blake murphy wrote:

>
> ah, but you forget the Chinese Restaurant Exception:
>
> Even in the Chinese restaurant, where the Lord has lifted the ban on
> pork dishes for the obedient children of Israel, the eating of lobster
> Cantonese is considered by God (Whose mouthpiece on earth, in matters
> pertaining to food, is my Mom) to be totally out of the question. Why
> we can eat pig on Pell Street and not at home is because. . . frankly
> I still haven't got the whole thing figured out, but at the time I
> believe it has largely to do with the fact that the elderly man who
> owns the place, and whom amongst ourselves we call Shmendrick, isn't
> somebody whose opinion of us we have cause to worry about. Yes, the
> only people in the world whom it seems to me the Jews are not afraid
> of are the Chinese. Because, one, the way they speak English makes my
> father sound like Lord Chesterfield; two, the insides of their heads
> are just so much fried rice anyway; and three, to them we are not Jews
> but white - and maybe even Anglo-Saxon. Imagine! No wonder the waiters
> can't intimidate us. To them we're just some big-nosed variety of
> WASP! Boy, do we eat! Suddenly even the pig is no threat - though, to
> be sure, it comes to us so chopped and shredded, and is then set
> afloat on our plates in such oceans of soy sauce, as to bear no
> resemblance at all to a pork chop, or a hambone, or, most disgusting
> of all, a sausage (ucchh! )
>
> - 'portnoy's complaint'
>
> your pal,
> alex

Heh. DH said something to me to today....

"When chickens are fed on a diet that contains fish meal, some people
say the eggs taste 'fishy'. So does it follow that if chickens are fed
on a diet that contains pork meal, we could have a single
ingredient 'bacon and egg' for breakfast?"

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Chatty Cathy