>>> Frank Masingill on Bread and Wine 
 WE> During American prohibition what happened to the Christian custom of
 WE> bread and wine?  Nothing or was it also prohibited to allow only the
 WE> breaking of bread?
 FM> Southern Baptists and probably other denominations as well did not,
 FM> within my lifetime, use "wine" at all in communion services.  They
 FM> usually used Welch's grape juice.  
Interesting to note.  So these churches would not have even this communion 
scruple about prohibition.
 FM> North Africa during WW II we obtained a 5-gallon gasoline can of barely
 FM> fermented wine from the fields and "drank on it" for several days. 
But it wasn't barely fermented by the last drop! -)
 FM> When the little boy so willingly opened his lunch and offered to
 FM> share, the people who had all brought just enough food for themselves
 FM> decided to share also and consequently there WAS a lot left over.
Socialistic moralizing.
 FM> The story of the loaves and fishes might well
 FM> refer to a religious sacrement of some sort.
An interesting variant of the Cornu Copia myth.
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