Entering into the spirit of the current crackdown in Thailand, a New Mandala reader has sent me this shocking image from Siam Square.
Warning - read no further if you are offended by images that mock revered institutions.
How many years in prison for this?
April 7th, 2009 by Andrew Walker · 7 Comments
Tags: Thailand
7 responses so far ↓
1 Ty // Apr 7, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Eat it and you die immediately!
2 Thobphon // Apr 7, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Deliciousness….
right next to Holiness.
Holy Pizza
P.S. I think the price is a little bit expensive.
3 Ben Shingleton // Apr 8, 2009 at 1:11 am
It works! I want one!
4 khon ngai ngai // Apr 8, 2009 at 3:07 am
It could be due to Thai’s unsophisticated grasp of the nuances of the English language, in the same way you have nonsensical words as “Thai wisdom” (as in its materialist expressions, e.g. OTOP ), “sufficiency economy” (yeah, right), “people’s alliance for democracy”, or even “thai race” (Adam pen khon thai krap).
Or probably not in this case …….. there is nothing “saksit” in Pizza. It could be the namer was (unknowingly) using the cross as a fashion emblem just like many sasanna phut dara wearing crosses (worse, on their tantalizing cleavage or as earrings a la Madonna).
Or perhaps the joke is really on us? The makers of Holy Pizza are ex-monks who couldn’t make it in their Parian exams or their lifetime commitment to the sangha?
As a sasana kris, perhaps someone should brand a product as “holy condoms” in response to the pope’s stand on condoms. Or perhaps those westerners whose conscience were pricked should also be more circumscribed and avoid using the expression “buddha belly” to refer to their you know what.
BTW, I have partaken of Holy Pizza in Siam Square, and I never even got close to the state of beatification.
5 Jason Tonio // Apr 8, 2009 at 4:10 am
This is clearly irrelevant to the issues at hand because the King is something Thai people like and Christianity is something foreigners like. What do the revered institutions of others have to do with anything?
6 Dboy // Apr 9, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Xianity is not important in Thailand so why would mocking it be against the law? I hope you were joking about the photo being “shocking”. In addition, exactly who considers xianity to be “a revered institution”? This isn’t the 13th century. Perhaps you meant “a revolting institution”?
dboy
7 student // Apr 13, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I saw this pizza shop in a US movie before. I believe it is nothing new, and certainly not of Thai origins.
This is article is naive.
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