How do you usually spend your Easter weekend?

How do you usually spend your Easter weekend?

  • With family and friends

    Votes: 64 35.6%

  • Going to church

    Votes: 28 15.6%

  • Doing Easter activities with kids (egg hunts etc)

    Votes: 32 17.8%

  • Relaxing

    Votes: 120 66.7%

  • Travelling or going away for the long weekend

    Votes: 14 7.8%

  • Working

    Votes: 28 15.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 18 10.0%
  • Total voters
    180
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Jet-Fighter7700 said:
I mean why not eat SPAM or canned meat
at least Matzos has a story behind it.
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Lol, I take it you are a secular Jew , but still, not knowing the traditions of your people is funny. It has to do with the idea of a sacrificial lamb.
 
Astarion said:
Lol, I take it you are a secular Jew , but still, not knowing the traditions of your people is funny. It has to do with the idea of a sacrificial lamb.
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I know the traditions behind Matzos, and the whole exodus from Egypt story,
what I never understood was the pickled fish story,

still a bit mystified as to why Pickled fish, and not something else that has a long shelf life,
like Spam or Biltong or potentially Hardtack or Rusks,
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
I know the traditions behind Matzos, and the whole exodus from Egypt story,
what I never understood was the pickled fish story,

still a bit mystified as to why Pickled fish, and not something else that has a long shelf life,
like Spam or Biltong or potentially Hardtack or Rusks,
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Meat is avoided as respect for the sacrifice of Jesus, symbolically the lamb. Red meat is too closely associated and Jews don’t eat pork.

Fish also has religious connotations for Christians. But in South Africa, it is probably just because of the fishermen in the Cape and we just so happen to pickle it because that’s the preservation method used for centuries and we like the taste.
 
Astarion said:
Meat is avoided as respect for the sacrifice of Jesus, symbolically the lamb. Red meat is too closely associated and Jews don’t eat pork.

Fish also has religious connotations for Christians. But in South Africa, it is probably just because of the fishermen in the Cape and we just so happen to pickle it because that’s the preservation method used for centuries and we like the taste.
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okay that makes sense, so obviously elsewhere around the wold with less fish and more red meat would pickle and preserve that.
do wonder in the future with everything becoming lab grown, and less red meat and fish, what will people eat?
 
Astarion said:
I did not know that, the one I buy in the shops is baked. It is bland but I like it.
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the story with Matzos is interesting,
essentially entire thing, including baking has to be done in 30 min, literally timed by the Rabbi

as the Israelite's were on the run, they didnt have time to let the bread rise
so they poked holes in it and mixed flour and water and basically ate uncooked bread.

thats why it is not very nice, as its uncooked bread that has had holes poked in it to prevent it rising
and why I dread this time of the year,
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
thats why it is not very nice, as its uncooked bread that has had holes poked in it to prevent it rising
and why I dread this time of the year,
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Butter and marmite go well with it.
I’d actually be inclined to say it’ll go well with a bit of pickled fish too. :)
 
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