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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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At this rate, it will be more dangerous to be a child in "Great" Britain than anywhere else in the world:

Model, 23, 'murdered her two young daughters within 18 days of each other because they got in the way of her lifestyle offering sex to men for cash'
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The girls became a 'burden' to her and 'got in the way of her doing what she wanted' - which included offering to meet men for sex in exchange for money, the jury were told.

The court also heard on one occasion she even discussed sending explicit images to a man in return for cash while she was in hospital with seriously ill Lexi.

She wrote to one man: 'If you put enough in we can meet and I will f*** you. Should fund my shopping.'

Following the death of Lexi, Porton had remained 'particularly unemotional and detached', according to the paramedics who attended the scene.
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EasyPeasy said:
A model WTF? What was she modelling, her fucking freckles?
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The only thing the article really goes into effort mentioning is she pays people to fuck her, so she's probably calling herself a model because it sounds nicer than prozzie.
 
Sable said:
The only thing the article really goes into effort mentioning is she pays people to fuck her, so she's probably calling herself a model because it sounds nicer than prozzie.
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Why do Britishisms always come off sounding like words you expect an small child to invent?
 
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Nigel and his gang are up to some wild shenanigans in Brussels, this time by turning their back to the opening ceremony and replacing their EU mini-flags with UK flags.
As per usual the Libdems act exceptional, wearing a shirt saying "Bollocks to Brexit"

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Brexit Party turn their backs on EU Parliament as MEPs get sworn in 3 years after Leave vote

Nigel Farage's Brexit Party have turned their backs on the EU today as they are sworn into the Parliament - three years after Britain voted to leave the bloc...
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Nigel's explanation/interview:
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Nigel Farage Defends Brexit Party MEPs Turning Their Backs to the EU Anthem | Good Morning Britain

The European Parliament reconvened in Strasbourg yesterday but all 29 Brexit Party MEPs have faced criticism for turning their backs during the EU's 'Ode to ...
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Farage’s Brexit Party MEPs turn their backs on EU anthem during parliament opening ceremony

A group of 29 MEPs from Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party symbolically turned their backs on the European anthem as they were sworn in during the EU Parliament’s opening ceremony on Tuesday.
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A group of 29 MEPs from Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party symbolically turned their backs on the European anthem as they were sworn in during the EU Parliament’s opening ceremony on Tuesday.
As the newly elected politicians took their seats for the first time, they turned around as the European anthem ‘Ode to Joy’ rang out in the parliament building in Strasbourg.
The protest appeared to get under the skin of the parliament’s president Antonio Tajani. “Rising to your feet is a matter of respect,” Tajani said. “It does not mean that you necessarily share the views of the European Union. Even when you listen to the anthem of another country you rise to your feet.”

Prior to the protest, leader Farage said he had a “funny feeling” that his MEPs would still be there come November 1, despite the UK’s date for leaving the bloc currently being set for October 31, and the expected incoming prime minister Boris Johnson has vowed to leave the union by then with or without a deal.

“We’re not going to sit in there and listen to our country be talked down,” Farage told reporters during a photoshoot outside the parliament building. “At the first sign of insult, they will know we’re here, don’t worry about that.”

Brexit Party MEPs also flew miniature British flags in yet another symbolic act of defiance.
Meanwhile, anti-Brexit Liberal Democrat Party MEPs carried out their own ostentatious protest, by wearing their ‘Bollocks to Brexit’ t-shirts to the session.
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It's a race to see who can be the most obnoxious seemingly
 
Farage is a sellout toff, he revealed the Brexit Party's policies and it's stupid stuff like free wi-fi on buses and trains, free broadband in every home, cancelling interest payments on student loans... etc

But nothing about protecting our borders, nothing about kicking out non-British immigrants after Brexit, nothing about giving our pensioners a decent pension to live on or getting our homeless veterans off the streets.

Fuck him, lost my vote.
 
Well, what a very polite dust up.

It's just as lame as when the politicians here in the US do it, but just a little fancier.

JosephTX said:
Why do Britishisms always come off sounding like words you expect an small child to invent?
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I don't know if the assie ones or the british ones sound more ricidulous. Unlike my regional slang, which is all excellent and high class.
 
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Smug Chuckler said:
EU has an anthem? I bet it sounds really gay.
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It's really good, because they just stole beethoven's ode to joy and added some diversity lyrics to it. I've heard a german and a latin version, not sure which one was played here. Maybe they also sometimes play it with original lyrics?

I get a lot of conflicting sources online.
 
We heil *fart* heil *fart* right in the EU's face

Also WTF. @EasyPeasy isn't meming.
>Online sales tax
>Free broadband everywhere

Not sure how I feel about the 0 interest in uni loans. I want to leave the banks holding the bag for investing in £200,000 a year music therapy degrees but I also want to stop people from borrowing for this shit in the first place.

Still, cutting foreign aid in half is a naughty proposition tbh. Should be 0 though >:)

That's all that's been revealed
 
EasyPeasy said:
Farage is a sellout toff, he revealed the Brexit Party's policies and it's stupid stuff like free wi-fi on buses and trains, free broadband in every home, cancelling interest payments on student loans... etc
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Farage is being very smart. He just wants to leave the fucking EU for right now, so his domestic policies are just a bunch of broadly agreeable shit to keep his party together and make sure that everyone is focused on their party's one central issue.
 
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