Somehow I know that back when I was a girl (around 60 years ago) if there was a April Fools Day like this one – fell on the day of the evening which started Passover – my mom would have had several things planned to fool us with.
(Alas mom did not make it to this year’s Passover – she left us in February a couple months short of 97.)
The Fancy New Apartment is in an area with a large Jewish population. The supermarket I use is a local chain. Where the Suburban House is, the kosher section of the store is a two-foot grocery section with matzo and such. This store has large kosher sections in meat, dairy, frozen, deli etc.
But that’s nothing compared to this period before Passover. Extra sales sections. That included a freezer case in Meat with a bunch of deboned leg joints.
Husband and I are mixed – I am Jewish and he is Roman Catholic. Planning Passover and Easter some years is a “lot of fun” to figure it out.
This year they fell the same week, so he had us buy 2 chickens – a small one for first night of Passover and a larger one for Easter dinner. Day after the Passover dinner he decided that 2 chicken dinners was crazy idea and insisted we return the second one (though I kept telling him we should just keep it as it would be thrown out if we returned it – which was to be done as we did return it).
This left us with Easter dinner. Yeah, we ended up going to a different store and buying a second chicken which I cooked as a Brunswick stew for Easter dinner. (And paid more for the last chicken than either of the earlier ones.)
When the two fall this close together it becomes a juggling game to meet religious requirements for me and what he is used to for Easter. In the past we would cooked dinner for at least one of the families, but as time as passed we end up celebrating most holidays on our own.
Like you, when he we met he knew little about the Jewish holidays and their customs. Now he is an expert. Since Matzoh is used in large amounts during the holiday as it replaces a large number of other foods – especially bread – during the holidays one can buy a package of 5 – 1 lb boxes. He often insists we buy same, despite knowing we will be eating the box for years. This year I talked him out of doing same insisted we only need one box. Well, we both were wrong – we need two boxes. I will make a note for next year.
(Cooking and wash up after same is really hard this year as we have a colony of teeny tiny ants who decided to move into our kitchen around the window over the sink. Passover dinner involved paper plates and bowls mixed in with regular – no use of the good china for Easter, etc. I have to wash by hand for what we could not work around not using – wash it, dry it, hand it to him to put away so nothing is touching the kitchen sink. Since I am using the sink in the bathroom which is adjacent to the kitchen it is not easy as the sink there is so small.
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In today’s strip, Janis seemed fine with cancelling April Fool’s.
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Somehow I know that back when I was a girl (around 60 years ago) if there was a April Fools Day like this one – fell on the day of the evening which started Passover – my mom would have had several things planned to fool us with.
(Alas mom did not make it to this year’s Passover – she left us in February a couple months short of 97.)
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The Fancy New Apartment is in an area with a large Jewish population. The supermarket I use is a local chain. Where the Suburban House is, the kosher section of the store is a two-foot grocery section with matzo and such. This store has large kosher sections in meat, dairy, frozen, deli etc.
But that’s nothing compared to this period before Passover. Extra sales sections. That included a freezer case in Meat with a bunch of deboned leg joints.
There was a sign that said:
FREE
Limit one Seder bone per customer.
I had to look up what a Seder bone was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroa
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Brian –
Husband and I are mixed – I am Jewish and he is Roman Catholic. Planning Passover and Easter some years is a “lot of fun” to figure it out.
This year they fell the same week, so he had us buy 2 chickens – a small one for first night of Passover and a larger one for Easter dinner. Day after the Passover dinner he decided that 2 chicken dinners was crazy idea and insisted we return the second one (though I kept telling him we should just keep it as it would be thrown out if we returned it – which was to be done as we did return it).
This left us with Easter dinner. Yeah, we ended up going to a different store and buying a second chicken which I cooked as a Brunswick stew for Easter dinner. (And paid more for the last chicken than either of the earlier ones.)
When the two fall this close together it becomes a juggling game to meet religious requirements for me and what he is used to for Easter. In the past we would cooked dinner for at least one of the families, but as time as passed we end up celebrating most holidays on our own.
Like you, when he we met he knew little about the Jewish holidays and their customs. Now he is an expert. Since Matzoh is used in large amounts during the holiday as it replaces a large number of other foods – especially bread – during the holidays one can buy a package of 5 – 1 lb boxes. He often insists we buy same, despite knowing we will be eating the box for years. This year I talked him out of doing same insisted we only need one box. Well, we both were wrong – we need two boxes. I will make a note for next year.
(Cooking and wash up after same is really hard this year as we have a colony of teeny tiny ants who decided to move into our kitchen around the window over the sink. Passover dinner involved paper plates and bowls mixed in with regular – no use of the good china for Easter, etc. I have to wash by hand for what we could not work around not using – wash it, dry it, hand it to him to put away so nothing is touching the kitchen sink. Since I am using the sink in the bathroom which is adjacent to the kitchen it is not easy as the sink there is so small.
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Frazz is, as usual, insufferable.
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