Sausage Roll Jesus Creates Heartburn for U.K. Bakery Firm<br />Greggs forced to apologise after PR shots promoting advent calendar replace baby Jesus with a SAUSAGE ROLL pic.twitter.com/q0qwd4ISxh<br />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.<br />Beth Rosenberg wrote that Out of interest do you think the people at Greggs understand<br />that Jesus was Jewish and serving up a pork sausage roll in the manger is unbelievably inappropriate?<br />Greggs, the largest bakery chain in Britain, released the image of the sausage<br />roll nestled in a straw-filled manger to help promote its $32 advent calendar.<br />16, 2017<br />LONDON — A British bakery chain has apologized after creating a Nativity scene in which<br />the baby Jesus, surrounded by three wise men, was replaced by a sausage roll.<br />Simon Richards, chief executive of The Freedom Association, a libertarian group, said the reimagining of the infant Jesus as a fatty snack was "sick"<br />and "anti-Christian." "Please boycott @GreggsOfficial to protest against its sick anti-Christian Advent Calendar," he wrote on Twitter.<br />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.
