...and pork chops for Purim
Friday December 7, 2007
Categories: Decline and fall
A reader writes to present this, picked up from Seth Godin's blog, as evidence that we're doomed, doomed, doomed as a civilization:...
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I know a number of non-observant Jews who would love it.
At least the hams weren't placed in the vegetarian section. Then you'd have a real riot on your hands!
Photoshop - trust no one.
Will,
I heard a short report about it on Morning Edition this morning, so it's not just a photoshopped picture.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16996426
Are you sure the supermarket didn't get mixed up with Hanukkah HARRY?
How non-inclusive! We should demand that they change the name to "Holiday Ham"!
I wonder what percentage of Jews keep kosher? I used to date a Jewish girl. The most dangerous place to be was between her and the boiled shrimp and little sausages at the cocktail party.
What's perhaps more ironic about this is that Hanukkah is the festival celebrating the victory of the Jewish Maccabees over the Syrian Seleucids in 167-64 BC, a rebellion and then war precipitated by the Seleucids attempting to require Jews to eat pork (and thus deny their faith). That is, pork plays a specific role in the events that led to Hanukkah.
The trend of recent topics here strikes me as kind of funny. We've had a long series of Christians telling other Christians what constitutes proper belief and worship. Christians have also informed pagans and atheists that they (the Christians) are the true arbiters of what pagans and atheists really think. Then came the Christians telling Mormons what Mormons really believe. Now the Christians are going to chide the Jews for not being proper Jews. I'm amused, but I'm not sure what to make of this!
I saw it in person. I asked the manager. He said he didn't have a clue how it happened, and was very apologetic.
Sure, a lot of us don't keep kosher. But something like this, well, it takes chutzpah!
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30123
Sure, a lot of us don't keep kosher. But something like this, well, it takes chutzpah!
I don't see this as more than a humorous mistake, not that different from the 'fish on friday' jokes that Catholics endure.
I'm surprised to actually see a ham product advertised for Jewish holiday festivities. Even I know better than to offer a Jewish friend a pork chop. However, if they take it upon themselves to buy it and eat it, I won't say a thing--no, sir! Pork products are might toothsome, they are! What we used to find funny when my uncle lived up in New Jersey is that his Jewish friends would want him to bring them all back a Tennessee smoked ham. He came in a van so he could load them all. Now that was funny.
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