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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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Aristophanes said:
Authorities believe that the NIRA are behind the shooting, and they're pretty nasty from what we know (drug pushing, revenge killings etc).
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They don't deal them they just tax the dealers and get involved in drug feuds by lending out personnel and weapons which is all just as bad.
Aristophanes said:
Maybe it's time for the CIRA to deal with the New IRA...
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Two things here is that the CIRA is said to be smaller and no body wants a feud.
It's more likely to be a dispute to between the remains of the RIRA and the NIRA as their political allies the 32csm and Saoradh are going at each other all over facebook at the moment.
 
Maxliam said:
It's a start...now let's see more of them shot
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I bet she was stronly anti-gun, anti-NRA, anti-freedom. This always puzzled me. If you are a fucking repressed minority, don't you want to make sure that your rights are not taken from you, by arming the fuck up? LGBT supporting anti 2a, pro-islam positively proves that it's a mental disorder.
 
And so on that faithful day, God looked down upon the Earth and smiled once more. That one single child of his eliminated a spawn of Satan practicing sinful behavior and preaching against the word of God, giving him hope that there might just be some morality and good left on the Earth; postponing the second flood. He uttered the words down to his child as proud as can be, "You did good."
 
"Guys, the international techno-economy is a present oriented world destroyer devouring the earth, wut are we gonna do about it?" [[Injects estrogen, proceeds to "express selves" by prancing around like retards]]
 
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