Fries with that?

A news story on CNN told of a woman who dipped a hard-boiled egg in a dish of multi-colored dyes and pulled out an Easter Egg with Jesus on it. Although this occurred eight years ago, she's recently decided to sell her treasure on... you guessed it, eBay. Currently on eBay, you can even bid on an autographed picture of Jesus Christ, honest to God.

I've lost count of all the various food items, trees, windows, and subterranean wall oozings upon which an image of the Savior has appeared. I recall a tortilla, a toasted cheese sandwich, a potato chip, and a pork chop or some cut of meat, all with a likeness of the Lord, or so claimed the owners of said items.

Reflections of street lights and merging shadows of a bush and a real estate sign once produced an image of Christ on the Cross on a garage door in California in 1981, drawing 8,000 visitors one April weekend. And, Jesus showed up on the chimney of a suburban Chicago bowling alley in June of 1987. Some argued it really just meant it was time to have the chimney repaired, while others thought the image looked more like Popeye. In May of 1991, J.C. miraculously appeared amidst a plate of spaghetti on a Pizza Hut billboard in Atlanta, Georgia. At the same time, others instead saw deceased rock star Jim Morrison, or country singer Willie Nelson.

In 1993, 3,000 of the faithful converged on an apartment building in upper Manhattan to witness an apparition of Jesus Christ on a frosted glass of a 5th floor bathroom window. Apparently, the source of the apparition was moisture that had accumulated between two layers of glass. When police removed the window and had it taken to be scrubbed, some called it, "sacrilegious."

I suppose people see what they want to see, or perhaps what's on their mind already. Frequently religious images have been observed after prayer, or on the way home from church services. But, it was when I saw a web page demonstrating how to create your own toasted religious relic by creatively arranging slices of butter on bread that the idea struck me. There could be something like McBuddha, or maybe House-O-Moses and Pancakes. Customers could order food with their favorite religious figure burned, carved, or molded into it. Think of the possibilities.

"Would you like fries with that Confucius Burger?"