By now the Wise Men may have appeared at the back of your local parish’s sanctuary, but they’ve got a lot of miles to cover until January 6th. What better way to feed them than with an edible setting of the Nativity? (Warning: “sacra-licious”)
First up:
Meat!
Hopefully those sages from the east have packed a little sage – not to mention toothpicks and extra virgin(al) olive oil. For the babe is swaddled in bacon. This sizzlin’ Nativity was cooked by up Greg Chow (no, really) and could never be considered kosher.
h/t Seven Whole Days
Chocolate!
No, it’s not from the Belgians. A Spanish team put together a setting for the Nativity featuring the city of Sevilla as an imaginative backdrop. Next-door neighbors from the west should be asked to send a case of port to help wash down this ton-and-a-half of sweet holiness.
Want a scaled-down chocolate experience you can both display and eat? It’s $12.95 (click photo to enlarge), and there doesn’t have to be a shipping charge if you live in South Bend, Indiana. Yet the question remains: is it wrong to be both devotional and hungry?
Convenience-Store Crèche!
What long and dangerous journey is complete without a few pit-stops? And, so long as they’re gassing up their camels, why not take a quick jaunt down the candy aisle? Courtesy of an online crafters idea-exchange, here’s a dentist’s nightmare: graham-cracker stable, licorice-and-marshmallow sheep, gumdrop-people, and a candy-cane shepherd’s crook. The Magi should be prepared to adore their toothbrushes.
(Here’s an even faster version of same. One is left to wonder, as another has already done, why the part of Jesus can’t be played by a Life Saver, and the part of Joseph by a Life Saver Pop.)