Conversations at the Grocery Store

[taffimai]

Me: *passing by the Easter display*
Woman: Excuse me, when is Easter?
Me: I don't know.
Woman: What do you mean, how can you not know?
Me: I'm Jewish.
Woman: And?
Me: And so I don't care about Easter?
Woman: *huffs and walks away*

ETA: Given what I was wearing today, I wonder if she thought I worked there. Hmmm.

Comments

[amythest-n-ice.livejournal.com]

Uh, probably a dumb question, but if she was all huffy becasuse you didn't know when Easter was, why the hell didn't she know??? It's the 12th, by the way, lol.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I was wondering!

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

I was wondering the same thing. What a strange woman.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Grocery stores are strange places. Another weird thing? On the west coast Safeway is an upscale chain. Very odd!

[hllangel]

The more pertinent questions are:

When does passover start, how much matzah do I need to buy this year and when can I eat bread again?

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Indeed! Speaking of, my mother called me and said if I came over during pesach she'd make me matzah brei!!! *happy dance*

[hllangel]

Yay!!

I need to go get my matzah soon. It's gonna be sold out if I don't get it this week.

Luckily, I have matzah ball mix in the cupboard. :D

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

The first Seder is the 8th and you'll need to buy either one more box than you actually purchased or you'll have two boxes too many.

[hllangel]

you'll need to buy either one more box than you actually purchased or you'll have two boxes too many.

Isn't that the truth? Last year I moved in the middle of Passover and had a box in the car with me. I ate about two pieces from it and it just sat in the car for ages after.

Will I beat the formula if I buy one box and then go back for one more? It fits the "one more than actually purchased" rule.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

As long as the grocery stores still stock it, that might be a sneaky way around things. Here, some stores clearance it starting a day or two before Passover and then stop selling it completely.

[hllangel]

In my experience most stores sell out weeks before passover.

So I think I'm going to have to go buy some this week.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Strange how different areas of the country are different that way. Probably best to make sure you get it while you can then. If you have extra you can always turn it into toffee matzoh anyway, so that's not such a bad thing.

[hllangel]

Making matzah into sweet things is always good. Mostly because it adds flavor to the cardboardstuff.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*laughs* gotta love that cardboard matzoh

[hllangel]

Luckily, it's only one week a year. :)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

true- thank heaven for small favors. And some of the dishes are good...

[hllangel]

Some of them are, for sure.

And during most of the year, I barely eat bread. But it's really difficult to stay away from everything with flour and/or corn syrup for one week.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I'll admit I don't go whole hog and don't worry about the corn syrup. Although I know a lot of people who use this time to pick up "real" coke.

[hllangel]

The stuff with cane sugar. I can get that pretty easily here.

I started going off corn syrup for Passover about 7 years ago. It's difficult, but I can do it. I do it every year. I have to say, though, that last year was particularly difficult because of the two-day cross country driving in the middle. Finding food when traveling that way is difficult, to say the least.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Kudos to you! That's hard, but wonderful.

I used to be fairly strict until I went to college. And there was NOTHING I could eat other that matzoh and burgers or hot dogs without the buns and salad bar. After one year of that I had to relax my passover standards. I went back to strict observance for a year and then was pregnant and or nursing for 4 years during passover and got very sick when I tried. So I got out of the habit. No bread or risen products here, but that's about it.

[hllangel]

College was tough, since they didn't have much that wasn't breaded/fried or mixed with bread other than the salad bar. Luckily there was a grocery store within walking distance and I had a fridge in my room.

I forsee a lot of stir-fry during passover this year. Easy enough to make, and definitely made without bread. Though no soy sauce or hoisin sauce because of the wheat in it. Having a kitchen is a huge bonus for that week.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

And now I'm very impressed by both of you.

[hllangel]

I'm mostly non-observant during the rest of the year. I go nuts during some of the holidays.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I wish I could do that. The few times I've tried I just felt like too much of a hypocrite. It's not remotely logical, but I feel like if I'm not going to really observe the holiday (kasher the kitchen and switch out the dishes and not go to work on yontif, etc) then there's no point to doing anything. Silly, I know.

[hllangel]

I think my GF might kill me if I tried to rid the house of anything non-kosher for passover. and we don't have a second set of dishes. There's always the paper plate route.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

I do not want you ded of girlfriend.

[hllangel]

I do not want to be ded of girlfriend either. :D I've got too much going right now.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Do you eat rice? Some brands of shoyu or tamari don't have wheat.

[hllangel]

I generally don't eat rice either. I stick pretty close to veggies and protein. With potatoes for carbs if I need to. I'm pretty close to non-observant most of the year, but for Passover and the High Holy days I swing towards pretty strict.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Rice is a weird one. It's not specifically prohibited. Sephardic Jews eat it and it only became frowned upon by the Ashkenazi due to the open air markets where big open bins of rice would sit next to bins of wheat and other grains and it was impossible to tell if the rice had been contaminated by the other things (according to the lecture I sat through last year by the Jewish Ed coordinator where I worked)

[hllangel]

I didn't know that. Maybe I'll loosen the restrictions on rice this year. Thanks!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I was surprised to hear it myself. :)

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Ha. Good for you.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Was just strange.

[minim_calibre]

O.o

Crazy grocery store lady frightens and confuses me.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too.

[frogmajick.livejournal.com]

When is Easter? On a Sunday. DUH.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Heh. I should have told her that it's next Tuesday.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

What a silly and strange woman.

... I don't know when Easter is and officially I am Catholic and all *waves hand around vaguely*

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Apparently, it's on the 12th. *waves upthread*

[chatona.livejournal.com]

That's good to know :D

*checks that no one is looking and then quickly and totally stealthily licks your iconJohn's arms*

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

They're very nice arms. *happy sigh*

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Oh yes.

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Even if you DID work there, I don't see why you would be required to know when Easter is. Sheesh.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, there's that.

[fridge-buzz-now.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA! People are ridiculous. My family's Baptist and I don't even know when Easter is....this sunday? No idea.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

I heard next Tuesday!

[kaytee4ever.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Ahem. Silly woman! *waves* hi!

[kaytee4ever.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah!! SHE didn't know when it was so she was really rude to say that to you!

Silly woman.