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The current generation of Cavanagh family members have an awesome sense of humor about what they do — it’s almost as if they know they’re making crackers that others take waaaay too seriously:
The company employs 36 full-time people making altar bread. The family is Roman Catholic, “but you certainly don’t have to be Catholic to work here,” said Brian. “It’s a manufacturing company. There’s no fake reverence for the product.” Until the wafers are used by a priest in the celebration of the Eucharist, “it’s just bread,” he said.
My favorite part has to be what happens to the discarded Jesus wafers:
Next comes the die cutter. Sheets of bread automatically drop between two rollers, which cut 112 standard Communion wafers from each sheet in about one second, while simultaneously indenting a cross or a lamb shape into each wafer.
The wafers and the chaff left over from the cut are spun are in perforated tubes, which shake the chaff into waste barrels. A local pig farmer feeds the waste to his hogs.
“Holy pigs, we call them,” said Luke.
Catholics make up one-sixth of the world’s population. You figure most of them actually believe they are eating Jesus
How Do Jesus Crackers Get Made
The company employs 36 full-time people making altar bread. The family is Roman Catholic, “but you certainly don’t have to be Catholic to work here,” said Brian. “It’s a manufacturing company. There’s no fake reverence for the product.” Until the wafers are used by a priest in the celebration of the Eucharist, “it’s just bread,” he said.
My favorite part has to be what happens to the discarded Jesus wafers:
Next comes the die cutter. Sheets of bread automatically drop between two rollers, which cut 112 standard Communion wafers from each sheet in about one second, while simultaneously indenting a cross or a lamb shape into each wafer.
The wafers and the chaff left over from the cut are spun are in perforated tubes, which shake the chaff into waste barrels. A local pig farmer feeds the waste to his hogs.
“Holy pigs, we call them,” said Luke.
Catholics make up one-sixth of the world’s population. You figure most of them actually believe they are eating Jesus
How Do Jesus Crackers Get Made
