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.

Dogs can certainly digest other things but to a veterinarian they are obligate carnivores .

The outrage culture is firmly embedded now, years ago it would require someone writing to editors in green ink, but now with social media it's not hard to whip up a storm. (although I admit not seen much about the greggs sausage roll other than piers fuckwit morgan)

You see it on here all the time, admittedly not as much as there used to be, people trying to whip up some backup for something they are personally outraged at because in optics its their outgroup to rage at.

'So You've Been Publicly Shamed' by Jon Ronson is a good book to understand the mentality providing you take it as politically neutral.

I saw a programme about the Gregg's factory some time ago and watched grey extruded goo placed on pastry on the production line to make sausage rolls. I doubt the veggie version is any more edible, yuk.

I always say there's three things you don't want to see being made

processed cheese - which I eat

sausages - veggie or otherwise

and coalition governments. that last one only works if you have a longish memory

In fact one such thread has turned up now!

Dogs can certainly digest other things but to a veterinarian they are obligate carnivores

Cats are obligate carnivores but dogs are facultative carnivores.

I don't get what the fuss is about. The Sayers/Pound Bakery have been doing them for years, I'm early 30's and can't remember a time they didn't do a veggie roll. I haven't tried the Greg's one but they'll have had to work hard to compete with the Pound Bakery roll, it's so nice

The Sayers/Pound Bakery have been doing them for years

Well that’s as maybe but I’ve never heard of them, unlike Greggs who have multiple stores on my town and many towns.

@Rubusfruticosus

Apparently sausage is a shape. Not a meat product

Couldn’t quite fathom why they weren’t just called pastry meat cylinders in that case...

Re: Sausage is a shape

The sausage in sausage rolls actually isn't a shape .... it's just moist STUFF held in place by pastry.

Can't wait to try the vegan ones.

Apparently people have been buying the vegan pasty for lunch and then putting in the bin outside as a protest

That is disgusting when so many people are forced to use food banks etc. And yeah, Greggs don’t care what you do with it once you’ve paid for it: eat it, bin it, stick it up your arse, makes no difference to them.

I think of all the terrible things in the world at the moment if a vegan sausage roll is your biggest outrage then there’s something wrong!

And yes sausage refers to the shape not the meat. Besides what would the alternative be? ‘Tubular quorn pastry based snack’? Not quite as catchy.

Is a Sausage Dog made of sausage, then? I thought it was Dachshund.

"The Sayers/Pound Bakery have been doing them for years

Well that’s as maybe but I’ve never heard of them, unlike Greggs who have multiple stores on my town and many towns."

True. I think those shops are just in the north west, maybe that's why I haven't heard much fuss about the Greggs roll, it's a pretty normal thing to have in my local towns. I remember a few years back when Greggs expanded and it was in the media that they created a slightly different menu for the SE, why I have no idea. I suppose they have a good PR team who know how to get in the media

Im confused as to what the 'protesters' hope to gain

A banning of the vegan sausage roll?

So they want to stop other people eating what they want to? They want to curtail the food choices of other people?

Twats

No idea why it has caused such s fuss. Reminds me of the thread when another poster git stick for being vegan....

Why are people getting outraged about them? What is their argument?

Fuck knows why they are selling out and why anyone that isn't vegan would want to eat one.

The whole thing is a publicity stunt. The majority of Greggs don’t even sell them apparently - neither of the two in my town do and said that they’re available only in a select few stores and that it’s only a temporary addition to their menu anyway.

I could care less personally. Am not nor will ever be a vegan but if people just didn’t attach the words vegetarian/vegan to the labelling of what they eat we all eat plenty of meat-free stuff during the course of our day.

DS bought one in London. Said that they’re alright and you can barely taste the difference although the pastry isn’t as flaky for instance....

As for people buying them to throw them in the bin outside, how incredibly pathetic. Don’t want one? Don’t buy one. Ain’t that hard is it?

Fuck knows why they are selling out and why anyone that isn't vegan would want to eat one.*

Um because they taste nice. Because they have more protein and a bit less fat in than pork meat. Because they might not eat pig meat as part of their culture/religion. Because they may be conscious of the carbon footprint of pork. Because they can.

Bold fail

Because they have more protein and a bit less fat in than pork meat.

I doubt some fake stuff that isn't even food is healthier. What are they even made out of?

The tv in my gym this morning had GMTV on with that silly cunt piers morgan on and he WAS STILL going on about these. They had some for them to try and he spat it in to the bin. That woman ate it all though I think.

They are made of Quorn

I doubt some fake stuff that isn't even food is healthier. What are they even made out of?

I Didn't say they were healthier. Not much in Greggs is healthy. I said it had more protein and a bit less fat.

Generally I think people don't go into Greggs if they are worried about whether food is whole and nutritious. It's a quick cheap fatty snack that you're after. And now vegans can also have a quick cheap fatty snack.

I'm fed up with all these vegan extremists and also the people bashing vegans. ffs its just a diet at the end of the day. If someone wants to or not want to be vegan its of no one else's business really.

Apparently it's not that bad, but the pastry is too flaky