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Chocolate Santas Wearing Marzipan Masks

11/23/2020

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Oddly enough, I happened to be thinking about how merchandisers might incorporate the birdemic into their annual "cashing in on Christmas" campaign this year when I happened to come across this little story from Hungary that has been picked up by Reuters and, consequently, spread around the globe. 

The Hungarian confectioner who created the masked monstrosities below claims he did it as a light-hearted joke to raise people's spirits. Needless to say, the masked Santas have become immensely popular, to the point that the confectioner can barely keep up with orders.

Brace yourselves for the masked Nativity scenes! They're coming . . .   
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bruce charlton
11/24/2020 10:14:32

A Father Christmas is a mask is an Antisanta; to go with the Antichrist. It all makes a demonic kind of sense...

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Francis Berger
11/24/2020 11:23:08

@ Bruce - A demonic inversion of the conventional, fluffy 'feel-good', 'aw, isn't that cute' story - just in time for Christmas!

I consider it noteworthy that most major media outlets have featured this little piece of non-news. I am sure the confectioner is really proud himself.

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bruce charlton
11/24/2020 13:07:28

Perhaps Wm can comment on this (with East Asian perspective) - but I recall some 30 ish years ago a friend went to live in Japan and was astonished and amused to see several examples of a 'crucified Santa' around the place. She assumed it was due to a confusion, although it may initially have been a bit of avant garde subversion. I wonder if this symbol became A Thing, or was a flash in the pan?

Note: Snopes has - of course - decided that this is a 'legend' and not true; which - given that it was true - we can take as just another typical example of Leftist 'fact checking' - and that reality is usually the opposite of what Snopes says. And why not? Given that Snopes is just a handful of evil leftist systematic liars who are (like RationalWiki - Rational!) given grossly inflated prominence by the lying mainstream evil-left media.

William James Tychonievich link
11/25/2020 17:59:54

Taiwan is the only Asian country I’ve ever spent Christmases in, but I’ve never seen or heard of a “crucified Santa” in my life.

The masked Santa was inevitable but somehow still a bit shocking. Maybe someone will come out with a tinfoil hat Santa next.

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William James Tychonievich link
11/25/2020 18:03:04

Apparently a masked nativity scene has already been done, back during the swine flu scare of 2009.

https://mobile.reuters.com/news/picture/nativity-scenes-around-the-world-idUSRTXRZP4

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