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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.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Wicked child! "Lady" is a term for a woman, and women are reminders of sex!

Even more than a turnip that looks like a thingy?

 

[CWCissey]

Wicked child! "Lady" is a term for a woman, and women are reminders of sex!

Go tell the Catholics to fornicate off!

 

[BroccoliBrain]

Britain needs something, I don't know what, but Gogglebox and the NHS aren't enough to hold a country together.

Personally I cling to the hope that King Arthur's coming back to save us because that's more likely than the gov getting its shit together.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

A conspiracy theory is going round in Bradford's Muslim community that Asians are being euthanised in hospitals under cover of coronavirus.

Colour me totally unsurprised. British Muslims seem to be strangely drawn to conspiratarding.

 

[neverendingmidi]

A conspiracy theory is going round in Bradford's Muslim community that Asians are being euthanised in hospitals under cover of coronavirus.

Colour me totally unsurprised. British Muslims seem to be strangely drawn to conspiratarding.

No... that would be the inbred deformed Paki offspring dying due to their deformities.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

A conspiracy theory is going round in Bradford's Muslim community that Asians are being euthanised in hospitals under cover of coronavirus.

Colour me totally unsurprised. British Muslims seem to be strangely drawn to conspiratarding.

Too bad it isn't available. Doubtless it would broaden our cultural horizons.

 

[Twitter Hate Mob]

A conspiracy theory is going round in Bradford's Muslim community that Asians are being euthanised in hospitals under cover of coronavirus.

How could these people believe that the same country that allowed their community to form organised paedophilic rape gangs that acted with impunity for years, and actively covered up the existence of such, would suddenly develop the slightest hint of a spine?

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Right, yeah, that would do it.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

No... that would be the inbred deformed Paki offspring dying due to their deformities.

I was, during a quiet moment today, on Wikipedia where I was reading about the Habsburg dynasty and that led me on to inbreeding in general and this map:

Now, what does that map also look like the map of?

 

[Bender]

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Now, what does that map also look like the map of?

Hogs of War?

 

[MrBlueSocks]

See, I think of her as Lady Whiteadder myself.

Spanish Infanta for me. Apparently I'm the only person who liked the original series more than the the "Wibble Wibble, stupider than Stupid Johnny McStupid the stupidest man in Britain! hahahahahah" later stuff.

The Media-pushed worship of diversity?
There are probably more black actors in Britain than there are Black (University) Students.

Home schooling, so I was exposed to this recently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/story-of-britain-boudica-and-the-roman-invasion/zmyhf4j

Main legionary character apart from the Legate/General was a black guy. (vaguely possible I suppose, but unlikely)

And at about 4:20 you see the proud Iceni warriors.

Spoiler

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

Spanish Infanta for me. Apparently I'm the only person who liked the original series more than the the "Wibble Wibble, stupider than Stupid Johnny McStupid the stupidest man in Britain! hahahahahah" later stuff.



Home schooling, so I was exposed to this recently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/story-of-britain-boudica-and-the-roman-invasion/zmyhf4j

Main legionary character apart from the Legate/General was a black guy. (vaguely possible I suppose, but unlikely)

And at about 4:20 you see the proud Iceni warriors.

Spoiler

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We wuz Celts n’ sheit!

 

[soy_king]

Spanish Infanta for me. Apparently I'm the only person who liked the original series more than the the "Wibble Wibble, stupider than Stupid Johnny McStupid the stupidest man in Britain! hahahahahah" later stuff.



Home schooling, so I was exposed to this recently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/story-of-britain-boudica-and-the-roman-invasion/zmyhf4j

Main legionary character apart from the Legate/General was a black guy. (vaguely possible I suppose, but unlikely)

And at about 4:20 you see the proud Iceni warriors.

Spoiler

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How did noone catch this? Even as tenuous as their logic and factual basis for black Romans was, it was infinitely more plausible than this shit.

 

[Hoplixe]

How did noone catch this? Even as tenuous as their logic and factual basis for black Romans was, it was infinitely more plausible than this shit.

Don't be racist, just accept the diversity, accept nu-history you bigot, reality is racist.

 

[Overly Serious]

Spanish Infanta for me. Apparently I'm the only person who liked the original series more than the the "Wibble Wibble, stupider than Stupid Johnny McStupid the stupidest man in Britain! hahahahahah" later stuff.



Home schooling, so I was exposed to this recently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/story-of-britain-boudica-and-the-roman-invasion/zmyhf4j

Main legionary character apart from the Legate/General was a black guy. (vaguely possible I suppose, but unlikely)

And at about 4:20 you see the proud Iceni warriors.

Spoiler

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Good grief. I mean, there were Black legionaries, though I don't know if any ever served in Britain. But Black celts seems pretty darn unlikely.

On the cousin marriage thing, it's not inherently bad as the occasional natural thing. In fact, it helps beneficial mutations become established in a population due to something called the Founder's Effect (basically, with no intermarriage at all, beneficial traits are inevitably bred out before they can spread). The problem is when it becomes societally reinforced by arranged marriages designed to keep wealth within the family. As in Pakistani and Islamic communities. Then come the two-headed children.

 

[AnOminous]

The problem is when it becomes societally reinforced by arranged marriages designed to keep wealth within the family. As in Pakistani and Islamic communities. Then come the two-headed children.

And of course this is what happened to the Habsburgs, the effects eventually becoming so bad they essentially extinguished the line. Cousin marriage, while relatively harmless as an occasional thing, gets really bad over the course of generations, becoming much worse even than universally reviled incestuous unions like parent-child.

 

[Otterly]

The problem is when it becomes societally reinforced by arranged marriages designed to keep wealth within the family. As in Pakistani and Islamic communities. Then come the two-headed children.

I can tell you from direct professional experience that the burden of genetic disease among the UK communities that practice cousin marriage is absolutely shocking. British Pakistani communities have rates of genetic illness in children thirteen times higher than the population as a whole. There are shocking rates of deafness, thalssaemia, blindness, kidney issues etc. It’s quite distressing to see.
And of course, deliberately not spoken about, or allowed to be mentioned. There have been multiple attempts to get this brought to public attention and get the practice stopped / educate communities about it but always, always stopped and denounced as culturally insensitive. It boils my piss - so many needlessly disabled and dead kids. The fucking WHO is no help either, waffling on that stopping consanguineous marriage is culturally undesirable.

 

[Overly Serious]

I can tell you from direct professional experience that the burden of genetic disease among the UK communities that practice cousin marriage is absolutely shocking. British Pakistani communities have rates of genetic illness in children thirteen times higher than the population as a whole. There are shocking rates of deafness, thalssaemia, blindness, kidney issues etc. It’s quite distressing to see.
And of course, deliberately not spoken about, or allowed to be mentioned. There have been multiple attempts to get this brought to public attention and get the practice stopped / educate communities about it but always, always stopped and denounced as culturally insensitive. It boils my piss - so many needlessly disabled and dead kids. The fucking WHO is no help either, waffling on that stopping consanguineous marriage is culturally undesirable.

Nobody has to change their name when they get married in Bradford.

 

[Swerf'n'Terf]

There's a decent if cheaply made documentary on British (mostly) Pakistani cousin marriage on Youtube for anyone interested.

 

[Slimy Time]

Too bad it isn't available. Doubtless it would broaden our cultural horizons.

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I watched this with some of friends about 3 years back, including a former Muslim from India. The sheer spin that these imams go to justify cousin fucking is unsurprising. Went something like this.

>Should I fuck my cousin?
>Under this scripture it says you can and there is nothing wrong with it.
>Ex Muslim - no, that is not what that part says at all. Explains it in the historical context. The imam is twisting it so much to justify this degenerate act. This is why I stopped following this garbage religion.

Repeated for the entire documentary. It is literally about the a young British Muslim teen/young adult going "should I fuck my cousin? Idk, let's ask this imam... I still don't know, let's ask this guy who is currently fucking his cousin and has autistic children...still not sure etc".

 

[Ginger Piglet]

I watched this with some of friends about 3 years back, including a former Muslim from India. The sheer spin that these imams go to justify cousin fucking is unsurprising. Went something like this.

>Should I fuck my cousin?
>Under this scripture it says you can and there is nothing wrong with it.
>Ex Muslim - no, that is not what that part says at all. Explains it in the historical context. The imam is twisting it so much to justify this degenerate act. This is why I stopped following this garbage religion.

Repeated for the entire documentary. It is literally about the a young British Muslim teen/young adult going "should I fuck my cousin? Idk, let's ask this imam... I still don't know, let's ask this guy who is currently fucking his cousin and has autistic children...still not sure etc".

As a great man (Herr Starr from Preacher) once said, "Son of God or Son of Man, you can't fuck your sister and expect any good to come of it."