Italian regulator pulls ‘blasphemous’ crisps advert from the airwaves

Catholic Herald ^ | April 12, 2024 | Simon Caldwell

[billorites]

In my experience communion jokes never go over very well.

[Morgana]

I find this one in very bad taste, no pun intended.

[Ezekiel]

the agency behind the commercial, Lorenzo Marini Group, said it had intended to strike “a strong British-style note of irony”

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

[telescope115]

I gotta agree.

[daniel1212]

Jesus "Crisps" is blasphemous, but if they claimed that bread ceases to exist when the manufacturer utters words, since it has transubstantiated into Crisps, regardless of appearance - until the Crisps begin to manifest/appear to decay, at which point they no longer locally exist as well?

See THE LORD'S SUPPER

[kaktuskid]

Isn’t it the same as selling chocolate crosses during Easter?

[ViLaLuz]

Wait until the Mo-Ham-Mad ham comes out for iftar dinner.

[SauronOfMordor]

Video discussion contains the ad in question

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vUFAh-zAnOA

[Big Red Badger]

Don’t go over well...
Never heard a joke but I watched the commercial and I wondered if they
we’re Ranch Flavor?
.
Is that wrong?

[Elsie]

Yeah.

Sacred cow jokes are not funny for those that have one for a pet.

[Elsie]

FINALLY!

The priest on the right looks like he's eaten a LOT of those chips (crisps).

But he does get to the point when he laments POWER being taken away from...

This 'christian'* felt no offense at all, since none of the claims of transmogrification occuring can be explicitly found in the bible.

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*I typed it this way for there are many on FR will claim that I am not one, for I fail to jump thru the hoops high enough - or - GASP! - not at all!

[Elsie]

Any flavor other than dill is considered evil by those of the SackCloth and Ashes pub!!

[Elsie]

The talking heads did a GOOD job of questioning whether Christianity should be protected while the dog that got hit by the rock was the one which howled.

[Bullish]

That is very tone deaf and disrespectful. But hey, anything for a laugh, right Amica?

[Elsie]

Well, try THIS one...

 

An American farmer's dog died suddenly after a long and happy life. He visited a Catholic priest to arrange a funeral.

Farmer: I'd like to have a proper funeral for my dog, who died last night. Can you undertake this?
Priest: I'm sorry, we don't conduct funerals for pets. You can try the Christian church down the road - I think they perform dog funerals.
Farmer: All right. But do you think $25,000 will be enough to cover their expenses for the service?
Priest: Why didn't you tell me the dog was Catholic?

 

[daniel1212]

Don’t go over well... Never heard a joke but I watched the commercial and I wondered if they we’re Ranch Flavor? . Is that wrong?

Even though Catholics hold to a false, metaphysical understanding of the Lord's supper, a commercial as this is in "bad taste."

[Texas_Guy]

I love when the sons of Luthercomment on a teaching that they know nothing about.

https://www.catholic.com/tract/christ-in-the-eucharist

Read and try again.

[dfwgator]

Bet Bergoglio wasn’t offended.

[mewzilla]

The devil is on the details, and not just metaphorically speaking...

https://www.iap.it/about/mission/?lang=en