The Not-so-elephant In The Room

[God of Mr. Hanky]

Question: do the faithful who engage in the Eucharist actually notice the transubstantiation?  Because whenever I engaged in the ritual (remember, I grew up in a barely practicing Catholic household) it all tasted like a crappy stale wafer and wine, and I didn't feel blessed or energized or content afterward.  Then again, I was one of those kids who just kind of went through the motions because it's what my elders expected of me and I didn't want to get into trouble.  I never actually believed, even back then.

So, what do the faithful experience when they do it?

The wafer, which is protected by armed guards in the Vatican against those who would desecrate it (e.g. the Satanists in their mocking Black Masses) tastes so bad that I doubt most would know the difference if it really was a dried piece of corpse skin.   Maybe that's what it really is - and poor single mothers think their Catholic charities are taking in the babies which they were forced to have for adoption!