“May I make a confession to you (since it’s just us friends)? When I was younger, I thought these things were too much noted. I don’t think that anymore, at all.”
Jay, pistachio croissants have come to Costco! Alas, our local Costco in the provinces does not yet have them, but l would love a taste comparison if you find them in NYC.
I'm well-read, especially concerning history, so am very much aware of antisemitism and its horrific history, but I have virtually no personal experience of it at all. I attended high school in Bryan, Texas (adjacent to College Station and Texas A&M) in the late sixties. There was a single Jewish girl, Rebecca, in my class, as she had been since elementary school. I was active in our town's community theatre group, where I got to know her dad, Sol, a Jewish man from NYC. You should have seen his turn as Sitting Bull in "Annie Get Your Gun". Those were the only Jewish people I knew growing up. There was no discrimination against them that I was aware of, nor any reason there should be; they were just like everyone else, outside of Sol having a funny accent. They observed different religious holidays than their Christian neighbors, but they didn't get bent if wished "Merry Christmas". Maybe I'd feel differently if I'd grown up around a bunch of standoffish Hasidic Jews, but as it stands, I totally don't get antisemitism.
The last line is poingant. I have a Ukrainain/Russian Jewish barber who 3 years ago told me of anti-semitic slurs his daughter had experienced at a rural middle class midwestern high school. At the time I found it hard to believe. In a more current time a friend's christian high school son was ostracized in a homeschool classics discussion group for not accepting their accusations against the Jews. He left the group. With all the history of anti-semitism, why do I still find it bizarre. The oddness of it argues for something supernatural.
I too discovered pistachio croissants on my recent trip to Milan. Found another in Florence. Memorably delicious both.
That color you like—you've mentioned a building of the same hue in Copenhagen too—is unique; what would you call it, Jay? Mustard? Ochre? Saffron?
Not sure!
“May I make a confession to you (since it’s just us friends)? When I was younger, I thought these things were too much noted. I don’t think that anymore, at all.”
Amen Brother Jay.
Jay, pistachio croissants have come to Costco! Alas, our local Costco in the provinces does not yet have them, but l would love a taste comparison if you find them in NYC.
https://www.thedailymeal.com/2173407/costco-pistachio-croissant-review/
Ah, great!
I'm well-read, especially concerning history, so am very much aware of antisemitism and its horrific history, but I have virtually no personal experience of it at all. I attended high school in Bryan, Texas (adjacent to College Station and Texas A&M) in the late sixties. There was a single Jewish girl, Rebecca, in my class, as she had been since elementary school. I was active in our town's community theatre group, where I got to know her dad, Sol, a Jewish man from NYC. You should have seen his turn as Sitting Bull in "Annie Get Your Gun". Those were the only Jewish people I knew growing up. There was no discrimination against them that I was aware of, nor any reason there should be; they were just like everyone else, outside of Sol having a funny accent. They observed different religious holidays than their Christian neighbors, but they didn't get bent if wished "Merry Christmas". Maybe I'd feel differently if I'd grown up around a bunch of standoffish Hasidic Jews, but as it stands, I totally don't get antisemitism.
You are a great travel guide, Jay. Thank you.
Thank you, my friend.
The last line is poingant. I have a Ukrainain/Russian Jewish barber who 3 years ago told me of anti-semitic slurs his daughter had experienced at a rural middle class midwestern high school. At the time I found it hard to believe. In a more current time a friend's christian high school son was ostracized in a homeschool classics discussion group for not accepting their accusations against the Jews. He left the group. With all the history of anti-semitism, why do I still find it bizarre. The oddness of it argues for something supernatural.
I think it has to be Satanic; it's certainly not reasonable.