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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.

 

[ignoramus]

Love the BBC running their "Cleese criticised for London comments" headline. If you look at the actual tweet, the lefties on Twitter haven't really managed to ratio him. 12k replies (which includes people who agree) and 43k likes. They could just as easily have said "Cleese praised for London comments", but that wouldn't be a news story.

That's a pointless nitpicking exercise, of course, because Twitter isn't representative of the general public, otherwise Labour would've won a landslide in the 2015 election. It is so tiring to see journalists pushing "backlash" articles about irrelevant tweets.

 

[ButterBar]

Really, so how many Chinese or Indian companies or schools have diversity quotas? How many TV shows push interracial couples on the audience in vastly disproportionate rates? How many Chinese cities are run by Jamal? I'll wait.

I dont know about diversity quotas but they have race riots and shit like that. Chinese is one group to Americans but in China that is divided into Han, Tibetan, Manchurian, etc. They have their own Chinese ethnicities. Theres two Chinese languages even one of which a majority and the other a minority language in the south that further causes tensions, and has for like 3,000 years as different ethnic groups held dynasties in China. The big revolt they had that turned it from an Empire to a Republic was because the Manchurians had dominance over the other Chinese groups. The Opium Wars get mischaracterized as Britain getting a bunch of poor Chinese addicted to Opium but really it was mainly rich Manchurians sitting on their asses smoking dope because they had nothing better to do.

 

[V0dka]

"Londoners know that our diversity is our greatest strength."
Politicians all over Europe say that and I wonder what it means, they never get around to that part. It is the greatest and most meaningless platitude in European politics.

They say that right after the terrorist attack.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

The libtards loved him when he was shitting on Sarah Palin.

Because she was such a hard target.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Chinese don't have any, they openly accept Han dominance. That said, woke Chinese and western sources are writing about it. Indians are getting pretty "woke" to their minorities though, I remember a huge shitstorm over some Indian beauty competition mostly having lighter skin girls. You do have to remember that China and India are so huge that their ethnic troubles are comparable to NA and SA put together.

An Indian man in north eastern India had this to say.

All in all it's an interesting video about a part of the country where Indians doesn't look Indian.

Do Northeast Indians Consider Themselves Indians? | ASIAN BOSS

Northeast Indians are often discriminated against for having a different cultural background, religion and ethnic makeup. But do they even consider themselve...

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[Wesley Willis]

A fading empire's final breath was mouth-to-mouth with its former subjugates.

 

[Basil II]

He's always been a hypocrite who's centre right in the UK and Hollywood lefty in the US. For example he's always been anti-EU and and even did anti-Euro campaign ads back in the day.

People misrepresent the immigrant situation in London implying it's all muslims. The big change in the last 10 years is the amount of Romanians, French, Italians, Greeks, etc even in nice areas. So even if London is still 70% "white" it's probably only 40% "English".

What will be interesting is that most of these immigrants will probably have fully integrated children so the issue could go away in a generation.

that's because french dont rape children.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Wow, he said that a culture that tolerates genital mutilation is not as good as one that doesn't? What a monster.

LOL, don’t we hear day in and day out that London isn’t British, especially from their vibrant mayor? So why are they up in arms that someone else is saying it? Makes you think...

It's not about what the truth is, it's about who is allowed to say it. Tyrants don't want someone else to even so much as repeat what they themselves have said because it weakens their monopoly on power if the little folk get it in their heads that there may be more than one reliable source for the truth. I can say the earth is round and I'm right, but if you say the earth is round I have to call you wrong and evil because the next time people question things I can't have them thinking they can ask anyone other than myself for answers.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Haha, remember when the brits were so proud of monty python? Now the fucks are too miserable for it, and they've banned it from their airwaves. Now the legend himself is unwoke.

You british twig bundles deserve this. This slippery slope has been a long time sliding.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Haha, remember when the brits were so proud of monty python? Now the fucks are too miserable for it, and they've banned it from their airwaves. Now the legend himself is unwoke.

You british twig bundles deserve this. This slippery slope has been a long time sliding.

I'm surprised the US branch of the woke hasn't yet turned their guns on Mel Brooks and called him a nazi because he made all those films making fun of nazis.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

I'm surprised the US branch of the woke hasn't yet turned their guns on Mel Brooks and called him a nazi because he made all those films making fun of nazis.

Blazing saddles, friendo. It keeps coming up, but that movie will be the reason for Mel Brooks eventual unpersoning.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Blazing saddles, friendo. It keeps coming up, but that movie will be the reason for Mel Brooks eventual unpersoning.

You know the ironic thing, when I was younger I was kind of uncomfortable with how much the word "nigger" was thrown around in that film, I thought it was crass and I didn't get the point of it. But it was the pc socjus outrage crowd that convinced me to take a closer look at stuff like that and now I realize the context and the valuable purpose of boundary-pushing stuff like that for its own sake, and I appreciate things that make the censors and moral police uncomfortable a lot more now than I did a decade ago. We need them to be bothered all the time because if we're not doing it deliberately, they're going to find excuses to be bothered anyway, and they'll push that maginot line a lot further if we play nice and let them because contrary to their public mission statement they are never looking for a compromise that makes everyone happy, or even any compromise at all.

 

[Azovka]

I don’t know. Having a mayor whose pinned tweet is celebrating Ramadan seems perfectly English to me

 

[Irrelevant]

Haha, remember when the brits were so proud of monty python? Now the fucks are too miserable for it, and they've banned it from their airwaves. Now the legend himself is unwoke.

You british twig bundles deserve this. This slippery slope has been a long time sliding.

They've hated on Monty Python for ages. Apparently drag is mocking femininity and means less jobs for female comedians.

It's not an argument I've heard recently so I don't know how they will fit it into the trans climate.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

You had me until you claimed that China and India are racially homogenous. They're not, that's why there's a brewing shitstorm in both and China got slammed for their concentration camps. Also, you ever heard of Tibet?

Actually, you know what, your entire post is kinda dumb.

Honestly it's pretty weird to call Africa racially homogenous to if we're talking genetic diversity and not "how much melanin does X have".

I dont know about diversity quotas but they have race riots and shit like that. Chinese is one group to Americans but in China that is divided into Han, Tibetan, Manchurian, etc. They have their own Chinese ethnicities. Theres two Chinese languages even one of which a majority and the other a minority language in the south that further causes tensions, and has for like 3,000 years as different ethnic groups held dynasties in China. The big revolt they had that turned it from an Empire to a Republic was because the Manchurians had dominance over the other Chinese groups. The Opium Wars get mischaracterized as Britain getting a bunch of poor Chinese addicted to Opium but really it was mainly rich Manchurians sitting on their asses smoking dope because they had nothing better to do.

There's a lot more than two Chinese languages. We tend to lump them all together because they use the same alphabet, and said alphabet is ideographic so even if a person cannot understand the others' speech, if their languages both use the same alphabet they can write to each other.For some reason places like wikipefdia retardedly list Chinese as a "language isolate" when the reality is it's an entire family of Sinitic languages.

The somewhat more educated Americans think of Mandarin and Cantonese. But those aren't the only two languages by a long shot that use the Chinese alphabet. We just think of them that way because Mandarin is the official one and Cantonese is spoken in Hong Kong, which is politically significant to the US. Cantonese is by no means the second language of China in terms of number of speakers or geographic spread. That's purely a western concept.

China is an Empire in the truest sense of the word and has been for ages. It rules over many, many different peoples and cultures.

 

[Aristophanes]

London hasn't been an English city for nearly 2,000 years, as it wasn't an English city in the first place.

What have the Romans done for us, eh?

 

[Ginger Piglet]

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/la...t-browsers-google-mozilla-digital-economy-act

GOVERNMENT officials have admitted for the first time they will be unable to enforce the "porn block law" if browsers such as Firefox and Chrome roll out DNS encryption.

The acknowledgement comes as senior representatives of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) privately told Daily Star Online they believe the porn block law could be delayed.

Earlier this month, this publication revealed Mozilla Firefox is thought to be pushing ahead with the roll out “DNS encryption”, despite government "concerns" they and ISPs will be unable to see what website we are looking at and block them.

Speaking at the Internet Service Providers Association's Annual Conference last week, Mark Hoe, from the government’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), said they would not be "able to block" websites that violate the porn block and enforce the new law.

He said: “The age verification measures… although those are not directly affected [by DNS encryption] it does effect enforcement of access to non-compliant websites.

“So, whereas we had previously envisaged that ISPs would be able to block access to non-compliant sites, [those] using DNS filtering techniques don’t provide a way around that.”

In an official statement, however, a government spokesman told Daily Star Online the law would come into force in a couple of months, as planned, but without explaining how it will enforce it.

The block is contained in the Digital Economy Act and was originally set to be introduced in April 2018 but it was delayed to the start of April 2019 and then moved back again, to July 15.

It’s estimated it could affect a whopping 35 million people, forcing them to get “age verified” by handing over their details or using a passport, bank card, or “porn pass” from the shops.

When quizzed about the enforcement and chances the law would be moved back, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said it “anticipated a high degree of compliance from the commercial pornographic websites”.

The questions about enforcement comes as a survey reveals three quarters Brit parents are worried the porn block could leave them open to ID theft because they will be forced to hand over details to get age verified.

AgeChecked surveyed 1,500 UK parents and found 73% would be “apprehensive about giving personal information as verification online, for fear of how the data would be used”.

The porn block law is part of Theresa May’s long-standing promise to make the UK “the safest place in the world” to be online and its introductory date has been confirmed by a law called a “statutory instrument”.

When quizzed, a government spokesperson told the Star Online: “Whilst we look to support capabilities that seek to deliver security and privacy to the UK online, we are concerned about unintended consequences changes could have.

“We will work with industry and regulators to seek solutions to any potential problems as part of our ongoing work to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online.”

Mozilla did not respond to requests for comment when contacted last week. However, they have said publicly they have already started rolling our DNS in the US as of April 1.

In a blog post last month, they said: “We are working to build a larger ecosystem of trusted [DNS] providers, and we hope to be able to experiment with other providers soon.

“As before, we will continue to share the results of the [DNA] tests and provide updates once future plans solidify.”

No firm decision to postpone or drop it yet, but if Mozilla holds its course, it may yet turn out to be all for nothing.

Incidentally, Court-mandated blocks of the Pirate Bay and so forth can already be circumvented using, of all things, Google Translate. I bet you'll still be able to download off the hamster your favourite clips of Theresa Orlowski and Olinka Hardiman lezzing out while smothered in thousand island dressing in a similar manner post July 15. Britain's Government just does not understand the internets.

 

[Diabolical diabetic]

The people asking for a porn loicense are a bunch of tech illiterate boomers, what an unexpected surprise.

“anticipated a high degree of compliance from the commercial pornographic websites”.

The fact that they expected porn sites to help and be fine with the new regulations is just baffling

 

[EasyPeasy]

BBC did a good doc on London's white flight called "Last Whites of the East End" a couple of years ago, about all the cockneys fleeing to the home counties like Essex to get away from the niggers and Muslims. Can't find a video link for the doc though.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

The fact that they expected porn sites to help and be fine with the new regulations is just baffling

I think it's because MindGeek, who owns Pornhub, Brazzers, Digital Playground, Redtube, Twistys, YouPorn, Reality Kings, Elegant Angel, and so forth, also just happens to have developed the AgeID age verification technology. In fact, I heard somewhere it was someone at MindGeek who pitched AgeID to the Government as a way of implementing the porn loicense provisions in the DEA in the first place.