Last Supper Portions Super Sized

[Redz]

Gotta love that someone did the research on this...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8580146.stm

[nickagneta]

Gotta love that someone did the research on this...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8580146.stm

Somehow I find it strange that people see different paintings of the Last Supper and notice that the supper portions are historically inaccurate yet make no mention about the fact that all the people in those paintings are white. These people want to critique the authenticity of Last Supper paintings and the thing they bring up is food portions and not skin color of the people attending?

LOL. That just strikes me as extremely funny!!

[Donoghus]

Reminds me of a joke.

A priest is driving down to  New York  and gets stopped for speeding in Connecticut .  The state trooper smells alcohol on the priest's breath and then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car.

He says, "Sir, have you been drinking?"

"Just water," says the priest.

The trooper says, "Then why do I smell wine?"

The priest looks at the bottle and says, "Good Lord! He's done it again!"

[fairweatherfan]

Gotta love that someone did the research on this...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8580146.stm

Somehow I find it strange that people see different paintings of the Last Supper and notice that the supper portions are historically inaccurate yet make no mention about the fact that all the people in those paintings are white. These people want to critique the authenticity of Last Supper paintings and the thing they bring up is food portions and not skin color of the people attending?

LOL. That just strikes me as extremely funny!!

That's funny - I read the article before I saw this comment and thought "I'd like to see a similar study on skin tone of Jesus and the apostles based on racial makeup of each painting's culture."  I think it'd be interesting to see just how strong that effect'd be.

The researchers aren't critiquing the paintings' authenticity though - I don't think anyone could objectively say exactly how much food was actually at the Last Supper anyway.  Rather they're looking at how the food was depicted over time and as food has become more plentiful in real life, it has in the paintings too.

[nickagneta]

Gotta love that someone did the research on this...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8580146.stm

Somehow I find it strange that people see different paintings of the Last Supper and notice that the supper portions are historically inaccurate yet make no mention about the fact that all the people in those paintings are white. These people want to critique the authenticity of Last Supper paintings and the thing they bring up is food portions and not skin color of the people attending?

LOL. That just strikes me as extremely funny!!

That's funny - I read the article before I saw this comment and thought "I'd like to see a similar study on skin tone of Jesus and the apostles based on racial makeup of each painting's culture."  I think it'd be interesting to see just how strong that effect'd be.

The researchers aren't critiquing the paintings' authenticity though - I don't think anyone could objectively say exactly how much food was actually at the Last Supper anyway.  Rather they're looking at how the food was depicted over time and as food has become more plentiful in real life, it has in the paintings too.

Ahhhh. clarity. Thanks FWF.

[Roy Hobbs]

Didn't Jesus feed 5,000 people with two fish and five loaves of bread?  Talk about supersizing!

[misha]

Some people have way too much free time.