Matzoh Mayhem

can't you just make more by mixing flour and water and leaving out the leavening and baking them in a 275 degree oven for two hours? wouldn't that be pretty much the same thing? it would probably taste pretty flavorful in comparison, actually.

How can they run out of matzoh right before Passover? Does anyone else find that odd?

MATZOH, MATZOH MAN, YEAH...I WANNA BE, A MATZOH MAN......

I would find it odd if they ran out of Matzoh in August. Luckily, we still have a couple of cartons leftover from last year. That stuff has a shelf life longer than twinkies.

I'd like to note the passing, at something like 94, of Ollie Johnston yesterday.

The name may not ring bells automatically, but he probably amused a great many Baristavillians (and even Baristavillains, perhaps) during their childhoods. He was one of Disney's early and long-time animators, and with other members of what were termed "the 9 old men" (there was even a documentary about them some years back) played a major role in such classics as "Bambi," "Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs" and "Fantasia." He was also supposedly a very nice man, and his talents and respect for childhood verities will both be missed.

I've heard of hiding the Afikomen, but this is ridiculous!

I would try the ACME in Styertowne Plaza, which seems to have a large selection of Kosher foods.

Metropolitan Bakery in Philly..handmade and delicate.

twinkies have a shelf life of 30days

After this there is nothing left to say....: http://www.jibjab.com/sendables/387?cmpid=348

twinkies have a shelf life of 30days

Next thing you're gonna tell me is we actually landed on the moon. Just because you read it on snopes.com doesn't mean it is true.

Interesting. I just logged on to see if Baristabnet would observe The Holocaust or Passover. A thread about Matzoh beats a blank - in keeping with Baristanet's practice of keeping it light. Thank you, Baristanet for a thread that will allow me to invoke the senior citizen privilege to remember and ramble -

When I was raising two kids, on an even more severe budget than I have now as an almost senior citizen, I discovered the nearly infinite shelf life of Matzoh. (I had worked at a Jewish social agency.) After I figuered out how to doctor it to entice my kids,(unorthodox, but we're black Christians), Matzoh became a staple in our pantry. True to its tradition, it will feed you when there is little else, like it or not!

I am also remembering tonight one of my favorite undergrad professors. I enjoyed special projects and talks with him. Eventually, my boyfriend and I put things the prof. said "together," and persuaded him to show us the numbers we suspected were burned into his arm. It made me think of the cattle brans that were seared onto African slaves. It is a sombering, much too modern, transgression to witness.

My mother lives in a retirement community where she had two delightful dinner tablemates who had guided younger siblings to escape from Nazis extermination, on foot, caring for younger siblings, over mountains and foreign terrain. Like many of my older relatives who had witnessed lynchings in the South, these two women refrained from expressing anger as they told their stories of survival against unimagineable tyranny. But, I could see something in their eyes that I cannot explain, but said it all.

Nazis, American Slavery, Angola, Dafur,.... We must never forget.

you can get your news from snopes, but I wouldnt use that info in front of people you want to impress. Ask the experts instead:

In reality, Twinkies' shelf life is more like 25 days, says Theresa Cogswell, who calls herself the Twinkie guru and is vice president for research and development at Interstate Bakeries Corp., the parent company of Hostess. She admits she got a good laugh out of the 30-year-old Twinkie story but says she wouldn't want to eat one quite that old. "You can eat older Twinkies, but they're just not as good as when they're fresh. Then they're awesome."

its funny that you typed in "twinkie shelf life" into google to find the snopes article, then come up with something witty.

I certainly wouldn't trust any information coming from a mouthpiece from the parent company of Hostess. Sounds to me like just another lame twinkie defense. And for the record, I did not type "twinkie shelf life" into google to find the snopes article. I used yahoo.

It was the Twinkies that made me do it. If I did it.

I'll be the one on the golf course.

I miss the old Twinkies, the newer ones are too refined for my taste. I liked the little bit of sugar crunch you got in the filling.

Back during the Cold War years, when we practiced bomb drills for when the Russians would bomb us, Twinkies were in my survival plan box. Yum.

Yes, Acme in Clifton's Styertown is the place for kosher food. That's where the Orthodox Jews shop. Watch out for the traffic though. It can get pretty hairy in that area of (the Other) Bloomfield Avenue near the Route 3 ramp.

Now, instead of the Russians bombing us, they simply fill our gas tanks with water. Though I do appreciate the free air at the Lukoil on Valley and Lorraine.

They more than make up for it with their gas prices at that Lukoil.

I will not go into a food retail market until after Seder is completed. I avoid on most days before any major holiday. I am not that sadistic.s

Well, if you like DECENT Coca Cola, now is the time to buy Coke that has no high fructose corn syrup in it!

For what it's worth, if you drench twinkies in coffee liquer, they work great in a mock tirimisu, if you're lacking the ladyfinger cookies.

For what it's worth, if you drench twinkies in deep fried cooking oil, they're awesome. But certainly not K for P.

Mock tiramisu! Sounds deliciously slimy. Gurgle.

I do not drink soda; haven't since 2000. I do not miss it; give me excellent coffee with half and half.