Sausage Roll Jesus Creates Heartburn for U.K. Bakery Firm
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Sausage Roll Jesus Creates Heartburn for U.K. Bakery Firm
Greggs forced to apologise after PR shots promoting advent calendar replace baby Jesus with a SAUSAGE ROLL pic.twitter.com/q0qwd4ISxh
But no sooner had the image of the sausage roll savior been published than consumers of all faiths took to Twitter to express moral indignation — and more than a few snickers.
Beth Rosenberg wrote that Out of interest do you think the people at Greggs understand
that Jesus was Jewish and serving up a pork sausage roll in the manger is unbelievably inappropriate?
Greggs, the largest bakery chain in Britain, released the image of the sausage
roll nestled in a straw-filled manger to help promote its $32 advent calendar.
16, 2017
LONDON — A British bakery chain has apologized after creating a Nativity scene in which
the baby Jesus, surrounded by three wise men, was replaced by a sausage roll.
Simon Richards, chief executive of The Freedom Association, a libertarian group, said the reimagining of the infant Jesus as a fatty snack was "sick"
and "anti-Christian." "Please boycott @GreggsOfficial to protest against its sick anti-Christian Advent Calendar," he wrote on Twitter.
He said that he was not offended by the sausage roll, but that he believed that Jesus should be the focus of the Christmas season.
Greggs forced to apologise after PR shots promoting advent calendar replace baby Jesus with a SAUSAGE ROLL pic.twitter.com/q0qwd4ISxh
But no sooner had the image of the sausage roll savior been published than consumers of all faiths took to Twitter to express moral indignation — and more than a few snickers.
Beth Rosenberg wrote that Out of interest do you think the people at Greggs understand
that Jesus was Jewish and serving up a pork sausage roll in the manger is unbelievably inappropriate?
Greggs, the largest bakery chain in Britain, released the image of the sausage
roll nestled in a straw-filled manger to help promote its $32 advent calendar.
16, 2017
LONDON — A British bakery chain has apologized after creating a Nativity scene in which
the baby Jesus, surrounded by three wise men, was replaced by a sausage roll.
Simon Richards, chief executive of The Freedom Association, a libertarian group, said the reimagining of the infant Jesus as a fatty snack was "sick"
and "anti-Christian." "Please boycott @GreggsOfficial to protest against its sick anti-Christian Advent Calendar," he wrote on Twitter.
He said that he was not offended by the sausage roll, but that he believed that Jesus should be the focus of the Christmas season.