Unreal. Brings to mind this recent news item from my home state: "When emails first appeared calling for dumping current [Texas House] Speaker Joe Straus in favor of 'Christian conservative' leadership, Straus' more visible opponents initially dismissed accusations of anti-Jewish/pro-Christian bias." Straus is a conservative Republican, but, well...his name is Straus.
Here's a link: http://www.texasobserver.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=17184:srec-member-i-got-into-politics-to-put-christian-conservatives-into-office&Itemid=1880
It's not actually Wal-Mart, I believe (although I've seen other posts attributing the error to Wal-Mart). A Greenwich Village deli ran this Chanukah special in 2007. http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/food/2007/12/06/2007-12-06_balduccis_offers_ham_for_chanukah.html
Balducci's it is, not Wal Mart - and they'd go all aquiver if they knew they were referred to as a "deli." One of the highest end, snobbiest (and best) gourmet purveyors in NYC. Just the spot for your caviar and porcini. (And, in the interest of complete accuracy, they moved out of their Village location several years ago.) Still, a great story!
Here's the full story from Sonpes: http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/hanukkah.asp
However, don't forget that many Jews, certainly the majority in the United States, do not keep kosher. Nobody in my allegedly Jewish household would have blinked twice about waking up on a snowy Chanukah morning and having a nice breakfast of bacon and eggs.
While in college in DC I worked at Wagshal's a famed Jewish deli. The current owners, two partners, were not Jewish. One of the owner's sons, a business smart, hard-working, if a little sheltered in that all-American-Virginia-white-fraternity-guy way, asks me if I was Jewish.
ME: "Mike, I'm about as Jewish as a Christmas ham."
MIKE: Blank stare.
ME: "A Christmas ham. Get it?"
MIKE: Nada.
ME: "Christmas? Ham? Jews don't eat ham, the whole Christmas thing?"
MIKE: "Yeah, I get that." Beat. "So, are you Jewish?"
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I guess word hasn't gotten to Bentonville, AR yet regarding those dietary restrictions....
ReplyDeletePerfect w/Latkas. Or DiNardo.
ReplyDeleteUnreal. Brings to mind this recent news item from my home state: "When emails first appeared calling for dumping current [Texas House] Speaker Joe Straus in favor of 'Christian conservative' leadership, Straus' more visible opponents initially dismissed accusations of anti-Jewish/pro-Christian bias." Straus is a conservative Republican, but, well...his name is Straus.
ReplyDeleteHere's a link: http://www.texasobserver.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=17184:srec-member-i-got-into-politics-to-put-christian-conservatives-into-office&Itemid=1880
It's not actually Wal-Mart, I believe (although I've seen other posts attributing the error to Wal-Mart). A Greenwich Village deli ran this Chanukah special in 2007. http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/food/2007/12/06/2007-12-06_balduccis_offers_ham_for_chanukah.html
ReplyDeleteWolowitz on Big Bang eat's ham all the time.
ReplyDeleteI guess the people who sell Ham for Chanuka have an evil masterplan to make all Jews go to hell for sinning.
ReplyDeleteWell played I say.
Balducci's it is, not Wal Mart - and they'd go all aquiver if they knew they were referred to as a "deli." One of the highest end, snobbiest (and best) gourmet purveyors in NYC. Just the spot for your caviar and porcini. (And, in the interest of complete accuracy, they moved out of their Village location several years ago.) Still, a great story!
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine posted a similar picture from Giant or Safeway last week. Crazy and just insensitive.
ReplyDeleteHere's the full story from Sonpes: http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/hanukkah.asp
ReplyDeleteHowever, don't forget that many Jews, certainly the majority in the United States, do not keep kosher. Nobody in my allegedly Jewish household would have blinked twice about waking up on a snowy Chanukah morning and having a nice breakfast of bacon and eggs.
Is this halal?
ReplyDeleteTrue story:
ReplyDeleteWhile in college in DC I worked at Wagshal's a famed Jewish deli. The current owners, two partners, were not Jewish. One of the owner's sons, a business smart, hard-working, if a little sheltered in that all-American-Virginia-white-fraternity-guy way, asks me if I was Jewish.
ME: "Mike, I'm about as Jewish as a Christmas ham."
MIKE: Blank stare.
ME: "A Christmas ham. Get it?"
MIKE: Nada.
ME: "Christmas? Ham? Jews don't eat ham, the whole Christmas thing?"
MIKE: "Yeah, I get that." Beat. "So, are you Jewish?"
I hate to say this but I've eaten my share of pork and has had crab and lobster on occastion.
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