I keep four delightful chickens in my backyard for their plentiful fresh eggs and overall charm as pets. Here in Portland, Oregon, backyard chickens are somewhat in vogue, and I subscribe to a lively Yahoo! group dedicated to all that is urban chicken farming. (No. We don't eat our chickens. Because I knew you would ask.)Yesterday, one of its members, Lori, gathered some eggs from her Ameraucana, and boiled them up for breakfast. Imagine her surprise when she peeled one that had cracked in the pan -- the perfect image of the Virgin Mary!
Lori's trying to figure out if she can preserve the egg. In the meantime, let us know what you think: is God once again speaking to us from our food? And is he reminding us how we should all treat our chickens better? I think so.
[Larger version of photo after the jump.]
May is National BBQ Month and National Hamburger Month
Cupcakes, not for dessert (unless beef is your idea of a treat)
Because eating French Fries in the car is so tough
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10-04-2007 @ 8:18AM
shades04 said...
Looks like a happy face to me! :)
Here's a presentation by Michael Shermer of the Skeptics Society about, among other things, the famous Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich: http://epresence.tv/Presentation/179
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10-04-2007 @ 8:51AM
momdgp said...
Personally, I would have said, gee, it looks like a hooded person, then ate the egg.
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10-04-2007 @ 10:21AM
jsmylie said...
I would have said "this kind of looks like the virgin mary" and immediately looked into selling it.
...whaaat? Car payments, people!
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10-04-2007 @ 2:07PM
mo said...
I dunno. Looks like the Unibomber to me.
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10-04-2007 @ 2:32PM
Victoria said...
Wow, another Portlander! Go Stumptown!
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10-05-2007 @ 11:52AM
kevjohn said...
That looks as much like (the traditional depiction of) the Virgin Mary as the wart on my back.
And here in the dreaded South, your neighbors are just as likely to have a backyard full of chickens as not. I know the ones next door gleefully wake me everydamnday at 5am with their cackling.
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10-10-2007 @ 7:30AM
lin said...
What would God care how you treat your chickens? Oh yeah you don't "EAT" them. Nevermind. I didn't see the treatment chickens in the Bible except in the Old Testament on which animals to eat as clean or unclean. It looks like an eskimo to me or a cartoon from Sprout. You could call the Wonderpets or the Backyardigans and ask their opinion.
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