A shopkeeper once joked with me about how everything in the Holy Land is holy. Even the colored pencils have "holy pencil" brands. My favorite was "Holy Bagel," a shop in west-Jerusalem (the ultra-modern, Jewish side). Mmmm, scrumptious. The only downside of Holy Bagel is that it's kosher--so no cream cheese and meat, or even any dairy products at all. Strictly parve. Oh well. Parve's not so bad now, actually. There was this parve ice cream at our kibbutz in the Galilee-- Nick Shelley once took a huge bite and said, "No cream was used in the making of this dessert." Ahahahahaha. Parve!
[For those of you who don't know, "kosher" kitchens cannot have milk and meat cooked in the same vicinity. It's a rule derived from the law of Moses about 'not seeing the kid in its mothers milk.' And they've extended it to say, 'no meat and milk together at all.' It's a Jewish thing. Although, not all Jews keep kosher kitchens. ...just fyi. "Parve" is the word for all things that can be consumed freely with either meat or milk, and thus, contains neither itself. Saltine crackers would be parve. Carrots too. Um... yeah. So our "ice cream" was probably made from some plastic-margarine-substitute. We weren't picky--it was sweet and cold and Israeli. Whoo hoo.]
I love this picture of the "HOLY ROCK CAFE." They had t-shirts too-- look just like the Hard Rock shirts. Except they're not Hard Rock shirts. They're Holy Rock shirts. Okay, we've established the distinction. Anyone for falafel?
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Hey. I had a Turkish coffe at the "Holy Rock" last June. I loved the shirt too but didn't buy one. Do they have a website or a way to purchase shirts from the US?
Jerusalem was awesome!
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