The Virgin That Melts In Your Mouth, and Not In Your Hands

The Virgin Mary has decided to make a guest appearance at a chocolate store in Fountain Valley, CA:

Cruz Jacinto found her faith in God in a two-inch blob of chocolate, and she hasn't even tasted it.

Jacinto is a kitchen worker at Bodega Chocolates' new store on Newhope Street. On Monday, she showed up at work and found that a figurine had formed during the weekend under a drippy vat of dark chocolate in the test kitchen.

Jacinto pulled a tattered picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe from her pocket and held it next to the chocolate clump.

"They're identical!" she said in Spanish and rushed to show her co-workers.

It was just the sign she needed. And it seems to be what nearly 100 others – who have flocked to see the deity – needed, too.

Today, the figurine was perched in the center of a glass table surrounded by scented candles, roses and boxes of gourmet treats. Jacinto has been among the throng who have visited and prayed to the chocolaty idol since the shrine was set up near the gourmet chocolate shop's front door on Wednesday.

Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you are a nut.