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On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:19:15 -0500, Boron Elgar
> wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:00:08 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:
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>>Yep, Jewish Christmas meal is Chinese food is a stereotype. I have to
>>trust the movies for that because I have always had a home cooked
>>Christmas dinner and have never been by a Chinese restaurant on Christmas.
>>
>>
>>> that's when they sell tons of shrimp and pork.

>>
>>I don't doubt it. There was an A&W across from my high school. The
>>Jewish kids would order the burgers with cheese and bacon, the stuff
>>they never got at home.
>>

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>At most, here in the US, maybe 155-20% of Jews keep kosher, so
>anecdotes like this are pretty useless...and basically bullshit.


I don't know, but I can imagine that in the 50s (Sheldon's frame of
reference) and on a Jewish religious holiday, the chance of a Jewish
person eating kosher is bigger than normal.