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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.

 

[Sanshain]

Governments will abuse things, doesn't mean we should take it lying down.

Between lying down and making a gargantuan fool out of myself like this man and other people like him, I'd rather be the one lying down and laughing. Call me when there's a resistance movement that wouldn't be laughed out of a 4chan shitposting thread.

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

Between lying down and making a gargantuan fool out of myself like this man and other people like him, I'd rather be the one lying down and laughing. Call me when there's a resistance movement that wouldn't be laughed out of a 4chan shitposting thread.

There will never be one, you're all too busy lying down and laughing at people who have had it with your government's shit instead of getting up and rubbing your braincells together to try and start a fucking fire.

Don't worry, Bongs, we'll toss some roses on your casket.

 

[Slimy Time]

Between lying down and making a gargantuan fool out of myself like this man and other people like him, I'd rather be the one lying down and laughing. Call me when there's a resistance movement that wouldn't be laughed out of a 4chan shitposting thread.

From one Brit to another: you disgust me.

 

[lolwut]

I take a lot of pills for pain and arthritis, not all addictive. Main ones are tramadol, co-codamol, liquid morphine and gabapentin

lol junkie

 

[Y2K Baby]

From one Brit to another: you disgust me.

From a non-Brit, you disgust me (for being British)

 

[Slimy Time]

From a non-Brit, you disgust me (for being British)

Does being a 20 year expat remove that?

 

[Sanshain]

From one Brit to another: you disgust me.

Stings to find somebody on the island who still values their dignity over hysteria, does it?

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

Stings to find somebody on the island who still values their dignity over hysteria, does it?

What dignity? You are kept as PETS.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

Here, they mostly place the facial recognition cams in low-income, high crime areas.
This is dumb, since crims will mask their identity.

The real giveaway are the multiple bright signs warning anyone within the camera's sight that they are being recorded with facial recognition cameras.

I'll take this moment to remind everyone that former UK PM Gordon Brown endorsed the proposal of listening devices being installed in lamp-posts to counteract terrorism.

the really good crooks scope out the place ahead of time and figure out where all the cameras are regardless of covering their faces.
bongistan is the senile shit slinging grandfather who really ought to be in a home, news at 11.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Too bad Orwell is dead, he'd be laughing so hard right now. He even got the location for his book right.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Too bad Orwell is dead, he'd be laughing so hard right now. He even got the location for his book right.

The Brits have always been shit. France and Spain were way better colonial powers. Cooler, more interesting, actually having cultural values, etc

 

[Fek]

Stings to find somebody on the island who still values their dignity over hysteria, does it?

wtf did I just read

I...think you might be conflating things a little (if I am to be as cordial as possible here). Rolling/bending over gleefully for the sake of not rocking the boat does anything but leave one with their dignity intact. At least you got the "lying down" part right further up.

 

[Unog]

Stings to find somebody on the island who still values their dignity over hysteria, does it?

Mfw it's dignified to roll over and bark for your nanny-state government.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

If a lot of crazies on YT are to be believed (isn't too hard since they keep recording the police), once you start recording a policeman, they get extremely pissed off with you, basically telling you its their right to not be recorded, asking for your ID, literally following you to your goddamned house and finding any excuses to make sure you get fined for something.

I am legitimately surprised that people don't just beat up the cops at this point. Knowing that cops react that way, you'd think thugs would lure them into gang beatings by recording them and letting the pigs tail them to the ambush point.

 

[NoticesPatterns]

ITT: smug amerimutts fantasize about how they would totally murder any cop who hassled them while they choke on ZOG cock and DO NOTHING as their country is overrun with niggers and beaners.

 

[Y2K Baby]

ITT: smug amerimutts fantasize about how they would totally murder any cop who hassled them while they choke on ZOG cock and DO NOTHING as their country is overrun with niggers and beaners.

And what country are you from

 

[LU 010]

The bloke committed a crime under the public order act by being abusive and swearing.

He broke the law. He did so deliberately. He got punished.

It's simple as that and no amount of hysteria will change those facts.

See I find this mindset absolutely baffling. This idea that, well he broke the law so he's wrong, without any critical thinking at all about whether the law is a good or just one. Refusing to comply with an unjust law is a good thing, on this side of the pond. It's a virtue. A demonstration of courage. The laws should serve the people, not the other way around. This "he broke the law and the law is right and he is wrong because it's the law" shit is fucking retarded. Is that really a cultural value over there? Doing what other people say Just Because?

I take a lot of pills for pain and arthritis, not all addictive. Main ones are tramadol, co-codamol, liquid morphine and gabapentin

How many different hospital emergency departments did you have to visit to get all those prescriptions at once?

 

[EasyPeasy]

How many different hospital emergency departments did you have to visit to get all those prescriptions at once?

None. My doctor prescribes all my meds.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

None. My doctor prescribes all my meds.

 

[Slimy Time]

See I find this mindset absolutely baffling. This idea that, well he broke the law so he's wrong, without any critical thinking at all about whether the law is a good or just one. Refusing to comply with an unjust law is a good thing, on this side of the pond. It's a virtue. A demonstration of courage. The laws should serve the people, not the other way around. This "he broke the law and the law is right and he is wrong because it's the law" shit is fucking exceptional. Is that really a cultural value over there? Doing what other people say Just Because?

Remember that Blair introduced a law which allowed him to indefinitely detain any foreign national without charge or trial and without extradition rights. A law that could literally be used to detain any foreign national they don't like. Thankfully ruled incompatible with the ECHR by the then House of Lords legal branch (now Supreme Court) and parliament got rid of it. Because under that mind set, it's perfectly acceptable to detain any foreigner and violate all former legal proceedings.