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Greggs, high street purveyor of both sweet and savoury baked goods, has been forced to apologise for replacing the baby Jesus with a sausage roll in a promotional image, after people freaked out about it online.The chain released the image as part of a promotional package for its advent calendar, which – unlike your average advent calendar, which contains small plasticky chocolates, or your traditional American advent calendar, which contains nothing – is full of vouchers for various Greggs products. A free "Festive Bake" on the 1st of December, for instance, or a "Reg Flavoured Latte" on the 5th – and then a big money giftcard on the 24th.Anyway, people were mad about the sausage roll thing.
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A man called Simon Richards, for instance – co-founder of an anti-EU campaign group – tweeted: "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"Another person, Beth Rosenberg, tweeted: "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?"In a statment, Greggs said: "We’re really sorry to have caused any offence, this was never our intention."Of course, the vast majority of people weren't offended, and Twitter is now full of people i. making dialled-in Greggs jokes; ii: pointing out that, whatever the fallout, they now have a real hankering for a Greggs sausage roll; and iii. getting angry that anyone got angry about this in the first place.As you're here, reading about Greggs, why don't you also read this?
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A man called Simon Richards, for instance – co-founder of an anti-EU campaign group – tweeted: "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"Another person, Beth Rosenberg, tweeted: "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?"In a statment, Greggs said: "We’re really sorry to have caused any offence, this was never our intention."Of course, the vast majority of people weren't offended, and Twitter is now full of people i. making dialled-in Greggs jokes; ii: pointing out that, whatever the fallout, they now have a real hankering for a Greggs sausage roll; and iii. getting angry that anyone got angry about this in the first place.As you're here, reading about Greggs, why don't you also read this?