Hate Mail on the Subject of Gefilte Fish

• You mean packed/jars, not bottled/bottles.

• Wow, so out of line.  In my opinion, a stab at the craziness of bottled gefilte fish is almost mandatory. My memories shaking the bottles of Manischewitz (and other brands of bottled fish) until they glooped onto the plate are priceless. And besides, unless you're one of the few people who didn't try to make it go further by mixing in some (or lots of) matzo meal, then really, "we were bound in Egypt," right?

• At least the writing was so good the person assumed you were Jewish!

• Oy vey. Is there any way we can drum this clown out of the tribe...?

• Nice post! Thanks for sharing your personal views. Really feel good i visited your post & got nice info.

• I'm not. "Funny, you don't look Jewish" is a comedic phrase that's been around for at least half a century.

• If your referring to Spaceballs the line goes "Funny she doesn't look Drewish"

• Hilarious! Tribe members are accustomed to the the "how dare you's" and the self-hating labels from criticizing Israel or being anti-Zionist. I had no idea that we dare not speak ill of the holy gifilte fish! (Which is not some sort of Biblical ancient Jewish food, just a common Ashkenazi dish that came about in the 19th century). Noted. I will gear up if I dare slander the name of the all-mighty gefilte fish!

• Zow!  What a fool.  He's the one making yids look bad.  I happen to love gefilte fish, any way, anyday...I agree though the Kutscher's version was FANTASTIC...a completely different sort of fish dumpling...

• wow.  what a fool.  anyhoo, I love gefilte fish.  I also thought the kutscher's gefilte was something amazing, a very different sort of fish dumpling.  So delicious it was my favorite thing I had there. 

• Funny, you don't look Jewish.

• Wow! He sounds pretty passionate. Though people are entitled to their opinions, its comical to me when people lose their cool this way. It seems as though this guy is angry about other things in life and just needs an excuse to lash out publicly on someone. What he really needs is to head back out to the Catskills and relax. :) Happy New Year!

• AM clearly has some issues.  That bit in your review about the gefilte fish was a pretty mild reference to the fact that many people find the dish gross.  This has certainly been my experience in my family and other Passover tables I've been at.  For many years it was a big novelty in my family that a Christian guy who had married our cousin actually liked the stuff.  We used to watch him eat it with morbid glee.  The dish has a very different texture and taste than 90% of anything you'd eat on a modern or 20th Century table, so I don't see anything wrong with pointing that out.  If you were reviewing a Japanese restaurant and mentioned the natto was smelly, you wouldn't get someone Japanese sending in a rant.  I usually find folks like AM have poor self-esteem or insecurity about their Jewish identity and use molehills like this as some excuse to try and exorcise their inner demons.  Sad.  It's a restaurant review.  He ought to lighten up.  Maybe too much gefilte fish has upset his digestion and made him grumpy.

• Wow! A.M. might be put under the category of a self-loathing Jew.  Obviously he doesn't know that jokes about gefilte fish are pretty common. I am jewish and happen to love the stuff, including the kind you buy in a jar at Key Food. The plethora of curse words just sounds as if he was waiting to pick an argument with anybody.  Don't listen to him! But thanks for posting the letter and giving the putz his 2 minutes of fame.

• don't mess with the Yiddish Mafia!

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