Heartbroken Greggs Fans Reckon Festive Bake Is ‘Festive Lie’

But it turns out the Greggs Festive Bake might not be exactly what you thought it was.

Taking all the components of a Christmas dinner and stuffing it into delicious pastry, you get meat, sage and onion stuffing and a creamy sage and cranberry sauce. A classic festive combo right there.

But wait! Along with the bacon that's in there, you'd expect the 'meat' in question to be turkey - the traditional bird of choice for 25 December - wouldn't you?

One confused customer tweeted Greggs to ask for an explanation:

And it wasn't just that person who was feeling conflicted about the revelation.

Somone else wrote: "@GreggsOfficial your festive bake are a lie only found out the meat is chicken not turkey #Heartbroken."

Another person commented: "@GreggsOfficial ruined my annual festive visit to your stores by using chicken in your festive bake & not TURKEY!!!!! #nofestiveinmybake."

Another Twitter user even channelled their anger into art, having dubbed the bake a 'festive lie' because it contains chicken and not turkey - which had made him 'sad'.

Someone left us all scratching our heads, musing: "Surely that's a Sunday dinner bake..."

Greggs did actually reply to one person with something of an answer, albeit not the most satisfying one:

Well, fair dos, I suppose.

LADbible has contacted Greggs to see if there is actually a reason why chicken is used in the hallowed Festive Bake rather than the more traditional turkey. We'll let you know when they get back to us.

Let's just face it though, they still taste absolutely banging, turkey or no turkey, so who gives a cluck?