Sweet Noodle Kugel

It’s nice fresh and hot, but it’s also fine leftover and cold. I like a savory kugel better than a sweet one, but honestly, they’re both good!

😱 What an offensive stereotypical slur.

Like lucyg, I prefer my kugels savory, but will eat all types. For me, warm is best. Is yours noodle-based? I make a noodle-based kugel, but have made matzo-based kugel for Pesach. 

Sweet all the WAY!!! I don't like the savory. It is good hot and great for breakfast the next morning. I will eat it hot or cold.

You don't have to put raisins in it.  I don't.

Thank you elaine she truly was. She is greatly missed.

Your true anti-Semitic colors are showing. 

Not a fan of sweet, but the rest of my family loves it. My mom has always put white raisins in hers. But I love a good thick potato kugel!

As a linguist, I thought hookturnian 's post was interesting. I accept that the term itself is offensive, but I don't think hookturnian was personally offensive. She did not say she uses the term, merely that it is South African slang. To say that it shows she is anti-Semitic is a bit of a stretch and may have more to do with the discussion on the thread about Israel than this one. IMHO.

I don't remember there being anything anti-Semitic in the Israel thread. People have been very vocal about governments and politics in there, not religion.

Only from the point of view that some people think being critical of Israel is the same as being anti-Semitic.

Actually, I stopped reading that thread, so I don’t know what she said there. 

I am actually gobsmocked at your take on the post. 

If in the middle of a conversation about Spic & Span cleaner, I posted the slur definition of Spic, that would be racist.

If I were to post the slur definition of Wop on a thread about doo-wop music, that would be racist. 

As a linguist, do you often find racist/anti-Semitic/homophobic slur words to simply be “interesting?” Do you think it is remotely appropriate to throw them into a thread that has nothing to do with that topic - especially when the slur is chock full of anti-Semitic stereotypes? Do you find it interesting when white people use the “n word?” Or is that racist? Is okay for a straight person to get on a thread about bundles of wood and talk about the slur usage of “fag?”

If you find any of the above examples to be something other than “interesting,” especially when Jewish people on the thread are telling you they find it offensive, I guess that I’d ask you to explain why those examples are different/more offensive to you. 

The origins of those slang words are definitely racist and a slap in the face to (Ashkenazi) Jews, elaine. I'd never heard of those South-African terms before but I can see how a linguist could find them of interest. It reveals a socio-historical layer to a particular country/region/society that you may not have known of before (and when you factor in the large population of Ashkenazi Jews living in SA, it makes the whole thing even worse). That doesn't make the use of the terms in everyday life ok. 

My BIL is a South African Jew who is now living with my sister in Israel, so I have a modicum of knowledge about South African Jews, as I’ve spent time around him, his family, and his friends from home. 😃 There is a large Lubavitcher (my sister & BIL’s sect) contingent in South Africa. 

Just because an anti-Semitic slur exists doesn’t mean that it needs to be/should be thrown into a discussion about food. I certainly don’t need to read it posted by someone who casually throws it out there as “slang” rather than acknowledging it as a “slur” and with no condemnation whatsoever. 

I get that. It was really weird in this discussion. Talking about a recipe is not some open door to throw in random racist anecdotes. I only commented on how I understood it could be interesting to a linguist although, again, what an inappropriate place and time.

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