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Old May 13th 04, 07:54 PM
Ami Silberman
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Oddly enough, the backbacon stuff still works.


It seems pretty common in the ancient world to force Jews to eat pork as a
way of breaking their spirit/showing that they had surrendered. Why was it
always pork? Why couldn't it have been, say, lobster? Or Cheeseburgers...