Even Markus doesn’t like matzoh
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- April
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I admit it right here and right now: I don’t like matzoh.
Every year, I buy one box of the unleavened bread and I do my best to not eat anything leavened for the eight days and nights of Passover.
I’m what’s generally referred to as a cultural Jew. (When people feel like being kind.)
I don’t do the High Holy Days (though I always feel vaguely guilty for being at work and I did fast once for Yom Kippur). I light the menorah at Hanukkah. And that’s about it.
Except Passover.
When I lived in Florida, friends and I held a second-night “Orphans’ Seder” each year for all the Jews who were living away from home. I also often was invited to friends’ homes for first-night seders. When I lived in Arizona, where I knew virtually no other Jews, I invited a couple of non-Jewish friends each year to break matzoh and sing Dayenu with my husband and I.
When the little ones get older, we’ll do a whole seder for them and hide the afikomen.
But I digress.
Despite my enjoyment of Passover, I’d always hated matzoh. My feelings have evolved, however, and now I just merely dislike it. A lot.
It tastes, to me, like cardboard. Flavorless cardboard.
But Markus is generally not particularly picky. His nascent toddlerhood has begun to change that, but he’ll generally try anything when he’s hungry. So this morning, after he ate some oatmeal and was playing with his trains in his high chair, he started demanding what was on my plate.
I had a lovely breakfast of peanut butter and jelly on matzoh going, and figured I’d give him a small piece of matzoh to try.
Sure enough, he gobbled it right up.
But then, as he chewed it, he thought better of it, and spit it all out.
Even Markus won’t eat matzoh.
2003 photo by Kathy Gardner / The Journal News/LoHud.com
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My 10-year-old has been eating matzoh since he was a toddler, but probably never tried it plain. We eat matzoh with peanut butter and jelly (or honey), too.
yeah u r eating the matzoh wrong. I am nbot jewish. but an onion/plain matzoh with butter and sugar is tasty!
Steve, Steve, Steve…. Virtually the only people I know who actually like matzoh, like you, are not Jewish. Except my dad. But my dad doesn’t like anything with flavor.
And most nonplain matzohs are not kosher for Passover, anyhow, though that’s begun to change.
Amy,
Thats probably because , when you are raised jewish/kosher there are rules to eating matzoh. us non jews/nonkosher eaters do the unthinkable to get the taste. I look at matzoh as a type of “flat bread” to me onion is the best with butter and sugar, as previously stated.
OMG – I love Matzoh! All 3 of my kids love it as well. I love it with cream cheese and jelly! My kids just like it with cream cheese. I will eat it with hummus and pb&j too – not at the same time! I remember being a kid and packing it for lunches during Passover. I buy the whole wheat matzoh and the kids even love that!