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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.

 

[pwnest injun]

"Hey faggot! I hate you!! Now save me!!!"

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

There doesn't appear to be any foreskin on that lawnpenis.

Hmm..

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Ugh, I never draw the foreskin when I draw a dick.
Otherwise it would look like a weird sausage.

 

[Lemmingwise]

It is stunts like these that seem to reinforce that protestors aren't doing it out of any genuine feeling of making societal change, but instead of getting attention where people will praise them for how, "brave" they were. They are no different from the so-called hero in a story that does the hero work only because they will get showered with praise and gifts, but disappear when the hard work settles in or when being good is inconvenient to them.

eh. At least this guy had a message with the "climate change is real" that he also put on the grass, as well as the polar bear.

It may have been a poor message, but at least he had one.

 

[V0dka]

eh. At least this guy had a message with the "climate change is real" that he also put on the grass, as well as the polar bear.

It may have been a poor message, but at least he had one.

Climate change has turned into those cults where the leader predicts the end of the world and all his followers burn and sell all their shit and wait naked in a field and then nothing happens and the leader turns around and goes... "oh wait I made a mistake"

 

[r00]

Faggot probably used a petrol mower to make this point about climate change.

Cant kids just draw cocks on things anymore without needing to affix some political statement on the tip?

 

[Lemmingwise]

Climate change has turned into those cults where the leader predicts the end of the world and all his followers burn and sell all their shit and wait naked in a field and then nothing happens and the leader turns around and goes... "oh wait I made a mistake"

Funnily enough, they did a large scale study on this and the results of those armagaddon cults is that it causes people to believe more, not less. It's one of the sunk cost fallacy kind of things.

 

[Sped Xing]

Some people have a lot of time on their hands.

He's 18. Of course he has a lot of time on his hands.

When a teenager draws a dick and it makes the news, it's the reporter who merits a heavy sigh.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Funnily enough, they did a large scale study on this and the results of those armagaddon cults is that it causes people to believe more, not less. It's one of the sunk cost fallacy kind of things.

Surely that doesn't explain climate change's following despite being wrong on every single prediction it's ever made.

 

[frozenrunner]

You take that, Orange Man!

Cant kids just draw cocks on things anymore without needing to affix some political statement on the tip?

Hehe, "the tip."

 

[Clem Fandango]

u wot

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does this kid have an uncle who writes for the paper or somethin?

I'm guessing so. I mean

The teenager is the founder of Born Eco, a website which connects shoppers with eco-friendly traders.

there's an advert for his shitty website right in the article.

 

[Slappy McGherkin]

Upon gazing upon the large grass phallic, Trump radioed from Air Force 1 to his two Navy F-16 escorts to immediately draw a giant sky penis with the message "Fuck you, kid!"

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[MemeGray]

How is it a good prank to mow a dick onto your own lawn?

 

[Libtard-Wrecking Krogoth]

guys, i don't know if i can support this stupid orange tyrant after this... it's been fun but i'm definitely a #YangerBanger2020 because of scrumpf getting btfo'd by #GreenPeenGate. smell y'all at the polling booth.......

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

Trump faces giant penis mown into field near airport where he lands for UK state visit

‘Climate change is real,’ teenager points out in message for US president

www.independent.co.uk

Trump faces giant penis mowed into field near airport where he lands …

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A teenager has mowed an anti-Trump message, complete with a giant penis, into the grass of his family home ahead of the US president’s UK state visit.

Ollie Nancarrow spent his weekend mowing the words “Oi Trump” into his lawn, near Hatfield Heath, in Essex.

The 18-year-old also used the mower to etch a giant polar bear, penis and the words “climate change is real” into the grass, according to the Bishop’s Stortford Independent.

The A-level student hopes that the US president will spot his creation as Air Force One approaches Stansted Airport, which is near Hatfield Heath, on Monday morning.

“Donald Trump and his denial of climate change are not welcome and I want him to be fully aware of that when he flies in to Stansted on Monday,” he said.

The teenager is the founder of Born Eco, a website which connects shoppers with eco-friendly traders.

Mr Trump’s controversial state visit will unfold over three days.

He is expected to meet the Queen and senior royals at Buckingham Palace, before dignitaries gather for a state dinner on Monday evening.

Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition, is boycotting the event, while Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has compared Mr Trump to the ”fascists of the 20th century”.

Thousands of protesters are also expected to rally against Mr Trump’s presence at a protest in Trafalgar Square on Tuesday.

Mr Trump has repeatedly dismissed the threat of climate change since taking office.

Last week the White House instructed a major US government department to cease predicting the long term effects of the climate crisis, in a move which infuriated environmental campaigners.

Just another example of how Trump raises the testosterone levels wherever he goes. Funny enough that he makes withered sahara'd pussy politicians grow a pair or three with regularity, he's now making raging erections spring up from random hillsides.

Psh Italian protesters would've built a fully articulated and self-walking fiberglass Gundam or some shit. UK protesters are strictly scrub tier.

A new trend emerges: cock circles. Are we alone in the universe? Have outer space aliens been doodling dicks on our lawns since the peenolithic bone age? I want to believe.

 

[Wesley Willis]

I sure hope that lawn mower didn't use fossil fuels.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

I will say this, this shows bigger balls than the UK authorities have shown as of late...

If this were done in response to HRC visting the UK, this teenaged sperg would be locked up in a cell with a dune coon telling him to accept that Allah ordained his use as a goat replacement.

 

[Dizzydent]

Confirmed, to see the entirety of trumps massive dong you must be at altitude.

 

[Maxliam]

Faggot probably used a petrol mower to make this point about climate change.

Cant kids just draw cocks on things anymore without needing to affix some political statement on the tip?

The funniest part is lawn mowers are horrible at pollution control compared to a car that had emission controls out the ass. If anything he contributed to climate change with a pointless gesture.

 

[Tron: Deadly Dicks]

Pro-Trump activist pops ‘Baby Trump’ blimp at London protest

The woman who appears to stab the Trump baby blimp can be heard calling the balloon a 'disgrace.'

globalnews.ca

One of the balloons depicting U.S. President Donald Trump as a baby was allegedly stabbed by a Trump supporter after a day of protests in London, U.K. on Tuesday. The protests included the iconic blimp, which made its first appearance during Trump’s first state visit to the country in July 2018, along with smaller versions. In a video obtained by the Sun, a U.K. tabloid, a woman walks up to one of the balloons and pops it allegedly using a knife. The woman was identified as Amy Dalla Mura by local media outlets. She can be heard calling the balloon a “disgrace.” “It’s a national disgrace, the president of the United States is the best president ever,” she said. The video also shows blood on her hands as she walks away from the balloon. “I’m bleeding quite badly, though,” she said. The video also shows police apprehending her and asking her to submit to a search. She then alleges they assault her.

These are the morons we're supposed to be scared of. Also lol at "pops it allegedly with a knife"

 

[Slimy Time]

Police - Oi do you have a loisence for that knife? Never change police... never change.
Someone needs to throw a milkshake at the police before they declare them assault milkshakes and start properly arresting those that do.
Blue checkmarks and news are doing the usual far-right allegations, the proof: She called Anna Soubry a traitor...you know, one of the CUK defectors.