My homegirl at Excruciatingly Normal sent this from
WhatYaGonnaDo?
Only in Savannah, peeps. Betcha anything it came from the Piggly Wiggly on Skidaway.
Update: So this didn’t happen in South after all, folks, but New Yawk Freakin’ City, posted by Nancy Kay Shapiro on her blog. Manhattan, for f*ck’s sake, which if I’m not mistaken is the unofficial land of the Jews, at one of those upscale yuppie markets that sell $12 jars of wasabi peanuts and imported cheeses. Armaggedon could be closer than I thought.
This made me laugh out loud- thanks Yo.
Leave it to Savannah- it has been many years but I have been to that Piggly Wiggly on Skidaway and you must be right. When I was there I was sure it was a time capsule back to another era.
Cori – you’re not supposed to be doing anything out loud because of your sick vocal chords!! Happy bday, lady.
I checked out the Chanukah display at B&N today, it included little stockings stuffed with gospels …
.. but isn’t it kosher if they take out the bone? ;~
Thanks for the birthday wishes Yo! Thank goodness for email and texting or I would be going insane. Please tell your funny El Yenta Man that I will text him soon. You should ask him why he thinks that I have lost my voice… he is TOO MUCH!
Love to you all-
Actually, it was NYC.
http://nancykayshapiro.livejournal.com/35633.html?style=mine
I moved to Fort Bragg, Ca., on the Mendocino coast in 1972. My very first Passover there I went to the Safeway for groceries and they had a special on Challahs for Passover in the bakery section.
It’s really flanken for the pogromists.
But here’s a cheerful one: Matisyahu at Roseland on the 2nd day of Chanukah with Bob Marley’s old backup, the Wailers, at:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124509
Hey Yo:
BTW, by us New Yawkers, it’s ‘f*ckin A’.
I think you need to apologize for assuming that that a stupid thing like Ham for Hannukah (sounds like a name for a Jewish Punk rock band)could only happen in the South and impossible in a place like NYC. I grew up in a smaller Jewish community in the South and assumed things would be better when I moved to New York. Not hardly. Down here things happen because of ignorance. In big communities it is just plain stupidity.
Mensch59, because I live in the South and someone here sent it to me, I assumed it was local. I’m quite aware that ignorance and stupidity are global phenomenona.
I understand. I once thought that it would be easier if I had grown up in a larger Jewish community instead of struggling to maintain a Jewish identity in the “sticks.” When I moved to NYC and went to NYU and Brooklyn College, I learned, as you said, that things are the same in too many ways.