Rowan Pelling's Theresa May Waitrose Column Speaks For The Silent Majority Of People Who Shop At Posh Supermarkets

Thank God people who shop at Waitrose don't have to worry anymore.

Just when you thought the internet couldn’t get any weirder, this column popped up in The Telegraph.

What a time to be alive. pic.twitter.com/cTG2SnU75B

— Hugo Z. Hackenbush (@DocHackenbush) July 27, 2016

After seeing a photograph of prime minister Theresa May picking up some groceries in the posh supermarket, Rowan Pelling decided to pen an opinion piece stating that the image meant Waitrose shoppers no longer had to apologise for their choice of upscale food store.

As if that was ever the case in the first place.

Understandably, people on Twitter picked up on the ridiculousness of the idea and decided to have some fun with it.

Is it too late now to say sorry I went to waitrose

— ozzy (@austinwilliamsw) July 27, 2016

I was apologising about going to Waitrose before it was cool.

— Freddie Whittaker (@FCDWhittaker) July 27, 2016

'I went to Waitrose, and thanks to Theresa May I didn't even have to apologise for it.' pic.twitter.com/h4uFU8bqw9

— Scriblit (@Scriblit) July 27, 2016

We shopped in a Waitrose while in London last week and we couldn't have done it without you, @theresa_may.

— Mark (@quigonsmith) July 27, 2016

"Thanks to Theresa May we're free to shop at Waitrose without apologising for it" pic.twitter.com/8fXzKVbEVA

— Contact Light (@Contact_Light) July 27, 2016

"Thanks to Theresa May, we're free to shop at Waitrose without apologising for it" pic.twitter.com/3On5FaXsBf

— Mike 48% Hoffman (@MikeHoffman1) July 27, 2016

Just reminiscing about those pre-Brexit days when we'd spend hours just apologising for shopping at Waitrose pic.twitter.com/R2h8yrK9sN

— Mr Mark Roberts (@mrmarkroberts) July 27, 2016

fuck you Rowan, I love my crushing Waitrose guilt.

— #1 Soccer Mom (@markalexpreston) July 27, 2016

waitrose feminism. i've heard it all

— cloud emoji (@tiredgirIclub) July 27, 2016

“Who hasn’t stood in front of a Waitrose freezer and gazed longingly at the Tanzanian Chocolate ice cream with Blood Orange Sorbet? Or felt their life is incomplete without Crisp & Zingy Mojito Chicken Cigarellos,” Pelling writes in the controversial piece.

Indeed, who hasn’t?

“That’s her core message, after all: hard-working Britons should be free to spend their post-tax loot as they please and without apologising for it. Even if it’s on quails eggs and prosecco.”

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