No, He gave them bread, then said "This is my Body", signifying it to have become His Flesh. He foreshadows the Last Supper in Him rebuking the Pharisees for not wanting to eat His Body and drink His Blood. NOWHERE does He try to explain the merely symbolic meaning of this like He did with His other allegories or parables.

God forbade is many a things, and cannibalism is also forbidden still. The Eucharist is inexplainable why we can partake in it. However He is verily there. The first Christians believed in it, died for it even.