Its hard to imagine Jesus standing on the mount offering Tim Tams to the massed crowds but come World Youth Day no cost is been spared. Orders for sausages, onions, bread, tim tams and soft drinks have been dipatched, tonnes and tonnes of food will be made for the many events located around Sydney. Again it’s a little difficult to imagine Jesus chowing down on a pork filled sausage or the look on his face when the tomato sauce runs down his arms and leaves a huge red stain on his flowing white linens. I wonder which one of the Apostles would have pointed out the stain? James? Thomas? or would Mary have tried to get that stain out on the spot.
Oddly enough there has been no mention of alcohol at any of these events. Again Jesus liked a drink, everyone remembers the water into wine party, the last supper had wine even if the event was a little bit of a downer with the whole crucifixion thing hinted at. Yet it appears the young folk won’t have a chance to booze it up on the name of Christ. Where’s the fun in that?
Tim Tam.Don’t get Jinx wrong, she loves Tim Tams BUT Tim Tams are not beer or spirits. Jinx loves Tim Tam Slamming as much as the next person, after two Slams your looking to Irish or Jamaican up the coffee in some hugely doses or that afternoon just drags on…. Eating non alcoholic handfuls of Tim Tams won’t make everyone within ten feet of you, your instant best friend forever and make you hug them often and repeatedly and it doesn’t matter how many sausages you have in a limp piece of white bread with under cooked onions on top with too much mustard and too little tomato sauce about to slide off onto your new pair of shoes you got at that super cool store that never ever carries your size for half the retail price will it make that guy from England look any hotter or allow you to ignore his BO issues.
In reality Jinx’s wondered what the overseas pilgrims will think when shown the only thing we in Australia thought to bring to the Papal shindig were some dodgy sausages. Will questions be asked about salads, like where are they and do Australians know what fruit and vegetables look like, will the pilgrims ask if the sausages have roo in them or worst ask if they can eat something not swimming in fat and blood. There will be many awkward moments Jinx’s feared for the person manning the BBQ with tongs in hand wearing the apron “Jesus is my Co pilot”. But if there’s alcohol all that could be avoided, pissed pilgrims will be delighted to get something fat and dripping with a question mark over the type of meat in it. It’s all part of the experience, a right of passage as it were.
If the organizers really want people to experience some “eternal” joy during the World Youth Day Events they better get some booze ordered or Jinx thought maybe I could go down there with some alcohol pops and make some serious money selling them out of the back of my van. Jinx wondered what would Jesus do?
