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 1 week ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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zloubida@lemmy.world 1 week ago
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 week 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 1 week ago
I prefer your version, it’s now the headcanon of my and my friend’s lives.
riskable@programming.dev 1 week ago
Are you sure they were actual Jeez-Its and not just styrofoam?
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago
We’re trying to get off oil and you expect us to shove petroleum products in our mouths. SMH.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week ago
I’ve never had those Catholic crackers. Are they any good?
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Imagine chewing on a thin slice of Styrofoam.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
You’d think they would taste better after they’re magically transformed into Jesus meat.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week ago
Sounds to me like I need to burgle mass and eat some Jesus on the down-low then.
soupguy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They taste like forgiveness
Eiri@lemmy.ca 1 week 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 1 week ago
Nor I, but I’m told they’re about as bland as you can imagine.
salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
They’re almost cardboard-y tasting - I would think it’d be totally not worth it.
Rooty@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No, they stick to the roof of your mouth an taste like cardboard.
Rooty@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You can buy conmunion wafers in bulk in most catholic bookstores, along with other cool stuff.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 1 week ago
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 week ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago
This one made me chuckle. Great 💩
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
This is haram
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And it isn’t kosher.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Weirdly enough it’s fine to eat if you’re catholic assuming they haven’t been blessed
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’d still eat the whole tray and sleep like a baby.