This Is The Year To Embrace 'Jewish Christmas' And Order Chinese Food

huffington post ^ | 12/21/2020 | brittany wong

[mylife]

The COVID-19 pandemic has been tough on Asian restaurants. This holiday season, why not adopt a Jewish tradition by eating Chinese food?

Here’s a very modest proposal for the holidays: On Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, don’t toil over the stove and prepare your usual massive feast for the family. Instead, use the pandemic as an excuse to take a page from Jewish Americans and order some damn good Chinese takeout.

Your local mom-and-pop purveyor of kung pao chicken and sticky rice could probably use the business: Though all restaurants across the U.S. have suffered due to coronavirus shutdowns and restrictions, Chinese restaurants have been hit particularly hard.

According to Womply, a data subscription service, Asian American restaurants have closed at a far higher rate than non-Asian restaurants. And compared with other Asian restaurants, Chinese eateries had the highest rates of closure at 61%.

Some have suggested the dip in business is at least partially due to consumer prejudice toward Asians and Asian Americans in the wake of coronavirus.

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[SamAdams76]

You ever heard those, uh, left wing crazy people talk about how there's a Jewish conspiracy? And how, uh, the Jews run the media, and they have all the money, and they pretty much dominate the world? No? Well, I've heard of it, and, uh... You know, well, that would pretty much leave one day of the year, when no one else is around, to have a whole year of planning of world domination. That's Christmas. Merry Christmas, buddies

We're going to a movie, eating Chinese food (Wouldn't you like to know what we do What we do, what we do on Christmas?)

This is the disclaimer. My name is Adam. I am a Jewish boy. I am very neurotic that people are gonna get mad at me. I like Jews. I like Christian people. There should be no problem. It's...not that funny

[SamAdams76]

Cat ended up in egg roll.

You want more egg roll?

[Gay State Conservative]

When Jews start eating a traditional Easter Dinner of baked ham I might consider this advice.

[Ezekiel]

Take a wok on the wild side..

[Gay State Conservative]

Is that real?????

[mylife]

Funniest damn article I have read all day, just a train wreck of logic and liberalism

[Fido969]

I grew up in a Jewish community, and the Chinese restaurants were always packed on Christmas and New Years. I don’t know why it became such a tradition, but it did. That and after the fasting days.

[mylife]

Pass the latkes

[redrhino47]

Anecdotal:
Husband and wife run , take out only. He runs out, makes deliveries, she cooks while he’s gone.

My $ 14.00 order, he says, thank you, thank you, thank you,
while bowing.

Has a license plate xxxx-vtrn.

I jokingly ask him, who’s army ?

USA.

They get all my take out chinee business. FWIW.

They were closed for along time, NY
Don’t know how they survived.

[V_TWIN]

“ridiculous and disgusting article”

Just huffpo......living up to their name.

[Daffynition]

And all this time, I thought it was called festivus

[NotSoFreeStater]

We normally get Chinese take out on Christmas Eve, right after Mass.

[mylife]

No bagel?

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Stop, stop, stop! Sing something erse...

[M1903A1]

Explanation I’d always heard was that Chinese places were commonly all that was open on those days.

[mylife]

OK but you wont like it...

[wally_bert]

In the far off future, it will be known as Happy #11.

[GnuThere]

I’m not Jewish, but I always assumed this became a habit merely because decades ago EVERYTHING else was closed. Somebody named “Brittany” was probably not born yet.
Nowadays some diners and franchises such as Applebee’s give people more options on Christmas, although Chinese is delicious.
Stupid, bossy article.