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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.

 

[Bender]

Our Detroit is either Jaywick, some shithole in London or somewhere in the mining North East that got butt-fucked by Thatcher.

Did you forget about Birmingham? I think there's more murders there per capita than London.

 

[CWCissey]

Did you forget about Birmingham? I think there's more murders there per capita than London.

True, but I always say Birmingham is more like our Baltimore because of the delightful pun.

 

[Sable]

Did you forget about Birmingham? I think there's more murders there per capita than London.

Yeah but with the likelihood of the victims there being Pakistani you could probably cut the murder rate in half to reflect actual loss.

 

[East_Clintwood]

Brighton is the only part of the UK that actually votes for the Green Party. That's all you really need to know to get a picture of what it's like.

I for one am glad they do, because then we get to see the retardation and failure of the Greens in the real world, and not just in their dire manifestos and shit.

 

[Snekposter]

Brighton is the only part of the UK that actually votes for the Green Party. That's all you really need to know to get a picture of what it's like.

I wish we still had the horrifying rating here...

 

[teriyakiburns]

Did you forget about Birmingham? I think there's more murders there per capita than London.

Everyone wants to forget about Birmingham.

 

[Bender]

Everyone wants to forget about Birmingham.

Pretty much the only positive thing I can say about Birmingham is I like the library in the city centre because it reminds me of a pile of Christmas presents.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Everyone wants to forget about Birmingham.

Hey now, it gave us Jaspar Carrott.
Of course it also gave the US John Oliver, though you'd struggle to tell from his accent that's where he's from.

 

[CWCissey]

Hey now, it gave us Jaspar Carrott.
Of course it also gave the US John Oliver, though you'd struggle to tell from his accent that's where he's from.

Ozzy Osbourne too.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Ozzy Osbourne too.

True, but if I went beyond comedians it gave me less of an excuse to call John Oliver an arsehole.

 

[Bender]

Hey now, it gave us Jaspar Carrott.
Of course it also gave the US John Oliver, though you'd struggle to tell from his accent that's where he's from.

Ozzy Osbourne too.

And Judas Priest.
And Frank Skinner (I think).
And the comedian temporarily known as Hugo Boss (now Joe Lycett again). I'm not a massive fan of his, but the segments on his show where he trolls massive businesses via email are pretty damn good, tbh.

Although it's pretty telling that the moment they get a bit rich they immediately leave Brum, lol.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

And Judas Priest.
And Frank Skinner (I think).
And the comedian temporarily known as Hugo Boss (now Joe Lycett again). I'm not a massive fan of his, but the segments on his show where he trolls massive businesses via email are pretty damn good, tbh.

Although it's pretty telling that the moment they get a bit rich they immediately leave Brum, lol.

Skinner's a Brummie too.

 

[CWCissey]

Seems Norwich are also fighting back against unwanted murals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-56555337

LET'S BE 'AVIN' YOOOOOOU!

 

[Lunachu]

Seems Norwich are also fighting back against unwanted murals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-56555337

LET'S BE 'AVIN' YOOOOOOU!

They might not even have covered it because they're transphobic, they might have covered it because it was so fucking ugly.

 

[gamer2014]

Did you forget about Birmingham? I think there's more murders there per capita than London.

Probably some of them moved from London to Birmingham, hence the increase in ghetto crime.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

They might not even have covered it because they're transphobic, they might of covered it because it was so fucking ugly.

Or they just did their own graffiti because they felt like it.
Speaking for myself I would have had no fucking clue what that graffiti was referencing.

 

[East_Clintwood]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-56577054

A cage fighter has been convicted of murdering his teacher ex-partner after blackmailing her about an unlawful relationship she was having with a 15-year-old boy.
Paul Robson inflicted fatal head injuries on Caroline Kayll, 47, during a sustained attack on her and the boy at her Northumberland home in November.
The boy suffered multiple injuries.
Robson, 50, of Stanley Street, Wallsend, was also found guilty of attempting to murder the teenager.
Newcastle Crown Court heard the "cruel and calculating" cage fighting coach and former MMA fighter had 21 convictions for 92 offences over more than 30 years.
He claimed to have first met Mrs Kayll in 2005 while he was an inmate at a prison where she worked as an education officer.
At that point they began a clandestine affair which resumed years later when he was jailed again in 2014 for drug and firearms offences.
After Mrs Kayll left her prison officer husband, Robson moved into her home in Linton, near Ashington, on his release.

Man this entire fucking story is wild but honestly the best part is that some wannabe badass gangster has to explain that's he's in jail for killing a woman because she cucked him with a 15 year old boy.

 

[Brahma]

He claimed to have first met Mrs Kayll in 2005 while he was an inmate at a prison where she worked as an education officer.
At that point they began a clandestine affair which resumed years later when he was jailed again in 2014 for drug and firearms offences.

That sounds like a whole lot of "Don't call it a grave, this is the future you chose" to me. Obviously got off on getting banged in prison or something because why the fuck did it take him getting locked up again to resume the affair?!

lmao, feel sorry for the kid in all this though. He didn't deserve a hiding

 

[East_Clintwood]

Obviously got off on getting banged in prison or something because why the fuck did it take him getting locked up again to resume the affair?!

Yeah the fact that she went from banging prisoners while working in a prison, to banging a kid while working at a school screams desperate whore trying to get off on the thrill of illicit sex

 

[Chaos Theorist]

hmm