can't do shabbos | Imamother

greenfire

Fri, Oct 24 2008, 10:49 am

downsyndrome wrote:

as Chossidmom and Madame Defarge' said, "Let them eat cake!!"

I know who chossidmom is but have I forgotten madame defarge' ?!?!?! Scratching Head

downsyndrome wrote:

happyone, why all the guests THIS week? Some people extending Yom Tov?

she doesn't know what day it is ... Scratching Head

do any of us ??? Confused

bubby

Fri, Oct 24 2008, 10:53 am

Madame Defarge was the evil old biddy who knitted while Mme La Guillotine was chopping off heads during the French Revolution....Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities".

A good SN for some people...hmmmmmmm! Wink

[Not I, of course! LOL

]

bubby

Fri, Oct 24 2008, 10:56 am

Actually, legend has it that it was Marie Antoinette who said the cake line when the peasants were rioting that there was no bread. I don't think she actually said it, though...poor woman probably said something close to it & it was re-arranged. Like everything else, right? We're rarely quoted accurately!

Literature/history lessons are over for today. Pop quiz on Tuesday Tongue Out

greenfire

Fri, Oct 24 2008, 10:58 am

bubby wrote:

[Not I, of course! LOL

]

thanx - maybe I'll change my name for the day ... Twisted Evil

drumjj

Fri, Oct 24 2008, 11:24 am

yes pink I heard ur a good gourmet cook. when u come to visit us u can bring some nice food. also do u want to eat lunch with us next wed when u come

pinktichel

Sat, Oct 25 2008, 3:59 pm

you're too sweet!!
we'd love to, but I don't want you to go to any trouble.
I'll give you a call... looking forward to finally meeting you!

Ruchel

Sat, Oct 25 2008, 4:05 pm

They asked for bread and she said "qu'on leur donne de la brioche", roughly translated "let them be given brioche", and people took it as not understanding they were talking in general, wanting some food.

I agree, we had too much between shabbatot & yomim tovim. Enough with yontef, as one of my friends put in his facebook status LOL

(I was surprised because he loves everything frum, but at least he's honest...).

entropy

Sat, Oct 25 2008, 4:20 pm

In the original French the alleged quote reads, "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," which means, literally, "Let them eat rich, expensive, funny-shaped, yellow, eggy buns."

from: http://urbanlegends.about.com/.....e.htm

Ruchel

Sat, Oct 25 2008, 4:24 pm

Not sure about funny shaped, but the rest is right. They forgot sugary.

StrongIma

Sat, Oct 25 2008, 4:26 pm

well, I thought I didn't need to cook much, since we overcooked for YT (as usual), but then I realized that I still needed fish as well as fresh salads.

I still have plenty of leftover fleishiks though, even though Shabbos is already over! Guess what I'll be serving for the next few days...

buzzinmom

Sat, Oct 25 2008, 4:36 pm

ha I figured I was getting of ez no guests and the likes....2 hours before shabbos I suddenly got 4 guests so it was back to the yomtef craziness for me...

mimivan

Sat, Oct 25 2008, 4:43 pm

entropy wrote:

no wonder they rioted... LOL

greenfire

Sat, Oct 25 2008, 8:28 pm

entropy wrote:

it looka lika challa Wink

downsyndrome

Sat, Oct 25 2008, 11:08 pm

Oh right! I mixed up Hodu and Kush! It was Marie Antoinette and NOT Madame Defarge.

anonymom

Sat, Oct 25 2008, 11:50 pm

That's it! I'm done cooking for a good long time.

ValleyMom

Sun, Oct 26 2008, 3:16 am

I did it! I made chicken, cholent and lentil soup and that't it! My kids cleaned and vacuumed and washed floors. My husband cleared the shabbos tables. This month has been incredibly exhausting. I love having guests but the prep and clean up is killing me. This shabbos I was O-F-F!

entropy

Sun, Oct 26 2008, 7:07 am

Ruchel wrote:

They forgot sugary.

More importantly, they forgot buttery!

greenfire: Yeah the top half is challah shaped, but the bottom half is loaf-pan shaped.