This photo, and a few others of similar signs on similar hams, was taken at Balducci’s on 8th Ave. at 14th Street, on Sunday, 12/2 by NancyKay Shapiro. She’s attributed the signs to the “Department of Monumental Cluelessness, Well-Meaning Division.”
Whoops.
Let’s all eat trafe for Chanukah! [NancyKay Shapiro's LJ] (Thanks, Alex!)
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I swear that when I was a kid I saw an ad for a Piggly Wiggly supermarket where the little pig mascot had a Star of David on its hat and was wishing everyone a happy Hanukkah.
@Sam: Oh, don’t be silly. If it is noteworthy, any reasonable person assumes it is in New York City. On the rare occasion that something actually happens outside the five boroughs (well, just Manhattan really), then the location should be noted.
Mmmmm..Krusty Brand pork products…..
Well, there are a few Balducci’s and a few Jews here in DC too.
I vaguely remember some fast-food chain offering a new line of bagel-based breakfast sandwiches. You could get them with bacon, ham or canadian bacon.
@arby: It’s illegal to eat (or kill, or possess, without a license — yes, you can get a license for that) birds of prey under the Endangered Species Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and some raptors are further protected specifically under other laws.
sometimes the jokes just write themselves…
@aishel: Yeah. I’m not being insulting here, because I honestly just don’t know, but who came up with that crazy list of nonsensical qualifications? I can’t see any consistency.
@stavs: That’s the biggest insult. What orthodox jew is going to spend 9 bucks, let alone retail, for ham? It’s unheard of!
@hexychick: Pork Rinds and Chitlins (Fried pork snout), fried and non-kosher.
@DSaddict: Aptly enough, I started snort-laughing when I read that
@pyloff: [www.godhatesshrimp.com]
@aishel: Actually, Sharks do have scales. Just super fine ones. You can cut yourself running your hand the wrong way on a shark.
@Toast442: You mean like Chikafi’s? The anti-cow-eating chicken fast food place that has cows with eat chikn signs?
@Buran: GOD did. Who’s going to argue with God and his silly list?!
@Buran: Hawks and falcons taste like Chicken *Yum*
@Buran: I wouldn’t go so far as to say crazy and nonsensical. It’s about respect and reverence for G-d that we follow kashrut.
@Buran: Some morons who lived thousands of years ago. Other crazy laws too….dairy and meat can’t come near each other. I don’t even think they can be on the plate, much less the same food. Some crazy laws that make absolutely no sense to me whatsoever….and I’m Jewish. I’m glad my family doesn’t follow them. I like my cheeseburgers
@Buran: Food restrictions rarely “make sense” — food restrictions are about marking out an in-group and an out-group by adherence to the restrictions. They’ve very much about identifying oneself culturally with a particular group; they sometimes have some practical purpose as well (for example, most of the mammals that aren’t Kosher in the Jewish food system are scavengers or carrion eaters, and therefore somewhat more likely to make you ill), but their primary purpose is always group identification. So they don’t have to “make sense.”
There’s been a big debate in American Catholicism over the last few years about Lenten Fridays, when Catholics are forbidden from meat but allowed fish. The religious inspiration for Fish Fridays is to eat what Jesus ate, which was what the poor in his time ate, which was fish. But in much of the U.S., the poor eat McBurgers and fish are a luxury. So while the religious logic of the situation would suggest we eat either the food of the local poor or a vegetarian meal (in solidarity with the global poor), the logic of group identification holds very strongly to the Fish Fridays idea, regardless of the fact that “Fish-as-solidarity-with-poor” has little meaning today. It has a LOT of meaning in terms of a group identifier, and that may, in the end, simply be more important.
maybe it’s made of baloney.
@Eyebrows McGee: Right on, yo.
There’s also the old but interesting Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches, which explains in some detail the possible causes for dietary restrictions in a number of cultures.
is that for real? was that photo-shopped there?
@cde: chit·ter·lings also chit·lins or chit·lings (chÄt’lÄnz)
pl.n.
The small intestines of pigs, especially when cooked and eaten as food.
@spinachdip: Hahaha! Seriously, what city?
@ad8bc:
Yes. You can be a ham, but can’t eat one.
Our ARA is having a ham dinner for the holidays. I told our prez it’ll make us a bunch of cannibals.
73.
@Erskine:
…for which this vegetarian is very grateful.
@Nemesis_Enforcer: Yes. You should’ve bought a TURKEY for Thanksgiving; not a ham.
@cde: and @ret3: I’m not kosher but I don’t eat pork and frankly, pork rinds and chitlins are revolting.
@Toast442: of course he would, he knows that he is safe for that one.
@Eyebrows McGee: Maybe in places where there is no water that anything can live in the poor don’t eat fish, but I would think that any food item you can catch with a net would certainly be up for grabs for the poor.
I just realized that Jews and Muslims have one thing in common, they both hate swine.
Maybe we can use this common hatred to start the peace process back on track.
PEACE ON EARTH..DA DE DA DA da
WE HATE PORK SO LETS FORK OUT A PEACE DEAL.
@SpenceMan01: I already had a Turkey marinating in a nice brine when I got the card. SO I got a Ham my sister in law is super weird. She doesen’t like turkey or beef but will eat hamburger and loves pork…mmmm bacon. Of course the smell of seafood , any kind of seafood makes her sick.
Actually, when you look at a culture that is primarily nomadic, and has no access to refridgeration (you know people in the middle east when these rules were written) the rules for kosher and halal food preparation make quite a bit of sense. As much sense as using a seperate cutting boards for meat, and keeping food stored below 40 or above 140 F does now.
haha funny!
A catholic priest and a rabbi are on a train.
The priest turns to the rabbi and says “Rabbi, can I ask you a personal question?”
The rabbi says “Ask. Perhaps I’ll answer.”
The priest asks “Rabbi, have you ever had ham?”
The rabbi turns red and says “I had it once.”
The priest says “Did you like it?”
The rabbi says “It was ok”
Later on, the rabbi turns to the priest and says “Father can I ask you a personal question?”
The priest says “Rabbi, you were kind enough to answer my question, I will gladly do the same.”
The rabbi says “Father, have you ever had sex?”
The priest turns red and says “I had it once.”
The rabbi says “It’s better than ham, isn’t it?”
@kimsama: I love Marvin Harris, there is also a chapter on pork taboo in Good to eat
All this effort to be politically correct now has us over-doing it by putting “Great for Chanukah on pork products.
Just like I’m pissed off at TomTom’s GPS ad where this couple is stuck in traffic and the woman goes into a store alongside the road to buy a TomTom and gets back in the car and says “consider it an early holiday gift.”
Holiday gift? WTF? Does anybody this year say that they’re giving their loved-ones a holiday gift? I consider myself a whacky agnostic, but this “must be PC in december” business just pisses me off.
@arby:
Except for eels, catfish and swordfish, which have scales, but they are tiny, so someone decided that they don’t count.
It’s based on rules, not science.
@Myron: You made my day.
@MrEvil: Ya know, I really never understood why people got so incensed by the word “holiday”. I feel like these delusions of persecution are echos of the “throw ‘em to the lion” days.
First there is this:
Leviticus 11:9-12 says:
9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
Deuteronomy 14:9-10 says:
9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
But then again there is this:
[skepticsannotatedbible.com]
The 11th plague visited upon Egypt was inadequate glaze.
@MrEvil: How is it politically correct to suggest that non-kosher food would be great for a Jewish holiday? I would think it’d be politically incorrect to bring a ham to a Hanukkah party.
The GPS ad is an AD. They are marketing to everyone so of course they’re not going to get specific with the holiday. Television ads aren’t trying to mimic real life, they’re trying to get you to buy their stuff.
@sburnap42: Yes, and? Jewish people aren’t the only ones who eat bagels. This Catholic has been an avid bagel fan since she was a little girl, and I live a good forty minutes from the Jewish part of town.