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Any Goyim making untoward remarks about gefilte fish (Original Post) MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 OP
Oh manny sometimes youre such a mench Drew Richards Feb 2014 #1
Manny's always a mensch. n/t Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #8
Oy vey Manny! virgdem Feb 2014 #2
I always scrape off the jelly. Bonobo Feb 2014 #3
You and me both, Bonobo. 1000words Feb 2014 #12
You do know ... surrealAmerican Feb 2014 #61
I call them fish quenelles and everyone is ok with them egold2604 Feb 2014 #4
Oy Gevalt to those schlemiels Timez Squarez Feb 2014 #5
Schmucks! MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #10
Fish spam? Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #6
All the fried chicken chazzerai MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #9
OMG ... "Fish Spam." 1000words Feb 2014 #16
Oy vey, what is this mishigas? nt MrScorpio Feb 2014 #7
With enough horseradish, not too bad Warren DeMontague Feb 2014 #11
I dated a Jewish guy for 5 years, RebelOne Feb 2014 #18
Some of my best friends pscot Feb 2014 #13
Yiddishe Manny if you have a half hour listen to this: mucifer Feb 2014 #14
That. Is. Awesome! MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #19
Finished it... now I'm MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #29
Check your blintzes for cash! mucifer Feb 2014 #30
I grew up in a Jewish household DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2014 #15
What is Kreplach soup? JDPriestly Feb 2014 #46
Kreplach are meat filled dumplings leftynyc Feb 2014 #49
Jewish wonton soup, sans pork./nt DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2014 #54
No latkes? temporary311 Feb 2014 #47
Potato pancakes are boss DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2014 #51
Kugel! 1000words Feb 2014 #67
Shabbat ? steve2470 Feb 2014 #17
It's the Sabbath. Friday sundown till Saturday sundown in the USA. mucifer Feb 2014 #20
I guess I'm confused steve2470 Feb 2014 #22
Shalom ... 1000words Feb 2014 #21
Shameful post. Whisp Feb 2014 #23
You should probably use the vomit smilie and get the word "creepy" in there somewhere. nt Bonobo Feb 2014 #24
Manny's not Jewish ? steve2470 Feb 2014 #26
It could cross one's mind he is making fun of fried chicken and watermelon. Whisp Feb 2014 #34
yup JI7 Feb 2014 #45
It could cross one's mind that he is being supportive Autumn Feb 2014 #62
Vern zol fun dir a blintshik, un di kats zol dikh khapn! nt MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #28
translation. DesertFlower Feb 2014 #39
It looks delicious Aerows Feb 2014 #25
You'll be happy to know that raccoons are treif MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #32
LMAO Aerows Feb 2014 #37
Huh? Don't worry. I think that the gefilte fish can take care of themselves question everything Feb 2014 #27
a little out of context. the other DesertFlower Feb 2014 #31
Perhaps you could send her a care package? MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #33
a few months ago we went out for deli. DesertFlower Feb 2014 #36
Don't forget 2naSalit Feb 2014 #42
OMG I love pickled green tomatoes! Autumn Feb 2014 #58
Because one of my 2naSalit Feb 2014 #69
I'm a native Coloradan and I perfectly understand. Timez Squarez Feb 2014 #50
nothing is like new york food. that's why DesertFlower Feb 2014 #65
Ham, and not eating whatever-the-heck-gefilte-fish is are two benefits of being Goyim MNBrewer Feb 2014 #35
Goyishe Lutefisk. MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #38
I'll eat gefilte fish 2naSalit Feb 2014 #43
Shaygetz that I am, I like gefilte fish. kwassa Feb 2014 #40
yup JI7 Feb 2014 #44
Gefilte fish KT2000 Feb 2014 #41
You know you're fucked when they sell this product this way jmowreader Feb 2014 #48
That ad campaign is only slightly better than the second runner up.... Cofitachequi Feb 2014 #52
Or... MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #56
like Cofitachequi Feb 2014 #63
These guys' gefilte fish looks like it sucks very little jmowreader Feb 2014 #68
Quick question and I don't mean to offend. Is that like sardines in a can? Autumn Feb 2014 #53
Like a slightly-gelatinous salmon loaf MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #55
I will have to buy some my next trip into town Autumn Feb 2014 #57
Gefilte fish is fine Warpy Feb 2014 #59
I *love* chopped liver MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #60
Best chopped liver - Romanian's in Chicago. Timez Squarez Feb 2014 #66
I've never had hot tongue sandwich. When I was young my Mother Autumn Feb 2014 #70
I kind of agree Sgent Feb 2014 #64
And here I thought Chinese was the traditional Yiddish food. n/t malthaussen Feb 2014 #71
Yummy sakabatou Feb 2014 #72
Didn't you post an apology for this? eom JustAnotherGen Feb 2014 #73
No- Manny would NEVER chide African Americans or bettyellen Feb 2014 #74
No, he's being supportive! redqueen Feb 2014 #75
Do you really think that? brush Dec 2015 #76
 

Timez Squarez

(262 posts)
5. Oy Gevalt to those schlemiels
Sun Feb 9, 2014, 09:52 PM
Feb 2014

who touch our gefilte fish.

Fyn a kargn gvir in fet bok genist men ersht nukhn toyt!

Der reicher es dos flaish un der oreman di bainer.

Besser ain freint mit gekechts aider hundert mit a krechts.

Ribi-fish, gelt oyfen tish!

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
18. I dated a Jewish guy for 5 years,
Sun Feb 9, 2014, 10:30 PM
Feb 2014

and participated in all the Jewish holidays. His mother would serve gefilte fish and I would smother it with horseradish. His mother asked me why I was using so much horseradish and I told her I just loved horseradish.

mucifer

(24,791 posts)
14. Yiddishe Manny if you have a half hour listen to this:
Sun Feb 9, 2014, 10:20 PM
Feb 2014
https://ia600404.us.archive.org/19/items/OTRR_Rocky_Fortune_Singles/Rocky_Fortune_54-02-09_ep18_Catskills_Cover-Up.mp3

Old time radio with Frank Sinatra starring in a murder mystery in the Catskills. It's damn funny and very Jewish from 1954.

Oh and my mom made the best gefilte fish!

DemocratSinceBirth

(100,170 posts)
15. I grew up in a Jewish household
Sun Feb 9, 2014, 10:24 PM
Feb 2014

There are many Jewish delicacies I could do without including geflite fish...

Jewish delicacies I loved:

Knishes
Blintzes
Kreplach soup
Lox and Bagels

That's about it.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
49. Kreplach are meat filled dumplings
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 04:58 AM
Feb 2014

like a wonton (but not with pork, obviously). Usually served in a chicken soup.

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
34. It could cross one's mind he is making fun of fried chicken and watermelon.
Sun Feb 9, 2014, 11:37 PM
Feb 2014

but no, that just could not be!

 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
32. You'll be happy to know that raccoons are treif
Sun Feb 9, 2014, 11:30 PM
Feb 2014

Now the raccoons need to understand that *people* are treif!

question everything

(48,736 posts)
27. Huh? Don't worry. I think that the gefilte fish can take care of themselves
Sun Feb 9, 2014, 10:55 PM
Feb 2014

as long as surrounded by the gelatinous sauce, (red) horseradish and carrots.


DesertFlower

(11,649 posts)
31. a little out of context. the other
Sun Feb 9, 2014, 11:23 PM
Feb 2014

night i had dinner with my friends. he's jewish. she's not. i was talking about knishes. she asked "what's a knish"? i couldn't believe it. they've been married for 8 years.

i'm not jewish but i'm a former new yorker. she's from colorado.

 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
33. Perhaps you could send her a care package?
Sun Feb 9, 2014, 11:32 PM
Feb 2014

Knishes, bialys, and pastrami.

Oof, this is making me hungry!

DesertFlower

(11,649 posts)
36. a few months ago we went out for deli.
Sun Feb 9, 2014, 11:48 PM
Feb 2014

she had a corned beef sandwich and chicken soup. her husband and i had matzo ball soup with our sandwiches. they had knishes there. had i known i would have showed her one. she knows what bagels are. not sure about the bialys.

i'm in knish withdrawal. gabila's in L.I., NY had a fire back in october. the machine that fries the knishes was damaged. i just read that they finally got a new one. right now there's a country-wide shortage. about 6 years ago they started to carry them here in phoenix in the freezer department.

BTW. the nearest deli is 23 miles each way. oy vey. the only thing i miss about new york is the food. we lived in a predominantly jewish neighborhood. there were 3 jewish take out places within walking distance.

another funny story. my friend in new york is jewish. her husband is italian. when they had their son's bris she had it catered kosher. in comes her mother in law with a huge box of canoles. her son rushed her into the bedroom where they hid them under the bed.

2naSalit

(92,469 posts)
69. Because one of my
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 08:53 PM
Feb 2014

Grandparents was Jewish, I had lots of food from the delis around Beantown and any city we lived near in New England during my childhood. I loved knishes with pickled green tomatoes and matzoh. But I have always had a thing for most pickled veggies, meat an fish, not so much... actually not at all!

 

Timez Squarez

(262 posts)
50. I'm a native Coloradan and I perfectly understand.
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 10:17 AM
Feb 2014

I didn't know what a knish was until I married a New Yorker. Now I only like potato knish.

And you can get them at the local kosher deli here, but they aren't exactly New York style.

MNBrewer

(8,462 posts)
35. Ham, and not eating whatever-the-heck-gefilte-fish is are two benefits of being Goyim
Sun Feb 9, 2014, 11:43 PM
Feb 2014

and bacon.....

and gay buttsex. YAY!

Screw Leviticus!

 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
38. Goyishe Lutefisk.
Sun Feb 9, 2014, 11:55 PM
Feb 2014

I've never known a Jew to be hung up on Leviticus. I'm sure there are some loopy ones, but the bizarre Leviticus fetish seems to be more of a christian fundy thing.

2naSalit

(92,469 posts)
43. I'll eat gefilte fish
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 01:53 AM
Feb 2014

loooong before I could sneak up on a heap of Lutefisk!! That stuff is eweewww! And you know it when you get close by the fishy aroma. Nothing helps that stuff, other than a jar to put it on before you throw it out.

Now gefilte fish, if you have to eat fish, isn't so bad.

kwassa

(23,340 posts)
40. Shaygetz that I am, I like gefilte fish.
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 12:09 AM
Feb 2014

but this thread sucks as a joking reference to the chicken and watermelon thread.

KT2000

(20,821 posts)
41. Gefilte fish
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 12:11 AM
Feb 2014

should come in cans or at least dark brown jars so it cannot be seen. Same with that Norwegian fish in a jar.

 

Cofitachequi

(112 posts)
52. That ad campaign is only slightly better than the second runner up....
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 10:22 AM
Feb 2014

"Gefiltefish!!! It doesn't suck nearly as bad as you think!!!!"

jmowreader

(51,401 posts)
68. These guys' gefilte fish looks like it sucks very little
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 02:34 PM
Feb 2014

This is frozen, and from the ingredients statement it looks like a fish meatloaf. They give you instructions for simmering this thing with vegetables, but I think it would be pretty good (yes, I know this is gefilte fish!) if you baked it.

Autumn

(46,169 posts)
53. Quick question and I don't mean to offend. Is that like sardines in a can?
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 10:23 AM
Feb 2014

Cause I really like those. Mainly the ones in hot sauce. On edit, I see it isn't. I may have to try that though. It does sound good and has almost the same ingredients in my Mothers salmon loaf.

Autumn

(46,169 posts)
57. I will have to buy some my next trip into town
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 10:47 AM
Feb 2014

a slightly-gelatinous salmon loaf sounds like it would be rather tasty.

 

Timez Squarez

(262 posts)
66. Best chopped liver - Romanian's in Chicago.
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 01:52 PM
Feb 2014

Hands down best chopped liver..

You can get good tongue there too. I go nuts for hot tongue sandwich.

Autumn

(46,169 posts)
70. I've never had hot tongue sandwich. When I was young my Mother
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 09:00 PM
Feb 2014

would make tongue in aspic. Loved it. Good stuff

Sgent

(5,858 posts)
64. I kind of agree
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 01:46 PM
Feb 2014

that there is a line between cultural foods and racism.

For what's its worth, growing up in the deep south, and as a reform Jew whose congregation was instrumental in civil rights protests, I try to have as much sensitivity as possible, but even I'm at a loss as to how to draw the line.

There is no question in my mind that watermelon has significant racist connotations. Fired chicken, greens (mustard, collard, etc.), gravy, etc. were seen as southern, but not racist. That being said, a lot of people of all races eat and enjoy both foods.

Would I see a traditional Jewish meal served as part of of Holocaust remembrance as antisemitic? No. That being said, traditional Jewish foods aren't identified with antisemitism. On the other hand, I would have much greater suspicions with teaching Dreidel games using gelt during the same remembrance.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
74. No- Manny would NEVER chide African Americans or
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 02:48 PM
Feb 2014

Women for being oversensitive about issues he claims to know jack shit about.
Stuff like that never happens here!

brush

(57,382 posts)
76. Do you really think that?
Fri Dec 4, 2015, 01:53 AM
Dec 2015

IMO his post is insensitive. Derogatory stereotypes are insulting and not to be mocked for laughs.

Trying too hard for a not-so-funny joke.

Don't get why people think his stchick is so brilliant.

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