New York store red faced over 'Hanukkah hams'

Breitbart ^ | Dec 6 2007

[mak5]

I’ve seen the theory that when the laws were put in the place, the Jews were nomads, living in the desert, and could not, as a community, afford the amount of water it would take to raise pigs.

[bert]

I visited Tigby Island in Maryland and a seafood luncheon at a local eatery. It was praised to high heaven in the tourist literature.

We sat at long tables and shared, family style. The server brought out massive platters of veggies and cornbread and rolls and ....ham.

Being starved, most dug in. Two ladies were frustrated because all we got was ham and they couldn’t eat ham. Finally they broke down and ate the ham because they couldn’t Pay the big bucks for the boat ride and free lunch and then not eat.

Just as they scarfed the ham, out came the crab cakes, the shrimp and the clam fritters. It was late but outstanding.

That was a genuine dilemma....eat the ham or pay for a lunch you didn’t get

[Gamecock]

It does,

But we eat it because Christmas is my birthday

And on my birthday I can eat whatever I want.....

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Credit goes to my youngest son. Up until he was about age 12 that’s the way he interpreted the phrase.

I busted a gut when he said “I thought it was a Jewish expression”.

[null and void]

As well you should!

[Cecily]

At least he didn’t think the expression was “going to hell in a ham biscuit.”

[Alouette]

Jews laugh, Moslems kill.

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[VeniVidiVici]

They have probably replaced it with a sign saying “Delicious for Christmas!”

"Delicious for Christmas Holiday!"

Fixed it for ya.

[VeniVidiVici]

They have probably replaced it with a sign saying “Delicious for Christmas!”

"Delicious for Christmas Holiday!"

Fixed it for ya.

[beethovenfan]

They can just change their sign to read “Delicious for Eid”.

[Grammy]

How is it that a lowly stock clerk would know how to spell Hanukkah, (or in this case Chanukah) and yet not know that ham was a no no?

[Yaelle]

I live in a neighborhood where the local grocery store has employees and patrons that are mostly black. One Passover, their bakery made adorable regular cookies in Jewish shapes and packaged them For Passover. I thought it was SO SWEET of them!! Even though no Jew can eat baked goods on Passover! ROFL.

[radiohead]

“going to hell in a ham biscuit.”

LOL!!! That's really funny.

I converted to Judaism from Catholicism about 20 years ago. To this day, I get the urge (which I resist) to buy a ham for Passover. It just seems to go with the season.

[wagglebee]

I’m sure that some orthodox Jews will find this offensive, but it’s tough not to laugh!

[r9etb]

LET’S RIOT! BURN THE STORE! IMPRISON THE SHOP OWNERS! < Sarcasm>

Wait ... you turn the sarcasm ON after all that? Wooooboy You is a serious fella. ;-)

[Mr. Mojo]

"I just thought it was funny," Shapiro, who described herself as an unobservant Jew, told the New York Post. "I wasn't offended in any way."

I'm with Nancy. Only mentally unstable types get offended by such things.

[dbacks]

We had a grocery store back home that had a big banner across the store saying, “YOU CAN’T BEAT OUR MEAT” and another saying, “YOU CAN’T MAKE MERRY ON CHRISTMAS WITHOUT NUTS”

[Slings and Arrows]

They're right next to the kosher cheeseburgers.

[rogue yam]

It’s our sense of humor that sustained us as a people for 3000 years.

"Why pork was proscribed by Hebraic law is still unclear, and some scholars believe that the Torah merely suggested not eating pork at certain restaurants." - Woody Allen

[RinaseaofDs]

Wow! I didn’t know both hams AND pork were not OK. Glad the article made that distinction.