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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.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

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.

Even if border controls were reimposed we could do it on goods up to 40km (25 miles) from any border according to the WTO. We don't have to do jack and shit.

Never mind that the EU will basically toss Ireland out of the Single Market without so much as a by-your-leave if the Irish want to keep their border open with the North.

Never mind the German IFO also crunched the numbers and found The Irish are fucked if a no deal brexit is announced because guess where the majority of their trade goes through?

(Lol, Britain).

No, I don't believe the IRA's suddenly seeing a surge of recruitment and it's bullshit being chucked out to scare people. It's just like, according to Facebook the Tories are now well infiltrated by UKIPers (They're not) or that people now want to cancel Brexit (they don't).

It's bullshit chaff.

You mean the "bombs" that weren't powerful enough to catch the whole envelope on fire?

Bless 'em on Babby's First Bombs being flashpowder in tier of danger.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Just fucking finish the job already britain, you left those poor irish dangling all this time. Ireland, you're fucking england now, shut the fuck up about it and vote conservative, maybe you'll fix the stupid place. Scotland, I don't wanna hear shit out of you or you're next!

 

[The Un-Clit]

Yeah, I voted kebab without knowing the deets. This is too incompetent and too hands off for them. I think now it's a solo sperg who wants to be 'REEL IRA' and did this as his 'application' to the big leagues. I think it's safe to say application rejected.

 

[Aristophanes]

It's down along the Falls Road where I want to be, lying in the dark with a Provo company...

I do wonder if the Provisional IRA could've given the US Army a run for their money back in the day, they gave the Brits enough trouble - they did win the last engagement after all.

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

It's down along the Falls Road where I want to be, lying in the dark with a Provo company...

I do wonder if the Provisional IRA could've given the US Army a run for their money back in the day, they gave the Brits enough trouble - they did win the last engagement after all.

Any army, when deployed to police a civilian population, will get it's shit fucked up.
On the recent explodey shenanigans, I would not be surprised if it's British security service gay ops.

 

[ulsterscotsman]

Apparently the "New IRA" has claimed it.

'IRA' claims it sent five parcel bombs to addresses in Britain

A parcel bomb the group calling itself the ‘IRA’ has claimed it sent to a British army recruitment officer may not yet have been discovered.

www.irishnews.com

 

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[CWCissey]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lKie-vgUGdI

Video of the leader.

 

[Aristophanes]

I do wonder that if things heat up again we'll see a lot of the old brigade come out of retirement.

 

[ulsterscotsman]

I do wonder that if things heat up again we'll see a lot of the old brigade come out of retirement.

The Provos are dead.
Now the "old brigade" or the Traditionalist had already broke off from the Provo's in the 80's to reform the IRA under the Continuity Army Council the Continuity IRA.

I refer to my statement, dated 22 October 1986, and I speak again, as the sole surviving Teachta Dála of the Second Dáil Éireann, and the sole surviving member of the Executive of the Second Dáil. In that statement, I referred to my recognition in December, 1969, of the Provisional Army Council of the IRA, which had remained true to the Irish Republic, as the lawful Army of the Thirty Two County Irish Republic. I also stated on 22 October 1986, that I did not recognise the legitimacy of an Army Council, styling itself the Army Council of the Irish Republican Army, which lent support to any person or organisation styling itself Sinn Féin, and prepared to enter the partition parliament of Leinster House. I referred, as well, to the IRA Convention, which had taken place shortly before the 22nd October, 1986. The Executive of the IRA had, by a majority, opposed entering Leinster House. The faithful members of that Executive, in accordance with the IRA Constitution, filled the vacancies in the Executive, and that Executive continues as the lawful Executive of the Irish Republican Army. The Continuity Executive has appointed an Army Council of the IRA. I quote the following extract from my statement of 31 December 1969:

"In December, 1938, the surviving faithful members of the latest 32 County Republican Parliament, the Second Dáil elected in 1921, delegated their executive powers of government to the Army Council of the IRA. This Proclamation of 1938 was signed by S.S. Ó Ceallaigh (Sceilg), Ceann Comhairle, Mary Mac Swiney, Count Plunkett, Cathal Ó Murchú, Brian O'Higgins, Professor Stockley, and myself, Tomás Maguire."

I hereby declare that the Continuity Executive and the Continuity Army Council are the lawful Executive and Army Council respectively of the Irish Republican Army, and that the governmental authority, delegated in the Proclamation of 1938, now resides in the Continuity Army Council, and its lawful successors.

Dated: 25 July 1987
Signed: Thomas Maguire, Comdt. General (Tomás Maguidhir)

 

[pwnest injun]

Seems to me that the IRA that got the serious stuff done was full of combat veterans out of the WWs.
Don't think they have the stock to re-up with.

 

[ulsterscotsman]

Seems to me that the IRA that got the serious stuff done was full of combat veterans out of the WWs.
Don't think they have the stock to re-up with.

No the vast majority of them where just normal people although there was a few veterans in their ranks.

 

[RodgerDodger]

. 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.

As opposed to lending them out to Sean Connery movies? (Google; ZARDOZ, some of the backstory of that turd is hilarious.)

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

No the vast majority of them where just normal people although there was a few veterans in their ranks.

I think the reason the IRA were effective, in GB, was the cell system: that prevented less motivated informants from tearing down everything. Once the campaign started hitting UK banking and government, everything changed and Major realised engagement was the only solution.

 

[ulsterscotsman]

I think the reason the IRA were effective, in GB, was the cell system: that prevented less motivated informants from tearing down everything. Once the campaign started hitting UK banking and government, everything changed and Major realised engagement was the only solution.

It should have kept hitting the UK banking and government systems but sadly it was subverted from within.

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

It should have kept hitting the UK banking and government systems but sadly it was subverted from within.

I thought the GB campaign was pretty much free of the Special Branch. MRF infiltration. That fat wop Stakeknife knew fuck all about the cells.

 

[RanchRanchLover]

No joke they send 1000 officers to the border they're looking for people to join the IRA. Army back on the streets? Aye that worked really well the first time.

 

[Nacho Man Randy Salsa]

Oh good, I missed the troubles.

 

[ulsterscotsman]

I thought the GB campaign was pretty much free of the Special Branch. MRF infiltration. That fat wop Stakeknife knew fuck all about the cells.

Nothing is free from infiltration and towards the end the Provo's where rotten.

Personally in my opinion Gerry and Martin where informers.

 

[pwnest injun]

No the vast majority of them where just normal people although there was a few veterans in their ranks.

It probably only takes 1 in 6 to keep the unbloodied ones moving along.