• @idiomaddict
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    52 hours 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.

  • @MrJameGumb
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    145 hours 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

    • @idiomaddict
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      52 hours 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.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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      94 hours 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
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        84 hours ago

        they would just sort of turn into a blob of sugary bread

        You’re making this idea seem better and better now 🤤

  • Zloubida
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    126 hours ago

    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.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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      64 hours 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
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        24 hours ago

        I prefer your version, it’s now the headcanon of my and my friend’s lives.

    • TheRealKuni
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      146 hours 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.

      • Tanis Nikana
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        55 hours ago

        Sounds to me like I need to burgle mass and eat some Jesus on the down-low then.

        • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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          14 hours ago

          If you’ve been baptized in any trinitarian tradition you can partake in an Episcopal Eucharist celebration, and we use the same absolutely tasteless wafers. I so envy the Orthodox and their leavened breads.

          • Tanis Nikana
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            44 hours ago

            I didn’t grow up in a place where Christianity was the norm, so nope, never baptized. I’ll just pirate some Jesus, that’s what he’d want.

    • @soupguy
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      76 hours ago

      They taste like forgiveness

    • @[email protected]
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      35 hours 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.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      56 hours ago

      Nor I, but I’m told they’re about as bland as you can imagine.