ITALIAN CATHOLICS OUTRAGED OVER ‘NUNS EATING POTATO CHIPS’ COMMERCIAL

A Catholic watchdog group is calling for a ban on a commercial airing in Italy because it depicts nuns eating potato chips instead of communion wafers. With “Ave Maria” playing in the background, the ad shows the mother superior seemingly substituting chips for the traditional wafers before Mass, surprising the priest and other nuns. As the commercial builds, the nuns’ crunching of the chips nearly drowns out the song. The Italian Association of Radio and Television Listeners said the commercial for Amica Chips is blasphemous and “offends the religious sensitivity of millions of practicing Catholics by trivializing the comparison between the potato chip and the consecrated object.” The Catholic newspaper Avvenire wrote in an editorial that, “Christ has been reduced to a potato chip, debased and vilified like 2,000 years ago.”
* And they were using a chalice of wine as the dip.
* If Christ keeps appearing on French toast and tortillas, I don’t think he’d mind the potato chip thing.
* This could lead to a product line of Hot & Spicy Bar-B-Q-eucharist.
* Next, people will be demanding communion wafers with ridges.
* Well, there goes the new campaign idea for Ritz crackers.