A pigs in blanket shortage meant that Wetherspoons had to serve its Christmas dinner without the favourite festive treat.
Instead customers were given chipolatas without bacon to accompany their meal.
But the pub chain, whose boss Tim Martin has spoken out in support of Brexit, insists the shortage was not due to issues with meat travelling from the EU to the UK.
The problem has been put down to a temporary labour shortage at an unnamed business further up the supply chain, MirrorOnline reports.
The matter involved a "number of pubs" and has since been resolved, the company said.
Customer Xander Yarney, 21, was among those left disappointed when he ordered a Christmas dinner in Basingstoke on December 2.
He said: "I ordered them through the app and when they got delivered to me they didn't have the bacon on them.
"Matey asked me if I wanted a refund and I said not to worry about it.
"Obviously was a bit disappointed, I mean who wouldn't be? But I kind of just found it funny more than anything so I gave it no stress, ate them an then went about my day."
Wetherspoon's spokesman Eddie Gershon said: "It has all been resolved, it wasn't across all 900 pubs and it was only for a day or so.
"There is no shortage of meat. The suppliers in the UK had the bacon and the sausages but didn't have enough labour to put the blankets on the pigs.
"It was nothing to do with supply, it was to do with labour.
"There was a stop in some supplies, they got the sausages in without the blankets."
The British Meat Processors Association previously warned that the UK was not attracting enough EU workers, which it said could have a detrimental impact on the supply of "fiddly" items, such as pigs in blankets.
