Friday, April 1, 2011

Pass the Gefilte Fish !!!

While seated at the family Shabbat table...
a mother, a father, a young girl, her teenage brother, their grandmother, and their newlywed neighbors...
partook in the sumptuous ,Shabbat delicacies ...
There was the traditional chicken soup....a veritable panacea for ANYTHING that ails you...
the chopped liver....an acquired taste, most definitely...
delicious challah....juicy, fatty brisket with gravy....
But the thing that was MOST memorable about this particular Friday night was this.....
A shipment of SPECIAL gefilte fish had arrived only that morning from AMSTERDAM!
It was unclear exactly WHO had sent it...
But what was crystal clear was that it was the MOST spectacular tasting gefilte fish
that anyone had EVER had!!!
Furthermore....
within just moments after swallowing,
the 'EATER' began seeing Rainbows and Unicorns and FLYING Matzohs !!
and RELATIVEs who had passed on !!
Even MASHIACH !!!
(Messiah!)
 showed up on this particular Friday night !!!!
on a WHITE HORSE !!
The grandmother, who used a WALKER....
began doing CARTWHEELs !!!!
The newlyweds essentially started having SEX on the dining room table !!
It was SHEER MADNESS...
Needless to say....
I gotta get me some of that GEFILTE FISH !!!
You think they have FRESH DIRECT in Amsterdam ????
lol
Shabbat Shalom....

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