UK British News Megathread - aka CWCissey's news thread

  • 🏰 The Fediverse is up. If you know, you know.
  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
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.

View image on Twitter


spread happiness@p4leandp1nk
https://twitter.com/p4leandp1nk/status/1080767496569974785

#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs
2764.png


7
10:07 AM - Jan 3, 2019
See spread happiness's other Tweets
Twitter Ads info and privacy


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."

View image on Twitter


pg often@pgofton
https://twitter.com/pgofton/status/1080772793774624768

The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary

42
10:28 AM - Jan 3, 2019
See pg often's other Tweets
Twitter Ads info and privacy


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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Click to expand...
Maxliam said:
Except the words of Marx led to over 100 milion deaths from communist regimes. The nazis were rank amateurs compared to how effective the commies were at killing people.
Click to expand...

Because if Marx never wrote his book people would stay perfectly happy with slowly starving to death while working 18 hour shifts in steampunk deathtrap factories and getting conscripted into industrialised wars? Come on, my dude, the nigga just wrote a book. You might as well be blaming Jesus for the Spanish Inquisition and 30 Years War.
 
Dynastia said:
Because if Marx never wrote his book people would stay perfectly happy with slowly starving to death while working 18 hour shifts in steampunk deathtrap factories and getting conscripted into industrialised wars? Come on, my dude, the nigga just wrote a book. You might as well be blaming Jesus for the Spanish Inquisition and 30 Years War.
Click to expand...
Jesus had some commie leanings and I blame him for everything, especially when him and his cousin Chuy mess up my lawn.
 
Give Her The D said:
What I'll never understand in the first place is why, out of all the things to give a fuck about, people choose to care about something as dead and useless as communism in the late 2010's? Leave that shit with the Soviet Union and worry about China buying up all the tech companies.
Click to expand...

Communist true believers take no responsibility at all for the millions of people dead because of communism. Either "it wasn't real communism" or "the wrong person was in charge" or some other such nonsense, and Good Intentions absolve everyone involved in the slow motion train wreck. Except for maybe Stalin, the evil scapegoat who ruined Lenin's true and honest communism that definitely would have worked.

People still care about communism because, in their minds, communism dindu nuffin. (BTW the worst person who was ever right-leaning represents all right-leaning people forever.)
 
Last edited:
SiccDicc said:
That's just gonna cause his bones to get into the water supply and then everyone is drinking communism.
Click to expand...
And then we all end up being infected with communism. No word on it getting that luxury communism from their memes though.

Cosmos said:
To be fair, it’s not like Marx had a crystal ball that told him Communism would result in so much death and destruction. He lived in a time period where workers’ rights were nonexistent. Have you ever read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair? People working in meat packing factories would literally lose body parts to machinery and were expected to work through it.
Click to expand...
Beyond The Jungle, you also had workers doing in long work shifts without much rights and a lot of workplace hazards in the factories as well as child workers.
 
Maxliam said:
Marx is more directly responsbile since his shit helped kick off that crap with Lenin. Without it, we would have never had to have dealt with communism. So yeah, I blame him for being a faggot.


Yeah that sucked but under Lenin and Stalin and Mao, millions were killed because they were viewed as property of the state. Communism blows and is worse than any other system.

Thanks to him basically shitposting the world with his crappy dumb philosophy, millions died horrible deaths. Communism killed many times more people than Fascism and Capitalism have ever done.
Click to expand...
Maxliam said:
Except the words of Marx led to over 100 milion deaths from communist regimes. The nazis were rank amateurs compared to how effective the commies were at killing people.

That and commies these days say "It wasn't real communism!!!" like that matters.
Click to expand...

Marx derangement syndrome.
 
OP updated, this time they invested in some red paint.

Also, this is very suspicious. I blame Bussy Smollett and the wave of fake attacks, trying to push a narrative. Of course they'd have to attack the father of all that is good and holy, Marx.

Really makes you think.
 
Last edited:
Attacking the headstone of a dead slacker ideologue because of the gruesome excesses of the murderous idiots who tried to implement his ramblings is as inane as attacking US Civil War monuments because of "Muh white privilege and racism"
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-47282950

A teenager who went into a coma after going to bed with a headache woke up four days later to discover she had given birth to a surprise baby girl.

Ebony Stevenson, 18, from Oldham, had no idea she was pregnant when she went to bed feeling unwell.

She was taken to hospital after suffering a series of seizures where medics discovered she was expecting.

Her unborn baby had been hidden in one of two wombs, in a rare condition called uterus didelphys.

One of the wombs was continuing to menstruate while the other was growing her baby.

That womb was positioned towards her back so the pregnancy went unnoticed.

The sports physiotherapy student awoke on 6 December having had a 7lbs 10oz baby girl.

She had not developed a bump, experienced morning sickness and had not missed a period.

'Absolute miracle'
The first time mum, who named her daughter Elodie, said the whole experience was "overwhelming to say the least".

"Meeting my baby was so surreal. It felt like an out-of-body experience," she said.

"I worried I wouldn't bond with my daughter because I had no time to get my head around her arrival, but I think she's amazing.

"It's an absolute miracle. I wouldn't change Elodie for the world."

Doctors discovered Ms Stevenson's seizures were caused by preeclampsia and then told her mother she was pregnant and that the baby needed to be delivered.

She underwent an emergency caesarean and gave birth to Elodie just over three hours after her first seizure.

Ms Stevenson's mother, Sheree, 39, said she called 999 after her daughter started being sick and having seizures on the bathroom floor.

Bump 'suddenly visible'
Her mother said: "Despite me insisting she couldn't be pregnant, the paramedics were certain she was, and to my shock a bump had appeared at her stomach."

"They think the ferocity of the seizures could have caused the baby to move, making it suddenly visible."

Ms Stevenson said Elodie was put straight on her chest when she awoke.

"It sounds awful now, but I asked them to take her away as I was so confused and sure they'd made a mistake," she said.

"But my mum explained it all to me while the nurses were there and they gave my little girl back to me to hold properly for the first time.

"Although I was so confused - and pretty scared - it was a beautiful moment and she was so quiet."

Due to the weight of the baby, doctors believe Ms Stevenson actually carried Elodie to full-term.

Ms Stevenson plans to go back to her studies at Hopwood College, Middleton, in February.
Click to expand...

Hell of a thing to wake up to!
 
"Sheree"

"Eloide"

"Ebony"

Could someone from the UK tell me if these are normal names for women in current year or if we're dealing with a severe case of white trash
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom