# Religious Icon on White, Hold the Butter **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 16, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102 "2004-11-16T19:28:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/1 "2004-11-16T19:28:34Z")
It’s truly a [miracle](http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/16/ebay.sandwich.ap/index.html). Although to my jaded agnostic eyes it look more like a young Betty Davis. Not surprisingly, there is some powerful spiritual symbolism behind the whitebread, butterless, oil-less, processed American cheese relic. Clearly God is telling us something, and He isn’t above using cheesy imagery to make His point. For $22K, you, and you alone, can eat the Virgin Mary. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/2 "2004-11-16T19:30:15Z")
I see bread people. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/3 "2004-11-16T19:33:29Z")
> [@Waverly](#): > > For $22K, you, and you alone, can eat the Virgin Mary. I guess she’d still technically be a virgin. … ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/4 "2004-11-16T19:38:37Z")
You’ve gotta have a lot of crust to make such a half-baked claim! The guy selling it must be a real crumb. A heel! I’d like to kick him in the buns! He’ll probably refuse to work after getting the money, & just loaf all day. Psst! Let’s wait in the alley nearest the bank where he keeps his dough. Then we’ll roll him. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/5 "2004-11-16T19:42:58Z")
Omigod, how did silent movie star [Mary Nolan](http://silent-movies.com/Ladies/annex/NolanM.jpg) get onto a decade-old [cheese sammich](http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/16/ebay.sandwich.ap/index.html)? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/6 "2004-11-16T19:48:04Z")
Eve, have I mentioned today how much I love you? 😛 A friend of mine has a tree with a scar that looks just like the Virgin Mary holding the severed head of an alien baby. I keep telling her we should sell tickets… ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/7 "2004-11-16T20:08:29Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Omigod, how did silent movie star [Mary Nolan](http://silent-movies.com/Ladies/annex/NolanM.jpg) get onto a decade-old [cheese sammich](http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/16/ebay.sandwich.ap/index.html)? Excellent 😃 But it won’t stop me from making an argument for [Marlene Dietrich](http://www.chuckallan.com/history/marlene_dietrich.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/8 "2004-11-16T20:13:23Z")
She wonders why it hasn’t molded? _sheesh__American Cheese_ lady! You might as well dipped it into plastazine. Or a fine [Fertnel](http://www.fertnel.com) cheese product. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/9 "2004-11-16T20:16:33Z")
Why is it that any woman’s face, when seen in an inanimate object, must always be the Blessed Virgin? Why can’t it be Bette Davis, or Marlene Deitrich, or even Mabel Whatzerface from down the street? This reminds me of the people who are reincarnated from Alexander the Great, never some poor schmo farmer that stole his neighbor’s pig. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/10 "2004-11-16T20:16:46Z")
Oh, please! That is clearly **Virgin** ia (hold the) Mayo. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/11 "2004-11-16T20:34:20Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > But it won’t stop me from making an argument for [Marlene Dietrich](http://www.chuckallan.com/history/marlene_dietrich.jpg). Well, if it’s not Mary or Marlene, it’s _got_ to be [Corinne Griffith](http://silent-movies.com/Ladies/GriffithC/Grif03.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/12 "2004-11-16T20:34:57Z")
I’d be a lot more trusting if it was on a fish taco. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/13 "2004-11-16T20:42:31Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I’d be a lot more trusting if it was on a fish taco. Heresy. Nothing says “I love the US above all others!” like fried American cheese on white. Ick… I just got you malodorous meaning. We can meet for euchre every Wednesday in hell. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/14 "2004-11-16T21:19:16Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Well, if it’s not Mary or Marlene, it’s got to be Corinne Griffith. I think [Garbo](http://silentladies.com/Garbo/Garbo155.jpg) is a strong candidate. (And a smoky hot one, at that.) Interestingly, so is [Farrah Fawcett](http://www.meredy.com/CACards/ca05.jpg). (Though not nearly as smoky hot.) I think it’s the cheekbones, in every case. That sammich has some fabulous cheekbones, there. That, and the classic “silent movie actress pose” of gazing slightly upwards and to the left. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/15 "2004-11-16T21:30:04Z")
No, it’s [Michelle Pfeiffer.](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/1555/Events/1555/MichellePf_Pimen_609972_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Pfeiffer,%20Michelle) ---
**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:** [November 16, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/16 "2004-11-16T21:30:22Z")
That’s nothing. [Here’s a _real_ Easter miracle](http://retards.org/photography/dimage/photographs/2002/03/31/20020331_131355-800.jpg). ^ ^ \* ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/17 "2004-11-16T21:32:53Z")
[Mae Murray](http://www.silentladies.com/Murray/Mur01.jpg) is another strong contender for Cheese Lady. Can we get one of those machines the coroners use to superimpose skulls over photos? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/18 "2004-11-16T22:49:49Z")
Aw man…to be the meat in a virgin mary sandwich… My first thought was Garbo too. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/19 "2004-11-16T23:03:28Z")
Looks more like Adam Weishaupt to me. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102/20 "2004-11-16T23:26:50Z")
You know those toasters that have a specially-formed element so that you burn a panda onto the toast? I would pay good money for a set of three with Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and, uh, uh, (I really have no idea what a good third one would be), Elvis. Yeah, that’s it. Elvis. Or maybe one toaster with switchable elements. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-icon-on-white-hold-the-butter/275102.md?page=2)