Isaac works for a professor who is an Orthodox Jew. Isaac has to go to pick up the kosher pizza for meetings of the research group. Funny things Isaac has told me about the Kosher Pizza place:
1) The name of the place is Pizza Cave. Appetizing!!!
2) The guy who usually works the cash register is some kind of Korean "little person" who is a very short but stout man. Probably not Jewish.
3) Because Jewish dietary laws prohibit one from eating milk and dairy together, you can't have a pepperoni pizza. They have innovated "tofuronni" which Isaac says is not bad. (I don't believe him.)
4) They just recently posted a sign soliciting job applicants who are observants Jews, and isaac says there is now a swarthy woman behind the counter wearing a huge gold star of David. The short but big Korean has been moved to the back.
This may not be funny to anyone but me, but I'm at work late keeping Isaac company and getting loopy with tiredness.
Edited to say: Not "milk and dairy together", but "meat and dairy together". I was really tired. But not drunk. It has to do with not boiling the kid in its mother's milk. You can eat fish in cream sauce though - that's OK! Just like Catholics with the definition of meat.
6 comments:
Not funny? That is freaking hilarious! I love the swarthy woman with the huge star of David. I can totally picture it!
That's hilarious -- is right! How funny. As long as they don't see the Korean making it -- it works LOL.
They can't eat dairy while drinking milk?? Being kosher and I would totally not mix...Do you know I was a teenager before I knew about kosher food? That's what you get for growing up in tiny town Minnesota!
So funny. I love the name of the restuarant. It reminds of one in DC that was "Hunan #1-You Like!!!"
And I'm assuming your latenight loopiness was the reason you didn't mention the second reason you can't get pepperoni at the Kosher pizza place...isn't that a form of pork?
I want you to take me to this place the next time I'm in NYC.
Sorry about the dairy/milk thing oops. You are totally right about the pork thing too Lynne.
I don't know what I thought kosher food was before I came to NY. I definitely didn't know anything about the specific laws except the no pork thing.
But there's so much better pizza to be had. We might have to just take a sightseeing trip to the Pizza Cave to see the little Korean guy and then we'll go somewhere else for a real pizza!
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