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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.

 

[Scandinadian Bacon]

ok I guess I can understand fireworks and maybe even eggs in bulk but why flour? fuck when I was a youngster i went to the store to buy my granddads smokes for him

Nobody on this page has a Bender avatar so I think I should be safe.

Antiquing. It's about stopping antiquing.

 

[Bender]

Nobody on this page as a Bender avatar so I think I should be safe.

Hi.

 

[Fareal]

ok I guess I can understand fireworks and maybe even eggs in bulk but why flour? fuck when I was a youngster i went to the store to buy my granddads smokes for him

Because kids egg and flour houses, usually of local “weirdos” who are 99.5% certain to be people known to be vulnerable through either mental illness or physical disability. Tormenting the physically disabled has become much more of a thing here in the last decade.

They will also egg and flour the targets if the targets leave the house to remonstrate.

 

[Mitt Doggy Dogg]

Because kids egg and flour houses, usually of local “weirdos” who are 99.5% certain to be people known to be vulnerable through either mental illness or physical disability. Tormenting the physically disabled has become much more of a thing here in the last decade.

They will also egg and flour the targets if the targets leave the house to remonstrate.

WDF when did they start flouring houses lmao, I've never heard of that lol

 

[CWCissey]

WDF when did they start flouring houses lmao, I've never heard of that lol

You've never heard of flour bombing?

Did you not read the Beano as a kid?

Some actually did it to a standing Prime Minister.

 

[Mitt Doggy Dogg]

You've never heard of flour bombing?

Did you not read the Beano as a kid?

Some actually did it to a standing Prime Minister.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wfuzQrxerZg

Apparently not, we egged houses when I was kids but never flour bombing, or "Antiquing" as someone else called it, I had to look that term up. I'm not even that freaking old but I was born pre 1980 so I guess I'm ancient nowadays.

 

[Bender]

Apparently not, we egged houses when I was kids but never flour bombing, or "Antiquing" as someone else called it, I had to look that term up. I'm not even that freaking old but I was born pre 1980 so I guess I'm ancient nowadays.

I was bullied by a guy twice my size into throwing a rock through some old guy's porch window, some nights I remember that and cringe with such force in the hopes my clenched ass pulls the rest of me in there. Never egged/toilet papered/flour bombed a house though.

 

[AnOminous]

I was bullied by a guy twice my size into throwing a rock through some old guy's porch window, some nights I remember that and cringe with such force in the hopes my clenched ass pulls the rest of me in there. Never egged/toilet papered/flour bombed a house though.

Every year we would egg this fat bitch's house. And throw toilet paper into all of the trees. Plus always ring her doorbell and run away. And prank call her. Fuck her, she was a bitch. I feel no guilt.

 

[Mitt Doggy Dogg]

We just egg ed houses and broke into cars looking for money/smokes/weed

 

[Bender]

Every year we would egg this fat bitch's house. And throw toilet paper into all of the trees. Plus always ring her doorbell and run away. And prank call her. Fuck her, she was a bitch. I feel no guilt.

I read that, I thought "what a piece of shit", then I remembered you're a lawyer and thought "yeah, that makes sense."

 

[AnOminous]

I read that, I thought "what a piece of shit", then I remembered you're a lawyer and thought "yeah, that makes sense."

Bitch called the cops on some kid for just taking a shortcut through her backyard. After that, she was marked for revenge.

 

[Bender]

Bitch called the cops on some kid for just taking a shortcut through her backyard. After that, she was marked for revenge.

My new headcanon is this story is what drove you to learning the law; one day you realised "oh, shit, I did some vandalism" and preemptively passed the bar so you could defend yourself in court, even though your dream at the time was to be a NASCAR driver or something.

It also explains why you seem to hate fat women.

 

[CWCissey]

Ramsbottom houses evacuated after 'homemade explosive' found

The device, which is "not believed to be any immediate threat", was found during a raid, police say.

www.bbc.co.uk

Looks like farmers and their mums are no longer just packing guns.

Also the Black Pudding Throwing Competition may be a viable terror target according to some...

 

[AnOminous]

Ramsbottom houses evacuated after 'homemade explosive' found

The device, which is "not believed to be any immediate threat", was found during a raid, police say.

www.bbc.co.uk

Looks like farmers and their mums are no longer just packing guns.

Also the Black Pudding Throwing Competition may be a viable terror target according to some...

Please tell me they didn't find a bottle of Diet Coke next to some Mentos. From the fact they don't even identify the "explosive" but are charging someone with a crime, these pigs have embarrassed themselves with some absurdly autistic act of nanny state stupidity again.

 

[CWCissey]

Please tell me they didn't find a bottle of Diet Coke next to some Mentos. From the fact they don't even identify the "explosive" but are charging someone with a crime, these pigs have embarrassed themselves with some absurdly autistic act of nanny state stupidity again.

Probably lots of bleach and fertiliser.

 

[Just a boring name]

About the flour thing.....if you dump a load of flour on a car windscreen, and it rains (as it often does in my northern home city), it turns into a paste that is an absolute Ballache to remove because it gunks up the wipers.
When I was a child cars often had vents or grilles just at the bottom of the windscreen and if the flour got in there, it was a nightmare.
Flour in the petrol door was another one. I think kids were banned from buying potatoes at one point because of them being shoved into exhaust pipes.

 

[AnOminous]

Flour in the petrol door was another one. I think kids were banned from buying potatoes at one point because of them being shoved into exhaust pipes.

Then you'd just use a banana like in Beverly Hills Cop.

 

[Just a boring name]

Then you'd just use a banana like in Beverly Hills Cop.

We were in Manchester - we wouldn't have known what fruit was even if it had been stuffed in our exhaust pipe....!

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

Ramsbottom houses evacuated after 'homemade explosive' found

The device, which is "not believed to be any immediate threat", was found during a raid, police say.

www.bbc.co.uk

Looks like farmers and their mums are no longer just packing guns.

Also the Black Pudding Throwing Competition may be a viable terror target according to some...

Lol Ramsbottom.

 

[Jack O'Neill]

Source

A teenager was stabbed to death in west London this afternoon.

It is the latest murder involving a blade to strike the capital which is in the grip of a knife crime epidemic.

Met Police officers were called to reports of a stabbing on the High Street in Uxbridge at 4.40pm today.

They found an 18-year-old man who had been knifed in the chest and he was rushed to hospital.

He was pronounced dead at 5.25pm and a murder investigation has been launched.

A second boy also suffered a knife injury to his ear, Scotland Yard said in a statement. His injuries are not life threatening.

Police remain at the scene this evening.

The stabbing comes the day two teenagers were found guilty of murdering Girl Scout Jodie Chesney in east London in March in a murder which caused national outrage over London's knife crime epidemic.

The local force has authorised a Section 60 order to be in place until 8.37am tomorrow.

It gives police the power to stop and search anyone in a prescribed area without probable cause.

Enquiries are underway to notify next of kin of the teenage boy whose exact age has not been released by police.

• Met Police said on Thursday evening a 17-year-old boy had been arrested on suspicion of murder