S/o what’s your shabbos menu, and how much is mesorah

amother

Broom

Tue, Jan 07 2025, 12:50 pm

amother Ultramarine wrote:

I do serve chicken soup and potato kugel as I like the traditional foods and that's generally the norm around me also.

But can someone please explain what is mesorah about it??

My only mesorah is to have fish and meat (that's not mesorah actually, it's in shulchan aruch) and then to have a cooked food by day, for which we have cholent.

I mean I would call it tradition, but not mesorah. I know that's the translation of mesorah, but really the word mesorah holds much more meaning of something important that's passed down in Yiddishkeit, and I don't understand how this fits the bill.

I agree. I don't understand why people are so fixated on making "traditional" foods that are only tradition for under 200 years - potatoes only became popular in the mid 1800's, for example, so potato kugle definately does not have a long mesorah! And chicken soup was made because people were poor and it was a good way to stretch the little chicken they had!