“This isn’t just any sandwich…”
M&S has launched an LGBT sandwich in the UK and Ireland to celebrate pride.
To appropriate fulfil the acronym the fillings are lettuce, guacamole, bacon and tomato, all served in colourful rainbow packaging. The sandwich is priced between £3 and £3.85 depending on store location.
The high street supermarket is also donating £10,000 to the national LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness charity AKT (Albert Kennedy Trust) and €1000 to BeLong to Youth Services to LGBTI+ people in Ireland in support of Pride 2019.
Reaction to the sandwich has been divided, with some accusing the brand of piggybacking on the LGBT cause to profit from the ‘pink pound’ whilst others were unhappy with the inclusion of bacon rather than a vegetarian alternative for ‘B’.
In contrast, there were many that praised the supermarket for supporting the movement and raising awareness.
LGBT people: "it'd be nice if people could stop abusing us when we hold hands in public, we could teach LGBT lessons in schools and if the BBC could stop debating our existence on live air that'd be grea-
Capitalism: "what we're really sensing here is you want your own sandwich" pic.twitter.com/uIixEel2pq
— Louis Staples (@LouisStaples) May 3, 2019
Good to see @marksandspencer donating profits from their #LGBT 🏳️🌈 sandwich 🥪 the @aktcharity and @BeLonG_To A great choice, in three respects. https://t.co/Xc3qrrDQpj
— Tom (PositiveLad) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇪🇺 (@PositiveLad) May 2, 2019
Oh my God when the Gammons see this. pic.twitter.com/IpasfhT0dW
— Ross McCafferty (@RossMcCaff) May 2, 2019
https://twitter.com/Jonb1408/status/1123528645363019777
A quick take on the lgbt m&s sandwich
1) none of us eat bacon hun
2) companies aren’t driven by morals, they’re driven by profit margins
3) just bc we kiki with a tinny on the overground, doesn’t mean you can sit with us x— Exhausted cripple (@imtrannieboi) May 2, 2019
