But there’s more. I used to think Crisco had something to do with Christ. It is a kind of oil—hydrogenated soybean oil, to be precise—and Christ comes from the Greek christos which means “anointed,” as in with oil, so you can understand why I would think the words are related. I’m not alone in this belief. In his The Rector's Blog, Archdeacon John W.G. Clarke similarly connects the two: “The word ‘crisco’ comes from the same Latin root word as ‘Christ,’” he writes, concluding that Jesus “is, after all, the Crisco Kid.”  Unfortunately we’re both wrong, the archdeacon and I. There’s no connection whatsoever between the lard-like shortening and the son of God. Crisco doesn’t come from a Latin or Greek root; it turns out that it’s a sort of acronym derived from the first letters of CRYStalized Cottonseed Oil, the product from which it was originally made (before the cottonseed oil was replaced by soybean). So much for the Crisco Kid. That said, it did almost start life under the name Cryst, which certainly sounds a lot like Christ. Originally Procter & Gamble had thought to market its new solid all-vegetable oil shortening under the name Krispo. Another company already sold crackers by that name, however, and so Krispo briefly became Cryst until someone in management expressed concern that the new name sounded vaguely—or perhaps overtly—messianic. Renamed once again, Crisco appeared on the market in 1911 with the name by which it is still known, loved, and scorned to this day.  - http://academyoffood.blogspot.com/2012/07/on-crisco-christ-and-crisco-kid.html