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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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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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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.
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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.
 
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Couldn't even imagine what it must feel like to live in a nation where you are not only disarmed, but you are disarmed by the very government which is replacing you with knife/rape-happy muslims. You aren't even allowed to defend your life without being punished in some way. God Bless the 2nd.

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Why'd you MAKE them stab you? M8? Off to school with you so can learn not to offend the sensibilities of others....
 
Oh for fuck's sake. Growing up I was happy and proud to belong to a British Commonwealth nation.

Now, I just cringe when I hear shit like this, and I hear it way too often. The only problem is the only neighbor to turn to is becoming just as retarded in the other direction with all the Trumptards.

I guess wait to see if the U.S. recovers its sanity in 2020, other then that I think Canada needs to withdraw from not just NAFTA and the Commonwealth, but from the world. Seal the borders and hope to survive the outcome of a world spinning off it's axis and about to crash down hard.
 
Well when the people who fight the attackers get placed on terrorist watch lists, I don't know what the fuck else people expect.
 
Alec Benson Leary said:
How many muslims are being compelled to take anti-radicalization classes
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None, because that's islamophobic you filthy bigot. Where is your bigotry loisense, m8?
Lone MacReady said:
Couldn't even imagine what it must feel like to live in a nation where you are not only disarmed, but you are disarmed by the very government which is replacing you with knife/rape-happy muslims. You aren't even allowed to defend your life without being punished in some way. God Bless the 2nd.

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The UK can laugh all they want at Europe being fucked, but out of all the countries in Europe that are terribly fucked, England is the 2nd (Gold goes to Sweden and Bronze to France). Also, in most countries in Europe you can have guns as long as you have a hunting license (like in Germany or Spain) but if you kill a robber or a murderer with your gun, which has to be locked away and disassembled safely, you will be tried for murder instead of self defense no matter how fucked up you got in the fight.
 
Underestimated Nutria said:
Fuck you, I'm Millwall sounds so absolutely exceptional, I'm sorry to say. I'm guessing that's a soccer team.
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Have you ever heard of a Millwall brick? It's what hooligans came up with after their other weapons started getting confiscated at games. "Fuck you, I'm Millwall" is basically the Bong version of "West Side, bitch! *draws problem solva*".
 
Sprig of Parsley said:
Have you ever heard of a Millwall brick? It's what hooligans came up with after their other weapons started getting confiscated at games. "Fuck you, I'm Millwall" is basically the Bong version of "West Side, bitch! *draws problem solva*".
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English not being my first language, am I to assume this means that I, or my fists, are my weapon? Thanks for the explanation: it still sounds absurd to me though, if less so.
 
The Un-Clit said:
Oh for fuck's sake. Growing up I was happy and proud to belong to a British Commonwealth nation.

Now, I just cringe when I hear shit like this, and I hear it way too often. The only problem is the only neighbor to turn to is becoming just as exceptional in the other direction with all the Trumptards.

I guess wait to see if the U.S. recovers its sanity in 2020, other then that I think Canada needs to withdraw from not just NAFTA and the Commonwealth, but from the world. Seal the borders and hope to survive the outcome of a world spinning off it's axis and about to crash down hard.
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Even with that, don't get your hopes high. Better go innawoods and tell everybody to go fuck themselves because society is ready to ram you in the ass without lube.
CamelCursive said:
Goddammit, we're going to have to invade Eurabia. I fucking know it.
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If you need forward bases, Spain and Italy are good points. Still some of the few countries where you can be openly hostile to towelheads and not get your life fucked because of it. Plus, migrants don't stay there because getting gibsmedat is hard as fuck (specially in Spain) so the go north for easy shit.
 
Poiseon said:
You should get your fucking head stomped American history X style for attacking a pregnant woman. The people who did this are muslims, no doubt about it. She probably told them to fuck off after they informed her wearing a hijab is mandatory in the Caliphate.
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You should look up the demographics more before making such a declarative statement. A ton of the knife violence in London is committed by the children of ostensibly Christian West African immigrants. Given that the dead woman is black, and intra-racial crime is orders of magnitude more common than inter-racial crime, this was probably not done by a Muslim.
 
Funny how the more the government cracks down 'far right extremists', the more 'far right extremists' seem to exist.

It's almost like the crackdown is creating them or something.
 
Underestimated Nutria said:
English not being my first language, am I to assume this means that I, or my fists, are my weapon? Thanks for the explanation: it still sounds absurd to me though, if less so.
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I mean, yeah, you can fuck someone up with fists and feet if you know what you're doing. The Millwall brick is basically just a newspaper/tabloid folded up in such a way that it's hard and acts as a kind of paper brick. Hooligans would carry in a tabloid and when they thought shit was going to get fighty they'd fold it up proper and brain people with it.
 
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