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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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Lol it's the UK government. All the websites have to do is post some Islamic shit, some grooming gang forums, and they'll likely get a grant from the government.
 
KeyserBroze said:
Personally i'm waiting for somebody to leave a usb drive somewhere containing the database of people who signed up to access porn in the UK.
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Lol it's gonna be more than a USB drive (assuming it EVER happens which I doubt)
NHS records have been publically leaked on a yearly basis.
 
I'm convinced that the water in the House of Commons circulates through lead pipes. The UK has possibly the dumbest political culture in the developed world.
 
Seriously, what the fuck UK? How much do we have to keep laughing at you untill you actually feel shame over your stupidity?
 
Nick Gars said:
Seriously, what the fuck UK? How much do we have to keep laughing at you untill you actually feel shame over your stupidity?
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As I said, you just need a posh girl to be affected, so until one of those fuckers in the Commons' teenage daughters gets horribly embarrassed, nothing will happen.
 
I'm foreseeing a lot of domains located in the UK moving out or shutting down. Government sites will just fine themselves. Virtuously.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
So... how do they plan to do this exactly? They do know most websites are not based out of the UK, right?
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They'll do what Australia is going to do and start with the social media giants. Those do usually have local offices and to some degree they have localised content.

It's not the first time the UK has looked at blocking Facebook.
 
Beautiful Border said:
I'm convinced that the water in the House of Commons circulates through lead pipes. The UK has possibly the dumbest political culture in the developed world.
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Nah. That is a race between Nu Z'land and 'Straylia: and there isn't a head between them.

I think the wrong ministry issued this report. Surely it should have been the ministry of Love. [The Ministry of Love (Newspeak: Miniluv) serves as Oceania's the formerly Great Britain's interior ministry. It enforces loyalty to Big Brother or Sister through fear, buttressed through a massive apparatus of security and repression, as well as systematic brainwashing - and in the UK's case, unremitting detachment with reality and no sense of irony at all. [Thanks to that font of all truth, Wikipedia - which will be blocked because is is a pedi of some sort.]
 
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UK has an at least decades-long history of changing laws based on only one incident. One kid dies from nunchuks - they're banned from sale and all media, and the Ninja Turtles have to become Hero Turtles, and no films with a scene involving nunchuks can be shown. Video nasties from the 80s, a huge MDMA scare after one girl died taking a pill and then drinking too much water... they love making rules based on one-off horror stories more than when hundreds of people have been affected. The long-term effects of the phone hacking scandal, Rotherham or even Yewtree have been less than the panic inspired by a singular victim of a singular incident.
 
It's like the UK looked at NZ and Aus, realized they were about to lose the heavyweight title for most retarded censorship practices, and went all "hold my beer!"
 
80's - Orwell was a bit too paranoid about what the government would and could do as far as censorship goes. That stuff can't happen here in our nice democracy. Oppression is what commies and the USSR does.

90's - This "political correctness" you seek. You know... Orwell warned us about this, unpopular opinions must, regrettably, be protected. Less we lose free speech.

00's - You know, maybe Orwell had the right idea? The world would be so much better if we could deny bullies and racists a voice. It's not like the average person would be persecuted, vaporization for wrongthink sounds like a fitting thing for a Nazi to suffer.....

10's - Orwell had the right idea, but the problem was, he didn't go quite far ENOUGH . We need FINES on top of the censorship and vaporizing, as wrongthink persists despite our efforts and it's doubleplusungood!


What world am I living in?

I'd like to speak to a manager for I fear there's been some kind of mistake......
 
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