An award-winning butcher has been slammed and forced to remove a social media post after using a Jeffrey Dahmer joke to help promote discounted meat online. Gareth Lewis regularly makes puns regarding trending topics online and ties it back to advertise the business as the jokes bring attention to his Facebook posts.
He has previously mentioned Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby's queue jumping scandal and a joke regarding Love Island's Davide when the reality tv show was airing, Wales Online reports. However, his latest controversial post on Ponty Butcher's Facebook page mocking brutal serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer in a bid to advertise his meat prices has definitely ruffled a few feathers.
The bold post featured a picture of the actor Evan Peters who portrays the evil killer in a new Netflix drama, along with an image of the hefty raw meat multi package deal including steak, mince, chicken and sausages.
Ponty Butchers, as the company goes by on Facebook, captioned the post: "A deal so good it would make Jefferey Dahmer empty his freezer", before proceeding to list the contents and £26.99 price.
The controversial joke was posted over the weekend and racked up thousands of likes and comments, however, the post, which some social media users found offensive, has since been removed by Facebook.
Owner Gareth Lewis, said: "I didn't even intend to get a reaction, it was just for people to notice the post, it's all tongue in cheek, I don't want to upset anybody.
"A few people have said you shouldn't be profiting off a serial killer or whatever but they don't have an issue with Netlflix doing the exact same thing. Most people found it funny and that's all it's intended to be.
''There were a handful of negative comments but obviously most people understood it's just a joke. The ones who complain are never locals or customers so I'm not bothered.
"I use whatever is topical at the time for advertising and it works because people come in and say they have seen us online all the time."
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