What to do with left over memorial emblems

Mattieu

We have an Italian cong that shares the hall with 2 English cong’s. An elder from the Italian cong makes the wine & bread every year for quite a few of the cong’s in Melbourne.

After the last memorial is held in our hall, the wine is taken back to this elders house where certain privileged ones are invited back for some socialising and to drink a very nice drop of red wine! As well as the usual assortment of cheese platters and crunchy bread.

We were “privileged” enough to be invited back a few years ago, but the whole idea didn’t seem to sit well with me, so we took a raincheck and never got invited back again. It was deemed to be a special privilege to be invited back and share in the wine that was used in the memorial.

Does this wacky use of the red wine happen anywhere else?

sspo

There is nothing special about the wine so some of the elders would drink it right after the memorial in the back school

making sure we would not be seen and stumble anyone.

wizardca

i had a family member make the bread. it was grainy and blah. needed lots of butter to make it semi-decent. the wine is just wine, drink up!

quietlyleaving

Mattieu, it sounds like a love feast

Witness 007

Only in Melbourne would brothers do that...the "most livable city in the world," I love it!

BizzyBee

I'm thinking breaded pork chops with a wine reduction sauce.

daniel-p

I used to be under the firm conviction that such wine should be poured down the drain, until one elder stuff the corks back in them and put them in a bag to take home. He said once its served its purpose as the emblems they have no use as such and no longer represent the blood of Christ. In reality, I think he was just a cheap fuck because those bottles of wine were the cheapest crap you could buy in regular 750ml bottles and he didn't want them to go to waste.