Graffiti 'Jesus loves nachos' is now a protected brand

katherine - There is no dispute about taste and one calls it blasphemy, the other vandalism. What is certain is that it is now a protected brand name: Jesus loves nachos. After eight months of struggle, the Australian city council member Toni Tapp Coutts has succeeded in registering the graffiti that has been decorating a rusty railway bridge in her hometown Katherine for years with the Australian trademark agency.

The railway bridge was already a cultural heritage and Tapp Coutts hopes to retain the graffiti for posterity. She also wants to attract tourists and put souvenirs on the market with the slogan. 'I want to keep the story alive and give it its own place in the world', said the council member against television channel ABC.

That story starts in the eighties. Some of the boys who attended a Christian festival in Katherine, painted 'Jesus loves' on the bridge with white paint, and a few years later someone added the word 'nachos'. Reportedly, this was a relative of Tapp Coutts.