Holy Pizza Pan!!!

[Daz Madrigal]

February 26, 2007
Baking with the BVM

Big news in Houston this weekend: the Blessed Virgin Mary, that holy trickster known for showing up in all sorts of unexpected places, chose to make an appearance on a pizza pan in a local elementary school kitchen.

Students saw the pan and told their parents, who showed up at Pugh wanting to see Mary, too. Pacay propped the pan up near the lunch line and more people came, including HISD Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra. The general consensus: The pan was drawing so much attention that it needed to be moved. So the school gave the pan to the PTA, which displayed it on a makeshift shrine in member Sylvia Calderon's yard. Since then, Calderon's street has been overrun with pilgrims:
At dawn, one woman arrived at Calderon's home in the Denver Harbor neighborhood asking to see the Virgin's image before her 8-year-old son had surgery. That afternoon another woman came for a blessing bearing a picture of her grandson, who has cerebral palsy.

Scientists call this phenomenon religious pareidolia, when the eye sees religious images in objects such as tree trunks and grilled cheese sandwiches.

Believers say it's a miracle.

The stain on the pizza pan does sort of look like the silhouette of Mary, at least as she's traditionally depicted: in three-quarter view, head slightly downturned and covered by a shawl. Of course, the Pugh pizza pan is only the latest in a long line of Marian apparitions, some with a little more gravitas than others. But what's important to the people going to see the pan is that it means good things: "I think someone was watching over us," Guerrero told the Chronicle. "I think someone is watching over this community and this school district and this school."

(As the Chron reported yesterday, the only problem with the holy pizza pan was that, well, it was still a perfectly good pizza pan and cafeteria manager Pacay wanted it back. But Guerrero was able to step in and work out a deal to Rodriguez can keep the pan, which she plans to display on her own altar.)




What a moronic and ungracious society we live in..the School canteen wants it back to make more pizzas - its a Holy Relic!!!

[sandywinder]

It is sacrilege to slur the name of the blessed Pizza with iconic Christian symbols.

BURN THEM.

[Daz Madrigal]

It definitely looks like her. I've seen other stubborn stains of Mary Magdalene that just couldn't be removed by any of the servants so they had to use..Daz!



Use Daz Madrigal to remove ALL your stubborn stains (Religious Icons a speciality).

[kipper]

It might be the Holy Mother.

But it also looks a bit like a knob.

It would be bad form to worship a knob in Texas, though.

I remember driving through Houston - 5 laners. Everything was big, just like they say. But not the knobs, probably.

[Daz Madrigal]

It nice to know that the Americans have their priorities in the right order.

Yes its a Holy Relic but wheres our pizzas!

[Daz Madrigal]

<< Scientists call this phenomenon religious pareidolia, when the eye sees religious images in objects such as tree trunks and grilled cheese sandwiches. >>

Yes I think I'm seeing things when I look at cheese boards. Yesterday a piece of Gouda spoke to inform the world that a Judge flasher MUST be innocent due to the fact that he espoused a Jury in favour of a more balanced verdict from 4 fellow judges.

Thats a bit like a Policeman being found not guilty by fellow Policemen.

I'm sorry but the inmates are getting on in years and senility is slowly setting in with the unremitting advance of a lava flow - or alternatively they could just be bonkers.

[Daz Madrigal]

Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich. Starting bid on eBay: $3000
"I made this sandwich 10 years ago, when I took a bite out of it, I saw a face looking up at me, It was Virgin Mary starring back at me, I was in total shock, I would like to point out there is no mold or disingration, The item has not been preserved or anything, It has been keep in a plastic case, not a special one that seals out air or potential mold or bacteria, it is like a miracle, It has just preserved itself which in itself I consider a miracle, people ask me if I have had blessings since she has been in my home, I do feel I have, I have won $70,000 (total) on different occasions at the casino near by my house, I can show the receipts to the high bidder if they are interested..."


Now I like that..there goes a sensible woman, she found God and she made lots of money out of a cheese sandwich by guessing that amongst all the people on Ebay at least a few of them would be daft enough to pay up the perfectly reasonable price of $3000 for a 10 yr old sandwich. Sir Alan Sugar would be impressed by such entrepreneurial enterprise.

[kipper]

Thee Dazzeroonie : ...Yes I think I'm seeing things when I look at cheese boards. Yesterday a piece of Gouda spoke to inform the world that a Judge flasher MUST be innocent due to the fact that he espoused a Jury

Yes, that whole case was a quock up from beginning to end.

Still, a cheap thrill for some cheezers, who are holding onto their holy relics for dear life.

[Daz Madrigal]

Good thinking.

Maybe Hedwig, Gouda and co. use the same train and well...at their age you miss familiar company and pleasant conversation - something you don't get that with tramps in dirty macs.

[Daz Madrigal]

I'm not sure why the underpants were used as evidence.

If a girl walked up and pulled her skirt down would you be wondering where the panties had got to?

[kipper]

Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich.


Looks more like a Girls Aloud reject.

I opened a can of Kistalnacht Soup yesterday (Vegetarian)
and one of the crutons looked exactly like the Pope...when he's not wearing a hat, of course.
Another of the crutons looked just like David Dimbleby - but then Robin pointed out that as he is a square-headed, dough-faced, preseved piece of salty old pap, the similarity wasn't unique.

Next week, I'm dining exclusively on Alphabetti Spaghetti - I'm sure I'm going to find Sandy in there somewhere.

P.S. - Did spot a pig's arse that looked just like Hazel Blears ... but Robin said that wasn't strictly a food-based observation. Then we noticed that they all looked like her, which kinda took the edge off the excitement.

[kipper]

I'm not sure why the underpants were used as evidence.
If a girl walked up and pulled her skirt down would you be wondering where the panties had got to?

I think underpants should always be used as evidence, whatever the case. There's a raft of psychological profiling, not to mention forensic evidence, available in the average pair of shreddies.
Their power is underestimated.
Think of how much time is wasted "selecting" Jurys. All Council has to do is ask each juror to wear their pants on their head - then it would be a cinch to see what kind of person they were.


However, I take your point ... if a girl did pull her skirt down in front of me, I wouldn't worry about pants. I would be much more concerned that she was suffering some sort of heat stroke and needed assistance. A swift bucket of water thrown over her would do the trick ... or reach into your Bat Utility Belt (if you have one) and squirt her down with a bottle of ice-cold Fanta.

As a public protector , on the streets, I have had to do this a number of times - and in each case the women I have drenched have been rendered speechless - so relieved are they at being saved from a heat rash. At least, that's why I assume they're speechless - I usually have to rush off to another disaster before they speak.

[Daz Madrigal]

kipper said:

Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich.


Looks more like a Girls Aloud reject.

I opened a can of Kistalnacht Soup yesterday (Vegetarian)
and one of the crutons looked exactly like the Pope...when he's not wearing a hat, of course.
Another of the crutons looked just like David Dimbleby - but then Robin pointed out that as he is a square-headed, dough-faced, preseved piece of salty old pap, the similarity wasn't unique.

Next week, I'm dining exclusively on Alphabetti Spaghetti - I'm sure I'm going to find Sandy in there somewhere.

P.S. - Did spot a pig's arse that looked just like Hazel Blears ... but Robin said that wasn't strictly a food-based observation. Then we noticed that they all looked like her, which kinda took the edge off the excitement.

Who was it who said fact was stranger than fiction?

Jeffrey Archer?

Oddly enough in an interesting development of Pizzology there was a man on E4+1=5 a few weeks ago (i think i was the only viewer) and he claimed to be able to 'see meaningful words' in Alpabetti Spaghetti.

Sadly they were all less than 4 letters long so I suggest a larger spoon in future - a ladle perhaps.

[Daz Madrigal]

Yes I saw an image of Roger Moore in a piece of driftwood once but it was slightly more animated than the real version.

[kipper]

"Who was it who said fact was stranger than fiction?"

Well....er.... it was you, just now, wasn't it?

"Jeffrey Archer?"

He would lay claim to most things, that weren't nailed to the table.

"he claimed to be able to 'see meaningful words' in Alpabetti Spaghetti"

I believe it. I've just opened my first can ...and already I've seen: Ass, Tit, Hi, Cak and Glutomate.

There's definately something in this...





War ! (oh sod)