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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.

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.

 

[Don Herbert]

The duke was driving a Range Rover and was pulling out of a driveway onto the A149 when the accident happened.


According to eyewitnesses, the car that the duke was driving overturned.

Old people have hilarious car accidents.

He wasn't taken to the hospital.


Anyone else seeing an announcement happening in the morning?...

The duke is back at Sandringham and has seen a doctor.

I have to imagine they can do practically anything there that could be done at a hospital.

 

[Racist Trash]

He was testing if he could die. He can't, he has become just as immortal as the queen so that he may never become king.

 

[Sable]

I like how he's still driving at 97.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

Meanwhile, on BBC Question Time where the panel was stacked (as usual) 4-1 Remain-Leave...

 

[Clem Fandango]

I'm feeling a lot more optimistic since May survived the VoNC. It basically means there aren't going to be any last minute shenanigans - no GE, no "people's vote". The default position here is that we leave with no deal. That legislation has already been passed. Remainers have to positively do something to affect that, and it seems like now there is no mechanism for them to really do anything before 29 March.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

I'm feeling a lot more optimistic since May survived the VoNC. It basically means there aren't going to be any last minute shenanigans - no GE, no "people's vote". The default position here is that we leave with no deal. That legislation has already been passed. Remainers have to positively do something to affect that, and it seems like now there is no mechanism for them to really do anything before 29 March.

Leadsom has said the government currently has "no plans" to put forward any more legislation for the foreseeable future and various departments have now begun hurling thousands of staff at no deal preparation. Basically Parliament and mongs like Dominic Greive are being told to go whistle with their stupid attempts at Amendments which are just pissing the public off.

So in a typically british governmental fashion we're doing everything at the 11th hour and there seems to be more plans quietly drawn up and somehow not leaked than initially thought.

 

[The Gay Banana]

I'm feeling a lot more optimistic since May survived the VoNC. It basically means there aren't going to be any last minute shenanigans - no GE, no "people's vote". The default position here is that we leave with no deal. That legislation has already been passed. Remainers have to positively do something to affect that, and it seems like now there is no mechanism for them to really do anything before 29 March.

Article 50 will be extended before a no deal happens. Philip Hammond has already been telling businesses running just in time production that they don't have to worry about no deal affecting their supply chain.

 

[CWCissey]

Article 50 will be extended before a no deal happens. Philip Hammond has already been telling businesses running just in time production that they don't have to worry about no deal affecting their supply chain.

I think that will lead to too many angry people and Europe just won't allow it.

No Deal on 29 March 2019.

 

[The Gay Banana]

I think that will lead to too many angry people and Europe just won't allow it.

No Deal on 29 March 2019.

I think so too. I hate to think what the government has promised these companies to get them to stay in this country and I would imagine they have probably promised them no no-deal Brexit.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

Article 50 will be extended before a no deal happens. Philip Hammond has already been telling businesses running just in time production that they don't have to worry about no deal affecting their supply chain.

Mainly because Calais, Dover and the Chunnel have all already prepared for a No Deal outcome and both are refusing to hold up each other's trucks. On the chunnel alone there are eight checks per lorry load, so the one extra check the actual reality of No Deal will generate can practically be laughed off.

Project Fear failed miserably, so realism has to come into play now.

The UK and EU also signed a deal about customs declarations which was done on the quiet, so for the most part the UK landbridge is secure for the Irish too, even if they've gone and bought those rather silly ferries which increase the journey-time from 10 hours to 40.

 

[Clem Fandango]

I think that will lead to too many angry people and Europe just won't allow it.

No Deal on 29 March 2019.

I think you're right. After the last two years how could the EU trust us even if we did stay? The damage is done.

Whichever way you slice it, the way forward is with us on the outside of the tent. Trade deals, yes. Deep and comprehensive association agreements (or whatever), sure. But no more funding from us, no more EU elections, no more sending British MEPs to Brussels (just to stink up the place as much as possible). The rest of the EU can press on with their mega-state without us. Everyone's better off this way.

 

[CWCissey]

I think so too. I hate to think what the government has promised these companies to get them to stay in this country and I would imagine they have probably promised them no no-deal Brexit.

I think you're right. After the last two years how could the EU trust us even if we did stay? The damage is done.

Whichever way you slice it, the way forward is with us on the outside of the tent. Trade deals, yes. Deep and comprehensive association agreements (or whatever), sure. But no more funding from us, no more EU elections, no more sending British MEPs to Brussels (just to stink up the place as much as possible). The rest of the EU can press on with their mega-state without us. Everyone's better off this way.

Just think of the main two borders. Ireland are very happy doing business as usual, France doesn't want to deal with that shit either, if anything I do believe it's Berlin (and Brussels to a lesser extent) being bitches about this.

The EEC I'm fine with. Economic co-operation is commendable. But political unions is where I draw the line with Europe.

 

[JustStopDude]

Is this stupid Brexit done yet?

This whole thing is moronic. The vote of confidence for May... Why even do that? Who in their right mind would take her job? Of course she was going to win that.

Hard Brexit all the way. Kick the wankers out of Europe. Watch them starve as the US charges them out the ass for shitty, weeks old cargo food.
Hey but England can always fall back on its major exports of cars with shitty electrical problems and annoying celebrity chefs.

 

[Queen Elizabeth II]

The EU is going to make for quite an interesting neighbour in the future as their political ties become more unified. The states that dominate it (Germany, the burgs and steins and the Eastern block they have in tow) are becoming ever increasingly confident and forceful.

Take Poland, they've gone from "Oppressed by Russians" to some far-right rhetoric that wouldn't be possible if Sugar Daddy Germany wasn't backing them up.

Increasingly what with the lack of a democratic process, the inevitability of the western block being subservient to the former Holy Roman Empire block, a shocking record on human rights, the unyielding power wielded by corporations there on matters of copyright, censorship etc and not least the fact they're trying to remake the fucking Napoleonic Grande Armée....

I expect some very fiery and aggressive politics towards the UK and other "dissident states" in the more distant future.

 

[The Gay Banana]

Is this stupid Brexit done yet?

This whole thing is moronic. The vote of confidence for May... Why even do that? Who in their right mind would take her job? Of course she was going to win that.

Hard Brexit all the way. Kick the wankers out of Europe. Watch them starve as the US charges them out the ass for shitty, weeks old cargo food.
Hey but England can always fall back on its major exports of cars with shitty electrical problems and annoying celebrity chefs.

Oi! Leave Gordon Ramsay out of this!

 

[Queen Elizabeth II]

Is this stupid Brexit done yet?

This whole thing is moronic. The vote of confidence for May... Why even do that? Who in their right mind would take her job? Of course she was going to win that.

Corbyn would. He wouldn't care if he pissed off the UK people, he has a long history of support for the EU and would be glad for a job like Blair landed with the same immunities.

As for the food, Israel already sells the UK food far cheaper than the EU does, and it's EU legislation limiting how much can be bought from them at the moment that forces them to buy from Spain.

 

[CWCissey]

Corbyn would. He wouldn't care if he pissed off the UK people, he has a long history of support for the EU and would be glad for a job like Blair landed with the same immunities.

As for the food, Israel already sells the UK food far cheaper than the EU does, and it's EU legislation limiting how much can be bought from them at the moment that forces them to buy from Spain.

No Corbyn's always hated the EU because capitalism.

 

[The Gay Banana]

Corbyn would. He wouldn't care if he pissed off the UK people, he has a long history of support for the EU and would be glad for a job like Blair landed with the same immunities.

As for the food, Israel already sells the UK food far cheaper than the EU does, and it's EU legislation limiting how much can be bought from them at the moment that forces them to buy from Spain.

Corbyn has never supported the EU. That is complete lies.

 

[Queen Elizabeth II]

“In the referendum, I wanted to remain and reform the EU [but] 40 percent of Labour voters voted to leave" — Jeremy Corbyn

https://www.politico.eu/article/why-jeremy-corbyn-is-still-half-hearted-about-europe/

He has historically had a history of opposing whatever the government is for for the sake of opposing it, but now he actually has a chance at the power he u-turned for the sake of favour.

He'll do whatever advances his own position, which in this instance isn't necessarily what his voters ask for.

 

[Sawmill]

Meanwhile, on BBC Question Time where the panel was stacked (as usual) 4-1 Remain-Leave...

Someone somewhere sighed when he heard that cheer and thought to himself....

...we have to start stacking the audience too.