Associated Press – December 7, 2007
NEW YORK – A luxury grocery store in Manhattan made a food faux pas, advertising hams as “Delicious for Chanukah.”
Chanukah – an alternate spelling for Hanukkah – is the eight-day Jewish holiday that began Tuesday evening, and hams – as well as pork and other products from pigs – can’t be eaten under Jewish dietary laws.
A woman who saw the mistake over the weekend at the Balducci’s store on 14th Street took pictures of the signs and posted them on her blog.
Jennifer Barton, director of marketing, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the signs were changed as soon as the error was noted.
She issued an apology on the company Web site, saying the company would be reviewing its employee training.
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posted December 7, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Reviewing the company training would be advisable. It was a mistake,and was corrected. My guess it that it probably won’t stop the Jewish customers who normally buy there from continuing to do so.
posted December 7, 2007 at 5:40 pm
In these days of celebrating others’ holidays and such, a nice Christian or atheist family might sit down to a dinner celebrating Hanukkah and they might reasonably enjoy a ham in the process. Or, more likely, a non-observant Jewish family might do the same. But it’s clearly not religiously correct.
posted December 7, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Meh. I silly mistake. They should have known better, but only in the most literal sense. Probably just trying to capitalize on the alliteration.
Next up: Burger King’s Hanukkah bacon-double-cheeseburger sale.
God bless.
posted December 8, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Silly mistake. Everyone knows you serve ham at Passover.
posted December 9, 2007 at 12:10 am
And you can bet that Red Lobster won’t miss the opportunity for a Hannukah Shrimp Fest! Or maybe Dominos will offer Hannukah 2 for 1 Hawaiian and Pork lovers pizzas.