# Perturbed over Passover rules **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 20, 2011, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perturbed-over-passover-rules/579079 "2011-04-20T14:29:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perturbed-over-passover-rules/579079/81 "2011-04-26T06:01:33Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > Who doesn’t love Passover? 😃 Communists and people who microwave cats. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perturbed-over-passover-rules/579079/82 "2011-04-26T16:39:09Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > Communists and people who microwave cats. :eek: I just realized my copy/paste skills leave a little to be desired and I didn’t capture the correct link to the macaroon recipe I use. For those interested, here it is: > **[Pongaroons Macaroon Cookies Recipe Recipe - Food.com](https://www.food.com/recipe/pongaroons-macaroon-cookies-recipe-163923)** > > Passover cookies. From Busy Cooks, @about.com > Recipe from: The Cafe Pongo Cookbook: More Than 220 Recipes from the Hudson Valley by Valerie Nehez (Si ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perturbed-over-passover-rules/579079/83 "2011-04-27T18:32:56Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > We had the displeasure of trying a shmurah matzo from the local Chabad one year. We _love_ matzo. That was crap. \ I’m not a fan of hand-made shmura matza in general (I really prefer the machine stuff), but I’ve sampled a range of it over the years, and I agree that the Chabad stuff is vile. It’s thick and hard to chew, which makes sense in that it’s designed to be shipped unbroken to the seders that Chabad runs in Phnom Penh and Lusaka and so on. If you’re eating hand-shmura, get ANYTHING but Chabad. My family has always used Puppa Tselem matzas, but I’ve heard good things about Charedim. Unfortunately, my husband’s family, with whom we must have seders every year (I can rant about this some other time) insist on the nasty Chabad stuff. Of course, they eat a token bite of it, but my Orthodox husband and I have to sit there crunching away for several minutes on the [minimum amount required by Jewish law](http://oukosher.org/index.php/passover/article/shiurim_of_passover/). Not so fun. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perturbed-over-passover-rules/579079/84 "2011-04-27T19:16:16Z")
> [@GilaB](#): > > I’m not a fan of hand-made shmura matza in general (I really prefer the machine stuff), but I’ve sampled a range of it over the years, and I agree that the Chabad stuff is vile. It’s thick and hard to chew, which makes sense in that it’s designed to be shipped unbroken to the seders that Chabad runs in Phnom Penh and Lusaka and so on. If you’re eating hand-shmura, get ANYTHING but Chabad. My family has always used Puppa Tselem matzas, but I’ve heard good things about Charedim. Unfortunately, my husband’s family, with whom we must have seders every year (I can rant about this some other time) insist on the nasty Chabad stuff. Of course, they eat a token bite of it, but my Orthodox husband and I have to sit there crunching away for several minutes on the [minimum amount required by Jewish law](http://oukosher.org/index.php/passover/article/shiurim_of_passover/). Not so fun. You have my deepest sympathies. 😉 We eat [Yehuda Matzos imported from Jerusalem](http://www.yehudamatzos.com/apage/72306.php). They are Muy Yummy! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perturbed-over-passover-rules/579079/85 "2011-04-27T19:41:33Z")
Yeah, the best machine matzas IMHO are Yehuda and Aviv matzas. Light, crisp, and somehow juts better than all the others. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perturbed-over-passover-rules/579079.md?page=4)