Friday, February 01, 2008

Faith

When I lived in Oaxaca in 1999 I often crossed the street in front of the school I was attending during break to buy a little snack to hold me over until comida at 2:30 in the afternoon. A small torta. Some cookies. Or my favorite, Dorritos chips with sabor especial. "Sabor Especial" is basically another name for Cool Ranch. I guess that doesn't exactly translate well. Though, I always felt that "special flavor" sounds like they're hiding something.

I digress. When I opened up my bag of sabor espeical chips that year, I pulled out a picture of the Pope.



Sometimes, in place of the Pope, there would be a tiny sticker of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Nice.

Well, today I opened a bag of chips to find this:



Has México lost religion...?

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