Or, I Didn’t Even Know They Were Matzoh…
No Tam Tams for Passover!
I thought they were just fancy, tho Kosher crackers.
The regular, non-Passover Tam Tams are crackers. The Passover Tam-Tams are unrelated, being essentially matza in a tam-tam shape, and (IMHO) are unworthy of the name.
The kosher-keeping world is currently in a tizzy over the apparent incredible shortage of Kosher for Passover stick margarine (necessary for most baked goods, as we’re usually serving non-dairy homemade cakes and cookies after meat meals). Tub margarine is available, but has a different water content and doesn’t bake up the same, sp it seems like we’re all going to be eating sponge cake the whole holiday long.
Passover Tam-Tams are NASTY. They taste stale right when the box is opened.
FWIW, even though I converted to Judaism, I don’t eat a chometz-free diet through Passover. It’s actually feasible this year, since I got new cabinets in the kitchen, but still … too much for one guy.
But I’m looking forward to all the soda with SUGAR!
It’s the only time I drink soda- no HFCS!!!
I coulda lived without Tam-tams but not without Macaroons…
The matzohs I’ve had at work since 1888…er, 2004, sorry, read the wrong label, are finally stale!
That’s generally true of most matzah, in my experience.
I converted too, and I found the “kosher-for-Passover” rules to be one of the hardest things to understand about Jewish practice.
So – could you just eat Tim Tams for Passover? Or is chocolate coating right out?
I found that Manischewitz matzos, both KFP and regular, will go stale fast; within a couple of days of opening the box. Yehuda and Streit’s seem to have better staying power, even for their Passover matzot. (Wow … “matzot” passed the Firefox spell checker!)
There’s a kosher supermarket not far from my house, where about 15 to 20 different brands of matzo are stocked for the Passover season, including some obscure Israeli and NYC brands, and a few brands of really expensive matza shmurah. (No, I do not live in NYC; it’s suburban Cleveland.) I’ve always wanted to do a comparison taste test, but they’re still KFP matzos, which in general are barely half as edible as non-KFP matzos. Outside of Pesach, they still carry six or seven brands; not too shabby.
Don’t they just make super certain there isn’t any chometz in there, or that it hasn’t been wet and become leavened?
Yes, but you’d be surprised by how super the super certainty becomes. The rules around Passover are much stricter than the rules for year-round kashrut (the noun form of ‘kosher’). To take one example, there are many Orthodox people who won’t eat any produce they can’t peel, in case there’s something leavened in a coating, although thankfully this is not my family’s custom.
It’s not just chametz, though. There’s also kitniyot, which is a much broader category of things.
And then there’s a rule that treats things you buy before Passover differently than things you buy during it- sometimes things don’t have to be marked “kosher for Passover” if you buy them before Passover, but do if you buy them during Passover.
The corn beans and rice argument. I simply go by whatever Mrs. Plant decides that year. Shalom biyet. 
My thought us that it is a concern that these things could become leavened, but surely that would mean only dried peas were out, and fresh ones permissible.
Yeah, I go by whatever Mr. Neville wants. He gets a list from somewhere (thanks for reminding me to remind him to do it, btw).
It’s not really clear why kitniyot are forbidden. There are a few theories, and that’s one of them. There’s also a theory that it has to do with crop rotation- these crops might be grown in fields that recently grew chametz, so they might pick up some bits of chametz.
The title of this thread, immediately followed by the thread title We Had a Visitor Last Night has been making me :eek: 
all afternoon.
Oh, the rule is simple: If it tastes good and you crave it year-round, ditch it.
In other bad news, little Christopher moved away. He was perfect! Where will I find another unbaptized Christian child whose blood I can use to make my matzoh? All the good goyem are already staked out by the Learned Elders.
We always use UBCCAU.COM.
UnBaptised Christian Children Are Us
I read this thread title then my eye skipped to the thread titled, “bacon bra!” after it.
I love Tam Tams. They taste like childhood to me.