Re: Zionist pressure group ADL offers solution to the "December Dilemma" of European Christmas celebrations

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:28:26 +0000, Peter Duncanson
<mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:23:38 -0600, Oleg Lego <rat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:00:42 +0200, Steve Hayes posted:

On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:59:36 -0800, Evan Kirshenbaum <kirshenbaum@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Steve Hayes <hayesmstw@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Evan Kirshenbaum <kirshenbaum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Steve Hayes <hayesmstw@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Yet another difference. Unlike in South Africa, Christmas isn't a
holiday that you wouldn't know about if you weren't specifically
interested in a particular religion. Rather, it's a holiday with a
long tradition of public decoration, celebration, and pageantry.
People here (Christians, at least) expect it to be dealt with.

No that's not what I said. Most people in South Africa know about
Christmas, perhaps in part because the the schools schools and
stores make a big deal about it. The stores stand to make money out
of it, that's why they anticipate it.

The difference here (if it's a difference) is that the people
anticipate it too, by decorating their houses, by having tree-trimming
parties, by participating in "secret Santa" activities, by taking
their kids to visit Santa in the mall, etc.

Here is a link to a description of South African Christmas by an American
living in South Africa suffering from culture shock.

http://sweetvioletsa.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-on-other-side.html

The writer lives in Cape Town, and my experience differs.

We don't call mince pies mince tarts, for example, at least not in Gauteng and
not in KZN.

In my youth we had turkey for Christmas. Heck, we even [cross-thread alert]
raised turkeys.

But in recent years fresh turkeys have been unobtainable. One can only get
frozen ones, imported from the USA -- presumably what they couldn't sell for
US Thanksgiving. They come wrapped in plastic, which proclaims that they are
"self-basting", which sounds as though they are genetically modified, and have
probably been injected with all sorts of strange hormones and chemicals.

No, they are usually injected with oils or fats. Of course, a chemist
would agree that oils and fats are both chemicals.

Indeed. The turkey itself is nothing but a cunning arrangement
(thank you Evolution) of chemicals. Magically remove all
chemicals from the turkey and all we are left with is a
turket-shaped vacuum which will be very rapidly filled with a
different bunch of chemicals: air, water, or whatever else the
turkey was in.

Imagining that turkey-shaped vacuum, I still find it too dry
unless I imagine gravy poured over it.
--
Robin
Herts, England
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