in article t_Lac.150210$1p.1919430@attbi_s54, Julia Altshuler at
wrote on 3/31/04 10:27 PM:

> Goomba38 wrote:
>
> It was years later than I learned
>> about the restrictions on mixing meat and dairy and I still cringe about
>> my faux pas. Ah well.. my Jewish girlfriend and I can laugh about it over
>> pork bbq now.
>
>
> My story involves being invited to Thanksgiving dinner at a kosher home,
> a friend from school's. I'm Jewish, but we never kept kosher. You'd
> think I would have known, but ... After dinner the hostess asked the
> guests if they'd like coffee or tea. I asked for a glass of milk. I
> thought her surprised statement about how I could drink milk after all
> that turkey had to do with the way I was still drinking milk at the age
> of 16, an age when most teenagers would have begun drinking coffee like
> the grown-ups.
>
>
> She brought me a glass of white liquid and told me it was Cremora in
> water. I thought "yech," and wondered how I could get out of drinking
> it. Then she caught my eye behind her husband's back and pointed to the
> milk container as she put it back in the refrigerator.
>
>
> I gotta love a lady who would violate the rules in her own home to serve
> a guest and smooth over an awkward teenager's faux pas.
>
>
> --Lia
>

Know what? That's the absolute DEFINITION of Gracious Hospitality!
5 Stars to your friend's mom!