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Say again, please?
« on: April 11, 2017, 08:20:41 am »
Intended for things which at first blush seem unremarkable but, upon further thought, turn out to be less than kosher. In this case, literally.

Inspired by an ad which just played on the radio offering an Easter special on Honeybaked Hams. Just like any other of the thousands of ads which play every day, until you think....

Just what is the propriety of offering ham on sale on a religious holiday which traces its lineage directly to the Jewish Passover...?
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Re: Say again, please?
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2017, 09:29:46 am »
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Just what is the propriety of offering ham on sale on a religious holiday which traces its lineage directly to the Jewish Passover...?


What's inappropriate about that? Christianity moved away from kosher laws around day two.
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Re: Say again, please?
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2017, 10:18:02 am »
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What's inappropriate about that? Christianity moved away from kosher laws around day two.

 
Are those biblical days or actual human days. :p
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« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2017, 10:40:58 am »
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Are those biblical days or actual human days. :p


NT days. As in '...or thereabouts'. :p
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Re: Say again, please?
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2017, 11:24:42 am »
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What's inappropriate about that? Christianity moved away from kosher laws around day two.

Oh, I'm not saying it should be illegal or anything. It just struck me as, ultimately, very incongruous, considering the lineage of the holiday.

I've had ham on Easter before, and I'm sure I will again. But it's commercially offering the ham on special in connection with the holiday which drew the raised eyebrow.
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Re: Say again, please?
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2017, 11:41:31 am »
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Oh, I'm not saying it should be illegal or anything. It just struck me as, ultimately, very incongruous, considering the lineage of the holiday.

I've had ham on Easter before, and I'm sure I will again. But it's commercially offering the ham on special in connection with the holiday which drew the raised eyebrow.


Well, that's a connection very few would make, so yay for being observant, I guess?
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Re: Say again, please?
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2017, 12:20:43 pm »
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Well, that's a connection very few would make, so yay for being observant, I guess?

 
I mean, given that -- regardless of Easter's Jewish roots -- it is also the second night of Pesach tonight I guess one could raise an objection to it; but unless they were running the promotion in a way which specifically mentioned Passover I don't really see anything remarkable about it. Easter Ham is kind of a thing soooooo.
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Re: Say again, please?
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2017, 02:03:11 pm »
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Just what is the propriety of offering ham on sale on a religious holiday which traces its lineage directly to the Jewish Passover...?

 
I was wondering if it was linked to doing Explicitly Not Jewish things in areas where there had been a lot of Jewish persecution and theoretical conversions. (i.e. in Spain and later Spanish Mexico, there were a lot of food traditions around demonstrating you were not Jewish and were eating foods Jewish people would not eat, especially on specific holidays following the expulsion of the Jews in 1492.)

In reality, it appears that in the US, at least, it's because we as a culture eat a lot less lamb, and those are (agriculturally speaking) the two feast foods most available in the spring. (Poultry hasn't grown up yet, neither has beef. Ham requires an adult animal, but also aging and is preserved to last the winter. Lambs are, well, lambs.)
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Re: Say again, please?
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2017, 03:28:58 pm »
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I was wondering if it was linked to doing Explicitly Not Jewish things in areas where there had been a lot of Jewish persecution and theoretical conversions. (i.e. in Spain and later Spanish Mexico, there were a lot of food traditions around demonstrating you were not Jewish and were eating foods Jewish people would not eat, especially on specific holidays following the expulsion of the Jews in 1492.)

 
While I'm not denying the unpleasant reality of that historical fact, I do think...or at least hope...that Christian believers in general and in this society specifically have moven past the point where we have to prove We're Not Jewish. I personally embrace the Jewish heritage of my faith; while I don't practice the Jewish customs I do respect them and the promises which were made to Abraham, Isaac and Israel and their descendants.

But...c'mon, folks, lighten up a bit! This is the humor forum, after all! I posted it because I thought it incongruous and just a bit funny...not to open a can of worms!

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Re: Say again, please?
« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2017, 11:56:40 pm »
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If you think to apologise ahead of time, doesn't it usually means you're doing something you know you shouldn't?
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Re: Say again, please?
« Reply #11 on: April 12, 2017, 02:50:59 am »
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But...c'mon, folks, lighten up a bit! This is the humor forum, after all! I posted it because I thought it incongruous and just a bit funny...not to open a can of worms!

 
Eric, I say this with love, but your observation was neither incongruous nor funny. If you were to entertain a group of laughing babies and then inform them that a ham company was running a promotion during Holy Week, the laughter would be physically sucked back into their bodies. An Azerbaijani translation of John Toland's Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography would have exactly the same comedic heft as your OP. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing -- some things just aren't that funny and that's okay -- but given the complete lack of humour we had to find a different way to approach it. And most of the responders chose to approach it from an objective historical and/or religious viewpoint because, well, that's just the kind of place TC is.

IDK man, I feel you're either overestimating your joke, misjudging your audience, or possibly both.
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