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sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 14703
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 11:16 pm: | 
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1. Why is it that there can't be more hamentashen? What's that about? I get two hamentashen and they're eaten before I even get home. If you're gonna make a basket, there should be 5: 1 apricot, 1 cherry, 1 chocolate and 2 prune. No poppy. Got it? No one likes the poppy. It's like the Jewish version of fruit cake. Poppy, yeecccchhhh.
2. Unless you know the recipient can read hebrew, no products with non-english labels please. My former friend Wendy complained today that she got some chocolately looking thing but didn't know what it was. She mixed it with milk and stirred vigorously for 10 minutes before she tore her rotator cuff. When I visited her in the hospital tonight and she explained what happened, I asked her why she was stirring the turkish coffee in her milk. You can't make this stuff up.
3. Red hots. No. Red hots are disgusting and should never be given in any kind of gift basket.
4. Who is the wisenheimer who put the canned ham in my basket? Um, the last time I checked, ham wasn't kosher, except in Librarylady's Book of "Kosher" Food (Dewey 641.5).
5. I did not appreciate Hamen was a Met fan bumper sticker. It wouldn't surprise me if this basket was put together by a sick Yankee fan. Fact: Hamen owns the Yankees.
6. Falafel mix. Oh goody. Now there's something that every little kid looks forward to getting.
7. Hummus mix: see #6. Hey look ma, hummus mix! YAY! Sheesh
8. Enough already with the Israeli Bazooka gum. Another fact: Israeli bazooka joe comic points will get you a "life size submarine" in the same time it takes to get it here: 8,000 years and 84 cavities.
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MHD
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Username: Mayhewdrive
Post Number: 3521
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 11:47 pm: |
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LOL!!
Happy Purim!! |
Dogbert
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Username: Dogbert
Post Number: 31
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 6:57 am: |
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Ditto on most of these points. The tradition behind these ("shalach manos") is that they are ready-to-eat foods, hence hamantashen, fruit, etc. This is another reason stuff like felafal mix are inappropriate: too much work.
Someone actually gave you ham? |
r2boy
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Username: R2boy
Post Number: 258
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 7:05 am: |
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S..did you get a grogger?? Our shaloch manos basket always included a grogger...wicked haman...
good queen esther...such great memories..dressing up in costume for Purim... |
sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 14705
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 7:12 am: |
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No. No grogger. Unless I was supposed to bang the pork loin sausages together.
Let me try that.
Uh uh. Different sound than a grogger. Instead of an ear-splitting screech, the two sausages sound like a dull thud. Not very inspiring. |
Dogbert
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Username: Dogbert
Post Number: 33
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 11:38 am: |
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You can always shake the box of red hots |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 7122
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 5:05 pm: |
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Happy Purim all. |
Eats Shoots & Leaves
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Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 3114
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 5:28 pm: |
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Sbenois, how come the Pesach Bunny doesn't like you anymore? Perhaps he is cahoots with Library Lady? |
bella
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Username: Bella
Post Number: 559
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 11:16 pm: |
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Yum, mun.
It turns out, as I have long suspected, that I am one of a dying breed: I love the poppy seed filling (not as much as the prune- yum, levkar- but, I love it all the same.) At this point I think it might just be my mother and me keeping the poppy seed tradition alive. |
sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 14707
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 11:31 pm: |
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Dearest Bella,
I hope you know that no law enforcement officer will buy the poppyseed hamentashen excuse if you ever fail a drug test.
So if this is your motivation, please feel free to stop eating them already. |
sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 14708
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 11:36 pm: |
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ES&L,
Let's be clear: Librarylady does like me. And I like her. Very much. Very very much.
Except when she tries to poison me while her friend Wendy cheers her on in the background. |
bella
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Username: Bella
Post Number: 561
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 11:42 pm: |
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Actually, I've not had any hamentashen this Purim. I'm going to have to blame any, umm, failures on poppy seed bagels.
My mother is making home made hamentashen (2 guesses as to what flavors) and promises to stick some in her freezer until I can get to NJ. All hope is not lost. |
tulip
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Username: Braveheart
Post Number: 3323
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 3:53 am: |
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Ach, meine hamantaschen!!! |
Dogbert
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Username: Dogbert
Post Number: 34
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 7:09 am: |
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Latkes or hamantashen? MIT faculty debate the question. |
Parkbench87
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Username: Parkbench87
Post Number: 3768
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 7:38 am: |
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Apricot Hamentashen Hands Down |
The Oracle of MOL
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Username: Oracle_of_mol
Post Number: 225
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 8:09 am: |
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I have checked into the matter, and there is no truth whatever to the ugly rumor that Sonny Amster's Bakery had to shut down over the weekend to be inspected and recertified  due to an incursion by the Keebler Guerilla Elf Faction.
The report that lard was covertly added to Amster's Hamentashen mix by the tiny terrorists in a late-night raid on the Millburn Mall store is entirely false, evidently fabricated and distributed as counter-intelligence by the propaganda arm of the Girl Scout Brownie Brigade.
This sectarian violence must stop.
Go in peace.
--The Oracle of MOL
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LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 3102
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 6:31 pm: |
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OK, I'm back and it's toooo late to send a Purim basket to my fren Sben. I am sure that he is disappointed, but don't worry. Peseach is just about a month away!!!!! |
sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 14733
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 6:44 pm: |
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Let's put it this way: the fact that I didn't get a basket from you means that I still have a shot at next year in Jerusalem.
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ess
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Username: Ess
Post Number: 1431
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 7:08 pm: |
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Bella - late to this discussion, but I love the poppy seed filling as well. It's far and away my favorite.
Raspberry is not bad, either.
Sadly, this year, no hamantaschen for me: no carbs. Ugh. |
Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 3622
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 11:09 pm: |
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-s. |
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