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Jesus in caked-on cooking grease

David Pescovitz at 10:27 am Thu, Jul 30, 2009

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Jesusgreasss OK, so this report came from The Sun. And I know about pareidolia. But I still get a kick out of this image of Jesus that appeared in a baking tray after Oliver Bellerby of Yorkshire, England cooked a burger.
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  • Moriarty

    I immediately saw Nietzsche.

  • Lobster

    It looks a lot more like Jesus than most of the random stains, but I still resent that “any humanoid form with facial hair” is Jesus and “any humanoid form without facial hair” is Mary.

  • Anonymous

    why is Jesus smelling the back of a rottweilers head.

  • Tian

    It looks like the old man on Zig Zag cigarette paper.

    http://www.zigzag.com/

  • Hal Eckhart

    Can I has Jeezburger?

  • Permanent4

    That’s not Jesus. That’s Kenny Loggins.

    Why’d you think it was Jesus? Because your mama don’t dance, and your daddy don’t rock’n'roll.

  • Anonymous

    All are mistaken.

    It is clearly the image of my personal saviour Flying Spaghetti Monster extending his noodly appendage in a glorious act of unconditional love.

    RAmen

  • Omir the Storyteller

    Looks more to me like the guy on the Zig Zag cigarette paper packets.

  • Anonymous

    Definitely Manson.

  • lzygenius

    I keep seeing Chtulhu.

  • TheCrawNotTheCraw

    Why would anyone think that Jesus would manifest his image as a burnt grease stain on a pan?

    To “show” us that He Is Everywhere?

    And who stares at a grease stain and sees the face of Christ? This is really more like a Rorschach test, where every image presented reminds the patient of the same thing…

  • Anonymous

    Jesus is Lard.

  • Teapunk

    Could be Mohammed, too.
    Or Charlton Heston.
    Or Moses.

    Do these things actually only happen in summer?

  • Brainspore

    …I still resent that “any humanoid form with facial hair” is Jesus and “any humanoid form without facial hair” is Mary.

    Especially since it’s not at all clear that Jesus actually had a beard. (I’ll take it on faith that Mary was beardless, though.)

  • mdh

    I think it looks a lot like that famous photo of Ruby shooting Oswald.

  • tim

    It’s obviously Kusari and Bun-bun

  • Anonymous

    I second the Jim Morrison take on it.

  • freeyourcrt

    Yep, that’s him. I’d know him anywhere.

  • gollux

    Actually looks more like this guy.

    http://www.everything-new-orleans.com/jean-lafitte.html

  • Anonymous

    yes i am sure Jesus appears as caked grease on frying pans….HEATHENS

  • Anonymous

    Thomas Jefferson snorgling a puppy.

  • mdh

    even Jesus has a carbon footprint!

  • benher

    I thought of a young Marx…

  • Anonymous

    what they never tell is that it took 3,279,301 tries with as many burgers.

  • Brainspore

    Can I eat that burger or would it be sacralicious?

  • Anonymous

    Looks like Jerry Garcia to me.

  • Anonymous

    Greasus!

  • Avram / Moderator

    MDH @1, well, sure, haven’t you heard that famous parable about walking on the beach? At the most troubled times in your life, Jesus is mitigating carbon emissions for you.

  • Antinous / Moderator

    It’s clearly Jim Morrison.

  • Teresa Nielsen Hayden

    Can’t be Jesus; he’s wearing an 18th-century wig.

  • Anonymous

    Staring at it it looks like he’s biting a calf on the back of its skull as it shrieks in pain. Enjoy that burger for sure.

  • Anonymous

    I think it looks more like Rasputin.

  • Anonymous

    A total non sequitor : All of these Jesus faces on baking trays, buildings and burgers buns could just as easily be Charles Manson faces.

  • Halloween Jack

    If he’d only fried up a Full English, he could have had the apostles, too.

  • Anonymous

    Who knew Jesus and the Zig Zag dude were the same person?

  • EricT

    Gee I was going to say it looked more like Al Pacino in Carlito’s Way basking in the glow of my cleverness.

  • nanuq

    It’s a sign! Vegans are the tools of the devil!

  • Alan

    Y’all are crazy! It’s definitely the Zig Zag man.

    http://www.zigzag.com

  • Anonymous

    Looks like Charles Manson to me.

  • Anonymous

    i saw zig zag man, then jim morrison

  • Anonymous

    Definitely Jim Morrison taking his last bath. How could anyone think differently?

  • Anonymous

    Why is Jesus devouring a rat with his face tentacles?

  • Anonymous

    Looks like the dude on the Zig-Zag papers.

  • fsck

    Get in on eBay, quick! Virgin Mary on toast went for about $30k some time back – albeit to the same class outfit which bought advertising space on some woman’s breasts.

  • Doomstalk

    Looks more like Alan Moore to me.

  • Anonymous

    it’s marx. oops…

  • Phikus

    Jesus fucks puppies? Who knew?