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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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Sable said:
Of course, there was a legal battle over it and everything!

I'd go for a rich tea or a digestive. If you dunk too long with a hobnob they tend to flake off, and despite hobnobs being the best, I don't want it at the bottom of my mug.
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I still laugh every time I remember that court case.

For those Amerifats who don't know, McVities, the makers of Jaffa Cakes argued that they shouldn't pay a certain tax on one of their products as they were tiny cakes, not actually biscuits (despite being biscuit sized and typically sold near the other biscuits). To prove this point, they made a large Jaffa Cake and served it to an actual british court to prove this.

The court ruled in their favour and Jaffa Cakes remain tax free to this day.



The Sunak thing is the usual hilariously overt racism we see from The Left and Twatterati whenever someone dares not fit in their narrative (Indians are increasingly voting Conservative.) They've done the same bullshit with Priti Patel too, who tends to say what she has on her mind and gives a fuck about actually tackling crime, rather than jilling herself to the hate crime stats like most of the Home Office Civil Servants are want to do.
 
Sable said:
I'd go for a rich tea or a digestive. If you dunk too long with a hobnob they tend to flake off, and despite hobnobs being the best, I don't want it at the bottom of my mug.
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Scottish shortbread will do. There's Walker's but it's pretty easy to make yourself.
 
Otterly said:
Savage. Into a freshly warmed teapot!
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If you're using a teapot to make a single cuppa for yourself then may your biscuit fall in your brew; the only reason to use a teapot is to subtly, yet smugly, show off how civilised you are to barbaric guests.

AnOminous said:
Scottish shortbread will do. There's Walker's but it's pretty easy to make yourself.
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I fucking love shortbread biscuits and yet for some reason it's never occurred to me to try dunking them.
 
Bender said:
the only reason to use a teapot is to subtly, yet smugly, show off how civilised you are to barbaric guests.
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the same reason I have crap like lapsang souchong in the cupboard when I literally only ever drink breakfast tea. that packet's been in there for years. I also have a few tea blends that I brought back from sri lanka. that trip was in 2011
 
Bender said:
If you're using a teapot to make a single cuppa for yourself then may your biscuit fall in your brew;
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I do. Always at home. Just tastes better. At work I have to make do with a mug and I can always taste the difference. I generally put a pot on and have a refill.
It should surprise no one that a KF user a. Likes things done a certain way and b. Doesn’t have guests :)
Rich teas are the best for dunking. Old style dark choc digestives and Shortbread also excellent, but that’s not something you want to eat too much of unless you want a thread in the fat area of beauty parlour. Those cheap but amazing malted milk type ones with a slab of choc on you can get from lidl as well. Goddamn they are good.
 
Clem Fandango said:
Yorkshire Tea is better than Twinings
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Amazon says mine is 5 stops away. If I start feeling the urge to buy a towel with Charles and Camilla's faces on it because I bought this tea stuff to spite trannies I'm going to kill myself.
 
PG Tips for regular brews, Twinnings for when I fancy Darjeeling or something.
 
Ponderous Pillock said:
PG Tips for regular brews, Twinnings for when I fancy Darjeeling or something.
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I agree with PG Tips being good for a brew, but now you've mentioned Twinings I feel the need to grab a box of each variety to compare in accordance with either ISO-1839 or ISO-3103.
 
Polite English tea can get fucked: Punjana is where it's at: blended in Belfast, has subtle aromas of cordite and semtex, and will sustain you through a hard evening of sectarian mayhem. Pair with a Garibaldi biscuit if you are a Republican.
 
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