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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Dairy substitute

Over the weekend, SZ shared the following story and graciously agreed to let me post it here on Our Shiputzim:

The custom in SZ’s company - as is the case in many Israeli workplaces – is that when one has a birthday, one bakes or buys a birthday cake for one’s colleagues.

Thus, when one of SZ’s coworkers recently celebrated his birthday, he brought in a cake.

Then, in deference to the religiously-observant employees in the department, he thoughtfully placed a small sign - in both Hebrew and English - next to the cake, which read:

כשר – חלבי

Kosher – Lactic

Four words: translation software strikes again…

Open-mouthed

P.S. Speaking of cake, the latest Kosher Cooking Carnival is available here. Special thanks to This American Bite for including my two-tone brownies post.

3 comments:

  1. Scratches head in ponderance (not such word, by the way)...

    Goes to Google translate and gets these:
    milky
    dairy
    lactic
    sebiferous
    tallowy

    Aha, sort of. Not really. Sebiferous?

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  2. Oh, tallowy would have been fantastic :)

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  3. Leora - Sebiferous cake? I really MUST get the recipe! ;-)

    Toby - So true! The cake could've doubled as a giant birthday candle... :-)

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