About That Chocolate Jesus
Jason Kuznicki on Apr 3rd 2007 09:49 pm |
By now you’ve all heard of the Chocolate Jesus controversy, about which Brayton comments here:
I think the piece is rather interesting, especially in light of the impending Easter holiday – a holiday on which we give out chocolate bunnies. Bunnies, you see, represent fertility, which was the original premise of the pagan holiday celebrated every spring after which Easter is patterned in many cultures. So a chocolate Jesus, particularly an anatomically correct one, is a clever bit of commentary on the whole thing.
He’s right. Also to be noted is that one perfectly respectable artistic medium just happens to have been edible — tempera paint:
Tempera was traditionally created by hand-grinding dry powdered pigments into egg yolk (which was the primary binding agent or medium), sometimes along with other materials such as honey, water, milk (in the form of casein) and a variety of plant gums.
Add a little flour, and you’ve got… a cake.
(Note that modern synthetic dyes aren’t always good to eat, and that the Michelangelos in your fridge are probably stale by now…)
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You just got me thinking that, well, if the first thing one eats of the chocolate bunnies is the ears… what is the first part one would eat of “My Sweet Lord”?
Back when I got bunnies, I broke them into pieces first and shared them with friends. I usually ate the tail though, not the ears first. I don’t think I’d be comfortable eating a piece of chocolate that was modeled to look human.
Chocolate is chocolate, but still.. If someone handed me Jesus’ toe or finger on a plate, I’d probably mail it to a friend with a ransom letter.