Even non-churchgoers are picking up a new trend in Quebec: snacking on communion wafers. They are even sold in the grocery stores, packaged like peanuts and popcorn.
If you ask me, this is sacriligious. It's not necessarily wrong per se to eat unconsecrated hosts, but when you, essentially, profane them in this fashion, I think there is a problem. People associate them with the sacred. If you associate the sacred with a profane act or a profane context, you profane the sacred thing. Holy means "set apart", and there is a reason that communion hosts are "set apart" from normal food. People will naturally think of communion as less holy because they associate it with what they eat watching TV. Yuck!
So is this food product identical or just the same style, etc.? In your photo, there seems to be a cut-out cross, is that found on the food product?
At our church, we usually use Matzo for communion, as do many protestant churches. Sometimes we use actual loves of bread and sometimes, when someone's in a rush and didn't plan ahead, just saltine crackers.
On New Years Eve service, it was saltine crackers. Our a party following, a friend Pam says to me how happy it was that we didn't use Matzo again. I remarked something to the effect that I like Matzo. She says, "You choose to eat that stuff?"
Being of Jewish background, you'll always find a box of Matzo, a box of Matzo Meal and a box of Matzo Farfel in my house. I have to actually go out and find it here in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor, where protests are regularly found at Jewish Synagogues, but Muslim Mosques are considered sacred ground.
My point though is that we normally use Matzo and I often eat it with butter in front of the TV, or broken into pieces in my soup. Granted, Catholics believe communion to be different than we do, but the story is still on-topic and should be an enjoyable read to the readers of this blog.
Cheers - Caleb