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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.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

No socjus angle to this story, this is honestly just sad and terrible. A gang of thugs beat up and robbed an innocent couple.

 

[not william stenchever]

Fake and gay.

Either that or it's Real and Halal

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

There's no stopping Nigerians in MAGA hats.

MNGA* - Make Nigeria Great Again.

*Pronounced "muh nigga" in the classic Wakandan dialect.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Those lesbians probably wouldn't pursue any police action even after they suffer the same ordeal as the girls in Rotherham suffer, lesbians these days seem to rank lower in oppression hierarchy. That said British police is useless as fuck, they couldn't even go after Jimmy Saville let alone stop the Rotherham case until the damage was done only they got even more incompetent as more years go by.

They seem to spend their time policing peoples opinions on twitter and harassing the homeless

 

[ProgKing of the North]

Are you telling me you DON'T keep stones in your car to throw at people?

I do, but I don’t choose who I throw them at based on race or sexuality. I’m a good person.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Those lesbians probably wouldn't pursue any police action even after they suffer the same ordeal as the girls in Rotherham suffer, lesbians these days seem to rank lower in oppression hierarchy.

If the attackers were transgender, media would say it's justified because they were TERFs

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

I do, but I don’t choose who I throw them at based on race or sexuality. I’m a good person.

I personally carry a sack of smooth stones and a leather sling in order to skirt CC laws. But only for use against screaming children.
I'm not a racist or sexist, I just like silence.

 

[V0dka]

Arrests made

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

Sorry, LGBT beatings are just part and parcel of living in a multicultural city.

Have a nice day SocJus, you batshit stupid motherfuckers.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

No socjus angle to this story, this is honestly just sad and terrible. A gang of thugs beat up and robbed an innocent couple.

It is sad and terrible, but mugging is not a new thing. If there was a news article for every incident of someone being mugged there'd be no room for anything else.

 

[DidYouJustSayThat]

London has cameras everywhere but none on their buses?

All buses have CCTV, the only reason, they are hiding the footage, is because it was a case of cultural enrichment.

 

[Clem Fandango]

All buses have CCTV, the only reason, they are hiding the footage, is because it was a case of cultural enrichment.

I keep checking back to this thread because I know pics are going to come out at some point. The media cycle will have moved on by then.

Seriously though, look how many pics there are in that Daily Mail article. There must be twenty pictures of the victims, none of the assailants.

 

[pwnest injun]

All buses have CCTV, the only reason, they are hiding the footage, is because it was a case of cultural enrichment.

They've mentioned that a couple of them were speaking Spanish, for what that's worth.

 

[DidYouJustSayThat]

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.

That's interesting, but if thats true then what is MindGeeks end goal of doing this? Since you need to dox yourself to the website to use it maybe they are trying to do some data collection? Or are try trying to tard cum some money of the UK government by selling them the technology?

Who wants to sign up and dox themselves to paid porn site anyway, when most of the stuff is available for free? But imagine the brave new world, where the government compels you to dox yourself to see smut. You have already taken the first step, the AgeID sale points will be perfect places to upsell you premium content. You've paid £5 already, we already know you are a pervert, add to that low fee of £4.99 for a premium pass to blacked.com!

Non-compliant sites will get DNS or IP blocked, AgeID selling network will be selling you premium porn packages, the conversion rates from freeloaders to paid subscribers will skyrocket, but of course, this is a speculation of a suspicious mind and it's all really for protecting the children.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

And why does anyone look at regular porn now that *insert your fetish here* sites exist?

What if some of us aren't fucking weirdo deviants and don't want any of that weird deviant fetish shit?

Just give me some wholesome old fashioned videos of women rubbing sandpaper on their heels and collecting the dried skin flakes in a crystal shotglass, then dissolving it with hydrochloric acid and pouring the slurry into a bucket of ice, like a normal healthy man enjoys.

Jesus, fucking weirdos...

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

First off, how would NSFW Discords and such work? Peer to peer style porno trading.
Second, do art pieces like the Sleeping Venus count? If so, then what?
Third, will finding Playboys in bushes and and construction sites have a comeback? Because bush porno was a right of passage from boyhood into manhood before easy internet assess.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

First off, how would NSFW Discords and such work? Peer to peer style porno trading.
Second, do art pieces like the Sleeping Venus count? If so, then what?
Third, will finding Playboys in bushes and and construction sites have a comeback? Because bush porno was a right of passage from boyhood into manhood before easy internet assess.

We can do better than that, surely. Just load these puppies up and leave them around for inquisitive young people to find.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

Only BLACKED will be allowed in the absolute worst European country.

And that cuck site for white people.

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

We can do better than that, surely. Just load these puppies up and leave them around for inquisitive young people to find.

We have the technology.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

UK judge sentences teen for abhorrent post on Prince Harry
https://apnews.com/9141691a87334998b9fb964d2ead5441 (http://archive.fo/A16bB)

LONDON (AP) — A U.K. judge has sentenced a teenager who created an “abhorrent” online image of Prince Harry to 4 years and three months in a young offenders’ institution.

Judge Rebecca Poulet lambasted student Michal Szewczuk, 19, for creating an image of Harry with a pistol to his head against a blood-spattered background. The post, which was shared a few months after Harry married biracial ex-actress Meghan Markle, included the phrase “See Ya Later Race Traitor.”

Szewczuk pleaded guilty to two counts of encouraging terrorism and five counts of possession of terrorist material. He was sentenced at London Criminal Court alongside Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski, 18, who admitted two counts of encouraging terrorism.

Poulet says the posts “are abhorrent as well as criminal by reason of their clear intention to encourage terrorist acts.”

Spoiler: Terrorist Material

 

[Ягода]

Those are Polish surnames, I believe. Holy shit, 4 (four) fucking years for a fucking poster? And this is on the same day that NZ dude got two years for sharing a fucking video to cool 30 other dudes. Outstanding. Never mind that Megan broad doesn't even fucking look black. Clown world.