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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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BBC Radio [County] today reported that
CWCissey said:
And today in member of the Woke Royalty getting flamed for wrongthink: Dua Lipa.


Although this one is more about the Balkans than anything.
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Is she particularly woke? I just thought she sang a few songs. It's not like Lily Allen who filmed herself crying at how wonderful Corbyn's manifesto was, or Lewis "I live in Switzerland for tax purposes and earn eight figures per annum, but I will lecture you on your privilege" Hamilton.
 
Ginger Piglet said:
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Is she particularly woke? I just thought she sang a few songs. It's not like Lily Allen who filmed herself crying at how wonderful Corbyn's manifesto was, or Lewis "I live in Switzerland for tax purposes and earn eight figures per annum, but I will lecture you on your privilege" Hamilton.
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She's a favourite of the Woke Squad because Wumman uv kullah.
 
Champion The Wonder Horse said:

They've removed the name from the grave of Guy Gibsons dog so as not to offend the coloured folk. An action that would have been the punchline of a joke 20 years ago. Windrush was a mistake.
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The dog was literally named Nigger. But in a news story about Nigger, the utterly useless BBC can't even say the name of the animal the story is about because apparently "Nigger" is a magic word that instantly harms anyone who becomes aware the word even exists.
 
Lewis "I live in Switzerland for tax purposes and earn eight figures per annum, but I will lecture you on your privilege" Hamilton.
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Lewis 'Whiny Tittybaby' Hamilton lives in Monaco. IIRC, if you spend at least 160 nights in Monaco you can live there tax-free.
 
AnOminous said:
The dog was literally named Nigger. But in a news story about Nigger, the utterly useless BBC can't even say the name of the animal the story is about because apparently "Nigger" is a magic word that instantly harms anyone who becomes aware the word even exists.
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It wasn't just the BBC. The Grave is on Royal Air Force property which is the most woke of all the British Armed services, also there were a rush of British Historians (the ones that are BBC talking heads) to say what a wonderful decision it was.

 
Bender said:
I'm disappointed in the BBC for blurring the image. It happened, show people what happened, censoring it won't make it suddenly not happen.
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They didn't say the dog's name in the article above, they definitely weren't going to show a picture of the slur
 
Green on green friendly fire.

Worth keeping an eye on these Beyond Politics insects. They could be amusing. And I bet you any money they're all clones of Rik from The Young Ones. In their own words:

We have no words to describe our disgust. We have no words to describe our rage. We are all complicit but you have been in charge and you have utterly, utterly failed – we accuse you of appeasing radical evil.

Disband yourselves– or drive your organisations into a final battle with this genocidal regime. That means your executives going on hunger strike, your staff going to prison, your supporters blocking the roads.

The Revolution is on its way. Our sacred right and indispensable duty is to take down the government for its treasonous betrayal and replace it with citizens’ assemblies of ordinary people.

It’s time for you to step up or get out of the way.
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Ow, the edge.

(Appeasing radical evil, lol. Citizens' assemblies, lol. You mean Soviets. Just say it you cunts. You want to dissolve the people and elect another. Hunger strike, double lol. The thing with the IRA hunger strikes is that most of them died, and died badly, emaciated and feeble and covered in their own shite and bodily fluids. A real fucking hero's death. And now outside of a few diehards in NI nobody gives a shit about them any more. They also completely failed to effect any meaningful change in British Government policy in NI.)
 
ChloeTheMalingerer said:
They didn't say the dog's name in the article above, they definitely weren't going to show a picture of the slur
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I'm disappointed with the BBC about that as well. Factually stating "and the dog was called Nigger" shouldn't offend anyone, since it isn't being targeted at a person, it's literally a historical fact. I guess Wikipedia is racist because they still have an entire page about the black labrador called Nigger.

Censoring these words just gives them more power, IMO. Gays have reclaimed "queer" and made that word, what was once a slur, part of their movement.
 
It is thirty years since we were told we will all die from climate chaos and you are deluded about how things change.
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We've been a decade away from dying of climate chaos for thirty years now. Congrats on being the ones they've succesfully deluded so they can line their own pockets... wait, this isn't part of the script!
 
Bender said:
I'm disappointed with the BBC about that as well. Factually stating "and the dog was called Nigger" shouldn't offend anyone, since it isn't being targeted at a person, it's literally a historical fact. I guess Wikipedia is racist because they still have an entire page about the black labrador called Nigger.

Censoring these words just gives them more power, IMO. Gays have reclaimed "queer" and made that word, what was once a slur, part of their movement.
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They should either say it matter of factly or display the image without comment. You and I both know that if they did, some nigger would find a way to see that as massively offensive and writs an official complaint, leading to a cucked apology by the beeb.
 
Oh, this is just living down to expectations. You know that "Beyond Politics" greenie group who vandalised Greenpeace for not being radical enough? Well. Get this.

Extinction Rebellion activists launch UK Beyond Politics party by stealing food.

Yep. Their party launch was a mass shoplifting excursion. As if further proof were needed that these are middle class champagne socialists all LARPing as revolutionaries.
 
Ginger Piglet said:
Oh, this is just living down to expectations. You know that "Beyond Politics" greenie group who vandalised Greenpeace for not being radical enough? Well. Get this.

Extinction Rebellion activists launch UK Beyond Politics party by stealing food.

Yep. Their party launch was a mass shoplifting excursion. As if further proof were needed that these are middle class champagne socialists all LARPing as revolutionaries.
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>Camden.

Try that in a Northern Town next time, I'd love to see how far you get at Salford Precinct Tesco.
 
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Like that's not going to be used to lock up political opponents.

On the plus side, we could try and subvert it by flooding the SNP's email inboxes with spicy memes and then calling the cops on them. The material will technically be in their possession and how do we know they won't forward it onwards.

Nicola Sturgeon. The only politician named after what her minge smells like.
 
Ginger Piglet said:
Like that's not going to be used to lock up political opponents.

On the plus side, we could try and subvert it by flooding the SNP's email inboxes with spicy memes and then calling the cops on them. The material will technically be in their possession and how do we know they won't forward it onwards.

Nicola Sturgeon. The only politician named after what her minge smells like.
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I dunno man. You can't purge the Sturge.
 
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