And Next Year They'll Have a Pope on a Rope

Russell Stover Chocolates apparently thought it would be a good idea last year to start making caramel filled chocolate crosses for Easter last year. But it's for the Hispanic market so that's all right then. Yeah.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/25/national/main683140.shtml

Perhaps they will consider expanding their line with other instruments of torture and death. How about a chocolate guillotine or a set of chocolate thumbscrews?

The fact that I know people who would buy a liquorice scourge probably doesn't disturb me as much as it should.

This is a natural outgrowth of a trend that I noticed a long time ago, the divorcing of what a cross actually was used for, and why we Christians hold it as a symbol of our faith, from the image of the cross as reproduced in jewelry, greeting cards, and now candy.