Friday, April 15, 2022

Tweet of the Day

Yes, ham, also yeast rolls and quiche there. They have since corrected the image in their ad. Passover begins this evening. (via Boing Boing)

3 comments:

  1. How did skosh get here, it was in New England in the 1930s

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  2. Various web dictionary sites say skosh came from military stationed in Japan, shortening the Japanese word sukoshi (the u and i sometimes are almost unspoken).

    There are no sources saying it came to the west before WWII. Do you have a source that says it was used in New England in the 1930s? If so, I wonder if it still came from Japan, but from earlier contacts. The first Japanese mission to the US was in the 1860s.

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  3. You're all debating where the word skosh came from but I am sitting here wondering what sort of god demands you only eat certain foods on certain days ... seems a bit totalitarian to me, a bit 'controlly'.

    Maybe it is time to move on from the belief in sky ghosts and just rely on factual things.

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