The Spice Box

THE SPICE BOX Mmm mmm good? Barbara Grossman shares with us the following correspondence between her 81-year-old mother-in-law and the Executive Vice President of Campbell Soup Company: Dear...

...I regret to tell you how disappointed I was when I heated it and tasted it...
...People are called those names...
...As to the so-called chicken and one thin slice of mushroom—the less said, the better...
...People are called those names...
...As you pointed out, there are a lot of noodles in the product and this can result in a starch Bluffing and along with starches in the broth, can result in what you described—a slippery product...
...This points out one of the problems in manufacturing a product such as this and that is to keep all ingredients in suspension so that every can contains the proper portion of each ingredient...
...Orech Din" is Hebrew for "lawyer...
...Needless to say, I threw the whole thing out as it was simply inedible...
...10.7 percent "conservative...
...Barbara Grossman shares with us the following correspondence between her 81-year-old mother-in-law and the Executive Vice President of Campbell Soup Company: Dear Mr...
...Seems that a young Jewish man, part of a private lunch party, kept his hat—a fisherman's cap—on in Tio Pepe's, an elegant Spanish restaurant...
...Phyllis Levy (a new mother) is working with him on the marketing of our soups...
...Rosenblum made a decision to screw the State of New York out of $ 15, but he wound up screwing me...
...Today, "left" has shrunk 10/Momcnt from 8.9 percent to 1.9 percent...
...Besides, he asserts, "I have a great many Jewish friends...
...Very truly yours, Minnie Grossman Dear Mrs...
...When he said that, no, he would keep it on while he ate, the waiter refused to serve him...
...No bull: a fruit plate, of course...
...The routine of terror a copy of moment, mailed to Israel in a manila envelope, was returned to our office last week...
...I might add, there is a large group of people in the United States that does like this product since it is one of our better selling varieties...
...The young man offered to leave so that his friends could eat in peace, but they wouldn't hear of it...
...This could be the beginning of a trend, with increasing emphasis on specialization...
...Baum is heading up our soup marketing (he's a single boy) and Mrs...
...Sincerely, A.M...
...33.5 percent "middle-of-the-road...
...But please stay away from chicken soup...
...Rosenblum pleaded guilty by mail and sent a $ 15 check to Judge Morgan Bloodgood of Saratoga County, but then stopped payment quit...
...The probable bias in these figures understates Reagan support In certain heavily Orthodox neighborhoods...
...If you want to have a good chicken soup to put on the market, why don't you call in a nice Jewish mother to show your so-called chefs how to make it—and even you could taste the difference and even like it...
...Bloodgood made good on the check himself and then wrote a letter to the offender saying that he would notify authorities in both Pennsylvania and New York that he was a seofflaw, "and they will then suspend your driver's license____It is a shame that people like you make it difficult to trust anyone else...
...Office of Communication Bar license Our reader, Joel B. Lieber-man, a New York attorney who specializes in the problems of the Jewish poor, submits a picture of his auto license plate, with the assurance that it does not violate the Canons of Ethics of the legal profession...
...Williams: I have just opened a can of your Chunky Soup with chicken...
...If you have any suspicion whatever, please notify the offical who will request police assistance...
...The Commission on Judicial Conduct has removed The once Honorable Bloodgood from the bench...
...We, here, think she is a nice Jewish mother who's seeing what she can do to improve our Chicken Soup...
...Is there a "shofet" (Judge) plate out there anywhere...
...So what did the young man order in this fine Spanish restaurant...
...You might be interested to know that Mr...
...Do not open this package before you have examined • Is the sender of the package known to you...
...The waiter, properly trained in formal service, asked that the young man remove his hat...
...That represents a dramatic turn from Carter, who had won 70.1 percent from these same voters in 1976, but It is hardly the massive victory the Reaganltes have claimed By better than two-tc-one, those Jews who defected from Carter moved to Anderson rather than Reagan...
...Williams P.S...
...In his own defense, Bloodgood says that "Evidently, Mr...
...He also charges that the Commission is prejudiced against him because its members are "primarily Jewish...
...Bloodgood says he will appeal, because he has never found anyone else who got excited about "kikie" or similar terms...
...Are you expecting a package from this source...
...Since we do guarantee our products, I'm reimbursing you for the can you purchased and discarded...
...The group left, and were not charged for their pre-ordered lunches...
...Faulty address...
...middle-of-the-road" has swelled from 33.5 percent to 52.9 percent...
...Your first venture—at least I believe it to be so —was Campbell's Tomato Soup...
...conservative" has stayed put, shifting from 10.7 percent to IS percent...
...Again, I'm sorry that you did not find this product up to your standards...
...Followup HoKlfHtTarn Republican spokespeople have been proudly reporting that 45 percent of the Jewish vote went to Ronald Reagan last November...
...Other polling data, soon to be released, suggests that Reagan did a bit better among Jews than did Nixon, but not as well as Elsenhower—somewhere around a third of the Jewish vote...
...I figured maybe I'd shake the money out of him...
...We are working with our Product Development group to substantially reduce the amount of starch in the product and as soon as we solve the method of filling each ingredient into the can, we will be in the position to improve the product...
...Honorable citizen, for the sake of your security...
...I think you made your reputation on it, so why don't you stick with what you know best —it is still my favorite...
...46 percent "liberal...
...There were plenty of noodles and a little soup —both slippery and slimy...
...How about "mechuleh" for bankruptcy lawyers, "tzuris" for the those dealing in torts...
...Perhaps there is a two-stage process at work here: the shift from liberalism to conservatism provides a resting place in the middle of the road...
...In the meantime, Jewish freshmen are still almost twice as likely as other freshmen to describe themselves as liberal...
...Also, there should be considerably more than one slice of mushroom and one piece of chicken...
...A new study of Jewish college freshmen adds insight to political trends among Jews...
...Also, I'm forwarding you a copy of our "International Cookbook," which we hope you will find of interest...
...liberal" has declined from 46 percent to 32.4 percent...
...The young man explained that he would keep it on for religious reasons, but the waiter, never having heard of such a thing, remained adamant in his refusal...
...We were initially alerted to the incident (which appeared on the front page of Baltimore's newspaper) by a full-page advertisement in the Baltimore Jewish Times—by Tio Pepe's, asking the Jewish community to please forgive, forget and come back...
...Or, perhaps, Jews are simply disenchanted with what passes for liberalism these days, and, as unconservative as ever, are waiting in the middle of the road while somebody figures out what liberalism means today...
...Bloodgood was censured by the Commission back in 1978 in the fixing of 22 traffic tickets...
...Well, maybe he used to...
...He closed the letter—written on his official stationery —"so long, Kikie...
...There are Italians, wops and Guineas and there are everything else...
...On it, the sticker you see reproduced at right, which translates as follows...
...Hats off to Tio Pope's One of Baltimore's finest caused quite a stir in the Jewish community there recently...
...Grossman: . . . Needless to say, we are disappointed that you did not find our Chunky Chicken to your liking...
...Seems that the restaurant does keep yar-mulkes for their customers and the waiter just didn't know that a hat could be used a substitute—and the young man didn't know that he could ask for a yar-mulke...
...Hizzoner the bigot Helene Hartig forwards to us a Daily News item about a judge, a speeding ticket and a nasty letter: David Rosenblum, a Pennsylvanian, was stopped for speeding in New York state...
...Back in 1969, Jewish college freshmen in the United States identified their politics as follows: 8.9 percent "left...
...Now comes the American Jewish Congress, under whose auspice 2,500 Jewish voters were sampled as they left the polls, and reports that Carter took 50.5 percent of the Jewish vote, Reagan won S6.9 percent and Anderson received 17.5 percent...

Vol. 6 • July 1981 • No. 7


 
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