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Greggs 'Sorry' for Replacing Baby Jesus With a Sausage Roll
The National ^ | 11/15 | Anna Reid

Posted on 11/16/2017 12:29:40 PM PST by nickcarraway

GREGGS have apologised for causing offence online after replacing Jesus, the son of God, with a sausage roll in the Nativity scene.

The bakery chain chose to promote its new advent calendar by releasing the image that caused a small amount of controversy.

While many online saw the humour in it, others were very upset by the image.

Simon Richards called for a boycott of the bakery chain, tweeting: "Please boycott @GreggsOfficial to protest against its sick anti-Christian Advent Calendar. What cowards these people are: we all know that they would never dare insult other religions! They should donate every penny of their profits to @salvationarmyuk."

Greggs responded, stating: "We’re really sorry to have caused any offence, this was never our intention."

The advent calendar is out now in selected Greggs stores and costs £24.


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1 posted on 11/16/2017 12:29:40 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

A little sacrilegious, but I got a chuckle out of it. At least the sausage was swaddled in a bun.


2 posted on 11/16/2017 12:32:23 PM PST by gubamyster
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To: nickcarraway

Not very smart. I don’t know who they were hoping to attract by that.


3 posted on 11/16/2017 12:32:59 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: nickcarraway
Greggs responded, stating: "We’re really sorry to have caused any offence, this was never our intention."

We're really sorry we got caught...

4 posted on 11/16/2017 12:33:03 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction
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To: nickcarraway

The simple fact that they were not all consumed in a sulfurous explosion is proof that G_d has a really good sense of humor.


5 posted on 11/16/2017 12:34:25 PM PST by budj (Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!)
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To: Cicero
Not very smart. I don’t know who they were hoping to attract by that.

Scots society, or certainly their elites, politicians, media, and oligarchs, are very firm leftists and secularists. Even more so than here, you can laugh and attack Christians at will.

And yet they seem not to understand they live in a society, culture and nation that Christianity built. It is the hypocrisy and evil of leftists.

6 posted on 11/16/2017 12:40:34 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Cicero

“I don’t know who they were hoping to attract by that.”

Leftard anti-Christian imbeciles? Just a hunch.


7 posted on 11/16/2017 12:43:41 PM PST by beergarden
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To: gubamyster

Ah, huh, let’s see Greggs pull a similar advertising stunt that uses a muslim holy image/icon to promote their goods. Maybe I’ll chuckle at the results of that stunt.


8 posted on 11/16/2017 12:44:34 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: gubamyster

Heh. Same here.

My first thought - “Man, did they not think that would offend some people?” But I was already smiling.

I mean, a good sausage roll is “heavenly”.

/RimShot!

I’m going to burn.


9 posted on 11/16/2017 12:46:09 PM PST by BBQToadRibs
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To: nickcarraway

Wanna do something really edgy show Muhammad riding a pig. That will get a chuckle.


10 posted on 11/16/2017 12:51:24 PM PST by Gamecock (God clothes us with righteousness when he justifies us! ~ Martin Luther)
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Ah, huh, let’s see Greggs pull a similar advertising stunt that uses a muslim holy image/icon to promote their goods. Maybe I’ll chuckle at the results of that stunt.

Just because Muslims can't take joke, doesn't mean I can't. I go to church every weak & it still made me chuckle. I don't get outraged, or think I need to toe the social justice party line & feign outrage over everything.

I can take a joke.

11 posted on 11/16/2017 12:57:53 PM PST by gubamyster
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To: Mastador1

They are mocking the Muslim Prophet Jesus.


12 posted on 11/16/2017 1:03:36 PM PST by joshhiggins
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To: nickcarraway

Never their intention? Just what did they think the Christian community would say? Huh? Just more Christian bashing. I would like to see them try it about MoHAMmad.


13 posted on 11/16/2017 1:04:37 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: nickcarraway

Brain death is a sad thing to watch.


14 posted on 11/16/2017 1:08:56 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth)
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To: nickcarraway
Greggs responded, stating: "We’re really sorry to have caused any offence, this was never our intention."

that was EXACTLY their intention.

15 posted on 11/16/2017 1:08:58 PM PST by montag813 ('We're a Nation of CITIZENS...Not a Nation of Immigrants')
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To: nickcarraway

They should have made the sausage roll the 4th Wise Man, not the Baby Jesus.


16 posted on 11/16/2017 1:15:32 PM PST by Carriage Hill ( Life is simpler, when you plow around the stump.)
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To: budj
"The simple fact that they were not all consumed in a sulfurous explosion is proof that G_d has a really good sense of humor."

Even more so, he made all of us.

17 posted on 11/16/2017 1:33:00 PM PST by semaj (Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
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To: joshhiggins

Yeap. They’re islamophobs.


18 posted on 11/16/2017 1:48:33 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: gubamyster

“I got a chuckle out of it.”

What is funny about it? <—Actual question. I just don’t get it.


19 posted on 11/16/2017 1:48:48 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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Humor is subjective, but I guess three wise men looking reverently at a sausage just struck me as funny.

I guess not everyone sees it the same way, so sue me.


20 posted on 11/16/2017 1:52:14 PM PST by gubamyster
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