Edible Chocolate Jesus Exhibit Cancelled

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

Anatomically correct, too.

I was eating a Hersheys candy bar when I saw this headline:

Gallery cancels naked chocolate Jesus exhibit

Reuters | Saturday, 31 March 2007
NEW YORK: A Manhattan art gallery cancelled its Easter-season
exhibit of a life-size chocolate sculpture of a naked Jesus
after an outcry by Roman Catholics.

The gallery's artistic director tendered his resignation to
protest the cancellation.

The sculpture My Sweet Lord by Cosimo Cavallaro was to be exhibited
for two hours each day next week in a street-level window of the
Roger Smith Lab Gallery in Midtown Manhattan...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4012155a12.html

I like chocolate.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. Mmmm . . . Sacrilicious.

[mark0rama]

3. Chocolate Jesus?

Well, it's got to be a chocolate Jesus
Make me feel good inside,
Got to be a chocolate Jesus
Keep me satisfied.

http://www.officialtomwaits.com/music/m_mv_lyr.htm#Chocolate_Jesus

[CrazyOrangeCat]

10. !

:rofl:

[helderheid]

6. .

:spray:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

11. The wit and wisdom . . .

. . . of Homer Simpson.

:D

[SalmonChantedEvening]

60. N-e-s-t-l-e-s... Nestle's makes the very best....

Jesus

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Isn't Jesus supposed to be edible?

I mean, the wine and wafers and all?

Is it sinful for him to be chocolate instead of cheap, icky wine and wafers that taste like cardboard?

And am I going to Hell...?

[bleever]

29. Now you are. n/t

I said, N/T, Sir!

[Tinksrival]

4. Score one for the home team!

Oh, for christ sake!

[Le Taz Hot]

70. Please tell me that

picture is photoshopped.

[Tinksrival]

5. Should have made a grilled cheese!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Grilled Cheesus?

[helderheid]

8. !

:rofl:

[0rganism]

15. oh, I gotta get me one of those pans!

every meal can be a quasi-religious experience -- my meal guests will rejoice...

"I saw Jesus in my pancake!"

"What a coincidence, he's in my omelette, too!"

[Contrary1]

38. I owe you an apology, Tinksrival...

I thought your pic was the result of very a good photoshopping job.

:wow:

[salin]

67. quick - send this ad to Bill Donahue (sp?)

Oh - but he doesn't get offended by the commercialization of Jesus... nevermind...

[Tinksrival]

9. Coco Christians

[Clark2008]

40. Well, at least they had desert at the Last Supper.

:hi:

[gatorboy]

12. "HEEEY! You got Jesus on my Peanut Butter!"

"Hey, you got peanut butter on my-" Oh, you know the rest!

[genie_weenie]

13. Your own... Edible... Jesus...

Reach out and Eat Me

[helderheid]

14. LMAO!!

:rofl:

[Clark2008]

41. Is that by Depeche ala Mode?

:7

[annabanana]

16. Chickenshit gallery!

Time was, a reviled, excoriated exhibit was a lock for an extended stay..

What the hell's wrong with NYC these days?

[richabk]

17. Sweet Jesus! (n/t)

[helderheid]

24. BWA!

:spray:

[helderheid]

18. A particular Chef's song from South Park comes to mind

[CrazyOrangeCat]

22. You better get back in the kitchen . . .

. . . cuz I got a sneakin' suspicion.

Baby!

BABY!!!

YOU JUST BURNT MY . . .

[Solly Mack]

19. Beats communion wafers

- Move over chocolate bunnies and make room for -

Chocolate Messiah

[Swamp Rat]

26. I am eating Dark Jesus Chocolate right now and drinking Jesus Juice...

I mean, Dark Hershey's Chocolate and organic milk. :D :9

[Solly Mack]

27. LOL Silly! I wouldn't eat it unless it was dark chocolate

I only eat dark chocolate

[Canuckistanian]

43. Dibs on the ears!

What? I always eat the ears first.

[Solly Mack]

44. LOL

Reckon how it taste with strawberries?

[marzipanni]

54. !

......................................:scared:..............

[Clark2008]

45. It looks more like Pete Townshend in mid Birdman

(and without clothes)

[Solly Mack]

46. You know, Chocolate Messiah needs a guitar

I think you solved the problem

[TexasLawyer]

20. Lord!

that's a spooky looking Jesus.

[Swamp Rat]

21. ... going to get some chocoloate NOW!

:9

[C_U_L8R]

23. at least it wasn't Peep Christ

haha.. peeps rawk !!

[helderheid]

25. Christ? In a peep show?

[C_U_L8R]

33. peeps ! peeps !

(i was just riffing off the "piss christ" thang that gave fundies such agita a while back)

[Canuckistanian]

47. Peeps in the microwave!

http://www.myentireass.com/sidenotes/sidenote003.htm

[C_U_L8R]

50. gasp

oh jesus... hahaahahhahahaha

[helderheid]

72. How did I miss that?!?

[symbolman]

28. Good

I can't wait to begin marketing my Book, "The Jesus Bolt" (showing up any day on my doorstep, printed, full color cover, after five years of writing), and hope there's a HUGE Outcry, guaranteed sales, and I am NOT backing down :)

Please, PLEASE Picket me.. So I can tell my funny Catholic Jokes..

"Gee, Mary, I can see our House from up here!"

And the classic,

"No beaver..no, no..get away.. NO, NO beaver!" :)

[CrazyOrangeCat]

30. Oh man, I'm definitely buying one now!

:spray:

[symbolman]

35. Thanks

Gotta run it through Hollywood first, got a little interest, and want to see if anyone wants to do some film rights, take them off the table before publishing, but when I do, I'll be sure and post it here..

And all the Catholic boards, LAPSED, of course.. sheesh, I can't even go to penguin Island..

There's a section in the book where I mention that I'm still ANGRY at Nuns, and get nervous, always have to LEAVE if I see one, otherwise If I get my hands around their necks, ONE Of us is going to Heaven, and it Probably Won't be ME :)

In fairness I mention the Nice Nuns in catholic school, the ones who floated around on little balls of white light, and when they shit, doves would come and take it away :)


Wonder, if they'd put Edible Chocolate Undies on HIM, THEN would it have been okay?

[Jcrowley]

31. I believe

the egg-laying bunny is going to be mighty disappointed.



And by the way that is a chocolate jesus shake above.

[Tinksrival]

48. Ohhh! That's a good one!

Be sure to summit the bugger here:

http://www.jesusoftheweek.com/jesii/067/index.html

[Jcrowley]

51. Ah the hallowed rowdy Theodore

Axminister from the pulpit of putrid. Terrible Teddy bringing cat scratch salvation to his faithful flock.

As Jesus will tell you, Inspiration is two parts perspiration and one part connections -- and He should know. ("Inspiration" is, by the way, the title of this little miracle from 1942 A.D.). I love these Christly portraits on hunks of wood. The feel of the bark, the rough-hewn log; I don't know, it just seems so natural, so right. It's even got a pull tab nailed into the back of it as a hanging hook. I have to agree with John Cougar: Ain't that American?

[KittyWampus]

66. OMG! Jesusoftheweek.com is hilarious. Here's one of them:

"Everybody knows how much Jesus loved kids, and I'd say this picture goes a long way toward backing that fact up. There's nothing like the comforting lap of Christ to smash your face into as JC slowly massages your lower back."

[Tinksrival]

32. Save Me!

[Hissyspit]

34. "I don't care if it rains or freezes, long as I got me my chocolate Jesus..."

Probably just as well. Someone would have come along and bitten its ears off.

Seriously, what exactly is offensive about it? I'm offended they cancelled it.

[Rex]

36. I have to say that the AC interview was the weirdest/funniest thing

I've seen in awhile! Had to watch it twice!

[Tinksrival]

86. You have to see this!

Is this the same one? It's Cooper's 360 from Crooks and Liars:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/03/31/the-daily-donohue-rantings-of-a-lunatic-bully-over-a-chocolate-jesus/

Hilarious!!


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Tom Joad]

37. ummm, excuse me, are you going to eat that?

[Saphire]

39. How???? What in tha????? Good Grief!!

[hootinholler]

42. Was it because he was nekkid or because he was brown?

Which one?

-Hoot

[me b zola]

58. It's because chocolate Jesus has a penis, or at least that's what Donahue said

Maybe chocolate Jesus is better endowed than Donahue and that is what set him off on his latest fatwah. You know, some white men really do get irrational over chocolate penis envy.

[Vidar]

59. Since it's always the Democrats' fault, the organ in question was

doubtless the clenis. Bill's apparently dipping in the sweet stuff.

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

49. I have a few questions.

Why was it banned?

- Because it was naked? Or naked AND anatomically correct? Would it have been OK if it was either not anatomically correct or clothed in some fashion? What if it was both?

- Or because it was chocolate? Would it have been allowed if it was made of butter? How about marzipan (which, I think, sculpts quite easily)? Sugar? Maple Sugar? Meringue??? Are there any natural products at all which would be allowed?

- Is the point of contention that the sculpture is too big? Would it be allowed if it were, say, bite-sized or say, the size of a "Big Hunk"?

Having grown up eating Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and fuzzy little rabbits and Turkeys and Pilgrims out of marshmallow and/or chocolate, I know my greatest dilemma would be whether to eat a chocolate depiction of Christ crucified feet first or head first, or whether to nibble his little hands and feet before I take a big ol' bite out of his torso.

I have no doubt that my very favorite chocolate Jesus would be made by a French chocolatier, moist and warmly spicy on the inside, with a tender, succulent crust.

I think some brave entrepeneur could make a killing with this idea.

[Hekate]

56. A few answers, if I may...

I think it was a combination of his nekkidness and his size.

People aren't used to seeing Jesus without his loincloth -- clearly if he was born male and was circumcised at 8 days old, then he assuredly had a penis. But I think people think it's immodest that we should be looking at a representation of same.

The chef -- I mean, artist -- might have gotten away with this sculpture if he had enrobed Jesus's hips in a white chocolate drapery.

As for the medium, ice might have worked better with the public, at least in some venues, but still would have required a loincloth.

On the whole, if someone wants to sell Choco-Jesus to the public, size definitely matters. It should be tiny, small enough to fit in your mouth -- not be in-your-face challenging. Then you could nibble away at the body of Christ.

But I have to ask in turn: What's with that pony-tail?

Hekate :rofl:

[Cobalt Violet]

61. It was Naked Art.

Nothing gets catholic fundy dander up more.

[Occulus]

78. I bet a white fondant Jesus would go over very well.

Purity and all.

[Horse with no Name]

52. What's the difference in Jesus chocolate or Jesus's words in chocolate?

[Jcrowley]

53. No. J2K1-181

Jesus Christ, what's so damn funny? It's good to see a Savior who's not afraid to enjoy a good knee-slapper; maybe a Disciple just cut one. It was, after all, an earthier time. There's a charming, devil-may-care quality to this JC. . . Lawford, anyone?

(Reload to resurrect)

http://www.jesusoftheweek.com/jesii/023/index.html

[Tinksrival]

84. To much of either is GLUTTONY! One of the seven deadly sins!

To much chocolate Jesus and ya can't get out of your crucifix lazyboy! LOL!

[Contrary1]

55. I'm not sure Jesus would approve of the chocolate sculpture...it ain't natural.

Now this...this is natural.

"And that's when the Miracle happened. I opened the bag, full of guilt, and pulled
out a Cheetoh, and THERE WAS LORD JESUS STARING ME IN THE FACE!!!"




http://www.thevigilanteband.com/jesus.htm

[OneBlueSky]

57. Jesus had a penis???? . . . it's sacrilege, I tell ya! . . . n/t

.

[leftynyc]

62. Meanwhile they managed to get their point across AND

get their way without burning or bombing anything.

[uppityperson]

83. Was the problem that he was nude, or chocolate?

I can see not wanting genitals on display, but don't understand the chocolate connection.

[Cobalt Violet]

63. An edible one at that. n/t

[WilliamPitt]

64. Imagine if they'd put it near a window...and the sun came beaming in...

Mmmmmm...forbidden chocolate Jesus puddle....lllaaaaggghhhlll...

[CrazyOrangeCat]

68. "Homer, desserts aren't always right!"

"But they're soooooo sweeeeet . . . ."

[DireStrike]

76. mmm.... sacrilicious....

[baldguy]

65. I guess they were just one miracle of transubstantiation away from making the Church happy.

[DinahMoeHum]

69. ". . .Two, Four, Six, Eight. . .Time to trans-substantiate !!!. . ."

Tom Lehrer - "Vatican Rag"

:evilgrin:

[undeterred]

71. I think it could have been the best new church marketing tool in a long time

No more wafers and wine- how about a Hunk of Choclate Jesus and nice glass of milk for Communion?

[The Count]

73. Check the Gothamist poll on it: 42% want their own for Easter

http://www.gothamist.com/2007/03/30/easter_bunny_me.php

[DinahMoeHum]

74. ". . .don't care if it melts or freezes, 'long as I got my chocolate Jesus. . ."

"...sittin' on my kitchen windowsill..."

:evilgrin:

[DireStrike]

75. Eat the body of christ?! That's SICK! SICK I TELL YOU!

I'm just gonna go right to sleep now. I can't wait until tomorrow when I go to church and receive communion to feel better about this.




...And ROMAN CATHOLICS are the ones complaining. PRICELESS.

[Sabriel]

77. That's one Jesus I don't want to see "rise" again....

I mean, have you ever vomited chocolate? I have, and it ain't pretty.

[Flaxbee]

79. I think it's all about George Harrison, and

everyone else is wrong. "My Sweet Lord"?? That's George all the way, baby!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_6MU4bszDc&mode=related&search=

[edhopper]

80. Yeah there's a lot to make fun of here

But, forchristsakes. The friggin Catholic League used intimidation to stop an art exhibit because THEY were offended. Fuck em. They don't have to see it. This was not in a government building or used any tax money. This is a private art gallery! What right do they have to stop the display of a work of art.

Freedom of expression is the right to offend!!

If all these religious types are so strong in their beliefs, why does this kind of thing shake them so?

"Can't some one rid us of these meddlesome Priest?"

[AnnieBW]

81. This is my body, Take and eat.

I have to admit that a chocolate Jesus would taste better than those damn communion wafers! :D

[gatorboy]

82. Just wait until he unveils "Sausage Mohammad"

Oh, boy....

[Tinksrival]

85. Ha!Ha!

Heads will role! :hide: