We had a meeting to discuss holiday dishes and the subject of Ham came up. I smiled and said nothing while a coworker chimed in, "Isn't that something you don't eat?" I responded that she was correct, Jews don't eat ham. With that my boss blurted out, "Well I don't let something like religion get in the way of eating food." After I found my jaw and re-attached it I simply said, "How nice" and left out the part about hoping she'd feel the same when I converted to Satanism and preformed human sacrifices for lunch. I was highly annoyed to say the least.

My coworkers decided to do the 12 days of Christmas food this year. Each day someone brought some dish for others to munch on. Wednesday was Titos day. Titos Tacos is a well known Mexican food joint that cooks old style food. They line around the block to get some. The girls happened to mention that it was cooked with pork fat and I politely declined to taste. My boss started to fuss then thought better. I guess I had the 'say it and die' look on right. I swear she's going to be my first sacrifice...

Why do people get all bent out of shape when someone chooses not to eat their food? Suddenly I'm a poor sport for not going against my religious beliefs and munching on reheated tacos. I don't celebrate Christmas. I'm Jewish. Hello? What part of 'Not the Messiah' do you not understand? I've been called a Scrooge for refusing to put up decorations. Every year I go through the same shit. I never demand they put up Chanukah decorations and change their decorations to generic holiday crap. You want to put up a tree? Go for it. Wreaths and ornaments more your thing? Have at it. I have no problem with people celebrating their religious holidays... Just don't thrust that shit on me. Bah, humbug.

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*hands Diva some pork skins and smiles*

:P

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