To ask if anyone else is bemused by the reaction to Gregg's Vegan Sausage Roll?

[darkriver198868]

Just to start this off I am a meat eater. I like my meat but, I am quite humoured by the reaction from social media about people insisting Greggs removing the Vegan Sausage Roll.

No one is making anyone eat a Vegan Sausage Roll. They havent taken the meat ones off the shelf.

Why are they insisting Greggs remove it?

I find it bizarre how much media attention there's been for the fact that they're actually offering a vegan option let alone people getting offended with it

Greggs must be rubbing their hands

It's just marketing.

No one is really outraged.

Who is?

Greggs have very clever marketing people

Piers Wanker Morgan is, for a start.

This is very funny...

insisting might have been the wrong word but, I have seen some pathetic reactions to this over the last two days.

I think it's great that they are offering vegetarian and vegan alternatives, but there is no such thing as a vegan sausage roll, sausage has to contain meat.

I’m excited by the competition to Pound Bakery veggie sausage rolls which I love since Gregg’s cheese and onion pasties lost their way

I think Greggs are clever. Someone on my Facebook shared a funny reaction from poundshop bakery who apparently also do a vegan sausage roll (and have for some time) which is cheaper.

Having been a vegan for a long time, I'm not even a tiny bit surprised.

But also think it's excellent marketing for Greggs, and that their social media manager/team deserve all the prizes.

I find it strange that anyone cares tbh, I’m more upset at what they have done to the festive bake this year! It was never sickly and creamy and the cheese and onion pasties are rank now, they used to be my fave.

I worked in Greggs years ago as a student (worst job I ever had but that’s another story). Had a fair few customers asking for vegan options, we had to tell them to write to or call customer services with their ideas. Evidently enough of them did that...

I think it’s great marketing for Greggs personally. There will be an abundance of curious meat eaters wanting to try it as well as veggies, vegans, Jews and Muslims.

I wish they still did ham and cheese bakes, they were my favourite.

sausage has to contain meat.

Who says?

I wish they still did ham and cheese bakes, they were my favourite.
Mine too! Discontinuing those was the real outrage

sausage has to contain meat

Tell that to Linda McCartney.

No one is making anyone eat a Vegan Sausage Roll. They havent taken the meat ones off the shelf

^this

Offering customers more choice can only be a good thing. Piers Morgan was a pathetic idiot to be so offended, but his tweets just created great publicity for Greggs (and the other fast food places who decided that it would be good publicity for them to tweet replies that would wind him up).

sausage has to contain meat

Nonsense, it’s just a shape. Glamorgan sausages don’t contain meat.

I have never understood why meat eaters get so pissy about sausage and burger shaped foods that don’t have meat in them.
What shape should vegi or vegan food be?
Should it be called a vegan long cylindrical food shape roll?

Piers morgan complaining is a publicity stunt x

Isn't the sausage containing meat thing from one of the Yes, Prime Minister episodes? Emulsified High Fat Offal Tube

Greggs is rank anyway. First they changed the veg pasty, then they wouldn't butter a baguette for me when I bought a baguette and soup. Then they took the salt out of the sausage rolls. Then, the last straw was when I went in my local one and I found out that they don't sell rolls or bread. They are were supposed to be a bakery FFS