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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.

 

[ulsterscotsman]

aren't there all sorts of 'dissident Republicans' in NI who just randomly blow shit up/otherwise cause havoc but aren't necessarily associated with an organized group?

The two main groups that exist at the moment is the Continuity IRA, the so called ''New IRA'' and some smaller groups also exist. but their actions have been very sporadic and often non successful.
Probably the peak of their activity was nearly 10 years ago between the 7th and 9th March 2009 when the RIRA shot dead 2 British soldiers at Massereene barracks and the Continuity IRA shot dead a police man in an ambush in Craigavon.

 

[Healthyboy /s]

It's never the coalition of radical centrists, sadly. They all have to take off time off their jobs with benefits and begin to rise up!

 

[Just_Somebody]

Tough one. I'm doubting kebab since they're usually hands on with these things, and skip using mail for personal delivery.

 

[pwnest injun]

packages containing explosives

Fortunately these packages only appear to be designed to start a very small fire - the one that went off just melted part of its own plastic envelope,

packages containing explosives

Fortunately these packages only appear to be designed to start a very small fire - the one that went off just melted part of its own plastic envelope,

packages containing explosives

Fortunately these packages only appear to be designed to start a very small fire - the one that went off just melted part of its own plastic envelope,

 

[Poiseon]

Fucking sand niggers have been infected by British incompetence. They've been in the UK so long now that they can't even build bombs correctly anymore. RIP

 

[Carpenter Trout]

Fucking sand niggers have been infected by British incompetence. They've been in the UK so long now that they can't even build bombs correctly anymore. RIP

Them bombs also being delivered late because of the Royal Mail being even slower than the Poste Italiane (Italian mail service, laughably slow).

 

[HeyYou]

Please God let it be the Troubles 2: Electric Boogaloo.

 

[Absolute Brainlet]

Was this motherfucker the MAGAbomber's apprentice or some shit?

 

[Aristophanes]

From the Mirror:

New IRA 'has recruited dozens of dissidents amid mounting anger over Brexit'

Up to 200 active members have signed up to Republican terror groups amid anger over Brexit, a source has claimed.

Hundreds of dissidents are feared to have signed up to a new Republican terror group amid mounting anger over Brexit .
One source told the Mirror that groups including the New IRA have up to 200 active members, including some paramilitaries with years of experience during the Troubles.

Concerns over a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, plus broader concerns over our split from the EU, are feared to have radicalised younger Republicans.
And a source said the New IRA has dozens of new members who have taken the “oath” – based on the text laid out in the old Provisional IRA green book.
The New IRA, blamed for a car bomb in Derry last month, has been handed locations of old IRA arms dumps never disclosed during the decommissioning process after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

They have AKM assault rifles, sub-machine guns, handguns and large quantities of commercial explosives including Semtex.

It is believed they also have newer weapons smuggled in more recently.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland has called for back-up in the event of a hard border.
It is reported 1,000 officers from Scotland and England are being trained for deployment along the border in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
One former Republican commander said: “Dissidents north and south are united in a way not seen before.

"There are around 200 active dissidents with experience and 100 or so auxiliaries.
“There are 500 sworn members. The support network seems solid and rising.
"We are seeing the people in the south uniting to join forces with the north.
"The north was such a bastion for so long while the south was seen as not wanting to bother.

"That’s changed. Brexit has been the best Republican recruitment tool for years.”
The source said the dissidents are well equipped and have taken steps against infiltration.
They said of the weaponry: ”It’s good quality and there’s plenty of it. They have more gear than people.
"They also have access to large quantities of cash for planning and counter-intelligence. The money comes from smuggling.
“All the signs and rumours are that the News will go for broke in the hours and days after Brexit.”
But a Provisional IRA source said of the New IRA: “Active they would have 50 men, tops, who are capable.

"And even then only 20 who are really good. They would have around 200 supporters who would provide the back-up.”
He confirmed the green book was being used and members were taking the “oath”, particularly in rural areas.

He added not everyone was being “green-booked” as some volunteers are “trash” and “you wouldn’t want to bring them into the ranks”.
The source does not expect an immediate “big push” after Brexit but warned it will become a factor in radicalising a new generation.
He said: “It won’t be dissidents, it will be the IRA, the Provos, who will have finally come to accept that the British Government sold them a pup and realise there is nothing in this for them so they will go back to war.

He said: “It won’t be dissidents, it will be the IRA, the Provos, who will have finally come to accept that the British Government sold them a pup and realise there is nothing in this for them so they will go back to war.
“The EU was seen as an honest broker in ratifying the peace, that’s how it was sold, it ratified protections in law and allowed families of people murdered by loyalists and the State to seek justice or closure in the European Court of Human Rights.

"And within five years, once people realise that the Brits are just pandering to the loyalists and the DUP, then that will be it.”
Former senior dissident republican John Connelly, jailed for 14 years for a Real IRA bomb plot, warned last month a hard border would create conditions for a “massive recruitment drive”.
And he claimed any infrastructure like spy cameras on the border would be seen as a mark of a “foreign occupying military force”.
A study released last month by Professors Mark Brennan and Pat Dolan, of UNESCO, warned violence was “inevitable” if a hard border returns to the island of Ireland.

 

[Aristophanes]

Please God let it be the Troubles 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Well, you're in luck. The suspicious packages were found to be marked with Irish postage stamps.

 

[thismanlies]

So when you crush dissenting opinion to the point where even speaking out gets someone labeled as an extremist, you're only left with extremists.

Sounds about right.

 

[frozenrunner]

"muh Brexit" : EU :: "muh Russia" : USA

 

[r00]

I'd be a bit embarrassed if Republicans did this as they're far more capable than this.

Yeah, those backwards potato fuckers really dropped the ball since canary wharf

 

[Bassomatic]

So, you have been given a right to vote.
You make a vote.
This vote doesn't line up with what unelected people want
ergo you are a terrorist.

Democracy at it's finest ladies and gents.

 

[Aristophanes]

This is going to be interesting, to say the least. From what I remember the 'Ra were far better marksmen and explosives technicians than the Brits were.

That being said, if this new generation aren't as capable they won't stand as much a chance.

 

[Fareal]

So, you have been given a right to vote.
You make a vote.
This vote doesn't line up with what unelected people want
ergo you are a terrorist.

Democracy at it's finest ladies and gents.

The republican movement in Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU.

The history of republicanism and in particular, its armed struggle long predates the EU. It predates the world wars.

The issue around Brexit is that the imposition of a hard border between Britain and Ireland fundamentally damages much of the infrastructure of the peace process, such as decommissioning border posts, and also is pretty sure to damage the economic growth of NI, which is already the most deprived area of the UK.

This is about the sabotage of the peace process, not about EU membership per se.

It's also nothing to do with suppressing opinions. NI has extremely liberal laws around public speech and parades.

 

[ulsterscotsman]

Not a fan of the so called "New IRA" as they're nothing but a corrupt and mere shadow of what one was the RIRA. It's widely known the the NIRA tax drug dealers for money and lend out their weapons to drug gangs. They're dirty as fuck and any republican should stay aways from them.

The republican movement in Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU.

No. Provisional Sinn Féin voted to remain in the EU.

 

[Aristophanes]

Not a fan of the so called "New IRA" as they're nothing but a corrupt and mere shadow of what one was the RIRA. It's widely known the the NIRA tax drug dealers for money and lend out their weapons to drug gangs. They're dirty as fuck and any republican should stay aways from them.

They're also nowhere near as capable as the Provos or the CIRA, especially if they were ones that sent the suspicious packages to Waterloo Station yesterday (envelopes found to have Irish postage stamps).

 

[BONE_Buddy]

Well, If they need any weapons, I am sure there are some Americans who would be more than willing to sell them to them. Just like last time.

 

[Tomboy Respecter]

So that's why Jim hasn't been making videos for the past year or so.