{"id":4971,"date":"2015-06-25T11:41:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T10:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=4971"},"modified":"2015-06-25T11:41:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T10:41:08","slug":"bacon-flavored-chips-top-ramadan-promotion-in-tesco-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bacon-flavored-chips-top-ramadan-promotion-in-tesco-blunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacon-flavored chips top Ramadan promotion in Tesco blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tesco.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4972\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tesco.jpg\" alt=\"Tesco\" width=\"305\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tesco.jpg 305w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tesco-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a>UK supermarket Tesco has backtracked on a Ramadan campaign offering \u201csmokey bacon\u201d flavored Pringles in a store in London, reported The Independent.<br \/>\nThe consumption of pork is forbidden in Islam, yet ironically the bacon-flavored crisps were placed at the top of the Ramadan promotion shelf, leading to a photo going viral online.<br \/>\nRaza Hassan, the passer-by that noticed the odd placement, says he was not offended by the act and thought it was funny.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen I first saw the promotion, there were many flavors of crisps \u2013 it just so happened that particular flavor was placed on top. I think it is a very nice thought and gesture from Tesco, it just seemed a bit ironic!\u201d Hassan told i100.co.uk.<br \/>\nTesco published a statement earlier that the Pringles will be removed, although the flavoring doesn\u2019t contain actual meat products.<br \/>\n\u201cWe recognize these Pringles weren\u2019t in the most suitable place and our store colleagues have no moved them,\u201d read the Tesco statement.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bacon-flavored-chips-top-ramadan-promotion-in-tesco-blunder\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK supermarket Tesco has backtracked on a Ramadan campaign offering \u201csmokey bacon\u201d flavored Pringles in a store in London, reported The Independent. The consumption of pork is forbidden in Islam, yet ironically the bacon-flavored crisps were placed at the top of the Ramadan promotion shelf, leading to a photo going viral online. Raza Hassan, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4973,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions\/4973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}