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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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Jack O'Neill said:
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
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I feel like I need to be taking notes from these people. The English are so fucking good at tyranny with a smile.
 
AnOminous said:
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.
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Probably some kids got a bunch of bottle rockets and emptied the power from them into a tub to make a decent firework.
 
Product Intervention said:
I feel like I need to be taking notes from these people. The English are so fucking good at tyranny with a smile.
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Yeah, I agree. It's completely tyrannical for the police to be given any kind of special powers in cases where it's entirely possible a random spree-killer is active and on the loose. They're violating his rights.
 
Jack O'Neill said:
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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.

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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
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It bothers me that they call it "knife crime crisis" when it's really a "stab happy mongs crisis". Most people owns and use knives everyday without an issue. I could hold a knife in each hand and ride the subway every day without stabbing someone. The knife isn't the problem. The problem is what our authorities refers to as "easily offended young men".
 
CWCissey said:
Labour were the victims of a half hearted DDOS attack.

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Labour Party hit by second cyber-attack

The party says the first DDoS attack against it failed and it has "ongoing security processes in place".
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More like a victim of 650 candidates rushing in because yesterday was the last day of freepost leaflets for party candidates from central funding and after that they have to pay from locally raised, declared funds.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn has called on the PM today to release Belwin Funding for the flood effected Midlands and Yorkshire.

It's such a good idea, BoJo ordered it three days ago.
 
CWCissey said:
www.metro.co.uk

Extinction Rebellion in bid for Christmas No1 with song about climate change

The protest group has teamed up with rock band The Jade Assembly to produce a track called ‘Time for Change’.
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Extinction Re.tardation is aiming for Christmas Number 1 this year.

The Sausage Roll song probably has more substance.

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Depends on how it's marketed. If it's catchy, like "Do They Know It's Christmas" they have a chance. If it's as obnoxious and irritating as their protests, nope.
 
neverendingmidi said:
Depends on how it's marketed. If it's catchy, like "Do They Know It's Christmas" they have a chance. If it's as obnoxious and irritating as their protests, nope.
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It's obnoxious and irritating, and sounds like Coldplay when they were crap.
 
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