Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Bacon, It's Good For Your Fast

Yesterday was Tisha Ba'av.  On Tisha Ba'av Jews fast.  This year I decided to try and find ways to make my fast easier by going online and trying to find what the best things to eat before a fast are.  This was what I found.  Not only was it about whats best to eat before fasting, but Tisha Ba'av specifically.  I will call your attention to what was voted as the Best Answer.
The day before have a bunch of huge meals. So for breakfast, eat 5 eggs, some toast some bacon, and some nuts. Then have a large snack of nuts (protien!) or have like a milkshake. For lunch have like 2-3 sandwiches with soup and a steak. For dinner have a steak with potatos, rolls, and pasta. Good luck! Just eat a lot of protien, and your set!!
Now there are a number of things wrong with this.  We will start with the most obvious, Bacon, seriously you are recommending a Jew eat bacon to help him fast easier.  Second, Jews have to wait a number of hours between eating meat and milk (varies based on family custom), so having a milkshake for a snack not such a great idea.  Lastly, many Jews don't eat meat for a number of days leading up to this particular fast.  So all in all I think this definitely gets a Best Answer voting if only for its comedic value.

5 comments:

  1. Hilarious! If someone wanted to come up with something like this to be funny on purpose, I'm not sure it'd be better than this.

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  2. Even better, it was added by "Miss Taken," who was apparently booted from Yahoo Answers for giving too much bad advice. Perhaps it was meant to be comedic.

    This wasn't a prank account of ours that we forgot about, was it?

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  3. Did it say if it also works for Yom Kippur? That would be even more hilarious.

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  4. I wonder if bacon counts as fleishig during the 9 days and for the milkshake...

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  5. To add to the list of "What's wrong with this picture," one is supposed to have a light meal (e.g. toast) for supper before the Tisha B'Av fast.

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