>>>>What is it with jews and chicken noodle soup!? :-)
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>>>It's easier to make (especially when it comes out of a can) than chicken matzoball soup? <g> FWIW, I make really good chicken soup, and often do go ahead and put matzoballs in, but for lunches, canned soup will do.
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>>In just about every US film involving jewish people I've ever seen, there's always a point where someone's sick, and an aunt or grandmother arrives bearing chicken soup. Makes me smile. :-)
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>>BTW, hope you don't mind but one of my favourite jewish jokes I once heard, told by a jewish commedienne was:
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>>A guy falls in a swimming pool and his drowning. His mother runs around shouting "Please Help! My son (the doctor) is drowning!"
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>There is another one I heard years ago. Two jewish women meet in the street. One of them is pushing a carriage (pram to you) with 2 tots in it. The one without the kids says, "Sophie, I haven't seen you in 5 years. I see you have children now. How old are they?"
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>Sophie answers, "Well, the doctor's two, and the lawyer's 3".
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>Then, talking about chicken soup,
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>A priest is delivering a eulogy at a funeral. After speaking for a couple of minutes, he's interrupted by a shout from a Jewish woman in the second row.
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>"Give 'im chicken soup!"
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>The priest, puzzled continues his talk.
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>"Give 'im chicken soup!"
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>Again, he continues.
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>"Give 'im chicken soup!"
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>Finally, he's had enough, and he looks at the woman and says, "Lady, he's dead. Chicken soup isn't going to help."
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>Lady: "Couldn't hoit."
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>You might not get that, not having grown up Jewish.

:-) I think I get it. The jewish mom is always trying to foist some food or drink on someone, whether they like/need it or not?

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