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Tuesday, June 03, 2008

I just *have* to know...

(Wow, I used ellipses up there)

I interrupt this serious, meaningful, and interesting blog postingness with a public service question.

This is totally not at all a deep or interesting in any way. I've just gotta know, though --

With Shavuos around the corner...am I the only Jewish person out there who doesn't like cheesecake?! Because it sure feels that way!

Please tell me there is someone else who also doesn't think cake is supposed to taste like cheese!

21 comments:

  1. Nope, you are not the only one... I can't stand cheese cake.
    In fact, I'm not much of a cake person to begin with.

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  2. I hate cheesecake. It's way too heavy. And those cherry-cheese and chocolate-cheese versions! Blech!

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  3. Why would cheese be cake? I love cake. Have forced myself to take the obligatory piece of cheesecake once a year, but that's it.

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  4. I hate cheesecake. I recently did a post on Jewish foods I hate and I forgot cheesecake.

    Doesnt make sense. I love cheese. I like cake. But together? Blech.

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  5. Hey, please hate it some more and keep hating it--leaves more for those of us who adore it. I'll even bake an extra one just for you if you swear that you will turn it down--my family will thank you.

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  6. Ew, so with you there, I really dislike cheescake and always question my status as a woman- like its a given that we're all supposed to love cheescake and chocolate. Glad to hear I'm not crazy!

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  7. And the response when you turn it down is often indignant and self-righteous. Why don't you try a piece of this one?!! You'll see. It's heaven. Much the same occurs on Chanukah when I absolutely refuse the Sufganiyot. I won't even touch those. Now, chocolate on the other hand...you gotta be weird not to like chocolate ;)

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  8. Much the same occurs on Chanukah when I absolutely refuse the Sufganiyot.

    ...okay, so I LOVE sufganiyot. Jelly donuts are the BEST KIND. (By the way, doughnut is supposed to be a real word - "donut" is just the fake, brand name way of spelling it, and yet spell check tells me "doughnut" is WRONG. GASP! Spell check - I'm ashamed of you!)

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  9. dunno about cheesecake, but i'm all for just plain ol cheese...
    mmm...
    how bout wacky mac on shavuos????
    we can have an OCD fest as we eat it in shape order!!!

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  10. how bout wacky mac on shavuos????
    we can have an OCD fest as we eat it in shape order!!!


    OMG YES. Good idea! I'll have to sneakily buy it without my mom's knowledge because the only time she would ever allow Wacky Mac in the house was before any of my brother's big hockey games. For some reason, Wacky Mac is fuel for scoring goals.

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  11. No. *barf*
    No gefilte fish or cholent for me either. Can I still be Jewish?

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  12. Cheesecake isn't Jewish. I know plenty of non-Jews who drool heavily at the very sound of the word.

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  13. I only recently (like, within the past couple of years) discovered that I do, in fact, like cheesecake. Prior to that time, I hated it. I'm trying to forget that I discovered I like it, cuz it's really, REALLY bad for you.

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  14. I only like good cheesecake. It's a very variable kind of food. I didn't like my mother's recipe until she accidentally left out half the cheese - now it's delicious.

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  15. I never remember having cheesecake until I was in high school, but that cheesecake was AMAZING. People would break into the kitchen and on one occasion ripped off the heavy metal doors to the fridge which were bolted and had huge locks on them to get to the cake.

    Cafe K's is decent, My Most Favorite's is good, but nothing is as good as that one. It was a heart attack on a plate.

    I can't stand bad cheesecake, though.

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  16. Umm...I don't know what kind of cheeses or cheesecakes everyone else is thinking of, but most of the cheeses that come to my mind taste nothing like the cheesecake we have on Shavuot in my house :-P

    And believe it or not, good parve cheesecake does exist! Cousins of mine in Israel managed to prove this last year :)

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  17. People would break into the kitchen and on one occasion ripped off the heavy metal doors to the fridge which were bolted and had huge locks on them to get to the cake.

    ...there are a million quips running through my head right now in response to that which I am trying desperately to hold back!

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  18. Bas Melech, you know that it says possibly in the Gemara (please correct, if anyojne knows otherwise) that if someone doesn't like chamim on Shabbos (chulent) his background should be checked.

    Now we learnt once a very interesting philosophical explanation of this rather inexplicable statement, but... eh... I forgot. :)

    Oh, and sorry Erachat- I like cheesecake. Ah! Pre-Shavuos memories.... Crushing cinammon graham crackers at age six, barely reaching over the table... :)

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  19. I have happily gone through 6 Shavuots of married life without cheesecake.

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  20. My sister hates cheesecake but likes black bottom cupcakes

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