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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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theshep said:

M&S begins legal action against Aldi over Colin the Caterpillar cake​

Marks & Spencer has begun legal action against Aldi, arguing the supermarket's Cuthbert the Caterpillar cake infringes its Colin the Caterpillar trademark.
M&S claims that their similarity leads consumers to believe they are of the same standard and "rides on the coat-tails" of M&S's reputation.
It lodged an intellectual property claim with the High Court this week.
M&S wants Aldi to remove the product from sale and agree not to sell anything similar in the future.
The retailer has three trademarks relating to Colin, which it believes means Colin has acquired and retains an enhanced distinctive character and reputation.
The product was launched around 30 years ago. Colin's appearance has been substantially unchanged since around 2004, except for adaptations for events such as Halloween and Christmas, and related products such as Connie the Caterpillar.
A spokesman said: "Because we know the M&S brand is special to our customers and they expect only the very best from us, love and care goes into every M&S product on our shelves.
"So we want to protect Colin, Connie and our reputation for freshness, quality, innovation and value."
Colin is central to M&S's partnership with cancer charity Macmillan, and the retailer has created a Colin product for the annual World's Biggest Coffee Morning fundraising event.
The cake is a sponge with milk chocolate and buttercream, topped with chocolate sweets and a smiling white chocolate face.
M&S was the first retailer to sell a caterpillar cake, but many supermarkets have since created their own similar products.
Other cakes include Waitrose's Cecil, Sainsbury's Wiggles, Tesco's Curly, and Asda's Clyde the Caterpillar.
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Cuthbert the caterpillar is what kids get when their parents would rather have cigarettes then carpets.
 
Slimy Time said:
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I think the trademark claim sounds bogus, because there are at least four other caterpillar cakes they didn't act against. This looks more like copyright infringement because they actually just flat out copied the design in every respect.
 
Wow. Even the Guardian couldn't choke down Maxine Waters' little remarks.


It's still "wah"ing far more about how it might call a mistrial but when the fucking Guardian has not got your back it's a bad sign. I know they're going to slober over Biden's nethers after his recent comments despite the fact that the same from Putin or Xi would be called out but the fact that this article slipped out of the Guardian is amusing.
 
Bender said:
It's nice to see there's still good people in the world who are willing to stand up for strangers.
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Contrary to much of the content on Kiwi Farms (or in the news in general) most people are. It's just they're normally not seen on camera doing it.

To balance out that bit of heart warming have this;

www.dailymail.co.uk

Pub-goers rushed to hospital after gas burner explodes in beer garden

Neighbours reported hearing screams as the stove exploded in a fireball at an outside table at the 16th century King's Head pub in Great Cornard near Sudbury, Suffolk.
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People took a camping stove to a beer garden (without the landlord's awareness) and it exploded injuring three people, who unfortunately I could not find if were the same people who took it there.

On a lighter note;

www.lancs.live

Big One breaks down near the top forcing people to climb down

The iconic rollercoaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach was evacuated by staff this afternoon
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Rollercoaster stopped working just before a plunge and people had to be led off back down the ride by staff.
 
Sped Xing said:
I thought Red Wall was the mouse book.
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I expected conservatives to actually lose a couple seats because of the repeated lockdowns but apparently i’m wrong. Particularly I expected them to lose some of the labour seats they gained since that whole thing seemed like a protest vote to me.
 
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
I expected conservatives to actually lose a couple seats because of the repeated lockdowns but apparently i’m wrong. Particularly I expected them to lose some of the labour seats they gained since that whole thing seemed like a protest vote to me.
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So you really do allow vermin to vote?
 
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
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Oof! Although the greens gaining a seat is interesting to me.
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Labour are so fucking useless.

Inquisitor_BadAss said:
I expected conservatives to actually lose a couple seats because of the repeated lockdowns but apparently i’m wrong. Particularly I expected them to lose some of the labour seats they gained since that whole thing seemed like a protest vote to me.
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Council elections don't get much in turnout and I can imagine the majority of people won't bother with it, even with the lockdown shit.
 
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Anyone who isn't voting for a decent independent candidate in the council elections is a fool. A good body of independent councillors, who live in the town they represent and are unbeholden to the machinations of party policy are a huge asset on a local scale. It's never perfect but shit does actually get done.
 
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
I expected conservatives to actually lose a couple seats because of the repeated lockdowns but apparently i’m wrong. Particularly I expected them to lose some of the labour seats they gained since that whole thing seemed like a protest vote to me.
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Nah, the real reason the red wall fell apart was changing demographics. The M62 corridor and east Manchester have become a lot wealthier in the last decade or so, while there has also been an increase in self-segregation by minority groups, putting more of them into fewer constituencies and reducing their utility as a reliable vote buffer for labour. The combination of traditionally working-class communities feeling abandoned by labour, whilst also becoming wealthier and feeling a greater need to protect that wealth, along with the presence of ethnic ghettos in areas that were previously relatively well integrated or had only very low "diversity", created a sea-change in voting patterns that I suspect still hasn't fully played out.

The only thing that annoys me is that everyone seems to think it was Boris wot did it with his brexit baffling, but it was a change that had been inevitable since the early aughts.
 
CWCissey said:
Mad Jock bastards deep-fry a Colin The Caterpillar cake.

www.bbc.co.uk

Colin the Caterpillar gets Scottish chippy treatment

The famous cake was battered and deep fried by a Lanarkshire chip shop owner as a trade-up to the traditional Mars bar.
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Behold the battered face of madness.

There's been some fairly non-subtle independent candidates for elections in parts of the North. I believe Manchester has someone outright accusing the Labour council of corruption and promising to fund a commission into proving it if elected.
And a free tv license.

No clue what Liverpool's elections are looking like but they should be hysterical.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
I believe Manchester has someone outright accusing the Labour council of corruption and promising to fund a commission into proving it if elected
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I think there is, I've not really paid attention to any of the literature and will probably just spoil my ballot to be honest.

EDIT: David Sutcliffe is his name. Seems a bit of a loony, but may be worth voting for as a larf if I'm honest.
 
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Racist Trash said:
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Children will suffer, Unicef warns as UK funding cut by 60%

The government says the "tough decision" to reduce its contributions by 60% was due to the pandemic.
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UK to cut Unicef aid, honestly is seems this is the perfect time for Germany and the other european powerhouses to actually contribute a proper amount for their economic size much like their lax funding of NATO.
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Ha ha ha ha ha! Oh wait, you're serious. Let me laugh harder. HA HA HA HA HA!

You'd have about as much luck with a Jewish banker as you would prying money out of the Germans.
 
Racist Trash said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Children will suffer, Unicef warns as UK funding cut by 60%

The government says the "tough decision" to reduce its contributions by 60% was due to the pandemic.
www.bbc.co.uk

UK to cut Unicef aid, honestly is seems this is the perfect time for Germany and the other european powerhouses to actually contribute a proper amount for their economic size much like their lax funding of NATO.
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Wait, wasn’t it Sweden who called itself a humanitarian super power? They barely rank in the top 10. Just shows doesn’t it.
 
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