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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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I honestly think if I were a Brit, I'd just leave at this point. They've gotten to the point where the only way things will change, is if they're willing to overthrow the government, and there's simply not enough weapons, and not enough willing Brits to do that.
 
Sprig of Parsley said:
"Yeah let's throw a bunch of opiates and shit at this dude, this'll be fine."
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I think I can see the rationale. :tomgirl:
Don't get me wrong I loved the shit out of demerol and morphine when I got into that car wreck but opiates are scary enough that doctors here have to practically be held at gunpoint to write Rxs for them and for good reason
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Yeah, opiates are all fine and well if you're immobilized in hospital and they cut you off at the door. Mixing that shit with gabapentin and God knows what else is just a nice way of saying; "You're fuckin' 'opeless, guvnah!"
 
NoticesPatterns said:
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.
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I wouldn't call a wall and an insurrection act "nothing".
Unog said:
"There's a lot of data about you, so complaining about a system that makes it nearly-instantaneous to identify you and connect all of that data together is exceptional".

This is "well if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about" all over again. Fuck privacy amirite?
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"I don't need freedom of speech because I have nothing to say" is the one that comes next.
Forever Sunrise said:
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.
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The American Revolutionary War.
 
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NoticesPatterns said:
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.
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ITT: The God-given freedom to shitpost ITT. I'd give KF all of two weeks in the UK before Null got his loicense pulled (and his shit pushed in by Ahmed).
 
OK, well the one retarded guy has the excuse that he's retarded from pills he's taking due to physical retardation. So I mean, I guess he gets a pass for being a retard.

The rest of the UK bootlicking idiots, I guess I get why the UK is that way if you're representative. So I shouldn't feel sorry for you, just laugh. Good to know.
 
Went outside to renew my beard license as my shaving license lapsed last week: no drivers license or bicycle license so I decide to walk since my shoe license is good for another klick or so. I saw the local constabulary with their new-fangled face identification equipment so I decide to hide my illegally possessed beard under my coat collar (I paid the additional fee for a lifetime coat license but let the scarf license lapse to cover the coatfee). Of course they detain me because I had forgotten to pay my freewill tax and I suddenly realize I haven't maintained my spoken english license for years and was forced to respond to the officers inquiries with unlicensed words and phrases. Unfortunately I accidentally used an expletive without the proper permit and now I have a fine to pay but Im pretty sure I never want to leave the house again.
 
Screaming Bird said:
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?
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Hello, this is the rest of the Other Side of the Pond, we are not associated with the pissy island off the coast of France that is currently up to its third fucking Brexit and still hasn't realized their democratic system is just a hilarious joke.

After all, even fucking France of all places is still protesting Macron's shitty laws (5 months and 25 days so far).
 
Forever Sunrise said:
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.
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Wonder if all the fully veiled women that must’ve passed the “trial in progress” in this poor neighbourhood broke the law too?

It’s kind of hard to have any understanding for a country where the police will arrest you for misgendering a tranny.

With your mindset, you should emigrate to China though. They need more upstanding citizens like you.

Back when I was studying in the UK, I used to take the Eurostar to visit friends and family every so often.
And right before the summer of my First Year, I was traveling with my camping / hiking backpack since we had planned on going on a trip with my friends the next day.

I had a pocket knife under 10cms among my things, one that I had carried back and forth with me numerous times across the border. For the record, Swiss and pocket knives aren’t against your autistic laws.

Only that time, the guys at the security check measured the blade (seeing clearly that it was under 10 cms), and still asked me to forfeit it. Naturally, I said « no », since it was a LaGuiole birthday gift I’ve had for years, and once again, it wasn’t illegal.

So they asked me for my passport, which just so happened to be Russian, and instantly called the cops, while I was just standing there thinking I might still be able to catch my train.

Then, I was led by security to the side of the big Eurostar room that’s been cordoned off for refugees about to be deported and other criminals.
When 3 cops finally showed up, I don’t know what the Eurostar staff told them in the distance, but they fucking arrested me for « disorderly conduct » and said they’d figure everything out at the police station to my outraged protests.

By that time, the only thing I had said at the security checkpoint was that I refused to relinquish my pocket knife since it wasn’t illegal.

I was taken to the police station in a cage at the back of the police van, and there, they just put me in a cell for 4 + hours while they waited for my mugshots to be made and « the detective to be ready for your interview ». Again, keep in mind that I hadn’t done anything illegal.

Among other shitty things, I didn’t get the right to a phonecall to my family to inform them I didn’t make it onto the train because « we don’t do international calls », and the one person I did get to call in the UK didn’t answer. And didn’t have my family’s contact info anyways.

Anyways, I stayed in a cell until like midnight, when finally I was taken to see a detective, who presented my situation as being « a Russian national in possession of a deadly bladed weapon », and accused me of « disorderly conduct in a public space », when I was just a 19 year old girl that refused to surrender a perfectly legal pocket knife for camping in my luggage.

Either way, after the interview where I denied everything, I was offered two solutions - either I take it to court and fight the charges, which meant showing up at the Old Bailey and risking a criminal conviction, or I accept the guilt and get off with a simple caution.

Me being a tired, scared 19 year old with little knowledge about the inner works of British law and no retainer at hand in that country, I just accepted the caution for a crime I didn’t commit.

That and they didn’t give me back my pocket knife, even though the detective said « the issue is not the knife, it’s your conduct », because apparently politely refusing some Eurostar pajeet that was attempting an illegal seizure of my property is against the law.

Anyways, I got out of there around 4am, and spent the rest of the night reassuring my parents I hadn’t died.
My summer trip got fucked since I missed my train to Paris. I lost around £300 in total Eurostar + further trains costs, and I got a caution that I think forbids me from working with the young or the elderly in the UK (thank God I’m not stepping foot in that autistic shithole again).

The only positive thing out of it is that I got a lot of police issued « evidence » bags they sorted my luggage in, and that I later used for moving between student residences. It’s the small things, amirite?
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Point is, police abuses like these are what I expect from countries like Russia, and hell even back in Russia they let you go if you pay them. Not from first world, free, Western democracies where saying « no » to a pajeet is considered disorderly conduct.

Tldr: fuck you, and your shithole country.
 
Guy told a cop to "Fuck Off" and got arrested - S5 Public Order Act working as expected. Make of that what you will, but that's the law that was agreed on. (Used to include use of "insulting language" as well)

Note that this guy waived his right to a trial when he accepted the £90 fine - otherwise, this would have gone to court and stood a fair chance of being knocked off.
 
LegoTugboat said:
Holy crap, you're right. It's basically just Cosmo. It's got how to do women, how to raise kids, what plants to take for pregnancies, horoscopes.

The only difference is that this one has volcanic eruptions.
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Wait, if this is a 500 year old Cosmo edition, written by an all female editorial staff, with birth control tips, and it has a Queen on the cover saving people from a Volcano, what the fuck was feminism for?
 
gun said:
their cops do get beat up, except its by pakis

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Which is why UK cops don’t bother with minorities or actual crimes. The only thing they’re good at is arresting white people for made-up offences, and seize gardening tools from the elderly and sharp crayons from kids « to prevent knife crime » because they know it’s safe to do it without repercussions.

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Bet all of you UK fags defending your shithole country that can’t even leave the EU without fucking itself over are proud of your police force, innit mates?
 
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