>>>>>>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. :-)
>>>>
>>>>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!"
>>>
>>>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".
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>"Give 'im chicken soup!"
>>>
>>>Again, he continues.
>>>
>>>"Give 'im chicken soup!"
>>>
>>>Finally, he's had enough, and he looks at the woman and says, "Lady, he's dead. Chicken soup isn't going to help."
>>>
>>>Lady: "Couldn't hoit."
>>>
>>>You might not get that, not having grown up Jewish.
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>>:-) 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?
>>
>>...
>
>The joke is really in the sort of 'why not' attitude of the last line "Couldn't hoit". It's kind of hard to explain if you didn't grow up with it.
>
>I think one of my all time favourite Jewish jokes is this one:
>
>A new Catholic nun is being consecrated in her 'bride of Christ' rite. As the priest is talking, he notices a couple of rabbis enter the hall and take seats to one side. After the ceremony is completed, he walks out to meet them, and tells them, "Of course, I'm pleased to have you here watching the ceremony, but I'm not sure I understand why a rabbi would be interested in sitting through this." To which one of the rabbis replies, "Well, we're from the groom's side of the family."


Another one ---

Two Jewish women who haven't seen each other in a while are talking. "How are your children?" one of them asks. "Oh, fine, fine," the other woman answers. "My oldest son is a doctor and made over $250,000 last year. And my second son is an orthodontist and made almost $200,000." "I thought you had three children," the first woman says. "Well, there is Schlomo but him we don't talk about much. He's a rabbi and makes hardly anything. What kind of job is that for a nice Jewish boy?"