The Good Lord Laughs Again

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Reading SmilePie's (@much2day) comment on my post about wine jelly, she told of a vodka jelly being so rubbery, her college friends starting throwing balls of it at the wall. This reminded me of a funny story I heard years back when the Methodists, Congregationalists (I think) and Presbyterians joined forces to become the Uniting Church. During the turmoil which was always going to accompany such a union, some groups broke away and formed their own worship groups. Friends of ours belonged to one such splinter group. For communion, they would use small sherry glasses to hold the communion wine. Several of the women were rostered each Sunday to pour the wine into the glasses well before the church service. On this particular Sunday, they ran out of communion wine and in desperation, they made up some port wine jelly, very diluted, and poured that into the glasses. However, when the time came, the jelly had not been sufficiently diluted and had set in the glasses. Despite their best efforts in tipping the glasses upside down, the 'wine' would not come out. When I hear of stuff like this, I always have an image of the good Lord getting his laugh for the day.