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.

Worst thing is that Gregg's have stopped making macaroni cheese pies. I really miss those. (Obviously veggie rather than vegan.)

PM: I tried one of Gregg's vegan sausage rolls and it was horrible. I threw it up again!
British public: Ooooh, we must try it! ( forms a long queue outside Gregg's)

Ha Ha so true!!!

I'm sure he is in cahoots with them and taking a backhander on profits!!!

To be fair you cant hack into the messages of murdered children on them, so I can see why Piers Morgan has no use for them

Never forgiven them for scrapping the veggie cornish pasties - I loved them and I'm not a veggie myself.

I tried a vegan sausage roll - didn't like it at all and won't be buying another.

As if, all the greggs round here have sold out of them.

I missed out on the veggie pastie! I did like the vegan roll though.

This new greggs product is a plant roll. It's a fungus roll.

@badbunny maybe you’re school banned regular sausage rolls as processed meat is a proven class 1 carcinogen.

@lynnepot veganism isn’t a diet. Being plant based is a diet but veganism is a social justice movement.

Apparantly Morgan and Greggs have the same PR firm. Go, as they say, figure.

I have lost what tiny shred of respect i had for Piers Morgan. The man is a complete loon.

Prior to all this recent uproar with vegans, being vegan was very much a choice of diet for those individuals. Its only now its being made out to be some sort of movement with hipsters deciding to try it out for fun for one month only and others just sitting back and mocking that its being made out to be some sort of social justice movement, as you put it kiki

I’m getting a bit fed up with it all to be honest.

I’m not vegan but have been veggie for about 35 years now and ruefully remember the cheese salad days (when all you could get to eat out was a bloody cheese salad - minus the cheese because you couldn’t verify the origin of the rennet). Now it’s trendy to eat over-processed weird looking vegan food that just doesn’t look healthy at all. Buy some veggies and rice and cook something!

@lynnepot it’s interesting that your perception was that veganism was previously seen as a diet and now is not. As someone who has been vegan for 9 years my experience has been the opposite is true. My initial conversations with fellow vegans centred around how using and killing animals is wrong- these days most people want to just talk about the food aspect.

At the end of the day we can only look to the definition of vegan as originally coined in 1944 “Veganism is a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose.” Evidentally not a diet.

I think the huge rise in vegan junk food is just to try to attract the younger generations into seeing veganism as a doable option. Of course most long term vegans don't eat that crap everyday. But if you weren't a great cook before you went vegan why would you be any different on a vegan diet. Hence the need for ready made burgers pizzas pastas etc.

I don't see the attraction for Greggs anything. Poor quality, mass produced junk food, greasy pasties, pizza that has fake cheese on, and palm oil in the pastry. YUK. Have tried it a few times in the hope it might be better but, no, still YUK.

It’s a funny old thing this veganary. I was out to dinner recently and one on the group was grandly ‘doing veganary’ (quite a few doing a ‘dryanuary’ or whatever a month of abstinence is called) so could only possibly manage a side salad.

As a veggie of 35+ years I pointed out that there were actually quite a few vegan options (for sure) on the menu but she wouldn’t have it and sucked on a glass of water while we ate.

Surely if you are doing it the whole idea is to teach yourself what you can eat and how to check menus. Being healthy is a bonus when it comes to farming and animal welfare. And please learn to cook (not live off the odd looking ‘vegan veal’ and ‘vegan bratwurst’ things you see these days).

I'm not really surprised. People seem to get very violently upset about other people being vegan/veggie sometimes, both IRL and on here (every summer there's at least one thread about being invited to a BBQ by veggies; the OP is outraged by the very idea of not being able to eat meat for one meal, and people pile on to tell them not to go, it's selfish, it's just like foisting religious beliefs on people etc etc etc).

Yeah, the veggie pasties used to be lovely, a bit like a samosa inside. Now they are all bland.

I don't fancy the vegan sausage roll. Quorn is pretty horrible. I'd like it if they made a spicy bean one!

Fake cheese is an abomination though. Especially the smoked stuff.

I've never tried the pizzas. The regular sausage rolls are quite tasty though, and I prefer them to any posh sausage rolls, except when I make them myself, perhaps.

I don't object to vegan sausage rolls but I do object to the gentrification of sausages . They are supposed to be made from cheap cuts of meat and are about using up all the offcuts not an expensive hipster foodstuff made out of prime pork.

I tried the Greggs vegan roll today and it was actually quite nice - would have happily had another!

Having said that, I don’t actually eat at Greggs so I don’t have a point of reference for their famous sausage rolls to compare. I would say that the vegan version has a meaty taste/texture on the surface (after a few chews you can tell the difference more!)

I mean you can’t class a £1 vegan sausage roll product as ‘expensive hipster foodstuff’. It’s only £1!

I wasn't referring to the vegan roll with that comment but certain other "hand raised/artisan" pork products. As I said, I don't fancy the vegan roll as it's Quorn, but if they made a spicy bean one I'd give it a try sometime.