On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:51:15 -0400, brooklyn1 wrote:

> Goomba wrote:
>
>>Some may remember that when I was growing up we had *rules* for eating.
>>One was that you weren't allowed to drink milk with any tomato sauced
>>meal. It just wasn't done! You could have a coke with dinner (unheard of
>>in my mother's kitchen where children drank milk with meals!) or even a
>>little booze (wine openly allowed, hard alcohol if concealed in orange
>>juice or tonic water or coke....) The rules didn't have to be logical
>>now, just family custom.
>
> Oh, so your family is observant Jewish, you kept kosher. I bet you
> got a pickle for dessert! LOL

um, genius - if the children drank milk with meals, it's unlikely they kept
kosher. unless all meals were vegetarian. have another crystal palace.

blake