[Food] "Found a Peanut..."

More pre-Xmas leftovers. Eating the flesh of one's deity/deities-of-choice has a long and distinguished history. Technically, only Osiris's penis was eaten, and then by a fish, not a follower, but Dionysius was ripped apart and eaten by his worshippers, and the Aztecs referred to their favorite mushrooms as "the flesh of the gods" — teonanacati. And then there's the whole transubstantiation / consubstantiation business. So it was not surprising that the Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich was quickly followed by the Cthulhu chocolate nibblet (suspiciously turning up in an Advent calendar). Now, thanks to the ecumenical folks over at Golden Palace, you can put the face of your own deity on a cheese sandwich, or your own picture, say, if you're GWB. (I always think of Cthulhu as the Fourth Bush anyway.)

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

PS. I thought I could talk about chocolate — my divinity of choice — without embarrassment, until I read this entry from Crooked Timber on the best places in Paris to buy chocolate. It's not so much the entry as the comments. I'm a rank amateur.