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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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spread happiness@p4leandp1nk
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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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10:07 AM - Jan 3, 2019
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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.

 

[Carpe Jugulum]

I didn’t update so haven’t verified shit but you’re not wrong.

 

[Eekum Bokum]

have you niggers got Tor ready and a shortwave? If the curtain gets drawn I'll be broadcasting from WRMI.

I've been using Tor for this site ever since you temporarily blocked UK access to the site last year or the year before after some legel threat or DDOS attack, can't quite remember what it was.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

I've been using Tor for this site ever since you temporarily blocked UK access to the site last year or the year before after some legel threat or DDOS attack, can't quite remember what it was.

That's when I started using TOR too. I believe Null just threw one of his anti britbong shit fits and blocked access because the government kept on trying to sue him.

 

[Null]

That's when I started using TOR too. I believe Null just threw one of his anti britbong shit fits and blocked access because the government kept on trying to sue him.

i mean my "shitfit" is based on the fact that any connection from the UK to the Kiwi Farms can be observed by the government. They can inspect your outbound connections and SSL handshakes.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I access the site from my workplace inside the government.

Ha, no but in all seriousness the amendments to the Online Safety Act will then be followed by the government throwing shit at Null for sure. So we have that to 'look forward' to.

 

[Otterly]

Null at Weston-Super-Mare eating a flake 99 for £4, squinting because of the wind, checking the weather app in August and then going "This fucking sucks." as a mental image, cracked me up.

A seagull hoves into view and nabs his chips. Null rightly wishes TBD.

Cheddar ain't only a settlement in Somerset.

You know this image Summons me, and Compels me to utter the following; cheddar man was not black.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

cheddar man was not black.

Obviously was yellow. Sometimes with a slight orange or reddish tint.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

cheddar man was not black.

Weirdly of all things, I was looking through a story rant thread in another site, and a guy had posted a like, 5K rant about Cheddar man not being black. Made me laugh.

 

[anklyscr]

Alan Gray's Yarg cheese

not at thirty fucking quid a kilo I'm not

 

[Mound Dweller]

Ha, no but in all seriousness the amendments to the Online Safety Act will then be followed by the government throwing shit at Null for sure.

They're incapable of catching up to room temperature IQ wogs bank-transferring their zakat direct to ISIS, the prospect they'd be capable of doing literally anything to inhibit our sneeding by their own motion is optimistic in the extreme.

You know this image Summons me, and Compels me to utter the following; cheddar man was not black.

That may be so, but it remains all the same: Cheddar Man IS my nigger.

 

[LXXVII Brigade]

the prospect they'd be capable of doing literally anything to inhibit our sneeding by their own motion is optimistic in the extreme.

They can't do shit against us who are already on here sneeding but they can make it that much harder for normies to find the farms for example. You'd have to spread it word of mouth and then all they know of the farms is the whole Keffals debacle so they think we're /pol/. It was a pain in the ass to find a copy of Tor for my new laptop without using a VPN. Even shit like Internet Archive is blocked without a VPN. The UK's internet is a fucking joke without a VPN or Tor and they want to make it so the normies can't get them.

 

[Long and sneaky]

cheddar man was not black.

Cheddar man is posting in this very thread.

 

[Otterly]

Banning black clothing, meeting in groups of more than two, and being outside after 7pm very soon.

Goths on suicide watch.

There's no official Tor Browser on iPhones because Apple requires browsers to use "WebKit" (Safari) but there is something called Onion Browser which Tor seems to endorse.

Orbot works fine on iPhones.

i mean my "shitfit" is based on the fact that any connection from the UK to the Kiwi Farms can be observed by the government. They can inspect your outbound connections and SSL handshakes.

we should probably have a thread on how to access t’web safely from the UK.
About seven years ago, troons tried to get people’s names from mumsnet and that’s when I got a vpn .
It struck me as utterly surreal at the time that I had to do that to call a man a man on the internet. Now, seven years later, here I am on the only free speech place left that’s any good, pondering how a law abiding, hard working middle aged mum who’s never even had a library fine could possibly be on a list somewhere. And just how fucking surreal and wrong that is when we’ve got actual security threats like men carving peoples eyes out in the street.
If the security services come round here and give me the knock on the door, they’re getting an ear bashing about that, and the full Annoyed Mum shaming about how utterly fucking disgraceful it is that they direct their intelligence and resources against the very people they’re supposed to serve and protect.
I’m sure they’ll not listen, nor will they have so much as a flicker of guilt as they shoot me into a ditch, but one day they will stand before God and account for themselves.
Things getting a bit dark, anyway.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

The UK's internet is a fucking joke without a VPN or Tor and they want to make it so the normies can't get them.

Even then even if you have a vpn or tor it's not much better. Half the sites will block you for 'malicious' web traffic and demand you 'verify' yourself. And you can't make an account with anything outside of 5 major email providers and bla bla bla. If you don't give a shit about privacy then you can't access half the shit and if you do give a shit then you still can't fucking access it.

 

[James X Maxwell]

i mean my "shitfit" is based on the fact that any connection from the UK to the Kiwi Farms can be observed by the government. They can inspect your outbound connections and SSL handshakes.

Considering the urban legend that the FBI compromised Moot and uses 4chan as a way to identify terrorists and nonces has the NSA/FBI/CIA ever sent out agents to talk to you or dragged you into a interview room over the fedposting that occurs here
(I am not suggesting you or the farms are compromised)

 

[Null]

Considering the urban legend that the FBI compromised Moot and uses 4chan as a way to identify terrorists and nonces has the NSA/FBI/CIA ever sent out agents to talk to you or dragged you into a interview room over the fedposting that occurs here
(I am not suggesting you or the farms are compromised)

no? nobody wants to fucking talk to me mate

 

[James X Maxwell]

no? nobody wants to fucking talk to me mate

I want to talk you

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

no? nobody wants to fucking talk to me mate

Jokes on you, you're going to be the villain in the next James Bond Movie.
I can see it now, James Bond needs to uncover the identity of evil American hate forum owner billionaire Void who is using his platform to radicalise the population of the Yookay by not immediately deleting videos of innocent migrants accidentally cutting people's heads off and put a stop to his evil schemes before they vote in a right leaning government and become heckin fascist nazis!

I joke but given the state of James Bond as a franchise, they would do something like this. Modern James Bond is the sorta guy to feel agony when he sees a room of right wing terrorists that want to take England back and there's not a nigger or cripple among them. (This was actually in one of the new novels)

 

[femboy fart huffer]

no? nobody wants to fucking talk to me mate

Too autistic for fbi recruitment award.

 

[Tony Martin's Force Ghost]

I would gladly talk to Josh about cheese and cows.

One of my fave Josh moments is when you did the Chantal lore stream, and you choked on cola because someone in chat said you were taking off your belt.

I feel fat atm I am having a chip butty but melted some Edam on the top piece of bread. It feels very 600lb life.