Mm, sacrilicious: Greggs advent calendar features sausage roll in a manger • The Register Forums

1. 1. Tuesday 14th November 2017 13:25 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    I rather think a lot of people would be quite interested to see your proof of the absence of a God.
    
    Since there can never be proof of something not existing then divide your " a God" into Occam's razor and the resultant proof is infinite.
    
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  2. Tuesday 14th November 2017 15:21 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    >I rather think a lot of people would be quite interested to see your proof of the absence of a God.
    
    Designing an experimental protocol would be.. interesting.
    
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Monday 13th November 2017 12:51 GMT Danger Mouth

I took the window of opportunity

Is this based on the Greggorian Calendar?

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Monday 13th November 2017 12:56 GMT Androgynous Cupboard

The body of christ

Turns out to be 98% gristle

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1. Monday 13th November 2017 13:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: The body of christ
  
  Turns out to be 98% gristle
  
  To be fair to Greggs, I've never got one of those retch-inducting great lumps of gristle that supermarkets manage to put in their economy sausages. Doesn't mean it isn't there, but if it is, at least Greggs make sure it's ground down so that is isn't apparent.
  
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  1. Tuesday 14th November 2017 15:24 GMT CrazyOldCatMan
    
    Re: The body of christ
    
    retch-inducting great lumps of gristle that supermarkets manage to put in their economy
    
    The clue is in the labelling. As with so many things[1] in life, buying 'economy' is usually futile.
    
    [1] Sausages, chocolate, wine[2], members of the appropriate gender..
    
    [2] Well, sometimes. Some cheap wine is surprisingly drinkable, especially if drunk quite close to the producer..
    
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    1. Tuesday 14th November 2017 21:59 GMT jake
      
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      Cheap wine should NEVER be imbibed when drunk! Especially not when close to the producer ... us vintners have seen more than out fair share of drunken idiots.
      
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Monday 13th November 2017 13:02 GMT Charlie Clark

Makes a change from chocolate

But my favourite advent calendar would use miniatures… strictly for playing draughts with, of course.

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1. Monday 13th November 2017 13:26 GMT Andytug
  
  Re: Makes a change from chocolate
  
  You can get Advent calendars with whisky minatures in, but they're between £100-£250 depending on how rare/expensive you prefer whisky to be (think Whisky Exchange website did them). Booths also do a craft beer one (£60, bottle a day)
  
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2. Monday 13th November 2017 14:03 GMT Velv
  
  Re: Makes a change from chocolate
  
  Gin - John Lewis.
  
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  1. Monday 13th November 2017 18:57 GMT Charlie Clark
    
    Re: Makes a change from chocolate
    
    Gin - John Lewis.
    
    Very tempting, even though I don't like gin and shipping here would be extortionate…
    
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3. Monday 13th November 2017 17:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Makes a change from chocolate
  
  Virgin Wines do a grape-booze based advent calendar.
  
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Monday 13th November 2017 13:04 GMT Goldmember

"infamous Festive Bake"

Crikey, even their own spokespeople admit their food products are sketchy.

Doesn't stop me really wanting a Festive Bake right now, though...

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Monday 13th November 2017 13:04 GMT Hans Neeson-Bumpsadese

I said to my wife "That sausage roll was good enough for Jehovah."

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1. Monday 13th November 2017 13:40 GMT wolfetone
  
  BLASPHEMY!
  
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  1. Monday 13th November 2017 13:51 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    BLASPHEMY! ?
    
    Sausage rolls remember, not religion you just can't leave it lay can you
    
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    1. Monday 13th November 2017 14:28 GMT wolfetone
      
      Re: BLASPHEMY! ?
      
      "Sausage rolls remember, not religion you just can't leave it lay can you"
      
      I think you'll find in this case it's Monty Python, not sausage rolls and/or religion.
      
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    2. Monday 13th November 2017 18:28 GMT Anonymous Coward
      
      Re: BLASPHEMY! ?
      
      "Sausage rolls remember, not religion"
      
      It may not be for you good sir but up here in the north we gather every week to worship our savoury sausage saviour. The recipe for which can be found in the good book of the hairy bikers. It is the body, the blood is gravy.
      
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      1. Monday 13th November 2017 19:43 GMT Scroticus Canis
        
        Re: BLASPHEMY! ? - the blood is gravy.
        
        Now that is blasphemy; blood is for black pudding. Stone the heretic!
        
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  2. Monday 13th November 2017 14:31 GMT Andy 97
    
    Blas-for-you... blas for everybody!
    
    (c) Edward Izzard.
    
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2. Monday 13th November 2017 14:20 GMT Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse
  
  Oh lay off...
  
  (suspiciously) Are there any women here today?
  
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Monday 13th November 2017 13:17 GMT Tom 7

Gift cards are valid for 12 months.

Which is coincidentally they amount of time before any self respecting bacteria will wait before mutating into something that can eat a Greggs.

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Monday 13th November 2017 13:26 GMT Anonymous Coward

oh sure, this is fine.

but feature a few hijabis in a christmas ad and all hell breaks loose.

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1. Monday 13th November 2017 13:37 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Not half as much trouble as there would have been if they'd been shown tucking into a nice pork sausage roll, or greasing their gun cartridges with lard....
  
  BTW, for the thin-skinned and poorly educated, that last bit is a historical reference.
  
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  1. Monday 13th November 2017 13:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    greasing their gun cartridges with lard
    
    Never heard it called that before...
    
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2. Monday 13th November 2017 15:31 GMT Mage
  
  Tesco ad with Muslims
  
  Not a problem per-se, as 99.99% of Christmas is secular.
  
  Tescos mistake is that they don't offer ANY halal whole turkeys, thus it's false advertising.
  
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  1. Monday 13th November 2017 19:17 GMT Charlie Clark
    
    Re: Tesco ad with Muslims
    
    Not a problem per-se, as 99.99% of Christmas is secular.
    
    But what if you're allergic to secular? ;-)
    
    Christmas – the festival of the winter (or summer for those downunder) solstice lends – itself conveniently to all kinds of interpretation but best of all, and in my best Frank Gallagher impersonation, it's a great excuse for a party!
    
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Monday 13th November 2017 13:26 GMT tiggity

"The calendar is worth between £35-£60"

That might be what the vouchers equate to in terms of cost of Greggs Items.

IMHO its worth very little

Disclosure: I'm not a veggie / vegan, I eat meat, just not convinced Greggs sausage roll I once tried tasted much of meat (didn't taste of anything much at all really) and have no desire to repeat a Greggs "taste experience"

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Monday 13th November 2017 13:49 GMT Admiral Grace Hopper

"All from one magical animal"

A very dear friend bought this Pork Scratching Advent Calendar for me. I am a very lucky girl indeed.

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1. Monday 13th November 2017 13:56 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: "All from one magical animal"
  
  I had to check the link, I thought it might have been something racy and irreverent.
  
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  1. Monday 13th November 2017 13:59 GMT Admiral Grace Hopper
    
    Re: "All from one magical animal"
    
    I had to check the link
    
    It's as racy as I get these days.
    
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Monday 13th November 2017 14:30 GMT Anonymous Coward

A sausage roll is for life, not just for Christmas!

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Monday 13th November 2017 18:29 GMT Pen-y-gors

Please can we end this discussion now?

I'm getting really, really hungry and wanting a greasy sos roll - and the nearest purveyor is ten miles away (not Greggs)

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Monday 13th November 2017 22:19 GMT Fruit and Nutcase

Sausage Roll Correspondent

Another review by Kat Hall, The Register's Sausage Roll Correspondent

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/08/footlong_sausage_roll_just_1_pound/

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Tuesday 14th November 2017 00:49 GMT Alistair

for us northern left pondians,

I'll just note that we have this:

http://craftbeerimports.ca/beer-advent#

And I'm kinda picky about my sausage rolls. Sadly, the only commercial one I ever connected with left (to my knowledge) this mortal plane about 25 years ago. Shop lasted another 12 years or so but the youngster just didn't have the touch his Nana did. And she could make to die for veal and lasagna to boot.

Happy hakwchristice

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Tuesday 14th November 2017 08:23 GMT hatti

He's not the messiah

He's a very naughty boy with a sausage roll.

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Tuesday 14th November 2017 13:23 GMT Simon Harris

There's a dairy based version for vegetarians

The December 24th centre-piece will feature baby cheesus.

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1. Tuesday 14th November 2017 20:33 GMT jake
  
  Re: There's a dairy based version for vegetarians
  
  But cheese should never be Chewy!
  
  (This one falls under the "if you have to explain it ... " rules.)
  
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