I don't do religion. Never have. Never will. I know this because I tried - really I did! - and nothing stuck. All my references to celebrating Christmas are strictly secular in nature, and it's mainly to give a name to a day on which I gather with my family (like it or not) and we give each other presents and eat too much.
However, through my flirtation with Judaism, not to mention that I have not been locked away in a hole in the ground during my 28 years here in existence, I know something about keeping kosher and other basic tenets of the Jewish religion. I also know that New York has one of the - if not the - highest concentration of Jews in the entire country.
So this may be the funniest thing I've heard all day. And just in case they pull the story in favor of more current fare, let me post it for you here...
New York store red faced over 'Hanukkah hams'
Dec 6 12:55 PM US/Eastern
A posh food store in New York's Greenwich Village has found itself red faced after offering hams for sale with the slogan "Delicious for Hanukkah," the current Jewish religious holiday.
The non-kosher labelling was spotted at the weekend by Manhattan novelist Nancy Kay Shapiro, 46, who decided instead of alerting management to take a picture of the unorthodox sign and post it on the Internet.
"I just thought it was funny," Shapiro, who described herself as an unobservant Jew, told the New York Post. "I wasn't offended in any way. I just thought, here's somebody who knows nothing about what Jews eat."
By the time Shapiro returned to the store on Tuesday, the first night of Hanukkah, the signs had vanished, the newspaper reported.
A manager at the Balducci's gourmet grocery store told the newspaper that the sign was a mistake and blamed it on a stock clerk.
Pork and shellfish are among the foods considered unclean under Jewish law.
However, through my flirtation with Judaism, not to mention that I have not been locked away in a hole in the ground during my 28 years here in existence, I know something about keeping kosher and other basic tenets of the Jewish religion. I also know that New York has one of the - if not the - highest concentration of Jews in the entire country.
So this may be the funniest thing I've heard all day. And just in case they pull the story in favor of more current fare, let me post it for you here...
New York store red faced over 'Hanukkah hams'
Dec 6 12:55 PM US/Eastern
A posh food store in New York's Greenwich Village has found itself red faced after offering hams for sale with the slogan "Delicious for Hanukkah," the current Jewish religious holiday.
The non-kosher labelling was spotted at the weekend by Manhattan novelist Nancy Kay Shapiro, 46, who decided instead of alerting management to take a picture of the unorthodox sign and post it on the Internet.
"I just thought it was funny," Shapiro, who described herself as an unobservant Jew, told the New York Post. "I wasn't offended in any way. I just thought, here's somebody who knows nothing about what Jews eat."
By the time Shapiro returned to the store on Tuesday, the first night of Hanukkah, the signs had vanished, the newspaper reported.
A manager at the Balducci's gourmet grocery store told the newspaper that the sign was a mistake and blamed it on a stock clerk.
Pork and shellfish are among the foods considered unclean under Jewish law.
1 comment:
No. Really? No. But, even I... No. It officially didn't happen or my stomach will jump up and eat my brain out of a wish to put it out of its misery. No.
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