# Gladly the Cross I'd Eat **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 25, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210 "2005-03-25T15:08:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/21 "2005-03-25T16:26:52Z")
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**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/22 "2005-03-25T17:09:10Z")
Hot Cross buns have been an Easter tradition in Europe for many many years. Don’t see all that much difference to chocolate crosses. Maybe Xmas we can have a whole chocolate nativity scene. P.S. **Eve** air-kisses, I got one of your books for my Mum for Mother’s day, and she is loving it 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Alonzo\_John\_Blitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@Alonzo\_John\_Blitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alonzo_John_Blitz)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/23 "2005-03-25T17:20:08Z")
What’s next, halvah Stars of David? ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/24 "2005-03-25T17:22:34Z")
I can certainly understand why some would fine a chocolate cross offensive. Even so, last year I spent a couple hours engraving a dying Jesus on my chocolate cross before eating it crown-o’-thorns first. Hey, if you want a humorless religion, go join Islam. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/25 "2005-03-25T17:24:54Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Googling for the punchline to your joke, I found that Ed McBain had written a detective novel with that title, which is going on my “do not read” list, along with [this](http://www.redbay.com/ekklesia/gbbooks.htm), in which a cartoon character named Gladly Bear, who has the requisite ophthalmic problem, goes on adventures. (I was not able to confirm that the books were edited by Esmeralda, 13th Baroness Mondegreen.) “Glady the Cross Eyed Bear” is a very good Matthew Hope mystery, involving toys, copyrights, and porn tapes (that’s an odd trio). All of the Matthew Hope mysteries are named after childish items–Goldilocks, Puss in Boots, etc. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/26 "2005-03-25T17:25:19Z")
Mmmmm. Sacrelicious. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/27 "2005-03-25T17:25:53Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > [Hijack]I’m still waiting for the blow up Jesus. A 7 foot Jesus on the cross would look great on my lawn![/hijack] [continuing hijack] Or in your bed! Hat-chachacha. [/continuing hijack] Shouldn’t candy crosses and jesuses…jesusi…jeseese…jesopoidea…screw it. You get the idea…anyway, be made of circus peanuts? It seems like it’d fit in better with the theme of martyrdom and self-sacrfice. Or at least make 'em out of redhots. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/28 "2005-03-25T17:27:45Z")
> [@](#): > > But even chomping on a plain chocolate cross is offensive to Joseph McAleer, a spokesman for the Roman Catholic diocese in Bridgeport, Conn. “The cross should be venerated, not eaten…” I’m confused. Don’t Catholics regularly venerate Christ himself by eating his flesh and body? What’s wrong with eating his cross? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/29 "2005-03-25T17:27:51Z")
Damn, you mean people have never heard of chocolate crosses? I’ve been eating them every Easter since I was a kid! Hell, Sr. Frances Ramona gave us little white chocolate crosses on our last day of class before Easter break! So I can’t see that this is a wide-spread protest by Catholics! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/30 "2005-03-25T17:28:37Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > P.S. **Eve** air-kisses, I got one of your books for my Mum for Mother’s day, and she is loving it 😉 Ooooh, lovely, which one? Doesn’t matter, I’ll give away the ending: she dies. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/31 "2005-03-25T17:40:33Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Ooooh, lovely, which one? Doesn’t matter, I’ll give away the ending: she dies. The Kay Kendall bio, my Mum is a Northern English lass, so it seemed most appropriate. Oh and next time, use spoilers please 😉 Back to OP. From a Christina point of view, isn’t a chocolate cross much better than pagan chocolate eggs and bunnies? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/32 "2005-03-25T17:52:54Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > From a Christina point of view, isn’t a chocolate cross much better than pagan chocolate eggs and bunnies? From a Christina point of view, I think a chocolate Joan Crawford would be best of all. [Ooooh, I’d love a chocolate Joan Crawford!] ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/33 "2005-03-25T17:54:07Z")
Well, don’t just stand there folks! Order your own! > **[Chocolates | Candy Warehouse](https://www.candywarehouse.com/types-candy/chocolates)** > [@](#): > > Solid milk chocolate molded cross boxed in a custom gold tray and covered with a coordinated cover. Makes a wonderful Easter gift! Darn! Why is that we are led into temptation?!? [A few weeks late note]Good to see you again eve! I was beginning to miss the (grammar) spankings you used to give me! 😉 Love to see back![/afwln] ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/34 "2005-03-25T17:57:18Z")
Actually, even more than chocolate crosses, I remember that _everyone_ had _butter crosses_ on their Easter table. You took two sticks of butter, cut one in half, and positioned the halves on either side of the other one, at right angles to the axis. Made a perfect cross. They’d put it on the Easter table for the priests to bless. Nobody ever made a fuss about buttering their bread with a cross. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/35 "2005-03-25T18:01:51Z")
**Eve** , **Eve** , **Eve** , **Eve** … [writes 1000 times on the chalkboard] You see, I needed you back here; I even had problems typing your name properly in the last post! ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/36 "2005-03-25T18:34:54Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > From a Christina point of view, I think a chocolate Joan Crawford would be best of all. > > [Ooooh, I’d love a chocolate Joan Crawford!] A chocolate Sophia Loren for me (with hazelnut paste filling). ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/37 "2005-03-25T18:45:54Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > You want a blasphemous idea people can get worked up about? Garfield-style stick-up crucifixes with suction cups on each arm. For your car. I’m stealing this idea. There is no such thing as too tacky when it comes to stuff people round these parts will stick on their vehicles. I’ll be rich! Rich! Rich! Hmmm… now where’s that patent office! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/38 "2005-03-25T19:40:54Z")
I think you might do better if you got a sticker of a Jesus peeing on a text book, a la those Calvin-esque decals. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/39 "2005-03-25T19:47:05Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > I think you might do better if you got a sticker of a Jesus peeing on a text book, a la those Calvin-esque decals. Jesus peein’ on a gay couple might be a better seller, dontcha think? OOOH! Jesus peein’ on a **Activist Judge**! I’d make a mint! Or, even better, Jesus peein’ on an **abortion clinic**! I’m gonna be sooooooooooooooo rich! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210/40 "2005-03-25T19:49:20Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Jesus peein’ on a gay couple might be a better seller, dontcha think? Kinky. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gladly-the-cross-id-eat/296210.md?page=3)