#also im using my first 5 tags to say random garbage to avoid this post getting traction

[macrocosmus]

idk how dialectics go and this is a shitpost about my brain

part 1: my family (not my generation but the two or so before me) grew up in a part of the US where italian and jewish immigrants intermingled a lot and while im your average 3rd or 4th generation italian american or whatever, my family, particularly my grandmother, passed down a fair bit of this jewish-italian immigrant cultural exchange. It really just affects my vernacular, not realizing things I think everyone says are actually yiddish or whatever, but really I think it made me just use “kosher” to mean acceptable.

part b: so there’s this post that I saw about how vegans bemoan folk eating pork because a lot of reasons, but one is saying that pigs are smart and have personalities and should be people like us... or something. I have a faulty memory. Anyway, someone in the notes pointed out that pigs will eat you and other pigs.

Synthesis: me, misremembering the wording of the post and notes, repeating it to myself in my head in my own words, “If the pigs say it’s kosher I’ll eat them”

and that just feels silly to say

#please do not ask me about the jewish and italian cultural exchange i was not alive then #i am recounting some weird family lore here #also im using my first 5 tags to say random garbage to avoid this post getting traction #but go ahead and rebagel it if you want #but yeah #i'll eat the pork all day its cheaper than chicken some days #also my family is not from sicily so you fucking sicilians in the comments talking about how you make gravy fuck off #heavy gravy makers #cant even get through one course of your meals without getting full #sicilian-americans are actually cool its just fun to pretend to rag on them #and how their gravy recipes get in cookbooks #i showed some binging with babish vid to my grandmother and she said he cooks like a sicilian #what a life #i should also mention that theres a lot of times online where i mention im pagan and folks are surprised #they're like i thought you were jewish and im like no #i just accidentally do a few jewish things