Damn you, Tom! You’ve spoiled my masterwork explaining the hidden religious imagery behind the Pep Boys.
Ah well, bless you anyway, in nomini Manny, et Moe, et Spriritus Jack.
Either Mr Vaughan or Mr Rumet has been plagiarizing David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas.
Bummer, this was like robbing a bank of all it’s ballpoint pens.
Are you sure? Even granting that the reviews are on Amazon, most of them seem to think that Cloud Atlas was written by someone who could both grasp reality and compose good prose.
If McDonald’s mocks Christianity, should I only eat at the Burger King of Kings?
Also, where does Grimace fit into this? I’m guessing he’s St. Peter.
Well of course that’s the problem. Everyone knows that when you have the shiny side out, it keeps Ronald McDonald from putting thoughts into your head. When you have the shiny side in, it keeps him from taking thoughts out of your head (reading your mind.) If RM is doing both, you need to make a hybrid hat with foil facing both in and out.
But what about the Hamburglar? What is he really trying to steal? Our very souls?
And Grimace? Is his purple hue perhaps the symbol of a royalty beyond royalty? Is he king of kings, or anti-king?
And then there’s Birdie the Early Bird. The early bird arises like the risen sun (son). My head spins.
And what of the talking trees? (The talking trees of life?)
I’d say she represents Mary.
Is there no help for the McNugget’s son?
If McDonald’s is trinitarian, then BK, with its singular figurehead, would correspond to a stricter form of monotheism – either Judaism or Islam. Your choice.
I read him as a Holy Fool, one of God’s Innocents.
I dunno. The (new) Burger King strikes me as more of a Moloch.
A fatwah will be issued against you. Put your affairs in order, blasphemer!
OP, what are you drinking and where can I get some…because it must be one wild trip.
Everyone knows Snap, Crackle and Pop are the true Unholy trinity.
This makes Wendy’s the remaining one of the ‘big three’ and Dave Thomas doesn’t look Jewish, so I suppose all-knowing The Burger King himself is King David. So BK devotees wouldn’t accept Ronald as their savior. Wendy’s is the youngest of the chains, so Dave is Muhammad.
Hail Wendy, full of grease . . .
Excellent point. I think H.R. Pufnstuff would more closely align with Dionysus.
Let us not forget Ronald’s predecessor, Speedy Hamburger, whose story eerily parallels that of John the Baptist.
If you can believe it, the newspaper reviews are at least as glowing… Sometimes even moreso - and that includes the opinion of A.S. Byatt.
Anyway, in one chapter of the book, in a dystopian futuristic Korea, a fast food chain employs cloned checkout staff whose entire construct of reality is nothing other than their own premises, and their experience of life is based only around working in fast food. In a very obvious, but very effective, pastiche of monotheistic religion, the clones are managed and raised by ‘Seers’, who bring them up to worship ‘Papa Song’, the hologram of a clown who juggles hamburgers, and provided they behave themselves and earn enough stars, they are persuaded to believe they will go to an afterlife called ‘Xultation’ which involves them taking a cruise on a ‘Golden Ark’ to a mythical paradise called ‘Hawaii’.
The reality of what happens to them once they’ve earned enough stars, however, is more horrific than you could possibly imagine.
So does this mean that the Canadian burger chain Harvey’s is like Zoroastrianism?
I am irresistibly reminded of a creepy sig picture someone on another board has or had; it shows the Burger King staring down disturbingly at a man, and is captioned “WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW ?!” Does he know something we don’t ?
Also . . . where does Cthulhuism fit in all this ? Sushi ?
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