Others were more concerned about the lack of hash browns, or wanted to apply to join the team to cash in on the breakfasts. Before long, the North Wales Police Rural Crime Team was besieged by media intrigued with the PC fiasco, and was keeping its humour.
The Twitter feed was updated: The original picture of the fry-up now had a line of tomato sauce under the "offending" breakfast added, with the accompanying tweet beginning: "At some point you have to draw a line under it."
By now, the attention was making it look like the local cops were being distracted from their police work, so the team's Twitter puppeteer — crime team manager Rob Taylor (he owns the ketchup in the "offending" picture) — decided to take a step back from social media for a bit.
He said the account received "1.9 million interactions per month," leaving many officers having to engage with posts "on [their] own time and on days off".
"It's becoming overwhelming for us to actually reply," he said in a video post.
He said the team would be reducing the amount of comments they respond to on the Twitter, but insisted the scaling back of interaction had nothing to do with vegans "getting upset by breakfasts".
Reporters at news.com.au have been unable to confirm if the officers who may have offended the vegans were lashed with a piece of limp lettuce.
