An online creator has found the ultimate loophole for getting her daily dose of caffeine during her religious fast.
New York City-based writer Chelsea Jacobson, 28, shared how she would be getting her caffeine fix during Yom Kippur – the most holy day in the Jewish calendar.
She held up a caffeine suppository to the camera and said: ‘You understood me correctly, it’s caffeine for your a**hole’.
Suppositories are usually intended for medication that cannot be ingested orally, yet in light of religious fasting it appears some people have given them a new use.
‘So, [Jews] don’t eat to show how sorry we are to God, to each other, to ourselves… but some religious people found a convenient loophole, while you can’t ingest anything you can go… backwards,’ she explained.
Yom Kippur began at sunset on Friday and ended at nightfall on Saturday. The holiday is centered on atonement and repentance, and mainly consisting of fasting and prayer.
Jacobson explained a friend gave her the suppository, and she would be trying out the ‘butt caffeine’.
Viewers, however, were not convinced.
One wrote: ‘I like caffeine as much as the next person but not like this…’
‘I’m dedicated to caffeine… but I’m not sure if I am that dedicated,’ wrote another.
She made a follow up video not too long after and said: ‘If you have not used a suppository before, let me just tell you, your a**hole is far more willing to receive medication than you could have ever, ever imagined in your entire life.’
Comments ranged from confused, to medical professionals chipping in.
One wrote: ‘You have now learned why other ‘objects’ must have a flared base to prevent visits to the ER.’
Jacobson ended her video laughing and said: ‘I can’t help but wonder if God, the singularity, whatever is out there, would have just preferred that I have a cup of coffee rather than what just happened.’