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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.

 

[goku_black]

is it even a debate, i am listening to it right now and i barely heard anyone say any different besides welfare checks and climate change.

 

[Ghost of Wesley Willis]

Virgin poison gulper vs the chad acid shower.

 

[Safir]

Came here to say this. Also

YOU GOT A LOICENSE FOR DAT, M8?!‽

It's "loicence" with a C.

 

[r00]

Imagine how bad UK prison must be when taking a hydrochloric bath is the preferred option.

They really arent that bad. Definitely not worse than melting your face off. This guy is a pussy. He wouldve been out within a year.

 

[Deven]

View attachment 816909

The Chad Nigerian Queen vs. the Virgin Native English

Chad Nigerian
>stole and splurged £10m
>doesn't even turn up to court
>faces no punishment
>literally YAS QWEEN
>probably not even in the country legally

Virgin Brit
>steals a miserable £135k
>probably used it to pay off debts
>attends court and gets two year sentence
>poisons self and suffers excruciating death to avoid nigger-muzz prison hell

Can we have ONE story where you guys don't pull a trapcard and make me angry at nogs? Like I wanna give them a break for just one article atleast.

 

[guccigash]

This is self inflicted but nothing new- London is big for acid attacks. There was a spate a while back of fast food delivery driver getting sprayed for their mopeds, which would then go on to be used in street robberies. Check this out (wiki)

The UK has one of highest rates of acid attacks in the world, according to the police. According to the Metropolitan Police, 2017 was the worst year for acid attacks in London, with 465 attacks recorded, up from 395 the previous year and 255 in 2015.[77]

In 2016, the Metropolitan Police in London recorded 454 attacks involving corrosive fluids in the city, with 261 in the previous year, indicating a rise of 36%. A rise of 30% was also recorded in the UK as a whole.[78][79] Between 2005–06 and 2011–12 the number of assaults involving acid throwing and other corrosive substances tripled in England, official records show. NHS hospital figures record 144 assaults in 2011–12 involving corrosive substances, which can include petrol, bleach and kerosene. Six years earlier, 56 such episodes were noted.[80][81][82]


This is my fave case (though celebrity victim Katie Piper is a good one, she went to the middle east for facial reconstruction, they're the experts after all!) Guy dumps woman. Woman goes to his in middle of night and dumps acid on his face. He runs out into the street, face melting, some student calls 999 and he lives but eventually goes back home to the Netherlands where he can be euthanized.

katie piper get acid thrown in her face - cctv

acid in the face guy

@Deven apologies for the ethnicity of both of the acid attackers

 

[Belligerent Monk]

Acid is one helluva weapon
It doesn't always work, but when it does its very painful and makes for great headlines.
I'm surprised it doesn't happen more in the U.S but then again we have loads of the much simpler guns laying around.

Me thinks we might also be overlooking the fact that we're sheltered fucks in the US.
If you ever needed more proof that outrage is manufactured to appear more virtuous it's the fact that few, if any, of us damned yanks have enough conviction to be willing to off themselves in spectacular fashion for their beliefs.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Uhh... good thing he didn't like... throw it at the judge or the other people. Jesus christ, your cops confiscate the goddamn scissors, and yet allow a dude to go into court with a bottle of acid?

What a joke. The TSA is officially more competent than british police. I didn't think such a thing was possible.

 

[moocow]

The TSA is officially more competent than british police. I didn't think such a thing was possible.

Has the TSA ever actually stopped a terrorist act? I don't recall ever hearing about a plot being successfully foiled by TSA goons (and you just know that's the sort of thing they'd be bragging about non-stop just to score a "win").

I've seen it reported that they can't even successfully screen for the five or six specific, literal gun/bomb shapes they're trained to catch in carry-on bags going through their x-ray machines. They let the "shoe bomber" straight through, after all. The stolen iPad sting from a few years ago was pretty good too.

Though you do have a point. I can't imagine even the most docile American showing any kind of respect or deference to a pack of bobbies trying to man an American airport security checkpoint.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

My mind went to this.

 

[KingofNothing]

Thought this was a bad ass way to go out right up until I saw he only got a 2 year sentence. The hell was going on with his life that he couldn't last 2 years?

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

The mad bastard just loved 80's dance culture.

 

[Y2K Baby]

London Zoo is celebrating its famous gay penguins – and wants you to 'get over it'

Ronnie and Reggie are two of the London Zoo's most famous animals, and with LGBTQ Pride Month underway, zookeepers are celebrating the animal's love.

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Gay penguins kidnap chick according to Denmark Zoo
A gay penguin couple "kidnapped" a chick from a its parents at Odense Zoo in Denmark. The couples argue before zookeepers intervene and reunite the baby.


"Some penguins are gay. Get over it."

Ronnie and Reggie are two of the London Zoo's most famous animals, and with LGBTQ Pride Month underway, zookeepers are celebrating the animals' love.

The two Humboldt penguins got together in 2014, the zoo says. A year later, they adopted an egg abandoned by another penguin couple and raised young Kyton until he left the nest.

"They remain as strong as ever and are often found snuggled up in their nest box together," London Zoo officials said in a statement.

As a result, the zoo is dedicating a night in early July to Pride celebrations. "Some penguins are gay. Get over it," appears on a mini banner in the penguins' habitat and pays homage to Stonewall's "Get Over It," campaign, the zoo said.

"Visitors will be able to learn about gender and mating in the animal kingdom at a Pride-themed talk, where they’ll discover just how common same-sex pairings are – from penguins and pandas to goats and giraffes," the zoo said.

The topic of same-sex mating among animals has been one of great debate and growing interest among researchers. In many cases, scientists do not fully understand why animals exhibit such behavior, according to National Geographic.

Last year, two male penguins in Australia welcomed a chick after the zoo gave them an egg to care for. In Denmark, two male penguins last year stole an egg from its parents when the parents were away, a zookeeper said.

PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY BIRDS.

This and the "zomg my dog is humping boy dogs????" cases make me think that "homosexuality in nature" is a pretty dumb argument. A similar kind of dipshit analysis is used on sexual dimorphism.

 

[{o{P]

Is anything pure?

 

[Chichan]

What if the penguins are related? That could be why they stick together and not because they are gay.

 

[oldTireWater]

Is anything pure?

Only hate.

 

[millais]

This and the "zomg my dog is humping boy dogs????" cases make me think that "homosexuality in nature" is a pretty dumb argument. A similar kind of dipshit analysis is used on sexual dimorphism

So why do dogs hump other dogs of the same sex? Shouldn't they be able to smell out each other's androgenic pheromones even without looking?

Anyway, I think these penguins are just not that good at identifying viable mates. No sexuality preference involved, just very bad eyes that can't tell the difference between a mate and a dud. That "Grape-kun" penguin had the hots for a cardboard cutout ffs.

 

[RetardedCat]

A gay penguin couple "kidnapped" a chick from a its parents at Odense Zoo in Denmark.

Maybe they're incel penguins and they're not looking to raise that baby but groom it to be their sex slave.

 

[Arctic Fox]

So... Gay couples kidnap children? That's the vibe I get from the first sentence.
Didn't think USA Today was so against gay people.

 

[Y2K Baby]

So why do dogs hump other dogs of the same sex? Shouldn't they be able to smell out each other's androgenic pheromones even without looking?

I think it's just because guy dogs are more willingly. Every single case of mammals being gay in (((nature))) seems to be a case of prison gay.

Anyway, I think these penguins are just not that good at identifying viable mates. No sexuality preference involved, just very bad eyes that can't tell the difference between a mate and a dud. That "Grape-kun" penguin

I'm willing to believe they're gay or whatever because penguins live in a weird ancap dystopia where pebbles are traded for sex. This shit says nothing about the nature of homosexuality in humans, however, which is evidently what they're trying to push.