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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.

 

[HG 400]

These guys were literal terrorists formally connected to a terrorist organisation and actively propagandizing for that organisation. If they'd been Americans a lot of the content they were producing would have qualified as incitement and still been illegal. They'd probably be disappeared into gitmo without trial.

This is not the same thing as making some edgy jokes on twitter.

 

[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

that window in which the people could fight back is closing real fast.

It's closed. We're not fighting back, now we're just showing them how we would have fought back.

I'm sorry but the war is over and we lost.

 

[MrTickles]

These guys were literal terrorists formally connected to a terrorist organisation and actively propagandizing for that organisation. If they'd been Americans a lot of the content they were producing would have qualified as incitement and still been illegal. They'd probably be disappeared into gitmo without trial.

This is not the same thing as making some edgy jokes on twitter.

Was the formal connection made by her majesty's government?

 

[Not FBI]

I sometimes think that if I had any incriminating electronic documents I'd store them on SD cards and body pack them as soon as the door was kicked in.

You need cold boot-resistant, full-disk encryption, preferably one that doesn't store keys outside of the CPU, such as TRESOR, but at least make sure memory overwrite on POST is enabled (check value of /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/MemoryOverwriteRequestControl*) and the computer case is a bitch to open, and something like this to deal with RIPA key disclosure laws.

This is rudimentary shit. I'm surprised a 19-year-old compsci student wasn't practicing minimal opsec.

Incidentally, where do you think setting up a 'dead hand' system to automatically destroy your encryption keys should certain conditions be met (e.g. TETRA* SnR above a given threshold, case opened, no check in for X amount of time) would put you legally?

* It's wot the fuzz use to stop you frum listenin in on their radio, innit

 

[Queen Of The Harpies]

What in the actual fuck UK? In the UK you can be charged with hate speech for misgendering someone, training dogs to things to piss off your girlfriend, and be expelled for questioning the ethics of a certain religion, but you'll only get a slap on the wrist for CP!

Paedophiles should not be prosecuted over child porn, new report says

Under the plan, police would be told to let offenders who look at indecent photographs and films of youngsters online off the hook by sending them to workshops instead of being taken to court.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Marco Fucko]

The UK is basically like a pig corpse being roasted over a flame while strange creatures dance around it at this point, lol.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Show of hands: who would have guessed "Britbongistan" even if the thread title didn't contain that second sentence? It's at the point where I assume that anything relating to the horrible mistreatment of children comes out of the UK, and I'm right an astonishing percentage of the time.

E:

The UK is basically like a pig corpse being roasted over a flame while strange creatures dance around it at this point, lol.

Don't be ridiculous. Spit-roasted pigs are 1) useful and 2) haram, so they're clearly not comparable to the UK.

 

[kadoink]

FUCK the UK.

 

[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

Whenever I feel bad about America I just think about how awful it would be to be British and then I feel better.

 

[BoingoTango]

 

[_blank_]

So... maybe I was having a fever dream a few months back, but isn't the UK trying to ban porn? But they want to just slap pedos on the wrist...

Gotta say I'm impressed - never seen a country fuck themselves so hard they got brain damage in the process.

 

[Queen Of The Harpies]

Well, all politicians are into CP so this is hardly surprising.

 

[Beautiful Border]

"The proposal, backed by the new Victims' Commissioner Dame Vera Baird, is intended to ease the strain on the creaking criminal justice system."

Yeah, the system is clogged up because they're too busy prosecuting people for posting rude tweets and Facebook posts...

So... maybe I was having a fever dream a few months back, but isn't the UK trying to ban porn? But they want to just slap pedos on the wrist...

Gotta say I'm impressed - never seen a country fuck themselves so hard they got brain damage in the process.

It keeps getting delayed because the government can't figure out how to implement it. It was originally supposed to be rolled out in April, now it's set for July. But with Brexit and the Conservative Party leadership contest being the main priority at the moment it will most likely be pushed back further. Don't be surprised if they quietly cancel it, that's what happened the last time they had a plan to mass-censor the Internet. It was all about winning votes from the elderly Daily Mail-reading demographic, nothing more.

 

[Nobunaga]

So... maybe I was having a fever dream a few months back, but isn't the UK trying to ban porn? But they want to just slap pedos on the wrist...

Gotta say I'm impressed - never seen a country fuck themselves so hard they got brain damage in the process.

They just dont want to upset their muslim overlords

 

[FaceOfTrueHorror]

I've got a camp for them

 

[666DEATHGAY]

Well, all politicians are into CP so this is hardly surprising.

Not Sargon of Akkad he watches cuck porn

 

[Kari Kamiya]

The UK is overrun with Muslims who marry child brides and fuck goats, and baby goats are called kids.

Found the voting demographic they're directly pandering to.

 

[HG 400]

If this kind of treatment stops people from reoffending then I don't see what everyone's problem is with it.

 

[Autistsforuganda2]

Can we now make an argument, that the UK is more cucked then countries like Germany and even Sweden?

 

[Trig.Point]

You need cold boot-resistant, full-disk encryption, preferably one that doesn't store keys outside of the CPU, such as TRESOR, but at least make sure memory overwrite on POST is enabled (check value of /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/MemoryOverwriteRequestControl*) and the computer case is a bitch to open, and something like this to deal with RIPA key disclosure laws.

This is rudimentary shit. I'm surprised a 19-year-old compsci student wasn't practicing minimal opsec.

Incidentally, where do you think setting up a 'dead hand' system to automatically destroy your encryption keys should certain conditions be met (e.g. TETRA* SnR above a given threshold, case opened, no check in for X amount of time) would put you legally?

* It's wot the fuzz use to stop you frum listenin in on their radio, innit

If the UK Police arrested you they wouldn't have to put a team of tech wizards to work cracking the encryption on your devices, they'll simply force you to hand over your password.

If you don't... Guess what? that's a criminal offense by itself!.