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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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Ponderous Pillock said:
It's also backed by the Chinks and sends your data back to the CCP's creepy firewall servers who comb through it for useable intel. All ministers and government business tried it for a minute before GCHQ spotted it and reccomended Skype Business instead.
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I'm amazed they're allowed to install anything without GCHQ's permission. A normal business wouldn't allow it.
 
Ponderous Pillock said:
Archers covered the gay shit by.... having a couple get married and all was well until the Eastenders writers arrived.

One of them promptly fucked a Polish Migrant Fruit Picker for..... reasons.




Oh for fuck's sake, you can have drama without fucking going this ridiculous. Nobody under 40 listens to the damn thing regularly anyway.
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I am proud to say that whenever the Archers came on back in the Radio 4 days, I'd probably slide some death metal into the CD slot.

"Bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, biiiiiiiiiiiiip.

"It's seven o'clock. Now on BBC Radio 4, the Archers."

"Dum di dum di - "

"WOOOOOOOOORRRRRLLLLLLDDDDDDD EEAAAAATTTTOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRR!!!!"

Speaking of Eastenders, it is on hold due to the WuFlu. I'd have thought that all they need to do to film socially distanced Eastenders is have the actors filmed one at a time on separate days. They just need Danny Dire looking petulant in a room, Ross Kemp going "Leave it aaahhht san," and Peggy Mitchell going "GET OUTTA MOI PAB!!" and they've already got the nucleus of most episodes.

Casualty is also on hold. I gave up watching that early this year. It had succumbed to the vogue for jettisoning actual plots and character development in favour of "starting a conversation" and half the patients tended to be staff members of the hospital as well for added non-drama, which nothing was made much of. That, and obvious diverse stock characters, like Hijabi Martial Artist and Black Chap Who Is Too Good For This Sinful Earth. However I might watch it again in the autumn because when the quarantine is over I bet you any money they'll have a cringingly horrible, predictable, trite, and strawman-laden Very Special Two Hour Episode about how the people in "our heroic NHS" are underpaid and underappreciated, and that needs to be documented for bile fascination reasons.
 
Happy St George’s Day, Anglo kiwis. Let us enjoy the flurry of Guardian articles and bluecheck tweets about how St George was actually a multicultural Turk.
 
JK Rowling said:
If you think The Archers is bad you've never been exposed to Ros na Run. It's an Irish language soap set in the Gaeltacht somewhere in the west of Ireland. Last time they tried to be controversial they had one of the farmers come out as gay. He didn't do anything particularly gay, just announced his sexuality to the village then went back to m.ilkingcows and drinking pints in the local pub.

They did once have a guest appearance by Stephen Fry though, so there is that.
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Don't talk shit about Ros na Run, it really captures the feel of the Wesht coast, with the shops built out of the side of people's living rooms, and the government subsidised high-end interiors for any business that so much as grazes the tourism industry.
 
CWCissey said:
Greggs to start reopening shops


https://youtube.com/watch?v=eQsTPTG5O4I
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Phase 1: A small trial in Newcastle

We intend to carry out a controlled trial in just 20 shops in the Newcastle area with retail volunteers from the business who will provide feedback to inform us which operational changes we will need to introduce, including social distancing and measures to support the safety of our customers and teams when we decide to open at scale. This small trial will aim to start on May 4th with a limited product range and shorter trading hours. We believe that we will require at least 2 weeks to evaluate this trial and the plan is that the shops will stay open thereafter. Many of our competitors have already opened trial shops on the same basis in order to learn what works for them.

Phase 2 – A selected wider shop opening

We will only move to open a wider number of shops if the feedback from Phase 1 is positive and supports us extending our reopening plans. We are currently in the process of selecting about 700 shops to reopen, including approximately 150 franchise shops, as the first large group of shops to re-open with our new tested operational measures in place. We expect it will only be possible to open this many shops if the government has taken a first step in relaxing the lock down which could be to open the schools. This in turn would allow an increased number of people to return to work. The Government has not yet published its plan, but our assumption is that the schools will re-open on June 1st and that we will open this phase of selected shops on June 8th. This timing may change depending on future government announcements.

We expect sales to be significantly lower than normal in all of these shops whilst social distancing measures remain in place, and therefore will not be asking all colleagues in these shop teams to return to work, requiring some to remain on furlough for a further period of time. Also, as we are reopening with a reduced product range, the same will be true for our supply chain colleagues with not all team members being required to return to work until Phase 3 of our plan when we have opened all of our shops, extended our initial range, and demand levels have risen.

In order that we can support a wide variety of individual circumstances, I would ask that we are all as flexible as possible as we determine the ideal mix of which roles to bring out of furlough and when. All colleagues, whether on furlough or not, will remain paid for full contract hours until July 1st as previously communicated. There may be some instances where retail and supply chain individuals could be asked to work additional hours which of course, would be paid.

Phase 3 – All shops opening

The final phase in our plan is to open all shops with new operational measures in place by July 1st, which is when government furlough support is currently scheduled to end. We also hope that, by then, the next steps in relaxing the lockdown beyond schools opening would have been announced. Once again, these timings could change depending on future government announcements.

Managing uncertainty

Naturally we must be acutely aware that there remains a great deal of uncertainty in how our fight against this virus will develop, and should the situation worsen for any reason, we may be required to stop or delay the implementation of our plan. However, sharing our plan as soon as we are able to, should give us all a framework to base our future preparations upon.

We have shared this plan with your representatives in the GNC and unions, and will continue to liaise with all relevant contacts to help us all in our plans to return to work.

I will provide further updates as the reopening plan develops. Meanwhile, please stay safe and enjoy the attached video which celebrates some of the great things the business continues to do, to play our part in supporting those impacted most by this crisis, and of course, our key worker heroes.

https://www.greggsemployeeinformation.co.uk archive

Yes I can't beleive that Greggs has this site open to anyone who knows of it and the media aren't just Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V statements straight from the horse's mouth.
 
Ginger Piglet said:
Casualty is also on hold. I gave up watching that early this year. It had succumbed to the vogue for jettisoning actual plots and character development in favour of "starting a conversation" and half the patients tended to be staff members of the hospital as well for added non-drama, which nothing was made much of. That, and obvious diverse stock characters, like Hijabi Martial Artist and Black Chap Who Is Too Good For This Sinful Earth. However I might watch it again in the autumn because when the quarantine is over I bet you any money they'll have a cringingly horrible, predictable, trite, and strawman-laden Very Special Two Hour Episode about how the people in "our heroic NHS" are underpaid and underappreciated, and that needs to be documented for bile fascination reasons.
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No word of a lie. The pandemic litterally gives them plots for days that would be real interesting. The hospital dramas are going to squander everything good though as they often do.
 
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Snitches get stitches dickhead!
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Imagine being the sort of bootlicker who reports a pub for selling beer. Cowardly, hysterical and frankly unBritish.

At this point I would happily sign a piece of paper renouncing the right to use arrennaychess for any sort of Wuflu treatment if it meant I could go for a pint, I'm pretty sure I've already had the fucking thing.
 
Today's bit of feelgood:

So BoJo's become a father with a healthy baby boy being born yesterday.

Second, Tom Moore, the centenerian who's been doing laps of his garden for the NHS Charities and has raised an eye watering £29 million and counting is celebrating his birthday today.

He will be given a full RAF flypast over his home.

He's been added to the honours list for later this year, but just in case....

Her Majesty The Queen has promoted Tom Moore, he is now a Colonel, not a Captain.
 
Champion The Wonder Horse said:
Imagine being the sort of bootlicker who reports a pub for selling beer. Cowardly, hysterical and frankly unBritish.

At this point I would happily sign a piece of paper renouncing the right to use Our Heroic NHS for any sort of Wuflu treatment if it meant I could go for a pint, I'm pretty sure I've already had the fucking thing.
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FTFY.

Unfortunately the number of reports for people breaching the lockdown is spiralling out of control. Almost every local area Faceache group has posts by people denouncing each other for not social distancing enough, and with nothing else to do, curtain-twitching is on the increase. Also people who are feuding with their neighbours are using reports like this to get one over on each other.
 
Ginger Piglet said:
FTFY.

Unfortunately the number of reports for people breaching the lockdown is spiralling out of control. Almost every local area Faceache group has posts by people denouncing each other for not social distancing enough, and with nothing else to do, curtain-twitching is on the increase. Also people who are feuding with their neighbours are using reports like this to get one over on each other.
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I'm saying it here and now, if the lockdown is not eased after this current phase lasts, you'll just get people breaking stuff. Everyone's fucking bored and asking questions now.
 
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