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with the death of local kosher bakeries due to supermarket bakeries under kosher supervision, home kosher baking OOT has been on the rise for 25+ years.
I was in the Kosher Bakery business in the 1970s
Mrs. CTL’s family owned and operated a kosher bakery
Thus we have always baked most of our own things.
In addition to inside kitchen ovens, we have a brick oven in our living room fireplace wall and both the outdoor matzo oven and an outdoor wood fired beeehive shaped pizza oven, used for all kinds of milchige baking, pizza, calzones, kugels, etc.
I built the outside ovens myself. The fireplace wall oven is more than 200 years old@klugeryid
We set up production tables outside within steps of the oven. All the mixing, kneading, etc. is done there. We have water source, etc. The have an outdoor kitchen with stainless steel sinks and counters that are easy to kasher, so there is provision for washing keilim, etc.
We are not dealing with making dough and shaping matzo in the house and having to get it outside and baked within the time limits. The distance from outdoor work station to outdoor oven is actually closer than if I was preparing food in one of my indoor kitchens and carrying from the center islands to ovens,@KLugeryid
Raw matzo is draped over a 2″ diameter stainless steel dowel. As one edge of the matzo hits the oven floor, rotate one’s wrist to place the entire circle on the oven floor smoothing with the dowel. Years ago we used wood dowels, but the stainless cleans much faster with boiling water, no chance of residue becoming chometz.@Joseph
Zaidy liked the look of them that way. Since he was paying the photographer, why shouldn’t he get what he wanted?@Midwest
Taller wife, a true story form our family.
My paternal grandfather was 5′ tall. In 1917 he was engaged to my grandmother who was the same height. He was drafted into the US Army and sent off to fight in WWI. My grandmother remained at home with her parents and finished high school and worked in my Great Grandfather’s office doing the accounts.
Zaidy returned from Europe and was discharged from the Army in the spring of 1919. He hurried to Brooklyn to see his family and his Kallah, My grandmother had continue to grow while he was away…she was now 5’9″ tall. They were married in June 1919 and enjoyed 58 years as husband and wife before she was niftara.
Every picture that they arranged had her sitting and him standing. Every non-posed picture shows them as the mismatched (by height) but happy couple they were.@Gaon
Most ‘commercial’ matzo is at least a couple of months old.
I’ll be baking our hand schmurah in a wood fired outdoor brick oven in our yard this coming week. It will be nice and fresh for Pesach.
My sons and I built the oven as a bonding project about 25 years ago and we enjoy using it every year. Once the matzo baking is over, the oven is secured and not used until the following year.
Our smokehouse is full of meats, fowl and fish that is curing for Pesach. As I have mentioned in other posts, we buy no prepared foods, but make everything from scratch. We have a separate Pesach kitchen and today was soup and potato kugel preparation day. All are cooling now and a freezer will be filled before we go to bed tonight. Mrs. CTL and I are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the gantze mishpocha for the entire Yuntif, should be about 50 sleeping and eating here in the compound.Final factor affecting the taste of matzo…………………
What fuel is used to bake the matzo?
I’ve had hand matzo baked in coal or wood fired ovens that has a distinctive taste. I like wood fired, not coal.
Machine matzos are baked in gas or electric ovens (as are some hand matzo) which impart no flavor to the matzoMy eldest brother is 3 years younger than his wife. They are married 51 years
My eldest sister is 3 months older than her husband. They are married 48 years.I don’t think a few months or years matter……………………………
Many considerations besides hand or machine…………………………..
#1 American, Israeli or other country of origin
In the 70s and 80s and early 90s I loved the taste of Rakusen Machine Matzo from England
Until the 2010s I could NOT stand the taste of Israeli matzo Hand or Machine. Now I stockpile Yehuda machine matzo for year round use. Stop and Shop gives away a 5lb box with a $25 purchase and I’ve already put 50 lobs away that cost nothing. I could have chosen other Israeli or American brands, but I like this taste better.
#2 Hand is it thick or thin? Texture isn’t really taste, but a blah taste lingers longer when the matzo is very thick.
#3 Is the hand matzo burnt and overcooked. I don’t like the taste of char.#4 which grain is used? My niece has celiac disease, We buy both oat and spelt matzo for her, I like the taste of oat, not spelt. In fact I think an Oat machine matzo tastes better than a wheat hand matzo.
I’ve read this thread with great interest and have a few comments think back on my time in the kosher food business and as a consumer.
#1 I just came back from a quick trip to Johannesburg and was there when Stan and Pete lost their hashgacha. The supervising agency did the right thing and made sure consumers who had booked affairs would be accommodated by other establishments under supervision.
In the 1970s I was in the kosher bakery business and later the kosher catering and restaurant business in the New Haven area.
Bakery supervision was lax. the mashgiach only visited monthly and was happy that I could light the ovens and take challah. Problem was workers on the night production shift (when owners were not present) would bring in their own treif meals and heat them in the ovens. I reported this to the mashgiach, but nothing happened. I left for other opportunities.
The kosher catering and restaurant business had great on premises supervision, BUT our keilim went out to synagogues of all varieties and were washed in their dishwashers and used ion their ovens with only the supervision of the synagogue Rabbi, not our kosher supervising authority. Once I saw that, I never ate from our catering division again. (It was housed in a separate building and there was no mixing with the restaurant).
Problem is that if you were a kosher consumer and you knew X caterers was under Y supervision and you were invited to a dinner at the JCC or Synagogue Z catered by X, you assumed it was kosher. BUT, as I learned, once the sealed containers left Caterer X’s facility kashrut was no longer at a guaranteed standard.In most cases, unless I know who is supervising the facility where the affair is held, I come to the simcha, will have a drink and maybe a bit of fresh fruit and that’s it.
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Another problem that is encountered out of town. Many brides like a particular baker for ‘wedding cakes.’ The baker is under ‘reliable’ kosher supervision, so area kosher caterers are permitted to allow brides to order and buy their cakes from the baker and the caterer plates and serves them at a x$ per head fee.Mrs. CTL ordered our wedding cake form the baker all those decades ago. At the chasunah, I heard her tell the caterer: ‘make sure to save the riser posts used to set the tiers, I have to return them to the baker and get my $100 deposit back’
Turns out this baker charged a deposit on all these post/risers and had no control over where they went, many non-Jews ordered form the baker. Who knew how these items were washed and then reused on the next customer’s cake.
We made a symbolic cut of the wedding cake and the caterer cut sheet cakes he had in his freezer to our guests for dessert.
The caterer’s supervising rabbi had never considered this problem and had allowed these cakes for years. That ended with our chasunah.@CoffeeAddict
Basic Civics Lesson:
Mueller is an employee of the Executive Branch of government. He can’t recommend impeachment because he does not report to the US House of Representatives (part of the Legislative Branch). This is Separation of Powers.
Any member of the House can introduce a Bill of Impeachment. But it has to make it to the floor and win a majority vote to cause a trial by the Senate.@CoffeeAddict
It is NOT semantics. Only the House of Representatives part of the Legislative branch of Government can bring an impeachment action against an official of the Executive Branch or Judiciary (Yes, Congress can impeach and Try Federal Judges).
The Special Prosecutor is part of the Justice Department/Executive Branch. He can lay charges for prosecution in the court system for violation of Federal Laws/Code/Acts. This can lead to conviction/fines/imprisonment. However, a sitting President has practical immunity form such an action and only is subject to Impeachment. If Impeached and convicted and removed from office the former President could be subject to prosecution for the ‘High Crimes and Misdemeanors’ which led to conviction in the Senate.
That’s why Ford pardoned Nixon when he resigned, otherwise Nixon could have been prosecuted as a private citizen and sent to prison.@CoffeeAddict
I can not agree with your hypothesis that Trump has been investigated by Mueller and if he had been found to have violated the Emoluments Clause and if Mueller fond so he would recommend Trump be thrown out of office.
The Special Prosecutor has no power to start Impeachment Process. He works for the Justice Department, part of the Executive Branch headed by the President. A Bill of impeachment (similar to an indictment) must be brought by a member of the House of Representatives. If passed, a trial would be held by the Senate. They could sentence the Impeached to removal, or something as simple as a censure or reprimand.
The Special Prosecutor can bring charges against individuals m(and corporations) for violating Federal Laws/Codes/Acts and the Federal Courts would try and sentence.@AviK………….
Typed on my touchscreen Kindle, which autocorrects and does not let me edit as I’d like.
Actually Ford was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. name changed to that of stepfather.The Senate can convict and NOT remove from office. They can also censure or reprimand.
The character of employment you mention has to due with employment by Government, NOT being employed by a business the person owned. There is no question in my mind that many foreign governments/officials suck-up to Trump by sending at his named properties, thus providing these profits. I do not believe he has gifted all the profits to the USA and he provides no backup audited by GAAP.
I don’t trust a thing Trump says or does.@Geordie613
Off topic for the rest.
Daughter arrive in CapeTown on her ship from Antarctica via Tristan Da Cunha. They immediately offloaded 90% of the contents of their freshwater tanks to provide for other ships at the port. The ship spent a week in port running its desalinization equipment and donating the potable water. She flew to JoBurg to meet me and the ship sailed on to Port Elizabeth to provision and off to the Indian Ocean. She won’t be on the ship at all until it’s in the Med this summer.
My comment was about SAA (airline) bound for bankruptcy. SA itself is no more. I found JoBurg to be a 3rd world City. Cape Town is even more segregated than I remember.Tillerson was fired by a twit
@AviK
After House votes to impeach the Senate conducts a trial. No removal after impeachment, only after Senate conviction. It is my belief that if impeached and convicted he would then be subject to other trials and penalties for perjury, obstruction of justice, tax evasion, etc. the convictions and incarceration presupposes his successor does pull a Jerry (the Republican) Ford and pardon Trump@Geordie613
The quick, short reply was to raise Joseph’s hackles.
I’ve answered DaMoshe that I believe Trump has violated Article I Section 9 of the US Constitution (emoluments clause). I studied and taught US Constitution in Law School for decades and that is my opinion of his actions.
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BTW, just flew back from a quick visit to SA last Monday night. 5 days there, two days flying. Probably the last time I’ll be on an SAA flight. Sad to see the way the company has fallen apart. Told the cab driver to take me to Jan Smuts for departure (I had flown into Capetown) and he stared at me like I was crazy. Silly me, in a time warp..Or Tambo is not a name that is in my vocabulary. Sad to see all the changes, 40 years since my last visit.@DaMoshe
Article 1 Section 9 Emoluments clause of the US Constitution.NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He should be impeached, tried, convicted and sent to prisonI’m in my mid 60s. My grandparents and great grandparents were born in the USA, not the alte heim. My paternal grandmother never made Pesach in her life. By the time my great grandmother no longer was able to make Pesach my grandparents came to my parents for the entire holiday. Mrs. CTL and I have hosted the entire clan for the past 25 years. We do not buy any prepared foods.
We taught our children they can live without the extras for a week and experience some of the deprivation those enslaved and then freed from bondage in Mitzraim endured.
We eat many simple meals during Pesach, green salads, with protein, stews, fresh fruit for dessert and almost no baked goods.My paternal side is Litvak, we eat Gebrokts. My maternal side are Yekkes, they also ate them.
A couple of my sons in law do not eat them, they get a different menu at our house during Pesach, as do their children. My daughters still eat Gebrokts in our home during Pesach. Since they are all here for the entire holiday they have never made Pesach in their own homes. This point was discussed/negotiated before they agreed to marriage. Our Rav agreed that they could still follow my customs when eating in my home. At some time in the future sould they make Pesach in their own homes, they’ll follow the husbands’ traditions.Many people buy cheap. no brand dollar store batteries that have a much shorter life than the name brands. So, twice a year when you change the clocks, you also change the batteries to help protect your family and guests.
We have hardwired smoke alarms which don’t need battery changes, but because we live in New England where winter storm power outages occur, we also have battery operated alarms in the bedroom areas. I don’t spend $4 each for Duracell 9V batteries for these when because one doesn’t need alkaline batteries for this type of use. I buy Sunbeam at Dollar Tree 2/$1. Last night I changed the 7 alarms.
ALWAYS mark the installation date on the battery with a Sharpie. Years ago I had an insurance company try to cut the amount of a claim stating there was contributory negligence because I did not have a ‘good’ battery in the smoke alarm. The battery had dating only 4 moths old. The CT Dept. of Consumer Protection found this carrier was using this excuse regularly and many people just accepted the lower payouts.
In fact, our local Volunteer Fire Department will come and change batteries for the elderly or disabled at no charge.
As I posted earlier, not everyone lives in the 5 Boros.
Our southern CT town had anywhere form 16-20 inches of snow. Trees are down all over. 18% of homes are still without power.
No one wanted to chance children getting hurt coming home from school in near blizzard conditions. A van transporting handicapped adults was struck by a falling tree on Main Street at 3 PM Wed.
Our shul is still without power. Morning minyan was held at our home (we have sifrie torah and ample space). Three local families have moved in for the duration as they have no electricity or heat, and one can not use their well (we have city water).
No school here again Friday…it’s about safety. If your kids don’t live in walking distance of school and have sidewalks to walk on, closing was the correct thing to do.
So, they’ll go to school a couple of extra days in June, BIG DEAL, better than spending a few days in a hospital after a school bus accident on an icy, snowy road.Sorry, Little Froggie…………………
we had 16″ of snow that had to be removed from our driveways and walks. Many trees down. 30% of our town lost power due to downed trees.
No school yesterday, today and likely tomorrow as so many roads are blocked by fallen trees and downed power lines.
Shul has no power, so morning minyan was held here…of course it helps that 5 adult males live in the compound.Not everyone lives in the 5 Boros. There is life elsewhere.
Schools and Yeshivos here in Southern CT cancelled. By 11AM snow was already coming down, and roads getting icy. The liability of possible school bus accidents was too great to hold classes. All schools, Yeshivos closed today, many will also be closed tomorrow,
Our town has more than 30% of homes without electric power. Many roads blocked by downed wires and fallen trees. A number of people killed by trees that fell on cars moving on the roads. State of emergency declared.
We have about 16″ of extremely heavy snow in our driveway and about a dozen 30-50′ tall trees that are down in the back woods. Fireplaces are all going in case power goes out….it is still windy.
Even if classes were held I would not have my children drive my grandchildren today or allow them to take the bus. My 11 year old grandson’s rebbi has scheduled a Skype Shiur at 9:30 today.I remember hearing this discussion more than 50 years ago with participants who has arrived in NYC from Eastern Europe circa 1910. In order to pay the rent, clothe the family and put food on the table they worked the American 6 day week in factories….goodbye Shabbos.
Children attended FREE Public School with limited rudimentary Jewish education given my a melamed a couple of afternoons each week.
As the family moved up the economic ladder, Shabbos work ended and the next generation kids went to Yeshiva or Day school. Those born in the late teens and early 1920s also afforded themselves of the college education available at CCNY and Hunter for only the cost of a subway fare.
This led to greater wealth as business owners and professionals and the ability to send the children to the best Yeshivos, buy the more expensive Cholov Yisroel and fund the frum institutions we take for granted today.
These families went from Euro-Traditional Jews to educated Frum Jews because of increased wealth, not in spite of it.
In the 50s and 60s increased wealth also meant vacations, summers and Yuntif at reliable certifed Kosher hotels in the Catskills or Miami Beach This was a much higher standard than the kitchens at a kuchelane in the 1930s, where all visitors prepared their own meals in the communal kitchen with no real supervision.
As prosperous businessmen, my father and uncles (A”H) had more available free time for learning than their grandfathers and great-grandfathers had as Greenhorns.@Zahavasdad
Putting construction equipment on your property does NOT make you liable.
If your neighbor trespasses and puts construction equipment on your property, you are not liable for consequences. Liability in tort depends on negligence. The equipment is not under your dominion and control. As soon as you notify the neighbor that he is trespassing you have basically absolved yourself of liability. Your neighbor has created the attractive nuisance that could cause harm to inquisitive children, not you. You have no legal right to move the equipment, but would have to get the authorities involved to do so.
Your copy of the notice of trespass to your neighbor, be it by text, fax, certified letter, email and your complaint to the building/zoning officials will stem any potential liability.
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For those who don’t want to get involved with the secular government, contact your homeowners insurance carrier, they’ll pursue the matter to avoid having to defend a potential claim.@Joseph
As I stated in my earlier post, using an attorney to compel compliance with laws and regulations does not mean going to court.
A strongly worded letter pointing out the violations with a cc notice on the bottom showing Building and zoning enforcement agencies usually does the trick very quickly. One doesn’t actually have to cc those agencies.This winter our next door neighbor’s grandson (not Jewish) decided he was going to operate a plow business. He stored all his equipment in grandma’s backyard. Not only was it unsightly, but lots of middle of the night noise occurs when he hooks up plows, sand spreaders, etc. and leaved heavy diesel trucks idling in the yard.
A phone call was ignored, I sent a letter showing the violations caused by storing commercial equipment and vehicles in a residential zone and marked CC Zoning Enforcement. Everything was cleared out within 4 days.When Mrs. CTL designed a house last year for a local client, the client wanted a sprinkler system. The local building codes don’t require them, but do require hardwired smoke and CO alarms.
She and the client ran the plans by the Underwriter for insurance (carrier the customer uses is a top notch name brand). Underwriter came back with quotes that were higher if a sprinkler system was installed than without. Here in New England, winter storms can and do bring power outages and frozen pipes. The exposure for internal damage from ceiling level sprinkler pipes raises the rates.
Our local Fire Marshal expressed his view that in small towns such as ours where so many have wells and not city water, the pressure would not be sufficient to put out a blaze before the fire company would respond with a pumper.To all those warning of sins an prohibitions of using secular courts:
Engaging an attorney does not mean this will go to court. Less than 10% of client activity results in a lawsuit.
The OP should see a land use attorney. This specialist will draft and send a letter to the abutting landowner pointing out the civil laws and regulations that are being violated. Also, potential civil fines and liability in tort law if the offending act does not cease immediately. An offer to allow temporary trespass in exchange for compensation could be offered.@Joseph
No.
The only non-referee Jewish judges I know in Connecticut either came from government employment which pays less than private practice, or some altruistic juvenile court judges who sought the appointment to help better the system.
I was offered an appointment about 20 years ago, but could not have afforded to keep my kids in yeshiva, etc. had I taken a pay cut of more than 50%@Chosid
You think 2 frum female judges in the USA constitutes filling the judiciary? I don’t.
That’s why my reply to the question posed by the OP is negative.@Joseph
I was very specific about lack of frum Jewish judges in Connecticut courts,
I have decades of experience there, you have none.
Merely removing a yarmulke would not stop regular appearing attorneys from knowing a judge is MO.
In a typical Judicial District (Such as Fairfield with it’s Superior Court in Bridgeport) there might be 25-30 Judges, There bios, addresses etc are all available, Not only do I know them, I would know if they were members of the few frum shuls in the area. I can immediately rule out the Italian, Polish, Irish and African Americans. There are almost no Jewish judges…….as a number I now who have been asked if they want an appointment say? Why take such a big pay cut? In fact there is only one Jewish judge at the current time and she is a member of a Reform Synagogue.
I can identify less than 1 dozen Jewish Trial Court Judges in CT and 1/3 are Referees…retired judges who work per diem to ease backlogs.
Judges are nominated by the Governor, confirmed by the General Assembly and have an 8 year term
Probate Judges are part time local elected officials and it’s been 30 years since the Jewish Probate Judge retired in New Haven and he was of German-Jewish Reform background.@AviK
“Can we expect Chareidi women to fill the judiciaries in both countries?”
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There may be a few elected in Chareidi pockets ion the USA. BUT they will never fill the judiciary in the USA. Most jurisdictions have few Jews, nevermind Chareidi Jewish women qualified for the bench.One might get elected in Brooklyn, but that won’t happen in Goyville, USA. Here in Connecticut, Judges are appointed, not elected and it’s not going to happen. The current nominee for Chief Justice of our state Supreme Court is an Irish-American Male married to another male.
I run into a few Chareidi attorneys in the courthouses, but I don’t even see MO judges on the bench be they male or female,
I am very biased when it comes to organ transplants. Eldest BIL lived 24 years with a cadaver kidney transplant. When the transplanted organ failed he had a live transplant from my nephew and that was 13 years ago
@funnybone
It is highly unusual for a client to have to wait for me. Unlike a physician, most of my client contact is by phone, email, fax, etc.
Should a client have a short wait before being shown into my office (generally caused by my doing something to facilitate the meeting) the client would be offered coffee, cake, a cold drink or snack. I can’t remember the last time a client was made to wait more than 10 minutes for an office appointment with me.
BUT, unlike Mentsch1, I see less clients in the office in a week than he does in a typical afternoon. I’m far more likely to meet with associates, paralegals, investigators, accountants or other attorneys on my clients’ behalf than with the client during representation. There are many clients who I never see from retainer to resolution.@Joseph
B”H I am not in need of assistance. My posts were merely there to illustrate to Mentsch1 that doctors are not the only professionals to be forced to accept reimbursement rates set by government.@Mentsch1
Thank you.
This discussion was important so that readers can see that we are operating businesses, even though we are deemed to be ‘professionals’ and that it is not a free market. Government can and does set rates.@DovidBT
I could not refuse in this case. I was obligated to be in the court for the entire day for Jury Duty (and longer if empaneled on a jury). One does not have to be let go by the judge. but can be sent back to the prospective juror waiting room to be on call for other cases.
I am not a dues paying member of our county Bar Association (but am of the State association), however they set their standard as every member shall provide a minimum of 2 days pro bono work per year. That can cost anywhere from $1500 to $9000 depending on billing rates of the attorney.
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A non-solo practice attorney, such as myself can ask the judge to allow a different attorney from the firm to serve if there is a scheduling conflict, but as owner of the firm I’d still bear the cost.
In general, one does not refuse the legal requests made by a judge.
The good thing is that we don’t elect trial court judges in CT and never are on the hook for political contributions, etc.@Mentsch1
Just a quick mention of what happened to me today (apropos of my last post).
Today I had jury duty at the local Superior Court. In CT, attorneys are not exempt and I am called every three years for the obligatory one day service, then if not chosen for a jury and free for the next 3 years.
I was sent as part of a group of 40 to be interviewed for selection to serve on a murder trial.
After discussing the case, the judge called us into the courtroom one by one for questioning (Voir Dire). Most prospective jurors were questioned for about 3 minutes. I was on the stand for over half an hour. The judge wanted me to serve, the prosecutor wanted me to serve, the defense attorney was forced to use a peremptory challenge to get rid of me.
As the judge thanked me for my time and dismissed me from jury service, he informed me that I could not leaver the courthouse, but had been assigned to represent an indigent minor child whose parents were in the family division in the final stages of a divorce.
So, I spent the entire afternoon providing free legal counsel…with the state determining I should work at a rate of ZERO dollars per hour.@mentsch1
“What other field allows the government to insist on a person (doctor) to provide services and doesn’t allow the provider to set his own fees.”Unfortunately your representation is flawed.
You only have to treat this group of patients and accept the fixed fees if you CHOOSE to accept Medicaid, Medicare and/or specific insurance company covered patients.
Many of my doctors have signs at their windows stating they do not accept Medicaid, do not take Medicare assignment (patient is responsible for difference between Medicare reimbursement and full fee) or Insurance company X.BTW, I’m a family law attorney. If I take cases in Probate Court (Surrogate’s Court in NY) The percentage of the estate that I can charge for being executor is set for me. If I represent youth in Juvenile Court who are DCF (CPS elsewhere) wards, my hourly rate is set by the court (about 1/3 of what I charge on the open market). I can make the decision whether to do this work or not, I’m not a slave.
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At any moment that I am in the courthouse, a judge can snag me and order me to represent an indigent criminal defendant at NO CHARGE (pro bono) where I not only don’t get paid for my time, but must bear the cost of many expenses from my own pocket. Attorneys are expected to take on X number of pro bono case hours per year. Here in CT we don’t have a Government Legal Aid department, so we become indentured servants at times.הגר Hagar
BTW, if it’s not in the four coprners of the document, it doesn’t exist………………….
I guess you’ll also go last. Posting a name with a Mem Sofeet, means no new name can be posted (That’s the lawyer in me, looking at everything that’s in print).
But if I pretend it’s just a mem I’ll post Miryam.
@DovidBT
As long as it does not violate state law (in Mass it would): If the restaurant or store posts that it does not accept cash and it is on the menu and/or the server lets you know before you place your order, it is legal.they are offering to serve you a meal on their terms and you accept by placing your order…forming a meeting of the minds and a contract for goods/services.
@DY
I stated ion my post that the OP shouldn’t worry about an impression made by how he pays his bill.My comments about a time gone by (40+ years ago) was not about trying to make an impression, but an impression being made.
@litvishechosid
You can solve your problem by using a DEBIT card. Your date/dining associates won’t think you are living on credit and you don’t have to carry bulky cash.
I don’t think one should be worried about ‘impressions’ made by how you pay the bill in an restaurant. Today, most legitimate business is done with plastic. In fact more and more goyische restaurants no longer accept cash. I read an article about this in the newspaper within the past month
When I was young and maintained an office in Manhattan, I had house charge accounts at the restaurants I frequented the most. The check would arrive, I’d take out my pen sign my name and a two digit number. That often made an impression.
No, you will not get the same results with a 20 minute wet seasoning as a full marinade session.
Chicken pieces need only 20-30 minutes to marinate. Beef is much more dense and a 2″ thick piece of shoulder (which is wheat most kosher London Broil is) needs 6-8 hours in marinade in a ziploc bag, turning every half hour to break down the muscle tissue and tenderize the meat.BTW> oil is an important component in marinade, just using vinegar and spices will not perform the same chemical reaction as a cheap bottle of generic Italian dressing.
RebYidd23….
I don’t have ‘fancy shmancy’ furniture. We buy the best we can afford and it lasts a lifetime or longer. That’s what I was taught by my great grandparents and grandparents, I sit typing this comment at my home office desk that my grandfather bought when he opened his Optometrist practice in 1926.
We have many family pieces that have passed down through the family. We often buy quality used items and reupholster or refinish them. I do not see the value in cheaply made products that don’t last a long time.
I recently reupholstered (me, not a shop) the seats on our dining room chairs. It’s probably the 4th time I’ve done so in 45 years of marriage. B”H I have the tools and ability. My father insisted that all his sons learn how to use hand tools and do basic, carpentry, plumbing, painting and electrical. We are not cliff dwellers, if you are going to own a house you should be able to do basic maintenance. Mrs. CTL was the granddaughter of a painter. He had only daughters and granddaughters..they all learned to paint, sheet rock and wallpaper.
The CTL main house has doubled in size since we bought it decades ago. All work was done by us and siblings except for those items such as framing, installing an in-ground pool and plumbing and electrical required to be done by a licensed person in order to get permits and COs.
B”H, I still get exercise mowing, my lawn , shoveling the snow and taking out the trash.
The only 2 pieces of furniture I might think fancy are ‘Ebony and Ivory’ our Black and White Grand Pianos. The Black we bought for our children to learn and play on. The White belonged to my late MIL and moved in with us when she did. She taught our children all to play.No bearing on my decision. I have never spent one cent at IKEA. Not the style or quality of merchandise I desire.
Bilik iz tayer………ביליק איז טייַער
Cheap is dear.
I’m not interested in disposable furniture, etc.