# Tell Me About Your Passover **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 10, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-passover/685806 "2014-04-10T17:28:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-passover/685806/21 "2014-04-12T18:26:32Z")
> [@RickG](#): > > Passover noodles, and all the other Passover food meant to imitate _chametz_, are an abomination. Hear, hear. > [@](#): > > For Passover, it’s potato kugel all the way. > . Savory matzoh kugel (basically a deep-dish matzoh-brei) is also legit. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-passover/685806/22 "2014-04-12T19:05:16Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > Hear, hear. > > Savory matzoh kugel (basically a deep-dish matzoh-brei) is also legit. For the vegetarians in the group, get some KFP tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese, and you can make “lasagna” with matzah. You can also make quiche with matzah flour crust. We do this. We put a turnip on the plate instead of the shankbone. I don’t know why-- vegetarian thing. We also decided a few years ago to “convert” to Sephardism for Pesach, since we’re vegetarians. We eat whole rice (not rice flour), beans, and corn on the cob during Pesach. We could probably eat PB, but we have always gotten expensive cashew butter to the point that I think of it as a traditional Pesach food. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-passover/685806/23 "2014-04-13T01:58:24Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Ah-the great Passover traditions! > The yearly confusion about who gets the older Haggadahs with the non gender-neutral language and therefore has trouble following along. > The shaming of the one who inevitably pronounces “Aramean” as “Armenian”. > The recurrent argument over whether to serve the gefilte fish before or after the soup. > The person who keeps asking why we haven’t opened the door for Elijah and must be reminded that this part comes after the meal. > The person who never wants to do the part of the service after the meal. > The child who haltingly reads the four questions and the adults who must brag “When I was your age I asked them in _Hebrew_! And I _sang_ it!” > The vocal show down between those who want to sing Adir Hu in English and those who want to sing in Hebrew (and the inevitable fading out as both sides realize that they only know one verse anyway). > The guest (OK-this one is me) who refuses to eat the noodle kugel even though it is made with Passover noodles because she wants to adhere to the spirit of the holiday because if the rabbis consider chicken close enough to meat to potentially be confused for meat than logically, kosher for Passover noodles are close enough to real noodles to not be eaten at a meal where noodles are not eaten (yes-I know everybody disagrees, I’m not having this fight again, just let me not eat the kugel in peace!) > > Good times! I am of the adir hu in Hebrew persuasion. Then the mental argument as to which is more annoying: dayenu or cha ghad yah. My favorite was the year I got revenge on my mom’s evil friend by setting out the hamster just in front of her just as she was about to slurp down the soup. She thought it was a mouse and fell off her chair. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-passover/685806/24 "2014-04-14T19:09:29Z")
My family will have my mother over, and we’ll have two purely traditional Sedarim tonight and tomorrow night. Four cups of wine, eight little kids (3 and upward) asking four questions and offering school-learned comments on the Hagadah as we tell the story of leaving Egypt, Matzo, bitter herbs, a holiday meal (corned beef and potatoes), and plenty of singing at the end. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-passover/685806.md?page=1)