"How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" (v. 52, TEV)

In these times of world hunger, when many even within our own prosperous land find it difficult to put food on the table, we ought to be careful when complaining about our daily bread. But some of the "come-ons" that so-called quality restaurants advertise these days can irk any of us.

The other evening my wife and I visited a local restaurant that had an attractive advertisement, claiming the "best of everything" in town. The meals were offered for a new lower price - actually they amounted to more than a ten-dollar bill each. The quality of the meals hardly measured up to the claims. And the service was terrible. We left this promised land of culinary excellence feeling let-down and taken.

In contrast, this is one thing I like abo…