09-21-2005, 12:10 PM
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#401 | | Boom!
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| I brought in some fresh apples from the tree in my yard, they're in the wicker basket over on the coffee table...
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09-21-2005, 12:13 PM
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#402 | | Senior Member
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| I don't think those kosher rules had anything to do with health. Just that, like the dietary restrictions of any number of other insular groups, it's one of the easiest ways of differentiating "us" from "them." Any health benefits were purely accidental.
So does scavenging apples mean jewish people can't eat them? I'm lost.
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09-21-2005, 12:19 PM
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#403 | | Boom!
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| I was under the impression that some of it had to do with pigs and trichonosis...
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09-21-2005, 12:29 PM
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#404 | | Question Game Queen
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| It does. Health reasons. I don't know all the reasons why each food was considered not kosher, but I do know that pigs were forbidden because of the disese. Any us-and-them effects were purely accidental.
And apples aren't scavenging, it's scrumping. | |
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09-21-2005, 12:33 PM
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#405 | | Boom!
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| Anyone here ever been at sea and watched the sun go down? On a calm day, there's a quick flash of greenish light just as the sun ducks below the horizon. Quite pretty.
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09-21-2005, 12:34 PM
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#406 | | the dark one
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| So crows and turkey vultures aren't kosher? Such a pity. There looks to be some good meat on them. Some people talk about the swallows returning to Capistrano every year as a sign of spring. Where I live, I know it's spring when the turkey vultures return. And you can always tell when there's been a good killing in the neighborhood, because the vultures are much more active than usual.
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09-21-2005, 12:36 PM
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#407 | | Immortal
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| Joseph Heller does a great riff in "God Knows" about Jewish dietary law:
"To the goyim He gives bacon, sweet pork, juicy sirloin and rare prime ribs of beef. To us He gives a pastrami. In Egypt we get the fat of the land. In Leviticus he prohibits us from eating it. A perpetual statute he makes it yet, that we eat neither the fat nor the blood. The blood contained the spirit of life and therefore belonged only to Him. The fat was bad for our gall bladders."
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09-21-2005, 12:39 PM
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#408 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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Originally Posted by swordwench So crows and turkey vultures aren't kosher? | What about squirrels..? 
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09-21-2005, 12:43 PM
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#409 | | Boom!
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| Too much effort - you need 400 of them for a decent meal. 
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09-21-2005, 12:43 PM
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#410 | | Question Game Queen
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen What about squirrels..? | I'm only for Fencergrl.  | |
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09-21-2005, 02:20 PM
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#411 | | Senior Member
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| As I for you.... (okay perhaps a few others).
Oh! By the way Go? Your husband-in-law says hi and that he's enjoying having a wife-in-law...
Is there any non-junk food to munch on here? Oh great! There's a veggie platter!
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09-21-2005, 02:32 PM
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#412 | | Boom!
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| Feel free to have some Doritos, all that talk of sea critters has made me a wee bit queasy...
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09-21-2005, 03:21 PM
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| Squeezy? Gosh, I'm still dizzy of my first waltz lesson today... | |
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09-21-2005, 03:24 PM
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#414 | | Senior Member
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| i LOVE to waltz. it's such a shame nobody has parties where people dance like that any more.
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09-21-2005, 03:29 PM
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#415 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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| Won't you take me to Funky Town? 
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09-21-2005, 03:36 PM
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| What time do you want to go?
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09-21-2005, 03:37 PM
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#417 | | Boom!
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| Ugh, after I take a few Tums...
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09-21-2005, 05:58 PM
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#418 | | Epee fencing addict
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| I like tums, but they don't help me much when acid reflux keeps food from going down. I find that drinking plenty of fluid with my meal helps the most.
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09-21-2005, 06:01 PM
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#419 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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Originally Posted by parrythis I find that drinking plenty of fluid with my meal helps the most. | Here, have a nother beer. It'll help digestion.
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09-21-2005, 06:04 PM
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