The Greggs Vegan Sausage Roll Is as Good as the Original

After a string of disappointments with meat substitutes, this one lives up to the promise.

The Greggs vegan sausage roll.

Source: Greggs

Greggs U.K. bakery chain sells 1.5 million sausage rolls a week: People line up for the seasoned meat wrapped in layers of crisp, golden puff pastry.

But some of the queues this morning were for a vegan alternative that officially went on sale amid a barrage of publicity, from a slick promotional video (with 3.61 million views and counting) to a spat with the journalist and former CNN host Piers Morgan.