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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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REVECT MOVINERTY, EMVRACE TRAVITION

E: I also don't know why you guys above are crying for the police. You know fully well the weasely cunts would arrest every single one of us ITT if they knew our identities. Let em' experience the multicultural utopia they've worked so hard to produce.
 
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So which is the pronouns for the tomato. is it tomayto or tomahto. I don't want to say the wrong thing and have PC blueberry splat on my door making a mess.
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Firstly, tomatoes are a fruit. This is not a matter of opinion. It is biological fact. They are the part of the tomato plant (an angiosperm, or flowering plant) which contains the seeds. Therefore, they are a fruit. Chillies and bell peppers are also fruits as well.

Secondly, this is the same police force that I did a stint working for a few years back, in their legal department. Said department was a prime example of what happens when Karen is the manager. Also contained the young lady who lectured us all on how as a public body we had to be seen to be going further than just what the law requires over gender identity to the point at which we should have a male officer search a transgender person's bottom half but a female officer their top half, and have special trans-only bogs at all police stations because making them use the disabled bog (which is the only non-gendered one) was evil, bad, bad, bad, and evil.

(Coincidentally, the handful of transgender officers we had were all working in desk jobs on the headquarters in Middlemoor. Not for them rolling around in the gutters with violent drunks after kicking out time in the rough end of Plymouth. Not for them pulling over furtive looking people in cars with the headlights off late at night or kicking down the doors to iffy takeaways with the vice squad. No.)

Also the Chief Constable, one Shane Sawyer, travelled everywhere on first class train tickets. How do I know? I saw his expense reports. And he also had a private bog. How do I know? I got lost and accidentally went for a shit in it on my first day there.
 
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Firstly, tomatoes are a fruit. This is not a matter of opinion. It is biological fact. They are the part of the tomato plant (an angiosperm, or flowering plant) which contains the seeds. Therefore, they are a fruit. Chillies and bell peppers are also fruits as well.
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Wow fruitist, don't you know that tomatoes have a 41% rate of self splattering because of your fruitist comment.
 
Of course it was clowns in 2020. Hey Britbongs, got a nice protest idea for you. Don't worry about a loicense, the masks are NHS-approved!
 
Just another reminder that diversity truely is Britains greatest strength



The response from the Church of England says a lot

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Someone might make a comparision with this case.
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Just another reminder that diversity truely is Britains greatest strength

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The response from the Church of England says a lot

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Imagine my shock. "He has mental health ishoos."

Any chance the turdling who beheaded that French teacher for cartooncrime is being defended as having "mental health ishoos."

Oh wait, I don't need to, there's idiots on twatter claiming he was "murdered" by French police.
 
Wales going back into lockdown over half term for two weeks.

Covid-19: Wales to go into lockdown and Manchester talks end 'abruptly'​

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Inquisitor_BadAss said:
Wales going back into lockdown over half term for two weeks.

Covid-19: Wales to go into lockdown and Manchester talks end 'abruptly'​

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Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday evening. We'll have another update for you on Tuesday morning.

1. Wales to go into national lockdown​

Wales will go into a "short, sharp" lockdownstarting at 18:00 BST on Friday evening until Monday 9 November, First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced. Everyone will be told to stay at home, while pubs, restaurants, hotels and non-essential shops will shut. Gatherings indoors and outdoors with people not in your household will also be banned. For more detail about what the lockdown will mean, head here.
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They literally expect the UK government to pay for their zealotry.
 
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"UNCARING TORIES LEAVING VOONERABLE WELSH ZERO HOURS WORKERS TO DIE!!!!!" in 3, 2, 1...
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Sadly that is what would happen. Is anyone going to vote for any of the parties that landed us in this shit afterwards? I can imagine a fuck tonne of both labour and Tory supporters staying at home in 2024.
 
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Sadly that is what would happen. Is anyone going to vote for any of the parties that landed us in this shit afterwards? I can imagine a fuck tonne of both labour and Tory supporters staying at home in 2024.
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Finally we'll get the Monster Raving Loony Party government we deserve!
 

Durham students from the North claim they are being 'constantly mocked' for their local accents by southerners and face a 'toxic culture' at university​

  • 'Prejudice and discrimination' directed at northern students at Durham
  • Students referred to sleeping with people from the area as 'rolling in muck'
  • Report compiled by Durham student Lauren White refers to 'toxic culture'

What did northern students say about Durham in the study?​

  • 'I ended up dropping out of Durham in February 2019 after only five months because of how elitist I found it. I'm from a working class Gateshead family and went on the supported progression programme to get into Durham which I really enjoyed. But then when I got to Durham it was so different to everything I thought it would be. I totally agree with everything you said in your article about the accent thing, and how at first you didn't really take much notice about how people asked you to repeat things but over time you realise it's more than just little digs. I literally live 20 minutes away and I would go for weeks without hearing a northern accent.'
  • 'I studied Spanish translation and we had to translate things into respective regional accents. For example, a London accent into a Madrid accent. Every class, my accent got mentioned where the lecturer would make fun of it. I had to read a passage in front of the lecture hall as an example of an unusual accent, despite me asking not to do so. When I complained I was told that I needed to learn to take a joke.'
  • 'As a student from the North East of England studying at Durham University, I am regularly belittled and made to feel like I do not belong within the University because of my accent and where I am from. On my first day of Freshers' Week, a girl in my flat approached me to ask if she would be able to get an internet connection in Durham, and then said that she 'didn't realise the North has technology'. In the College dining hall, I have been called a 'dirty northerner', and a 'chav'. In Freshers' Week, a fellow student asked me 'are you going to take the spare food home to feed your family?'
  • 'A boy approached me and told me I was good looking and asked for my name. I answered him and he then said, 'oh I'm sorry I didn't realise you were Northern - aren't most Northerners poor?'. I then said that was a massive generalisation but also was classist. Our conversation lasted about three to five minutes, and concluded with him saying 'you're hot and s***gable, but I could never take someone like you home to mum and dad'.'
 
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