On May 15, 6:48 pm, "jmcquown" > wrote:
> Goomba38 wrote:
> > jmcquown wrote:
>
> >> Gee, maybe my corner of West TN isn't overrun by Jewish people. I'm
> >> not the one who overreacted, it's someone else yelling Challah! when
> >> I have never seen Challah in my life. Forgive me for posting a
> >> recipe. Sheesh.
>
> > Oh come on... some days you're world traveler, lived all over, yada
> > yada ydaa,
>
> Point out the Jewish communities where I lived, please
>
> well read...and the next you're a simple unexposed bumpkin
>
> > from TN? Make up your mind....
>
> I'm not a bumpkin, but I still have never seen Challah. So get over it.
>
> > I can't count the numbers of magazine pictures and stories in any
> > number of food or homemaking magazines over my lifetime that showed
> > challah. And you never once read a bread baking cookbook or Jewish
> > story and never saw it mentioned? Perhaps a story or lesson on
> > cultural diversity is in order, eh?
>
> Perhaps. I still just posted a recipe for braided bread. So sorry if
> everyone else thinks this is "challah" (or not). It's just a pretty, tasty,
> braided bread.

Why argue? And why apologize? You posted a recipe, numerous people
called it by another name, and as you pointed out, your source didn't
call it that. There are other cultures that braid their bread (Sweden
and Germany, IIRC) so the Hallmark recipe could have been a derivative
of one of those.

At around 2% of the population of the US, not much of the country is
"overrun" with Jews and their bakeries. If I took offense easily, I'd
be offended by your use of the term overrun, which is usually used in
a derogatory sense as "overrun with cockroaches" or "overrun with
[latest immigrant group]". But I don't, so I won't.

This is Usenet. Anyone taking comments made here seriously needs to
chill out with a nice tall cold mint Julep and a shot of aged whiskey.

maxine in ri