Apparently the Sunmaid Raisin logo has been updated! ( three years ago?) turning the sunbonnet-clad happy vineyard worker, (actually a model, ) of 1915 into a silly looking computerized doofus with a dumb hat. Not much of an update at all. Anyway, this made the news, and got me thinking of those tiny boxes of Sunmaid that my mother placed in my lunchbox. Though I ate the little brown squashed things, after some time I informed my mom that I really didn't like raisins, particularly the baked ones.
She then laughed and divulged that her sister also hated cooked raisins, stating firmly one day that they looked like mashed bugs. Ta da--family ties.
So then--This morning I was perusing the wedding announcements in the NYTimes on line and came across a description of the meeting, life together, and eventual marriage in Connecticut of two middle-aged gay men, Stephen Davis and Jeffrey Busch.
The universality of the desire to be married struck me ( sorry, Tiger,) along with the global commonality of the final statement in the piece.
The Times reporter writes:
"The synagogue was just a few miles from where Mr. Busch spent his childhood. “Growing up, I thought I’d have to move 10,000 miles away,” Mr. Busch said. “That’s what it meant to be gay then.”
Now the couple are not only living in his hometown, but Mr. Busch’s mother, 72, shares the house with them. When they walk in the door, she asks, “Have you eaten?”"
Jewish mothers, other mothers, fathers, and persons of food, understand this. According to a delightful piece on Chinese food by Jonathan Lipman,
"Anyone who has ever studied the
Chinese language knows that Chinese folks talk about food more than any
other topic, to the point that in some parts of northern China, people
greet one another with "Have you eaten?" (chifanle meiyou) rather than "Are you well?" (ni hao?).
(Tks to http://guanabee.com/2009/12/lorraine-collet-petersen-sun-maid-raisin-makeover/ for the raisin images.)
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