tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post8243739846610893830..comments2024-03-27T16:27:03.093+02:00Comments on Shiloh Musings: Simchat Torah, MemoriesBatyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09402874037427009327noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post-47444182641234758852013-09-27T16:50:39.877+03:002013-09-27T16:50:39.877+03:00Shy, I wouldn't know. I'm here since 1970...Shy, I wouldn't know. I'm here since 1970 and was only starting to get frum in the mid-1960's, which didn't leave me many years to know the kosher scene in the states.<br />I loved Mason's Mints...Batyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09402874037427009327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post-2796872486037581382013-09-27T14:05:55.740+03:002013-09-27T14:05:55.740+03:00I think Barton's was the first ever to sell Ko...I think Barton's was the first ever to sell Kosher L'Pesach ice cream. What a treat that was way back when there was nowhere near the variety of KP products like we have available today.<br /><br />Batya, I think people drink on Simchat Torah because they think that it is an appropriate form of Simcha. I think they're missing something if they need a pick-me-up for that. Besides, it often turns ugly.<br /><br />I am literally a happy drunk every Purim but I have nothing more than my kiddush and a lechaim on any given Shabbat or Yom Tov.<br /><br />See EOZ for an <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2013/09/chag-sameach-with-old-simchat-torah.html" rel="nofollow"><i><b>article about Simchat Torah flags</b></i></a>. The third flag down looks very familiar to me.Shy Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09104227389210314550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post-52772793951584236882013-09-27T11:58:37.641+03:002013-09-27T11:58:37.641+03:00Of course I remember Barton's. There was one ...Of course I remember Barton's. There was one on 5th Avenue making keeping kosher very easy and sweet.<br /><br />I wonder if the public drinking in shul on Simchat Torah was to make up for the fact that for many frum people in the states Purim was a work day and they had to rush home late for the seuda.Batyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09402874037427009327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post-90487172692967357752013-09-27T10:43:18.221+03:002013-09-27T10:43:18.221+03:00You got candied apples??? I'm jealous!
Not th...You got candied apples??? I'm jealous!<br /><br />Not that I can complain. We each got a box of assorted Barton's (remember them?) candies. I miss the sugar glazed jelly fruit slices in red, green, yellow and orange.<br /><br />I do have a childhood recollection from one year that the Chazan was taking too long in Chazarat Hashatz in Mussaf.<br /><br />So some guys picked him up by his legs, keeping his feet together and placed him standing up on top of an empty table in the shul's auditorium facing straight up to back wall.<br /><br />The Chazan continued on non-stop while everyone else made kiddush. :)Shy Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09104227389210314550noreply@blogger.com