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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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The Coward Joe Root said:
Does booze count as 'essential supplies'? I'm going to assume it does and I am prepared to debate the matter with plod.
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Groceries is groceries.

Remember to support your local economy by buying only real ale.

The_Penultimate_Warrior said:
Not surprised we've moved into lockdown. People were clearly incapably of following simple rules, so harsher measures are needed.
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Essential lockdown. This is the last chance before the army starts mowing dumbfucks down for not listening.
 
CWCissey said:
Boris has announced how he's going to fund the spendathon. He's banking on tards still not following social distancing and isolating themselves and getting fined for it.

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Strict new curbs on life in UK announced by PM

Gatherings of more than two people are banned, shops ordered to close and social events halted as part of rules to keep Britons at home and stop the spread of coronavirus.
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Anyone know what the fine is going to be? Is it going to be a meme like the French and their initial 30 euro fine, or will it be like other places, in the several thousands?
 
soy_king said:
Is Tommy Robinson some sort of Chav superhero that you can summon whenever some street brawl pops up, or is it more like he's driving around in a van full of surveillance equipment looking for an opportunity to strike?
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It is claimed that when there appears to be no help coming and you are surrounded by a rival firm TR will show up in an uninsured Transit and kick the living snot out of them
 
CWCissey said:
Boris has announced how he's going to fund the spendathon. He's banking on tards still not following social distancing and isolating themselves and getting fined for it.

www.bbc.co.uk

Strict new curbs on life in UK announced by PM

Gatherings of more than two people are banned, shops ordered to close and social events halted as part of rules to keep Britons at home and stop the spread of coronavirus.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Reminds me of a really old thing on Bitesize or some other kind of interactive English GSCE revision material. Around the early-mid 2000's? You had stages of multiple choice questions where you, a teenager, were meant to negotiate the right options against a fictional government that did shit things like ban all teens from fast food places that required an ID to get into, curfews, and making them walk two metres apart to prevent antisocial behaviour. It was satire, back then.
If anyone remembers what I'm talking about please link me the original or tell me what it was called, it was a shame to lose it
 
BroccoliBrain said:
Reminds me of a really old thing on Bitesize or some other kind of interactive English GSCE revision material. Around the early-mid 2000's? You had stages of multiple choice questions where you, a teenager, were meant to negotiate the right options against a fictional government that did shit things like ban all teens from fast food places that required an ID to get into, curfews, and making them walk two metres apart to prevent antisocial behaviour. It was satire, back then.
If anyone remembers what I'm talking about please link me the original or tell me what it was called, it was a shame to lose it
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I actually do remember that. Can't say what it was called though.
 
A year from now, when the economy is wrecked, there's 20% unemployment, and massive social unrest. I hope the media makes an effort to identify how many people died from Covid19 that didn't have a serious underlying health condition.

This is whole thing is like something out of the Simpson, with hysterical women screaming "Dear God won't someone think of the children'
 
Trig.Point said:
A year from now, when the economy is wrecked, there's 20% unemployment, and massive social unrest.
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It will be blamed on Brexit, the Tories, and "austerity" in that order. Especially by al-Beeb, the Grauniad, and the Indescribablyboring.
 
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