"Jewish-flavored"

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:47 PM -0500 2/22/01, Philip E. Cleary wrote:
>While browsing through the personal ads in the classified section of the
>latest edition of "Harvard Magazine," I saw a couple of ads in which people
>referred to themselves as "Jewish-flavored," an expression that is new and
>somewhat unclear to me.
>
>Is this (a) merely a humorous way of saying "Jewish" - my first thought; (b)
>a way of saying that one is Jewish but not observant - my second thought; or
>(c) something else?
>
e.g.
Someone who's half- (or between 0% and 100%) Jewish?
Someone who doesn't taste like pork/seafood?

(cf. Jonathan Miller:  "I'm not a Jew--I'm Jew-ISH.  I don't go the
whole hog.")

larry