Ah, the joys (and oys) of living Jewishly in a small Southern town. I began a search for matzoh a week or two ago, with the start of the Passover sale fliers for the local chain groceries. I knew several simply wouldn't have them...our local Walmart, for instance, used to have a very small amount of shelf space devoted to Manischevitz products, but no more! My mother had an "authentic" Passover seder many years ago, and another chain grocery carried all the necessary ingredients. We had a delicious matzo ball soup, and even hid the afikomen! On thinking about it, though, I doubt she checked to be sure the matzoh was kosher for Passover.
Either way, that store has stopped carrying "ethnic" products as well, beyond the usual Hispanic/Latino offerings. The one store I have happily found which does carry specifically kosher products (Manischevitz, again, for the most part, but who's complaining?), had Hebrew National hotdogs, but no matzoh. I was only able to hold matzoh in my hands after traveling almost an hour away, and still the Streit's egg-and-something-or-other matzoh wasn't kosher for Passover.
What is a girl to do? My husband suggested home-made matzoh. Sadly, it may be a choice of that (quite possibly either under-done or un-Kosher), or an empty space on the seder plate come Erev Pesach.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
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