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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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I mean, it's a shitshow but at this point I laugh because the alternative is sadness.

Can't wait till tomorrow to watch the VONC RESULTS
 
So how are you all going to spoil your ballots boyos?
 
CWCissey said:
EDIT: SHIT SHIT SHIT! CORBACHEV IS TABLING A MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE.
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Oh Gods. You know how Tumblrinas and fibro warriors go on about not having the spoons? Well that's me. I actually don't have the spoons for another election. It's barely five minutes since the last one. And since Ukip's become a bunch of foamers with no bloody idea under Batten and Robinson, I can't even vote for them.

Nige, where are you when we need you?????
 
Dunno yet, didn't May say that she'd resign before the next GE a few months ago?
 
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The world isn't gonna end, with its ups and downs the UK has gotten on fine before the EU and will do so after the EU. For a lot of people in their 20s, it's the only one they've known. But it's never been a healthy relationship, it's mostly a controlling co-dependent abusive relationship. Once you all get out there on your own, you will see that it may be rough, but it will turn out better than what it was. No more being strong armed, no more being dictated how to live by someone who hasn't stepped into your country except probably on a vacation, if at all.

The vote for Brexit wasn't just about leaving. It was about being the masters of your own destiny, it was about deciding your own fates and not letting some group of assholes pass things with overreaching regulation, like on bananas (yes it's a real thing). Brexit is your Deceleration of Independence, whether you voted for it or not, that's what it is. And give it a few years, you'll see that while this was a shit show, it's so much better than the alternative. If you think the recently passed Articles 11 & 13 were just a thing, nope it was just the start of a thing, a bad thing.
 
Won't really matter where I live, it's a fortress that unlikely to change hands.

I really have no idea, but certainly not the candidate who short of an act of God will win here. If UKIP fields a candidate here, it'll probably be them. And I don't even like the rest of their policies.
 
Actually, in all seriousness, on paper my MP is a fairly solid Brexitologist, unlike the foaming Remainiac who was my MP at the last election but who I voted for because I believed Theresa May saying "no deal is better than a bad deal" and "Brexit means Brexit." But my current MP has kind of, well, gone a bit quiet. Wonder how she voted? If it was in favour of May's deal, I'm going kipper or kipper equivalent. If it was against it, and she comes out firmly in favour of "crashing out without a deal" rather than more can-kicking, she may yet get my vote.
 
CWCissey said:
So how are you all going to spoil your ballots boyos?
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I'll have to think about it.
I've been a Labour voter my entire life, but if there's a general election and Corbyn is still sticking by his policy of wishy thinking and fairy dust, they can fucking whistle for my vote. I could vote for the Lib Dems I guess, but the late coalition has shown them to be opportunistic wankers who'll bend to anyone who gives them the slightest whiff of power. Being asked to choose between raw turnip Brexit and magical unicorn Brexit is not really much of choice.
 
I'm thinking Monster Raving Loony Party myself.

And if there's no candidate in my constituency, I'm just going to write racial slurs against Dianne Abbott on the slip.
 
Norvic said:
I'll have to think about it.
I've been a Labour voter my entire life, but if there's a general election and Corbyn is still sticking by his policy of wishy thinking and fairy dust, they can fucking whistle for my vote. I could vote for the Lib Dems I guess, but the late coalition has shown them to be opportunistic wankers who'll bend to anyone who gives them the slightest whiff of power. Being asked to choose between raw turnip Brexit and magical unicorn Brexit is not really much of choice.
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Lib Dem's core policy though is the "People's" Vote. And after their sell out over the student fees which I think anyone with sense saw coming long beforehand I'd sooner shove the ballot up my arse than-

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CWCissey said:
So how are you all going to spoil your ballots boyos?
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I've always been a Labour voter, and the current MP serves my local area well - it makes sense for my vote to remain the same.

I see that Sinn Fein might end up taking a few seats from the DUP, although they I don't imagine that they'll win over many hardcore loyalists.
 
id say either Mogg or Johnson are planning for leadership.

also where the hell is the Farage in all of this? the pub?
 
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