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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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Back when Cleese was about to move out of England to live his retirement days in some nice warmer climates, people were saying his comments of him expatriating were kinda sorta hinting at him seeing how fucked England was going. I didn't think he'd straight up say it, though. He gains nothing and this kind of backlash is fucking obvious.

I'm kinda upset that from hereon some cunts with rainbow hair are going to piddle on his legacy for saying such common sense stuff.
 
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London has never been English really, it's always been a overpriced hellscape populated by "educated" toffs who think the sun shines out of their arse.
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Sounds like San Francisco. Who has the funnier accent, camp gays or camp Londoners?

Clop said:
Back when Cleese was about to move out of England to live his retirement days in some nice warmer climates, people were saying his comments of him expatriating were kinda sorta hinting at him seeing how fucked England was going. I didn't think he'd straight up say it, though. He gains nothing and this kind of backlash is fucking obvious.

I'm kinda upset that from hereon some cunts with rainbow hair are going to piddle on his legacy for saying such common sense stuff.
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It will be interesting to see whether those people actually abandon Monty Python or not. A lot of these faggot-nerd crossbreeds hold that show (and its cast) up as a sacred cow of comedy, despite barely understanding it.
 
Clop said:
I'm kinda upset that from hereon some cunts with rainbow hair are going to piddle on his legacy for saying such common sense stuff.
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If you're a public figure and these people don't hate you, you're doing something wrong.

Cunts gonna cunt.
 
Aww, he doesn't suck mudslime dick so now he's public enemy #1

Funny thing is the faggots and dangerhairs and libtards who insist that muzzrats are sweet innocent lambs who dindunuffins would be the first ones to die in an Islam dominated society.
 
Clop said:
Back when Cleese was about to move out of England to live his retirement days in some nice warmer climates, people were saying his comments of him expatriating were kinda sorta hinting at him seeing how fucked England was going. I didn't think he'd straight up say it, though. He gains nothing and this kind of backlash is fucking obvious.

I'm kinda upset that from hereon some cunts with rainbow hair are going to piddle on his legacy for saying such common sense stuff.
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fuck you money is a wonderful thing
 
crocodilian said:
It will be interesting to see whether those people actually abandon Monty Python or not. A lot of these faggot-nerd crossbreeds hold that show (and its cast) up as a sacred cow of comedy, despite barely understanding it.
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The BBC's head of comedy already branded it as too white a year or so back.
 
English people are literally a minority in modern London, they're only around 45% of the population there. Combine that with the fact that it has a Muslim named Sadiq Khan for a mayor and there are Mosque littering the landscape of what is supposedly a Christian nation and I really don't see what argument there is to be had with his comments.

Even Sweden's largest city is by leaps and bounds more Swedish than England's largest city is English. How embarrassing.
 
"you're not allowed to prefer one culture over the other"

dude imagine being this stoned on NPC
 
I'm surprised the British Media isn't bringing up all the times Cleese dressed up as Hitler in Flying Circus tbh.
 
Coolio55 said:
The BBC's head of comedy already branded it as too white a year or so back.
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An England that doesn't venerate Monty Python is a disgrace indeed.
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That’s quite enough silly walks from BBC comedy. New voices please | Rebecca Nicholson

The head of the corporation’s comedy department has promised us greater diversity. About time too
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Monty Python exists. It’s already there. The diversity police aren’t coming to take it away.
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Terry Gilliam on diversity: 'I tell the world now I’m a black lesbian'

The film-maker weighs in on the controversy surrounding BBC comedy chief Shane Allen’s comment about ‘six Oxbridge white blokes’
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Terry Gilliam on diversity: 'I tell the world now I’m a black lesbian'
The film-maker weighs in on the controversy surrounding BBC comedy chief Shane Allen’s comment about ‘six Oxbridge white blokes’
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Terry Gilliam at the Karlovy Vary film festival.
Terry Gilliam at the Karlovy Vary film festival. Photograph: Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images
Terry Gilliam has responded to the BBC diversity debate which referenced Monty Python by saying: “I tell the world now I’m a black lesbian.”

Gilliam was commenting on the row over diversity triggered by the BBC’s unveiling of its new comedy programming, announced in June, at which the BBC’s controller of comedy commissioning Shane Allen emphasised the corporation’s commitment to “the stories that haven’t been told and the voices we haven’t yet heard”. In response to a question about Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Allen said: “If you’re going to assemble a team now, it’s not going to be six Oxbridge white blokes. It’s going to be a diverse range of people who reflect the modern world.”

Speaking at a press conference at the Karlovy Vary film festival, where he was presenting his new film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Gilliam said: “It made me cry: the idea that ... no longer six white Oxbridge men can make a comedy show. Now we need one of this, one of that, everybody represented... this is bullshit. I no longer want to be a white male, I don’t want to be blamed for everything wrong in the world: I tell the world now I’m a black lesbian... My name is Loretta and I’m a BLT, a black lesbian in transition.”

He added: “[Allen’s] statement made me so angry, all of us so angry. Comedyis not assembled, it’s not like putting together a boy band where you put together one of this, one of that everyone is represented.”

Gilliam follows fellow Python member John Cleese’s angry response to Allen’s comment, who tweeted: “Unfair! We were remarkably diverse FOR OUR TIME ... We had three grammar-school boys, one a poof, and Gilliam, though not actually black, was a Yank. And NO slave-owners.”

Gilliam has previously attracted controversy for his comments on the MeToo campaign, likening it to “mob rule” and saying: “ It’s crazy how simplified things are becoming.”
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English people are literally a minority in modern London, they're only around 45% of the population there. Combine that with the fact that it has a Muslim named Sadiq Khan for a mayor and there are Mosque littering the landscape of what is supposedly a Christian nation and I really don't see what argument there is to be had with his comments.

Even Sweden's largest city is by leaps and bounds more Swedish than England's largest city is English. How embarrassing.
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That's not what being a minority means. That simply means they're a plurality rather than the majority. If you include all white Europeans, London's sitting at 60%. That's still fucking crazy, though.

That said, Sadiq Khan is getting roasted in his replies for London basically being a shithole while he's spouting off about diversity, and I'm glad he is.
 
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