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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.

 

[Beautiful Border]

Anyone who's paid attention to my posts here knows I bitch about England a lot, even to an almost a-loggy degree, and I know that's annoying, and I apologize to those it annoys. But god damn. This shit is infuriating. Why does Britain have to be so fucking degenerate? What the hell started them on this path? Is it just being cucked that fucking much? Are the people of Britain so fucking apathetic that they don't care about actually child rape enough to do anything tangible about it. Is fucking mean comments online really more important than properly punishing these sick fucks. Like Arctic Fox said, what the fuck happened to you lot hanging degenerates? Is it to mean or is there a god damn rope shortage.

Sorry for the text wall but fuck. we should really consider adding England and the EU for the shit of it, to the travel ban. Immigration ban too. Having any of those fuckers come over the pond should be catastrophic.

If all of your knowledge of Britain comes from misleading tabloid articles designed to spark outrage, then of course you're going to think we're crazy. The UK has plenty of good things going for it, you are actively seeking out the worst stories you can find to confirm your biases. This website is very America-centric and it shows, the view that most users here seem to have of life in Britain really seems divorced from reality. I'm not saying the UK has flaws, of course it does (as does any country), but they are being ludicrously exaggerated by people who obviously don't actually live here.

This article appears to be talking about a report that was issued by a think tank, i.e this isn't official government policy or police procedure. The only official response to the proposal cited by the article is rebuffing it. In other words, this is a non-story.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

>People actually believe this will pass through the Commons or Lords

How many times has think tanks or universities recommended delegalising cannabis or prostitution

 

[DragoonSierra]

if it works then why not? If it doesnt work then fuck it.

 

[Ambidextype]

This is why even if Brexit happened in the unlikely event, Britain's still fucked. It's not just external problem like refugees coming in, the politicians and police are not just atrocious but also incompetent. The worst thing is British populace in general seem so apathetic about these problems or they just choose to look the other way.

 

[V0dka]

Congratulations, you just made Putin look like the most upstanding moral leader in the world.

 

[Hoopla]

People raging about a recommendation by a leftist think-tank lmao

 

[Slimy Time]

How many times has think tanks or universities recommended delegalising cannabis or prostitution

All the time, how many times has the commons or lords listened to them? Around zero. Victims Commissioner isn't even an elected official, ex Labour politician who was pushed through the Civil service system from Crime Commissioner of one area to another position. Looks on the crazy side as well.

 

[HG 400]

If all of your knowledge of Britain comes from misleading tabloid articles designed to spark outrage, then of course you're going to think we're crazy. The UK has plenty of good things going for it, you are actively seeking out the worst stories you can find to confirm your biases.

Fix your teeth you lime nigger.

 

[Slimy Time]

Fix your teeth you lime nigger.

We should all strive to have teeth like this man:

 

[Foltest]

Is UK the most cucked country in Europa?
1. Yes
2. Yes again.

 

[Meat Poultry Veg]

You can't spell FUCK without UK

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

Rope and a strong branch is proven method of stopping criminals reoffending.

 

[Positron]

"Diversion courses" are the secular counterpart of "pray the pedo away".

 

[Sable]

This is just an idea from a leftist think tank posted by a news company that thrives on outrage to generate clicks.

 

[Yovevires]

There's something amusing about Brits of Polish ancestry being Neo-Nazis. Hardly the Aryan master race are we?

 

[Basil II]

True, but I doubt he'd be packing your country with them

Hitler literally said he wished the Muslims won at Tours-Poitiers 732 AD so Germany would be Muslim.

 

[Damn Near]

Hitler literally said he wished the Muslims won at Tours-Poitiers 732 AD so Germany would be Muslim.

So that means that Hitler would import a bunch of Muslims into a conquered Britain? Make sense, faggot

 

[Basil II]

So that means that Hitler would import a bunch of Muslims into a conquered Britain? Make sense, faggot

lmao salty, and for no reason lmao.

 

[Damn Near]

lmao salty, and for no reason lmao.

Sorry, I just got off of work. I'm a little high strung these days.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

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.

Fuck off retard.