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YOU COULD JUST IMAGINE "JESUS BODY" BEING THE CHRISTIAN ANSWER TO QUICK (AND POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS) WEIGHT LOSS, were it to be available here in our "morally superior" United States (though this is actually from Japan, even allowing for the "Engrish" on the packaging).
But then again, on the other hand, you could imagine certain overzealously Fundamentalist Low Church Christians objecting to the very name "Jesus Body" on Blasphemy grounds (cf. C.W. Post having to hastily rename his corn flakes, heretofore known as Elijah's Manna, Post Toasties; the English, in fact, refused to extend trademark protection for "Elijah's Manna" because of "blasphemous connotations" invoking the name of the Old Testament prophet fed by ravens.
(But then again, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium, which introduced corn flakes to the world in 1896, was originally a product of the Seventh-Day Adventists, whose teachings extend to vegetarianism and dietary reform; in fact, the Seventh-Day Adventists are a major health-food wholesaler, even owning United States distribution rights to two popular European coffee substitutes, Pero and Cafix ... and "Down Under," the Seventh-Day Adventists' biggest money maker is Sanitarium Weet-Bix cereal, itself an Australian icon alongside Vegemite, Allen's Minties, Arnott's sweet biscuits and crispbreads, Napi-San, ETA barbecue sauce, Milo [a close cousin of Ovaltine, in case you ask], Aeroplane Jelly Crystals and Sweet's Golden Gaytime ice-cream bars.)
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MEANWHILE, IN THE HIGH-SPEED PASSENGER-RAIL ARENA IN THE "MORALLY SUPERIOR" UNITED STATES, Your Correspondent feels due consideration ought be given to the potential for conventional-design coaches of lightweight body construction providing such a concept in the interim.
Especially where the need to achieve value for money is desired.
Surely, we can learn from the past: Some of the more legendary high-speed trains pre-Amtrak, especially so 1930's and 1940's vintage, used conventional-design streamlined coaches, among them:
between Chicago and the Twin Cities, the 400 of the Chicago and North Western and the Milwaukee Road's Hiawathas;
the New York Central's Mercury between Chicago and Detroit, the James Whitcomb Riley between Chicago, Indianapolis and Cincinnati, and the New York-Albany-Buffalo Empire State Express;
the pre-Metroliner Congressionals of the Pennsylvania between New York, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore and Washington, DC;
the New Haven's Boston-New York stalwarts of the Yankee Clipper, Merchants Special, Bankers and Gilt Edge; and
the Southern Pacific's Los Angeles-San Francisco Coast Daylight.
And let's not forget what the Canadians were up to in the mid-late 1960's with the Canadian National's Tempo Service between Windsor and Toronto (using newly-built coaches) and the Rapidos (using specially-rebuilt coaches) between Toronto, Ottawa and Montréal.
So what would stand in the way, especially if the diesel engines powering this new generation of high-speed services used biodiesel or diesel-turbine engines to maximise fuel economy towards energy self-reliance?
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