On 11/12/2020 12:51 PM, Bruce wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:19:15 -0500, Boron Elgar
> > wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:00:08 -0500, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>
Hardly a statistic but some Jewish families did just that on holidays,
serving traditional meals. I only know of one family that did not cook
on the sabbath, back then I don't know if stoves even had sabbath mode.
Few Jewish businesses closed on the sabbath too as it was usually the
busiest day of the week in retail.
One Jewish deli we went to had a special slicer in the back for slicing
ham, nothing else. They wanted to accommodate their customers.
There were some kosher restaurants too, one being the Ambassador. It
was not big or fancy but the waiters were older gentlemen and very
classy. Reopened but I don't think it is the same.
https://www.inquirer.com/food/ambass...-20191003.html
Speaking of timeworn: If you say €śAmbassador€ť and €śSeventh and Girard€ť
to those of a certain age, theyll think of blintzes and whitefish
platters. The Ambassador was a kosher dairy restaurant on the southwest
corner from the 1940s through 1975.