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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.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

Are we back in the 2000s now? A couple dykes smooching should be the most threadbare normie shit to check out to these guys.

Its gay pride month. Expect to hear a lot of unbelievable stories about homophobic incidents that are totally not made up for attention and sympathy.

 

[ConfederateIrishman]

Its gay pride month. Expect to hear a lot of unbelievable stories about homophobic incidents that are totally not made up for attention and sympathy.

I mean, it is London; Could just be part and parcel of living in a multicultural city again

 

[Slimy Time]

Heading to Camden Town... That's a shithole which becomes a drug filled party all night shithole in the wee hours of the morning. Night buses are filled with degenerates and scum who wouldn't otherwise be let on during daylight, avoid at all costs.

 

[Vorhtbame]

This is why a gun is a girl's best friend.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Fun fact of the day, a Scientific study showed that Straight Men have an equal physiological disgust on seeing maggots and seeing two Men kiss

Any man that has a problem with seeing a mass of maggots writhing in a deer carcass is probably a closeted maggot himself.

 

[Ali della Fenice]

Fun fact of the day, a Scientific study showed that Straight Men have an equal physiological disgust on seeing maggots and seeing two Men kiss

Pretty much the polar opposite to the sight of 2 women kissing.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

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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Is this actually homophobia? The attackers wanted to see them kiss...

I want to know if the attackers were "men of Asian extraction", which is Britbong code for Muzzie.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

It’s not a good idea to travel on public transport at night through bad neighbourhoods, there’s always drunken idiots around, if they weren’t lesbians this wouldn’t even make the news.

 

[OttoWest]

Arrests made

Four teenage boys aged 15-18. Charged with suspicion of robbery and aggravated grievous bodily harm.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

So... regular mugging spiced up with LGBT stuff to get extra pity? Strange muggers who also wanted to see some random lesbians kiss? Weird homophobes who decided stealing stuff would be a good way to add insult to injury?

I am having trouble seeing a Jussie Smollette type angle here. Funniest possible outcome, of course, but seems unlikely.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

This is why a gun is a girl's best friend.

It's Britbongistan, they aren't allowed to have plastic knives, let alone firearms.

 

[Vorhtbame]

It's Britbongistan, they aren't allowed to have plastic knives, let alone firearms.

I know. I just like rubbing it in.

 

[Otterly]

Bloody awful. Poor women. Pissed up scumbags who’ve watched too much of the type of porn where lesbians change their minds after a bit of corrective rape. Plus booze (and we Brits do love booze...) and acting in a pack. Disgraceful behaviour.

Interesting it’s couched as purely homophobic rather than entitled Randy little shits thinking they’re entitled to use women as wank fodder.

 

[Vorhtbame]

Bloody awful. Poor women. Pissed up scumbags who’ve watched too much of the type of porn where lesbians change their minds after a bit of corrective rape. Plus booze (and we Brits do love booze...) and acting in a pack. Disgraceful behaviour.

Interesting it’s couched as purely homophobic rather than entitled Randy little shits thinking they’re entitled to use women as wank fodder.

Well, if they didn't couch it as "homophobia", they'd have to admit that you have to teach foreigners not to rape.

 

[BenevolenceInDenial]

And here I thought it was a clownciety happening and not an old-fashioned crime. Sure nice to see that newspapers still frame the gender/sexuality background of victims as the reason for crime, instead of an instrument of intimidation.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

Never talk to strangers on the bus. Always sit as close to the front as you can.

 

[SmileyTimeDayCare]

"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.

Kebabags.

Also the bus is for getting stabbed.

I'd rather walk forty blocks that get on the bus tbh. I can remember with great detail witnessing a stabbing on a NY Bus.

 

[Rei is shit]

London has cameras everywhere but none on their buses?

 

[Haramburger]

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.

I'm just imagining the British labeling this attack as an "upper decker" and chuckling to myself at our subtle language differences. Flush the hate, UK!

 

[V0dka]

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.


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.

Wouldn't it imply from the photo that Trump has a giant cock?