Poor little Pally-wallies! They are upset that Israel uses a pasta-product similar to Italian Orzo and dare call it couscous! They are peeved! They weep! And wail, and gnash several remaining teeth! The dears DEMAND a boycott. They wish to de-shelve it at Trader Joe's. They insist that Israeli Couscous is theirs!
Their couscous only, no one else's!!!!!
But actually, it is NOT couscous!
IT IS PTITIM!
Yay!
Fuzz Bert is pleased, though he admits to having no idea how to pronounce it. Puh-tee-tim? Putty-teem? Pah-tuh-tim? Pity-tim? Puttatime? Pat-it-eem?
Whatever! Yay! Yay! Yay!
Israeli Couscous (ptitim) is available at Trader Joe's. Buy all of it. As much as you can. Several delicious things can be done with Israeli Couscous (ptitim). It is versatile - yay! You can pour stew over it - yay! You can bake it in casseroles with savoury vegetables - yay! It is a lovely addition to your diet.
Actual Levantine couscous (couscous)? Meh, not so much.
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Please gaily wave your pompoms now. Yay!
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APPENDIX
[All good berts have appendices! Yay!]
BUY ISRAELI FOOD
http://deathbynoodles.blogspot.com/2009/06/buy-israeli-food.html
QUOTE: " -- Last week I wrote about the South Bay Mobilization's call to pressure Trader Joe's to get rid of Israeli goods. I wasn't too pleased - here in Chinatown we've had all kinds of crap from the no-fur and PETA crowd and other big-nosed busybodies all frazzled at something, and usually the people who end up suffering from politically motivated anti-merchant actions are not the self-satisfied middle-class white people."
WHEN IN DOUBT, TRASH A SUPERMARKET
http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2009/06/when-in-doubt-trash-a-supermarket/index.shtml
AND:
http://www.divestthis.com/2009/06/when-all-else-fails-trash-supermarket.html
QUOTE: " -- I've reported in the past how divest-from-Israel advocates have been attempting to import some of the excesses of their European equivalents into the US ..."
WHAT TO DO WITH ALL THAT COUSCOUS?
http://www.divestthis.com/2009/06/what-to-do-with-all-that-couscous.html
QUOTE: " -- I know what you’re thinking. Perhaps the entire Trader Joe's boycott project is secretly designed to get us to buy up all of the Israel products this weekend and leave us with more couscous than we know what to do with."
ISRAELI COUSCOUS AT TRADER JOE'S
http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2009/06/israeli-couscous-at-trader-joes.html
QUOTE: " -- One of the things which the pro-Palestinian activists who are behind the Trader Joe's action claim is that couscous represents an Israeli cultural appropriation or theft of something originally "Palestinian". An absurd claim on the face of it. Couscous is not Palestinian, but Berber. "
BELLY OF THE BUST
http://www.divestthis.com/2009/05/belly-of-bust.html
QUOTE: " -- While the notion of sitting in a room full of people on “the other side” disagrees with me more than it does activists with more of a taste for conflict ..."
FIGHT THE BDS MOVEMENT - SHOP AT TRADER JOE'S ON JUNE 20
http://www.bluetruth.net/2009/06/fight-bds-movement-shop-at-trader-joes.html
QUOTE: " -- The BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement is an tactic from the anti-apartheid effort now adopted by the anti-Israel groups in the US and Europe. Of course, it completely ignores the actual fact, which is that Arabs in the State of Israel have citizenship and full and equal political and civil rights."
TRADER JOE'S UNDER LEFTIST ASSAULT OVER ISRAEL
http://grizzlygroundswell.theodoremedia.com/archives/7069
QUOTE: " -- Trader Joe’s, a well-known market for imported foods and wines, is now under pressure to stop selling products made in Israel (like Israeli cous cous, for example). This effort is being launched by South Bay Mobilization ..."
TRADER JOE'S AND ANTI-SEMITES
http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2009/06/trader-joes-and-anti-semites.html
QUOTE: " -- As if the usual idiocy from the ultra-fringe weren't enough, now the pro-Palestinians wish to "de-shelve" Israeli products at Trader Joe's stores. Predictably this nonsense originated in California.Names such as Yasmin Qureishi, Kate Raphael Bender, IJAN, The South Bay Mobilization, San Francisco Women in Black, and other known "sympathizers" are associated with the plan."
MOONBATS GOING AFTER TRADER JOE'S
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2009/06/moonbats-going-after-trader-joes.html
QUOTE: " -- A group of anti-Israel radicals are trying to organize a protest against Trader Joe's for selling Israeli products.
[CUT]
So the obvious thing to do is to make sure you buy Israeli products from Trader Joe's on the 19th and 20th and let the store managers know that you appreciate the factthat they make such products available."
COUSCOUS AND FETA
http://deathbynoodles.blogspot.com/2009/06/couscous-and-feta.html
QUOTE: " -- "Wow!!!!! I'm really going to have to try Israeli Couscous and Pastures of Eden Feta Cheese! I have this incredibly urge to spend money on Israeli Couscous and Pastures of Eden Feta Cheese ... "
Hi Snooky!
Yes! You really must try it! Absolutely! Both of it! Couscous! and Feta! Yay!
Fuzz Bert recommends it, and so we do to. Yay!
IT IS DELICIOUS!
Israeli Couscous and Pastures of Eden Feta.
Plus Dorot Crushed Garlic, Dorot Chopped Cilantro, Holyland Matzos, Pastures of Eden Feta Imported, and Trader Joe's Harvest Grains Blend.
Yay!
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Several other blogs also encourage readers to participate in Buy Israeli Products Day at your nearest Trader Joe's:
JEWS' NEXT DOR
Made in Israel
WHO IS ROSE
Israeli-Boycott Warning
BRUTALLY HONEST
Do you shop at Trader Joe's?
And here you can see what the pro-Palestinian side does:
Boycott Israeli Goods, Free Palestine!
by Free Palestine
Tuesday Oct 14th, 2008 10:26 PM
Moronic boasting
You will note that the "random" Jewish customers are actually well-known anti-Israel activists, both of whom have had run-ins with authorities in the past. Vandalizing or interfering with food products is a federal offense, by the way.
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