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[cellio]

(Click through for the mouse-over text.) Nice.

Tomorrow night is Purim, which at my synagogue is usually on the, err, juvenile side. (It must be possible to be accessible to kids while not talking down to adults, but we haven't mastered it yet.) However, I learned last week that, probably at the instigation of our newest rabbi, we are also going to have an adults-only gathering after the megillah reading and spiel -- text study with food and "adult beverages". I offered to contribute a little home-brew mead and he said to bring it along. Should be fun. (But not good old "HS 98", which recently got a surprisingly-good review from a friend who found some in her basement. I only have a few bottles left and I'm saving them for special occasions. :-) )

I'm considering going somewhere else for the megillah reading and then going to my congregation for the adult study/festivities. This is hindered by the Chronicle, for the first time I've ever noticed, omitting the calendar of congregational services this week. Gee, thanks. So I'll have to look them up individually.

Purim seems a fine time for the roll-out of this contest in Peeps art. I must give this some thought. Check out the prizes -- $100 gift card, blah blah, dental hygeine products. Um, yeah. And should I enter and win, I think it highly unlikely that I would use the Peeps lip balm, though I would look with curiosity through "Peeps: Recipes and Crafts". (Understand that I can't actually eat Peeps because they're not kosher, but there's no rule against using them in art projects.) Can any of my readers suggest a punny title around the exodus from Egypt? I figure a seasonal tie-in would help, but it sounds like a pun is especially important and I'm terrible at that. ("Let my peeps go?" Needs work, I think.) If I use your suggestion, you can have dibs on the lip balm. :-)

Speaking of contests, from Snopes: in 1984 a newspaper announced a Daylight Saving Time contest to see who could save the most daylight. Fun stuff. (I think this would be better designated Daylight Shifting Time, as there is no saving involved.)

Comments

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Moses, rush basket, leader of the Jewish Peeples? Or something?

I hear they can catch fire, and that might make some fun with the burning bush...

[cellio]

Ooh, peeps plus fire could be fun. :-)

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

Terrifyingly, I had a similar idea last week when the Washington Post advertised its peeps contest.

[fauxklore]

The Washington Post has done a Peeps art contest the past several ears.

I can totally see the parting of the Red Sea done in Peeps, with stacks of blue peeps for the water.

[cellio]

Either chicks, because their butts are kind of wave-shaped (sort of), or perhaps some experimentation involving melting and whipping is in order. (The color is just a coating, right? So they're white inside? That would be ok for waves, if I could make a swirly blue-white mass.)

I was in fact picturing the parting of the sea as probably the most "photo-genic" part of the exodus story, but was blocking on a name. Maybe "let my peep-le go" isn't so horrible after all. But it's early yet. :-)

HS 98

[hlinspjalda.livejournal.com]

I stopped short of using that tonight to make the date-nut hamantaschen filling. Yes, I use mead in that recipe, but no, I couldn't bring myself to cook with my precious 12oz of HS 98. I'm saving it for next weekend's brunch when I can open it in a roomful of arts geeks who will appreciate it for the jewel it is.

Re: HS 98

[cellio]

Yeah, I think a less aged mead would still work well in the hamantaschen. HS 98 probably wants to stand alone. :-)

I've never actually made filling from scratch, though I don't think I would have thought of mead even if I had done so. Sounds yummy.

Looking forward to hearing what the geeks say about it this time...

Re: HS 98

[hlinspjalda.livejournal.com]

I'll take notes this time.

You want recipes? ;>

Re: HS 98

[cellio]

You want recipes? ;>

If it's not inconvenient, that'd be great!

Re: HS 98

[hlinspjalda.livejournal.com]

You've got mail!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, XKCD is intellectual love. :)

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

The Peep Commandments.

IX (ט): Thou shalt not bear False Peeps against your neighbor.
In the Background: A closed box of some other contemporaneous peep-like marshmallow confection, cast aside, like trash.
In the Foreground: A box of real Peeps, violently torn open, all peeps gone.

VIII: (ח): Thou shalt not kidnap Peepnap.
A box of peeps, with only a few missing.

[alice-curiouser.livejournal.com]

Seriously? I had about 9586 reasons why I won't eat Peeps, and I didn't even know they weren't kosher. That they're revolting is enough for me. :)

And I like "let my peeps go"..