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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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ulsterscotsman said:
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.
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So you have standards when it comes to terrorist groups?
 
Aristophanes said:
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).
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The Provo's are history now, but no one really knows just how capable the CIRA currently are either as they've been very quiet for a good few years now. The CIRA is smaller but is far more secretive and has the legitimacy that the NIRA lacks.
Supposedly the NIRA lost the only AK they had in Belfast in a fire and there has been a lot of rumours lately that the NIRA are planning to go on ceasefire.

MuuMuu Bunnylips said:
So you have standards when it comes to terrorist groups?
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Aye when they get involved in drugs, criminality and undermine and attack republicans that is when I draw the line.
 
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The IRA used to be pro independence and against being ruled by another entity. Now the IRA is gay. Was all that bluster in the past just a way to cover up their vassal lusts? Was all that violence just the Irish being tsundere? Probably.
 
Yeah white terrorists that murder innocent civilians are cool and great, not like those gross brown terrorists that murder innocent civilians, which are horrible and bad.

Fuck the IRA and fuck the "irish" idiots in the US who send them money.
 
I though the IRA basically died ever since Muslims started blowing things up and nobody cared about them anymore (plus new laws on funding terror came into place).

Either way, mindless violence is funny and it's all going to be on camera now.
It's infighting between two sides trying to out gay eachother with minor differences (British politics as usual).
Abu hajaar action plox. (although this is most likely going nowhere)
 
Why are they so angry over Brexit if there's no guarantee parliament will ever get their shit together and make a deal anyway.

Maybe they are just mad their bombings are getting overshadowed by Islamic bombings so they need an excuse to get angry again.
 
A cool IRA would be blowing the fuck out of "asian men" polluting their gene pool, not trying to keep their borders open. I reject these pretenders and will not be shooting Irish Car Bombs in two weeks!
 
Admittedly, I am an American who probably should not have an opinion on this issue, but I think this possible resurgence of the IRA following the disaster of Brexit is just the chickens coming home to roost.

Yeah, terrorism is bad but in all fairness, the UK is a really despicable country, even by the standards of Europe, a continent with the SJW theocracies of Germany and Sweden.

Like, the EU is pretty disgusting in and of itself, but the government of Britain is even worse.

I don't want this new generation of IRA militia to target civilians, but I have less sympathy for British cops, military, and the inevitable group of Alt-Right shitposters that groups like UKIP will no doubt convince to LARP as loyalist paramilitaries against the IRA insurgents.

I'm not condoning the New IRA, but I'm not surprised by them either.

TL;DR Once again, England shat the bed and can go fuck themselves.

 
Except it's all a moot point because THERE WON'T BE A HARD BORDER even if we "crash out without a deal."

It is in nobody's interests to put it there. We won't put one up because we don't have to put one up as, having taken back control of our border policy, we decide whether or not to insert any border infrastructure and in any event it would be more trouble than it's worth. The Republic of Ireland won't put one up because they do huge amounts of trade via the North and it would damage that, and besides, who's going to man it. At the end of the day Leo Varadkar won't want to go down in history as the man who torpedoed the peace process in exchange for a cushy Eurocrat's sinecure when he leaves office.

The EU will bounce and squeak about the integrity of the single market but Ulster's an awful long way from Brussels. What are they going to do, send in the newly minted EU army to secure it? Do they really want to risk being the foreign occupying force on the island of Ireland? Do they want mortar attacks on the EU Commission? Because that's how you get mortar attacks on the EU Commission.
 
Aristophanes said:
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).
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You mean the "bombs" that weren't powerful enough to catch the whole envelope on fire?
 
Ginger Piglet said:
Except it's all a moot point because THERE WON'T BE A HARD BORDER even if we "crash out without a deal."

It is in nobody's interests to put it there. We won't put one up because we don't have to put one up as, having taken back control of our border policy, we decide whether or not to insert any border infrastructure and in any event it would be more trouble than it's worth. The Republic of Ireland won't put one up because they do huge amounts of trade via the North and it would damage that, and besides, who's going to man it. At the end of the day Leo Varadkar won't want to go down in history as the man who torpedoed the peace process in exchange for a cushy Eurocrat's sinecure when he leaves office.

The EU will bounce and squeak about the integrity of the single market but Ulster's an awful long way from Brussels. What are they going to do, send in the newly minted EU army to secure it? Do they really want to risk being the foreign occupying force on the island of Ireland? Do they want mortar attacks on the EU Commission? Because that's how you get mortar attacks on the EU Commission.
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Considering the mortars the 'Ra shot at John Major in 10 Downing Street missed by yards, and Juncker's general drunkenness, they'll probably score a direct hit to be fair.
 
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