# Anyone else find this bizarre? (Easter related) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 8, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205 "2007-04-08T19:37:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/1 "2007-04-08T19:37:37Z")
My niece was showing me her basket and the candy she got for Easter and she had one of those chocolate crosses. Do these things strike anyone else as totally bizarre. I am an atheist but it seems totally sacreligious and weird to me for someone to eat a chocolate symbol of their religion. I would think Christians would view it as trivializing their religion. The only thing that would make it weirder and more humorous is if the chocolate crosses had a tiny Jesus on them. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/2 "2007-04-08T19:39:38Z")
Bizarre, yes, especially since the cross was an instrument of execution by torture. How about a chocolate guillotine? ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/3 "2007-04-08T19:44:40Z")
I am a Christian, and I find it completely strange. I was really taken aback the first time I saw one. I would never stick one of those into my kids’ Easter baskets. So I cannot explain why anyone would want one. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/4 "2007-04-08T19:54:14Z")
Odd, especially since an artist, Cosimo Cavallaro, recently got the 3d degree and his exhibition canceled because he made a big one. [http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/30/chocolate.jesus.ap/](http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/30/chocolate.jesus.ap/) (sigh, picture in the link may offend those with exceedingly something something sensibilities-- won’t be showing that one in class, either). ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/5 "2007-04-08T19:56:05Z")
I’m not a Christian and I was offended the first time I saw one of those. It just seems really inappropriate to me. I don’t think there are many people in the world who don’t know what the cross stands for in the Christian faith - and you want me to eat it? I don’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/6 "2007-04-08T20:05:19Z")
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady] I don’t think there are many people in the world who don’t know what the cross stands for in the Christian faith - and you want me to eat it? I don’t think so. [/QUOTE] And just think of all those irreligious, insensitive bastards eating hot cross buns this weekend. The mind positively reels. _Eating!_ A religious symbol! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/7 "2007-04-08T20:06:29Z")
Yes. Very. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/8 "2007-04-08T20:15:55Z")
Not as bizarre as chocolate praying hands. Yep. Praying hands. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/9 "2007-04-08T20:34:43Z")
I’m a liberal Christian and I don’t like it at all. I’m thinking that the chocolate crosses were actually done as a result of conservative Christians who didn’t like the Easter Bunny and chocolate bunnies. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/10 "2007-04-08T20:53:38Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Mudd] And just think of all those irreligious, insensitive bastards eating hot cross buns this weekend. The mind positively reels. _Eating!_ A religious symbol! :eek: [/QUOTE] Not to mention that whole transubstatiation / communion thing. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/11 "2007-04-08T21:00:36Z")
[QUOTE=dalej42] I’m a liberal Christian and I don’t like it at all. I’m thinking that the chocolate crosses were actually done as a result of conservative Christians who didn’t like the Easter Bunny and chocolate bunnies. [/QUOTE] That’s what I’m thinking too. Though, I could see someone into campy humor creating these as a joke. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/12 "2007-04-09T03:18:03Z")
“Besides, it’s a lot easier to accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior when he [looks like Willem Dafoe] [is made of chocolate]. . .” Apologies to Bongwater. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/13 "2007-04-09T03:41:47Z")
Here’s another shot of [Chocolate Jesus.](http://www.postchronicle.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=11&num=71642) ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/14 "2007-04-09T03:57:27Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Czarcasm** > Here’s another shot of Chocolate Jesus. Oh come on surely the artist knows that Jesus was not black. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/15 "2007-04-09T04:01:20Z")
I never thought about it too much in the past (I was mostly thinking “hey, chocolate!”), but after someone pointed it out to me, I agreed it’s rather bizarre. I am religious, but I’m not offended. Actually, I’m still mostly thinking “hey, chocolate!” Another odd one I remember from childhood was a chocolate slab shaped like an open Bible, with the Lord’s Prayer written on it. At the time, I was really impressed by this, you could _read_ it, and you could _eat_ it. I have this vague impression, also from childhood, that chocolate bunnies were good Easter gifts for kids, and that the chocolate crosses were considered a more dignified Easter item for, say, your grandmother. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/16 "2007-04-09T04:07:29Z")
Atheist here, and a chocolate Jesus would totally convert me. “This is my body…” mmm, I am right there. I guess the blood would have to be…caramel. If it’s nougat, well, the deal’s off. Seriously, you who are offended did you never hear of hot cross buns? People ate those. Chocolate is no worse. In fact, it’s better, way better. Vegetarians eat chocolate rabbits all the time. Ears first. It’s just chocolate. Eat it when you can. ETA: Okay, I just saw Larry Mudd’s post re hot cross buns. Cold crossed posts. Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/17 "2007-04-09T04:13:09Z")
Poll: Which part of ChocoJesus would you eat first? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/18 "2007-04-09T04:18:23Z")
[QUOTE=pool] Oh come on surely the artist knows that Jesus was not black. [/QUOTE] [Just for you.](http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/White_20Chocolate_20Jesus_20with_20Liquid_20Cherry_20Center)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/19 "2007-04-09T04:19:03Z")
And to offend the rest of you [http://www.chocolatedeities.com/deities.php](http://www.chocolatedeities.com/deities.php) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205/20 "2007-04-09T04:27:24Z")
“Rub The Chocolate Buddha”-perfect band name! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-find-this-bizarre-easter-related/399205.md?page=2)