Virgin Mary Crisps At Pret-A-Manger

[sp1814]

Surely these crisps are named after the non-alcoholic cocktail?

I've had some, and they taste like tomato-flavoured crisps, which backs up my theory.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21306006

That being the case, how comes the cocktail isn't considered offensive by Protect The Pope - lobby group that's new to me.

(Sidebar - my spellchecker tried to correct 'lobby' to 'loony'...make of that what you will).

[erin-x]

I dunno..

I was once at a wake and the minister was drinking a tomato juice. My (drunk) cousin went up and asked her if it was a Bloody Mary or a Virgin Mary! Her face was priceless!! Haha!

[Svejk]

Oh, the irony.

[rojash]

"Protect The Pope"

I dunno, you'd have thought that was God's job, wouldn't you?

[FredPuli43]

Calling a product a Virgin Mary anything sounds like associating the mother of Christ with a commercial product. Calling a drink "a Virgin Mary", because it is the alcohol- free version of a Bloody Mary, and so an innocent drink, is just a word play on Mary I's nickname, Bloody Mary.

[youngmafbog]

If it had been anything Islamic, there would have been murders and prets razed to the ground.

So this is mild objection really.

[ludwig]

// If it had been anything Islamic, //

Jihad and onion perhaps? Available in the regular or low fatwa variety.

[ludwig]

..washed down with a refreshing burka cola.

[emmie]

fuss about nothing...

[lairdoftheclan]

The best thing to do with spellchecker is ignore it.