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Better Late Than Never, I guess

I’m mad at myself for not thinking of this earlier:

Midjourney AI and mjr: “chocolate easter jesus crucifix, 3d rendered pixar style”

I tried various prompts to get it so that Jesus’ head was bitten off, but no dice. I suggested raspberry filling, but no.

Think of all the brutal weird kinks kids would grow up with, if they had chocolate easter jesus to bite.

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Comments

  1. crivitz says

    For your next project, why not make a real one? Assuming here that the soap-making process is somewhat similar.
    Kids already have the weird kink to bite off chocolate bunny heads, so biting a jesus head shouldn’t be much weirder.

  2. Pierce R. Butler says

    “Pixar style”? How about “Marvel style”, “Andrew Wyeth style”, “Hanna-Barbera style”…?

  3. billseymour says

    OK, so now I have in my mind an image of an assembly line of priests saying the magic words. 8-)

    I was raised Episcopalian, and I just realized that I actually remember the relevant incantation from The Book of Common Prayer:

    For in the night in which we was betrayed, he took bread; and when he had given thanks, he brake it and gave it to his disciples saying, “Take, eat.  This is my body which is given for you.  Do this in remembrance of me.”

    Likewise after supper he took the cup; and after giving thanks he gave it to them saying, “Drink ye all of this.  This is my blood of the new testament which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.  Do this as oft as ye shall drink it in remembrance of me.”

    IIRC, they use more modern language these days; but I stopped being religious before that happened.

  4. Pierce R. Butler says

    And “raspberry” in most modern products comes out light blue these days, anyhow.

  5. sonofrojblake says

    Many years ago I worked for a chocolate company, a big one. If you live in the UK, there’s a good chance you’ve eaten something that passed through a process I designed.

    I suggested to the marketing department that they were missing a trick not selling chocolate teapots. I figured they’d be popular gifts for people you perceive as useless. Oddly, despite the fact that at the time they were literally selling chocolate stiletto-heeled shoes as a novelty item, my idea never made it to market, nor I suspect out of the brain of the marketing droid I mentioned it to. I offer it here for anyone who wants it, no charge. :-)

    (In case you’re not from the UK and the idiom hasn’t made it as far as you… https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/learn-food-idioms )

    It would be a brave company indeed I think that actually made what’s in that picture, despite the annual bullshit outrage party about “the shops selling eggs that don’t mention easter”. I really wish one of the shops accused of that would hand-make a few of the treats shown in the OP, and post a big copy of a newspaper with the outrage headline next to a shelf full of them labelled “HAPPY NOW, GOD-BOTHERERS?”.

    Ach, I can dream.

  6. Alan G. Humphrey says

    Bravo!
    USian Christians prefer the white chocolate Jesus on a milk chocolate cross, and any filling should be almond paste or marshmallow to reassure them that Jesus is white through and through.

  8. Reginald Selkirk says

    @ OP, 4:
    I like raspberry filling. I assume the blue color is to distinguish it from the multitude of other red fruits; strawberry, cherry, etc.

    A quick search for “chocolate crucifix” shows you’re not the only one with this idea. I see someone on Etsy is offering a nice assortment of dark, milk, and white chocolate crucifixes. I’ve been seeing a flurry of “Was Jesus actually black?” articles, so maybe there is a market for that sort of thing.

  10. cvoinescu says

    The AI is really crap at designing realistic parts that can demold easily. That chocolate Jesus is impossible to manufacture without either a very complex mold with several side pulls, or a very, very, very flexible one.

  13. says

    cvoinescu@#10:
    The AI is really crap at designing realistic parts that can demold easily. That chocolate Jesus is impossible to manufacture without either a very complex mold with several side pulls, or a very, very, very flexible one.

    I wonder what 3D printed chocolate tastes like?

  15. birgerjohansson says

    I am reminded of a story arc in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman stories, about Delirium. She created living chocholate figures, and ate them.

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