The country’s largest bakery chain said it was “really sorry” after a manger scene featured in the marketing campaign prompted a backlash on social media.
A spokesman told Newcastle-based newspaper, The Chronicle: “We’re really sorry to have caused any offence, this was never our intention.”
The image – which appeared in Gregg’s first ever festive calendar, entitled “Merry Greggsmas” – showed the savoury snack lying on a bed of hay surrounded by three magi.
A vicar from the village of Brunswick in Tyne and Wear told the Chronicle the Greggs had shown “total disregard and disrespect”.
Rev Mark Edwards, the vicar at St Matthew’s Church in Dinnington and St Cuthbert’s Church, said: “This seems very disrespectful towards the nativity scene.
“I would have thought Greggs was better than that, and I think if they tried that with any other faith you can imagine the outcry there would be, and rightly so.”
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