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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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To be fair to Jolyon, foxes are quickly becoming an urban menace in the UK due to their numbers and their shameless willingness to raid the garbage. Almost like all those Medieval folk stories about them being a bunch of conniving rat bastards were dead accurate.
 
Every time I start to feel despair over the US governments total ineptitude I come to this thread to find that you guys are dealing with the same, or even worse. How are they still fucking things up this badly with a strong majority government?
 
Vitruvius said:
Every time I start to feel despair over the US governments total ineptitude I come to this thread to find that you guys are dealing with the same, or even worse. How are they still fucking things up this badly with a strong majority government?
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Because much like the USA, they have First Past the Post voting, which means you get two "big tent" parties made up of a bunch of people who are forced to work together but really don't get along due to different goals. Obviously, this means without an external threat such as Corbyn or Farage, they're going to fall to infighting as each group tries to get what it wants at the expense of the rest. The same thing happened to the Democrats in 2016. The evil Republicans were defeated, and it was knives out for everyone inside to get what they wanted (see: Obamacare.)
 
Honestly I'm having a hard time thinking of a proper lolcow Politican since most Politicians we come to expect are either full of themselves, corrupt or both in general. My mind can only come up with George Galloway but thats a stretch.
 
Ly Erg said:
Honestly I'm having a hard time thinking of a proper lolcow Politican since most Politicians we come to expect are either full of themselves, corrupt or both in general. My mind can only come up with George Galloway but thats a stretch.
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Its the cat bowl thing that would make him a cow. But other than that, whilst a bit of an oddball, he seems like any other political leader. Other than he enjoys a good fight whilst most others slink away like fucking snakes.
 
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Its the cat bowl thing that would make him a cow. But other than that, whilst a bit of an oddball, he seems like any other political leader. Other than he enjoys a good fight whilst most others slink away like fucking snakes.
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I've seen him shill hard for the CCP on Twitter, which is pretty exceptional.
 
Ly Erg said:
Honestly I'm having a hard time thinking of a proper lolcow Politican since most Politicians we come to expect are either full of themselves, corrupt or both in general. My mind can only come up with George Galloway but thats a stretch.
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George Galloway and also Lutfur Rahman.
 
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I suspect because the Absolute Boy would spark off a fatal split if he was given the boot.
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I'm waiting for the outraged screams in a day or two when people realise he was spared but a female underling was given the boot for less.
Today it's just watching the Twitter feed for his fans demanding he lead them to true true socialism and everyone taking the effortlessly lined up shot presented.
 
I’ve been checking in now and again on a page for something called the Northern Independence Party. Now they’ve reached 10K followers they need people to fund their FREE twitter account

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Their original goal was an independent Northumberland but since I last checked they’ve decided to incorporate the North West and the Midlands. But it’s just another commie party ran by some Uni professor.


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There are so many things wrong with what they're trying to rebrand it to it would take days to write up the full post. TL;DR, industrial revolutions need power, no power from solar and wind, everybody loses because you've shut down the fossil fuel plants. But hey, since everyone's going to need candles I guess we'll see that industry have a renaissance, right?
 
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