myumnameehupisahmirriampal.

You eventually just accept they're all called Pilchard and try to avoid them getting your trousers off to nick the change and wear as a hat.

 

[evrae]

Me and the family decided to have a bbq but it's that hot outside we just brought the food indoors the moment it was cooked. Our dog isn't enjoying the hot weather either. Gonna be glad when the temperature drops hard in a couple days.

In more related news, I see accounts online chimping out online about Lowe's son (who is 32, for reference) marrying some woman who's father is Dr Karim Mezran, who advocates for demographic takeover of Europe.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Me and the family decided to have a bbq but it's that hot outside we just brought the food indoors the moment it was cooked. Our dog isn't enjoying the hot weather either. Gonna be glad when the temperature drops hard in a couple days.

In more related news, I see accounts online chimping out online about Lowe's son (who is 32, for reference) marrying some woman who's father is Dr Karim Mezran, who advocates for demographic takeover of Europe.

When you lose your sun to a curry nigger so you have to save the rest of Europe from them.

 

[the printer is outo fink]

Project Hail Mary is a good film but honestly, I think a lot of the praise it's gotten has more to do with how bad most movies now, so something reasonably decent seems more amazing than it should. SFX aside, thirty years ago it would just have been a relatively popular but not especially remarkable sci-fi film, in a summer with five other similar movies.

The Sheep Detective is surprisingly good. I'm glad to hear I wasn't the only one to shed a tear.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

>Be Bri'ish
>Get roasted to death by mildly warm weather in greater numbers than Americans die from getting shot

Absolute skill issue. Put some ice cubes in your lemonade and chill your beer.

Next time God sends a natural disaster to punish Americans for being annoying I'll be sure to jump into the thread and green text about why yanks don't use bricks for housing so they don't get destroyed.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Reform UK’ Robert Kenyon has in the past claimed women “can’t drive” and get abortions for “vanity purposes” to “shag anyone they want”. He admitted: “I’m sexist, sorry but I am” (X)

 

[Judge Dredd]

I can’t remember the last time I saw something good at the cinema.

It's been a good year for movies imo. Iron Lung, Hail Mary, Backrooms, Exit 8, Michael...

Bit of an off topic rant, but it seems movies are running into the same issues gaming has had for years. AAA sucks, but a shocking large percentage of people make excuses to stay on the AAA platation even though they hate it and the companies hate them.

With movies, Hollywood is clearly more interested in DEI politics and shitting out endless capeshit and Star Wars sequels. Everybody knows they're not worth watching, but there's always some (often flimsy) excuse why they have to watch the DEI Starwars capeshit sequel and can't ever see something that actually wants to entertain.