On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 07:41:05 -0500, Sheldon Martin >
wrote:

>On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 21:32:50 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:
>
>>On 2020-11-11 8:27 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>>>>
>>> Sounds like a plan.
>>>
>>> I do hope it turns out better than what happened when I was a teenager
>>> and my mother didn't feel like cooking Thanksgiving dinner.Â* She saw an
>>> ad in the Sunday paper: Let Kroger Do It For You.Â* Ads on TV, too.
>>> Turkey and all the fixin's.Â* IIRC it sure looked tasty!Â* So she ordered
>>> ahead, to be picked up on Thanksgiving day.Â* The assumption was, of
>>> course, it would be a fully cooked meal.Â* My brother and I went with her
>>> to pick it up.Â* Carrying the box to the car my brother said, "This box
>>> is very cold."Â* We opened up the box in the trunk and everything in it
>>> was frozen solid.Â* The turkey, side dishes, everything.Â* Mom was not a
>>> happy camper!Â* She marched that box right back in and demanded her money
>>> back.
>>>
>>> We went to another store.Â* We had steaks and baked potatoes for
>>> Thanksgiving dinner that year.
>>
>>That's an amazing story. When I was a kid stores were closed on Sundays
>>and holidays.
>
>Chinese restaurants don't close on other people's holidays.... in NYC
>on the Jewish high holy days is when they do their best business...
>that's when they sell tons of shrimp and pork.

But do those Chinese cook kosher? Chinese will eat anything they can
catch.