I have added three new products to my L-Mart parody. One of the additions include a graphic provided by Alive and Young.
Paul Cat at Alive and Young reminds me of one of his previous posts on Fastfood Conspiracy that fits in nicely with the new KFC Catholic offering.
In turn that reminds me of one of my previous parody of what would have happened if Jack Chick had owned Chick-fil-a. Jack Chick-fil-A.
A reader sent me the following story.
KFC, the nation’s largest fast-food chicken chain, this week began selling something it’s never sold nationally: fish.
Its new Fish Snacker sandwich sells for 99 cents and is available at all 5,500 locations across the USA. In an unusual move, President Gregg Dedrick sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI, asking him to lend his personal seal of approval for the item "as a way for members of your flock to keep a holy Lenten season."
ON DEADLINE: Cute? Offensive? Will you be eating a Fish Snacker this Friday?
The Fish Snacker is a filet of 100% Alaskan Pollack topped with tartar sauce and served on a sesame bun.
Vatican officials confirmed they received KFC’s request, and the company is hopeful to get the pope’s blessing this Lenten season.
"People can enjoy the flavor of the new Fish Snacker any day of the week, but we believe it will be especially popular on Fridays," said James O’Reilly, chief marketing officer for KFC, a part of Yum Brands
Well as an outright publicity stunt I guess this one is rather successful since it is getting coverage. But publicity stunt it is since the Pope never endorses any product and even if he did how would you bless a product line?
Though if they were going to pick a product name for a line with Catholics in mind how about snappers instead of snackers. As in Mackerel Snappers. While Mackerel Snapper was a derogatory term for Catholics, I think most Catholics find the term rather fun. Chicken Snappers would be quite fun. Now I know the Church supports the KoC not KFC, but you can imagine a kind of fun merger. Holy Water could be advertised as "Finger dippin’ good." When it comes to the Catholic Church of course it was the Original Recipe of Christianity. Though KFC now provides fish for men the Church is a fisher of men.
Now KFC isn’t the first chicken chain to try to blatantly appeal to Catholics. For example the following graphic illustrates something that other people have noticed.
Certainly Pope Yes has to have great appeal among those united with the Pope. The Popeno chain never really took off since you were only allowed to select one or two items off the menu and they gave you condoms not condiments.
But none of them beat my favorite chicken restaurant.
From my previous parody.
This year when you vote in the Funniest Catholic Blog category of the Catholic Blog Awards do you know who you are voting for?
While the Ironic Catholic has a delightfully funny blog, just how much do we know about her? Why is her blog anonymous? What is she hiding? Would we find it Ironic that she is a Catholic if we knew her?
Happy Catholic is another great blog and Julie D. provides both smiles and great insights. But I have it on good authority that she once didn’t say grace before a meal.
Paul Nichols at the Catholic Cartoon Blog is one funny guy, but did you know he was born with original sin?
Gerald at The Cafeteria is Closed provides great coverage of the Church and has concluded with many a humorous line. But did you know that he named his blog after something Maureen Dowd wrote in a column? Can you truly trust someone who is such a devotee of Maureen Dowd that he would take his blog name from something she has written?
The Ox Files is a superb parody blog especially on liturgical matters, but opposition research has found that sometimes The Dumb Ox is distracted in prayer.
Kathy Shaidle at Relapsed Catholic has a wit sharper than a Ginzu knife and headlines that regularly invoke laughter, but did you realize that she regularly writes more about Islam than Christianity? Can you really trust a blog named Relapsed Catholic?
Fr. Erik Richtsteig at Orthometer is one funny priest, but shouldn’t he be praying, visiting the sick, or something instead of making us laugh so regularly?
The Shrine of the Holy Whapping is surely the funniest group blog, but did you know that their members only put in a buck or some loose change when the collection basket comes around?
If you vote for the Curt Jester I promise you a 20 percent increase in guffaws and a rubber chicken in every pot.
I’m the Curt Jester and I approve this message.
The Ironic Catholic has a list of worship Faux Pas and how to avoid them. I will highlight one that I found especially funny and true.
7. Kneeling etiquette: once done, sit back S L O W L Y to avoid slamming your back into someone’s folded hands.
The rest of the list is equally funny.
Well I am always game for stealing a good idea:
- If the church actually has kneelers please slide the kneeler up when you go to Communion so others in the same row do no have to to the narrow shuffle side step.
- If you receive Communion in the hand remember that your car keys and cell phone are maybe accessories in the Body of Christ, but can’t receive themselves – put them away first.
- Asking the person who just came out of a confessional both after a long time in confession "What the heck did you do?" is not considered appropriate.
- Regardless of how banal the songs the choir is singing, it is not polite to shout out requests.
- Continuously pointing at your watch for the priest to see during the homily is considered rude.
- Do not bring the music issue of the missal home to use as toilet paper, no matter how appropriate.
- If you have a 103 degree temperature and your nose is running faster than Flo-Jo you might want to skip Mass and not try to shake the hands of half the congregation.
- If your a Protestant convert please avoid yelling out "Idolater" when a parishioner touches a statue.
- Dip your hand slowly into the Holy Water font, please don’t splash.
- "The Mass is ended, go in peace" is not meant to be the same as a starter pistol going off indicating that you need to run out of the Mass as fast as you can to avoid traffic in the parking lot.
