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

[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. :)