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Default Ham on Easter and Other Blasphemies (was This Ng and What I don't get! RANT!)

On Thu 30 Mar 2006 01:06:21p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it sarah
bennett?

> Ranee Mueller wrote:
>> In article >,
>> Damsel in dis Dress > wrote:
>>
>>
>>>They're just jealous, Nancy. Forget about them (I can't spell the New
>>>Yawk version). They're all having lamb for Easter dinner because they
>>>don't understand the intricacies of preparing ham. Jealous, I tell ya!

>>
>>
>> Ham?!! Ham on Easter??!! You know that is sacrilege. I'll have to
>> report you.
>>
>> I actually do find it bizarre to have a ham on a holiday that
>> celebrates the resurrection of a Jew, but I don't have a problem with
>> other people eating them. Just not at my house.

>
> About 10 years ago, there was an article in one of the local papers
> about a family where one parent was Jewish and one Christian. They
> served a charoset-stuffed ham on Easter. Sort of takes the meaning away
> from both holidays, no?
>


I have to admit that I'm glad my religion has no dietary laws.

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