You played church?
I wasn’t Catholic, but some of my best friends were. I loved to play Church; they put up with it long enough to get me to play House with them later. I made them show me how Communion worked, and yes, we used Necco wafers to play Communion. I got to be the priest, of course.
In fact, I recall walking a mile to the store and buying Necco wafers out of my own money, just for the game of Communion. I never ate the things otherwise.
I never saw Necco wafers as a kid - maybe they don’t have them in Canada?
We could buy these at the candy store, though, and they were made of the exact same stuff as the Body of Christ. Honestly, I would not be surprised if the official white church Hosts were made at the same factory and just stamped with something being sent off to the church. We even called them “bonbons hostie”, of “host candies”, which was a lot of fun for a French Canadian kid, because it meant we could ask for them over and over and it wasn’t really swearing, so parents couldn’t get mad!
You could buy that same stuff at candy stores as plain flat wafers (colors or white) and as flat sheets, both of which were very handy for cake decorating.
Necco wafers aren’t wafer cookies. They aren’t cookies at all - they’re little flat discs of pressed confection. Almost exactly the same size as a host. The only palatable flavor is chocolate.
DummyGladHands - Oh, ick. That’s awful.
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I HATE Necco Wafers
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Communion hosts are much more like the Flying Saucers candies. We used those as “play” communion wafers
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Instead of the Body of Christ, how about a bride of Christ; specifically their farts?
Those are flying saucers, and I agree that they have absolutely no taste.
Being Jewish, I never knew of this, but it must explain the aura around the Necco plant down the street from MIT which I used to walk past on the way to the grocery in Central Square.
I don’t know what Necco wafers are either, but we used either regular old crackers or white bread cut or torn into reasonably host-shaped circles and then mashed flat. It was always fun finding the most chaliced-shaped vase in whatever household we were playing Mass in. The more elaborate the better. Carnival glass is great.
I remember reading in Growing Up Catholic that Cannon towels were the only acceptable altar linens for play Mass. Get it? Canon towel? 
But you had Canada Mints, no? Same thing only thicker, and fewer flavors.
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Necco wafers are nasty.
ETA: When I was an altar boy, I used to eat handfuls of unconsecrated wafers from the Church’s storage room right before Mass. I was hungry, and you’re not supposed to eat an hour before (or after) you take communion!
No. I can remember though being so f’ing hungry during mass that I would take part in communion simply to get something in my stomach.