Canny Granny

I wasn’t fooled for one moment by this cheap attempt to cash in on the Virgin Mary on Feta craze.

What with people seeing holy images and experiencing uplifting visitations on toasted cheese, chocolate drops and griller grunge, it was only a matter of time before the fakes starting turning up.

And so we have the Buddha Pear

Farmer, Hao Xianzhang, you’ve cheated! You used a mold to squash little tiny pears and force them to grow into these Buddha shapes. You don’t see that as bordering on the sacrilegious? Some people treat fruit as the Holy Grail you know, and twisted shapes are offensive, if not plain blasphemous to them.

Another thing you may want to keep in mind, Farmer Hao, is that these objects are all the more precious because of their rarity. Why sell these pears for 50 lousy yuan when you could just grow one (better still, grow two, a back up is always good) and flog that one Buddha Pear on eBay for a million dollars?

After all, a pool stick with the Blessed Virgin was offered for $3,000,000 recently although I can’t verify the final bid.

These pears are worthless. You may as well eat them.

Don’t worry, I know when a Virgin Mary on a potato chip is the real thing.

Remember these other Amazing Appearances?

1. Holy Mary on a Tree Stump
2. BVM on a Banana

Related articles by Zemanta

• Has Jesus Christ been spotted on Mars? (telegraph.co.uk)