Today's redundancy:

[conuly]

Jewish Synagogue.

*stares at all the poor, unfortunate, lox-hating people*

I'd weep for them, but then they might start eating lox and leaving less for me!

Edit: Incidentally, fun fact, the lox you're likely to buy in the supermarket (smoked salmon) isn't, technically speaking, lox. Lox is salmon cured in a salt brine. Smoked salmon is just, well, smoked salmon. It's still yummy, though.

Comments

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

Lox is an American Jewish thing I guess, because we don't have that stuff over here. It sounds delicious!!

[conuly]

It's associated with Jews from Eastern Europe, actually. The thing is, salmon was much cheaper here than in the old world, so that it became more popular over time.

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

Hmm, it must be a kashrut (kosherness) issue then. *scratches head* if something is not eaten locally, it's because we just can't get the ingredients. Hungarian Jewish life in 2005, yay.

Or maybe it came from Poland and/or Ukraine and/or Russia to the US, circled around Hungary with us being left out...?