You made me think of one Jewish casual friend who during Passover offered matzoh to others at a department meeting at IBM. It was nothing new to me and I had some. The department secretary, not only refused but made a face like we were practicing cannibalism.

The most delightful way to eat matzoh is to crumb it up and mix it in with fried eggs and onions. Don't know if that's Kosher or not. My wife and I learned that recipe from life long Jewish friends.

It may be there is a correlation of Jews not keeping Kosher with which Jews would have me as a friend.

As far as European lawmakers go, the prohibitions of making or importing Kosher food is at least stupid. No people are harmed, so what's the need for the governments to be involved? I sure do hope it's not motivated by anti-Semitism.

Agree on the dogs. Back in 1979 when the IBM site in Charlotte was just getting populated with IBMers from Endicott, NY and Kingston, NY (to establish the "culture" before any locals hired). One of the guys who flew back and forth a lot was stopped at the airport X-ray check for having suspicious contents in his luggage. What looked like dynamite sticks on X-ray was a package of Hebrew National hot dogs.