[Boagenes]

Technically, it’s not a cracker, it’s a wafer...but why should I expect a scientist would know that...

[Clemenza]

Thanks for the correction. I've always heard that all wafers were crackers, but not all crackers were wafers (many actually being "biscuits"). I'll have to defer to the good folks at the National Biscuit Company, I guess.

Nevertheless, most of the American population doesn't fetishize the so called "eucharist." Hocus pocus by any other name:

"The origins of the term remain obscure. According to the Oxford English Dictionary the term originates from hax pax max Deus adimax, a pseudo-Latin phrase used as a magic formula by conjurors[1]. Some believe it originates from a parody of the Roman Catholic liturgy of the eucharist, which contains the phrase 'Hoc est enim corpus meum.'"