Sights from the Supermarket

[hatam_soferet]

ETA: Lethargic_man points out that he too lives in a Jewish neighbourhood, in London, and none of this applies in his neighbourhood. I did not mean to imply that all Jews drink death-defying amounts of carbonated water on festivals, nor that all Jews are so environmentally oblivious that they use plastic for every meal – no, indeed. Just the ones near me!

Back to the post:

I live in rather a Jewish neighbourhood.

This is how you know the Jews are having a holiday:

Perfectly terrifying quantities of seltzer.

This is how you know the holiday is Succot:

Mind-boggling quantities of plastic forks.

Mirrored from hasoferet.com.

Comments

[lethargic_man]

<puzzled> I live in rather a Jewish neighbourhood, but neither of those mean anything to me. (I don't even know what Selzer is, and I've happily been carrying (or getting my guests to carry) metal cutlery out to my succah.)

(Actually, one thing that narks me about the occasional meals I've been to chez Chabad: They always use disposable cutlery and crockery. I mentioned to someone once that this was bad for the environment (something most non-Orthodox rabbis I've come across are strong on, but very few Orthodox ones), and got the response "Well, if we had non-disposables, who would wash them?" I should have pointed out that at the Friday night meals that my rabbi hosts every month (attendance probably forty or fifty, as against perhaps 150 at Chabad), we use metal cutlery and ceramic crockery, and the guests take it upon themselves to wash them up at the end of the meal...)