Today's Topics:
Sweet Jesus
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1991 03:35:36 PDT
Message-Id: <9104121035.AA17859@owsley.EuroPARC.Xerox.COM>
From: Paul Dourish <Dourish@europarc.xerox.com>
Subject: Sweet Jesus
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Organisation: Rank Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge, UK
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Newsgroups: alt.tasteless,talk.religion.misc,soc.culture.australian
Subject: Sweet Jesus
Date: 11 Apr 91 15:55:55 GMT
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.
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>From the Glasgow Herald, 29-3-91:
JESUS SWEET IN BAD TASTE
A chocolate Jesus which bleeds red jam has outraged Church
leaders.
The Easter sweet is marketed as the "immaculate confection".
It's a model of Christ nailed to a chocolate cross, and comes
complete with a crown of thorns and a look of agony.
The chocolate Christ is named Sweet Jesus by the man who
invented it, Richard Manderson, of Canberra, Australia.
He says eating them should make people more aware of the meaning
of Easter than munching a chocolate egg.
And he's hit on the slogan: "Put religion back into Easter with
an edible icon".
But Sydney Catholic Church spokesman Father Brian Lucas hit
back: "They're irreverent and offensive.
"It's an appalling exercise in bad taste."
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