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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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Arrests over gay couple bus attack

Melania Geymonat and her partner Chris were set upon by a group of men on a London night bus.
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A couple say they were subjected to a homophobic attack and left covered in blood after refusing to kiss on a bus.

Melania Geymonat, 28, said the attack on her and girlfriend Chris happened on the top deck of a London night bus as they were travelling to Camden Town in the early hours of 30 May.

A group of young men began harassing them when they discovered the women were a couple, asking them to kiss while making sexual gestures.

Scotland Yard is investigating.

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Ms Geymonat posted on her Facebook page: "In an attempt to calm things down, I started making jokes. I thought this might make them go away. Chris even pretended she was sick, but they kept on harassing us, throwing us coins and becoming more enthusiastic about it.

"The next thing I know is that Chris is in the middle of the bus fighting with them. On an impulse, I went over there only to find her face bleeding and three of them beating her up.

"The next thing I know is I'm being punched. I got dizzy at the sight of my blood and fell back. I don't remember whether or not I lost consciousness. Suddenly the bus had stopped, the police were there and I was bleeding all over."

Ms Geymonat added that the gang of at least four men might have broken her nose during the ordeal, and stole a phone and bag from them before fleeing.

Both women were taken to hospital for treatment to facial injuries.

Ms Geymonat said one of the men spoke Spanish and the others had British accents.

London mayor Sadiq Khan described the attack as disgusting and misogynistic.

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Siwan Hayward, director of compliance, policing and on-street services at Transport for London, described the assault as "sickening" and "utterly unacceptable", adding that "homophobic behaviour and abuse is a hate crime and won't be tolerated on our network".

Police are appealing for witnesses for the attack which happened at about 02:30 BST on a N31 bus in West Hampstead.
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Is this actually homophobia? The attackers wanted to see them kiss...
 
Broke: Beat up gays for engaging in sexual activities.
Woke: Beat up gays for NOT engaging in sexual activities.
 
Night bus is the "can't afford a taxi" way to get home when you're too drunk to be legally classed as a human, most Night Bus drivers will just let you on even if you can't (or don't know how) to pay because they've seen everything and you ain't all that.
All of my weirdest stories start with "This one time I was taking the Night Bus...."
 
"No CCTV footage released means they were foreign" and "no CCTV footage released means they were white" back and forth ensues.

I figure CCTV footage or no, they were scumbags.
 
I uh... dunno. The fact that they robbed them suggests maybe that was the idea the whole time. The telling them to kiss was probably just part of the escalating threats to scare them. I mean, how did this group of guys "find out" they were a couple in the first place?
 
Clop said:
"No CCTV footage released means they were foreign" and "no CCTV footage released means they were white" back and forth ensues.

I figure CCTV footage or no, they were scumbags.
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Group of young men confronting lesbians on the night bus and wanting to see two them pash on demand, what does that tell you.

 
Clop said:
"No CCTV footage released means they were foreign" and "no CCTV footage released means they were white" back and forth ensues.

I figure CCTV footage or no, they were scumbags.
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Exactly, regardless who they are the scum who did this are creeps.

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Sorry but I've never heard of a group of incels meeting up go looking for lesbians to force to pash on the nightbus. I've never even heard the suggestion.
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You'd be surprised, there's tons of creeps like this that prowl the night buses/tube trains and prey on vulnerable women to get themselves off - especially as a lot of nightclubs in London now have a "no tolerance" policy that would see these creeps get knocked out by the bouncers if they were caught trying anything. So they hide on buses or in Tube stations instead.
 
Corbin Dallas Multipass said:
I uh... dunno. The fact that they robbed them suggests maybe that was the idea the whole time. The telling them to kiss was probably just part of the escalating threats to scare them. I mean, how did this group of guys "find out" they were a couple in the first place?
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Forced sex + beating + robbery is a combination as classic as cumin + coriander + turmeric.
 
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What a weird story...
Funny, when the article title said "gay couple" I immediately though it was two guys.
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Lesbians have been jumping on the "gay" bandwagon to try for oppression points for ages.
The fact remains that two guys holding hands or kissing will always be reviled more than two chicks, but they can't have it that men are more oppressed.
 
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