Already having missed the annual passover Seder this year as I was in Minnesota for the MAC alumni match, I felt some thing was lacking. I decided to buy some Matzo at Harvest Coop. a place with stuff for everyone and hippies. But guess what, they ran out of Matzah and said they would be getting some soon. Because I am trying to keep the tradition, didn't want to eat non-passover cereal, and didn't have any Matzah I skipped breakfast that day. I have been struggling ever since with out the patented staple of this holiday.
A brief interlude here: I did have Matzo pizza with pepperonis (cheese & meat + pork) and clam chowder (clams) during Passover earlier this year and while this may seem contradictory since, as you will see, I have gone to great lengths to get Matzo. I love many pork products and don't really see eye to eye with the oral tradition as opposed to here with the sacrifice of bread which is more the cultural tradition.
Anyways, where was I? Oh yeah, so I went to the Stop N Stop and they were all out too and told me that they didn't think this demographic existed here, it's more for Hispanics they tell me. This is a huge grocery store with just about everything! They tell me to check the Stop N Shop in Brooklyn. So I venture in to CVS not too far down the block, don't ask my what I was thinking, and I interupt a long line to ask the lady at the register, a young Latina women. She calls out over the inter-com and asks if they have any "Ma-s-o" (I even spelled it out and tried to describe it) as she calls it and then: "it's a brand of cracker." So now I am embarresed in front of this whole line of waiting people and of course they do not have "this" brand of cracker. After 3 days with no Matzo I go back to Harvest today and they still don't have any. "Funny you should ask the grocery person tells me, every one has been coming in here and there isn't any." Huh no wonder - there actually are Jews that exist in JP, or just a bunch of Hippie cracker eating mo fos. Also, usually when people want some thing at a grocery store and there are enough people asking for it, don't they get it right away??!! Any who,this lady tells me there will be more crackers in Friday and asks is there any other brand of cracker she could get me?
This type of thing never happened in Vermont where there are far fewer Jews. I really don't understand it. The annoying Stop N Shop lady was right, I should have prepared before the holliday - just never thought it would be a problem. Looks like I'm going to have to go to Brooklyn for a freaking piece of Matzo, or maybe I'll just get some crackers and forget about the whole thing.
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Plenty of Matzah at Village Market and Roche Brothers. Also any grocery store/market is Brookline. It's always best to shop for Matzah and other passover goodies a week or two before tho holiday -- it's not like it comes by surprise.
You should have given me a call. I'm always happy to send care packages. On another note, I agree with you about hippie mo fos, they probably are just hoarding whatever it is you want so that they feel better about you not getting what you want.
Hope the awumni match was smashing.
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