@GracieT Well, with the Jewish holidays it is specific foods, or after a fast, or something very specific like that. On Passover we eat certain foods that are symbolic. On Chanukah foods made in oil like potato pancakes and donuts. I don’t think the Christians celebrate being enslaved and then being freed too much in their holidays? That is literally almost all of our holidays. Or, at least the more popular ones like Passover and Chanukah. Yom Kippur, the highest of our holy days I guess isn’t, but you are required to fast, and then the next day you feast.
Plus, there is sort of a joke that the Italians and the Jews care about the food, and the Irish care about the drink. I can tell you I miss the food in cities that have more Jews and Italians, and people more tied to their national heritage, that is if their heritage had yummy food. Not that all the food is Jewish or Italian, just there is a big emphasis on food. Where I live in the bible belt there are pretty much no decent bakeries, if there is one, then it is one, but I don’t know about it, and I mean both bread and pastry. There is one bagel place, one, that is so so. average restaurants the green beans must be boiled for 30 minutes and then bacon is added, all sorts of fat and fried, and mush. Don’t get me wrong, there are some good restaurants here, but very very few. Of course, we have most of the chains, and some I like very much.