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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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Sissy Galvez said:
These “protests” are so stupid because they accomplish nothing. Supporters will sympathize, centrists will most likely be pissed off, and people against this will dig in further. They’re also not doing anything except “raising awareness” which is a giant hand-job essentially. Someone isn’t going to see this and go “oh guess climate change is bad....because some white privileged assholes blocked streets and made my commute home to my family hellish??”.

If you want to change something, convince people with debate. Use your words, facts, and images. Show and explain to people what will happen because blocking a street makes you look like a privileged/entitled asshole.
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I don’t care what someone is protesting if they make me late for work or make it more difficult to rush someone to the hospital. It only antagonizes me. I’m sure others are the same way. Isn’t the point of a protest to win people over?
 
Am I the only one getting the feeling the Ireland is about to rev up again?
Poiseon said:
So why doesn't the uk just let Northern Ireland join the rest of fucking Ireland already? What's the fucking deal, really?
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Because if they do they’re abandoning yet another one of their colonist populations to the natives, and they lose the final legacy of their Empire. Such cuckery would be too much for even modern England to bear.
 
The best part of this is those arrested are being denied bail due to a reasonable belief that they'll reoffend while on bail (duh). That means sitting in a cell until the first avaliable court date which will be Tuesday morning for the first ones arrested but that queue is getting loner all the time.
 
Coccxys said:
The best part of this is those arrested are being denied bail due to a reasonable belief that they'll reoffend while on bail (duh). That means sitting in a cell until the first avaliable court date which will be Tuesday morning for the first ones arrested but that queue is getting loner all the time.
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This may be part of the plan. They reckon that if they all get nicked they'll bog down the system with paperwork and bring it grinding to a halt. This also gives them the opportunity to cry persecution.
 
Ginger Piglet said:
This may be part of the plan. They reckon that if they all get nicked they'll bog down the system with paperwork and bring it grinding to a halt. This also gives them the opportunity to cry persecution.
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They can grind the system to a halt if they like but once the police custody suits are full people who have been denied bail start getting remanded to actual prisons until the courts let them out. If you grind the courts to a halt guess where you sit until it's sorted. On the plus side some might finally realise everyone in prison isn't some poor misunderstood person who didn't get enough hugs as a child.
 
This is terrible. I mean, completely awful.

Don't both sides realize that all they're doing is empowering Bono to continue writing awful, awful songs???
 
thx1138 said:
This is terrible. I mean, completely awful.

Don't both sides realize that all they're doing is empowering Bono to continue writing awful, awful songs???
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He stopped giving a shit about Ireland when they started asking him to pay his taxes.

We're more likely to get some new Stiff Little Fingers material, which would be ace!

Northern Ireland really did have the best punk scene during the Troubles.
 
It's just another way of getting money from and controlling the populations, something the UK's government has plenty of experience with.
It also let's them spy on people fairly easily.
 
Maggots on a Train v2 said:
This is what happens when sheltered people think their good intentions give them an IRL shield. R.I.P. lady who would still be here today if she had learned to hit the deck.
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She was from the Cliftonville in North Belfast, that is not a sheltered upbringing. When mad shit happens on the streets regularly you get inured to it.
 
I don't feel for you brits one bit.

You were the ones who didn't value your freedom.
You were the ones who voted these people into office.

If you cared more, maybe you wouldn't have to go get your wanking licence this year.
 
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