Graeme Demianyk is a news editor at HuffPost UK, and is based in New York. As well as being night new editor, he has written extensively on the Grenfell tower disaster and the UK's housing crisis.
It was fainting couches at the ready at GB News Towers as the broadcaster picked up on a story about how the National Trust was selling only dairy-free vegan scones its cafes, and bemoaned a victory for “wokery”.To be clear from the outset, millions of scones served annually in the trust’s 280 tearooms are made with margarine, an alternative to butter that is a staple of British households.
Anyway, in a clip being mocked on X, presenter Dawn Neesom put the bellows under the fire by claiming making scones with marg is “outrageous”. “I’m not happy with this,” she fumed. “Why should everyone go vegan just because a tiny minority of the country are?”That detail aside, Habib said: “This is an institution which is charged to protect the heritage of the United Kingdom. But they hold the heritage of the United Kingdom in contempt.”April 1, 2024, which wrote the National Trust uses a “vegetable-based spread instead of butter” in its scones and lined up an angry customer and MP.
Again, the “plant-based” baked goods are made with what has been an everyday product in British households since rationing in the Second World War. Apparently unconcerned by the media furore, Celia Richardson, the trust’s director of communications, wrote on social media how she was about to appear on the radio to explain how to “secretly virtue signal using an unchanged but now apparently woke scone recipe”.. But margarine has been part of UK heritage since at least WW2.
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