UK British News Megathread - aka CWCissey's news thread

  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
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.

View image on Twitter


spread happiness@p4leandp1nk
https://twitter.com/p4leandp1nk/status/1080767496569974785

#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs
2764.png


7
10:07 AM - Jan 3, 2019
See spread happiness's other Tweets
Twitter Ads info and privacy


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."

View image on Twitter


pg often@pgofton
https://twitter.com/pgofton/status/1080772793774624768

The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary

42
10:28 AM - Jan 3, 2019
See pg often's other Tweets
Twitter Ads info and privacy


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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Click to expand...
It'a all staged and we are being played for fools. The IRA and PLO used the same tactics. The militant wing commits an attack then their political wing responds with peace overtures.
 
I don't think these people get that if you Metaphorically cock block an erection it'll go away in the short run but it's just gonna keep coming back stronger then ever, building up till even your pants cant contain it.
 
The UK then: an empire who masterminded Napoleon's defeat, led the West into the Industrial Revolution and held the line against Nazi Germany.

The UK now: a bunch of weak pisscucks who think a fucking engineered hashtag campaign is going to save them from the hordes of rabid goat-fuckers they keep letting in.

It's almost sad.
 
WhatNemesisMeans said:
The UK then: an empire who masterminded Napoleon's defeat, led the West into the Industrial Revolution and held the line against Nazi Germany.

The UK now: a bunch of weak pisscucks who think a fucking engineered hashtag campaign is going to save them from the hordes of rabid goat-fuckers they keep letting in.

It's almost sad.
Click to expand...
The U.K was always shit.
 
Absolutely nothing about any of this is surprising to me. I always thought everything about the way the media responds to Islamic terror attacks to be so transparently hypocritical. It always calls for stricter gun control whenever a mass shooting happens and mocks people for empty words about 'thoughts and prayers', but whenever the perpetrators of the attack are Muslims we are suddenly supposed to have completely the opposite reaction and act as if it was some kind of natural disaster and nothing could be done to stop it, and don't you dare suggest otherwise. It's almost as if we're only supposed to "demand action" after a tragedy when the proposed solution can be spun to be ordinary citizens giving up their rights...
 
Fucking Blair screwing us over from beyond his Prime Ministership once again.
 
Doesn't Brave pretty much already allow you to get around this? I mean I guess Mozilla and Google are more well-known but it strikes me as odd that this is news.

Alec Benson Leary said:
If fetishes need to be banned because they're oppressive, yet fetishes often come into being as a reaction to what is forbidden/verboten, then how does a police state ever actually stop its citizens from defying their authority?
Click to expand...

Now I know what my new favorite AI-breaking paradox is.
 
Tasty Tatty said:
It's easier if you're a little girl, but first, you have to be raped by a hundred barbarians before they turn your body into kebab.
Click to expand...

This actually happened

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1552482/Missing-girls-body-put-into-kebab.html

A schoolgirl was murdered by a fast food shop owner who joked that she had been "chopped up" and put into kebabs, a court was told yesterday.

774548


The prosecution alleged at Preston Crown Court that Charlene Downes, 14, was killed by Iyad
Albattikhi, 29, owner of a food shop in Blackpool, who had sex with her.
Charlene was one of a number of young girls who visited an alleyway in the town to have sex with older men who worked in the fast food shops, Tim Holroyde QC, prosecuting, told the jury

Charlene, from Blackpool, was "well and happy", the court heard, but had a "chaotic" home life. Expelled from school, she spent her time hanging around shops on the Blackpool Promenade. She was last seen on the evening of Saturday Nov 1 2003. After kissing her mother goodbye she left alone - and vanished, Mr Holroyde said.

A missing persons inquiry began but police later launched a murder investigation after receiving information that Charlene had been "killed and chopped up", the court heard.
No trace of Charlene's body has ever been found.

Mr Holroyde told the jury that a witness had heard Albattikhi and others talking about her.
"These people were talking about sex with white girls, and there was mention of having sex with Charlene," he said.
"Albattikhi laughed and said she was very small - the plainest possible indication that he was lying to the police when he said he did not know her. He and others present then laughingly said that Charlene had gone into the kebabs."
Albattikhi, a Jordanian immigrant, is charged with murder. His business partner and landlord, Mohammed Reveshi, 50, is accused of helping dispose of the body.

Both deny the charges and have told police they did not know Charlene.
Albattikhi and Reveshi were joint owners of the food shop, the court heard, which Albattikhi ran.
Charlene became a "familiar figure" hanging around the shops where she would sometimes get free food.
Mr Holroyde said: "In addition she was one of a number of adolescent white girls who sometimes went at night to the alleyway behind the restaurants. She and others went there to meet much older men from the restaurants, and it seems perfectly clear that there was at times some sexual activity."

Albattikhi took advantage of one of those vulnerable girls - Charlene Downes, the jury was told.
Mr Holroyde added: "It is the prosecution case that the background to the murder of Charlene Downes and the disposal of her body is some sexual activity between her and one or both of the defendants.
"Sexual activity between these adult men and a 14-year-old girl would be a crime which could be expected to have serious consequences for them."

After Charlene's disappearance, both the accused were questioned and told police they did not know her, the court heard.
In 2004, Albattikhi had a dispute with his brother, Tariq, who told a witness, David Cassidy, that he knew what had happened to Charlene - "she had been killed and chopped up and there had been a lot of blood", the court heard.
Mr Cassidy was allegedly later offered a £20,000 interest-free loan from Reveshi.
Police searched the flats of both accused men but found nothing. Detectives then bugged the premises and Reveshi's car, and Mr Holroyde told the jury some of the recordings were "revealing".

The trial continues.
Click to expand...
 
If you live in the UK, your first thought every morning should be "How do I get the fuck out of my country". If it is not, then you're a lost cause. Stay put, the Imam will be by to tell you which mosque to report to.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom