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This Is The Year To Embrace 'Jewish Christmas' And Order Chinese Food
huffington post ^ | 12/21/2020 | brittany wong

Posted on 12/21/2020 2:42:54 PM PST by mylife

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To: malach

I used to work with a Jewish man from Brooklyn who said when his rabbi used to rant about the congregation not staying kosher he’d say “a Chinese restaurant in a Jewish neighborhood will never go broke!”


81 posted on 12/21/2020 5:47:55 PM PST by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.dirt road.)
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To: mylife
Sure.

We are having twenty people what is one more?

You might want to skip the after dinner bad joke contest.

Those guys are professionals.

82 posted on 12/21/2020 5:50:15 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Dear Clare, The awkward time is almost over. Love, Normal Americans)
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To: malach

You don’t get out much.

Jewish Christmas is a wry takeoff on a holiday Jews do not participate in. It is a regional northeastern thing to say.


83 posted on 12/21/2020 5:55:43 PM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: malach

Most jews do not keep kosher


84 posted on 12/21/2020 5:59:02 PM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I’ll bring horseradish and make Yorkshire pudding


85 posted on 12/21/2020 5:59:08 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Really. Jewish Christmas - how 2019!


86 posted on 12/21/2020 6:39:03 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: mylife

I think I’d rather go with a Japanese Christmas:

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-kfc-became-a-christmas-tradition-in-japan-2016-12


89 posted on 12/21/2020 8:17:43 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: mylife
Just tonight I watched two movies. One was "A Christmas Story", made in 1983, and the other was "The Miracle of the Bells", made in 1948.

They both featured Chinese food meals on Christmas eve or Christmas day. Perhaps the tradition does stem from the fact that other establishments are closed on those days.

90 posted on 12/21/2020 11:45:42 PM PST by William Tell
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To: malach

Lol. Whatever.

And you go looking for drama where there is none. Just a poorly written essay by an ignorant writer.


91 posted on 12/22/2020 1:21:45 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: mylife

Leftist philosophy today has dropped class struggle and replaced it with the marginalization of the white race and Christianity in pursuit of the vast demon of oppression

It’s truly quite the pivot to accommodate the west’s success and subsequent mass immigration


92 posted on 12/22/2020 6:30:22 AM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you run the tra)
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To: mylife

I know. Messing with the sacrosanct is distasteful.

OTOH, bagels.............MMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmm!


93 posted on 12/22/2020 7:20:06 AM PST by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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To: GnuThere; Chickensoup

Yes, no other restaurants or pretty much anything else was open on Christmas. Sunday nights at Chinese restaurants likewise became a “tradition.” Jews who cared a bit more about the Torah dietary laws would order vegetable dishes. Vegetable subgum chow mein and was a popular “starter” dish for Jews. Over the years, Sunday nights became a common choice. Only a handful of cities had kosher restaurants in those days. Later there were even upscale, strictly kosher Chinese restaurants, like Moshe Peiking in Manhattan. The kosher ones often used bilingual Hebrew/English puns for the restaurant names.

For the record, there was Jewish migration and communities who kept their Jewish practices in China way back at least to the early 1st century B.C.C. There are still Jews in China. Jews were honored citizens. In some areas, like the South of China, schools and government offices closed on Jewish holy days.


94 posted on 12/22/2020 10:33:01 AM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: mylife

Ommina have ham, if that’s okay.


95 posted on 12/22/2020 10:34:14 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now

That should have read, “B.C.E.” (aka, A.D).


96 posted on 12/22/2020 10:34:19 AM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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Dat’s what I’m havin.


97 posted on 12/22/2020 10:35:20 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

You jackasses have been calling us rascist for 9 months now.

Now, I love Chinese food but, I’m not going to put up with your special kind of bigotry.

All restaurants have had their business affected by these baloney edicts.

Until you and few other vocal morons apologize I won’t be eating Chinese again.

I currently eat Filipino, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese.

You can go to hell for all I care

There is a 4% delta in the decline of business from Asian American businesses to what? Regular businesses?

That is not a significant number except that because of the lock downs it shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

Stop looking for a boogeyman to blame for the downturn in business.

It is the fault of your hack politicians who are doing this.

Put the blame squarely where it belongs or you may find a lot people won’t return to your business because you cast a wide net over huge swaths of people who really liked your restaurants before the Plandemic but, now they suddenly got in touch with their inner Klu Klux Klan?

Gimme a break and bitch at the politicians who can end this today.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/racism-targets-asian-food-business-during-covid-19-pandemic

Pelosi visited The Wok Shop, a temple and the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory, which was started 58 years ago by owner Kevin Chan’s mother and uncle.

Chan said his business is losing about $500-$800 a day, or about 70% on average. He believes the fear of the virus is racially motivated.

“I think it’s because even if I walk out and cough a little bit — my throat is itchy — they look at me, ‘Oh,’ like this, ‘scary,’” he said.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/nancy-pelosi-visits-san-franciscos-chinatown/2240247/

This was back in February and I want to Mr. Kevin Chan for the concern he has for his fellow human beings and Americans, who instantly stopped going to restaurants everywhere and accusing everyone of being racists.

Yer a self serving prick.

That same week I was in a upscale restaurant that should have been packed.

My friend and were one of three tables in a restaurant that has capacity for 125.

We quit going to restaurants then and hadn’t sat down in a restaurant until September for my birthday.

Now I will post another article from just today where Chinese restaurateurs are still saying we are racist.

Oh, and just to make the point that I am racist I have been eating Pho, Thai, Korean and Japanese takeout but, I have absolutely made a conscious decision to not eat Chinese because of Kevin Chan’s despicable and detestable words.

Again, you all can go straight to hell until you apologize I won’t ever eat Chinese again...


98 posted on 12/22/2020 10:58:13 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now

Interesting!


99 posted on 12/22/2020 1:21:14 PM PST by GnuThere
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