April 15, 2011    passover   chocolate   easter   ducks  
A special Passover-themed post! For all you non-Jews out there, keeping kosher for passover means not only abstaining from bread and all leavened foods, but also skipping lots of other stuff like corn syrup, the main ingredient in just about everything that tastes good. The Kosher For Passover Food Industrial Complex makes billions* each year replicating tasty treats to eat during the one week of the year that you can’t eat normal stuff. This food is mostly terrible but as it’s the only game in town if you want cereal or chocolate etc, you’ll buy it every year hoping it somehow magically got better. I spotted these chocolate pops at the supermarket yesterday, a bargain at $5 for five tiny candies. The “Space Duck” theme is cute even if I don’t know what an intergalactic superhero would do, as there is relatively little crime in outer space - arrest the Hubble telescope maybe? Now, please draw your attention to the product shot on the box - THOSE DUCKS ARE OBVIOUSLY WEARING EASTER BONNETS, NOT SPACE HELMETS. This literally could NOT be more obvious. There are even tiny ribbons tied in bows to keep the bonnets on their tiny duck heads. These passover candies could not be more Christian unless they were actually tiny Jesuses! I am so baffled as to why the manufacturers of Space Duck Pops didn’t make their own mold of an actual space duck instead of buying these at a craft store or, failing that, choose a more neutral candy mold shape like, I don’t know, a circle or a square. Unbelievable. And probably somehow anti-semitic. Happy Passover! Posted by Caroline *I made this up.

A special Passover-themed post!
For all you non-Jews out there, keeping kosher for passover means not only abstaining from bread and all leavened foods, but also skipping lots of other stuff like corn syrup, the main ingredient in just about everything that tastes good. The Kosher For Passover Food Industrial Complex makes billions* each year replicating tasty treats to eat during the one week of the year that you can’t eat normal stuff. This food is mostly terrible but as it’s the only game in town if you want cereal or chocolate etc, you’ll buy it every year hoping it somehow magically got better. I spotted these chocolate pops at the supermarket yesterday, a bargain at $5 for five tiny candies. The “Space Duck” theme is cute even if I don’t know what an intergalactic superhero would do, as there is relatively little crime in outer space - arrest the Hubble telescope maybe?
Now, please draw your attention to the product shot on the box - THOSE DUCKS ARE OBVIOUSLY WEARING EASTER BONNETS, NOT SPACE HELMETS. This literally could NOT be more obvious. There are even tiny ribbons tied in bows to keep the bonnets on their tiny duck heads. These passover candies could not be more Christian unless they were actually tiny Jesuses! I am so baffled as to why the manufacturers of Space Duck Pops didn’t make their own mold of an actual space duck instead of buying these at a craft store or, failing that, choose a more neutral candy mold shape like, I don’t know, a circle or a square. Unbelievable. And probably somehow anti-semitic.

Happy Passover!


Posted by Caroline

*I made this up.

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