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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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Keystone said:
Also a monument to what some of his opponents look like, both here and abroad:

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Fucking freaks.
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Ugh. Meanwhile, the rest of us can't afford to flounce around in public on a weekday dressed like a fashion victim showing off our girldicks. Some of us have jobs to go to in order to pay these chuckleheads' student loans and tugboats.
 
Keystone said:
Also a monument to what some of his opponents look like, both here and abroad:

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Fucking freaks.
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I say, I say, this right here is a perfect example of mistaken tactics

Leftists are convinced that Righttards are *scared* of degenerates. What they don't understand is that the negative gut reaction conservatives have toward this sort of thing isn't fear, but disgust.

So in their Tumblr headcannon this image terrifies their opposition. In reality it just makes conservatives feel justified even more in opposing anything these cretins support.
 
ColtWalker1847 said:
Are wrist rockets legal in the UK?

I guess not. That stupid baby balloon would be one "let me show it's features" away from a slow deflation death anywhere else in the world.
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Ginger Piglet said:
I was thinking a blowpipe in an upstairs window somewhere along the route myself. By the time they've spotted it deflating the culprit can be down the stairs and in with the crowds.
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Jewelsmakerguy said:
It's historic to them because it triggers the US.
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It really doesn't though. If anything, we're still scratching our heads about the entire balloon debacle and why people thought it was a good idea.
Techpriest said:
She threw herself into the sea about 40 times for some fucking reason. She’s not sane at all.
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Tbf, most people would throw themselves into the sea they had to live in britbong-land
 
Coldgrip said:
It really doesn't though. If anything, we're still scratching our heads about the entire balloon debacle and why people thought it was a good idea.
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Exactly, even Lawn Penis guy made more sense than this shit. I was just referring to why they think it's important.
 
I thought British people were supposed to be good at parodies. (Re: that balloon)
 
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