Comments on: Yachatz!

Yachatz!

serazin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:04:38 -0800

Nationwide matzo shortage! Competing theories offer possible explanations. If you get desperate, make your own. (Gratuitous youtube matzo themed video.)

By: digaman

digaman — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:24:27 -0800

I swear, I was thinking about posting this. It's true. The Palestinian owners of the local grocery said "100 people asked for matzo today" and they had none. Luckily, our hosts last night were well prepared, and we went to a restaurant tonight that had a Passover menu and plenty of the flat stuff.

By: digaman

digaman — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:32:17 -0800

Last January: the Williamsburg equivalent of a meth lab.

By: Dreama

Dreama — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:46:01 -0800

Between the mishegoss at Manischewitz and meshuga move by WalMart (ordering vast quantities of non-KFP matzoh before Easter then putting it on clearance with all of their other kosher foods about two weeks ago when people needed KFP, not every day), I'm not surprised that more people in areas without significant Jewish populations didn't have to resort to making their own. We were able to place our order and get the (vast, non-Manischewitz) amounts we'll need from our local kosher market, made regionally. Moral of the story, underscored when big box bakers and big box grocers fail miserably: support local business!

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:46:34 -0800

Feh. You can have my portion of The Bread Of Our Affliction. Unless it's the egg and onion variety...

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:49:04 -0800

Oh, regarding the Afikomen as a dessert: WTF? If The Lord would have kept it from my sight, deyanu!

By: Fiasco da Gama

Fiasco da Gama — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:48:37 -0800

How many times? We're not going to run out of matzo. It's just going to reach a peak of production as consumption increases, then decline in quantity and be available only at an every-increasing price. It's up to us now to find ways to live in a post-matzo world.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:44:08 -0800

oi vey or sumthin'

By: miss tea

miss tea — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:44:21 -0800

According to our local grocery, the distributor went out of business. We had to get ours at Whole Foods.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:52:37 -0800

Last time I was in my local supermarket (sometime last week), there were mountains of matzo. Stacks of boxes taller than me. I suspect that the areas currently suffering from a matzo shortage also suffer from a deficiency of good Chinese restaurants.

By: rmless

rmless — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:10:42 -0800

I got the last single (non-5 pack) box of matzoh in my local Brooklyn supermarket. There were only boxes of salt and black pepper left (WTF?). I really don't know what I am going to do without onion tam tams this year.

By: digaman

digaman — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:17:08 -0800

I suspect that the areas currently suffering from a matzo shortage also suffer from a deficiency of good Chinese restaurants. San Francisco, notsomuch. We have some of the best Chinese restaurants in the world, but yesterday Baghdad by the Bay (er...) was crawling with Jews looking unsuccessfully for the unleavened bread of their ancestors. The place I ate in last night, Firefly, has an excellent Passover menu, and was crammed with Chosen People -- the brisket and homemade gefilte fish with fresh horseradish are to die -- but, as scallop and shrimp potstickers appear on that menu, it's not quite frum.

By: piratebowling

piratebowling — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:30:00 -0800

Any New Yorkers in desperate need, I have some. I'm already only following my most half assed version of Passover anyway* so I'll probably be giving up long before passover is over. *I'm sorry, but asking a vegetarian to give up legumes is just not a nice thing to do.

By: serazin

serazin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:13:48 -0800

piratebowling: follow the sephardic tradition and eat all the beans you want!

By: klik99

klik99 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:55:06 -0800

ah so this is a thing is it? I found one smashed box of KFP matzo in the wrong section of my kroger and thats the only kind that I could find in atlanta... It worked well enough for seder but not enough for the whole week. Oh well.

By: klik99

klik99 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:01:30 -0800

Yeah - also last week there was tons of matzo around atlanta, so i thought i would be fine. Come to saturday morning and there has been nothing...