Unclear on the concept

[willendorf5761]

 Standing in the processed, heavily-salted snack food aisle, I had the following thought:

"Hey!  Pork rinds don't have any hametz in them!" 

Comments

[thedeepquiet]

Yikes. You must really be jonesin' for some hametz...

[willendorf5761]

No, but I was hungry. I ended up with potato chips.

[thedeepquiet]

Ah... that makes sense. I almost bought some of those today, too, when C and I were browsing local stores across the street from the library.

[alexisyael]

My inlaws have meat and dairy (they don't keep kosher during the rest of the year) at the seder they go to, but they are REALLY strict about not having ANY chametz. It's the most bizarre thing to M and I. They're both like :::google eyed::: that we decided to keep Sephardic rules, but they'll eat cheesecake right after brisket? WEIRD.

Residual sensibilities

[thedarkages]

The phenomenon you describe is not uncommon. People do whatever they want in practice -- yesterday, I saw someone eating a matzoh, ham, and cheese sandwich -- but they still have stricter sensibilities left over from their upbringing. Often, practice and sensibility operate on two parallel tracks simultaneously.

[thedarkages]

I must confess that chol ha'moed Passover is seeming more and more of a trial every year. The first days have the novelty of the Seders, but the middle days are burdened with endless matzoh and scant taste or nutrition. It doesn't help that the only matzoh available at the supermarket was in a five-pound pack, and that I missed the farmer's market this week because I was at my parents' house in Florida.

Complain, complain, complain. If I do enough of this, it'll be 8:12 on Sunday night before I know it. :-)

[willendorf5761]

Going Sephardic really helps. Beans, rice, peanut butter can all be yours.