A friend of mine grew near a Catholic monastery which fabricated wafers. The nuns gave the offcuts to the children, and they ate them with Nutella.
Snap, Crackle, Transubstantiate
Submitted 3 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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zloubida@lemmy.world 3 months ago
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
The missing “up” there makes me think that your friend is, in fact, a tree near a monastery, and somehow, through the power of friendship, you are able to speak with this tree, and he tells you stories of the olden days when the children would play and the nuns were kind, but firm.
zloubida@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I prefer your version, it’s now the headcanon of my and my friend’s lives.
riskable@programming.dev 3 months ago
Are you sure they were actual Jeez-Its and not just styrofoam?
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Is it weird that I kinda want to make this now? It seems like it would be good lol I’m not a Catholic though so I’m not sure where I would get these communion wafers
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
You can buy em online. Communion wafers. They’re not considered “hosts” or sacred until after they’re consecrated. But I don’t know if this would actually work or not. You’re not supposed to chew them, but let them dissolve. As such, I’d imagine when you add the melted marshmallow they would just sort of turn into a blob of sugary bread. They’re like if potato chips tasted of nothing, and had the same reaction to moisture as Styrofoam does to gasoline
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 3 months ago
they would just sort of turn into a blob of sugary bread
You’re making this idea seem better and better now 🤤
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 months ago
As someone who’s eaten too many communion wafers: it would probably not be good. They’re so bland that it would be too sweet and they don’t have a strong enough structure to hold up to molten marshmallows, imo.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Everyone who wants to taste these: look up Oblaten at a baking supply store near you, they’re basically 20-30 cm diameter communion wafers, and they come in much smaller quantities than you’ll find at seminary stores. You probably won’t want to keep eating them, so it’s better to have to throw out five big ones than 499 small ones.
riskable@programming.dev 3 months ago
…or you could just slice off a thin piece of styrofoam and shove it into your mouth. Same taste and texture!
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We’re trying to get off oil and you expect us to shove petroleum products in our mouths. SMH.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oblaten are a little difficult to get in a lot of places that don’t use them regularly like the US. I’ve only ever seen them once at a specialty store and that was only for the holidays where people might make Lebkuchen.
DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 3 months ago
I’ve never had those Catholic crackers. Are they any good?
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Imagine chewing on a thin slice of Styrofoam.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
You’d think they would taste better after they’re magically transformed into Jesus meat.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They’re pretty bland. Kinda melt-in-your-mouth. You can get them from a Catholic supply store, or you can order them online, if you want to try them out. They’ll sell them to anyone, they only care about limiting who eats them after they’ve been consecrated during mass.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sounds to me like I need to burgle mass and eat some Jesus on the down-low then.
soupguy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They taste like forgiveness
Eiri@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
They’re pretty addictive, but solely because of the texture. Crispy yet melty. The taste is almost non-existent though.
You can buy bags of communion wafer scraps for cheap here. Well, they used to be actual scraps, but nowadays you get full uncut wafer rectangles in the bag so I think they just produce them on purpose.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Nor I, but I’m told they’re about as bland as you can imagine.
salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
They’re almost cardboard-y tasting - I would think it’d be totally not worth it.
Rooty@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, they stick to the roof of your mouth an taste like cardboard.
Rooty@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You can buy conmunion wafers in bulk in most catholic bookstores, along with other cool stuff.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 3 months ago
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 3 months ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
I’d probably like it. Those wafers are fun. Tasteless, but the texture is the same as those vanilla wafer cookies.
Delphia@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You can do it with potato chips too. Mix through some milk chocolate chips and its good, very weird but good.
DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This one made me chuckle. Great 💩
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
This is haram
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And it isn’t kosher.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Weirdly enough it’s fine to eat if you’re catholic assuming they haven’t been blessed
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’d still eat the whole tray and sleep like a baby.