#47: Worst Passover Ever, Part 4
on April 4, 2018
at 3:08 pm
Curious at which point you feel any and all potential chance to salvage this thing went out the window.
Sorry for the delay – I forgot I had a website again. Lucky I can still remember how to tie my shoes!
The second bottle of wine didn’t help, but the point where the off the wall SJ turned into woo appropriative nonsense was panel 3.
Did they only even -get- to talking about the seder plate (not to mention the stuff on it, I mean, the orange is pretty common now, but I’m curious as to whether any of the others have anticedents) an hour or so in? Because one of the things I like about some of the better modern seders I’ve been attending these days is that they focus on the bit about “once you’ve said a bruchot over something you get to eat it” something fierce, so while we’re talking about four sons (or more likely, just talking about he meaning and relevance of Judaism’s most political holiday among many), people can munch on matzoh, twice-dipped veggies, moror and charoset (and, sure, drink more wine if they want).
Also…she drank Elijah’s cup, didn’t she? After the four bottles of wine, it probably seemed like a good idea, and everyone else had wandered off and were staring at an open door, prolly.
I have been to some broken-ass seders where there was no kidding TWO HOURS between the start of the event and the serving of the meal. To make things worse, it was at NYU Hillel. I don’t care if anyone who ever organized a Seder there is reading this. You guys suck at it. My guest and I ate all the boiled eggs on the table during the Maggid while everyone else looked at us with shock, anger and envy and then we left and had cheeseburgers. I was not a good Jew that year.
Ug. I mean, our seders growing up were like this, but we typically had snacks first (we also didn’t dip into the snacks after they’d been eaten, which was a regrettable lack).
Okay, why ARE there an orange, a chili pepper, a nine-volt battery, a Mickey Mantle rookie card, and a mint-condition Optimus Prime on the Seder plate? (They’d better not try to eat the battery.)
Well, the orange was originally a thing some people put on the seder plate as a symbol of feminist solidarity based on someone’s apocryphal anecdote, but at least out here, it kind of spiraled out with people adding all sorts of stuff to the plate for a variety of social and environmental “awarenesses.” So, the orange is my nod to the real, the others my nod to the theoretical. 🙂
I’d say “mostly apocryphal” — since the version we’ve been telling lately is still wrong, but does talk about the crust of bread (which is real).
https://www.juf.org/news/world.aspx?id=414773
I can at least theoretically understand the orange and the chili pepper. Next year, someone will put a USB drive containing the entire text of the Haggadah on the plate…
PS – I didn’t see an LJ entry announcing this, but it might be my fault, because I was sick and slept through Tuesday late night and most of Wednesday.
Hmm. In your reading, the chilli pepper is alternative moror?
It is a bit of a symbolic problem that people have grown to like horseradish (and most alternatives) too much; I mean, you’re supposed to be eating a vegtable you don’t like to symbolize the unpleasantness of slavery, but where does that go once you’ve developed a taste for horseradish, bitterness, sourness, I mean, I suppose you could use durian? (no. Just no).