Jewish Food Tourney: #1 Matzah Ball Soup vs #8 Brisket
Welcome to the Elite Eight (For your information, the NCAA stole that title from me). The first matchup is a pretty interesting one.
Why? Because while Matzah Ball Soup is the #1 Seed, it is actually only an appetizer for Shabbat dinner, whose main course is Brisket. The tension is building already.
Matzah Ball Soup destroyed #16 Haroset in the first round. Haroset is really the only part of the Seder I like, so I was hoping it would at least put up a good fight. I’m actually surprised that it got 25% of the vote.
Matzah Ball Soup is amazing. Sometimes people don’t put enough salt in it, but I don’t think that should tarnish its wonderful name and reputation. Also, I don’t get why sometimes people only serve one matzah ball. Matzah balls are not expensive to make. Why not make extra? Everyone loves them. Everyone.
Now #8 Brisket might be ranked a little low. I claimed that it was ranked this low because it isn’t necessarily a Jewish only food and that you can get away with serving it on Christmas.
People took issue with this. Just look at a note I recieved on my Facebook wall:
there’s absolutely no way any person has ever had brisket at christmas. ever. you made that up and in the process proved that the over/under on the amount of non-jewish friends you have is 3. And I’m taking the under.
I purposely left the sentences uncapitalized to portray my friend as dumb. How dare you question my Jewish food authority? And I have like 6 non-Jewish friends.
But perhaps he is right. After all, Brisket defeated Sufganiyot by an even larger margin than Matzah Ball Soup beat Haroset.
Voting will end tomorrow evening.
9 Responses to “Jewish Food Tourney: #1 Matzah Ball Soup vs #8 Brisket”
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Jeremy Moses
Member Since: Sep 2008 Posts: 83
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jypsygen/3139575772/
Tzimmus and Brisket for Christmas.
Jeremy Moses
Member Since: Sep 2008 Posts: 83
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Jeremy Moses
Member Since: Sep 2008 Posts: 83
Voting is back up!
Jason Brzoska
Member Since: Jul 2003 Posts: 526
Brisket’s going to the Final Four, baby! It’s gonna be awesome!
Josh Gershman
Member Since: Apr 2008 Posts: 2
Brisket will be this year’s George Mason!
josh_goldberg
Member Since: Dec 2008 Posts: 7
Not only is brisket amazing during the meal, but it is a great post-meal snack when playing shabbat board games. Does anyone simply eat chicken soup for a post-meal snack? NO!!!
Jeremy Moses
Member Since: Sep 2008 Posts: 83
Josh,
That was probably the most intelligent thing anyone has ever said on the post threads.
Ezekah
Member Since: Oct 2006 Posts: 588
Would yall consider Spice Cake to be a Jewish food? I wouldn’t have, but a short time ago I was discussing favorite foods with co-workers (all non-Jews) and none of them had ever heard of it.
Jeremy Moses
Member Since: Sep 2008 Posts: 83
I’d put it in the same category as Honey Cake. It’s just one of those generic cakes that your bubbie makes.