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On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:47:59 -0500, Boron Elgar
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>On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 04:38:36 +1100, Bruce > wrote:
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>>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.

>
>I have been to kosher Chinese restaurants IN NYC in years past. I have
>not seen one in ages and ages, so do not know if they still exist.


Ok, I didn't know they ever existed.