Supersizing the Last Supper: What Does It Mean?

by Tim Carman March 29th, 2010September 24th, 2020

Last week, NPR’s Morning Edition aired a tantalizing little snippet about the Supersizing of the Last Supper. It seems that over the past millennium, the meal has grown by a blubber-inducing 69 percent, according to nutrition experts who have studied depictions of the event, in which Jesus drops a dime on one of his disciples.

So what’s it all mean? Some theories:

Starving artists are more hungry than ever
McDonald’s is subsidizing religious art
Haitian relief goods are being rerouted to Mount Zion
The gospels aren’t feeding the soul like they used to
The bread and wine industries are booming in the Middle East

C’mon, folks, help me out here…

Photo by Friar Balsam via Flickr Creative Commons, Attribution License

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