Gothamist: [Gefilte] Fish Out of Water

Joclyn

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:08:02 -0500

The gefilte fish sold as a frozen log is MUCH, MUCH better than the stuff in the jar.

$kins

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:58:48 -0500

Does not liking Gefilte Fish make me anti-Semitic? Oh, no, wait - that's disagreeing with Israeli foreign policy.

Observant

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:20:06 -0500

Too bad these fish places aren't even Kosher. Kosher-style, yes, but strictly Kosher? No.

gone fishing

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:52:15 -0500

@ Not a self hating jew - you might not be a self hating Jew, but I'm sure a lot of people hate you for being you.

mattyu

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:49:19 -0500

i didn't know they had fish in the desert.

Leela

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:32:55 -0500

The great Yiddish writer Isaac Babel once wrote "The taste of gefilte fish with horseradish is a taste for which it is worth becoming a Jew". I'm deeply secular, but I love gefilte fish. It's so shtetlisch, I guess. The sugar- and MSG-free stuff in a jar is totally fine. My goyisch husband hates it, so I like to make fun of him about it. You can buy it year-round on Kings Highway. It's one of those things that I find irreducible in my identity - I'm generally about as kosher as a canned ham (married out, atheist, love Arab culture, am utterly veltlekh), but I gotta have my gefilte.

CR

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:34:25 -0500

Hey "Why Bother" - what's the use of having an iPod if you're just gonna bitch and moan so much about how it doesn't work. Oh, I forgot, you just have to buy that new one that just came out or else you'll *just die*.

Josh

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:34:15 -0500

Wow! At $2.49 per piece (per ball? is that what they're called?), the stuff Russ & Daughters is selling should be good.

Daniel Millstone

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:54:25 -0500

I've had very bad luck with the Citerella gefilte fish, significantly better with Russ & Daughters.

Brightliner

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:51:21 -0500

Believe it or not, there are actually some of us Gentiles who don't mind eating a few pieces of gefilte out of a jar year-round. What can I say, we don't know good gefilte from schmutz.

bill

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:34:31 -0500

As with all aspects of the Seder table, the fish connects me to my past (both personal and ancestral). Some years the fish is terrific, other years less so, but as jeannette pointed out, with the right amount of strong horseradish, it is all good.

Not a self-hating Jew

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:32:15 -0500

Jordana Rothman, you sound like your typical self-hating yuppie Jew. Thanks for that. Don't bother with Passover this year. We'll forgive you.

bill

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:32:13 -0500

bill

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:31:17 -0500

why bother

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:14:18 -0500

if you're going to whine about it so much, what's the point of observing passover?

jeanette

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:46:09 -0500

if you put a little horseradish on top of your gefilte fish it actually tastes good.